If I had known that buying that mansion- and island -off the coast of Crete was going to come with portals to Equestria's past and present, I would have bought a cabin in Brazil.

Should have done my homework first.

This story was originally posted as an Idea by deeed22, so some of the ideas are his.

Others belong to my muse.

All characters other than OC's belong to Hasbro.

I was on my way to Tennocon in Quebec, dressed as my personal Tenno from the game Warframe. I saw a costume shop with a perfect looking Amp, and stepped inside to buy it, and upon putting it on my arm found myself in Equestria. I was turned to stone by Celestia because of a misunderstanding about my powers, and now I do my own thing in Equestria, occasionally helping at Celestia's behest.

A Displaced story, will be doing crossovers if approached for them. However, I won't do a crossover if there is no reason to.

[Special Note: This story has been previously featured]

Clavier Melody, protégé of Sapphire Shores, has a crush on Adagio. He's gradually developed this over the years ever since he's first met her at the start of Canterlot High. It's been four years, they're both a week away from graduation. Things will take a different turn for the both of them on one night that'll turn their lives around either for better or worse.

Reader's Note:

If you Like the story, please hit that like button. Your support would be greatly appreciated. Should you Dislike, please state in the comments below and why. Your opinion would be valued and considered. Thank you.

Warnings:

The story has been given the label, Teen as the story may not be suitable for children.
The story has been given the label, Sex just in case due to suggestive content and innuendos which may be present.

Announcements:

Special thanks to:
DilEmmas4U for giving me permission to use her art as the cover image.

And to:
Requiem17 and LightningSword for helping me with proofreading and editing.

And finally, to the art contributors:

Xebck
Sonicfan1345
Fbksru521

[Displaced Story]

[I don't own Dragon Ball Super or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]

My name is Michael, well... it was. Now I'm known as Goku Black, or Black for short. I was thrown into this world of pastel-colored ponies with magical powers a thousand years ago. I was happy, trained under my Teacher, Master Starswirl. Until another wanted control, I couldn't risk the ponies I cared about getting hurt if he got control, so with the help of the Princesses, sealed me in stone with the help of the Elements of Harmony. I don't know how long I've been here, but it sure has been boring. After what has been centuries, I feel like now is the right time to be released from my stone prison.

[Rationalfic Deconstruction / Subversion of Displaced]
You’ve read the stories of people from Earth being “Displaced”: Their bodies are changed, their minds are warped, and they’re thrown across the multiverse, to whatever world and timeline their supernal "Displacers" decide upon.  Well, this story isn’t one of them...

...because when they tried to remake me, I didn’t let them.

A Rationalist Horror story, in which an Occultist from some version of Earth (implied to be the World of Darkness) undermines her own Displacement and ends up as a Self-Modifying Construct. Scientific Inquiry, Philosophical Debate, Rational Discussion, Body Horror, and Existential Hijinks ensue. Themes, Concepts, and Style inspired by HP Lovecraft, Elizer Yudkowsky, Gordon R Dickson, Edgar Allen Poe, Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein), Dresden Codak, World of Darkness, and Friendship is Optimal.
^{Front page on JUL 28th, AUG 12th, OCT 30, and every update after that.}

Your story breaks the shitty norm that most displaced stories have in common by being an 'actually interesting story' instead of a powertrip for a horny teen.

This is like brain porn. My head hurts but in a good way.

Author’s Notes

I often find Displaced fics to be more often Miss than Hit with me. Often, they're generic, poorly written, or just do not do anything worth reading with the concept.  This is an experiment to trt out a few other concepts which aren’t used often, even by me, including some which directly subvert Displaced as a genre, and maybe even come up with some advice for those authors. This is also a crossover with the upcoming Dragon: The Oroboroi Chronicles, a World of Darkness rulebook which I lead the development team for.

I hope you all enjoy this, and I implore you to leave some feedback in the comments section: I'll experimenting with a few uncommon concepts here, and I'd like to know how people feel about how they're coming across. :3

FAQ

Because people keep bringing these things up...

Horror/Dark Tags

I've had multiple people ask "how bad does it get?" Note the lack of the "gore", "sad", or "mature" tags or anything like that. Yes, there is blood and death at some point in this story, but the real horror of this story comes from the philosophical and scientific quandaries the characters go through: this is "intellectual horror", not "visceral horror".

Length

In the interest of this NOT becoming one of those long, sprawling fics, I plan to keep this limited to a manageable 10 chapter limit, not counting Prologue and Epilogue. No one wants to read something that long, and I'd rather not be stressing over this 6 months from now.

Sequel

The Sequel is already in the works, with scenes already written. It will be a more episodic story revolving around world optimization and interplanar hijinks.

Crossovers

To be clear, I do plan on having the main character make one of those "Token" things, but as they often get in the way of actual stories, that won't happen until the end of the story. The Sequel will be crossover-heavy.