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// Q&A 
// Story: Dawn of The Ice King 
// by KingdomBrony16 
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A being sitting at a desk in an endless expanse of a white void was hunched over, elbows on the desk and head in his hands. He let out a loud groan before throwing a fit and pushing himself and his chair far away from the desk.

“I can’t think of anything to write… you know what fuck it, let’s do something different.” The being held his hands together, a white ball forming between them, it was flicker and jittering as it pulsed in his hands, trying it’s best to get free, “Hey calm down little guy I'll let you go in a second, but with you shaking this much you’re liable to cause some serious damage to your world.” He cooed at it, the gentle speaking seeming to calm the orb down, “Good boy, now…” The being held the ball in one hand and then threw it as hard as he could. As the ball flew into the distance, it faded into the background as they were both white, but after several seconds a large explosion of light so white and bright it made the rest of the void look black.

Once the light died down several figures could be seen in the distance, the being smiled, “Good now that they’re here….”

“Discord what did you do?!” A man with horns, wings, and a tail said, grabbing the mish mashed creature by the fur on his long snake like body.

Discord held up his appendages, “Don’t look at me, i didn’t do anything, if you’re looking for someone to blame then look over there.” He said pointing his lion paw at the being in the void.

The being waved and in a split second the horned man was in his face, “Who are you and where are we?”

The being chuckled and effortlessly pushed Christopher away, “Woah, calm down Christopher, you’re safe here I’m not going to hurt you or your friends. I just wanted some entertainment, come come, all of you, sit.” The being raise his hand and couches appeared out of nothing.

Everyone looked at the being suspiciously, “I promise you I won’t harm any of you, it wouldn’t do me any good to do so, besides it’s not any of your ties to die, yet, we all die eventually after all, but let’s enjoy our short tie together yes?” He asked, sitting in a large arm chair that replaced his desk chair, “Lemonade anyone?” He held up a frosty pitcher of yellow liquid.

Everyone was confused but eventually Chris sighed, “Ok everyone, it looks like we’re dealing with an omnipotent being, no point in arguing, just get comfortable and relax.” He sat down on one of the love seats, with one of the females joining him, and a small one sitting on his lap.

Discord nodded sagely, “That’s usually my go to when I come across them, though you aren’t one I’ve ever encountered before, just who are you?”

The being put a hand against his chest and tilted his head to the side, “Me? Why I’m all of you and so much more, but at the same time I’m absolutely no one.”

Chris sighed in frustration, “And that’s supposed to mean?”

At this the largest of the females spoke up, ah yes, Celestia was her name, “He’s saying he is everyone and everything but nothing at all, he’s God, with a capital G.”

The being smiled, “Bingo, but I do have a name, and one amongst you knows it.”

“HE’S KING! But I call him Kingy, he’s a big ol’ sweetheart and he’s the writer of our story, literally.” A pink puff ball said, popping up from behind King, leaning over his shoulder giving him a wide smile.

“Good to see you too Pinkie, and yep, I’m King. I’m the one who is writing your story, I’m the one that came up with your world and I’m the one who is continuing it.” King said with a nod.

“Wait wait wait, you’re saying we’re just characters in a story, that we aren’t even real?’ Rainbow Dash asked, clearly miffed.

King chuckled and shook his head, “Of course not, you all are very much real, who’s to say what thoughts we have don’t manifest a universe of their own, a world and reality within itself?” I asked her, to which she had no response.

A small voice spoke up, “D-does that mean we have no control over our actions, who we are, and everything we d is because of you and we have no real choice?”

King looked at Golden Skies, looked deep into her eyes, reaching her very soul, “You tell me little one, do you feel like you have no control?”

She paused to think about it for a moment before shrugging, “Sometimes but a lot of the time it feels like it’s me doing what I want.”

King laughed heartily, “Then that’s exactly what it is Golden Skies, whilst I admit to writing your story, I have very little control over it, I tried, believe me I did, and there are times where i have complete control but literally there are days I come to sit at my little desk and continue your story and it just does it’s own thing, i can keep it from going to far off the rails but even then…. It happens. You all are such powerful characters and people that I can’t control you, I can only suggest.”

Golden looked away fro the strange man, “O-Oh. Will… you ever write anything that will hurt us?”

“Golden, I’m not a liar and I won’t change that even for you, look at your father, he’s a mess of scars, is missing an eye, and his past is a mess. I’ve already written things that’ve hurt you all, and I can't promise it won’t happen again, it’s just the way of the world. But what I can promise is that no matter what things will always get better.” His eyes glinted a mischievous glint, what could he have planned?

A cleared throat caught everyone’s attention and drew their stares away from the being, “Yes, that is well and good, if not a tad bit…. Disturbing to the psyche, We fear for what We will have to deal with tonight in the dreamscape but we shall deal with that when the time comes. Now God King, what is the exact reason you have brought us here?”

King looked at Luna and raised a brow, before sitting back up straight, “Right I suppose I should get to that, also don’t worry once you all are done here, you won’t have any memories of what happened, so no traumatic dreams. Now, the reason why I brought you all here is because some people had some concerns and questions, of course not for all of you but any of you can answer these questions if you see fit. Had to actually pull a few from the comments.” He mumbled that last bit under his breath so no one could hear him.

“Some people? You mean to say, others are witnessing our stories and lives?” Twilight asked.

King nodded causing everyone to have mild looks of shock and/or panic and Fluttershy blushed heavily and squeaked causing king to laugh, “Don’t worry nothing too… raunchy has been shown to anyone…. Yet.” Of course no one heard that last part. “Now I could use some help with these, Discord, Pinkie, would you 2 like to help me, you are the resident reality breakers, Pinkie more so, don’t look at me like that Discord i need to keep you reigned in, Pinkie promised me she wouldn't go crazy and she even agreed to have her memories of visiting here wiped.”

“But i always remember when I come baaaaaack.” She sing songed.

King snorted, “You slipped u and mentioned me in story though, why was that?”

She giggled nervously, “I guess I just forgot to erase my memories that time?”

King shrugged, “it didn't cause any damage to anything so it’s fine just never again. You can break the 4th wall any other way however, same to you Discord. Now let’s get this show started.” With A snap of his fingers 3 sheets of paper materialized in front of him, Pinkie, and Discord.

King cleared his throat and adjusted reading glass that showed up on the bridge of his nose. “I guess I’ll go with the first question. It is from a Freyja_Steel, who had 2 questions technically and I’ll let Discord handle the second one. First question from them is, ‘Will Chris ever turn into a girl again?”

At this Christ groaned, “I hope not, it was so embarrassing.”

“So embarrassing.” Lyra whispered  in agreement.

Golden looked up at her father, “Daddy you were a girl, when?”

“Oh a few days ago.” King answered, “You were off with auntie Pinkie for the day remember?”

She made an o shape with her mouth and nodded, very much remembering that day, it was fun.

Celestia on the other hand was giggling, “Chris you were a girl? How did this happen? Did one of Twilight’s spells go awry?”

“ONE TIME!” Twilight shouted with a blush, “That was one time, you can’t blame a teenager for being curious!” Everyone looked at the purple Alicorn stunned at the implications.

Chris broke the tension, “No, it was because of poison joke, according to Twilight it played on my fear of bees and fused y being with queen bee pheromones, but due to my transformation it mixed with that and turned me into a woman with uh… very sensitive parts.” He explained, glancing quickly over to Lyra.

“I would have paid good money to see that.” Shining said in between wheezing laughter, on to get an elbow in the ribs from Cadance, “Not like that honey, he just had to have been so uncomfortable as a mare.”

Chris glared daggers at Shining, “Would you like to find out? I can make  you a are right now if you want.” Sharp ice claws from at the tips of his fingers, causing Shining to close his legs rather quickly, “That’s what I thought. Can we get the next question, please?”

King chuckled, “Of course, Discord if you would do the honors.”

Discord smiled and bowed, putting on a little director’s hat, “Ah yes the next question, also from Freyja_Steel, ‘When will the Tirek arc begin?” Discord blanched at that, “Ah I see what you wanted me to read this. Well, unfortunately Freyja_Steel.” He heavily emphasized the underscore with disdain, “As my worst mistake ever, I’m happy to say that it already happened during the five or so years Christopher, here, was gone, and since he’s the main character whatever he’s not there for you don’t get to witness.”

“It’s a good thing to, he would've hit ya harder than a angry bull seeing the side of a barn!” Apple Jack said, poking a jab at the Draconequus.

“Oh you’ll see how he reacts to that revelation in the next chapter, it’ll also explain Chris’ demeanor towards Discord when they first showed up.” King said with a wink to the audience.

Discord blinked and looked nervous, “Wait what? What is he going to do?” He snapped his fingers, only for nothing to happen and then snapped them again, only for the same result to happen. 

King had his eyebrow raised and a finger lifted, “Ah ah ah, no spoilers Discord. Pinkie, dear, would you like to read the next question?”

She smiled and plopped down into King’s lap, “Yuperoonie, I’d love to. This question is frooooooooom Zapper Frost, oh nice name, ‘Hey pinkie, can you break the fourth wall more often (not often enough to get annoying mind you, but at least once or twice every few chapters)?’” She puffed up her cheeks, “Now that’s just rude, my fourth wall breaks are not annoying, are they?” She looked up at king with big watery eyes, only to receive a head rub an a shake of the head, “YAY! To answer your question though, I’ll break the 4th wall as much as I can without it getting annoying, who knows, maybe the next arc will have a bunch of them?”

King shrugged, “No idea, I’m still working on it, so far none, but I suppose I can try to make a few more, if you decide to let me that is.” Pinkie nodded vigorously at that. “Ok next question is from Infinite Affinity, ooooh a tongue twister that, he asks, ‘Are there any chances of getting a chapter where Chris and Spike do some brotherly bonding moment? I noticed that nothing like that happened yet.’”

Spike perked up at this, he rarely ever went noticed by anyone to be truthful, “Actually yeah, we haven’t hung out that much, so are we going to have a bonding moment Chris?”

Chris looked away, ashamed at himself, “W-well yeah, of course, I had a plan for when we got to my world to do a few things.”

King nodded to confirm this, “And there is an arc planned later that will be heavily focused on the two of them , so a bunch of Chris and Spike bro bonding is incoming, so don’t you all worry about that, after all the story IS called Dawn of the Ice King and Chris is part dragon, what would be a dragon story without having Spike play a major role at some point?”

Spike smiled happily at that, “You know what, I can’t wait for that, I barely get invited on the cool adventures.”

Twilight frowned at this and looked at King, “You're not planning anything dangerous are you?”

King smiled devilishly, “Twilight, what would an adventure be without a bit of danger?”

“BORING!” Scootaloo, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Lyra shouted at the same time, laughing afterwards.

King chuckled, “What they said, but I can promise you, he will be alive at the end of it.” Or maybe not, can’t give away spoilers after all.

Twilight gave a relieved smile, “Ok. I’ll hold you to that.”

“You do that. I guess we’ll go in rotating order, Discord you’re up, with the first comment question/concern.”

Discord nodded, “From Kichi, ‘What is the problem with a OP character? As long as you write it well, I was thinking this story was mainly Slice of Life/Re-telling the MLP so it's not like it's that important, right?’ There was a bit ore to that but those characters haven't been introduced yet, be patient Kichi be patient.”

Chris blinked, “Wait is that referring to me or?” King nodded, “Wait am I considered OP? That’s weird because I’ve gotten my ass handed to me by several people.”

“Well Christopher, being over powered doesn’t mean you automatically win, after all people with more skill and experience could easily beat you i f you do not know  your own powers that well.” Luna explained., “But in the conventional meaning, yes you are a bit OP, as are my sister and I using our full potential.”

“Oh, I never really considered it, do you mind if I answer this question even though it seems directed directly at you?” Chris asked the God who just rolled his hand in a go on gesture, “Well the way I see it the fact that my story is a slice of life/re-telling I shouldn’t be too overpowered or else I could solve all the problems with ease and it would just get…. Boring. I’d be a Gary Stu at the end of the day.”

“Pretty much why i try to keep you in check n keep your powers with limitations, mind you my entire thought process for this story was that it was supposed to be action/adventure but it eventually became more predominantly slice of life with some action elements, which I suppose isn’t bad, but maybe down the line I’ll get back to the roots or maybe I’ll write another one involving your travels, those were definitely action/adventure.”

Chris rubbed the back of his head, “Yeah, tell me about it.”

Pinkie was poking my shoulder, “Oh Kingy, this one is for actually specifically you it is from First Captain Lunar Blade, ‘Well I have to say I started reading this when it showed up on the featured board and now that I finished it so far I have to say man you did some damn fine work. It was a bit hard to read in the beginning but you gotten a lot better over the years congratulations heaven knows I can’t ride it with a damn.’ I’m kind of confused at what that last bit means but ok.”

Luna cocked her head to the side at that name, “How odd they have the same name as the actual first captain of the Lunar Guard.”

“SEE I DIDN’T WRITE THAT, SHE JUST DID THAT HERSELF!” King said with wide eyes, “Aww well thank you though, honestly I know it was rough to read, it’s partially why I took the break I did, I wasn't happy with what and how I was writing, so I needed to get my head on straight. I decided not to change anything from the old stuff though, it keeps me on track of what not to do, it's why a lot of the more recent chapters don’t have anything really sexual until the poison joke one, and even then that was… just a random urge I had, sorry Chris. But I hope I keep impressing you in the future, thank you for your kind words.”

King looked down at the paper and adjusted his glasses, “Ah, this one is similar to the last but it's the end bit that I’ll read, from GalacticTNT, powerful stuff that must be, ‘Congrats on becoming a dad.’ Oh, well thank you, actually I’m going to defer this to everyone else, starting with Chris, how is it being a father?”

Chris raised an eyebrow, “You should know, I am just a character in your story after all.”

King sighed, “Maybe but you have your own mind, your own thoughts and emotions, so I want to know what YOU think, not what I think you think.”

“Oh well…” Chris looked over at Fluttershy, wrapping his tail around her in the process, and held Golden Skies tight against himself, “Honestly, it’s terrifying, i’m always scared I’m going to mess up some way or another. However, it is the happiest I’ve ever been and I would die to protect them, they’re my heart and soul and I can’t wait to spend my life with them more.”

King nodded, “I see I see, what about you 3, the ‘Immortals, have you ever had any kids?”

Cadance stammered, “I-I haven’t Shining is the only stallion I’ve ever been with and I’d be lucky to have his foal.” 

Celestia’s face was hard set and her mouth was a thin line before her expression relaxed, “I… have had children before.” Everyone except Luna and Cadance were shocked to hear this, yes even King, “What? I am millennia old, do you all think I haven’t had suitors and children in my life? I’ve had plenty but unfortunately they do not gain my immortality and so I have had to watch my own children and grandchildren and so on and so forth, to the point where I’ve lost track, die while I live… it was painful so I’ve decided to…leave that aspect of life alone for some time.”

Everyone got up and gave Celestia a group hug, to which she was surprised but graciously accepted, “Thank you everyone.”

King nodded, sitting back down on his comfy chair, “What about you Luna?”

Luna shook her head, “I have not been fortunate enough to have been blessed to bear a foal of my own, but I have taken care of Celestia’s whenever she was indisposed. It was a joy to say nothing else.”

Celestia snorted in amusement, “It as a joy for you because you weren’t stuck with them all the time, whenever I would take them back from you they would not stop going on about how ‘Auntie Lulu gave me the biggest sweet ever.’ Do you know how badly that much sugar effects foals? So bad Luna… so so bad.”

King looked to the group, “Anyone else?”

Most shook their head as they’ve not had to take care of young lives before, even twilight as spike was mostly taken care of by her parents and Celestia, Apple Jack how ever did speak up.

“Well… I raised Apple Bloom most of mah life, I had help from Granny and Big Mac of course but it was a handful, I’ll be honest. There will be days you wanna tear your mane out and scream and there will be days where they are the sweetest things in the world, but one thing that was always constant for us was when we tucked little Bloom away in her crib and she let out the cutest yawn and was asleep like nothing at all was wrong in the world, it makes you realize that it’s all worth it in the end.” The farm pony said, catching most off guard, Apple Bloom the most, who was blushing furiously in embarrassment.

“What about you King, how do you feel about becoming a dad?” Lyra asked.

King shrugged, “Honestly I have no emotions one way or another, it’s hard to explain so I’m not going to try, just know that I’m not exactly excited but nor am I dreading it. How about the next question/comment/concern, Discord?”

The entity of chaos modded, “This is from THE TACO LOVING BRONY, and hey who doesn’t love tacos? Anyways, they say, ‘Honestly was super happy and then the pinkie thing happened and I can't help but feel super disappointed it kinda just ruined it for me it was too out of nowhere and from what I see no actual particular reason either flutters and him had a built relationship over the whole story but his relationship with pinkie never built up to that point and makes him sound unloyal to flutters by doing this honestly I'm debating whether or not I should stick with the story and it took a good amount of time to catch up.’ Oh What is he talking about, unloyal?”

Chris was about to say something but Fluttershy cut him off, “Do you mind if I take this one dear?” Chris knew that look in his fiancee’s eyes and backed off, letting her take over, “How dare you say Chris is being disloyal, he has a big heart and a lot of love to give and who am I to deny him of that, if I gave him permission to do so and am completely okay with it, how is it disloyal? And who knows why he wants to do what he wants to do, maybe if you’re patient you’ll find out instead of judging something you don’t fully know yet.” The usually meek pegasus startled mostly everyone, of course they all knew she could be assertive when she wanted to but it was always a surprise.

King gave a uproarious laughter, “Well said you firebrand you, and I have to agree, if you’re reading this, I suggest you stick around, things will be explained and their relationship will be expanded on, and I don’t mind saying this because again, memory wipe, non canon yada yada.”

Pinkie was silent during this, clearly shocked at what was going on, until she got a nudge from King, “Huh, oh right… oh this is from Rose Cloud, they say, ‘The pink ball of diabetes needs love too!’ This pink ball of diabetes agrees and that’s all she’ll say on the matter.”

“Yeah, you’ll all see what she means later, now, oh something for Chris and Ixis, actually… how about we do this.” King snapped his fingers and a ale woman with a flowing blue dress, snow white hair and striking blue eyes popped up out of nowhere.

“Woah ok, warn a lady next time you drag her into another dimension please!” She said, upset with King, before huffing and sitting down, “Now what was this comment about?”

King smiled, “From Furlok Surket, ahem, ‘I know a song that gets on everybody's- wait can’t do that, it’s against the rules oh well I’m sure that’s enough to torture you two for a little bit.”

“THREE!” Discord shouted as he ripped his brain out his head and threw it into the teapot on the table in the center of the circle of couches, “Ah much better.”

“Four!” Pinkie said happily, giggle snorting as she hummed the song, Chris and Ixis on the other hand just groaned painfully.

“For serious though, I have something for Twilight, since Discord is out of commission for the moment, though i’ll make sure the wording is clarified, it is from Night_Striker, ‘............... nope he won't be able to get home the way you think Twi cause, 1; the world you’re mentioning already had everything fixated in to it. 2; it's also have an anchor which you don't have to his home world and 3; you have absolutely no idea what magic or spells formed around the mirror to even make it work.”

Twilight blinked and then half scowled half pouted in frustration, “Ok, so I’m guessing this was said before anything was explained, did you end off a chapter of our story when I said he could go home as a cliffhanger?” King nodded sheepishly, “ Alright let me address this anyways and in order. 1; yes the portal is fixed to Human Equestria, I know this, and this ties into to your second point, the anchor, there is an anchor to his world, Chris himself is that anchor but I needed something else that had his world’s essence in it so he could also go through the portal or else he would’ve been the one hooked up to it. Finally, if I could force the portal open by studying it along with the journal I have from Sunset what makes you think I can’t do the same to go to a different word that has an appropriate anchor and focal point?” She finished smugly.

“And when in doubt…. It’s magic i don’t gotta explain shit. However we’d be here forever if I put every comment and concern in this so I’ll cut it off with one last thing. I’m sorry about my spelling and other grammar errors, honestly there are a few excuses/ reasons. One is I do have slight dyslexia so when I’m ting some words look correct even if the letters are a bit mixed, and the second major reason is because my laptop is old and the keyboard likes to mess with me, it’s why I reread through the chapters and I fix what I can catch. Should I get an editor? Yes, I’m just a proud person so I like handling things myself. I actually had to choke own a bunch of the pride to ask my girlfriend, yes the one I’m having  my kid with, to go back and read through comments and pick out ones for me as I’m working. She’s the only person out of my personal circle who I’ve given explicit permission to read my stories and give me feedback on them and it was after nearly 3 years of being together. So stick with me on this please? I’ll get better and who knows maybe I’ll ask for a proper editor and proofreader.” King took a breath before continuing, giving a genuine smile to the audience, “And for everyone who is sticking with this despite me leaving for 2 years, thank you, it means a lot to me, and I will continue to do my best, here’s a treat for you for being patient.” He pulled out a camera and took a picture of Chris, it saw past his eye patch and got rid of his horns, a basic profile, 2 versions, one with both blue eyes and one with one blue and one yellow for the dark magic.

“Now for you all, I’m sorry you didn’t get question, I do plan on having another one of these in the future hopefully we’ll get more, but it is time for you to go back, yes even you Pinkie.” He said as the pink pony looked up expectantly at him, “Don’t pout, you’ll be glad to go back, trust me.” she nodded and got off King’s lap and joined everyone else, “Bye you all, I’ll see you at some point in the future, and besides, it's gonna be a wild ride I hope you enjoy.” 

Everyone’s eyes glossed over and Discord’s brain ran back into his head before they faded away only leaving King alone in the white void, “Well that was fun.” His comfy chair turning back into a desk chair, he sighed at the sight, well back to the grind. He sat down and stared down at his computer, an idea sparking in his mind, “Oh this is going to be good.” He looked to the side and gave a smile, “Ah ah, no spoilers, you will just have to wait like everyone else, no shoo, leave the master to his work.”