This story is a sequel to Seeing Sanguine
A basic love triangle: Twilight likes Rainbow Dash likes Twilight, but Twilight and Twilight do not get along at first.
Rainbow Dash has a crazy powerful friend. She's a Princess, her cutie mark is literally magic and it shows in her day to day life let alone in a crisis, and she is so smart she can just brilliant her way through many of life's problems. Rainbow Dash yearns to be more to her - but what chance does a dumb jock like her have? Sure, she might be Rainbow Dash with all that entails, but she's just a normal pony inside.
Every day out her window, Twilight sees an athletic, attractive weatherpony. She wishes she could be her, but that is not where Twilight's passions lie. Short of that, Twilight wishes she could be with her, be something more to her - but what chance does an academic, indoors type like her have? Sure, she might be an alicorn with all that entails, but she's just a normal pony inside.
Until Rainbow Dash lets a certain signal slip by accident...
Begins the day after Princess Twilight Sparkle's Other Court. This was originally a one-chapter standalone, but based on feedback (and FiMFiction's policy against posting separate chapters as separate stories), I expanded it. Sex-tagged for discussion, innuendo, and seduction, but the furthest it gets in-scene is kissing.
So this story will go on to explore the Twilight, a pony vs. Twilight, Magic Incarnate internal struggle? Cool.
5612529 The intended focus is more Twi-Dash, but that internal struggle will come up - with external interference. And it's not just Magic Incarnate on the other side.
What happened to Rainbow's cloud house?
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5613214 All in good time. For now, let us just say there is a reason Rainbow's making an issue to herself of liking not having a house.
Or I totally forgot about that and now I need to come up with a good explanation, but you've just handed me a plot hook big enough to build an entire chapter around (but not chapter 3 and probably not 4 either) so thank you.
At least one of those may be correct.
I can imagine long term repercussions with newspapers freaking out about the mountain
5626797 Not just newspapers, and Twilight won't have to wait very long,
Both of them feel completely out of character. I don't find myself interested in a story about wingboners or Twilight mercilessly playing with her friend's feelings.
5684975 Then why comment?
(For those who are following the story: my apologies for the delay. Friendship is Dragons needed some guest comics, so I whipped up a pair - and I now have renewed appreciation for the effort it can take. Although, if I were to do a lot more, I would take the time to learn GIMP or the like: MS Paint is just not the best tool for that. Anyway, chapter 6 should be up in a day or two.)
What is the difference between chain teleporting and regular teleports? In the show, unicorn Twilight could repeatedly teleport as early as Applebuck Season, though she only really started to teleport frequently in season 2 and later.
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Back to back with no time to recover (less than a second in between, in this case). It's like marathoning at sprint speeds.
IIRC, in The Crystal Empire, Twilight shows off four back-to-back teleports. Since that was her practicing for an official test from Princess Celestia, I figured that might be what she says her limit is. (Though I suspect her actual limit in canon, even aside from this story's macguffin, may be higher.)
way to go you stupid dream peeping bitch! i hope twilight fucks you up the next time she sees you! see how you like having third degree burns across half of your body!
You can see the problem.
Missed a [/b]
5841965 What I get for proofreading in edit mode...
Fixed. Thanks.
5841629 Minor spoiler for next chapter: Luna stopped Twilight from unconsciously burning Rainbow any worse.
5842326 .....still don't like her.
5842373 Fair enough, especially given what she did in the prequel to this story.
...Lemme make this clear. I really want to see where this goes. It's a lovely concept and I still find it fascinatingly curious.
I think you're missing a word or two in here.
5854885 I see a leaf there.
5854680 Thanks! Though we're nearing the end.
are there going to be sequels to this? it was said that she had many things in the future that would need to be faced, and i'm sure a couple of them could be turned in to stories.
5965326 Depends on what inspiration I get. I might expand on the others' reactions to Rainbow's fall and return (I had thought to add a reference to the Biblical Easter story, but on reading it, it turned out there's not much to reference), or maybe Twilight's reflections on what only Luna had experienced before (along with Rainbow Dash's and Celestia's concerns over Twilight and Luna bonding over this), but the future things Twilight has to face are pretty much the things Twilight faces in FiM, such as Tirek (Celestia might not know details of most of the upcoming threats, but she's well aware that Twilight's ascension means she's going to help Celestia face what comes). Right now my muse is suggesting at least one or two unrelated one-shots first.
Also, I need to set aside time if I'm to do another long story like this. As you can see from the publication times, RL started dragging me away from finishing the final chapter...but I do, eventually, finish what I start. (And this was an experiment at somewhat freeform, as in "no prereader", writing. I think I'll switch back to using prereaders for my next long story, whether a sequel to this or something else.)