This story is a sequel to A Shift In Gears
Commission for Ankaru.
Everypony knows Apple Bloom as the youngest filly of the Apple Family. But Apple Bloom was born a colt, and now that puberty is coming on, she faces a difficult question; is there any way she can grow up to be a mare, or does she have to give up the life she's lived and accept the fact she's becoming a stallion? And if she reveals that all this time, she's been a boy, what will that mean for the friendships she's made and the ponies who only know her as Applejack's little sister?
A story about growing up, giving others the chance to help, and what friends and family can do for us, even our problems are different and hard to understand.
Chapters (3)
Trying is what matters.
Ohh now this is good. Very well written and pertinent as I recently made a transgender friend and I've been slowly Ben getting to know them with no real way to sympathize or empathize with them as I don't really understand.
All I can do right now is help them threw the low points.
I like the ending. Very in character for the CMC's.
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I agree. I think it's too easy to forget sometimes that people can always at least try.
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Thanks very much. And it's good of you to try and be there for your friend; recognizing that is really important, that maybe you can't understand, but you can at least be there to offer support.
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Thank you kindly. I was worried about getting the right feel to it, but it eventually sort of fell into place on its own.
Don't you mean, "mare in a stallion's body?"
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What this line is speaking towards is the fear that she's wrong: that even if she had a mare's body, she'd still feel like a stallion, or an impostor. That she'd still have so many "stallion" traits that she wouldn't be able to be a "real" mare. And there's also always the nibbling fear that there's something "wrong" with her, and she's not supposed to be this way; the idea that maybe this is what she thinks or feels, but if she did get what she wanted, it would be worse. They're fears that are hard to discuss or explain, let alone deal with, especially for a filly.
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My fault. I didn't read the tenses correctly.