Sep
28th
2021
So. I am curious. About my stories. · 2:14am Sep 28th, 2021
My few, and rarely updated stories are all written mostly from the point of view of Arcanum Folklore. These stories are meant to be set in different points in his life serving as our eyes and ears of the shadows, and hidden dark corners, and the deepest pits of horror of the world in which Equestria exists.
So to all of those that have read my fimfiction stuff. I ask what sort of individual do you take this character to be? And your opinions on what he represents.
I made him with a purpose, and that purpose was as a middle finger of OC's past, and at the same time a representation of Horror Comic and Dark Fantasy characters.
I see him as an amalgamation of and tribute to various pulp and film noir characters, which isn't remotely a bad thing! He's versatile enough to potentially fit any genre.
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Yeah pretty much. Though I thought about making him as a joke a "Maid Magnet", like Young Maids in Canterlot Castle or Maids working for rich ponies in Manehattan partially drool over him and can't help themselves, but keep quiet and simply don't say anything.
Though it would make more sense for him to be an unintentional and reluctant Supernatural Mare Magnet. I am talking about Priestesses, Female fellow Mages, Druids, Witches, Sorceresses, Fay, Demonesses, Goddesses, Mermaids, Ghosts, Strigoi, Draugr, Lich's, and Naturally Psychic Mares. The stallion's Thaumatic Ethereal presence just draws them in. The Psychics, and the Priestesses are the saner ones, and the ones that come of as more adorable.
I am not going to do it. But it is sort of an idea.
Though I always wondered how many spat their drinks at just how little chill he has in combat, and how brutal things got. Setting ponies on fire, reanimating killed nazi unicorn enemies to be used as screaming in agony suicide bombers, slicing a nazi unicorn mares clear in half, anchoring souls to their mangled and ripped apart remains and torturing them through said remains. Breaking the noses of random nobles on the slight suspicion of sexual harassment. And I am only listing the shit he has done to his fellow ponies... So far.
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Also Folklore as a unicorn of Erenn descent has a connection and his mear presence incites animosity from all Fay, including Changeling, specially Changelings.
Fay once ruled Erenn, but Unicorns from the Mediterranean found themselves stranded on Erenn over six-thousand years ago, and at first tried to coexist with the magical and seemingly immortal then Tuatha De Danann. But due to the Magical nature of the Tuatha De Danann, and their seeming regenerative long lives existence they developed a completely different morality to mortal Unicorns and as such things that they saw as mere pranks, or acceptable tricks, or even just punishment's for what they considered slights were atrocities and horifiying to the Unicorns. The Tuatha De Danann were like innocently cruel yet cheerful mighty spirits, that did not understand or had difficulty believing how fragile mortal Unicorns where.
Eventually war broke out. The Tuatha De Danann armies slaughtered Unicorns as if it where mere sport, and treated the one sided fighting as amusement. Until one day a Unicorn Druid created the unthinkable, a substance that could make them bleed, and keep on bleeding. Magick Cold Iron...
Before the Tuatha De Danann could take things seriously enough to notice all of the remaining armies of Mortal Unicorns were armed with weapons made with this Magick Cold Iron, and no longer could the Tuatha De Danann heal in seconds from seemingly mortal wounds. Now they bleed, and bleed. Wounds that would normally heal on mortals eventually became lethal to the Tuatha De Danann, and the mighty where facing an army of vengeful, spiteful mortals, that could now kill them, by inflicting would that would never heal.
This eventually forced Tuatha De Danann into the deepest darkest parts of forests, the deep caverns under the hills of Erenn, and hidden away Magickal realms. Through thousands of years, of isolation and inbreeding they became the Fay, and the Fay eventually found themselves sterile yet capable of seemingly eternal life for as long as the dreaded Magickal Cold Iron was never used against them. So they created the Changelings to steal emotions, steal Children and Loved Ones, and have those that where Stolen to be used by the Changelings to reproduce more Fay, and maybe even restore them to the Tuatha De Danann.
What happened instead was that from their kidnapping, consumption of emotion, and systematic mass violation, only more Changelings were "hatched" from their hives. This forced the Fay to do the unthinkable, to reach a truce with the Erenn Unicorns. And so they did, and with their combined Magicks, and the weapons of the Mortal Unicorns they drove away and killed as many Changelings as possible.
At this point in 1107 Before Celestia's Reign that Changelings hid away across all of the west in the little remaining still wild forests of Europa, and the deserts of South West Equestria and North Zebrica.
Folklore is a direct descendant of the one Druid that created the Magick Cold Iron that did all of this, his entire bloodline for thousands for years brings an instinctual yet inexplicable loathing and dread to all the Fay. Those Fay that were not alive then have forgotten, why the presence of a Lore Druid inspires hatred and fear, but they feel it in their blood, but have no explanation for why. a Lore Druid would have to get close to a Fay for this effect to take place.
But Changelings while they were the first to forget, where the ones that held the most hatred. And would go berserk upon proximity to a Lore Druid...
To be honest I see him as somewhat of a bad ass and dealing with the horrors of grim reality whether it be in another dimension or in his own world. He's like a true hero, selfless, kind, makes up for his own actions whether it be good or bad and accepts that not everything that's good on the outside is on the inside. He's very determined and almost never gives up. I'd love to see more stories about him, whether they are slice-of-life or even more horriffying to the point where there's no one there to help him and he has to do the impossible.
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That is surprising. Though while I did make him to be a better person than he appears to be. His kindness is a stark contrast to how quickly he kills, and how much he experimented and still does on Changeling body-parts. He is a combination of vigilante and mad scientist. And as such does unethical things. I did make him to be the sort to always do the right thing, the wrong way.