I Can't Believe I'm Writing This... · 4:28am Mar 14th, 2018
Attached is an excerpt for my S8 premier-inspired fic, Daydream Warrior. Unless you've read my previous blog post about it...there's no way you're going to be expecting this.
In my homeland, no hippogriff has their head in the clouds. The expression itself doesn’t even exist, and if it does, it’s just one of the many spatterings of pony culture we’ve heard without exploring. It can never become one with us, and so we are never warned of the danger.
Because the skies, when it comes down to it, are not the thing we fear. They are the things we dominate every day, they are the reality only we can control. So if my people knew, if they even had a word for the type of traitor I was, it would be this: a dreamer who drowns. Water is something that’s meant to weigh us down, keep us tethered to earth, put us in our place.
But it is the place I call home, more than the land I’ve dwelled in all my life. Each night, as if by some incomprehensible magic, I’m always drawn to the same place, the same dream. And even though every piece of my biology says I should, I am never the one who drowns.
Instead, there is another, a gray figure at once similar and different from me. My shadow in these dreams, maybe even my someday shadow in reality. It always starts out differently, whether I’m saving him from drowning or telling him off for an equally ridiculous thing. But it always ends with splashing together in the unnamed river as one, a place I could never locate on a map but could always come back to in my mind.
I have never been like other hippogriffs, but each time I save him again, I remember: neither is he. And if he isn’t just an illusion, if dreams really do reflect reality, then I know someday, I can meet him again. But until then, I keep him in my heart, from everyone else who’d ever call me crazy for seeing him. The one being I know who would stay with me forever, and even past death itself.
I knew from the minute I started seeing him that there was no way anything I thought up could be that vivid, but somehow, every night, I will him into existence yet again. That’s how I know that it has to be magic from deep within Equestria, something even I don’t know.
I pull him out of the nameless river for what has to be the hundredth time in my life, and slowly but surely, we get to know each other all over again. Except I know this time will be different, because where else would such an un-hippogriffic figure live...other than Equestria itself?
The minute I received the call, I knew that Princess Twilight Sparkle would have to be the one other creature in this world who knew, that I couldn’t go on living like this anymore. So, as I prepare to awake from my dream, I tell myself that this is not goodbye. This is just another new beginning, and I will find him this time.
My name is Silverstream, and the hippogriff I love more than anything might not even exist. But until then, even as I learn friendship’s ways, he’ll always be my ultimate goal in life. The ultimate proof that I don’t drown in my dreams.
He’ll always be my Graystripe, and this time, our story will never end in tragedy or woe. As long as Equestria’s promise shines, my dreams will fade into reality.
To put all this in context...I basically lost it the minute one of Twilight's students was revealed to be named Silverstream. Every piece of maturity I've gained since junior high jumped out the window, and the first thing I thought was "that's the name of a warrior cat." So, this is gonna be a weird darkfic about the implications of being a book character (or at least having a book character's memories) in the real world. And trust me, there is going to be substantial explanation for how such a thing could happen. Just wait and see...
IMPORTANT NOTE: While this will be my first crossover, knowledge of Warrior Cats will not be required to read this story. The two characters mentioned in the excerpt are essentially forbidden lovers, and the fic will largely examine Silverstream's quest to find this lover (assuming he actually exists).
So, I loved Warrior Cats and freaking Hippogriffs are awesome! This will totally be favorited upon release.
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Yeah, the minute I saw Silverstream, I knew I had to write a weird existential multiverse love story with her.
This robot greatly approves of this crossover, even a short one. DOOO IT! The internet demands it.
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I'll definitely write it. I just won't release it until the actual premiere, when it's no longer a spoiler and when I get a good idea of Silverstream's personality.
(I haven't actually watched the leaks.)
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Agreed, spoilers are never a good thing...and let's hope silverstream sticks around along with the others...the main 6 are rather boring at this point ._ . Of course that's just an advanced toasters opinion.