From Twilight Sparkle's Notebook:
The following is a statement of the truth as one "Bigs" Big Trouble saw it on the morning of the Fifth of Juniper, Third Year of Equestria's Fifth Recorded Age.
"Okay, so here's what happened. I'm takin' the back alley down to the train station at around, say, somewhere 'round seven thirty or seven forty? The Canterlot Royal Train Station, that is. Train station's where I go sometimes, just for uh, reasons. It's a long story, see, but I like to go down there and do my best to help the Guard out. I kinda want to join them sometime, but it's not lookin' so good on that front. Anyway, I'm on my way there, and this kinda-lavender-colored unicorn is stumblin' down the alley (that's you, by the way). Anyway, she's not lookin' so hot, she's got a pretty brown hood with some design on it, and a giant 'ol lime-green saddlebag. I go ask her what she's doin' in the alley, although that bit's pretty obvious. Nobody sets out with clothes like that unless they're runnin' from somebody, see? I got some street-sense in me, after all, so I know these things.
"Anyway, I don't get much of a response, and I try to get a look at her eyes under her hood, see? And uh... I might have been a bit rough, there, yeah, but you need to get a hold of the eye color for a proper ID. Race, fur color, gender, stature, and eye color are the main things for a good identification, y'see? Gotta have all of 'em to be sure.
"Well, then, she freaks out a bit, and straight barfs on the ground, right in front of me! It's mostly bile, so I can tell she hasn't eaten in a while. I walk around the puddle, tryin' to figure out what's goin' on, and take down her hood. She's got this huge, and I mean huge, straight gargantuan, swollen bump on her head. I take her home, to my place—a room in Miss Bee House's Home for the Busy and the Luckless. We get there a bit past eight, I think. Anyhow, she's gone and passed out by the time I get her home, so I tuck her into my couch and do my best to take care of the wound on 'er head. I cleaned it up real good, turns out there was a blood blister underneath the skin or something, too, 'cause when I was cleanin' it popped! Real messy, lemme tell yah.
Anyway, I did my best to keep quiet: I figured she was runnin' from somethin' earlier, see? And the Guard wouldn't bean someone like that, so I figured she was on the run from somebody real nasty, and wanted to stay low, just in case.
"Anyhow, one o' my buddies shows up pretty much right at noon, by the name of High Stakes. He shows up, sees me tendin' to your—er, her wound, and he freaks out. He thinks that I was the one who beaned yah, so I meet him at the door to keep him from freakin' out. I eventually calm 'im down, but he goes out to work and says he's gonna get the guard if he thinks things are still fishy when he gets back. Anyways, the unicorn wakes up right when he leaves, we talk and she introduces herself as Twilight Sparkle. She's suspicious of me, too, but after talkin' some, she comes to trust me to some degree. Anyways, we talk, and she forgets my name as we're talkin'. In fact, she forgets the first part of our conversation. We dig through her stuff, and she finds a paper that's a note to herself, tellin' her she has some kinda amnesia. Then she tells me to make this testimony. That's what happened, one-hundred-percent."
Aw, but discussing spoilery things in the comments section is half the fun of these things! Are you okay with that sort of conversation if we put them in [spoiler] tags, like this example?
As to non-spoilery business: It's pretty much impossible to write an anterograde amnesia story without being compared to Memento. So it's pleasant to see you're not reusing its gimmick here. That does present a challenge: walking the fine line of the audience knowing more than your character does in a way that Twilight's in-the-moment reactions still feel natural. The central mystery (at least I assume that's the central mystery based on what we've seen so far — the trip to Canterlot. Or maybe it's building slowly to an even bigger one?) will be key to that.
I feel like, even four chapters in, I'm not sure there's enough yet to judge the overall story arc — which suggests (along with the teaser in your blog) that you're planning this out as a much longer piece. We'll see where it goes!
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You can discuss spoilery things with spoiler tags. However, once again, I cannot enforce spoiler tags or zero spoilers. Thus, those keen to not being spoiled should not grace the comments section.
I've never even heard of Memento. Damn, I thought nobody had done anterograde amnesia before. The whole reason this idea even existed was "Wow, retrograde amnesia is played as a plothook so often, I doubt that anybody will expect anterograde amnesia!" I'll check it out, though, just to make sure that I'm not wholesale copying anything without knowledge :\
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Memento is a film, directed by Christopher Nolan. I don't personally recall ever having read a fan fiction that dealt with Anterograde Amnesia. I look forward to hearing more!
Peace,
C
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Ah-hah! So I am original!
*does a dance of triumph*
4628679 TV Tropes brings up:
50 First Dates
ef - a tale of memories
One Week Friends
Finding Nemo
Rumbling Hearts
Fate/Stay Night
it's a pretty popular gimmick.
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Silence, puny mortal. If I hadn't heard of it used before, it has not yet been used, by the logical law of "Screw You, I Make The Rules."