Caskade had endured the loss of his mother through escaping life through flying. Dealing with the loss of a loved one takes its toll on a family, especially when it is somepony as close as your own mother. Though his world was seemingly falling down around him, it would not be until a young mare by the name of Whistles came into his life that he would finally begin to heal his wounds.
Through finding strength in her, Caskade finds a new way to cope with his tragic loss and learn to smile again. Though, the price to be paid for happiness would soon prove to be far greater than he had ever imagined it to be.
Chapters (12)
So good
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Thanks! Sorry if it lacks my usually polish, I am trying to improve as a writer by beating myself to death without a editor. Man I miss my editor...
It's done! I can sleep now!! YAY.......... zzzZZzZZzzZZzzZzzZZZ
Good job! I sat through all of this in one reading, everyone has their own story and it is my hope that everyone gets their good ending. I know this isn't always true but we have to try.
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Thank you for the comment! You are absolutely correct! Everyone has their own troubles and joys some more than others on the latter. The goal is to keep sticking it out until something happens that changes everything and gives us another chance at happiness, a second lease on life if you will. That was the goal of all of this story combined. I wanted to show that even when you hit rock bottom, someone may come into your life and show you all the things you forgot that made you happy! Thank you for reading this story and catching that critical message I was trying to convey!!!
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If you don't mind me asking, how long did this read take you to complete?
To be honest, I gave this a re-read and dont know why it doesn't get more favorites and likes!
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Idk tbh. I think it has a bit to do with both the genre and the algorithm here on Fim. The genre is geared a bit more to the mid twenties and later crowd who are looking for something different from the usual "Falling in love with the Mane 6" type of read. Sadly that means that you have to use OC's and what have you and I had to take a hit on readers for that reason. Then there is the sorting/searching/finding algorithm... It's not, the best. Despite proper tagging and hard work on my part to publicize the story as a whole, it does not show up well when you search for romance novels or love stories (at least not until you get about 1k views or thumbs). Then again with a mountain of them already, I honestly don't know what I expected lol.
But at the risk of sounding like a prude or a glass is half empty type, TBH, if your story is not totally NSFW oriented, or focused on being purely pornographic, it is very hard to gain viewer traction. Now, I have no issue with those types of stories, they server their readers well and people enjoy them, but when you mix those in with stories that are trying desperately to convey a message, or that have worked tireless nights to produce a well collected, written and paced story (or at least to the best of the writer's ability), they tend to over shadow them greatly.
It is much easier to get someone to read a 5k short about Rarity and her new toy purchase, rather than to commit to a 75k read on two OC's who fall in love against insurmountable odds. Understandably so at that, there are some real... underwrote ones out there! For that I feel that people get a bit gun-shy to longer fics.
BUTT! (lol)
So long as folks like yourself read them and enjoy them, folks like me will keep writing them. I have been around the block quite a few times with stuff like this, with marginal success. Before I was a Brony, I was a YouTube Motovlogger/story teller. If any time in the YouTube world has taught me anything, it is that viewer value trumps viewer numbers. I will take one, real, die-hard fan who leaves the occasional comment or private message over 1,000 deadheads who only show up to watch. Don't get me wrong, those folks have their value to me as well, very much so in fact! But I really love creative criticism, thought provoking questions and general social interaction. So the afore mentioned still rings true.
Welp, that was longer than expected lol. My bad!
Skyler is a boss i like his character, also i think Whistle has a few kinks
This is Pre-War Fallout.... FAALL OUT Equestria sequel!????/
I loVed This Story i might reread it in the future
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yes, well, prequel really. I guess after 250k+ words on a FoE story a little might have wore off on this one lol. I loved Project Horizons so much, More so their unraveling of the past in that story. I had hit a writers block on my FoE story and really needed a love story to come around from my depressive state, so, this story was born. That being said, I did in fact hide a couple of Pre-war FoE hints in there. I do plan to write a squeal soon to this story, detailing these two during the start of the war and their subsequent ending up in a Stable or other. I just do not know when that will be.
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Thanks for checking it out! I really hope that you enjoy it. I can not tell you how much your comment and other comments you left on letting go meant to me! Thank you again!
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I Will Be Soooo Ready to Read a FOE Love Story ;3
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Well... I do love me some love stories. I even wrote in several Love elements into The Wildest Dreams... but a straight up FoE LOVE story does peak my interest quite a bit! I think I might do some spitballing!
My feelings....
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Sorry.
Stumbled upon this looking for new stories. Sad that it hasn’t gotten more attention, I really like it. Love all the FoE references.
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I'm happy you enjoyed it so much! I put a lot of effort into it and I too wish that it got more press, but sadly, it's not a clop fic and I don't think it is an all time great like MLD either, so I just have to hope people find it and share it with others that like love stories. But to be completely honest, I did not write it to get famous or for it to get a ton of view. I actually wrote this to get it out of my head lol. It had been rattling around in there for the last few years and I had kind of fantasized about it a good bit as more of a day dream than anything. You know how it goes when you are knee deep in pony... A good song comes on that inspires you, you end up spending a little time day dreaming about the moment, then you build a story around it to make it all make since.
Honestly, I'm just happy folks are finding it and enjoying it so much! Thank you so much for giving me feed back as well, it's rare that I get it!
Sneaky good story hiding on this site :)
Enjoyed this a lot and feel like it deserved more attention then it got. Idk author if you’re still active but if you wouldn’t mind I’d like to suggest your story in my authors notes at the end of my next chapter. I’m not exactly a well known writer but I’d like to give an opportunity to the few people that read my story to check this out, only if that would be okay with you.
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what do you know, I'm not dead!
I'm still very active, I've just been busy trying to get my life in order. Just when you think it has all calmed down, BOOM! you son gets kicked out of school and you are forced to home school lol.
You are more than welcome to do so, but I will warn. I am FAR from a accomplished author of any credit. I feel I can tell a story but I can not keep it grammatically proper, or so it is said by EqD when I submitted it. Still, you have my every blessing, I just ask that you tag me a link so I can see what its being used in.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/484609/im-trying
If you have any questions about my story I’d be more than willing to answer given one of the tags. I was thinking about suggesting the story within my authors note however I wouldn’t do so without an authors permission :). Also while I think grammar is an important part to writing, I find the story writing and dialogue to be much more important which I felt like you did very well, so I wouldn’t be so quick to downplay your ability.