Fun facts about The Perilous Romance of Swans · 8:07pm Sep 15th, 2016
Originally, there was a chapter where Gosling's mother attacked a member of the paparazzi. After a vicious assault, there is a lot of trouble in the papers. Sleet was to be shipped off to the Crystal Empire after this took place, because she had trouble adjusting. This entire subplot was scrapped and removed from the story.
Sleet was going to go on a date with Shamrock, and when Gosling found out, he well, he would've behaved like Gosling. This was scrapped to both trim down the story size and because there was already too much going on.
Princess Luna was originally very different as a character. Almost from the get-go, once finding out that Gosling wanted to wait until after marriage to have nookie, Luna was going to do everything in her power to vamp him. Her intent was simple: prove to her sister that Gosling was a weak willed individual and get the wedding the called off. Except that Gosling doesn't succumb to her advances and at some point during the merciless flirting and teasing, Luna developed feelings for him. Luna then pulls away and ceases all attempts to seduce him, becoming respectful of him and his beliefs, and with Luna suddenly becoming seemingly cold and distant, Gosling believed that he had done something horribly wrong to make Luna hate him. All of this was scrapped.
Ooh, a different Shamrock lol
So instead you cause Luna to be swept up in a marriage neither her or Gosling wanted due to Cadance's machinations?
Can we at least see some payback...or karmic justice or the like?
I really want to see this bite Cadance in the ass hard?
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So, you want Cadance to hurt for attempting to help heal Luna's broken heart... is that what you are saying? You want a character to suffer for offering compassion? You wish to inflict cruelty upon a healer?
So, in other words...
You scrapped a story from your story because it got in the way of your story, and now it's a story.
4211188 She also created a wound in the exact same place...and I have yet to see the stage where it heals from Luna being forced into marriage without her consent due to a extremely dumb rule that was made a long time ago...do you really think a real healer would address such an issue in such a cowardly way?
When your characters fuck up...it always is worse that usual level of fucking up...
Huh, I actually really like that last idea. That sounds real interesting not gonna lie.
Gosling, Luna and Celestia were just finishing up a quiet breakfast, just the three of them... Well, to be honest, Gosling had finished several minutes ago, but Luna and Celestia were still hard at work demolishing a mountain of buttermilk biscuits and a lake of various flavors of jelly. Gosling wiped a little bit of jam from the corner of his mouth and scooted his chair back, as not to get any splatters from the vigorous conflict on his clean coat and freshly-preened feathers, when he reached up and scratched rather absent-mindedly on his forehead.
"It's been itching all morning," he muttered. "Did I get bit by a bug last night."
"It's just the horn," said Celestia before devouring a biscuit in one ravenous bite. "They itch when they come in," she continued through the crumbs.
Gosling paused, frozen in horror, before edgeing off his chair and bolting for the door with a "MayIpleasebeexcusedthankyou!" fading in his wake. Luna paused somewhere between gooseberry and grape to give her sister a sharp glance.
"Celly, honestly!" she huffed. "Did you put itching powder on his forehead last night?"
"Maybe," said Celestia. "You're not going to tell him, are you?"
Luna paused until she had finished chewing on the present combatant. "Perhaps tomorrow."