My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Healing Pony POV Series
"The Alicorn and the Steed"
I remember how I was born. How many ponies can say that? Oh right, I'm not a pony. And I wasn't born: born means you grew, you started as something tiny. I was made, aware and knowing the moment I came into existence. I came into existence whole and complete with nothing before it.
I don't know if the old man made me out of a piece of himself like his old man did before him, or whether I was just spun out of nothingness.
I remember being confused for the few moments after I was made, I heard words but didn't understand them, I felt sensations but had no clue what they meant.
Then everything snapped into focus as I shook my head and memories came to me. Of a life I'd never lived, of people I'd have never known, of a name I had never been called. I hear someone call that name. I recognize the voice I've never heard.
Twilight Sparkle: Nerd. Geek. Bookworm. Miss High And Mighty Magic. And now whining about something or other.
I swear I hear my thoughts being echoed inside my own head by a voice that's my own, but I ignore it.
I tell Twilight what I think of her and her magic now that she doesn't have any and give her a good whip to the face with my tail for good measure.
I see some other ponies I recognize, they're in my way, so I push them out of my way.
I remember how fun it was watching others squirm and playing others with hair triggers. I remember having fun making the geek blow-up twice at me, it was so easy!
Then the magical dodads of whatever failed to stop the draconequus, no big deal, I liked Angel the way he was right now anyway, and I didn't need these losers anyway.
Then the geek and the hayseed came to my home, and the hayseed LASSOED AND HOGTIED ME! WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? This isn't funny, because it's happening to me! Then the geek touches her horn to my head.
And my thoughts are no longer echoing, and I see memories flash in my mind of me acting like a total half-wit Snow White wannabe and having less spine than a wild flower. It made me sick.
Then I felt pieces of something inside me reconnecting themselves, pulling themselves back together, and fusing into one piece. Problem was that it was where it was forming!
I was being crushed from all sides inside my own body! I was suffocating! I panicked. My legs and wings pressed into me like clay.
You ever been squeezed out of a tube into a freezing senseless nothingness? It's every bit of fun that you think it is.
And I drifted in the void, voiceless, senseless, helpless. In a black ocean without a surface, constantly drowning.
After a month, eternity or five minutes, something changed.
I saw a pink light like a butterfly, it hurt and made me sick just to look at it! It was horrible! I didn't know what it was but it was not me! I tried to swim away from it but it was like a black hole and I was sucked in!
I see another version of myself fly by, she has such anger on her face, so badass!
I'm in the sky! I'm flying! Pulling a balloon! Why am I here? And it floods back. Anger tells me that my friends being hurt was a bad thing that I should be angry. That the draconequus is a jackass that I don't want to see get anything he wants! I want to see him hurt! I want to see him squirm! I want him to beg for mercy when I won't have any!
"That, big, dumb, MEANIE!!!"
Huh? Why did I say something as first grade as that?
I speed like lightning towards the slacker loud-mouth, hayseed manages to lasso the slack loud-mouth and I feel a coolness run over me and . . .
I'm in the blackness, drowning, AGAIN!!!
Another eternity, another forever, another moment, time had no meaning. I thrash about madly this time. Let me out. Let me out! PLEASE LET ME OUT!
The blackness suddenly has a surface and completely exhausted, my formless, shapeless self floats to the top.
Memories, someone else's memories, came crashing in, I saw myself, saw her, acting in ways I'd never act, feeling things I'd never feel, thinking thought I never would.
I was celebrating in Canterlot, no, someone else was. I was groggy as senses returned and I had legs and wings again. Or were they mine? All I knew, was that it was someone else speaking and moving.
The losers called out my name, and she responded. She was me? No, she was she, she was Fluttershy.
I wasn't anything.
I screamed.
She didn't hear me, no one did.
I finally realized where -my- memories actually started. I remember her not playing along with the draconequus, Discord, I remember her knowing she was a pathetic weakling and her brain not able to process her friends abandoning her. So Discord got angry and punched through her brain with a tap on the head.
Then my memories started. I was her, no, I was an IMITATION OF HER made to be cruel. Discord, the draconequus, had made me, and left me. Bastard.
Like a straight jacketed ghost I was dragged along inside her. Her being always so pathetically shy and sickeningly kind as she fluttered.
I finally understood the first words said to me the moment I was made, 'You've been kind for far too long my dear, time to be cruel.'
I am Cruel? As she fluttered about among her loser friends I fluttered in my infinite but at the same time skin tight prison, I fluttered?
I hear her apologize profusely for what I did. They tell her that it wasn't the real her so there's nothing to forgive.
I'm not real?
I'm just an imitation of her? I am just a cruel Fluttershy? Cruel Fluttershy. FlutterCruel?
A name. I have a name. And not a moment later after too long I feel joyful surprise. A tiny bit of myself roots into her body, my body. I can feel it twitch as I twitch! I have proof of my own exist. And I spread like a cancer, enjoying every moment of it.
Finally we're close enough that I can speak to her, that I CAN SPEAK!
I hear her thoughts. I laugh at her. I hear myself laugh on the outside! It was so sweet a feeling you have no idea you twits!
Then I spring myself on her when she got home, I let her known what I am and who I am and what she isn't. I tell her what I plan to do. She can be the 'me' that's a prisoner. I don't care if she was here first. I'm here now! And then . . . she . . . sings . . . me . . . TO SLEEP!
That was well over a month ago, a lot more so, since I was born, created. I'm still FlutterCruel, I don't like being called what's just a modification of -her- name, but my name is just about the only thing I own and I'm going to keep it.
The longest time my jailer has let me out is when I gave a bear a good beating just to work out the tension in it's shoulders when my jailer needed to give some extra harsh chiropractic care.
I've been able to force myself to the surface a few times, I'm not sure what lets me. My jailer is just as surprised as me when it happens. Like when I made sure Pinkie didn't get out of her bed early, and when grounded Rainbow Dash going psycho.
And I got a good laugh out of scaring the feathers off her during her night home alone on Nightmare Night. I actually got her mumbling 'count the shadows' by the time it was morning.
I wanted to actually go out that night, but Fluttershy must have seen it coming because she locked the doors and windows and gave the keys to Angel and told him to not give them back to her until morning. I think Angel's guessed by now that 'mommy' is of two minds now, but he's taking it in stride. He actually unlocked the door for us when we had guests though.
Having Princess Luna show up wanting voice lessons was a riot! If Fluttershy hadn't made my body go catatonic I'd have been laughing my head off! Normally I find Fluttershy's cowardice sickening, but unlike the half-pint Pipsqueak I was more interested in good laugh for my first Nightmare Night than free candy!
I can't believe I'm been cowed and subjugated by a pony whose scared of her own shadow and neglects her wings so badly it's a wonder they haven't atrophied!
At least Angel's fun to hang around with, I think I appreciate his attitude more than my jailer.
"That poor filly." My jailer said as we feed the animals. "I should go look for her too. She could be lost somewhere out there all alone." I've finally gotten used to hearing my own voice speak without me.
"Planning on giving her a lesson in manners too?" I said deadpan.
"I would if I thought she'd listen."
"That's hasn't stopped you with me." The animals have long since gotten used to me speaking to myself. I still think they looked cooler when the old man had his fun.
"I'd say it's worked fairly well. You don't want to admit it. But I can tell you've changed."
"Yes warden."
"I've been trying to help you, not imprison you."
"You have a funny way of showing it."
"You might have my memories. But you have almost no experiences of your own. You're like a filly in a mare's body sometimes. Which is rather scary when I think about it. It wouldn't be so bad if somepony became a filly again in mind AND body, cause then you're just giving them a second chance at finding themselves if their life had hit a dead end and they can't find their way out. But it would feel way too much like stealing if you just made someone a filly in mind without giving them those years to learn the world again."
"You think maybe Nightmare Moon started out the same age as Celestia, and became a Alicorn filly when she got blasted by the Elements for those reasons?" I asked off handedly curious.
"Maybe. I doubt we'll ever know for sure."
"We could ya know, ASK."
"ASK Princess LUNA about her age-?! THAT'S! I mean-let's keep looking."
We spent the evening looking for the brat. Before we finally came home and went to bed. No matter what happened, we shared the same brain, so when one of us fell unconscious so did the other, when of us dreamed, so did the other though we never saw each other's dreams. There was an infinite abyss between us there. And I was very grateful for that. It meant there was one more thing that belonged only to me and didn't also belong to my jailer.
We woke up the next morning and she had breakfast. Of course I tasted it as she was eating, but I couldn't help the feeling every time that I was being spoon feed like a toddler.
"We should go looking a bit more for Diamond Tiara today." She said with my voice.
"For a filly you don't even know and from all accounts is Gilda with hooves?"
"You like Gilda."
"You don't."
"That doesn't mean I want to see a small filly out there somewhere cold alone hungry and scared."
I growled. "Then what are you waiting for?! Go! Go! Carry as many bags of food and blankets you can and fly and do not rest until you arrive in Zebrabwa! All those starving little zebra foals! Go! Go!"
I so regretted saying that a second later from the splitting headache of Fluttershy on reaction alone trying to fly out of the kitchen in a beeline for the distant land of strips and spots and ramming her head on the door frame. UGH! Even our house is barely built for flying!
Fluttershy shook her head and trotted over to the ice box and placed a bag of ice against our head to sooth the throbbing. That felt so much better.
"I was being sarcastic." I managed to grunt.
" . . . If I could help, I would. But I'm not a rescue worker . . . and I have a responcibility to my animals."
"So dumb animals matter more than ponies who can think and speak?"
I felt a kick in my shin.
I looked down and aplogized. "Sorry Angel, didn't mean you."
"Everything alive is precious. Including you FlutterCruel. Nothing should have to suffer."
"Pssh. I'm not alive. And suffering is a part of life girl. Welcome to reality."
"It shouldn't have to be! And we really do need to look for her! She could have wandered into the Everfree Forest! That horrible place! I get shivers just thinking of it! All those poor animals force to eat each other because Everfree won't let us provide for them! It's just not natural."
" . . . you think animals eating each other on their own is not natural?" I asked drolly.
"HOW CAN IT BE? Life taking life?! Livings things are supposed to grow and propagate not destroy each other!"
I said in a completely flat tone. "Okay. That's it. You know what? I think I'll just fly to the Griffons' Dens and order a hamburger."
"WHAT?"
"Don't be such a scary-cat, griffons haven't eaten ponies in a thousand years."
"THAT'S NOT IT! And you're not!"
"Oh just watch me! Or rather, watch you!" I began to trot towards the door.
"Oh no you're not!" I tripped on my own hooves.
"Oh yes I am!" I got up and made a flying gallop before my wings spread out and stopped me dead in my tracks making me crash. Our nose throbbed now. "You're making this harder than it has to be."
"I said no!"
I crawled foreword while she dug in our back hooves.
"And I said yes!" I hissed.
"ANGEL! HELP-clean up while mama is gone. Oh and you can take out those wolf traps mama told you to throw out but you just hid under the house." I said in the most warm and loving voice I could create dripping with honey.
Angel just grinned, saluted and was a white blur off to retrieve his contraband.
Fluttershy startled. I can't blame her, I've never been able to take control like this before!
"I won't let you do something so unnatural! Think of the poor cows! I'm friends with some!"
"You are! I'm not dummy! And you aren't going to be friends with the hamburger! And are you saying dragons and griffons are unnatural then?"
"It's unnatural for ponies!"
"Ponies CAN eat meat stupid!"
"That doesn't mean they SHOULD!"
Oh no she didn't. I stopped dead in my tracks. When did Celestia crown this pony the magistrate of what was and what was not natural? Who was she to make that call? "You . . . you . . ." I said gritting my teeth. "You high and mighty, holier than thou, YOU MAKE ME SO MAD!" I snarled. My entire body went stiff standing at attention. I began shaking and rumbling like a volcano. I wondered if we were going to explode. It felt like all of Equestria was shaking. I couldn't take this anymore! I don't care if I die (oh right need to be alive for that), just let me out, let me out! LET ME- it stopped.
"Huh?" I blinked and looked around, down at myself and at my wings. Everything seemed all right.
"What happened?" I heard a voice say out of my mouth.
"I don't . . . wait . . ." I flapped in the air then did a dangerous loop de loop in doors. "No! Stop!"
I landed huffing but smiling. Could it be? Was it real?
I looked in the mirror, I saw a worried face look back. "FlutterCruel what-"
"BOO! BAH! BLABLABLA! Hahah!" I made several faces at the mirror. I giggled. "I'm the Alicorn! You're the steed! At last!" I cackled. Then I noticed something strange. "Blank?" There was no sign of her cutie mark on my haunches. Huh? How did that work? Oh well. "Well that makes things harder."
I looked through Fluttershy's closet, still filled with dresses from her model days until I found and put on a simple green saddle skirt that hid my flanks. "You know what? Forget the hamburger! Let's have a nice outing instead!" I grinned ear to ear.
I went out the front door. Which hoof first? Left or right? Oh right, I get to choose! Not her! I laughed. I fell on my back and laughed and kicked my hoofs in the air! I existed! I was! I was alive! I actually cried I was so happy. Did these make the first tears of my life?
"You stop this right now-"
"No." I said simply and she was silent. I trotted out the door and flew towards Ponyville.
"You know maybe I'll find and share with the Crusader a few drops of Witch Weed. Maybe their cutie marks are Witch Weed Dealers."
"I'LL DROWN US FIRST!" I could already feel Fluttershy ready to bite through our own tongue.
"KIDDING! Just joking! Geeze!" I laughed so hard at hearing her so uncharacteristically serious.
"What . . . are you going to do?" She asked sounding very worried. It was great.
"Same as anyone else: anything I want."
I sang.
I know this place filled with so many wonders
Casting its spell that I so remember.
Birds in the trees and the cute tough bunnies,
Me flying free tastes just like honey,
Honey~!
Oh, what a magical place,
And the other me is now out of my face!
I knew the outside had so much up its sleeve
And now that I'm here, I'll never leave.
I am me,
I don't owe anyone anythiiiiiiiiiing!
Not The End
Read it on dA. Will read it again.
Primero, negros!
Ooh brilliant, I just finished Season 1 a few hours ago I think. Hard to say with the lack of sleep.
And so it was, that Ms. "Cruel" made her rebellion of mind, finally arising to be "The host" rather than "The parasite". For a pony born to be cruel, she certainly seems more grumpy than anything. Though why am I talking anyways? I read this one already. And geesh, will you relax a little shy? I know you're timid, but does the loss of power really make you that jumpy? Ah well.
And so, the next season began, where rough sand, rubbing against all the different people and conflicts, would finally grow into something beautiful, and from the most unlikely of sources, light.
Finally: PEARLS!!!!
This was the reason I begun to read Fanfic
ITS FINALLY HERE
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I am honored.
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Didn't find it on DA eh?
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How poetic.
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No, unfortunately I don't do DeviantArt.
Uh oh!
If this is a sign of things to come, I am very worried. And just where is Diamond Tiara?
not bad, not bad at all. Gotta feel a bit sorry for FlutterCruel, there. She was created by an act of evil and was locked up, albeit unwillingly.
You are frequently missing commas...
Vashta Nerada!
The perfect Nightmare Night scare!
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actually, now that I'm actually thinking about it, the concept of them in equestria terrifies me
*slowly enjoys some nice bourbon chicken*
"What? I'm an omnivore? And I like me some gooood chicken!"
"Don't try that with me, its not gonna work."
"Normally that would work, but this is bourbon chicken. *sly grin* Here try some!"
"Now, was that so bad?"
......
"Much better!"
~*~
Anywhosit, this looks like things are going to get interesting. I'm also glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks ponies are omnivores (fluttershy being a vegetarian does not surprise me however)
Also, I know this didn't happen in this chapter, but I have a sudden desire to give Rainbow Dash cooking lessons....say...
This......series......is......AWSOME!!! DUDE, I've read the previous series and this is amazing, I'm going to lose sleep over this because I just want to read more. Wait....I'm going to lose sleep over this? NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! CURSE YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN AMAZING AUTHOR! HOW DARE YOU BE SO GOOD! I'm sorry, I lost my temper there for a moment. I am definitely going to read the rest.
For some reason, I have the strangest desire to try and develop my own split-personality. She would be called Nadia and would be opposite of me in every way, even gender!
And now I look insane.
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Helps if you already have.
I do.
But I don't!
"Some as anyone else: anything I want."
Some->Same. Unless she was referring to the Witch Weed
If that's true I am just going to freak the buck out right now
Hay Fluttercruel! wanna like, creep on little foals in public
I am going to become Applejack in Applebuck season. Only instead of bucking Apples I'll be reading this loooooooonnngggggg fanfic.
Ha! Doctor Who! But how did Fluttercruel know about that
i like the Vashta Nerada reference
thoughts
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and I have a responcibility to my animals."
responsibility
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http://horses.about.com/od/feedingyourhorse/a/What-Not-To-Feed-A-Horse.htm
[A lot of things in the Equestrian Ponies normal diet would kill a horse. But in that link, shows that horses do and can eat meat in nature.]
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/13831/follow-up-carnivorous-horses
The third segment and lower, shows that horses do eat meat, and can at tlmes develope behavioral killing and eating of other animals.
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[Shrimp Hor Doeuvres, mlp style canon. Inspiration Manifestation episode.]
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[Rarity cooked eggs for breakfast. Sisterhooves Social episode.]
So yep. Horses do in fact eat meat. Both in the show and in real life.
I wouldn't say whole and complete, but, I see what you're getting at.
I'm more of a fan of the first theory.
Must have been disorienting.
PONIES I'd have never known.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone's jaw dropped during that moment...
Sadly, I know how she feels, she is a bit of a Troll in this context, no wonder Discord thinks of her as his daughter...
She thinks she's Apple motherbucking Jack, orange apple farmer and all around badflank.
Good thing you're not claustrophobic, well, I'd imagine most pegasi wouldn't take well to being in closed spaces what with being winged beings who are used to having the sky itself as their domain so being locked up probably wouldn't do wonders for them.
Not in the slightest?
Probably five minutes, being considering you have no senses, not even a sense of time, it probably doesn't make that big a difference.
That, sounds disconcerting.
The irony in light of Pony POV's Season 6 is amusing.
Because you aren't in full control.
Cruel or not, I kinda feel bad for her here...
He really is.
Well, her name IS Fluttershy.
Not yet.
Now that she has a name, she can Exist.
Fluttershy, the one pony who can beat another version of herself stuck in her head by singing her to sleep.
And you have every right to keep it.
That explains Flutters's sheer ruthlessness and the neck snap thing. I personally like it because even if the bear was probably cooperative, it shows that Fluttershy is a lot stronger physically then most give her credit for.
Ah, the frying pan to the face. I can imagine Pinkie Pie periodically reminding her about that and her throwing up her hooves in annoyance and yelling "ONE TIME!"
*sweatdrops* Not quite sure how to react to that.
I like this, it shows that while Angel is a complete yayhole sometimes, he does care about Fluttershy in the end.
Eh, I usually go for both chocolate and shits and for the fun. True, I tend to get candy either way if I can't go, but it's not the same, especially since Trick Or Treating is half the fun.
You should have seen her during Dragonshy.
No surprise there.
That's gotta be weird, hearing your own voice but not being the one speaking.
If she thought DT would listen, then most likely, yes.
Huh, I guess I am slightly psychic.
No surprise there. And Fluttercruel has a point. Surprising how stubborn Fluttershy can be when she puts her mind to something.
She's right, Cruel is a jerk, but less so then before.
*eyeroll*
Besides, it's not Shy's fault that you're in her head.
Hm.
You make a good point.
More like a teenager from the looks of it really, but possibly.
She'd probably just be mildly annoyed at worst.
Huh, interesting to look inside Flutters's head, so to speak.
Well, the analogy isn't all that off, like she said, you've little real experience in the real world.
Oh?
Well, she does have an excuse, that's how she was raised.
No surprise there.
Fluttershy, Equestria's Kindest.
That's a dick move and you know it.
And that's what you get.
She knows. But Kindness or not, she can only do so much.
ResponSibility.
Fluttershy's special talent is being good with animals, wouldn't you want to work somewhere where you can use your talent? And besides, some of the animals are clearly sentient, like Tank, Owlowicious, and of course, out favorite Jerkass Bunny, Angel.
At least she apologizes.
Be that as it may, suffering still exists.
Doesn't mean he should be part of life.
It's the Circle of Life, Fluttershy, you know that. If anyone should know, it should be you, you know animals better then any of your friends.
Yes, even though she's probably well aware of the concept of a carnivore.
Be that as it may, some creatures need to eat meat to survive. I'm sure you have to put down some animals that were just too weak or sick to keep on living, no?
This feels clunky, maybe you should switch the I said part and Fluttercruel's desire for a burger around.
True, I mean, Gilda is a huge jerk, but the worst she did was steal an apple.
You forget that just like you, she's very stubborn.
She knows. And you can be as stubborn as you want, she's just as stubborn.
Impressive struggle.
Wolf traps, I'm not going to even ask how Angel got his paws on those.
Oh boy...
Must be exhilarating.
Yes, but you're herbivorous by nature, you CAN eat meat, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
It, stopped? What the...
Fluttercruel gained control...
It works because while Fluttershy has discovered her special talent, you haven't.
Oh boy.
This, feels appropriate.
Or, if you prefer the original,
I'm curious to see where this goes.
No. Just, no.
I wouldn't put it past Shy, it takes a lot to get a rise out of her, but when you do, it's not pretty.
Good. But please don't make a joke like that again, I can appreciate a joke, even one that's a bit mean, but there's a joke, and then there's crossing a line.
I can appreciate the logic behind that.
Of course.
This is probably my shortest play by play, and the only time I haven't had to post 2 in quite a while.
SUBSTANTIVE
I like Witch Weed still existing. I can see why it would be illegal, since the combination of enhancing magical talents with being addictive and driving the user psychotic would essentially make it a "warlock generator" -- the mage would wind up both powerful and evil, even if she started off average and reasonable. There might be legal (but dangerous, and probably prescription-only) derivatives at some point for use in emergency situations which managed to mute the addictive and psychotic effects, though I doubt that even they would be really "safe." The G1 episode in which it appears implies that it works on multiple mammalian species, and it might work on all tetrapods, including archosaurs such as avians and draconians. (Consider the horrible possibilities of a Witch Weed addicted Dragon mage!).
This (and of course it's the key reason that Fluttershy ultimately falls into Nightmare) is the one part of the story I've always found a little odd. Fluttershy knows a lot about animals, including catching and feeding meat (fish and worms) to those of her friends who are predators. Your story of course predates the episodes in which it's been explicitly shown that Fluttershy studies zoology from books as well as from experience, but I always assumed she was intelligent and well-educated (though often auto-didactically as she hated school situations for social reasons). The existence of predation as part of the Web of Life is rather a big thing to miss about Nature, as my Fluttershy-like wife knows.
But then, she's been Discorded within the last year. And is talking to the results of said Discording. So, maybe this falls under the heading of "going crazy," even before she actually falls into Nightmare? She is psychotically-denying an unpleasant truth she's always faced before?
I like your variant of "I Love Everything."
TYPOS
stripes and spots
Does it make me A bad person that I am rooting and sympathizing with Fluttercruel. Cause I like her........A LOT!
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I liked it when you did these.
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I liked it when you did these dude. Even if I didn't show it at the time.
Cruelty has taken control!
Kindness left to watch.
What? You were expecting a poem?
This season seems to be even more interesting than the last. Shall read on.
That sounds really pleasant actually!
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It's all part of the Great Circle of life Fluttershy...its how animals have prevented each other form overpopulating the planet. It's how some of them evolved. That's why we have carnivores, I though you of all ponies would understand that.
See?! Fluttercruel knows how the ways of Nature work!
For some yes, but as I said, it's how animals have evolved from the Era of the Dinosaurs Fluttershy. For some like humans and ponies, they have the choice to take a life or not take a life, but for others, they don't have any other choice. Some animals need to eat meat to survive, animals like Lions, Orcas, Sperm Whales, Red-Tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, Ospreys, Saltwater Crocodiles, Great White Sharks, Polar Bears, Black-Backed Jackals, Cobras, Komodo Dragons, Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantulas, Fat-Tailed Scorpions, Fishers, Gray Wolves, Barracudas, Bat-Eared Foxes, Baboons...the list goes on and on. It's animals like them that help keep the herbivores population in check on not eat up the other animals and vegetation that they eat. Otherwise those populations will grow out of whack, they eat up their whole food supply, they'll slowly starve, and eventually end up dying out. You're one of the many ponies who works with animals, and, not to be rude, you should know these things, and how the Deadly Dance between Predator and Prey. While you may not agree with how some animals survive, the least you can do is respect and accept it...I know I do.
DON'T YOU DARE!!!
Huh. So that's where she came up with that name.
Feel kinda bad for Fluttercruel here. Though I have to agree with Fluttershy about the meat thing. Especially since it would be going into Fluttershy's stomach.
Also, the search for DT goes on. And Fluttercruel is free. I suppose this season will probably center around her.
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'Free' if you can call it that.
I agree with Fluttershy on a normative level:
I find it pretty sad that some animals have to kill other animals to survive. Just because it's "natural" doesn't mean it's not bad, which should be obvious if you put yourself in the victims (prey animals) shoes (also, appeal to nature counts as logical fallacy).
I do realize that it's very hard to change since that's the way nature works (without predators, plant eaters would reproduce till they're so many that they starve). But if I could, hypothetically, change something about it (like, magically make all animal plant eaters and also make sure they reproduce at the level of sustainability), I definitely would.
(And yes, I know this is a mere thought experiment and there's no way anyone ever has a kind of power like this).
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Thank you very much for the comment.
Do you mean responsibility?
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Yes. Typo.
Do you have anything to say about the story itself since your fav'ed it?
I know it's hopelessly outdated, but I'm not lying when I say I put blood, sweat, and tears into writing this epic.