I Felt, Therefore I Was

by Cynical

1. Looking Down

The Journal of Twilight Sparkle – 14th October 1007

A pony is influenced by their emotions at their current time. Whatever they are feeling dictates their actions and their movements. A pony who is happy will be more likely to agree to a request and will generally have a ‘spring’ in their step when they walk whilst on the other side of the coin, a pony who is… less happy will be less agreeable and more downtrodden than their counterpart.

A pony that is mad will be quicker to strike back and a pony that is jealous will resort to snide remarks and cynicism. The pattern is that every emotion has a consequence to the pony’s day-to-day reactions and their approachability. Remove all of these and those ponies would not be those ponies anymore. A lack of emotion or any ability to feel it would be a torture and a punishment to anyone.

But what if there was a way to control what we felt? What if there was a way to control just how we reacted and how we could become masters of our own feelings? Today marks the day of the initiation of my first project as a freelance scientist; the hopeful result being to present my findings and a finished spell to the union of scientists in three months’ time.

I shall keep a record in this notebook of the results that I have surmised and any conclusions that I draw from such experiments. During the three months until the presentation, I hope to have researched the problem to its full potential, to have devised a theoretical spell – or series thereof – for the project, and to have tested it completely so that I am sure it is safe.

After devising a full theoretical spell of which I know the constituent parts, I shall provide a table of tests against which I shall compare the effects on a willing volunteer.

To the success of the project,
Twilight Sparkle.

Author's Note:

So... testing new chapter formats again.
This can only go well.

Comments

[Willsons]

Well I'm already thinking of all they ways this could go wrong.