The battle of the Hoof ended 9 years ago. For some ponies, the scars are still fresh in the mind. As Threnody, a young heartmender working with the Followers of the Apocalypse will find, sometimes the hardest step is getting a Patient to speak.
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FINALLY!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! WHOOOO! Whoo. FUCK YES! Finally!
Huzza, update! Thank you!
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I feel like an update was desired.
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And one with plenty of ThrenJack, yee! Just gonna make it hurt all the more when they don't become a thing
Wait, what's a heartmender?
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A heartmender is a pony with a special talent for healing wounds of the heart and mind. Think of them as pony psychologists. Threnody is super good at being able to feel and understand the emotions of others, and it gives her an advantage of being able to help talk to other ponies who are struggling. It's a super useful talent to have in the post-Pip wasteland as everypony tries to rebuild. The Heartmenders are the group of heartmenders who work for the Followers of the Apocalypse. I also have a blog on heartmenders somewhere around here.
Tsundere horse a cute! Thank you for the new chapter, this story is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
ok so heres a question
in chapter 31 of Fallout Equestria. it starts talking about memory orbs and what you experience in them. basically everything but what the pony is thinking.
i know Threnody isn't a unicorn, but recollectors are a thing. so what happens if she goes into a memory. guessing she wont be able to feel other pony's feelings. (wonder if she can still feel those around her outside the orb......), but does she feel the feelings of the pony whose memory she's sharing in a different way? like more strongly? (sorta like feeling emotions precisely enough to have an idea of their intention, rather than a vague guess based on their feelings)
...wow i muddled up this questions.
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I... hmm... I am not 100% sure to be honest. It's why I've been avoiding getting her a recollector. I would think that a recollector would also record the emotional memories as well as the visual and auditory imagery that went on, but because I'm not certain, I've... sorta avoided the subject entirely. This was a question that I struggled with for a while because sometimes memory orbs are a wonderful deus ex machina to try to give characters information, but without the emotional context, it would be weird.
I don't know. Leave it to unicorns to record 'just the facts', for getting that emotions are part and parcel to memories and their experiences!
My OC totally isn't a pegasus which is totallynotwhy I poke fun at unicorns all the time nope.Some great progress in this one. I'm guessing the Sarlac pit was something of a mutated Tatzle worm. Hope nopony gets sick from getting its gooey insides splashed all over them.
Rofl. BJ wondering if she has daddy issues after that stand off with Solidarity. I think i recall she had many attractions to older stallions. Could be because she never knew a stallion older than 20.
Can't wait to see how Bubblegum fits into everything. I have a feeling he might actually be getting close to Glitter.
"Eh.. someone’s got"
"Eh... someone’s got"?
"perhaps twice Gitter’s height in depth"
"perhaps twice Glitter’s height in depth"?
"I caught glimpse of several red flashes"
"I caught a glimpse of several red flashes"?
"levitating one of the slimer chunks"
"levitating one of the slimier chunks"?
"ridiculously cold only a hour after sunset"
"ridiculously cold only an hour after sunset"?
"notice stuff like that?,” I pondered"
"notice stuff like that?” I pondered"?
"eyes off Solidarity and look a long, long"
"eyes off Solidarity, and took a long, long"?
"on the same level,” he glanced up at Bubblegum"
"on the same level.” He glanced up at Bubblegum"?
"Hyacinth finally lay her wings flat"
"Hyacinth finally laid her wings flat"?
"for the sickenly red colour to their trucks"
"for the sickeningly red colour to their trunks"?
"Now that I've made you all convinced my childhood existed as this mélange of horses (because i loved horses) and military stuff, which makes me sound like a gender confused Christopher Robin"
You... seem to have a different interpretation of Christopher Robin's character that me. :D
...
And now I'm imagining the characters of Winnie the Pooh in the trenches of the Great War. So that's a thing, apparently!
"Thank you all so much for reading and sticking through the summer wait with me!"
You're welcome; thank you for writing. :)
(And thanks for sharing the interesting history in the author's note.)
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ARGH! One day, one day you will not have things to catch. Hopefully! XD I keep trying to work on this. But I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter, as always!
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Ant Lion, actually.
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Dang. And I watched a YouTube video on those months ago.
EDIT: Some common errors I find have to do with things that start with "had; begin; began; begun" which are followed by a word that's already in the Past Perfect/participle form.
Sandalwood threw a fit about it, and it took the combined efforts of Basalt...
I make these mistakes a lot. Hope this helps.
PRO TIP: Hit CTRL+F to bring up the search bar; and just type in the words you need to quickly find and correct. Dunno how this does for Edge or Mozilla, works great for Chrome!
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"ARGH! One day, one day you will not have things to catch. Hopefully! XD"
:D
"I keep trying to work on this."
No worries. I mean, please don't stop, but there weren't that many for a chapter this long.
"But I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter, as always!"
Aye. :)
I definitely love Thren's new hat! With the duster it looks very film noire
I wonder if Bubblegum's past is tied to Blackjack's previous deeds in the stable? He seemed to react heavily to that part.
Had some good ThrenJack moments in this chapter as well, I love watching these two emotionally damaged characters go round and round.
So happy to see another chapter, cheers!
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That was what I immediately thought of!
We used to have a ton of those beneath my porch, and I'd sit and watch them catch things occasionally.
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You'd think after 28 years of speaking English I'd know that. This is why I tease the translators and suggest they just write up bad anime dub-esque lines about [unintelligible Americanisms]. Thank you though, I'll fix that.
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I've recently been practicing better writing and grammar and I'm turning 30 this year. A year ago I wouldn't have noticed it. I've always been terrible in English classes. I couldn't tell you what an 'adjective' is right now to save my life. (Without looking it up) I remember scoring 20+ on ACTs, but never above a 10 for english comprehension. I am/was a good speller, but that was where it ended.
Like all things it just takes a bit of practise and study.
I know exactly what you mean about anime. There's some things I read in those subtitles that make me go
EDIT: My process is to writing everything out. Then when in the editing/correcting phase, I save that for last. Just use the search command to quickly find your common mistakes and correct them from there. I keep a list handy in case I forget any. It's easy to overlook something when you can 'hear yourself talk it out', know what I mean?
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Most of my issues are things that, if I were paying more attention, wouldn't be an issue. Like putting 'Gitter' instead of 'Glitter'. It's... often aggravating to see those errors pop up time and time again because I'll do the 'read this to yourself out loud' thing, and my brain will autocorrect and autocomplete sentences for me and I'll not notice that I didn't actually finish the sentence. DX
Yaa update, boo I can't read it till tomorrow...
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Mark, you sneaky, clever, son of a bitch!Oh snap!
Yet again i am absolutely astounded by the quality of the story. This was a great chapter and i as always will stay faithfully tuned in to see the next one posted.
I don't know how Ogres and Oubliettes survived the Apocalypse, but I'm glad it did. I want art of Blackjack and Thren in that meme pose with Blackjack like 'Ogres, ogres everywhere.'
Mutated... Lernaean... Antlion. ...Nooooope.
B-baka uma!
Setting aside that Punk here is pretty damn abrasive herself... what's the NCR doing that's got her tail in a twist? And since we're 8 years past Sunshine and Rainbows, isn't the Enclave busy being basically gone? What's the head canon here?
I wouldn't mind that much, but after 200 years of letting the anarchy she's preaching rule the wasteland, she actually thinks organizing is bad? Or does she think a few Bill and Ted taglines will be enough for everypony to live in harmony? Cause that sounds like an ideal world... but an ideal world doesn't include the words 'how do we fix this post apocalyptic hellhole?' It's very possible I'm overstating her angst because... well the NCR is kinda the house Littlepip helped build, and Horizons has already taken enough shots in that direction, intended or otherwise. That said... loved the Cranberries/Bad Wolves reference. Really great cover... though I wish it'd come about under better circumstances.
'God'? What god does she worship? I'm not being snarky; does their stable have different beliefs?
See, this is why Friendship has such a rough time in the wasteland. Maslow keeps punching it in the face.
Uhh... the kind where her magic got a lot stronger and more varied and she heals from everything (including literal brain damage). ...I actually think you just misspelled apotheosis...
Woah... old dad is old. I was thinking more like forty-ish, but wouldn't that put him around sixty or so? I'm now seeing him like a ponified Sam Elliot. And I'm okay with that. That whole interaction between the two of them was excellently done. Blackjack muttering aloud about how to kill him seemed a bit much, even for her, especially since she was saying 'you' the whole time. Like, not just planning out a 'just in case' but saying 'this is how I'll kill you'. Which... I mean she sounded more like a youtube commentor at that point, and that's even less mentally healthy than she usually is. Highs and lows...
Perk Aquired: Idiot Savant, Emotionally Stunted Edition! Every time you screw up an emotional encounter with Blackjack, you have a chance for triple experience points for a short time. Having a 'thing' with Blackjack can fire forge (and/or kill!) anypony...
Great chapter and I loved seeing this back.
You're not an impostor, would that it could be combated as easily as saying it.As exciting as the last few have been, the best moments in this are the interplay between the characters. Looking forward to the confrontation with Bubble and Blackjack. ...With both anticipation and trepidation.See ya next go round!
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It wasn't really being a blank that did some of that stuff (i.e. teleportation), but rather, not having a body that had, like, 99% of it covered it hardened plate steel+having prosthetic legs and wings, so that it weighs half a tonne. Honestly that fact she could teleport at all in that is pretty impressive.
Another great chapter^^
Hm, Bubblegum... I wonder what's his problem. Considering all the shit happening in Hoofington during Project Horizons and how much of it Blackjack was involved with, it wouldn't be too big of a stretch to think that maybe he got somehow hurt because of her actions. However, here he reacted specifically to an event that he shouldn't have been affected by... unless he was somehow originally from Blackjack's Stable (it was later said that some ponies survived, right?)... after all, about all we know about his past was that he had met Glory, right? He never specified when exactly he had met her, I think... could have happened after Shadowbolt Tower's destruction by Blackjack, when she got stuck in the Core for months...
On that note, my other (more probable to me) theory is that he had ineed met Glory around then, and developed a childish crush on her. Glory for whatever reason had confined to him about how Blackjack hurt her with her suicide attempt (I dunno, probably due to the stress and worry over Blackjack and all those imposters made her just want to talk with somepony?), or he had learned about it some other way, and so now he got pissed at Blackjack because of the whole "planning to die with my Stable" part.
Probably a stretch, but it seems more sense to me that he would be pissed over that rather than he was from the Stable.
I dont know this may be just a random gut feeling but I feel like blackjacks feelings towards her are motherly in nature because mother is always put their children first before their own needs
In keeping with my promise to you:
thanks i hate it
Chapter 18 when?
Don't live in past, don't be afraid of future and treasure what you have left.
This the price of winning at staying alive. Life, like cards, is a game governed by rule of big numbers. The more you win, the more you loose, but it's not the reason to not carry on.
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Well, it also matches Equestrian Tatzlwurm, except it exchanged a flower with enchanting scent for a pile of shiny. Evolved.
I think, tatzlwurms were inspired by antlions and sandworms from Dune.
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Apropos of what we're talking about...
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Side note: I did not realise I needed Maud'Dib until I saw her. XD
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I bet on Stable too. If he was he could only hear about her, because colts were kept isolated from mares. He mentioned that he saw her as a blank, but it not necessary was the first time. Oh, and he's large... could he be related...
God damn it I just had a thought: Blackjack is essentially Threnody's Stygius, isn't she?
MUST HAVE MORE....... Pleaseeeeee
Also great job developing characters so far and great way for Blackjack to bring out her past
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Didn't she deal with one in show? Screenwriters had that joke in mind too!
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In which way? Stygius for Blackjack was a stress-relief, a minute passion and soured relations in result.
Blackjack for Thre is a way to reflect her own feelings. I'm not sure if Blackjack understands that, but she had set Thrennie (I like that nickname :P) up into same position she found herself three years ago. DJ's comment could help to realize it.
PS. I hope that "Pega-punk" wont stick.
Yay! You made my day =)
It's funny - i always get on FF for every day for a week or two, and when i stop, stories get published on the very next day. And then i get there a week after. Amazing luck.
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In the same way that Stygius was used to help BJ get over her trauma, Thren could potentially have feelings for BJ just to know that she can eventually with another pony. It's all about rebuilding her walls of safety, in a sense.
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xD it's ok Dude/Gal
I just thought it was hilarious imagining this 14 year old girl trying to help and wrestle BLACKJACK of all ponies around XD
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Girl, and uh, well, you're not wrong...
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Well i'm looking forward to reading more of it ^^
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For popular stories new content is always wanted. I mean if you have anymore up your sleeves I certainly wouldn’t not want that.
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OMG she is a girl! :-D
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I know. Those rare creatures on the internet and in the Brony community.
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Nice pick.
I'm really enjoying this story so far! I'm thirteen chapters in and I resonate exceedingly with Threnody on so many levels that it kinda hurts. There were parts of me that resonated with Blackjack, but nowhere near as much as with Thren.