Critique Review: Shepherd of Fire · 9:27pm Nov 25th, 2015
Wow! That was some of the best adventures I’ve ever had! Don’t you think so, Computer?
Wow! That was some of the best adventures I’ve ever had! Don’t you think so, Computer?
Shepherd, Sword of Equestria, and Twilight, Princess of Friendship, have been summoned to Canterlot for an important job...
Celestia: *Trotting along with Shepherd into the throne room* "You see, Luna and I need to go on an important diplomatic mission."
Luna: "Vitally important."
Celestia: "And we need someone to handle things in the meantime."
Shepherd: "Okay."
Twilight: "Absolutely, Princesses! You can count on me!"
So our hero eventually goes to visit the Equestria Girls universe-So called because the world is Equestria but with humans. Alas, it is not his Earth, which sucks. And to make matters worse...
Shepherd: "I'M A TEENAGER AGAIN?! SERIOUSLY?!"
Twilight: "What? What's wrong with being a teenager again?"
Shining and Shepherd have... Problems. They're fighting a lot. So the mares hatch a plan: Get both of them drunk, hand/hooffcuff them to each other then dump them on some distant island or desert.
Then watch as they're forced in Buddy cop movie style to work together and develop a begrudging trust and respect for each other in their misadventures to return to Equestria.
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Shining: "All right... If we fell this tree trunk we can cross this gorge... But we'll need an axe."
Twilight is looking for Shepherd near the Schoolhouse. She then hears some yelling and laughing. She sneaks up through the foliage to watch... And she smiles.
Shepherd is in a bowtie and jacket, carrying a scewdriver. He walks with Applebloom, Dinky and Sweetie Bell out of a cardboard box that's painted blue.
Shepherd: *In a British accent* "Come along, Ponds and Clara! We're on this strange alien world so let's have fun!"
Applebloom: "Oh no, Doctor! There's a Weepin' Angel!"
Meanwhile, in the Canterlot Palace...
Fancypants: "News, my more dread lord! The Griffin Legions have sworn fealty to you and pledge their undying loyalty!"
Shepherd: "Is that good news though?"
Fancypants: "Well, once they learned that a human wrote their holy book, it really was inevitable."
Shepherd: "Dare I ask what their holy book is?"
Blueblood; "It's actually a series of holy books, all by the human prophetess Ayn Rand, who espoused-"
Shepherd, lone human in Equestria, is walking home from grocery shopping when he sees Princess Celestia tied up in the road.
Shepherd: "Uh... Your Highness?"
Celestia: "Oh no! Woe is me! A fearsome human has caught me, when I am at my weakest!"
Shepherd: "..."
Celestia: "I am tangled in these ropes! And the devious, evil human could do anything he wanted with me! Anything at all!"
Shepherd: "... Uh huh."
*Shepherd yawns as he walks out of his house into a Ponyville in pure chaotic pandemonium*
Shepherd: "... What the hell, what the hell..." *yawns* "Fuck it's way too early for this on a weekend..."
*He wanders into a coffee shop. He asks for a cup, but the pony is a daffodil. He pours himself some, drinks it...*
Shepherd: "... Okay. What the fuck is this?! It's-it's-!"
Discord: "DECAFF! AHAHAHAHA! So, it's true! There's a wild monkey loose in Equestria! How utterly delicious!"
Next they come across some timberwolves, that are blocking the only way across a river.
Shepherd: "Hmm... We need to get past them, but how?"
Shining: "Fighting them would just draw more of them down on us, so we need a way to distract them."
Shining was already plotting.
Shepherd: "Yeah but how?"
Shining shoves Shepherd into the open with his telekinesis. The timberwolves all look hungrily at the human as he hangs from the smug Shining's hoof via chains.
Damnit... I think I know what's wrong with Hands. The entire Rover plot just... ARGH! I feel like I've just been extending the story past it's natural end point. I just keep pushing it and pushing it due to fan demand! Now I know how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle felt... I mean, aside from being rich and famous.
So with that in mind, I'm thinking of just excising the whole thing... Unfortunately all that comes to mind are short parodies of other, shitty MLP fics:
For example...
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*Twilight Sparkle was still getting used to Ponyville and having friends, but she was finding the discoveries and mysteries of it fascinating and rewarding. Sitting down to breakfast at a cafe with her friends was a wonderful experience, as they bantered back and forth and debated aspects of their lives and others' lives, was... Fun! It was all so amazing and new.*
Rarity: "And so I said to him, 'cross-stitch? What is this, the Middle Ages?'"
Hooray! I got fanart by the wonderful Sipioc!
Just wanted to show it off.
Shepherd wakes up to a beautiful new day... And a cute pony cuddling up against him in bed. He sighs and rubs behind Fluttershy's ears.
Shepherd: "Fluttershy... Fluttershy...? It's time to get up."
Fluttershy: "Mmmph... Oh! Oh my... I... It happened again, didn't it?" *Blushes*
Shepherd: "It's okay Fluttershy. I actually like you cuddling with me. It helps me sleep." *Smiles* "If you're lonely, you just have to say so."
Fluttershy: "R-Really?"
"Shepherd of Fire" is good to go.
Okay, so the first part of "Magic is Believing" took way too long, and way too many of us, to get through, and the problem seemed to be present last week as well. As Ring has just now made official, for the sake of both the doc's ability to load and our editors' sanity,
So, as you may know, I am a fan of Halo and Star Wars. But I recently redownloaded Mass Effect 1 on my Xbox, and I fell in love once more. I mean, Commander Shepherd is a total badass of a very respectable level, and frankly, I haven't seen many recently updated Mass Effect fanfictions here on site.
So, I am going to remedy that.
"Since this episode's selection process demands preexisting characters so the audience are satisfied, three of you have been resurrected from the writing grave. Enjoy your at-max-half-dozen lines before you're returned there!"