This story is a sequel to Blueblood Takes Over Equestria
Gilda has been in something of a rough patch lately, working dead-end job to dead-end job with nary a clue where to even find a dead-end job that doesn't completely suck. She's worked for complete idiots, she's worked for complete jerks, she's worked for stuffy tight-wads, but her newest boss is something else.
The trick is figuring out what that something is.
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Reading the first story not necessary for understanding this one.
Chapters (4)
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HAH!
Hoo, boy.
Eh?
Win win.
Huzzah! The beginnings of another excellent story!
The more blueblood the better i say!
I am loving your Blueblood. And Gilda is a loving hateful ball of fur and feathers. You've really got her character.
I've thought of doing a romance between the two before but never got around to writing it.
Totally tracking this. Excellent start.
Heh, a fun story so far. If the prequel is anything to go on, this will certainly go interesting places. Gildablue is also potentially one of the funner pairings I've seen, so I'll certainly be looking forward to it!
Edit: Oh, and I've seen the picture you're talking about. Yeah, that would totally make perfect cover art for this. Too bad about the rating thing.
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I try to go for a different personality for him every time, barring direct sequels. Glad it's entertaining so far!
Gilda x Blueblood.
What could possibly go wrong?
Hilarious so far. Looking forward to more with great anticipation.
Glorious!!
Way to make a good first impression, Gilda.
I wonder what Princess Luna will think. Probably challenge her to a vigorous sparring match to relive old times.
I love your characterization of Gilda. Her vocabulary is spot-on for her (Swankiest, clucking) and her internal thoughts (I'd be just like them, wouldn't I?) is fascinating. Her interactions with Blueblood, Raven, and
are also hilarious.
Nice.
Loved it.
Couldn't help reading the title in Mr. Popo's voice (and appending "Maggot" to end.)
Oh Mr Popo...
Mainly because he's herbivorous, ie, he doesn't eat meat.
The gaudy is strong in this one.
Apparently, not as much as I thought. Which would have been oh so very dead.
Riiight. ANd maintenAnce.
Er...
I suspect that's more due to your meat eating diet than anything, Miss Gilda as ponies don't eat meat.
Celestia, this should be fun.
Not sure if she's serious, or trolling.
Ponies have bucking, and griffons have clucking. I can work with that.
Good to know that for all her faults, she's not stupid.
It is pretty funny.
Of course.
OK.
5732076 Ah, yes, we've made a forum spawning some silly ideas, to give BB some character... as the forum says. This apparently extended to him interacting with a certain griffon and the development of the 'clucking' profanity. I doubt that all the ideas we teased with will make it in here, for the best.
That said, I think it's great that Eyeswirl is telling this from Gilda's point of view. I dunno why, I just do. Give Blueblood's demeanor of politeness some mystery to it, considering how worried others were in the previous chapter.
Good to know that proper-palace chefs are far more accommodating than the fatty's crew. That's a good motivator, good food, I suppose.
Also... love this line:
WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THE SHEER YES!
I love this Blueblood, he's the perfect mix between civil, and jerk.
Heh.
Take all my yes.
I like this Blueblood, he is a bit of a snob, yes, but he's fun.
This is gonna be good!
BEST GRIFFIN!
Interesting...
What? Who do you think you're writing, not-Blueblood?
This is Blueblood, and I expect him to be nothing but an upper class jerk stereotype. Fortunately, he also will be a chew toy and no one will treat him with any decency either, while all his most cherished relatives will then express how little they want to do with him and how much he deserves to be banished for his rudeness.
It's a proven formula, and how dare you violate the sanctity of it!
... I wonder if Blueblood doesn't like other ponies broadly, or... so far it's seemed like he just doesn't like the other upper class ponies... but I don't think it would be a stretch to see him exhibiting the same kind of "you're not enough of a good pony" to everyone broadly.
I'm loving the slow burn on this. As Hitchcock said, the anticipation of the bang is greater than the bang itself.
you know i really like it when Blueblood is written this way. just makes so much more interesting
You've really captured Gilda's voice. I wonder what Blueblood is up to.
Congratulations, Blueblood. You're the new Jaime Lannister. Gilda's the new Brienne of Tarth.
Props to you for writing characters that are both likeable and still (sort of) jerks in their own way.
Anticipating the next chapter on this! Really love what you've got so far.
Interesting story, though it's been far too long since it has updated.
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I know, sorry about that.
I'm hoping to give the stories I'm still regularly working on at least one chapter each over the next month or so, and this one is about third or fourth down the list.
6711533 oh real life comes first. But the story has potential in regards to Blueblood. And I like storys where he isn't treated as a putz.
Short but sweet, and it leaves me wondering about what sort of history Blueblood could have with various other characters, especially the always colorful Spitfire. I get the feeling they're two strong personalities that have run into one another rather often. Or maybe I'm just partial to Spitfire being lewd when off duty? That too.
Glad to see this back. This chapter was funny, especially the end; keep up the great work!
Yeah, I'm just ignoring that Starlight is canon more powerful than Twilight.
It really makes no sense.
Maybe Blue blood just wants people to think he is up to something when he actually isn't
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Oh, Blueblood is up to something.
Like not getting roped into a date with Spitfire. Who in turn is very unsubtle about her interest.
OK, now you're trolling her.
I can imagine, Sombra just sitting there, stunned, then whipping out a notepad and actually doing that, it's hilarious
So Gilda knows who Sombra is, interesting.
You did that on purpose!
Perfect thought process.
To be fair, Twi is still young. And it's not unlikely that Starlight went through from Frieza type training. As for Celestia, she was holding back so as not to hurt anypony other than Queen Chrysalis, and even then it was close, Queen Chrysalis was SCARED, she honestly didn't think she would win, both of them were shocked when she did. Also, it's more than likely that Queen Chrysalis was also very powerful even more Shining Armor being drained, and that boosted her power a lot.
Sonata?
... Blueblood, prep to be a teddy-bear to your bodyguard! XD
The way you showed the nameless guard trying to rescue Gilda by arresting her--that was brilliant.
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Technically, he really was only doing his job, but many in the crowd no-doubt thought the same.
...Trying to imagine what might be going through Princess Celestia's mind. Her "nephew" Blueblood hiring a griffin bodyguard, who is utterly ignorant of Canterlot's society and gossip, and for some reason is staggering, half-asleep, through the palace halls and seems barely coherent--then gives her a military gesture of respect. Oh the wonderful little stories she might be making up for herself, trying to figure that out.
Liking this story so far... And yeah... Starlight Glimmer is sort of over-powered. It's bad enough that she out-flies a recently-formed alicorn using only her own levitation magic (while blasting away with magic bolts of energy that perform various spells) but she's perfected time-travel spells that Twilight (supposedly an extremely powerful and brilliant unicorn even before ascending) hasn't, and is apparently the only unicorn in history to rip the cutie mark off of an alicorn. Finally, she's persuasive enough to start and maintain her very own cult. Starlight Glimmer: Übercorn.
Oh man, I love Flour Deli trying to warn Gilda about Blueblood's mysterious powers. I suspect part of why the crowd didn't wake her up wasn't just fear, but also that a catnapping Gilda is pretty adorable.
7000798 You're right about Twilight and Starlight, Starlight has clearly recieved actual combat training, while Twilight has not. I rather like the fact that MLP is not DBZ, where the strongest character automatically wins.
Good point about Celestia and Chrysalis, Queen Bug-horse was clearly surprised she won. I'll be honest though, at this point I don't think Celestia has this secret super-magical solar flare-summoning power the fandom likes to assign her, or she wouldn't have lost over and over in all those other dimensions during the season 5 finale. I wonder if the reason Chrysalis was so incredibly strong was because she had been drinking off a love spell cast by the alicorn princess of love herself? That would explain a lot.
Okay, I love this story and how you write Gilda! Can't wait to see more!
Tracking this in case you continue it one day.
Rip
Well darn. I was really loving this story. The unlikely friendship between a grumpy griffin and a grumpy unicorn would have been a great full story. RIP lost potential.
Well darn. I was really loving this story. The unlikely friendship between a grumpy griffin and a grumpy unicorn had a lot of potential. Great sadness.