Random Ramblings CXIV - Pinkamena · 12:23am Dec 24th, 2016
IN WHICH I DISCUSS OTHER BEST PONY
After much thought, and probably half-baked, it is done: My Pinkamena Diane Pie alternate chapter. I don't know if it'll meet readers' expectations. I certainly hope so, as I actually put in effort. Well, some effort – I copypasted some dialogue at the beginning. That was intentional because I wanted the setup to hew closely to the proper Pinkie Pie chapter. Hey, it's impossible to plagiarize yourself!
Pinkamena Diane Pie clocks in at nearly 3000 words! That's not the wordiest chapter/story I've ever done (which I believe is Lows & Highs), but it's 1200 words longer than the original Pinkie chapter, and it makes Reconciliations officially the longest story I've put up on this site, being just a couple hundred words longer than Ponyville Holds An Election (my first story here).
Before Sunset Shimmer wormed her way into my cold black heart, Pinkamena was my favourite pony -- never mind that she's not technically a real character; I love everything about her, even as I'm just "meh" on Pinkie herself. The very first MLP fanfic I ever wrote was a massive character study of Pinkamena, but you'll never see it because it's unwieldy and crap. However, some thematic elements popped up again in Sunset's "Recovery Arc".
The way I wrote Pinkamena in this chapter is not how I usually depict her. Normally I write Pinkie and Pinkamena as separate personalities who inhabit the same body, but this time I did it more in the fashion that she's probably supposed to be: A girl who just gets very sad sometimes. I hope I didn't take too much of the focus away from Sunset or make Pinkamena come off as too self-centered. As you can imagine, the dialogue for both of them was rather difficult to write due to the weight of it.
Anyway, I've got another couple of stories to work on next. Hopefully I can get them out before the new year. Peace!
I like this take on pinkie and pinkamina though the way you showed sunset in highs and lows in her manic state and with how she got during her low depressed state it could very well be pinkie pie is in fact suffering from a extremely advanced mental illness that's left her in a constant manic state due to a incident in her childhood she don't remember while her pinkiemina side is her lower depressive more focused side where she sees things in a more clear realistic and unclouded viewpoint knowing the lows and the highs gives both parts of her a deep personal outlook even to the point she knew exactly how sunset felt and what to say to her to help her
In other words I love how you made them here and I do hope you explore this side of pinkie more
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I have a likely-never-to-be-completed Pinkamena story on my hard drive that even in its current state is over 75,000 words.
Maybe if I run out of Sunset stories to tell before this site dies?
Sorry. I'm slow.
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I would be honerd to readthem if they ever go up