"Steal The Heart, Free The Monster"
Hello! Oh! What's that? Oh I already knew I'm not always kind. I know I've lost my temper. Usually The Stare just comes and even a cockatrice can't resist. I don't like it, but I know I sometimes need it. The time at the Gala? I scared -me- that time! Can we, can we please not talk about that?
I still remember when I thought taking care of fillies would be the same as taking care of animals. I was so wrong and I'm not afraid to admit it.
Yes I was a model once, yes I know I could have used my fame for good causes, but I couldn't stand no privacy and being treated like a dress up doll. If I knew how Rarity really felt I'd have quit a lot sooner!
I also effectively kidnapped Celestia's pet bird wanting to nurse her back to health with no clue what kind of animal she really was and no idea she was a phoenix. Er, Philomena, not the Princess.
I fully admit those were my mistakes and no one else's. I'm glad that no one blames me for the parasprite disaster since I was kinda responsible for the whole thing.
Yes I DO love taking care of animals! It's what I live for! But it's not really just animals. They're just the ones who end up needing me the most often. I can't stand to see any living thing suffer. In particular my bunny friend Angel. There are times when my friends joke on who is taking care of who. I just smile and nod, I wonder sometimes too.
Angel and all the animals turn strange. A summons from the Princess.
Elements of Harmony Stolen. Into The Maze. MY WINGS! I TAKE BACK EVERY WISH I EVER MADE ABOUT WANTING TO BE AN EARTH PONY! I never thought I'd miss my wings so badly if they were gone . . .
Separated from the others. So Afraid. Butterflies! Not so scared now. The butterflies speak.
My friends would never abandon me. Not now. Not ever. Even when I was too terrified to move to face a dragon they didn't do the easy thing and discard me!
I know I'm 'weak and helpless' I don't -want- that kind of strength and I want to be a healer not a warrior! I know you can't always avoid fighting and those who do fight at those times are never really given a big choice, but I want to do my part healing others after the fighting's done and during the fighting!
I already know I'm not perfect and never will be, and if it's my -friends- saying where I come up short, then I know I can trust what they have to say and I can try to improve myself the right way!
DISCORD! And he's angry! Before he was acting like Pinkie Pie, but now it's like looking Gilda in the eyes again a hundred times over. I'd run if I thought it could do any good.
He just taps me on the head, but it feels like a fist though my brain! World spin the discord make. Jumbled are up thoughts. Wrong feelings feel! Thinks Ditzy Doo Wonder If I This How?
Things less jumbled, but more murky.
Iiiii, feeeeel, soooo, dizzzz-sey . . .
I hear Discord from somewhere.
'Time to be cruel?' That's the -opposite- of everything I've wanted to be! Why would I be that?
I think of Angel, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, all my friends, and I'm having trouble remembering what's important about them. Something's being taken! A thing of warmness turning to mist and falling apart in my hooves even as I try to hold it and figure out what it is. I can't find it. I feel empty.
And I feel something I've never felt before rushing in like water into a pit to fill the hole.
This feeling, its not anger, that's like fire inside. It's not fear, fear is like a snake coiling around me. This feeling, it's like ice. There's a calmness to it. A detachment. Like a protective wall of glass. Like what's going on with the others is something on a movie screen that has no real value to me, because it isn't directly effecting me.
I hear Twilight's voice. I snap back to reality.
I feel like something is missing. Oh well, couldn't have been that important if I can't figure out what. Took long enough for miss Goth Pony to finally get here.
I listen to Twilight bellyache about something or other. I don't have time for this, I give miss 'Mary Sue fix everything with magic I'm worthless without it' both barrels (whatever that means). Then I give her a quick tail to the face just for good measure to let her know I'm not in the mood to hear her whine. That shuts her up good. Good.
Pinkie Pie is in my way, I move her out my way. Applejack laughs. I don't care. Why should I? I take the lead. No one stops me. I can't believe I never have before. It feels so natural.
We march in silence. I remember earlier today. I can't believe I didn't laugh when I saw how all the animals grew giant legs. I can't believe I didn't tell Celestia what a lousy Princess she was for not keeping the Elements safe! I can't believe I just agreed to risk my hide for her rather than telling Princess-Queen-Does-Nothing to go get her property herself! I remember every time I've just smiled and nodded, like someone's doll. It's like these memories belong to a different pony, but I know it's me. Well THIS version of me is disgusted with THAT version of me!
The world is cruel, be unto the world as it is unto you. Living for others just turns you into a giant-sized hoofmat. Be selfish otherwise you're nothing. A person who lives only for others is just an empty shell, a puppet! And I'm no one's puppet!
To embody kindness is to be a stepping stone, to embody cruelty, is to be the stepper.
I've been kind for far too long, it's time to be cruel.
-FlutterCruel
Ah, the birth of Fluttercruel, one of my all time favorite characters.
This is awesome!
This chapter is my favourite so far! The change from Fluttershy to Fluttercruel was really written well.
I laughed at Pinkie's but, Flutters left me feeling cold inside, unhappy, and odd.
My only problem with this chapter is "World spin the discord make" bit. That whole paragraph was just What da fuck? Am I dyslexic or high?
So grammar is a slight issue, but overall well.
I'm noticing that Discord changing the ponies is written very, very well. May a bit too well
But this is actually a really great fic so far, and I can't wait to read more
Also: FLUTTERSHY, NO!!!
Yes, the Gala was, not exactly your shining moment, Sorry Fluttershy.
It's OK, you learned from your mistake.
You mean, not having any privacy, or having no privacy. To be fair, you were trying to be nice to Photo Finish.
That, would actually make an interesting fic, where the roles of the ponies and their pets are reversed, Philomena would be Princess.
It's OK, you never knew what the parasprite was.
*Vader voice* I find your kindness, admirable.
One too many spaces between PONY! and I. And between gone and the period. And it's OK Fluttershy, that's a common thing.
True.
At least you acknowledge it.
That is a good way of putting things.
It wouldn't make a difference I'm afraid, unless you had PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!
Wow, he really screwed her up in the head...
You wouldn't.
Oh dear.
*gulps*
That's an interesting way of putting it. and it's Affecting me, not Effecting.
How is she a goth?
She's not a Mary Sue, very powerful, yes, but she has strengths and weaknesses, like any balanced character.
I see.
Well, to be fair, she didn't expect Discord to be able to breach her vault...
I know that feeling...
Indeed?
Dem's, interesting words.
The world is cruel, yet so beautiful. Kindness knows that. After all Kindness and Cruelty walk hand in hand. More like share the same road, I guess.
Arrivederci!
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This won't be the last we've heard of Fluttercruel.
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Cruel to be kind eh?
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Thanks!
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest!
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Thanks! I hope the rest are cool too! Fluttershy was brute forced unlike the rest.
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You laughed at Pinkie Pie's?
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Actually, that was the point of the sentence, to show Fluttershy's disorientation.
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Have you read the rest yet? And yeah, I look back at these wonder at some of the places I took it.
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"Yes, the Gala was, not exactly your shining moment, Sorry Fluttershy."
She knows.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the series.
Her strength.
She has a hard time saying 'no.'
We learn Fluttershy dreams about that on occasion. (Given how Angel treats her like a servant sometimes).
Still makes her an unwitting instigator of doom. And Pinkie Pie implying parasprites had made her family miserable. Oh, and Rarity only rejected them when she saw how they reproduce... And she's fine with Spike burping almost constantly.
Yet Shy remains my least fav among the mane six. (Rarity is my fav.)
Fluttershy, a pegasus who won't fly, and Scootaloo, a pegasus who can't fly.
Shy was being a friggin' COWARD in that episode, and you have to wonder if it would have been better to just leave her behind rather than being a burden, but fate had other plans.
"She's scared of her own shadow!"
"It follows me!"
It's sickening how our entertainment values a character's worth almost purely on how much they can defend themselves in combat.
Agreed. You can trust a friend's word on where you need to improve.
And his living space ain't so tiny. (Have you seen Chaosville? That poor mail pony is still trapped in there seasons later!)
Happy that came across.
He did.
Hi, my name's Flowey.
Here it comes.
Thank you. And that's cruelty for you.
It's a joke on her darker colors and name. And anti-social attitude.
Again, a joke on how people often perceive her. Then comes Twilight's OCD.
It does for Fluttercruel.
And we still don't know how Discord did it.
Let's all be happy puppet together they'd say.
But is it worth it?
Echoing how Discord made her.
Get back to your garden Posey! And tell Fluttershy we need her at the royal hedge maze!
Hey, even white mages get Aero. Any good healer knows that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Oh so much dramatic irony.
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