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// Introduction: Into the Shadow 
// Story: Fallout: Equestria - Banned 
// by Grape Crush 
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For Cotton Candy, Silver Tools, and Black Shield


I've been called many things. Death, Hellbringer, Mare of Darkness. All of those were names given because nopony gave a damn about the truth. I've stopped worrying about that though, most of them are gone. But there was always that one name, the one name that stuck.

The Shadow.

I don't know who gave it to me, nor did I care. But when the wasteland knew I was out there helping. They gave me a name, and I sure as hell loved it. 

My name is Shadow Wind, which you already know, but while your snickering about why I just told you my name, you better pay attention assholes. 

You better grab a seat guys, this is my life story from that fateful day I left the Stable, in search of something better. You guys... You were the most caring, and loving guys I could ask for. Damn, just thinking about you brings me to tears. You helped me be what my parents had trusted me to be, better. Back in the stable, my cutie mark determined what I would do for the rest of my life. Nopony cared about virtues. 

Virtues... Do they matter? When the one thing that governs your life is a tattoo on your flank? 

Let me answer that, yes they do matter. I didn't find mine until I had lost hope on everything. The wasteland had brought me to the ground and made me suffer. I was drowning in other ponies blood and sorrow. The wasteland held all of my mistakes down on me, and I almost gave up...

I was not a good pony, by any standards. But... I was better. Better than what lies outside the Stable doors. The day I came to realize that, my virtue shone true, unwavering. It wasn't corrupted, no sir, pure and true I had figured mine out. I realized what my life meant, it wasn't about the marksbuck symbol on my flank. No... I was... Better. 

I wasn't perfect, nopony was perfect. We had our good moments, and our bad. I met many people (yes not just ponies) that taught me a lot. But one thing that wasn't true was...

War doesn't change... Yes, it doesn't, but ponies do.

You may never see me, but I am here, and your world will become a better place, even if I do not get to see it. May you forever remember me as The Shadow.

I guess I should start with the beginning, that one day... That one day... I banned myself.






Fallout: Equestria - Banned



You never understand yourself until the world collapses around you, that's what makes us... Us...