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Tarbtano


I came, I saw, I got turned into a Brony. Tumblr link http://xeno-the-sharp-tongue.tumblr.com/

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Oct
9th
2014

Bridge: Character Concept Art and Original Plot · 3:33am Oct 9th, 2014

'The Bridge' is a story which has been on FimFiction for over a year and has been working in my head for almost two years now. In those years it has evolved and is still evolving. I've gotten a lot of outside help, from a fantastic proofreader to an outstanding artistic friend throwing her name into the hat. But possibly the biggest changes happened with the story's plot itself.

When I first got the idea to do a crossover between a franchise I'd had since childhood (Godzilla) and a franchise that brought me back to my childhood (MLP:FiM), my first idea of a plot was actually for a short story. Maybe two or three chapters at most. I still have the old outline but the basic plot was a kaiju ends up in Manehattan, Equestria, abet in a de-powered and shrunken state. The non-verbal beast bonds with a character, who kept alternating between Vinyl Scratch and filly living in Manehattan (basically a proto-type Gentle Leaf). Cue a few gags where the pony tries to care for and hide her 'pet'. The car sized creature however senses something is wrong and goes running through the streets at night causing a panic. Our main heroine finds them eventually and is trying to coax it back home when the sky becomes blotted out an a dimension tide portal opens. A second, full sized and malign kaiju flies out of the portal and circles the city streets. The shrunken, good kaiju gets its attention but can't fight effectively. The malign kaiju destroys an overhanging bridge right over the heroine and shrunk kaiju, almost covering them in rubble.

A bright light is seen and the fully formed, good kaiju shakes itself free of the rubble, having shielded its caretaker. After picking her up and setting her to safety, it engages its rival in a climactic battle in downtown Manehattan, nearly getting killed at one point but musters the strength to destroy its rival in a massive ball of light. When the dust settles and the sun rises, the good kaiju gets one last, wordless farewell to its new friend before it and its rival's body fade away back into another portal to return home.

The basic plot borrowed heavily from a Digimon short film (known in Japan as 'Digimon Adventure' and here in the states as the 1st part in the anthology "Digimon Movie"), with the good kaiju playing a similar role to Korumon/Greymon. The cast of the story kept shifting. Originally the good kaiju was going to be Godzilla Junior, and his rival likely would be King Ghidorah. But then I wanted to include an old favorite of mine in the form of Anguirus in as the good monster. Other changes included at one point the evil kaiju being Destroyah, then Gigan, or even Legion. Then when I thought up more on it, the more I realized that if I expanded the story, I could include quite a sizable roster. More thoughts on questions I wanted to answer lead to a bigger and bigger plot.

If the 1st draft left off when the kaiju left, how did Equestria react to seeing giant monsters out of nowhere having a grudge match in a city?

If the kaiju was voiceless, what could be done to show what was going through its head? (as a lot of these creatures seem very intelligent)

Ok if I want someone to understand what the kaiju was saying, Fluttershy needs to be in on this, but I'd still want a different pony. Need a bigger MLP roster.

Well what if something happened to the kaiju to the point it could speak the same language as the Equestrians so everyone could understand it at least part of the time?

Well if it can talk, the whole 'pet' angle wouldn't work as the heroine would know it was an intelligent, speaking being she was trying to care for. Might be mistaken for slavery.

What if the kaiju didn't look like a pet at all? What if it turned into a form that could speak Equestrian?

Ok now we got a talking, transformed kaiju, what does it have on its mind? What sort of personality would it have?

If I'm going to have more than two kaiju, where do the others pop in?



And the rest kept building from there. Some elements that survived the original draft were the 'bridge' scene (link) and the kaiju bonding with a young filly (Anguirus and Gentle Leaf), andabigfighthappeninginManehattan.

So there you have it, The Bridge, vintage edition. If anyone wants to use it for a short story as their own tale or a spin off of Bridge*, you're welcome to.
*(by the way if you guys want to make any spin offs with either Bridge's characters or your own OC's in Bridge's universe, just give me the heads up ahead of time as to what's going on in it. Unless it's got mega grimdark or gore that might shock my younger readers, I'll very likely be glad to OK it and give it a shout out)


In other news, Faith-Wolff has outdone herself with some fantastic concept work of what some of the un-transformed roster might have looked like if they crossed the bridge.

X the Kirin

Gigan the Pegasus

Megalon the Stupid Happy Changeling

Hyper Gyaos the Thestral/Bat Pony

ZIlla Jr. the Earth Pony

The Old King, Godzilla Sr.

Burning form Senior

Biollante the Kelpie

Lea's parents, Mothra the Flutterpony and Battra the Changeling King

Comments ( 36 )

those are awesome I really like the X design and the Hyper Gyaos

Aaaaawwww megalon is flipping adorable

And is how The Bridge was born. Intriguing! I'm really happy to came across this fic. So far, this one of my favorite MLP crossovers I've ever read other than Fallout: Equestria. At first, I thought I wasn't going to like this or make me lose interest after the first two chapters, but then as I keep on reading, I really got into the story and into the characters, the Kaijus that is, ponified or not, and the plot. Keep up the great work! :rainbowdetermined2:

Also, Biollante's pony form scares me, more specially her head shot when she's in her Beast mode. :twilightoops:

Dammit.... now I wanna see Gigan and Megalon come to Equestria. Also what would Iris look like if he came to Equestria?

And so, the story behind 'the bridge's" creation has been told

First: I really want to see Gojira/Godzilla Sr in the story more than ever in the main story. Maybe even a (albeit a temporary one) return of Gojira/Godzilla 1954. The original.

Second: Same With Mothra Lea parents, Battara and Mothra.

Still I'd Love to see at least one of the MechaG (Kiryu mostly), make an appearance.

But hey, it's you're story. I can ask for the stuff all I want. Don't mean you'll alter your story just because someone wants you to do this or that.

It's just those pics make me want to see them in the story.

2520560 Kiryu and 1954 are by barest definition technically the same monster, aren't they? Since Kiryu was built around his bones?

2520691 Oh? So you DO know who I speak of? The one Kaiju that's JUST as bad as Destroyah.

2520698 My thinking is that he WAS supposed to be a Gamera Gyaos clone but the girl who freed him bore so much hatred it twisted his form and caused the birth of the Irys we all know and are confused about.... and fear.

2520700 Oh, so you're part of the Gyaos Theory fandom? cool. Here's this for no reason, besides I can't think of anything else:

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2520706 It's perfect, because Clover lost his mom and the Mutos lost their babies. It's a win-win situation.:twilightsmile:

2520708 Yeah... but then Mama MUTO gets the kiss of death.... one does not simply turn down a date from Godzilla.

2520716 and one other thing!

Whatever happened to Minya?

2520728 .......we do not speak of him.

2520730 The fandom got over Zilla, we can get over Minya.

2520739 He probably grew up into a weird cat-faced mini godzilla

2520744 Now that image is forever in my head.

2520748 Eh, he's a comic relief character

2519991

Took the words right out of my mouth.

I always thought that zilla might be a baby dragon like spike mainly because spike is the zilla of mlp

Oh. My. Godzilla. This concept art is amazing, no, not just amazing, spectacular. Godzilla Sr's look is my favorite!

biollante reminds me alot a villan from power pony epsiode infact they almost look alike

soo this is the original prototype the brige story? kinda the characters from the prototype version is look cooler

and oh lea monthra parents looks cool aswell especially lea mother who resemble as princess celestia except her hair isnt flowing

The original Bridge sounds very similar to Gamera the Brave. Any connection?

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Might have been some subconscious influence as I did see that movie some years ago.

These pictures are amazing can't wait to see if the models go in the story. Especially Junior and Mothra have a experience with their parents, that would be emotional.

These are awesome pics. Question for Tarbtano: If King Ghidorah had been changed into an Equestrian form, what would you envision it as being?

Oh my god, as soon as I saw Gigan's form I could not stop laughing because I can honestly see him looking like that. I was expecting the visor as the eyes but those shades/glasses surprised me. Sad that I do not see his saw abs/chest, regardless, awesome look.

Also Seniors forms look absolutely amazing. I mean, damn that is impressive looking. I hope Senior appears in a nightmare, dream, vision or whatever in the future and both forms appear because it would be a shame if they didn't. Heck I'd settle if Mothra got visions of her parents in those forms.

All in all, all the forms look amazing.

Intriguing. Think any of them might appear here?

Mane-Iac: Whooo-hoo~ My fiendish barber, where are yooooooooou~?

Gigan (Pegasus): *trembling in fear* O-Oh sweet Tanaka...Wait, I'm a pony now...I'm safe!!

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