//------------------------------// // (Bonus #1) Questions and Answers // Story: Horsemen and Ponies // by Dark Krystal //------------------------------// "Ugggggggh..." A tired groan rings out through out a dark hall. A figure wearing a dark blue hooded bathrobe and combined with fuzzy slippers and a cup of fresh brewed coffee in a mug that said "I'd much rather be sleeping, forever." The hooded figure eventually makes it to his lovely office. Old fashion and most things made of wood because it's not like HE would ever have a house fire. He sits at his desk and stretches his arms. "Why do i get up so late..?" He asks himself but he knew why and can only sigh in defeat at his fucked up sleeping schedule. He takes a sip from his mug and places it on his desk with one hand as with the other hand he turns the power button on his computer. After a hour of simply browsing the internet he stumbles on a site that had taken his interest as of late. "Fimfiction" How nostalgic. He remember when he was younger and he browsed this site and read the stories, how nostalgic and fucking cringe. But never once he thought he would publish a story on here and... Have people actually like it. He was truly taken a back the fact that only with four well if you want to be technical, six chapters. He would be lying if he said he didn't expect his first story to be a total flop but... Well here he was now with now a small number people who actually likes this Human in Equestria Oc story. He was... Perplexed at this development but well, if there was people who wanted to read it. He had all the times due to being sealed in his home. "I guess i should start workin' next chapter." He mumbles to himself but then he freezes. 'Wait, my version of horsemen are very different from the biblical telling... People might get confused.' The he realizes if that happens readers might be confused somewhat, maybe think it's click-bait like "Oh he's just calling these four oc's horsemen just to lure readers in! How shameless!" Oh no. That can't fly. Maybe he was overthinking it but it could reign true. He raises his hand up and strokes his chin, pondering for a solution to these foolish worries of his then like when the meteor crashed in to the earth a idea came up. 'A Qna! Of course!' But... There was only one official question that he acknowledge i mean, people these days aren't curious about the author these days only their work, after all if you learn too much about the author you might see their work in a.... Different light. He shivers. Not only that but... Well he only got one question from someone and if he made questions for himself..... Wouldn't that be kinda weird and... Sad at the same time. Yup. It would. Truly sad but still, he can break his pride a bit to answer some questions readers "might" have and use it as a excuse to celebrate uhh... 'Shit celebrate what exactly? He only had 18 - 2 like to dislike ratio that shouldn't be celebration worthy..' He closes his eyes and thinks and comes up with a... Excuse. 'I guess to celebrate the fact that people actually like this story?' Yeah. That can work. With that excuse made he pulls his keyboard and starts to answer these sad questions he made for himself. (1): "I thought the four were just the heralds of the end and not servants of hell?" Fuck. Already doing the difficult one but well he guesses it will explain "Future" Unique things about the four. "Technical yesssss.... But well depends on your belief and view of it. Personally to i see the Four horsemen, Hell, and Heaven as concepts or ideas. If you're religious you can get mad at me but i don't really believe in the bible much but heaven and hell were always interesting to me. Yes there are books of people describing hell and heaven but i'm fuckin' skeptical, plus isn't it more fun to take a guess or ponder about what if they are like this instead?" He nods his head but realizes he's gotten a bit off topic. "A-anyway back to the question at hand, you're correct but to me the horsemen are nothin' more than a idea that can be taken and transformed to your idea. Like the game 'Darksiders' Also uses the horseman but differently like instead of Pestilence and Famine there is, Fury, and Strife. Originally the horsemen are named to be punishments from god and serve as the final judgement of humanity so doesn't that make them servants of god? Well i took two things from that "Horsemen" And "Apocalypse" The apocalypse is basically the fall of earth and humanity, in some verison it's only the remaining sinful humans who are left behind and because of this hell comes to the surface and basically take over earth. Yeah. That's my idea of the apocalypse." Okay he is realizing he might be going tooooooo deep on the first question, and he takes a sip as if it was a potion that would simplify what he's saying. "My horsemen are servants of the devil made to be the ones officially begin the end time of earth and start to wipe out humanity or corrupt it, basically serve as the ones that make demons emerge on to earth. They represent the crimes of humanity has done to itself, murdering each other for meaningless things, leaders of countries startin' wars with each other without the care for it's normal citizens lives, resultin' in countless losses. Starvin' their people to satisfy greed, and humanities disrespect towards the very planet they live on. There is... Much more but well, i'll give some hints to what the horsemen really in my eyes as the story goes forward." He sighs as he types out the last sentence. Jesus christ if he was making fucking large as paragraphs on the first question he might as well tell the readers a chapter of the bible to make them even more bored. (2): "Why did you decide to make a story with four characters in different places in Equestria instead of all them together?" "Well it's kinda simple. I wanted my story to be unique and different from others here though someone probably has already done this already, maybe. But i wanted to be this main eye catcher of the story! Plus it kinda works really good for example, if you like pestilence then because i'll label his chapters with (P) you can only read pestilence chapters and eventually come to the same ending." (3): "How many chapters or how long do you plan to make this story go on?" "Uhhh..." He stops to ponder about that. "I don't know myself to be honest. Because of what i'm doing "chapters" function differently because i consider the bundles i published before this qna to be 1st chapter (think of these as episodes and when they are all complete count them as a seasons). So this story can be 10 chapters and end or further." He stops to take a sip of coffee and gets a brief idea. "I might add some bonus scenes or side stories between these chapters to serve as a minor distraction as i prepare the next chapter." (4): "Are you going to keep doing the same cycle with pestilence being first and death last?" "For now yes. It might change in the future or might start polls and make people vote for which horseman they watch to read about next." (5): "Who's you're favorite horsemen?" The hooded man lays back in his chair and stares at the question in front of him, thinking for quite a while before going back to type on his computer. "Pestilence. Death comes close though." (6): "In Pestilences first chapter he says his name is "Zarzas" but isn't he just Pestilence? In the prologue the others called him Pestilence" He grins at this question. "Nope. Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence are merely nothing more than titles or rumored names not their actually names. Zarzas is Pestilence's real name. Maybe you'll learn the others names in time. As for the reasons why they call each other by their titles is simple, they don't really see each other as friends." (7): "Why did you make death would break the dragon staff?" "Because, fuck 'em." He laughs as he types that out. "On a serious note i had thought about it, the dragon lords for centuries become dragon lords if they have the staff and in the Gauntlet of fire garble mentioned that if he was dragon lord he would fuck over the ponies and for that reasoning that's why spike gave ember the staff so she would protect the ponies from dragons." "So.... What would happened if the staff broke and the dragons were leaderless?" The hooded figure snickers. (8): "Who is the strongest of the horsemen?" "Death. But the most dangerous is Pestilence" The figure snickers once again and types. "You'll see why in the future." (9): "Do you have any major plans for the story?" "Oh yeah. But it's more like great moments in a episode but also major plans, that why this story is a adventure there weill be a lot of interactions that might be humorous or sad." (10): "Will you write again after this story is done?" The man puts his arm on his armrest and holds his head up. "Hmmmm, seein' how successful this story is so far... Yeah i think so, maybe i do have some other idea's for different stories but they're mostly HiE." (11): "Why do you write human in Equestria or horseman in this case?" "Well... Multiple reasons, first one is that i don't really feel comfortable takin' another person's creation and attempting to do their character. I like to be as accurate as possible with the shows depiction of it's characters except for background character who never speak a line, free pickin's. Second reason is because i stopped watchin' the show around season six and i reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally don't want to go through all episodes and makes notes of character quirks, traits and etc to max out the stories immersion. Third, finally is because it's easier and more interesting for me to add characters in a unfamiliar strange peaceful land and dealing with the bullshit in it." (12): "Why not anon in equestria? Why your oc's in equestria?" "To me anon server as basically the readers self insert or a character they can relate to at least and i am pretty socially retarded. So i'm not sure if i can properly write a character that can be a readers self insert or a character they can relate to. To answer the 2nd question because...." The man fucking shrugs. (13): "Lets a get more personal! What you're favorite story on fimfiction?" "Well...." The man looks at his library and sees, 6 favorites, 58 read it later's, and 16 unread chapters in his tracking. He can only give a pained smile in response to the sight. "Well for my favorite for now i would have to say it's Ponies, Pirates and Peculiar Psychopaths by Dropbear and it's sadly unfinished sequel. As well as his story called Saviour or destroyer" (14): "In the prologue you said this was your first fan fiction? Do you mean on here or in general?" "In motherfuckin' General. This is literally my first piece of literature i ever wanted to share online." (15): "You mentioned you have a hellverse?" "Yes. I've had it for two years and i'm going to say it now there will only be brief bits of lore of it. And for my sanity's sake no it's not even close as the fucked up strangeness that is Hazbin Hotel." (16:): "What season does this story take place in?" "Season six but it will progress into season seven as the story goes on." (17): "Favorite color?" The man simply gives the monitor screen a deadpan stare that makes it regret ever being typed out. (18): "On a scale of 1 - 10 how fucked is Equestria if the horsemen decided they wanted to take over?" "8. They aren't like manga isekai protagonists who are just majorly op and unbeatable. By the shows standards it does have some good defenses." (19): "Will there be romance in the story?" The man blinks his eyes and takes a sip of his coffee. "Maybe." (20): "Why did you expect this story to flop?" He sighs and gives a bitter smile as he types. "I've always liked writin' but i am very introverted. I don't really like sharin' my idea's , opinions or words. To be completely honest i always thought my idea's, concepts and etc were just foolish nonsense just to help me escape reality but well that kinda changed..." He takes a long sip out from his mug. "The comments and number of notifications that show the number of people who are watchin' or already added the story to their favorites is make more more confident. I think that's why i spent twice as long and double the research for death's debut chapter and well it was worth it." He gives a small smile. (21): "Now that the plot has started will the mane six or etc characters get their own episodes?" "No. They will be mixed in with other episodes with a bracket. Might start at the beginning of a episode or towards the end." (22): "What would happen if one day you woke up and found the story being featured?" "I would actually lose my shit." (23): "Who's going to be the most hype or interesting now?" "Of course readers need some hype to add on after death chapter.." The man rolls his eyes. "I would say Pestilence. The route i have planned for him is not only going to interesting but hilarious." The man lets out a small chuckle and looks at the time 7:00 am. He decides he's spent enough time writing this. It wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.. But either way hopefully this will entertain the the readers for now or satisfy some curiosity they had. But still there needs to be more of a reward to this bonus... Ah! The map! He probably should've mentioned that he has a map that he will post at the end of the seasons or bundles to help readers know where exactly the horsemen are at... His bad. Anyway he'll see them next time on the 2nd season starring Pestilence again and with that he clicks "Save chapter" and publish.