Day 31.
I should probably have started this journal earlier, but I didn't have the manual dexterity to work a pen until now.
Though I suppose manual dexterity is not exactly the right word... and now that I think about it, pen is exactly the right word. As in a literal pen. As in made from a feather.
Now that took some getting used to, but honestly? Compared to the rest, not really.
My name is Blank Page. Or at least that's the name I received here. Because I am not 'actually' a pony.
Yeah, yeah, don't believe me. See if I care. Then why are you reading this anyway?
But my doctor recommended that I started writing down my experiences, something about it helping my mental state.
Whatever. My mental state is completely normal for my situation and for what I really am.
What am I really?
Funny you should ask. Human. Yeah, I'm not surprised you've never heard of it. Bipedal naked omnivores with an affinity for building stuff.
Not that I am any more... but I really should start from the beginning, shouldn't I?
I was found in a crater filled with some kind of crystals and brought into the hospital about a month ago. Everyone thought I had been in some kind of magical accident.. until I woke up that is...
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Ouch. I slowly stirred awake. Fuck my head was hurting.
Shifting I groaned. No, I was wrong. It was not my head that was hurting... it was my everything. What the...
Oh.
Last thing I remember was being out for a walk when a thunderstorm rolled in. Was I hit by lightning?
Holy crap. If that's not a sign the universe hate you, I don't know what is. Forcing my eyes open, I looked up at the white ceiling. Yep... combined with the smell, I knew exactly where I was.
Hospital. Somebody must have found me.
I blinked up at the ceiling. Wait... why is it in focus? I wasn't wearing my glasses.
Reaching up to touch my face I saw my wrist. No hand and it was covered with light brown fur.
I stared at it for a long moment before I screamed in terror, looking at my other hand. No hand.
My volume redoubled and the door slammed open to reveal a quadruped pink creature with a horn on its forehead, large eyes and long white hair.
I stared at it and then screamed again, scrambling off the bed to get away.
She screamed and ran out as I managed to get all four legs beneath me and ran straight into the wall.
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Well, let's just say my reaction was a pretty big clue I was not actually a pony. When they were finally able to calm me down and get my story, there was much poking, prodding and scanning with magical doohickeys.
Now in retrospect though, I'm surprised that they believed me... or at least believed me enough to check out my story.
Back home I would have been pumped full of drugs and stuck in a padded room. Not that that would help me.
I used to be a human with brown hair. Now I was a brown unicorn stallion with darker brown mane... and a piece of half rolled out white paper on my arse. Flank.
Yes, yes, you know all about 'cutiemarks'(and is that not the unmaniliest word in the world?), but this is for 'my mental benefit' so fuck off.
Honestly, I really rather dislike the concept of these 'cutiemarks'. It's like every human, sometime during puberty, gets a trampstamp that tells the entire world something that they are extra good at.
Seriously, who picks these!? Why do they usually match up to peoples names?
Mine I understand, I got the name from the mark, but most people... sorry, ponies... get their names first!
What in the fuck!
And that's another thing. First time I swore, I thought my nurse's head would explode from how red she got.
No seriously, considering she was covered with green fur, having a visible blush was kind of impressive on its own. At least before I realized the fur itself also changed color.
These people.. ponies damn it... apparently have a lot less cursing going on.
So... reader's discretion is advised?
Maybe I should have put that at the front of this thing. Meh, fuck it, not like anyone will be reading this anyway.
I have been rambling along for long enough now and my horn aches. Another reason for this, apparently this will train up my 'magical muscle' but that has to be enough for today. I'll get back to this when I can be arsed(Flanked? No, that can't be right).
Page signing out.
PS: HOW CAN I HAVE A HEADACHE THAT'S OUTSIDE MY ACTUAL HEAD!??
Nice beginning. Although (for me, anyway,) there is a bit too much cursing. But as it is your first story, well, lets just say it is doing WAY better than mine!
Also:
More cursing!!!
WHOA WHOA WHOA!
I gave him a dark mahogany mane with brown coat!!!
I got it wrong!!!!
Crap does that mean I need to redo it?
Why is it that everytime there's a human in Equestria, (s)he just happens to have a potty mouth!? Is it because, without some profanity, Equstria is just too innocent, perhaps? I swear, Blank Page might as well have come from Avenue Q! At least in that show, "you can be as loud as the hell you want when your making love". Also, we learn what the internet is for :-D
Oh well. At least the character's name isn't "Anon".
How about this?
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6418458 I know. Anon isn't too bad of a name, but it seems to be used everywhere.
6673638 holy crap does that actually exist lol
What he's talking about is called a 'quill', not a 'pen'.
Now in retrospect though, I'm surprised that they believed me... or at least believed me enough to check out my story.
Just started reading, and I have to say I love this line. It always bugs me in HiE stories how so often the ponies automatically disbelieve the person when they say they've been transformed. Now on Earth, of course this would get you labeled a lunatic, because Earth does not have transformation magic. In Equestria transformation magic is a known phenomenon, and you'd think the very first thing doctors encountering a patient who claims to have been transformed would do would be to check if they had actually been transformed.
6673638 No, getting struck by lightning the amount of times you are old, the picture happening on your birthday, then when you die you get stuck in Morg City during the events of S.O.E.
None the previously mentioned has happened to me nor anyone I know
You have my attention!
I think I'm going to like this guy...
ROFLMAO!!
I really have to LOL at that statement.
I have to post again. I'm not as put off at the language as I should be.
I guess it's because when I get mad, I can make a drunken sailor blush with all the manure that comes out of my mouth. About the only swear word I don't use is taking the Lord's name in vain; everything else, more than I should.
Still, I sometimes get bothered by seeing the words written; that statement makes no sense at all.
6872048 I would love to challenge you to a swear off. I follow the same rules, inregards to not taking the Lord's name in vain, but everything else; fair game.
SWEET MOTHER OF RAMBLINGS! THIS MAN HAS ACCENDED TO GOD TEIR RAMBLING! It's beautiful!
Sytems rebooting....
Commencing re-read of material...
....
Third story coming out. Time for reread.
7279874 Eeyup
Y'know, this isn't really the case anymore, most places. A man who sincerely believes he is an alien from another dimension, but who recognizes and accepts his current situation, is not a danger to himself or anyone else, and will (with, perhaps, some education and/or physical therapy) be able to live more or less normally. Serious medical establishments are more concerned with your ability to function than with your beliefs.
Wow, this is all kinds of funny. I like is opening.
I refuse to say it, nope nope no. We're going with 'marks' and that's as far as we're going.
I hope it is changing the perspective a bit, I mean like it would just happen.
seems cool so far :P
Exceptionally written, very nice transitions of 'perspectives'. I wanna take notes.
Tis beautiful.
Very good start love it and no mistakes from what I can tell can't wait to read more
Alright Hiver, i have read this before, all through of it, and now i find that you have another sequel to the third installation -which is what i thought was the end and remember reading last- of Blank Page's journey so i am going all the way back to his unicorn days. So... cheers then on the way to the road to that cover photo of your new sequel alicorn blank page talking with sunsest shimmer and Sparklebutt
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Yay, spoilers.
You know, "A" Grogar once referred to cutiemarks as Destiny's Brand. depending on the world this can prove quite apt.
As to the names, I've always held a thought that Equestrian Parents experience a moment of oracular insight when they name their child. The whole plane's thick with magic anyway, what's a bit of cradleside prophecy in the grand scheme of things? Would explain how ponies end up with names like Spoiled Rich...
Come back to read this after forgetting it in my read later shelf...
3 years later whoops.
One chapter down, and now I remember why it got there in the first place.
For some reason his journal entries use better grammar than his normal text.
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Yes. It's magic, so we ain't gotta explain shit.
"Off the Mark" was the not yet and hopefully not soon finished story that lead me here. Lets see how interessting this one get. Nice start btw.
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If I ever have to say it I'm saying Marks, I agree with you, and IF I ever go to Ponyland they can go jump off of da moon I'm saying mark, PS death to pony racist shit
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Right you are,
I'm an attack helicopter"I got this here Destiny tattoo when I was in prison." He said in a deep growling voice.
Ironically enough, I found this series of stories while looking for terminator crossovers...
... I’m not disappointed.
Love it already
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Same! Though more than three meager years!
Usually I stay away from most of these human/ponies fics, but this came highly recommended.
Lol ok I'm interested, also I'm pretty sure most would react the same way as him to being suddenly a pony. At least he didn't switch genders too, that seems to be a trend in the human in Equestria stories I've read recently
That is a good question
10182010
Apparently people just like to imagine themselves suffer
Urgh, so I've seen last one in the series in the recommended section, and after long and ardorous process of following prequel links here I am!
And I definitely saw quote about building omnivores somewhere in the comments of another story, so it's kinda doubly recommended now.
But yeah, so far so good : ) looking forward to the long journey ahead : )
Would 'Magic Tramp Stamps' be better?
Time to re-read this beautyful series once more
I think this is the 15 time or so
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The answer is called a sibling.
This has been in my to read section for the past 8 months...and now I'm just now getting to it. Oh well, let's see how it goes from here.
How in all the fucks have I not read this yet? So far it feels like the sort of thing I'm going to love.
This is funny.
And now, for the insanity.