Thoughts on Repose

Any minute now. I’m sure of it. There’s a story coming soon, I promise. I've submitted it, I'm sure moderators are doing their best to do their thing. Doesn't stop me from checking my email every two seconds.

My laptop’s ‘a’ key still refuses to work half the time without stern reprimanding, so that’s fun to put up with.

And I’m bored out of my mind and felt like writing something, so I figured I’d throw some words out onto the internet and see if anyone cares. Belated author's notes or something, I guess. Sure, let's go with that.

It’s all about Repose from here on out.

Writing that story and posting it is probably one of the better decisions I’ve made this year, all things considered. Maybe not the best, but it's up there. I'm glad I did it. In a kind of fitting way, it was also one of my biggest headaches. I must’ve gone back and rewritten the thing from scratch at least two or three times, maybe even more.

It’s telling, I think, that it was more than a year ago, back when I posted Requiem, that I first imagined Sunset and Adagio having a completely, totally, 100% platonic bonding moment that in no way implied future relations of a more intimate nature. Nope, no shipping here. Move along.

So yeah, it took an entire year for me to write short little Repose.

Now, I mentioned this in passing in a reply to a comment someone made on Repose, so I guess I’ll say it again here: I originally thought about having it take place after the Battle of the Bands, where it would have been the beginning of a beautiful romance friendship.

But then I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if it actually happened long before EG and RR, and neither of them had a clue that the other one was also from Equestria?” So that was a thought that I toyed with for a little while. Maybe I’ll revisit something like that later, but for the moment I don’t think much is going to come of that idea.

Next, I decided that there just weren’t enough stories that had Sunset and Adagio interacting during their conflict. I thought that was a terrible shame, since they just had so much potential for an interesting dynamic in the movie that never really got used much.

From there, I started banging my head against a wall, because I just couldn’t stop myself from flip-flopping between ideas. I tried like three or four different endings and at least two different beginnings, and tried writing in a more light-hearted tone and tried doing all these other weird things that probably would have failed spectacularly. In the end, I finally posted it mostly because it had just been such an enormous headache second-guessing myself and that I thought I should just commit to something, post it and get it over with. So that’s what I did. And then it turned out people liked it. Who'd have guessed?

‘Kay, I’m about done now. If you made it this far and have anything you want to say, feel free to leave a comment. If not, keep an eye out for my next act of blatant alphabetical favoritism. Now with alliteration!