HIE Cliches · 3:30pm Aug 11th, 2020
Things that you see in about 99% of HIE stories:
- Unicorn levitates something, the human is all shocked, and they spend the next few minutes arguing about the existence of magic.
- The human is all shocked when told Celestia raises the Sun.
- The human works as either a handyman, masseuse, of farmhand at SAA.
- The human is unnecessarily surly and pissy about everything.
- The human makes friends with a changeling / griffon / etc... , hamfisted anti-racist message that doesn’t resonate because there's absolutely no depth.
- The human shows up in the Everfree, is chased by Timberwolves.
- The human goes on some masturbatory rant about how great humanity is because computers / guns / democracy.
- Discord shows up and gushes about how "chaotic" humans are.
- If it's a romance, the main conflict revolves around the human's reluctance to fuck a horse because bestiality.
- The human wakes up in the hospital.
- The human is a 18 - 25 y/o college student / retail worker / unemployed weirdo.
- The human says that he eats meat, and the ponies are all shocked and disgusted, until Fluttershy says that she can get him fish.
- Pinkie Party.
- The human questions how Pinkie works, and the ponies say something to the effect of "that's just Pinkie for you."
- The human finds an enchanted sword or something, never actually uses it.
- Twilight interrogates the human about Earth, unfunny stuff about how she's a neurotic academic weirdo.
Yup
Sad but true.
It usually goes that way.
Yeah, saw all of them. Except
It's always the opposite: the human goes on some masturbatory rant about how bad humanity is because wars / religions / how we treat the environment.
Hate that cliche with a passion.
Eh, not seeing a problem with this. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.