A read done by darksymphony777 which you can find here
Sometimes people wish for things. Rarely do those wishes come true, but today, one did. Charelz, an easily amused scientist with too much time on her hands, wished every day on a piece of paper with Twilight Sparkle's picture on it. Every day she wished for her to come to life and noted the results.
One day, it finally paid off and Twilight rose up out of the paper. Finally!
But a character is far more than just their appearance. You have to be very careful when filling in those missing details and try not to go outside the lines.
TheDriderPony helped iron out the description.
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I have prejudiced this story to be too existentially terrifying to read.
Im going to skip to the end and read backwards.
Nope, still too horror-terror-fying even when read backwards.
Thumbs up!
Cover looks neato. Link to the picture?
And there's the fundamental flaw with cloning, neural pathways are at the 'default' and memories don't travel with the cells. So because they never developed her sense of morality, she committed horrific atrocities. This was well made.
7056732 Found it and linked it to the image, but here you are anyways.
7056757 Spank you, Greenwall.
Huh. I liked this. It was like a mix of The Outer Limits and Ponies. Good job.
7057685 The what?
Creepy, scary, and terrifying.
I love it!
7057786 Oooh. Just what I intended.
That cover art.... Uuhh.... just sends chills up my spine....
7058128 That's what inspired me.
"Presented for your reading pleasure is the case of one Professor Charelz, a scientist whose life and profession were in the realm of that which we like to call reality and logic. Her comforts lie within this world's sound reasoning and her knowledge comes from her years of experimentation. Such was her latest attempt to create life through no other means then by shere power of will and wishes upon the printed image of a purple unicorn. Howeve, what she did not understand is that wishes can come true and that sometimes it is better to leave the unknown unexplored. For had she not done that she would have not entered The Psycho Zone"
*cue the music*
Yeah I know the jokes been overdone but seriously this really feels like an episode of the Rod Serling Twilight Zone. It really gives of that strange and unsettling vibe that only the good old black and white Twilight could give. Plus that ending really makes the feel complete as it is a grizly and frightening message that you got across.
I really like the dark scenario you have set up here. It really does make us question who are we and what really brought us here. It also imposes horrifying ideas such as amoral science and how far it can truly go. I too feel at times that modern day science is leaving behind basic etiquete just in the name of the so called progress while at the same time hurtibg the very ones they are trying to save. This work, through Twilights and Charelzs interaction, also shows us what we can become is also deterimental on how we were raised. If the ideas of a good moral compass arent implemented in a person since their choldhood they could see those ideas as nothing more than a nuisance and just another obstacle to overcome in the name of the glorious discovery.
Now the characters in this story really fascinate me. Its weird to say but Twilight was in a strange way in character here. Her thirst for knowledge, love of books and all the works were present only her morality was gone since she never learned it in the first place. Charelz is an interesting character as well as she represents to me a conscious scientist with a keen sense of morality but who too is at times blind to the fact that there are some things in this world that they should not tamper with.
Now I have to say that while you do use pieces of psychological horror in this work I would classify it as such. I would classify this more as an 'idea horror' meaning that its the idea of such an event happe.ing thaz trily terrifies us. While you could argue it still impacts our psyche I would say that this would be more accurate since the whole scenario is more based on the horror of the idea rather than the horror of the psyche.
All in all I really loved this piece of horror. As someone who wrote for two years just in this genre I can safel say that you have made a truly beautiful piece. Also now that I think about it I believe the better term for this would be situational horror but thats a talk for a different thing all together. While this is quite a departure from MOST of your work it is still a well thought out piece with a brilliant set up abd a creative and disturbing atmosphere. It was great and I really beliece that you would make even the late Mr Serling proud. Good job my delightful friend
7060652 Wow. Amazing how it all came from just seeing a drawing. How do you come up with comments like that? They're always extremely fun to read this way.
7061790 Truly the bes inspiration can come to us through such unconvential means. Besides, my comments are only good as the work it was about
7061805 I was actually thinking of makingthis a more light-hearted story and was having trouble getting through the idea of Twilight coming through paper.
7061856 I did get that feeling at times, but the set up really could work both ways. The way you went in the end is the more original one anyways, at least in my opinion (especially gien how enthusiastic Twilight was).The scene where Twi came out of the paper was really well played and it had some pretty good build up to it so i don't really know what can you add to it.
it's good, a little creepy but good.
i get that twilight coming out of paper won't have her memories but she may if she came off an image from a computer with that she would have some memory of the life she had from within the internet. would you agree.
7062676 She wasn't born without memories. She had none. If she came from the internet it still wouldn't work because it's still just a picture.
7062875 there goes that possibility, well back to the drawing board.
7063064 There's always a way to make it work. You just have to be creative. Sometimes, the artists thoughts can be imbued into their creation. Think about that.
7063070 yeah i got that, i also just need get over this pain of my mother.
ok, I read your story and I just had to comment. for a scientist the main character is kind of stupid. She spent like the entire story thinking that Twilight was somehow teleported from the mlp universe. I suspected what happened the moment twilight crawled out of that sheet of paper, came into being and couldn't even talk much less walk on her own. SHE IS NOT FROM EQUESTRIA DUMBASS, YOU BROUGHT AN ACTUAL CARTOON DRAWING TO LIFE and basically taught her to have no regard for another living thing in the name of science, GREAT JOB. Good luck being her next experiment. Needless to say I was hooked by your story, and basically found the whole thing kind of creepy. In all honesty though if I were in Charlez situation I would run from the room screaming. fucking cartoon characters popping up in front of me, what do you think this is, "who framed roger rabbit?" no thank you, you better get your purple flank back in my T.V set, before I throw your alicorn ass in the dip, lol.
7163115 It's precisely that reason that I wrote this story. I've actually seen stories of characters and other little comics where the characters pop out of something like this and it's the character from that reality. When I saw this drawing, the idea came to me.
I'm glad you liked it though. I'm so happy that this was a successful psychological horror story.
7163737 yeah, it's nice to have a story that actually explores how creepy this premise really is, instead of the whole light hearted MLP in the real world gimmick. Great job. Looking forward to more of your work.
7163906 I have plenty ready for you to read, and I'm currently writing Deer Me.
I'm still questioning whether I should return to Roborganics or not.
Totally deserves thousands of views and thumbs up. And to be featured.
7297698 Really? You think so? I did this as another attempt at psychological horror after a few botched attempts prior. I learned from American McGee.
"Those tossed in prisons may not always regret their actions, but trap them in their own minds and they will never escape this prison and suffer every day for it."
Note, I've not read this yet. But my god, that is the most disturbing coverart I've ever seen. (I have a fear of blank masks, and this some how resonatesvwith it.)
7332599 :D It's what inspired me.
Ok, I dont get creeped out much, but that story picture is utterly terrifying.
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I know, right? The artist did a pretty good job for what they wanted.
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The artist deserves a raise or something.