A New Filly is Introduced
“Go on, introduce yourself to the class.” Cheerilee smiled reassuringly at the new filly, who didn’t really look like she needed the support. She was an earth pony with fluffy white fur, a long blonde mane and large blue eyes, and she lacked a foal’s usual puppy fat. Sweetie’s gaze wandered down to her flank, taking note of the enviable body she saw en route. It was the kind look that her sister would kill for; soft, fluffy fur covering a flawlessly smooth body with neither the harshness of hard muscle and bone nor the layer of fat that most foals had. She sighed ruefully; a cutie mark showed in bold colour. It was a love heart in pink, overlaid by a black object that Sweetie didn’t recognise.
There was a pause for several seconds as the filly’s eyes wandered back and forth across the room. “I am Aryanne,” each slow word seemed almost to drip with arrogance. The haughty tone completely changed Sweetie Belle’s perception of her. Now she saw the upturned muzzle, the quiet half-smile showed itself to be a sneer, and the rigidly correct stance spoke of pride rather than the desire to make a good first impression.
“Looks like Diamond Tiara’s got some competition,” Apple Bloom whispered to her. She nodded glumly in agreement. It had been bad enough when they outnumbered the stuck up fillies, who knew how awful their meanness would get now?
“My father commands a heavy-armour unit of the Royal Guard on the border with the Republic of Stalliongrad. He is one of the most decorated officers in the military. For the first years of my schooling I was taught by tutors and the officers, but it was decided that I must be sent to join the social élite in the capital, and learn the sophistication that my place requires. As the only school in Canterlot, however, is the School of Magic, I must stay here until I am old enough to leave.” The Crusaders were practically gagging by the end of her introduction. She had, indeed, made a good impression on the pink heiress. The school bitch was grinning wider than Pinkie in a party.
“Alright then, Aryanne, just go and sit next to somepony so they can help you get used to your new school and we’ll get started. It doesn’t matter where.” Without hesitation the pale filly came and sat next to Sweetie Belle.
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The sneery filly made no attempt to start a conversation herself, but was willing to talk whenever Sweetie tried. So the day went on, with the pair at a slight distance but without problems. Sweetie was glad, at least, that she didn’t seem to feel the need to constantly belittle her “inferiors”. When the time for their break came and they went outside, she was surprised to find that the newcomer stayed firmly by her side. Given the looks of unease and distaste that were being shot off in every other direction, it looked like she had decided that the unicorn filly was the only one who wasn’t actually revolting. “So, er, what do you do for fun?” Sweetie tried again to start a real conversation.
“Reading, writing, drawing, music, sports.” The list was quite uninformative, and didn’t lead to any obvious response.
“Oh.”
“And you?”
Sweetie looked up in surprise, “Oh, well, I do all kinds of things. Me and my friends haven’t got our cutie marks, you see, so we do all kinds of stuff to see whether it’s our special talent or not!”
“Your friends?”
The unicorn started nodding hard, glad to have finally made a connection, “Yeah. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. They’ll come over and say hi when they see us. Hey, there’s Apple Bloom now!” She waved over the foals playing all around them. An enormous pink bow seemed to see her, and started bobbing its way closer through the chaos. The pair stood watching it in silence until it reached them, revealing a yellow earth pony tied to its bottom by her red mane. Apple Bloom looked slightly suspicious as she approached, as if expecting Aryanne to start being sarcastic and condescending to her as soon as she came within range.
“So, uh, you two seem to be getting on well. No trouble from those two?”
“None. We haven’t seen them at all. I was just telling Aryanne about the Cutie Mark Crusaders, so have you seen Scoots since class? I’ve hardly spoken to her at all, the last couple of days, and she’s been acting really weird half the times that I have. Do you think she might be sick?”
“Nah, she’s been pretty much fine most of the time. It’s just unlucky, you always seem to see her when she’s hitting a bad patch. She’s been as healthy as anypony the rest of the time,” Apple Bloom explained, although her face creased a little as she thought about the improbable timing involved. She quickly dropped the conversation as its subject joined their little group.
“Hey, guys, I was thinking about it in class and I’ve got the best one yet: Cutie Mark Crusader Fireworks Makers!”
“That’s a great idea,” Sweetie Belle squeaked, “and if that doesn’t work then we can do whatever Aryanne does! I don’t even understand her cutie mark, so we can’t have tried it already, and she’ll be able to help us with it.” The blonde filly smiled and nodded to her new friend, eliciting a chorus of happy exclamations.
Scootaloo’s wings shot out from her sides in happiness as she reared up and shouted, “Cutie Mark Crusader Heart Crossers, Yay!” When she came back down and opened her eyes, she saw Aryanne staring at her in shock. “What?”
“Her… Her wings.”
“Oh, they’re not as bad as they look,” the Pegasus grinned sheepishly, “Rainbow Dash says that I’ll be able to fly someday, and she’s always right. She says that it’s not common, but that with lots of work and some magical fixing, I’ll be able to fly as well as almost anypony in the end.” A twitch started up on Aryanne’s top lip, giving her a flickering sneer, and she took two slow steps backwards. Now Scootaloo’s face softened into a look of hurt. “What? They’ll be fine. They’ve just grown wrong, but by the time I’m an adult they’ll be right again and they’ll work. I will be able to fly. I WILL!” Aryanne leant further away from the sobbing filly, disgust and disbelief written clearly across her face. Scootaloo turned and bolted, closely pursued by the other two Crusaders.
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This looks interesting. I'll be looking forward to the next chapter.
This seems pretty interesting a concept. I will keep an open mind about it, just to see where it goes in future chapters.
Die in an internetjk
So if she's a Nazi earth pony, does that mean Scootaloo's a... pegajew?
>words I never thought I'd use
For some reason, I want to see her make friends with Italian and Japanese analogues.. Does that make me a bad person?
Well, I'm interested enough to put this on my Read Later list. Let's see where it goes.
looking foreward to
Die in a hole!
Get this the fuck off my internet!
That being said, I'm now waiting for the next chapter with eager anticipation!
Please tell me Aryanne get's hurt in future chapters...
Ceeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuute! Can't wait to see more. I found Aryanne's reaction quite fitting to her former monolouge(?) to the class. However, Scootaloo's instant reaction doesn't seem right. Surely she'd have experienced it before? Then again, nopony really tends to mention her disability outside of curiosity, so Scoots may not be used to such negativity.
Sorry, I'm training to become an My Little Pony analyst. ^^
4058371 Well, I was thinking more along the lines of it being a real heartbreak for her, which is normally completely buried thanks to the ponies of Ponyville being so nice and reassuring all of the time, so she was completely unable to deal with Aryanne's judgement of the situation. I've always pictured Scoots that way, seen it as one of the reasons she was so obsessed with Dash &c.
But I will have a look at making it flow better. Thanks to everyone for how well this intro's gone down.
I take it she has some kind of phobia (possibly reinforced by her upbringing) about physical disabilities. That's actually an interesting concept to explore in such a "Love and Tolerate" world. Basically, I see her getting called a horrible pony because of her fear, even though she can't help it. Not sure if my first impression will be useful to you at all, but there you go.
Two questions/concerns: One, where was Scootaloo before she joined them? It sounds like she wasn't in class, (Sweetie Belle didn't know where she was, at least), but then she pops up for recess. Two, I'm a bit surprised Diamond Tiara didn't come try to 'recruit' Aryanne as soon as class got out. It seems like she would have had time to get to them before Scootaloo showed up. Both of these gripes are pretty minor, though.
Keep up the good work!
4067640 Scoots was in class, it was just supposed to read as her not having hung around with Sweetie in a while; thanks for pointing that out, I'll get to trying to reword it.
As to DT, I pictured her preffering to try and recruit Aryanne when she was away from Sweetie, which hadn't yet been possible.
Your first paragraph pretty much hits the nail on the head.
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Please make more soon!
I... shall reserve judgement and wait for next chapter with Gameknut.
*wanders over to snack table and chats with GK*
i hope you´ll write more, Aryanne deserves it.
she´s an really interesting Charakter (not everyday you meet a nazi Pony)
just please make sure that, should you decide to make her speak german, make sure its correct german.
4258455 I will certainly write more, but it'll have to wait until about two months from now. I will make any German (there will most likely be some) as good as I can, but as mine is disappointingly bad I will have to rely on other people's translation of my ideas.
Interested to see how you translate supremacist views into an Equestrian context. Hoping you'll keep actual ties to Earth-WWII out of things, and just kind of give us your own fresh spin on how she feels, and why. If you can manage that, I'll definitely lurk for some more of this.
It's good, but....You could add more.
This idea has a lot of potential and...I kind of like Aryanne. (As a character, not the nazi stuff. There's a lot of things you can do with her.)
Again, this is good, but it feels like the bare bones of an awesome story.
As well as Scootaloo just breaking down like that...It isn't hard to imagine, since she did get all worked up over Diamond and Silver's comment on it.
The story needs a little more length and you'll be fine.
4491129 Yes, it will get more chapters when I have the time. Thank you for reminding me though; I will tag it as 'on hiatus' for now. I should have enough time to actually continue this well in about a month.
Thanks again.
more
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I want more!
More
4057325 that would be hilarious if she made friends with Japanese and Italian analogues
Alright, what with that spike in readership an' all, I'll sit down and try to write the next bit soon. Maybe tonight.
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I would like to see by the end of this fanfiction, Aryanne is "reformed" and sees all races of ponies (including bat ponies, alicorns, crystal ponies and changelings [are changelings ponies? Idk] ) for what they truly are: pure awesomeness!!!
Get off my internet by dying in a hole. But only after you finish more chapters.pls
If you do continue this, perhaps you could make it more humorous? The original incarnation of the character (I think she was created by an anti-Veronika-I hate /pol/fags /mlp/ thread) was more tongue-in-cheek than not. Either way, good work on bestpone. Faved and upvoted.
Just curious, but why haven't you added any category tags?
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Poor planning, basically.
Couldn't think of any that applied yet, it's still in the formative stages and there are a couple of different ways it might go.
Chapter 2's part written at the moment, guys, but I've had lots of things distracting me. It'll be done soon -- I promise, this time.
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Seems like it'd be slice-of-life/comedy...
10/10, would clop to
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Come beck to us...
Why is this on hiatus?
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Because I am obscenely lazy.
I was moving countries and a load of other stuff, it interrupted my work on it. Then exams and other stuff kept me away.
Now I've got free time again, I'm working on something new to get me back into the swing. Another chapter for that and I'll start work on this again.
So, hopefully it won't be long before that "hiatus" tag is removed.
You must continue this!!!
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Wow, I really have been promising to for a long time, haven't I?
I have the day off today, I'll see if I can get back into the feel of it. Now that it's been over a year, I don't feel that I can excuse myself from it much longer.
5780396 yeah... Looking at how old these comments are a new chapter is way overdue.
Though I've literally seen only six story starring Aryanne.
Good fic, oh god, I'm now think about the cutie mark crusaders screaming,"cutiemark crusader nazis, yay!"
we belive in you
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Uh, it's not supposed to be. On the other hand, I've been binning everything I've written in the last eight and a bit months. Not so confident in promising prompt resumption of service now as I was way back when.
I'm sorry.
This... should be interesting.
This is the kind of Aryanne fic I've been looking for, especially if it's leading up to a redemption of sorts!
Loved this chapter. Will there ever be another chapter? I‘d really want to the bad hugged out of that racist.