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Queen Chrysalis is happy. She can't stop feeling happy. She is strapped to a table, being experimented on, and she cannot stop being happy. How will she pass the time?
Written for Equestria Daily's fifth flash fiction event.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/07/flash-fiction-event-5-love-me-love-my.html
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Well this is a curious little story, I'm not sure how I feel about this. But it appears well written.
And thus when they finally let their test subjects out, they were broken. The parts of their brains meant to produce reward chemicals no longer functioned. No matter what, they would always feel miserable. Forever.
Urgh.Talk about seriously creepy... Yet at the same time, seriously engrossing. You've actually managed to make me feel sorry for Chrysalis.
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Wow. Way to put a sad twist on a happy story.
I can think of worst things, but that is still a worst kind of hell.
Neuroscientist here!
Artificial dopaminergic and serotonergic upregulation/supplementation triggers a chronic alcoholism and/or heroin-like dependency. The brain downregulates its own production of the neurotransmitters and eventually the neurotransmitter receptors to compensate for the high levels.
Cutting it off suddenly would be fatal, just as going cold-turkey is for people with severe forms of dopaminergic agonist addictions.
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Wut.
(Handwaves by saying it's a combination of magic and science, chuckles nervously, hides behind childrens science book.)
3115157 Combining magic and science!!
NO YOU FOOL!!!
*KABOOOOOOOOOM!!!!! Equestria asplodes.*
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Oops.
3119822 It's like what happens in "Ghost Busters" when ya cross the streams.
Wow! Very 1984-style mindfuck in a way.
Excellent! It's a bit creepy how happiness can at some point become a moral issue. Neat little study, I love it!
Hi there. I hope you don't mind, but I liked this fic so much I have put together an audio version on YouTube.
I like it.
As others have said, brains strive for equilibrium. If there's too much of a chemical, the brain reduced output - which doesn't succeed if the input is artificial. (injected etc) When the brain notices the level of chemical is still too high it then starts to close off that chemicals receptors causing a spike in chemical usage in order to get the same effect.
Even something like coffee can cause caffeine immunity, meaning you have to drink more and more to get the same buzz.
In this story, I don't know if their goal is safer life time storage or long term rehabilitation, but making it so she can only be happy if she follows the rules and laws is a heck of a way to do it!
I'd love a sequel to this story.
I just finished listening to Orabscribbler reading this (she's great). Loved it!
In the first half, you did a great job first telling it from Chrysalis' perspective. Showing how happy she was, and how insane her situation had left her. It's also great that the audience is left to interpret what was going on at first, rather than you spoon-feeding us where she was and what she was going through. I also love how this half, in Scribbler's reading, had cheerful music with it, really underlined how while Chrysie was happy, the reader could tell there was something wrong with her.
And then you got the second half in which you got the whole experiment from Employee # 15572's perspective, where we finally see what the whole situation is, and what it's like from his point of view. There really were some chilling moments in the whole story he gave. I like the music Scribbler chose for this one as well. And then that laugh at the end! Chills!
So yeah! Great story! Loved it!
This is a cool response for the writing prompt. A 'reformed' Queen. Short and interesting. Greenthumbed.
At first, I thought you forgot the comedy category in here, but, man, was I dead wrong.
I wish you would have done more this is a nice fic though I like it
*shivers* man. i listened to scribbler's reading of this and... *shivers again* man, this is creepy. good, but damn creepy
Have you seen the batman movies? In one of the movies, it mentions a Arkham insane asylum where the criminals go for psychiatric treatment. Only they're not getting treated there. They're being experimented on. Is it sort of based off that? If so cool idea. If not cool idea.
reminds me of this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Md3EfBgqs&t=5m53s
So chrysalis just turned into pinkie pie... Kinda?
Umm, this was put under grimdark. Why exactly? I read the other comments, but as the author said, magic is involved. If he really wanted to take the time, he'd just have to add a line mentioning a spell that prevents the closing of receptors as well as one that shuts down all natural production as long as there are artificial hormones in the system to prevent overload. I imagine it less as 'reformation' and more as a form of stasis. She's learning nothing from her time here and the drugs would either be temporary or damaging as was already mentioned. My worry would be if someone with recently developed homicidal thoughts starts associating his new happiness with those new thoughts. Particularly if he/she can use magic without a focus (horn).
Congratulations, Sanity. You've written a marvelous piece of pants-soiling terror. Have a fave. Oh, and personal opinion? Whoever downvoted should be... converted to our way of thinking.
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It's grimdark in the same way that We Happy Few, 1984, and Brave New World are grimdark - in that a character is deprived of their sensibilities and can't help but be content and accept whatever is done to them. I'm being tortured and experimented on? Who cares?! I'm happy! And mentally incapable of resisting. It's basically free will deprivation. It's not as scary, though, as in We Happy Few/Brave New World/1984, as in these pieces, this happens to the whole population.
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You clearly have excellent taste.
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The sad truth of psychology and the biology of the brain.
You might never read this... but I loved this story.