Great Idea! >:D ((Spoilers for future story, ahead!!!)) · 5:24am Feb 11th, 2022
I just had a great idea for an in-the-works story as I try to slog through ADHD and bipolar finishing currently posted stories!!
Don't read this if you don't want to know what story I'm going to write and what's going to happen...
So, as many folks here may know, I'm certainly a fan-fiction crossover writer.
The next one planned is a Brütal Legend crossover (of course with MLP: FiM, why else am I telling you guys about it?) and I've finally settled on a few details!
First, it's just the major human heroes ending up in Equestria.
For Example:
Eddie, Lita, Ophelia, Mangus, and Kill Master. It hasn't been too long after the end of the game's events, so they're not going to be bringing Rima, leader of the Zaulia, or the Fire Baron. Also, the place they end up going to doesn't really allow for vehicles to enter, so the big fire cats can't get in, either, anyways.
Mangus is totally a diamond dog, Lita and Ophelia are turned into cats. Debating on turning Lita into a lioness instead of a standard housecat like Ophelia. (Obviously, their fur colors are going to be their hair colors. ) Kill Master I'm turning into a parrot because I can.
Eddie. Eddie was tricky. I debated on having him be a diamond dog, as well, only of course with his demonic nature being hidden like when he was a human. But then I remembered, a lot of Equestria's subtlety is like a brick flying through the sky. Only painted to look like the current weather. You know it's there. You know it's coming for you. But you don't really realize it fully until it's in your face. So I took a suggestion and made him a dragon.
The second bit is what's going to make this glorious and why I ended up deciding on adding the AU tag to the story.
This Equestria is an alternate timeline future from the Brütal Legend world.
HANG ON, HEAR ME OUT!
Celestia and Luna can manipulate the celestial bodies pretty easily compared to a bunch of unicorns, right? I mean, there are some parallels going on here that I might be hella over-analyzing, but by the gods, I'm going to do it.
Most god/god-like beings chill out over time, right? I mean, you'd say the Christian god chilled tf out when he had a kid, Sarenrae and Shelyn in the Pathfinder universe both chilled out a tad over the millennia to be a bit kinder compared to their Azlanti selves. So why not Ormagöden? Or Aetulia? Why not Ormagöden be more involved with the Sun, since he exploded rather than be extinguished, in the Equestrian days? And when Celly proved herself to be attuned to the sun, he was all, "Oh, hell yeah. Okay. Just let me know when I gotta give your fellow mortals a break, okay?" And Aetulia? I ask you how is she not like the moon itself? What if after calming down and going through another stage of grief or two, she ends up inhabiting the moon in its entirety? And Luna shows up and she sees a bit of herself in the mare and now they've got a bond going like Ormagöden and Celestia? And how is the Nightmare not Anger from Aetulia? A stage of grief? I challenge you that.
A third thing: Eddie's been running around in the Age of Metal, right? In-game, he's been freeing those dragons, right? So, he's been getting some slight powers/power-ups to his own abilities, right?
What if that made him able to sense that he's in an alternate timeline of the world? Like, he can sense Ormagöden's metal in the earth, his fire in the sun, his blood as the water, and his scream ever-pervasive? He just doesn't really notice it until there's a thick amount of magic in the air that is Equestria and the surrounding countries.
Now, I'm sure you're wondering what antagonist I'm going to throw at these humans-turned-anthro-creatures-native-to-this-pony-world. It's quite easy.
The Tainted Coil. Who else? xD
Just to let you guys know, once again, I'm just working on this on the side alongside everything else. So, I don't really plan on posting new chapters from this story until either I finish an in-progress one or that one is completed so I can release it chapter-by-chapter.
Besides. Once I release the story, you guys might forget this blog post.