Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
"I'd still like to know why the shift occurs in one direction, but not the other."
"That's a problem for another day; besides, you said it yourself, this is just a social visit."
"Right... a social visit, involving a trans-dimensional portal and a meeting with a deiā"
"Twilight..."
Princess Twilight, now in the shape of a unicorn-aspect human, frowned at Sunset from across the lunch table. The rest of their friends, including her doppelganger, were seated at the same table, having conversations of their own (with a full mouth in the case of Rainbow Dash) as the two of them discussed things from their respective sides of the mirror. "Look, Sunset," she said. "I realize you don't like the word, but it's objectively what you are right now. Even if you didn't have a direct connection to this reality, you're still far more powerful that the vast majority of others, have some level of at least quasi-immortality, andāwhether you want them or notāa group that worships you; you are a deity, Sunset."
"I know..." Sunset groaned, her head coming down to meet the table with a dull 'THUNK'. "Just... I don't like to think to hard on it; I'm trying to stay grounded." She eventually brought her arms up to rest her head on them. "Can't we talk about something else?"
Twilight still frowned, but eventually sighed and decided to honor her friend's request. "Well, if we can't talk about that, and you don't want to talk about magic... there is one thing that's been bothering me about this world."
Sunset glanced toward the rest of their friends, who were all doing a remarkable job of pretending they weren't listening now. "Well, I'm hardly an expert, but I guess it's better than nothing."
Twilight hesitated. "Well... it's like back in Equestria, only... there, there's a reason for it, given... well, the dominant species and all, but here... it... well, it's sorta..." She groaned. "Why are there so many naming conventions that seem to relate back to ponies?"
The entire table blinked.
"Or... I suppose you call them... 'horses', but..."
Sunset took over. "That word is spelled with a 'W' back in Equestria," she explained to the other group. It wasn't long before the light of understand sparkled in their eyes, and an uncomfortable silence followed. "But... now that you mentioned it, I never really noticed before, but you're right, it is a littleā"
"It's because of Glitterhoof."
Sunset and Princess Twilight both looked toward Pinkie Pie. "Glitterhoof?"
"Yeppers!" The Party Girl smiled. "Waaaaaaaaaaaay back when Scandaneighvia was still called 'Norway', there was this horse that showed up right when the king was having a tough time. He had these really sparkly hooves, and everyone started referring to him as Glitterhoof; the king took a liking to him and started riding him into battle and almost always won when he did. When the king got old, he ended up naming the horse as his heir, since him and his sons didn't get along."
Princess Twilight's face grew entirely deadpan. "You're making this up..."
"Nah, she's tellin' the truth." Rainbow Dash finally managed to swallow the mess of food she'd been chowing down on. "It's the one part of history class I paid attention to. Glitterhoof was crowned after the king died, and the sons started a rebellion. They would have probably killed the horse and taken the crown back, if the king's general hadn't decided that even a horse would make a better king than any of them and started riding Glitterhoof into battle himself.
"The sons weren't all that smart, so their rebellion didn't last more than a few years. And, by then, Glitterhoof had kinda endeared himself to most people, meaning that more and more of them were okay with having a horse for a ruler and a few towns even started changing their names to some sort of horse-pun. Plus... well, he had a lot of really strange luck while he reigned. Pretty much everything seemed to go right for his country; good weather, good crop yields, and the citizens generally prospered. It got to the point that, when Glitterhoof died, they actually crowned a colt he'd sired as the next king."
Twilight and Sunset both openly gaped as Rainbow Dash, of all people, started to explain about how this horse-run kingdom went on to, mostly out of luck and the 'king's' court using some creative politics, ended up encompassing a good portion of the world, complete with their horse-themed naming conventions for both towns and (later) citizens. To the point that, even when it finally fell, the naming conventions stuck around to the modern day. By the end of it, both of them could only stare dumbly for several minutes.
"This..." Sunset finally started. "This is a joke... it has to be a joke."
The human Twilight gave Sunset an incredulous look. "You've lived here for years, and you never learned the history?"
"It was never a huge priority. I usually just stole answer keys to pass most of my tests back when I was... less nice."
Princess Twilight's mouth worked for another moment, before she finally managed to speak once more. "I... you... how do you know this much about it?" She pointed a fist at Rainbow Dash, forgetting about her fingers for a moment.
Rainbow Dash just smirked. "Cause I'm named after one of Glitterhoof's successors, duh!"
Inspired by this fascinating game of Crusader Kings 2. I'm not saying this is canon... but I'm not saying it isn't.
Also, by this point, the universe has stabilized to the point where pony Twilight can come visit. Call it about a year later.
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Wouldn't it be 'dominant' species?
That is an amazing explanation.
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It is now.
I approve of this canon.
Was that a Crusader Kings II reference?
I just figured they were in an area known for horse breeding, races, etc
Headcanon excepted.
Except no? Because the Cutie Mark Crusaders had a song about 'hearts as strong as horses', the word 'horse' has come up numerous times in canon...
In short, don't insert things that are not only a stretch but are directly contradicted by canon when they're unnecessary to begin with.
Doesn't feature. Sunset's smarter than that. She'd have spent her entire first year in the human world obsessively studying in order to fit in without question.
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Indeed. There's a link to the specific playthrough in the author's note.
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This sort of loose canonicity is what Group Precipitation is for. It's an experimental area, and not all experiments pan out precisely as intended. (Though you definitely have a point about the "whorse" thing, especially if used around Saddle Arabians.)
As for Sunset fitting in without question, how often does international history come up in the average conversation?
Remember this, Twilight and Sunset: Real history is always far, far stranger, more improbable and less plausible than even the most far-fetched of fiction!
This chapter was amazing. Especially the part where RD was named for one of his successors.
Long live the Holy Roamin Empress, Rainbow Dash!
This leads me to suspect one of two things, and I cannot decide what is worse.
Either every member of The Church of the Divine Bacon Whorse is deliberately insulting Sunset...
... Or they're giving her flowers and hoping to get lucky.
Is this a reference to Crusader Kings 2?
7701973 Or none of them are aware of that detail? I mean, every member of the CotDBH is native to the human world, and if Sunset had to explain it to her close friends, why should anyone else know?
"Whorse" is counter to canon, I feel I must noteā¦as, in S1E21 "Over a Barrel", nobody bats an eye at horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages.
Aw yis. When they said "Glitterhoof" I immediately knew where this was going.
This Has got to be the funniest mental image I've had today!
Everything I just read makes me want to shove giorno in there so he can send the universe back to zero and kill glitterhoof just to stop whatever the fuck just happened
I, I want to steal this. I want to steal all of this as the backstory for any EQG settings I may play with.