The girls have graduated from Canterlot High School, their friendship strong as ever, and they followed their hearts' desires.
Pinkie Pie was not as lucky, though. While she did become a successful party organizer, she also has to share her life with a shadowy underworld that can threaten everything she holds dear.
But even in that underworld, she laughs. That's what she always does. Although if someone were to hear that laughter, they wouldn't laugh in return.
Why?
...they would be unable to.
As her friends are in danger from the bandits who hope to intimidate her family into submission through them, Pinkie reflects on this side of her life, the... other kind of laughter. And she worries that because of that laughter, she may lose connection to her Element of Harmony.
Written for "F*** THIS PROMPT #10" contest. Rated "Teen" for some swearing and gore and "Dark" for dark themes.
At around 2:03, hip firing a minigun with everyone's favorite pretend Russian.
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Methinks that he either used ammo with less gunpowder or tinkered with gun for a lesser rate of fire.
7023067 In the case of .223 miniguns, the weight of the gun counters recoil and it's quite usable by someone less than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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If you are talking about XM214, which does have .223 caliber, with the drive motor and feeder, it's still circa 16.3 kg. We have lasertag guns that are converted from retired AK-74 assault rifles and they still weigh 3 kg approximately. I am not really weak, although not really athletic either, but running and gunning for 2 hours straight with 3 kg of steel is murder on arms. Hell, the arms get sore after 1 hour already. And you're giving me this pic? I am tempted to call BS and say it's not a real XM214, but a modification with some things done to reduce weight to acceptable levels. Also, this girl shows a replica of the gun, those are not the same things as real guns usually.
Oh, wait, if the Internet Movie Firearms is to be believed, it's not an XM214, and they used blank rounds.
Also, this:
Kinda very impractical infantry weapon. Only Pinkie Pie can use such a weapon. Why? Because screw the laws of physics, she is Pinkie Pie.
7024008 Hmm. I wasn't planning to go into depth about that, but I believe that the gun I was speaking about was the XM216 Microgun, not the XM216 Minigun. It has about the same mass as the M60 Light Machine Gun, and that was used to some extent as a one man portable weapon system (with bipod when it got too heavy to carry or cover was sought) in Korea and Vietnam. Besides, I didn't say it was practical and neither did the US Military. I just said you didn't have to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to use one. If I implied you could use it all day like an assault rifle, well that wasn't my intent either.
I thought that you did a good job on the story, it was enjoyable. You did a really goo job in characterising Pinkie, I could here her voice say everyline that you had written.
-Frost
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Thanks for the comment
A little secret: Pinkie was sitting in my head while I was writing this story
Ok...that happened.
One thing,
Isn't "Ewww" a sound of disconsent?
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Yes, it is. Note the contrast that Pinkie puts between the usual laughter and "other" laughter, and remember how she compared laughters to cakes.
Also, this is a reference.
Not to be mean, but you could have cut the first quarter of the story and lose nothing but gain a lot. There is no need to for so much info/backstory. You practically started your story with a two-page summary of Equestrians girls. That made me lose any interest I had from the description and didn't want to read any more. You're writing on a site for pony fans, not newbies, so there is no reason for that.
And never use emoticons in stories! *grabs rolled up newspaper* No! Bad!
On the positive, from what I've read, good job writing Pinkie.
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Thanks for the criticism
Yeah, I never wanted to write that stuff in the first place; the story originally starrted with words "I like laughter". But when I submitted the fic for the first time, the moderators failed it:
Back then, I haven't found a better way than to do a first-person flashback by Pinkie; on the other hand, it also allowed me to add some other elements to the story, and I decided to keep it, for good or ill. Yep, there could have been a better way, but I wasn't able to think of it; my bad.
*dodges*
I was thinking of the recent Deadpool movie when writing this and borrowed some of its hooliganism, sue me
But seriously, why is there an option to add emoticons in first place?
Thanks!
I've never written Pinkie before, and honestly, I don't really find her easy to write, but I will have to later, for other stories. So I've decided to practice.