Credits
WORLDS APART
The Chosen of the Prognosticus
THE END
By G. M. Blackjack
Starring
Twilight as the Princess of Flipside
Tippi as Timpani
Toph as Professor INCOMING BOULDER
Cosmo as the Delicate Flower
Data as Logos
Caspian as The Fairy Tale King
Vivian as In Darkness There is Light
Rarity as The Consequences of Suffering
Count Bleck as Blumiere
Fluttershy as Beware The Quiet Ones
Pinkie Pie as Probably the Only One Who Really Knew What Was Going On
Starlight as MAGIC, MAGIC, AAAH!
Discord as The Keystone
Cadence as Y’know for a Princess of Love her Role is Smaller Than you Would Think
Sunset Shimmer as Q
Bon Bon as Token Equestrian Teammate
O’Chunks as GET CHUNKED!
Mimi as Arachnophobia Trigger
Dimentio as Laughing in the Face of Death
Nastasia as The Almighty Secretary
Mr. L as Luigi
Lulu as Lucy Penvensie
Dark Oak as Actually Evil
Gilgamesh as The Legendary Warrior! Yes, Really!
Iroh as With Age Comes Wisdom
Ty Lee as Excitable Combat Medic!
Aang as The Avatar’s Role has Been Diminished
Dr. Eggman as The Best “Villain”
Sonic as GOTTA GO FAST!
Tails as Genius Fox
Knuckles as “Why Doesn’t Punching Everything Solve My Problems!?”
Amy as Moving On
Narcissus as Narcissist
Captain Jean-Luc Picard as The Man
Commander William Riker as Number One
Q as Bugging Picard for Eternity
Aslan as The Pure Lion
The Hag as Plot Device
Professor Frankly as SHOUTING!
Rosalina as Cosmic Goddess
Cortez as YO HO HO HO, YAR HAR HAR HAR!
Grodus as Already Defeated
Shadoo as Superbosses Shouldn’t be Relevant to the Plot!
Rich as The Cultist
Tzeentch as Would Have Been a Big Problem if Bigger Problems Weren’t Around
Emperor Karl Franz II as Sigmar Reborn…?
Jenny of the Red Gloves as The Immortal Child
Ezermond as Tangerine
Ivan as Perpetually Sighing
The Purity Heart as Thinly Veiled Religious Metaphor
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro.
Mario belongs to Nintendo
Avatar: The Last Airbender belongs to Nickelodeon
Sonic belongs to Sega
Star Trek belongs to Paramount, currently.
The Chronicles of Narnia belong to C. S. Lewis
Warhammer belongs to Games Workshop
Numenera belongs to Monte Cook Games
Final Fantasy belongs to Square Enix
Special thanks to the commenters, as always, including SHILIC most of all (good gravy girl you work up a storm!), FanOfMostEverything, Spellflame, Teraunce, Hamster Wizard, Efadd, SuperSaiyanDIclonius, Joe Toon, MariusIoannesP, and many others.
This story was, more than anything else, a passion project. I chose what happened almost entirely on what I, personally, felt would be the best as a bit of an homage to my childhood. All the franchises featured in this story mean a lot to me and shaped who I am today. I don’t think this story is as good as Songs of the Spheres, but that’s because I wasn’t trying to make anything epic. I wasn’t trying to challenge the very foundations of reality with this story. Here… I just wanted to tell a story. A story that, ultimately, claims to be about love—but in reality is mostly just about me. These are the worlds that defined me, and this story is my gift back to them, I suppose.
While this story has little to do with Songs of the Spheres, much of it was created as a direct opposition to its themes. SotS is about shades of gray in morality, while Worlds Apart is very clearly good versus evil, though the evil itself has nuance. SotS is a truly massive story about stories themselves, while Worlds Apart is a self-contained adventure. SotS’s scale is so absurd it’s hard to imagine, while in Worlds Apart you get to know every world involved. They’re very different stories, and I think they both tell needed sides of the story.
Anyway, thank you all for reading. This story is near and dear to my heart, perhaps more so than anything else I’ve written. I thank you for coming with me on this journey. Here’s to the next adventure!
-GM, master of adventures.
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And the Prognosticus burned, reducing to nothing more than ash. With its destruction, its story ended.
Naturally, the multiverse continued. But this tale of love… it is at an end.
So what did it mean, in the end? What is the meaning of the worlds, the multiverse… our existence?
The answer is not so simple that a single story could speak it.
But, perhaps, as we look back, we can see how the heroes and villains acted in the face of the destruction of all things… and see what it means to be alive.
To exist is to love. Never forget that.