Twilight groaned as she stirred awake, and decided based on her aching head that today could go to the birds. She grumbled to herself and rolled over.
That was when someone threw open the curtains of her room and let in the unholy abomination that was sunlight, a beam of which went straight for her eyes. She yelped and tried to twist away, only to get tangled up in her blankets and take a tumble to the floor next to her bed.
She heard a snort. “Wow, she certainly isn’t a morning person, is she?”
Twilight’s eyes snapped open. She did not recognize that voice. Sitting up quickly, she turned and found Princesses Celestia and Luna standing in her room, with what could only be a human standing between them.
A familiar looking human.
Wait…
“It was you!” she exclaimed, pointing at the human. “You showed me how to escape the Dream Realm!”
Luna glanced at the human. “I was wondering about that actually. What brought you to the Dream Realms specifically?”
The human shrugged. “I arrived in your room just in time to hear the explanation Celestia gave to that group of people. I decided to help out.”
“And her status has nothing to do with it?”
“I didn’t actually know it was her until we got here,” he pointed out.
Luna scoffed. “I’m well aware you can sense them. How could you have not known?”
“The Dream Realm messes with my magical senses, as you well know.”
“Who are you?” Twilight asked, deciding to intervene before the argument turn violent.
The man stepped forward with a grin. “Harry Potter. Also known as the Aspect of Magic, Aspect of Death, and Champion of both Love and Time.”
Twilight’s eyes widened. “Wait, Luna mentioned you to me once. She said something about… Avatar’s?”
Harry nodded. “What do you know about the Aspects?”
“Luna said that there are four, and that they play a pivotal role in the maintenance of Existence, which is basically everything that was, is, and will be. She also said that despite there being four Aspects, you embody two of them.”
Harry sighed. “Yeah. Still not entirely happy about that. At least when I was only Death I had equals. Now that I’m also Magic the other Aspects flat out bow to my whims.”
“Lord Death has never been comfortable with the fact that he is effectively the greatest authority in Existence,” Luna explained. “But getting back on track, the Aspects have what are known as Avatars, beings who do the work of the Aspects to help them in their duty. I, for example, am an Avatar of Death. I have a fraction of Lord Death’s authority over souls, and am also the only Avatar of Death within our universe. This makes me the… well, I suppose District Manager of the souls of our universe, where Lord Death would be the CEO.”
Twilight nodded. “I remember you saying that,” she said. “But… why is he here?” she asked, with a small amount of trepidation.
“You know what a Phoenix is?” Harry asked.
Twilight nodded. “Yes. A magical creature of fire and purity. While they lack the ability to communicate in the same way as us, they are still just as intelligent as us, if not more so. Princess Celestia has a Phoenix that…” she cringed. “Well, I made the mistake of assuming Philomena was her pet. I spent the next two weeks getting burned and slapped by wings for that. I’m well aware that they are friends and that Philomena is an advisor for the Princess now.”
Harry snorted. “To be fair, being a pet is a role lots of Phoenix’s take, usually to people, or ponies, who impress them. They become something akin to advisors.” He motioned to Celestia. “Celestia here impressed a still young Philomena with her drive to turn Equestria into a country of friendship and love. She’s been with the Princess since, giving advice where needed.”
“So Phoenix’s are tied to why you’re here?” Twilight asked. “Is Philomena okay?”
Harry smiled and nodded. “Philomena’s fine. I’m actually here at the request of the Phoenix Council, or more specifically one of their members. Fawkes, Philomena’s father, asked me to come here because I’m apparently needed for something here. And after seeing you, I would have to agree.”
“Me?” Twilight asked.
“You,” Harry agreed. “I have the power to see souls, and the moment I saw yours I knew I had to step in. It’s unstable.”
Twilight blinked. Then it clicked. “Wait, is that because I’m a Hero Soul?”
Harry also blinked. “Hero Soul?” he asked, turning to Celestia and Luna.
Luna nodded. “Throughout the history of Equestria, the souls of great heroes from all kinds of worlds have been reincarnated here with their memories and powers intact, usually to help fight some kind of calamity. Twilight and two of her friends are the most recent, and apparently there is a reality ending threat they are meant to fight.” She glanced at Harry. “I had assumed you played a part in the creation of such a system,” she explained.
Harry frowned. “No. If there’s one thing I don’t do it’s unnecessarily rip souls from the Afterlife and force them to fight. That reeks of classic Necromancy, and I’ve had to put down too many Blights to accept it.” He peered at Twilight closer, and Twilight suddenly felt as if she was utterly bare to him. It was slightly unnerving. “The souls of Clark Kent and Twilight Sparkle are blended on such a level that it could only have been a primary God that did this, maybe a Titan level God.”
He leaned back and sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose with his hand. “Unfortunately, the blending itself is too thorough to separate the souls without consequences.”
A knocking was heard at the door. “Enter,” Celestia called. A Royal Guard entered, paused at the sight of Harry, visibly rallied himself, and continued to Celestia. He whispered something in her ear before saluting and leaving. Celestia stood. “I apologize, I am needed elsewhere,” she said, leaving the room.
Luna frowned in thought, having a feeling she knew what the issue was.
“Will this kill me?” Twilight asked, slightly afraid. Finding out a procedure she thought was safe was actually not approved by the ultimate authority on souls kinda freaked her out, understandably.
Harry peered at her again, considering. Tentatively, he answered. “On its own…… no.”
“But…?” Twilight asking. She could hear it in his voice.
Harry frowned. “A big enough shock to your soul could, theoretically, completely destabilize you. Your mixed souls would break down into the material souls are made from, scatter across the universe to one day be reformed into a new soul, and the body left behind could become nothing more than a monster with no morals or ethics.”
Twilight was pale at hearing that. “Is… is there anything you can do?” she nearly begged.
Harry was silent for a time, then sighed. “There is, but it’s not something I do lightly. In fact, I’ve only ever done it once, and seen it done two other times.”
Luna frowned, wondering what could make ever Harry hesitate. Obviously it involved Twilight’s soul, but what escaped her.
“I can complete the blending.”
Twilight blinked. “Er… well, how would that affect me?” she asked.
Harry shrugged. “Normally, soul blending is only done to souls of the same people, if displaced by time and worlds. Compatibility is pretty much perfect, so there’s never an issue, but the souls of Twilight Sparkle and Clark Kent are not entirely compatible. Long time exposure to each other has innoculated them to each other to a certain degree, but I honestly have no idea if it’s enough.”
Harry leaned towards Twilight again, giving her an intense look. “On that note, I won’t force this on you. You are in no immediate danger to yourself or others, so I don’t feel I should step in like that. Sleep on the offer.”
“What will the result be? If it succeeds, I mean,” Twilight asked after a moment.
Harry scratched his chin in thought. “Well, with the usual blending the only real difference is that the souls become one. It doesn’t increase power, or grants insight into things either of you didn’t already know. It just takes two and turns it into one on a thorough level.” He looked at Twilight again. “You, however… Well, I can make some educated guesses, but that’s it. The risk your soul destabilizing will pretty much vanish, and you may find it easier to retain information as well as recall memories of both souls. Hell, you may even find using your Kryptonian abilities easier.”
Something occurred to Twilight and she frowned. “Wait… how do you know who my Hero Soul is?” She glanced at Luna in suspicion.
She did not expect the normally unflappable Alicorn of the night to snort before collapsing into a fit laughter and giggles. Even Harry was smirking.
He leaned back with that smirk still in place. “That’s actually a funny story. My brother took one look at you, turned green, and left this world with as much haste as he could. Considering he’s the Norse God of Thunder… He made quite a spectacle of himself.”
Twilight frowned harder. “How does that relate…? Wait, you have a brother? Wait! You’re brother is Thor?!” Twilight made rapid-fire statements as she made the connections.
Luna only laughed harder. Harry, noticing how this was making Twilight uncomfortable, waved a hand. The last Twilight saw of the Alicorn was the startled yelp Luna gave as magic twisted the space around her. Then she vanished in a flash of light.
After a moment, she reappeared, soaking wet and looking quite miserable. Luna looked furious. “What was that for?!” she demanded.
“You’re making Twilight uncomfortable,” Harry said seriously. “Either pack it in or take it outside. She just had a traumatic night.”
Luna glanced at Twilight, and felt unease at Twilight’s slightly frazzled appearance. Luna sighed, using her magic to pull the water from her body. “My apologies, Twilight Sparkle. It’s just that…” She snorted here, unable to contain a brief burst of amusement. “...just that Clark Kent did not comport himself quite as well as I had hoped an apprentice of my master would have. It was… what’s the word in this confounded modern language?” she frowned, before her eyes lit up. “Ah! It was hilarious!”
“Oh,” Twilight mumbled.
Harry grinned at the Alicorn and held up three fingers behind his back, where only she could see them. He counted down with them. Once the last digit folded, Twilight's eyes widened almost comically.
“Wait WHAT?! WHO?!”
Luna once again fell to hysterics.
Did this actually happen in the cannon? I have not read as many as comics to know every single details in every universes DC & Marvels came up with.
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Nope. In the few times Supes and Thor have met (Marvel's Thor, not DC's), they either fought to a standstill (thanks to Thor's magical nature and Mjolnir), or fought alongside each other as allies.
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No. This is completely fan made. I'm using content from another fan fiction writer's work. He gave blanket permission to do so, before you ask.
You do realize that if Fluttershy/Cap where ever made aware of their relationship she is going to want to see her old friend. Then again I am surprised that Thor didn't go see Fluttershy or that Luna didn't tell Harry. This is quite the unique snag you have here.
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The saga of Harry Potter, Bro of Kal-El Kent, son of one Xander Harris, and, if memory serves, replacement for Smallville version of Thor, whom became a cute little Thordis...
That said, I hope Lord Death won't complain to my solution to giving Steve-O and Kal-El Sparkle their powers Bach ..
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The Kal that ran away and is the Thunder God is from "Smallville", the thor he replaced is that one too, in fact, the replacement was because Harry let Marvel's Thor in...
BTW Sven, Thanks for recomendng the Series... it was nice to see what's the shape of Creation.. (Spoilers, it's Luna ing Lovegood)
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Supes replaced the Thor from his own world, not Marvel's world. He attacked Death, and thats a big no-no, so much so that ALL pantheons from ALL dimensions come down on whoever does it. That world still needed a god of thunder though, so Clark was given the gift by that world's Odin.
Wait a minute... if Harry is here because of Twilight's soul problem, why wouldn't he take a look at the other Mane6 too? I believe Rarity is, at the moment, in the dire situation than her.
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He hasn't yet because he simply doesn't know about it yet. Remember, until Twilight mentioned it, he didn't even know Hero Souls were a thing.
Fawkes is fond of sending him on his little missions with only the bare minimum of information, usually because that's when Harry does his best work.
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Ohhhhh after I'd said I'd thought Harley Quinn I mean sure she's an anti hero but can you think of a better match for pinkie but I like the reference
Though I'm unfamiliar with some of the stuff referenced (namely One Piece and the linked Fanfiction about Harry as Aspect of Death) I did find this series to be quite interesting. Just a question, are the other Hero Souls in the main 6 getting the same development? We spent quite a bit in Twilight's head getting to meet her "past" and how she processed the knowledge of her previous life, and while we got a bit of that with Fluttershy, we've barely got anything for Applejack (Rarity just happened so it's wait I see I guess).
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At first I thought it might've been a reference to Bubbles from PPG.
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Hero Souls is going to be a trilogy. This first book, Awakening, is just that. It's centered around the Mane 6 awakening their souls, with Twilight being the only one to get any real mental development on dealing with her status. Book Two, The Legacy of Erised, will be centered around the Mane 6 coming to terms with their Hero Souls and how to make the best use of them.
*sees that chapter tittle and asuming that rainbow dash has the soul of sonic* please for the love of god tell me you didnt give pinkie the soul of doctor strange...sweet mercifull heavens reality couldnt handel that! *reads the chapter*
oh okay safe then, no pink sorcerer suprems.
scared me for a minute there...still you broke your own lore a bit here
the whole point from word one was that clark kent and twilight sparkel were the same exact soul just reincarnated, there was no blending required they had always been one in the same just with clarks memories sealed
as such this makes no sense
if you were always going to have it be this way you should have at some point introduced something that would have lampshaded or foreshadowed this dicotomy mor heavily, droping it in now feels like a hard retcon and thats jaring to a reader, especialy someone whos binged the whole thing and has the entire story fresh in there mind
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...... That is an utterly terrifying idea.....
I love it! But no, Pinkie does not have the soul of Doctor Strange. Besides, I'm fairly certain the good doctor has some kind of defense against his soul being manipulated after death. On top of that, I've already pulled a character from the Marvel universe for a Hero Soul. I only do one soul per universe.
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i notice you didnt respond to the edited part of my comment, which was a bit of a nit pick ill admit and didnt detract from my enjoyment of htis
also i was gonna point out that you only listed 5 franchises to draw your main heros from so youd need to add a new one but you already did with slyity (aj should be the one to convince her to give it a rest, if aj can handel having the soul of a pirate, allbeeit one with a heart of gold, then rarity can handel haveing the racoon equivalent of robin hood inside of her)
also AJ in fourth gear mode....just saying, that would be fucking epic...
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oh and show spike some love, at least give him a minor hero's soul...if you wana keep with the trend of the souls being inverse gender from the charicters there bound to how about cynder? same species at least and lighting breath would be a cool thing for him to be able to do
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I actually didn't notice an edit. We aren't informed when you edit a response, only when you post the initial comment. I apologize for seemingly ignoring that.
The part about how I broke my own lore? I will confess that you are correct. Based on all currently available information, you are correct, I ignored my own lore. However, as the story is incomplete, I urge you to consider that the mechanic I "should have introduced at some point" may not have actually happened yet within the story. While the story is on Hiatus, it's not because I lack content. I simply don't have a lot of time to dedicate to writing at the moment.
Again, I apologize. It was not my intention to seemingly ignore you. And please, keep looking for plot holes. I accept constructive criticism eagerly.
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As for Spike, he will eventually get some love. I'm a huge fan of Spike being an actually helpful friend and assistant, rather than the bumbling sidekick he's usually portrayed as. Rest assured, this dragon will have his day. Just gotta slog through most of the first story first.
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Ever seen the sfm animation 'epic spike'
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You have to be mindful when introducing concepts and mechanics so they don't contradict this one can be explained away as being something that may have happened because Clark's incarceration was rushed and botched or that under God restricting Clark's powers having unforeseen consequences that only a greater deity like death could detect...so if harry is your 'infinity/, eternity who are your tribunal and one above all gonna be I wonder