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alarajrogers


Okay, I admit it, I'm probably not your mom. But odds are I'm old enough to be. Now with Patreon account (under alarajrogers) and short stories on Amazon (under Alara Rogers).

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Two fillies and a draconequus cub face nightmares. Set in Last Draconequus universe.

Titles come from song lyrics; I've included links to the lyrics within the chapters.

Cover art by Captain Wuzz.

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 12 )

Well then. Dang Little D, you have terrifying dreams :twilightoops: ( How old is everyone in this? )

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Luna is six, Discord is ten, Celestia's about eleven.

Discord has actually lived through some fairly awful shit by this time in his life, Celestia's just starting to feel the pressure of being the Crown Princess, and Luna... is Luna.

5234077 :twilightoops: TEN!? Oh boy, I guess I'm in for a sob fest whenever Last Draconequus updates. Also, * old narrator voice * It looks like our hero has once again been bested by the beast known as new ideas. Will Alara be able to stand up to this monster and finally finish one of her incomplete fics? Find out next time!

Hehe, I'm joking, I love your ideas, so I'm not complaining!

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To be fair, I thought of this because I'm writing a sequence in Not the Hero where Discord confronts Luna in the dream world he left her in, which got me thinking about the relationship between the two of them and also Luna and dreams.

And I never promised I wouldn't do any new completed one-shots, only that I wouldn't add to my incompletes before I completed something. :-)

But yeah. In the background, I'm actively writing Last Draconequus and Not the Hero, and I'm head-writing Elements of Opposition (I generally write a story multiple times in my head before finally committing it to paper).

Playing off the story title..."Take my hand, Off to never Neverland!"

oh well crap, now i feel guilty for writing or drawing discord in pony form.

im sorry my poor precious babbu :raritydespair:

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Oh, he does that (as an adult), by choice. What terrifies him is the fear of forced conformity. (That reforming spell idea of Twilight's probably hit a nerve or two.) The "being forced to be a pony" thing is his childish mind coming up with a metaphor for how everything in his world is organized around what ponies want and need and how he's treated like a defective pony rather than like what he is.

(Ironically in my universe the draconequui would probably consider him defective too if there were any left, because they aren't supposed to be hyper-chimerical; normal draconequui are dragon horses, and that's it. But he idealizes his own people because they're dead and can't reject him.)

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Discord never becomes really comfortable with his nature, does he? Not as a youth, not as a tyrant, not as a statue, and not restored to live and reformed. Will he ever find peace with himself?

Celestia, crushed underneath her crown
Discord, trying to hide his fears of forced identity
Luna, bat shit crazy... I kinda giggled how light this chapter felt compared to the other two

I don't know how I missed this, but I'm very glad I found it. The nightmares are all too appropriate, and Luna in her element is amazing. It's such an adorably badass image, I feel like it's a cut scene from Moonstuck.

Thank you for these vignettes. I'm very glad I chose to dig through your archive today.

I love these snippet views into each character's dreams. I love how triumphant Luna is, especially.

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I'm confused by this, he is comfortable with his nature, what he dislikes is that no one else seems comfortable with what he is and fears that they will one day force him to be exactly like them, aka twilights reform spell

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