The Power of Frozen Shadows to Break a Heart of Darkness... · 9:59pm Feb 7th, 2016
cover art by Pixel_Spark
Well, at last my next story “Frozen Shadows” is up and live. It was a fight against vacation, losing & gaining jobs and its propensity to grow faster than the 50-foot woman in girth, but part one is up!
Starting out as a simple, one-scene cry fest of Nyx’s over King Sombra’s time and frost-frozen, lifeless corpse, somewhere along the line I realized I had to make some friggin’ sense of how she got there and why she didn’t get instantly frozen herself upon setting foot in his cursed realm. Too many awesome ideas were swirling around in my skull and have been for about a month now – the tender goodbye scene, Nyx’s rage at Celestia for refusing to reduce an inexplicable extension of his sentence from eternity back down to the 1,000 years it should have been and tie-ins galore to future stories had to all be crammed in around the goodbye scene. Plus ideas in part two, “Accepting Death” that I cannot even tell you here because they are major spoilers.
The main impetus to the goodbye scene and this drive to write a gut-wrenching, heart-breaking scene was, however, a piece of atmospheric music by the amazing new age group Between Interval from their album The Edge of a Fairytale. The music piece is called "Leviathan". The level of frustration at not being able to embed this song into the story because scripts are not allowed on FIMFic rival my King’s scream of rage as he was sucked down into the sterile ice fields of Northern Equestria after his defeat by Celestia and Luna. Why? Because this one, single piece of 11 minute, 15 second music reflects to the greatest depths of my soul how Nyx felt when she stepped out of the Tardis and saw her lover in this cold, lost and abandoned world he was condemned to and what it did to her emotionally.
That’s why.
As far as leading up to this scene, however, it was meant to be that I be patient, and craft around it so others could better appreciate the entirety of what was going on leading up to such a pivotal point in her existence and why Nyx’s soul is so torn apart by saying goodbye to the King of Shadows. You don’t get the entire picture from part one of Frozen Shadows – but hopefully you will after both parts complete the story.
This is at the end of a major part of their relationship, but I was driven by love and emotion to get it down NOW for reasons only love and emotion can adequately convey. And thankfully, the crazy, timey-wimey world of Dr. Whooves made it possible to do it now, out of order and it can still make some iota of sense. Once The Mad Seeress of the North is complete and read by you dear readers, my sincere and deepest hope is that you will at that point, fully understand the whys of why Nyx (and myself) are so deeply, hopelessly in love with the tragic story of The King of Shadows.
