Short Story Challenge · 3:12am Mar 30th, 2015
I need to write something short and sweet, instead of these novel-sized behemoths, and YOU can help!
It can be clean or dirty, I don't care. It should involve straight equestria OR Silver Verse OR Ponyfinder. Human in equestria, shipping, slice of life? Adventure, crazy magic, rap battles?
Come up with the ideas!
The one I like I write, and try to keep it short and sweet to the tune of <5K words.
What's going on with Jake, maybe show us what he's doing?
2923213 That... might be amazing.
Pinkie Pie meeting Pinkie Pie in Ponyville.
2923246 And the universe implodes.
2923216 You could also try writing a Displaced story.
2923272 I have no idea what that is.
2923252 Possibly, depends on how you want the story to work really. Would be interesting to see Something along the lines of Burnt Orange Juice done with Pinkie Pie and the other Mane 6. Especially if like the Pinkie Pie on decides to act like the real one for a bit whne they meet.
2923275 It's basically where you take a character of yours that's a human (or just yourself) and have them dress up as a character from a game/movie/anime and have them get transported to Equestria by a creature of the Void.
An example would be my story Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey? Nope, Just Max. You'll be able to find a link to the actual group on my fic. They have an idea thread you could pick someone to dress up as.
My own selfish preference would be canonical Silververse story that has limited or no direct tie ins to Silver's life. Jake is a solid option, and would be about the upper bound of connection. But plenty of other ideas you could work on. Maybe a slice of life involving a Humanway gaming group dealing with the oddly agressive backlash the game seems to have? Maybe changelings dealing with integration into pony society and some of the struggles that brings?
Oh, how about changeling Humanway cosplayers dealing with antibiped ponies who insist the changelings should only take on ponylike forms?
2923330 These are some awesome ideas I may do after the one I'm writing now.
2923293 I confess to not getting it. So you're a funny dressed human?
2923213 Story written and pending mod approval! It's probably terrible.
2923457 I'll read it as soon as it pops up and I can get online.
2924176 It's up!
2924178 I saw.
2923456 Basically you get your costume's powers and get sent to Equestria. What happens after that is up to you.
How about what Celestia was doing during the events of the pilot episodes?
2924589 Sip.
2924595
I suppose that qualifies as "short."
2924956 And yet it conjured a full image. Sometimes less is more.
How about this:
Apple Bloom gets her cutie mark, but Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle don't. To her horror, she discovers that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon still hate her and the remaining CMC members feel uncomfortable around her. It could end there as a tragedy/sad story, or AB could wake up from a nightmare and realize how happy she is as a blank flank. (Perhaps the Moon Princess is snickering somewhere)
A story about the human police detective who's investigating the strange disappearance of two unrelated adult males who apparently vanished while walking down a normal street...
2925402 You twisted unicorn!
One of Jake's friends back in the human world thinks he sees a human in the background of an episode of MLP:FiM season 5, and it looks a lot like Jake....
How about a story about Cloudburst, Main Event and Eclipse? They could help old ladies cross streets against their will, beat up a pony who's rehearsing his part as a criminal in a play, help a swindler because he says he's raising money for an orphanage, and other disastrous attempts to do good deeds.
Twilight turns 21, and discovers that her alicorn metabolism prevents her from getting drunk. Her friends offer to help with her research...
This story would be pretty dumb, basically just an excuse to write drunk dialogue for the Mane 5, (or however many of them are older than Twi) but it might be funny.
2925472 I don't recognize these names? One of them seems familiar.
2925472 Of course, it hit me later, and I feel silly.
2925416 Done!
2925839 Ha! I'm glad I didn't bet on which one you'd like.
2925837 Well you only mentioned them briefly. The uninformed do-gooders felt like a grown-up version of the CMC; they get just the smallest part of an idea and then run with it.
This idea wouldn't work as a short story, but....
Has anyone tried a Tarzan/Jungle Book spin on the Human-in-Equestria genre? What if a human was raised by ponies from infancy (like Spike) and was essentially a pony in a human body? I assume it would result in the "doesn't fit in, but has unique skills" archetype (Slow, weak and awkward on all fours vs great balance and finger-related superpowers). A little cliche perhaps, (though maybe not on this site) but it might be an interesting psychological exercise.
2926747 I actually do think this has been done.
2926765 I'm not sure what search terms to use. It probably wouldn't be called "Tarzan, only not." (Now I have to try that and see if it works)
2926765 These are all I could find and they're not the same thing.
Sombra's Heir - Looks weird
Man of Equestria - Superman
Raising a Human in Equestria - Group project
The first two also seem to be abandoned partway through.
It's not important though, it wouldn't be a short story anyway.
How about this for a short story idea:
A changeling is on assignment as a deep cover operative in Canterlot, but a local pony is acting suspiciously whenever he/she is around. The changeling must put on the performance of their life to convince this other pony that they are who they appear to be. The punchline is that the other pony is also a changeling and was also trying to convince the protagonist of their authenticity.
Extra points if you can figure out where I stole this idea from.