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Mike Teavee


The Swap Father.

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  • 403 weeks
    Chapter Forty-One: Sneak Peek!

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    “So. We’re gonna get married. You girls are becoming ‘wives’ and Lero’s becoming a ‘husband.’ What about me? What do I get to become, once we’re all married?”

    “Our little scaly son.” Lyra answered.

    Spike half-grinned. “So basically, things pretty much stay the same for me, personally.”

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  • 409 weeks
    Chapter Forty: Sneak Peek

    Hi, guys! Been kept busy because we had to move to an all NEW house, practically right after settling into our OLD house. But I wanted to reward everyone for their patience, so here's a sneak peek at what Chapter 40 has to offer!


    “I am more committed to finding a cure to the Swap now than I ever was before.” Twilight Sparkle told Princess Celestia.

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  • 414 weeks
    Ask The Swapped Ponies: Finally Updated!

    It's been WAAAAY too long, but here's the newest Ask!

    After you've read through it, feel free to submit more questions!

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  • 416 weeks
    TV Tropes: Asking Help

    My dear friends and fans, please help me bring Divided Rainbow's TV Tropes page up to date! Right after you check out the new chapter on Divided Rainbow. Thanks so much!

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  • 417 weeks
    Sneak Peek: Almost Done With Chapter 39

    Dear Divided Rainbow Fans,

    You've all been very patient. I'm very nearly done with the next chapter; it'll only be a week or so at most! In the meantime, I'd like to treat you all to another sneak peek of what's to come!


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Chapter Forty-One: Sneak Peek! · 6:09pm Jul 3rd, 2016

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“So. We’re gonna get married. You girls are becoming ‘wives’ and Lero’s becoming a ‘husband.’ What about me? What do I get to become, once we’re all married?”

“Our little scaly son.” Lyra answered.

Spike half-grinned. “So basically, things pretty much stay the same for me, personally.”

“Pretty much,” agreed Twilight. “You’ll still be part of our family, though you won’t be part of our marriage. It’s kind of an ‘adults only’ thing.”

“It’s just as well,” said Spike,. “I’m saving myself for Applejack, anyway.”

Lyra’s laughter sounded weak.

“Maybe... I ought to research more about weddings,” Spike yawned, stretching himself out. “The only marriage I’ve ever really seen was Shining Armor and Princess Cadence’s. Twilight, do you think you could recommend some books?”

“I’ll look into it,” she told him.

Lero Michealides and his mares had spent the night aboard the Cirrus after they had proposed to him. Now it was the next morning, and they were all back home again. Twilight Sparkle and Lyra were with Spike in his bedroom, telling him how it went. But Lyra was looking discomfited, scuffing the sides of her hooves together.

“You know, Twilight, part of me’s still in shock that we went ahead and did this,” Lyra said quietly. “Went ahead and let Rarity sweet-talk us into getting engaged. Especially after everything Princess Celestia had said.”

“What else could we have done?” Twilight asked, no longer smiling.

“We could’ve delayed,” Lyra contended. “Found some excuse…”

“No!” It wasn’t a yell. They all knew better than to be yelling about something like this. But it was firm and insistent. “We’ve been over this already, Lyra! You have to look back on our backstory, as a herd with Rarity. Both the made-up one that the Swapped have in their heads of us, pre-Swap… and the real-life one we entered into, after the Swap happened and Rarity began living with us. We’ve always loved each other. Immensely.”

“We had one small awkward period where some of us were ‘standoffish’ around Rarity in the beginning,” Spike reminded them.

‘“True, but that ended around the time Rainbow Dash had found her equilibrium,” said Twilight. “Since then, we’ve held nothing back in terms of love. So answer me this: why wouldn’t we all be just as eager as Rarity to bring our relationship to the next step? There’s just no logical or emotional justification! Anything we might try to say would just upset Rarity and Rainbow Dash! And it could even raise too many questions we just don’t need them asking! So for the sake of everyone’s sanity, it’s really better this way.”

Not one of them could look either of the other two in the eye.

“Well, at least she’s terrific to live with,” Lyra said. “And we’ll be guaranteed to have a stylish marriage.”

Lumps rose in Twilight’s throat. “Yes and no,” she said.

Lyra and Spike both looked up at her. “What that’s supposed to mean, ‘yes and no?’ Either we’re having a wedding or we aren’t!”

“Well, a lot goes into weddings. Especially the first-class sort of perfect fairytale wedding which Rarity’s gonna want. So I… made a little bargain with myself.” Twilight began to explain. “If I discover the cure before the wedding, I will use it on Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and the other three. If I discover the cure after we’re married… then I keep all five of them Swapped. Because once we’ve wed, then I’ll have made a sacred vow. ‘For as long as we both shall live.’”

“Til death do us part.’” Spike spoke up. “Pretty sure Lero said that’s how humans put it, anyway.”

After a long breath, Lyra said, “Well, that’s… a plan for going forward. I can get behind that.” Spike was also nodding. “Though I have to ask, haven’t we already made a vow? I mean, this engagement we’ve all entered into… haven’t we already promised ourselves to each other?”

“Lyra,” snapped Twilight sharply, “There’s a time and a place for philosophical speculations, and this isn’t it!”

“Speculation?” Lyra Heartstrings repeated in an incredulous half-whisper.

But then they all heard hoof-steps on the floor outside, and put on quiet smiles as Rarity opened the door.

“So!” the white unicorn said, looking at Spike as she stepped in. “Did they tell you the big news?”

“They sure did!” Spike answered.

“Well? What do you think?”

Hopping off his bed, Spike came over and gave Rarity a big hug. “I’m super-excited, Rarity! Not every herd takes this step.”

“We’re not ‘every herd.’”

“No! We sure aren’t! Bet it was a real hard sell, getting Lero to say ‘yes’ to you!” Spike teased, with a little poke to her front.

Rarity laughed. “Oh, yes, it was quite the debate! We spent hours weighing the pros and cons of marriage… waffling back and forth, overcoming skepticism…”

“So what happens now?” Spike asked.

“I’m glad you asked!” Then Rarity floated in what looked to be a newly-bought notebook. “There’s a lot we’ll need to do over the coming months, but I thought we could make a good first step by starting off on our guest list.”

Twilight made a hesitating noise. “I dunno… is this really the best time for this? I need to get some research done for the princess, maybe later tonight…”

“But… we’re all here together, and I have to work a late shift,” said Rarity. “Please? Can’t it wait just a little while, Sparkle-kitten?”

Rarity’s loving eyes were so pleading. This all meant so much to her, bless her heart…

“I guess it can, Rare Bear,” answered Twilight.

Smiling, Rarity hunkered down on the floor of Spike’s bedroom and opened her notebook to its first blank page. Twilight felt absurdly younger, somehow, as she also knelt down with Lyra and Spike. Almost as though she were at a sleepover with her friends, making a list of the cutest colts in school.

“Here! I’ll do the note-taking,” Spike offered, taking the notebook.

“Very first ones on the list should definitely be our other Element Bearing friends,” said Twilight.

“Applejack… Fluttershy… Pinkie Pie,” murmured Spike, as he wrote them all in.

“Oh! And I’ll definitely want to have all of my parents attending,” Twilight added.

“Mine too!” said Lyra.

“I suppose that I’ll need to invite my father for this,” Rarity said, somewhat reluctantly. “Let’s hope he can behave himself and not say anything too offensive…”

“Don’t forget Shining Armor and Cadence!” said Spike, struggling to keep up with everypony’s ideas.

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Comments ( 6 )

Okay; now there will be a time limit.
Gosh!

I'm just hoping Twilight doesn't discover the cure like the day before the wedding?

Or better yet, something in the vows during the ceremony will trigger an epiphany and she'll have the cure... and can either speak it or say "I do."

To the chapter itself...
I'm ambivalent about such an event serving as an arbitrary decider. I trust Twilight's integrity, insofar as she won't allow this self imposed rule to hinder her work towards a cure. Still, what a way to decide...

Not using the cure.... ultimately, I doubt I'd be okay with that (though I don't dismiss the possibility). As much as the Swapped are fascinating, likable, compelling characters... they're magically induced compulsions and torn up, patched together souls. So the herd all love Rarity the Weathermare... fine... as much as I hate the somewhat trite nature of this expression: 'if you love something, set it free...' I won't bother with all the practical reasons to not keep this up... the Swapped are being magically compelled to live lives they never chose... it isn't right. If no compromise that somehow spares both who they were and who they are can be found, siding with who they were born to be, with the free will they should have an inalienable right to, is the only choice I can see. The only thing that dies with the end of the Swap is their compulsion. Rarity is still Rarity; calling this a murder is like calling a therapist a killer for helping depressed people to change their personalities. Is AA evil for 'killing' my 'dad the alcoholic' and replacing him with 'my dad who might make it to 70'? They might be for other reasons, but that's a separate issue. Are anti-psychotic drugs evil for 'killing' the murderous urges of the violently deranged? The Swapped aren't so bad as all that, quite the contrary... and that makes the decision more difficult. Ultimately though, it doesn't change the decision, not for me.

Returning to Rarity as our most prominent example... by the evidence of the show, she isn't going to lose her memory of what happened while Swapped; I wouldn't be surprised if she even kept the false memories the Swap implanted. Let her decide, uncompelled by magic, what her life should be. Maybe her experiences will change who she was in the Prologue; maybe looking back on all this leads her to an epiphany of her own and the wedding goes forward as planned. On the other hand, she may break some hearts... let's face it Rares was probably gonna do that anyway.

I could go on, but in the end my opinion on this is secondary. I'm more interested in how it turns out than in whether or not I agree with it. Looking forward to seeing this sneak peek all grown up and waiting on my tracking shelf.

The vows are going to be the cure aren't they? "All of us together, together we are friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end. I d- Twilight, where did those wings come from?

Using the wedding as a time limit...very twilight-like :twilightsmile:

Oh Jesus! I can't wait!

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