The Pain of Eternity
The Pain of Eternity
By Wanderer D
It had been a nice day so far for Twilight Sparkle. She had woken up to a breakfast of delicious pancakes made by Spike, gone for a walk and a chat to Sweet Apple Acres and purchased a few books to read, one of them, a controversial text about Princess Celestia, no less.
The title was: The Pain of Eternity and she now wished she hadn't read it.
"Twilight?" Spike asked, more than a little freaked out by her sniffling. "Are you okay?"
Twilight shook her head, sinking into herself, the very image of a miserable pony. "No Spike... I'm not. I just never realized how much Princess Celestia is suffering!"
Spike slowly put down the gem he was about to throw in his mouth. "Say what again?"
"The Princess! She's lived for thousands of years! How many lives has she seen end? How many friends die?" Twilight sobbed.
Spike pondered this. "She... seemed very happy to me, last time we saw her. You know, stuffing her face with cake..."
"She's just good at hiding it, Spike! She's like Applejack! She cries inside!"
Spike seemed unconvinced. "Twilight, she disguised herself as a filly and was trying to get her cutie mark on parallel parking with the crusaders. I don't think she was crying inside." He paused. "Or if she was, it was for different reasons than you're thinking."
"Spike, you don't get it!" Twilight complained. "This book explains it all!" She levitated The Pain of Eternity into his claws.
Spike raised an eyebrow and started flipping through it. "Twilight. It says here that Princess Celestia starts every morning with a cup of harshroot tea to remind herself of the lives she's lost."
"I know!"
"But... Celestia always drinks coffee and her favorite cup is regular, spiced black tea," he argued. "With honey!" He shook his head and flipped through more pages. "Here, listen to this: 'Her breakfast is spartan and select, each dish representing one of her deceased friends from ancient times.'" Spike looked at Twilight. "This guy doesn't know the princess at all!"
"But that's not the point, Spike! The Princess must feel lonely! She lives thousands of years and everypony else dies!"
"But... she's not alone," Spike said. "I mean. There's Luna. And Discord. And Cadance. And Tirek, I guess, if you need to torture somepony. Chrysalis probably will live a good few thousand years until 'The Great Boot' comes, whatever that is..." He brightened. "And there's you!"
Twilight's expression went blank. "What?"
"Well, you're an alicorn now, Twilight. You'll probably live just as long as Princess Celestia!" Spike continued, unaware of her face turning pale. "There's no way Princess Celestia feels lonely either! She's constantly surrounded by friends and pain-in-the-flanks, like Blueblood!"
He sensed the shift in attitude a moment later and he looked up to see Twilight's wide, open eyes shimmering with tears. "Spike... I don't want to live forever. I don't want to see my friends die!" She swept him in her hooves. "Don't you worry about growing really old and I won't have changed a bit?"
"Nah," Spike shrugged. "I'm a dragon. I'll live a long time. And when I'm old and feeble, then I'll worry. For now, it's not my problem, it's future Spike's problem."
"Spike! Don't treat this like a joke!"
"I—" Spike cringed. "I didn't mean—"
"It's okay, Spike," Princess Twilight Sparkle said, as she entered the chamber. "I just worry too much, you know that better than anyone."
Both Twilight and Spike stared at... Twilight. But it was a different Twilight. Taller, for one. She had pretty much the same body-type as Princess Celestia, and her mane and tail also waved magically, seeming to be made of rays of sunlight, moonlight and eldritch energies.
"Buh-but..." Twilight stammered, looking at Princess Twilight in wonder and confusion. "What are you doing here?"
Princess Twilight raised a delicate eyebrow. "Having an existential crisis, if I recall correctly."
Twilight lowered her head. "Oh." She waited for a few seconds. "How long?"
"Two thousand years in the future," Princess Twilight answered, walking up to one of the many windows in the castle and looking outside. "Ah, Ponyville two thousand years prior... and there's Pinkie Pie!" The Princess smiled, observing whatever was happening down there. "I had completely forgotten what it was like it until today, actually. Too many things going on, you understand."
"But, how could you forget your best friends?" Twilight asked, looking at her future self in horror.
Princess Twilight chuckled. "Spike, tea if you please."
"Y-yes ma'am!" Spike said, running down to the kitchen.
Princess Twilight walked over to Twilight Sparkle and sat down next to her. "Twilight... I haven't forgotten about our friends in all this time, but life goes on my little pony, and as much as I loved Rarity, I can't think of her every day. Or Applejack, Rainbow Dash or Tick Tock, or Apple Meringue, or Princess Pupa, or—"
"W-who?" Twilight interrupted. "But... who are those ponies?"
Princess Twilight blinked. "Why. They're my best friends, ponies that have changed my life in one way or another just as surely as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy and Spike did."
"But I don't know those ponies an—"
Princess Twilight smiled, placing a comforting hoof on her past self's shoulder. "Twilight, you haven't met them yet."
Twilight blinked just like her counterpart had just a few seconds ago. "Whu-but Princess, I can't possibly replace my friends!"
Princess Twilight slowly breathed out and wrapped a comforting wing around her younger self's shoulders. "Twilight, nopony is replacing anypony. That's not how Friendship works." She motioned to the world outside. "If it were that easy, I would still remember the names of all the ponies in Ponyville. But I don't. And it's not because I didn't care about them, they were simply not an influence in my life as my real friends were."
She smiled a soft, encouraging smile. "There will come a time when Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom stop being simple fillies learning random things from you. They will grow up and be your friends just as surely as their elder sisters were. One day, as time passes by, your first group of special, irreplaceable friends will be gone, it's true. And you will remain."
Twilight looked down at her hooves until the Princess' hoof raised her chin up. "Twilight. You... we celebrate their lives through our thoughts and actions. They mold us in ways we can't explain, even centuries from now. Each of them has left a hoofmark in my heart. Pony, dragon, changeling or gryphon, what I remember, what I learned was out of the good they did in my life and theirs."
She smirked. "Do you know how I remembered to come back today? After thousands of years of not really thinking about it?"
Twilight shook her head, eyes wide on her counterpart. "H-how? Did you set up a spell?"
Princess Twilight chuckled. "It was an Apple. My little Apple Parfait, who we could say is currently my protege and apprentice. She was taking some time off and went to help buck some apple trees, but she tripped on a copy of an old, silly book written by a pony that feared death more than he celebrated life." She levitated out a muddy, partially destroyed book for Twilight to see.
"T-that's The Pain of Eternity!" Twilight gasped. "Is that my copy?"
Princess Twilight nodded, still smiling. "I asked Spike so long ago to simply bury it where nopony could find it. Somepony did."
Twilight chuckled, looking a little relieved, but her smile faded soon. "But what about the pain of losing friends?" She looked down the hall. "I don't think Spike will live over two thousand years."
Princess Twilight shook her head. "No... I'm afraid not."
"But I don't want to feel the pain!" Twilight insisted. "I don't want to lose Spike!"
"Twilight, when Spike's time came, he said something to me that has guided me for the longest time," Princess Twilight confessed.
Twilight swallowed. "W-what is it? Can I know?"
Princess Twilight smiled. "Of course! Why do you think it has guided me for so long? Just promise me not to tell anypony, even Spike, until... well, now. In the future. Your future." She blinked. "Oh my, it gets confusing."
Twilight giggled and nodded. "I promise, Princess. What did he say?"
Princess Twilight leaned in to whisper in her ear. "He said: Twilight, please take care of my grandkids. They'll need somepony with common sense to watch them after me, and Celestia knows my son needs a few buckets of cold reality before he's ready."
Twilight Sparkle's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open.
Princess Twilight laughed. "He's going to grow up, Twilight, you didn't expect him to not seek out a mate, did you?"
"And... have you?" Twilight asked.
Princess Twilight blinked. "Sought a mate? Well yes, several. And there's a few Sparkles running around, but I'm afraid I can't rea—"
"No!" Twilight interrupted, blushing crimson. "No, I meant, um... Spike. Taken care of them."
"And here's the tea!" Spike called, walking into the room with a large tray of it and cups. "Just like you like it!"
Princess Twilight's smile was large and warm. "Thank you, Spike. You're a gentledrake." She turned to look at Twilight, her eyes reflecting the warmth of it. "Do you need to ask?"
"No," Twilight said after a moment, her own smile returning her future self's. "No, I don't."
o.0.o
Spike found Twilight reading that book again.
"Really, Twilight?" He asked, shaking his head. "I thought after that talk with your future self, you'd be over it."
Twilight smiled. "I am, Spike. But I wanted to see what the author wanted to say."
Spike arched an eyebrow. "And?"
"I think pitying somepony like Celestia, or me, because we'll live so long is extremely selfish," she said after a moment of thought. She nodded briefly, levitating a pen and writing something on the back of the cover. "He assumes that death is the true measure of a life; that we would regret coming to live with ponies important to us in such a deep level, but that all we would take of all the wonderful times we spent together would be their deaths, and not their achievements, their lessons or their love."
Spike nodded. "I think I understand... but are you saying you won't feel any pain when... you know."
Twilight shook her head. "No, Spike, I think I will be saddened by the absence of all these wonderful ponies. But... if I listen to myself, I think I will eventually learn to know that they will always be a part of me, and that their physical absence is not a reason to not want to live."
Spike shrugged. "I don't know, Twilight, knowing you, I wouldn't be surprised if you did try to travel back in time to see them. Didn't she tell you what to do?" He watched as Twilight cast a spell on the book, before levitating it to him. Blinking, he grabbed it.
Twilight chuckled. "I think future me wanted me to find out for myself."
Spike shrugged again. "What do you want me to do with this?"
Twilight smiled. "Hide it where nopony will ever find it, okay?"
"Ever?"
"Ever."
"Okay! I know just the spot!" Spike said with a grin. "Hey, after that can I—"
Twilight nodded. "Yes Spike, you can go help Rarity."
"Score!"
Twilight watched her assistant run out of the room and sighed. After a moment, she nodded to herself. "I wonder what Fluttershy is up to?" She asked aloud as she left her room.
o.0.o
Twilight Sparkle was writing on her desk when somepony calling made her look up.
"Mom! Moom!"
The door busted open and a young unicorn filly ran inside. Her green coat was covered in dirt, and she had some small sticks poking out of her mane, a clear indication that she had been playing at the farm again. Why, Twilight couldn't even see the cutie mark under all that dirt.
"Apple Parfait," Twilight sighed, casting a spell to clean up her daughter. "What have I told you about going to the farm to help your granny?"
"That I need to clean up after..." Apple Parfait muttered, but then she looked up. "But I found something!"
"Oh? What is it?"
"A book! And it has your signature and a date in it! Are you really that old?" Apple Parfait asked, levitating the mostly destroyed tome up to her.
Twilight blinked, standing up and taking the book in her own magical field. She flipped it open and a smile crossed her face. "Ah, I remember this."
Apple Parfait tilted her head. "What? What is it?"
Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship ruffled her daughter's mane. "A reminder of what the most important things in life are."
o.0.o The End o.0.o
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww, such a lovely story. :)
This felt a bit rushed (likely because of the short length) and not particularly deep or complex. Very simple premise and had a predictable progression. Twilight feels upset about immortality, future Twilight tells her it'll be okay and to look forward to future family and friends was the obvious storyline right from the get-go.
Writing quality is good as always, but I found the story lackluster.
Ah, another lovely little piece about Twilight facing immortality. One can't get enough of these.
Nice little story, very cheerful and optimistic.
Exactly the kind of thing you should read before bed if you want to fall asleep with a warm smile.
Very nice.
that was a nice little story.
*standing ovation*
I personally wholeheartedly approve of these types of stories, largely because I have been long fed-up of the "immortality is inherently bad, [character] will be miserable and will only ever have one set of friends" stories, especially as they have a tendancy to maudlin for the sake of being maudlin.
(Heck, I felt so strongly about it, it actually motivated me to write something at one time...!)
Superb work.
Mhm. Good.
Did you read All Men Are Mortal, by Simone de Beauvoir?
Thank you, this was a wonderfully uplifting little read. Considering the amount of "immortality is horrible and everything for Twilight will suck forever now!" stories floating around, it's always refreshing to stumble upon one that has taken the time to ponder that, you know, not everything about it can absolutely bad without any upsides to show for it.
And for the purpose of conveying this message, the short format you picked for the story worked pretty well - it was short, sweet and to the point, accomplishing what it set out to do. I suppose it's a shame it isn't slightly longer because of how entertaining the interactions between the characters were (you captured both Spike and Twilight well), but it certainly succeeded in putting a smile on my face, so thanks for that. Definitely a good read, and a more balanced outlook on immortality than many stories care to offer.
I tip my hat to you, dear writer.
10/10 amazing story. And I side with Twilight. Immortality would be horrible!
can't make me say nice little story
AWESOME GIANT NOVEL
The Great Boot may be the best term for an apocalypse since the Coming of the Great Green Arkleseizure's Great White Handkerchief.
In any case, a lovely little deconstruction of the immortality blues. Thank you for it.
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I think it's more of a reconstruction, of the idea of Twilight being immortal.
Well in the beginning Twi was quite melodramatic. Rarity's rubbing off on her
Still, lovely story there. Can't have enough optimism!
This gem belongs with the greatest works out there.
I am at a loss of words to describe it...
Immortality is the act of spreading the knowledge of what you know throughout the universe. Do I fear immortality? no.
Would I still cry when a friend passes? yes, but also I would know that friend is still indeed a part of me and therefore has not passed, for as long as we remember, our memories, the memories of the immortals live on too, so do they really die? again, no.
I loved your story
-The Immortal soul
Thank you.
Heh. This reminds me of my own 'anti-immortality angst' story, except that one was a lot sillier and had more sex. Well done, you!
Oh god.. I started laughing way too hard when 'The Great Boot' was mentioned!
This story might just have illuminated me and melted my author block!
Anyway, another great story, with just the right mix of sadness, sillyness and deepness
I actually was going to do my own story like this where instead, its Discord who talks to Twilight since he's the only true immortal, that being Celestia will probably die when her sun/star novas, as will Luna as she gets caught up in the explosion along with Equestria.
Discord is the only one who is truly infinite because Chaos is just Change and change is eternal. When the big bang happened and the universe was but a frame of infinitive energy, when it was the singularity, he was there basically. He's lived from the birth of the universe all the way to now in the show; And for the rest of time, if, when and somehow these primordial gears like time, space, gravity, static electricity and so forth, should break and wind down, only then will he have true rest.
So it is probably a good thing that it is confirmed canon that Cadence and Twilight will live as long as regular ponies because they're not bound to celestial conceptualizations that will live for millennium on.
And while I like the balanced view of immortality, there is something that needs to be said. Should one achieve immortality, there is four eventualities, four solitary truths that the 'immortal' will come to experience.
The death of those around them, beloved or not.
Their own death with the halt of the universe, because nothing precedes or exceeds the life and death of the universe.
Their own obscurity, as the world dies and is reborn around them, they shall remain the only constant, undying and unable to change with those around them.
And the day when in a fit of madness built upon the grains of sand of ages past, they begin the search for their own death. Because ironically like their mortal counterparts, where mortals seek no end, the one thing immortals will desire above everything else is the end.
You know, I used to be in the camp of Twilight is not immortal. Actually, I think I still am, seeing as how we saw Cadance as a young pony, thus she still ages. But even so, I'm more mellow on stories that have her being immortal, mainly for the reasons you stated here.
Good show, D!
So many people say this, but one tweet by a writer (who is neither producer, director, show runner, nor creator) doesn't make it gospel. Isn't it just possible that Cadance is bound to Love and Twilight to Magic (or Friendship)? Those seem to be concepts more universal and metaphysical than simple suns or moons (though I can picture Celestia and Luna flying off into the cosmos to shack up with other suns and moons once Equestria's done). Actually I take that tweet literally: she won't outlive her friends, but it doesn't say which friends, and she happens to be friends with a few immortals too.
As for this story - nicely done, if highly predictable.
A nice depiction of the "Living Forever Is Awesome" trope, which doesn't get nearly as much attention as its emo counterpart. Which is a shame, because it's a very strong and triumphant stance.
It's not really something I support, because my belief is that existence is an endless series of new lives, each with new experiences, thus necessitating death and rebirth; hence, immortality means you stop the journey and never move on to new things. But if you have immortality, at least enjoy it for what it is.
Good story, all in all.
5976778 There is a fifth option. You can do a wowbagger.
That was a cute little story.
beautiful in its simplicity!
I think the lifespan of an immortal is pretty easy to measure.
When you can't remember the ones you loved in the first hundred years or so of your life, it's time to turn in the towel.
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First of all, it was Meghan McCarthy who said that Twilight and Cadence weren't immortal. You know, writer and lead creative director that took over after Faust was given the finger by Hasbro after she was creatively molested?
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/04/twilight-sparkle-wont-outlive-her.html
Second of all, with Twilight, yes, she is the Alicorn of the metaphysical social construct, friendship, but this is tightly bound to the friendship of the other Elements of Harmony. Each one makes up Friendship and is an innate aspect of who and what she is, and each of them is the same with the others. Those are her friends, she may get some in the future, but none will ever be as close to her as the original because they're literally bound by fate together, never mind the fact that Twilight's god awful Alicorn-hood is bound to her cutie mark which is bound to the magic that binds them and brings them together. Take away the magic of their friendship and what you have?
With Cadence, yes, she's the Alicorn of love, but this is deeply rooted in her love for Shining Armor.
This is also ignoring the fact that it was never intended for there to be ANY other Alicorns besides Celestia and Luna according to the show bible Faust drafted up with the notes up to the end of Season 2, when she got the boot. And it has been confirmed that Cadence wasn't supposed to be an Alicorn either. Cadence and Twilight were literally shoehorned in by Hasbro shills so they could sell more pretty pretty princess crystal kingdom toy sets.
Not the first not the last 'the woe in me - immortal' story but nicely written nonetheless.
I very much liked it.
Some suggestions:
I just worry to much, you know that better than anyone.
- too much
Do you know how I remembered to come back today? After thousands of years of not really thinking about it?
- weren't that only "Two thousand years in the future,"?
Maybe: "After hundredths..."
And there's a few Sparkles running around,
- not a fan of sloppy grammar from Twilight: "there are"
"Are you really that old?"
I can just imagine the involuntary cringe/eye twitch happening there
5976814
Candence being linked with Love, and Twilight being linked with Magic is a great idea. As long as there is love, and magic, those 2 will live.
My personal headcanon is that Celestia's heart beats in time with the expansion and contraction of her Sun. That is, after billions of years when it's burned up all it's hydrogen and shrinks down enough to ignite the helium fuel causing it to expand outwards again until it's out of helium fuel and contracts again and again etc, until one day, after 100's of billions of years, the sun will finally change into a white dwarf, where she'll die, or at least continue on alive but as an immortal normal pony.
Luna on the other hand, A rock in space is pretty much gonna be a rock in space even during the heat death of the universe.
A tad short, but overall very nice. Chuckled to see that, in the end, Twilight has become an Apple. XD (EVERYONE eventually becomes an Apple... And THAT, my children, is how the world was conquered... It's harder to have war with someone when you're related to EVERYONE. Not impossible, of course, but harder. We just tend to forget that we're 32nd cousins with everyone else in the world. (Or something like that.))
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Except that if we're accepting non-show elements as canon, then the novels had her ascending before she met Shining. This is all academic, of course, and completely headcanon until it's on the screen, very much like (as with this story) Twilight having kids or dragons living for centuries.
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There may be a hundred other options.
Or not, since obviously some random mortal knows everything immortality and eternity could ever be about, as well as fundamental truths about the universe.
What im trying to say is (apart from not even mentioning the possibility of there being more than one immortal), is stating to know for absolute sure what immortality will entail when they have zero experience with it or data about it is only one thing, and thats arrogant.
Simple but nice story. I very much liked Spike's attitude here!
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You don't have to be a psychic, genius or immortal in order to figure out what immortality would be like. Especially since all immortality is, is an extension OF mortality. It isn't some special flip of a switch that fundamentally changes who you are or how you think. You still have mortal memories, preconceptions and have mortals around you.
People WILL die around you unless you can make them immortal as well.
Nothing CAN escape the birth and death of the universe because that's akin to saying a Goldfish can live outside its water bowl. The death of the universe is taking the fish out of water when you're in an infinite vacuum of nothing. There is no water, the fish can't breath, without the four fundamental forces keeping the energy that makes up the fish, together, it turns into nothing. To be immortal is to be undying, not being unable to be removed from existence.
And even then, the mortals around you WILL change. Time has stopped only for the immortal. With humans, humanity will grow, change and evolve into other offshoots and other species as technology grows and allows us to adapt.
And on the last, its still a mortal brain inside an immortal body. We know this for a fact, the brain cannot handle the stress, metal disorders would be rife. And when all the other creatures die on the planet and the immortal is alone, then they WILL go mad because humans have gone crazy from just being along for a year or two. We're social creatures, immortal or not. Without social contact we do, in fact, go crazy.
Let talk about other forms of immortality.
There are four.
The undying immortal.
The reborn immortal.
The eternal immortal.
And the parasite immortal.
Plain and simple. Undying is to be mortal made immortal, the mind and form cannot die. Reborn, no different than a Phoenix, mind is undying but body is reincarnated. Eternal, energy given consciousness/life when the universe was born and dies at its end, mind may die but body is eternal. Parasite, hijacks one life and moves onto the next, mind is undying but needs a host.
There is literally nothing else because there is nothing else possible as every other possible offshoot that can be imagined falls under these 4 categories.
Besides, you assuming that in order to even speculate what immortality is like, I'd have to be immortal is the equivalent to saying nobody has the right to say that a McDonald's burger isn't high class 4 star meal if they've never had high class 4 star food. So It may be a good idea to stop being so impudent.
5976939 What Meghan said was "Twilight Sparkle Won't Outlive her Friends" odd way to phrase it instead of saying she is not immortal, Not out living any of her friends can imply a few things:
1) She will die first thus not outliving any of them.
2) She will not out live them in the show as in the show will end before any of them die thus never answering the question.
3) They all are or will become immortal. My head canon is that rainbow power linked them all to twilight's life span and so they can't die of old age until twilight dies first (to like a villain or something) which goes back to #1 She dies first thus not outliving any of them.
5977051 The Dragons living for Centuries was confirmed in the episode dragonshy i think.
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Its also got to be considered that having one of the main characters significantly outlive the rest is incredibly morbid, even for a kids show.
And kids are not stupid. They grasp concepts like death rather easily at around age 10.
I actually had a younger cousin of mine, she's about 9 now, loves the show, ask me when she was watching the show on my phone during a family reunion I wanna say about a year ago, if Twilight was going to be like Celestia and Luna, and live for thousands of years without the rest of her friends. She knew exactly what she was talking about, she understood death's finality, but that was probably because she was old enough to know what was happening when our family had to attend our Grandfather's funeral.
Its not that far of a stretch to assume my experience is singular. Confirming Twilight essentially being immortal without her friends would send a bad message. Having the main six be immortal would be just as bad, because what about the CMC's? Applejack's family? Rarity's Family? Shining Armor and Cadence? Kids, the "target demographic" can understand death and many would no doubt understand that the mane six would be leaving a lot of their friends and families behind.
So maybe outlive can be more or less, a poor choice of words as well as a way of saying, "No, she's normal but Hasbro won't let me say that." or maybe even just saying she'll have a normal life span. Remember, this is the show that did Death as a topic by having Tank go into hibernation.
The anti-immortality blues fanfic :D
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Excuse me? What the hell are you taking about?
You've got some nerve accusing me of that. You'd better have some proof of this if you're going to come here and lie in my face.
After the episode Tanks for the memories I started to really wonder how well ponies are at handling personal tragedies. Truth to be told I already find both kind of immortality fics cliched bores at this point but i suppose that if you are going to create a cliche a positive one is better.
5977514 Oh, I took a moment to look at your profile. Besides the fact that you downvote just about everything you come across, I also found that comment you made on Rusty's blog about TSC.
Let me tell you something about TSC that is clearly beyond your mediocre comprehension of storytelling: Everything in that story is my idea. Each world visited is developed with the author of each world, emphasizing the aspects of their work that they want to show. Of course you don't see this because you're too butthurt that both Capn' Chrysallid and Rusty spent time working with me on a story as co-authors (google the meaning of that, please) instead of catering to your immediate needs.
Also, since it's lost to you, let me point out that TSC is not based on any other fanfics. It crosses over with them. There's a big difference.
You're the worst type of individual. Your comment history is simply antagonizing others with half-assed arguments. You choose TSC because it's a work I share with others, and you call it "stealing ideas". Listen, dimwit, some authors have come to me to share their ideas on how a crossover to TSC would work and we've gone from there.
You see, your attitude, and the ignorance you portray on your comments speaks about the quality of your opinion, which amounts to none. (BTW when replying, learn to reply instead of simply commenting.) You accuse me of stealing ideas of others because I simply had something to say about Twilight's immortality? That's moronic.
You accuse me of stealing because I co-author a story with others? You can't find a story like TSC anywhere else, dimwit. How's that for original? And you're going to tell me my modus operandi (do you know what that means, or did it sound fancy to you and you decided to spit the words along with the rest of your lack of comprehension), yet you can only bring up TSC as an example. Every single story I write is my own idea, even parodies.
So here's another idea: Shut the hell up until you learn to actually think before you speak. Another idea: grow up. And one last idea: keep your BS to yourself before accusing others of stuff they did not do.
5977552 You don't know the first thing about criticism if your history of bitching and complaining without offering any insight as to why you're doing it in a constructive manner is any indication.
And you believe what you want, honestly, I took offense at you accusing me of stealing. If you don't like my story that's your problem, but don't try and make me into something I'm not.
5977552 You are one very bigoted person. Just thought I'd put that out there. Oh and, all you are doing is being an ass. I've seen many a comment from you on stellar stories, so I know you are nothing more than yet another troll who does not understand the wonders of pastel colored ponies of adorableness.
Great story btw dear author. I don't know why but I really like stories that deal with Twilight and her Immortality.
-Sanity is overrated
Excellent story. As Ryuu succinctly put it, "so long as we remember, they live!"
5977356 The picture you posted was my reaction to Spike finishing with this:
Wait...Blueblood's worse than Tirek? So much that Tirek is considered a "friend"??
Yeah, I can head canon that!
Oh, btw, WandererD, you've got featured
Immortality isn't bad. Its just not meant for everyone.
this story answers question I have ben thinking about for a long time.
Harts Fire
how does the 4 princess survive with the passing of so nay friends and family.
so deep and so good just a wonderful story.
You.
I like you, Mister/Miss Author Person.
Fantastic story and an interesting twist on immortality blues. Imagine my surprise when this story wasn't a Schmaltzfest as fics within this genre are prone to becoming. I did tear up a tad when Princess Twilight explains that those ponies may be gone, but their influence still remains forever, but that was about it. And I'm usually a massive softie.
You've earned a like.