One is a pegasus who sees things nopony else can see. The other is an abrasive, competitive showmare. Can love help these two ponies overcome their differences and face the difficulties of the road ahead? Nope!
Sometimes the open road throws the least likely companions together. Sometimes, the last person you would expect can become your strongest friend. And sometimes they just drive you insane.
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This is a companion piece to Split Eyes. You should be able to read these two in either order.
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Cover art by Applelight Limited (modified slightly by yours truly).
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Finally!
More Alarm Clock Ditzy? Yes, please.
Ah, and she's paired up with one of the more tragically obnoxious Trixies I've seen. It seems like Ditzy's very existence is going to make Trixie question a lot about how she thinks the world works. And that's ignoring the question of what Ditzy did to end up on the run from an asylum.
Oh, and nice use of the pine cone meme.
Definitely looking forward to more.
Wait, Ditzy reaches inside a tree and pulls out something blorange? This is going to be one of those "sees beyond the edge of the universe" Ditzys, isn't it?
Hey, Meta Four, you should mark Alarm Clock as a sequel so people have an idea of what they’re getting into. …and so they can find the original too, of course.
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That is precisely what it is.
Ditzy can see magic, so where is the description of Trixie's passive magical glow?
Ditzy's magiocular synesthesia was never mentioned as an internal note; was this intended?
Well done on writing Trixie! You can taste the various mental complexes!
Trixie is amazingly strong! Ditzy is no stranger to combat and hard work! It seems strangly un-unicornlike of Trixie, i wonder if that is a backstory clue?
Looking forward to discovering the plot!
This story was made of CUTE!
I loved the scene with Trixie and Dodger...and uh, everything else.
Does that mean Trixie always flirts with everypony???
Anyway, I can ship it.
I loved this and laughed so hard throughout.
I do hope that in any future stories in this verse we can see Derpy playing the sax.
Cause that would be awesome.
Also, poor Trixie she fell kinda hard and fast for that wall eyed mare.
Chapter 2 yeah!
Ooh, Trixie's in on the transdimensional crazy. Unfortunately things might be too awkward between them now to tag-team in Ponyville in the future.
I wonder if Pinkie may have some Great and Powerful blood in her.
This is the BEST. THING. EVER!!!
These characters are brilliant. Trixie is simultaneously ungodly annoying yet also hilarious to listen to. I definitely prefer this interpretation over the "shallow jerk" or "bully who readers are supposed to sympathize with because of her difficult past" types that she's so commonly cast as.
I'm having a tough time deciding if I would enjoy being around this Trixie or not. If I could tolerate her general cluelessness, the hilarity of it would make it worthwhile. But then, if I couldn't take it, she'd drive me up the walls. I think I could do it though.
6562232 Thank you.
Trixie was immensely fun to write, when she wasn't being immensely frustrating. More than any other character I've written, she kept making conversations veer off in directions I hadn't planned. I don't think I'd enjoy this Trixie's company in real life, either—but in the process of writing, I came to sympathize with her a lot more than I did beforehand.
Alliteration!
Aww... Trixie used Ditzy's actual name! ... And those ending scenes show they care... Or something... ... Not "caring" as such, but something sweet?
What's Trixie dumping out the pinecones supposed to represent?
I don't entirely remember, to be honest. It just felt right.
Hello, Meta Four! First of all, I want to thank you for such an awesome story :D
Soo, will you make a sequel? This story is really great, I've read it in one go. Can't help myself but smile like an idiot.
Anyways, you totally made the best Trixie I've ever seen, competitive and clueless, it really fits her. And the relationship with Ditzy - awesome!
I wish you luck with the sequels of this story. :thumbs up!:
7960214 Thank you!
There already are some sequels, actually. There's Alarm Clock, which is mainly about Ditzy. (Actually, I wrote Alarm Clock first, and this story is the prequel.) And that has another sequel: Beauty Will Tear Us Apart, in which Trixie makes her great and powerful return.
7960313 Oh my god, why didn't you say so in the description, I suggest you add it. I'm gonna read those stories right away :D
This Trixie seems kinda Flanderized to me. Yeah, she's competitive, but is she really THAT dense?
Aww. Poor Trixie. (And given what I said last chapter, that's saying something.) Who knows, they might have been able to be friends of things panned out a bit differently. This was a good chapter.
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Since this is supposed to be pre-season-one, my idea was that Trixie mellowed out a bit, in between this story and "Boast Busters". But in retrospect, I do agree I got a bit carried away and mixed up Trixie's stage persona with her real personality.
I see she can't keep her story straight-- oh, wait, no, it actually makes sense. Well-played.
Philosophy is no joke, young mare!
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I have no words.
stnanks, you mean?
Corrections offered without malice.
lay down
Officially has an apostrophe. (two instances)
Zing.
Third time's the charm.
aww…poor …both of them.
Your trixie is greatly and powerfully exasperating.
8189224 Thank you. Corrections made.
8189288 It's odd. I meant for this one to be a comedy, but it ended up having a sad ending... while the drama companion story had a happy ending.
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