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Really quite a long time after the changeling invasion of Canterlot, Fluttershy has something she wants to finally discuss with Princess Twilight.
What started out as a parody, jumping onto the latest meme train, turned into something cute that I actually liked enough to publish.
I'm sure you're thinking "Not another one of those damn things!" That's fair, but I still think it's fun and enjoyable.
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awww i want more X3
And here's another one.
This got a D´aaaw out of me in the end.^^
wut?
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Yeah, me too, kind of. It was actually an exercise in self-control that I ended it where I did. I like the place it ended at a lot, though there are also several things I didn't do in the fic that I thought were good ideas. Twilight could have remembered how Fluttershy's cutie mark changed when she became Flutterbat, which would make sense if she were a changeling. In fact, the whole Flutterbat incident would make more sense to Twilight with this revelation. I also didn't delve into the question of "Is this still the original Fluttershy? Was she replaced recently?" because I wanted Twilight to trust her without questioning things, though the ending at one point did have some extra dialogue where the two of them were talking about that as they walked to the Cutie Map. It felt like that would BEG for continuation even more, though.
Anyway, sometimes we want more and don't get it. I think this is one of those times.
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Yep! Sorry, not sorry!
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Glad you liked it.
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Exactly.
6495087 when i mean more, i mean more on this universe, like meeting the parents, would shy's mom be Chrysalis if so would Twi have to meet Chrysalis as someone who's meeting Shy's mom and not as Chrysalis enemy also Chrysalis would be meeting Twi as her daughter's mere friend, stuff like that
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Oh, I get it! Hah! I could see that meeting being very interesting, yes. It feels like side stuff would become rather interesting, actually. Like, if the relationship really takes off and they get married, what would the wedding be like? I could see it now, Twilight's parents and Princess Celestia ask Twilight if she'd consider having her wedding in Canterlot, and then Shy's parents and other family show up and the whole city freaks out because it's yet another princess having yet another Canterlot wedding that's being YET AGAIN invaded by freaking changelings! Except this time they're passing out gifts to the couple? Weirdest invasion ever...
6495250 lol you could also have it that Shining is trying to find things that prove that Shy is evil but Shy keeps doing the kindest of things and it's driving him up the wall
Very cute story. I approve!
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Thank you! Also, I love your avatar.
...What.
Not a question. Not asking anything. It's a statement, and I'll say it again.
What.
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Best reaction.
“We’ve been friends for a long time, now, Twilight.”
“Well, for a year.”
And that show just why that's stupid.
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What do you mean? I don't understand the last sentence there.
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The whole "one year" thing.
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Ah, I take it you're saying that "the idea that they've only gone through a single year is stupid." - which I actually disagree with.
The lines you quoted, though, were drawing attention to that fact, but also were in reference to a fun back-and-forth me, another fan, and Big Jim Miller had on twitter the other day. This other guy asked Jim how much time had passed from S1 to S5 in-universe, and the speed with which Jim responded impressed me. His answer, mind-blowing.
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BOOM! We're all guilty of thinking like Earthlings. I suppose it was the natural frame of reference for us.
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Thanks for making me more depressed.
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I'm here to help.
6496350 Is it really?
I'm not really seeing what this version brings to the table compared to the original except some rather boring and by the numbers shipping.
If that was the point, 'story X, but with mares kissing,' you could have really taken it to some far more interesting places and distinguished this version more.
Heck, have the reason Fluttershy is so cripplingly shy and her pony form is such an in-universe bomb-shell be that her true form is the ugliest changeling that ever lived and she knows it.
You could even go the Princess What's-Her-Name from the Earthworm Jim series route and have her changeling form be hideously malformed by changeling standards, but even more beautiful by pony standards then 'normal' Fluttershy. That way you could have made tons of jokes and gotten some world building in and given this a twist of your own.
There's the seeds of an interesting twist here. This could have worked.
But as is? I'm sorry, but this just feels like a really bland and uninspired bandwagon jump.
Honestly, I can't see Fluttershy as a Changeling. Rainbow Dash seems more like the type. Seeking adoration with her tricks, brash and defensive when confronted. I could honestly see her as a Changeling who defected from the hive.
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I think that's pretty much it. It's not meant to be deep and novel, it's meant to be quick, silly, and cute. The entire concept originally was "Twilight misunderstands what Fluttershy is trying to say, overthinks, and blurts shit out". As I wrote it, the shit became shipping. Seemed like a weird angle to take it.
I don't think I would want to make it any deeper, though I did write 1k or so words of drama as BloodNekoFox suggested. No idea if I'll go for a sequel.
In the end, I think the more interesting story happens after this scene, and that's basically what you're saying, too.
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Sounds like you have a pretty secure and possibly narrow view of "how a changeling is" when even in the show, we only saw an invasion force fighting. I prefer to think there's all types. Have you read"A Blessing in Disguise"? It's in the feature box right now, and just about the cutest, quirkiest changeling story I've ever seen.
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Sure! You mangled a word just for me. You know how hard it is to think of "what" by itself and not to infer a question? More difficult than I had thought!
6498453 It's not that hard. Just don't add the inflection at the end.
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No no, like seriously, even if I just say "what" flatly, no inflection, my brain automatically assumes a question. It's so habitual. Even if the question is just "what happened?" "What am I looking at?" Or "what did I just read?". Or even just "So what?"
It's "what" being alone that does it, I think. Interesting word-brain play.
6498524 Have you ever seen something so bizarre, so odd, so strange, that brain just cannot comprehend it? It wants to say something. It tries. It fails. It thinks of a question, but also wants to make a statement. Think if you saw an elephant splitting a cougar in half while snorting crack cocaine. You'd see that, and then...
What.
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Sorry to reply to you again, but I typed that last one up on my phone while lying in bed after having just woken up, so it might not be the most eloquent.
I agree it's a quick story with the most basic of premises. As I said, the orinal idea was to have Twilight awkwardly blurt shit out, and that would provide the comedy, alongside some awkwardness. In the original writeup, I didn't even have the story end with the shipping angle. Twilight was squirming for the entire story, not wanting Fluttershy to confess to her because it would be super weird since she didn't feel the same way. Then I wrote a little twist at the end, it just came out, that Twilight admits she wasn't exactly straight, but wasn't sure if she was interested in Fluttershy per se. That eventually evolved into Twilight being interested in her, and the inner conflict turned into her being shy, lacking confidence by thinking it was someone else, etc...
Fluttershy being a changeling isn't the story, here. Twilight and Fluttershy being socially inept is. I've tried to lampoon the entire philisophical debate aspect from the original fic and make it something completely different. Fluttershy being a changeling matters very little, actually, which is what Twilight tells her in so many words. The title of the story is "Some things matter more than others" because what really mattered to Twilight, and what ends up mattering to Fluttershy, is friendship and the way they feel about each other.
I want to note that you suggested possibilities are very interesting, but...
That is a very cool idea, I admit it, but not the focus I was going for.
I love Earthworm Jim, used to watch it all the time as a kid. This is a novel idea, for sure. I love the idea of differing standards of beauty.
There are, indeed, but that's seeds that exist within the very concept of Fluttershy coming to Twilight with the question she did in the original fic this is inspired by. Even more interesting twists are possible when you tkae the story and make it a certainty that she's a changeling. However, that's not the direction I went here, not what I was going for.
I will close with this. The second-to-last draft I did of this story had a much longer and more involved ending that had all of the mane 6 in it. I'll quote some stuff below, though in the end, I decided to leave it more open-ended, leave it to just having Twilight and Fluttershy as characters, and leave it as simple and short as could be.
Correct. Along with several other four letter words and varying degrees of "Are you freaking kidding me?"
Seriously. This bandwagon needs to die. I'd say "it needs to die a slow, painful death", but "slow and painful" describe what it's been like on fimfic with all of these fics lately.
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Dank maymays don't die at our bidding!
Especially when the premise is so much fun.
You're right. Some things don't matter at all, and thank you for reminding everyone of that.
Best "would it matter?" story to date.
I think Fluttershy already knew that part. The best thing about love confessions for a changeling? You already know if the other pony shares your feelings.
6497032 Thank you. My fan-rage over that has been appeased. That's actually a truly brilliant way of deflecting the "how much time passed?" issue.
I have seen every type of would it matter if I was a changling exept the one where fluttershy tells twilight to which twilight replies she already knew and then chrysalis comes in telling twilight she is out of _________ in the kitchen. Twilight replies with she will get spike to pick some up later.
Okay, the ending was funny. :D
I reviewed this story!
My review can be found here.
6506613
Cool beans!
I found the part where Twilight was talking over Fluttershy and leaping to conclusions somewhat funny but it rather fell apart after that.
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"Would it matter if I picked up a bag of chips at the store, too? We're out of snacks and its movie night."
Coming soon.
Or not.
6506933 You know that would be a funny situation right?
Fluttershy is gay AND a changeling?
I'm liking this AU.Daaaw...
A sweet piece of fluff.
Is she gay or a changeling?
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Hey, I'm looking back on this story, it's really great! It's entered The Devious Writer's Picks in the group: Would it Matter if I Made This Group?
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Glad you liked my little fluffy contribution. I am working on a sequel to it as a side project, titled "Would it Matter if Your Family Hated Me?"
6547415 Dat title. I await with bated breath!
6547415 That awkward moment when I forgot to actually add it.
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I had assumed you'd asked yourself "Would it matter if I added it?" and decided on "No."
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6497032 6496963 That's a great way of reconciling the two chronologies, actually: Season 1 to Season 4 is one year, but an Equestrian year is three or four times as long as an Earth year. And given that Celestia controls the sun, that could easily be the case.
Hey, for all we know, she could've delayed the next Summer Sun Celebration until Luna was ready to celebrate it with her.
aaaawww and lol