May the muffins be forever in your favour."'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" is now 5 Years Old · 10:37pm May 10th, 2021
I bet no one has expected a blog entry about this story. But "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" has become five years old now, just a week ago, and I have to say something for this occasion. Five years, which is exactly how old Flurry Heart is in the story.
A little more than five years ago, on May 3rd 2016, I released the first chapter of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'". I called it "Good Morning, Sunshine!" because Flurry Heart has a daily habit of getting up before sunrise to greet the sun when it comes over the Crystal Mountains.
Five years ago I started "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" and four years ago, I finished the story. And since then, there has been silence about it.
The years that followed the story's completion had been rough. They had been rough on me, they had been rough on my friend, they had been rough on my writing and they had been rough on my mental health. An event I will never disclose happened in 2017 and because of my bad mental condition and my deteriorated writing skill that it caused, I have not dared to attempt writing the sequel of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" during all this time. Only recently, with one of the most recent chapters of my current project "Dreamwalker Dash", the writing skill I have developed by writing "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" and my other story from 2016 and early 2017, "Aunt Millie", has been fully restored and so it is only now that I am finally able to write the long-awaited sequel that I talked about so often.
And I wish that I could present the sequel now, in this blog entry written for the 5th Anniversary of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'". Unfortunately, the years since 2017 have seen other writing projects, as even with the negative effects on my writing skill I could not simply stop to write and the show had to go on regardless. Writing projects I care a lot about, as well, and that need completion before I can set my sights back on my original masterpiece. It is therefore with much regret that I cannot present and release the sequel to "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" today.
But, since this is the blog entry for the 5th Anniversary of the story, I want to share some writing regardless. In the second half of 2017, when thinking about the sequel, I have been gifted with a spontaneous idea for it and I wrote down a little scene I was inspired to. It turned out well, despite the hardships, and doesn't have to hide from the chapters of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'", as ideas born from spontaneous inspiration tend to be great. I never intended to release this scene, it was supposed to be a mere notice for myself to remember an idea I could potentially use in the sequel.
But for the sake of celebrating the 5th Anniversary of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'", here is a scene that I like a lot and that could be in the sequel:
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Flurry Heart's eyes followed the voice around in the dark room. Sitting in a vorago of darkness that surrounded her to all sides, it was the only means of orientation she had. As unpleasant as it was, following the voice was all she could do, if she ever wanted to get out. She needed to ask questions, needed to make the voice answering to find her way back.
“W-What are you?” Flurry Heart stood still, waiting for another sign of direction. The answer that came, though, made her almost wish she wouldn't have asked.
“I am you.”
Fighting her shivering body that tried to lock her in one spot, Flurry Heart marched forward again, into the new direction she heard the voice coming from.
“Me? But I am here!” she reached out to the voice, driven by the confusion she felt.
“Yes. You. I am you. I am you, I am your mother, I am your father. I am your old teacher. I am your guard too. And I am one of your friends.”
The voice seemed farther away and Flurry Heart increased her pace. “So, what are you then? How is this possible? Please answer me!” The fear of losing the voice and of forever being trapped in the surrounding darkness blemished her face.
“I am all of them and many more. Everyone who has killed, the Spirit of Murder. Those are who I represent, the murderers of this world.”
This answer made Flurry Heart stop dead in her tracks, despite her ever-present fear of staying trapped in the place she had entered. Her mouth opened wide, she breathed fitfully.
“But I'm not a murderer!” she yelled at the voice at the top of her lungs. “You are wrong, I have not murdered anyone!” Tears began to form in her eyes, from the anger she felt over this atrocious accusation.
“You are a murderer,” the voice answered coldly. “You, your mother, your father, all of you are murderers. It is why I'm here, why I am drawn to you. You are surrounded by murder, Flurry Heart.”
A scream echoed through the pitch-black darkness, making Flurry Heart's ears perk up.
“Remember this,” the voice said. “You are a murderer, Flurry Heart, it is your destiny and what you are meant to be. Accept it.”
And with these last words, the voice was gone. And Flurry Heart did not care anymore. She was alone now, alone with her weeping and her tears, forever trapped in this dark dimension. Perhaps it was for the best.
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There is still a debate in myself what the sequel will be about exactly, even after more than four years. I might use the ideas I have gotten in the sequel or I might write two sequels, make the first sequel a simpler Slice of Life story with only little obstacles for Flurry and her friends that will explore the daily life in Flurry Heart's school, something that I wish to explore very much and already talked about a lot in the comments of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'", and then write a second, more dramatic sequel in which I use these ideas and in which the open questions from the first story will get picked up again and answered.
If I go with the first option, this scene will only be in the second sequel. But whatever decision I make, I want to have this scene in a sequel to "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" one day.
Right now, I still can't give a definite date for the sequel. But it's finally looking up for it. Once my current story "Dreamwalker Dash", which I estimate will have about thirty chapters in the end, is finished, I will finally start working on the sequel.
This means, if no further complications happen, "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'" will finally get its sequel this year. There is hardly anything that I anticipate to happen more than this.
Stay easy as a filly!
~ Fluttercheer
I really liked that story. And I hope to one day enjoy the sequel. But you take all the time you need.
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You have no idea how glad I am for this comment. After four years, the fear that no one will care about the sequel anymore is big. Your comment alleviates this fear a little, thank you. I hope that more comments from old readers will return with time when I talk more about the sequel.
How did you enjoy the scene that I included here?
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A very dark and intense altercation, I must say. Very well written, too.
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Thank you! I want that the sequel lives up to the quality of "'Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds!'", so I am happy that I wrote this scene well. You'll hear more about the sequel sometime later this year.
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Great to know.