Great minds must think alike. · 5:22am May 25th, 2015
Here's a story: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/95183/twilight-hears-the-narrator
Very clever! And it just reinforces the idea that there's no original ideas. Here's a snippet from what I was thinking of doing in the next chapter of Conquering of Love, but I was thinking I probably was going to end up not going ahead with it. It felt too weird, too meta, even after setting it up by having a Pinkie Pie scene where she hears the narrator and has been for a long time now. If you read my blogs when I post them, you'll remember me going on about a vague thing that I was not sure if I should do. Well, this is it.
The part I'll paste in here, anyway, involves Fluttershy, so here we go.
Fluttershy’s mind twisted and turned, sorting her real memories and the four years of memories than her dream self had dropped onto her. In a flash, she remembered the last day that she and Rainbow Dash had spent in Equestria before fleeing to the Griffon Kingdom.
Rainbow Dash’s Dream, Two Weeks Ago (Dream Time), Ponyville
It was a day like any other in the beautiful town of Ponyville. The skies were clear and sunny thanks to the coolest weather pony to ever kick clouds. She wasn’t just a normal weather mare, though, she was the bearer of the Element of Loyalty, the captain of The Wonderbolts, a national hero, and a symbol of peace and awesomeness across the entire land, a deep, silky voice said within Fluttershy’s memory.
Fluttershy blinked her eyes as she began to remember, but ever-so-slowly. What’s with that voice?
You need not worry about that voice, little filly, for this is your memories of the day that Equestria fell.
It’s like somepony is narrating my memories…
Are you going to let me tell the story, or not? We can just skip ahead a bit, I suppose. I’ve barely even started introducing the setting. The whole story is going to be thrown off if you don’t let me—
I’m familiar with Ponyville, Mr. Narrator, sir, so if you don’t mind, I just need to remember what had happened.
The narrator sighed and the sound of pages being flipped echoed through Fluttershy’s mind. Fine, we can do it your way, I suppose. We’ll skip ahead to the changeling attack, is that what you want? All action and no drama. Foals these days have no appreciation of artistry.
I’m sorry. I appreciate it, though. It’s just that I’m in a bit of a hurry, Fluttershy replied.
Of course you are. Ahem! The voice said, and then the scene in Fluttershy’s mind abruptly changed. Ponyville was besieged! Fire rained down from the sky as a black cloud of changelings descended, one singular purpose etched into their hearts: Revenge! In the distance, smoke and fire could be seen rising from Canterlot. Our heroes reacted as quickly as they could, but nopony had seen this coming at all.
Yes, I remember. We all got ready for action. Rainbow Dash and I were already wearing Wonderbolts outfits, and Twilight quickly arrived with the Elements. The six of us leapt into battle against the changelings!
You’re really not going to let me tell the story, are you, filly?
Sorry, Fluttershy meekly replied. In her mind’s eye, she saw herself and her friends charging towards the changelings. Chrysalis was at the front of the pack, and she was wearing some sort of dark armor. Bright red sparks of magical energy encircled her horn and glowed from a pendant she wore around her neck.
Wow, she looks a lot different! Fluttershy thought. And that red, evil looking magic. It looks just like—
Evil red magic? the voice questioned. What are you talking about, child? You’ve gone completely off-script, you’re just rewriting this memory willy-nilly!
No. It’s there. Look closely, Fluttershy thought
Well, I… my word, you’re right, my dear. Why didn’t I remember that? That wasn’t there before. What have you done? Who… who are you?
It's almost certain I won't do it, but a lot is written, so I will probably release an alternate version of this chapter with this stuff going on in it, sort of as an extra, just for fun.
You could always not have a care in the world and go full out. Pinkie Pie Prime is the one running the multidreamverse and is able to communicate with all the sub Pinkies.
Not a problem, just DMCA all others who dared to use your idea and viola, you are original.
Well, it's not like it's the first story that did it. From the top of my head, I can remember another story about Twilight driven mad by (not)hearing Narrator, which is Discord. And story where Maud fell in love with the Narrator (until story ended).
3095727 Ideas can't be copyrighted. Ideas only can be patented.
The narrator is narrating the narrator about narrating the sub-narrator.... Meta!
That was an interesting scene with Fluttershy but I think it's the kind of thing that has to either occur early in the story or have a lot of foreshadowing to feel natural and Conquering of Love has probably gone too long to fit it in easily.
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well, its not even a matter of it having gone too long. Things change from dream to dream. Its more than it just feels out of place in general in my opinion.