History Overwritten update (SUPER IMPORTANT)

tl;dr: Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff happened. Death changed genders. Chapters have been edited.

The following is really only relevant to those who have read the latest chapter of An Eternity Divided.

One of the rules of time travel in this story is that you can't change the past unless your a god, in which case it overwrites your own past. Death knew this, and you could see that Death was immediately overwritten when he sent the letter back, becoming a she in the process. However, for those of you following the ask blog, you know that Death Tried and failed to become a mare; Death's healing factor was too strong. So, he sent a letter back in time to the only reasonable point in time where he could have changed that: before ascending.

Thus, every chapter that Death is ever mentioned in is now wrong. I've edited the chapters, and have reposted them with [History Overwritten] in the title. You can ignore them, or you can reread to find the other minor details that have changed as well.

A complete list of the chapters edited is as follows:
Split Second:
15, 20, 27, 31-35, & 47-49
An Eternity Divided:
2-5.

Comments

[Lord Of Dorkness]

...Wow, how meta.

That's a lot of work for such a tiny detail you could have just moved forward on. Props for that much.

[Winda]

You devil. Now i get to re-read whole story again again.

[Vilwind]

I Love what you are doing.

It requires, in my opinion, a lot of balls and superior understanding of your own story and where you are going with it, to successfully pull the Butterfly Effect.

"Successfully" here equals:
* In a way that will not require from your readers to just roll with it
* ...or have to dig through tons of excel columns.

More over re-reading a lot of chapters just to find some few, probably important, changes is not what most people consider fun.

Just saying.

3344106 proves my point ... I guess.

[wille179]

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As I said in the post, you can ignore it. Very little has changed, thus not requiring you to go back and reread anything. I'm merely posting that it has changed, and if you want to go find every instance where I replace "he" with "she," then by all means, go ahead.

The edits aren't live yet, so don't search just yet. Furthermore, all future chapters will be written such that you can pick up the changes without needing to go back. Remember, I have to make this make sense to three groups: Those who look back, those who don't, and those who haven't even gotten to the latest chapter yet.

[AppleTank]

Was this planned?

Also, what about the male Death in the most recent chapter?

[wille179]

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Semi-planned. I had the idea; I just didn't know exactly when I'd implement it.

[User_Name555]

So Death was essentially trans? Huh. Can't wait to see how this plays out.

[Ytak]

I kind of like the idea of leaving Death male in the previous chapters. Because that was how everything happened *then* but that was all changed with *this* chapter. *shrug*

[Dream Seeker]

Well, you're pulling a Homestuck I see.

[Chyre]

Dude.

I think my head just exploded.

[Mossflower]

HaHa!

[EverfreeSparkle]

Mind=blown. Now this is one of the biggest perks of Fanfiction, something you could not do with a published book. Very creative, and I really do love the change.

[Dragonwaz]

3344459 death was sparkle this was obvious After she came back in a Colts body matching the description of death

[Balewood]

You should check out 'Dusk and the Days Before [History Overwritten]' missed a few there

The tome snapped shut. “Mama Bear,” Sparkle began, “I thought you ought to know something about my kind. Most Necromancers have tried to summon Lady Death and bargain with him. He’s been known to grant blessings in exchange for the right price.”

“Really?” the Dusk Leader said. “I didn’t know that.”

Sparkle said, “Yes, but I’ve never called him. I wouldn’t ever. I did meet him, though. Twice, actually. Did you know he was in Canterlot when Discord was free? I tried to bargain with him to get the soul of a bookstore owner back. He just laughed at me and ate the soul anyway.”

[Balewood]

Also 'Death and the Eye of the Storm [History Overwritten]'

"Funny, didn’t that mare you were bothering ask the same thing?" Death countered. And before the vampire could reply, Death pulled the trigger. She looked over at the cowering family and sighed, "You can go now. You’re safe."

"Thank you, sir."

"It’s not a problem," Death replied. She motioned towards the sky, darkening with sinister magic. "It looks like rain; best be hurrying along."

[Balewood]

Lastly 'Epilogue Two: Cobalt [History Overwritten]'

“Cobalt, I’m surprised it’s taken you this long to realize that something was amiss.” She smirked. “Don’t worry, I’m not here to cause trouble. I just wanted to talk with my favorite little assassin.”

The illusions around them shattered, revealing that the two of them were, in fact, alone in the coffee shop. The unicorn - and Glass was now definitely a unicorn now - smiled at Cobalt, who was hastily taking in the new surroundings. “Sorry about the drink, by the way.”

Cobalt looked down at his cup. Instead of coffee, his cup was filled with plain water. “What in the world?”

The stallion waved his hoof, and the coffee shop vanished, leaving the two of them sitting at a table in a void of white. Then, the mare across from him flickered and was replaced by Death herself. "Hello, Cobalt," Death said. Her voice was soothing, laced with magic that kept Cobalt from panicking at her monstrous form and foul presence.

[wille179]

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Thank you!

[Rustled Pages]

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minus the whole 6 legs, wings, giant gaping maw, phenomenal cosmic power, and the fact that Death appears to have a Doctor-River Song relationship going on, yeah, I agree that would be cool.

[darkszero]

And it was true. Time, that bastard, hated when she was summoned elsewhere in time. Short hops were fine, as were longer hops that didn’t interfere with his own pre-ascension history, but this was pushing it.

Spli Second, interlude 3. It would be "her own", right?

[wille179]

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Thanks

[SomeRandomEagle]

Why did you make this blog post, wasn't death always female? Im confused

[wille179]

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Things get funky when you start considering meta-time.

[SomeRandomEagle]

3346565 Also, is it possible you could make available a version before the timey wimey almost but not quite paradox inducing edits so nitpickers like me can look through and say I see what you did MARE

[Vidi Kitty]

I personally liked the sudden change in pronouns the instant the letter was sent. Having Death as a male up until that point made the scale of the change have a greater impact. Because of this I disagree with your choice to change Death's gender retroactively through the rest of the story, though I understand why you would. Though I'm totally saving my downloaded copies of the story so far to keep that change as I read it.

Just my 2 cents, keep up the awesome work.

[Shining Dawn]

what story is this for.

[Lawrin]

I, for one, don't exactly appreciate the change. I honestly preferred male Death but it might simply be so because when I began reading, Death was a male and the image of it had already settled in. The change is not big and doesn't bother as much as I may have made it seem, though. I will eventually adjust I guess.

[RowanSkie]

Okay, there's something messed up, there's Death flipped gender, now latest chapter Sparkle flipped gender too!?

[DerpedRainbow]

Jeez, I've been wondering about that for so long... Started reading the first story and thought there was some kind of massive arc I missed the sign for...

Turns out it's irrelevant for new readers!

[Drax99]

I was wondering why Sparkle and Thorn switched pronouns in mid conversation when discussing Death. I wrote it off as a typo. Good job!