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Rune Soldier Dan


Love is a verb, not a noun.

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Few ponies immigrated to America in the Nineteenth Century, and none thought much about the Civil War. Battles, talk of slavery and politics... those were human things. Ponies stayed away.

Except for Soarin. Yet as he scouts the armies from above, he finds he is not alone.

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That was...horrible...what Soarin did...though I understand it. Have a well-deserved upvote.

This rare prompt comp is going to be epic.

I love the juxtaposition of humanity and ethics. I was totally expecting Soarin to just break one wing.

Why isn't there an alternate universe tag?

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Because I can't keep up with these newfangled tags.

Don't see many stories done around this era. Of the ones I found most aren't done very well. This However is done well and I quite enjoyed it. Have an upvote.

My only problems with this are that there isn’t more of this and there aren’t more like this.

I like stories that take ponies on Earth for granted without much ado, even better in a time period about which there is very little written around here. That was pretty powerful, good job.

Fantastically done. It's so easy to look at something horrible, shrug, and say "Not my problem." This Soarin is a stronger person than I. And Wonderbolt vs Wonderbolt fits the Civil War all too well. Thank you for this.

What confuses me is how there is apparently zero racism towards ponies

We must labor with the sad knowledge that liberty rests not in American democracy, but in the absolute monarchy of a foreign people.

Irony at its cruel best.

Better the second time. This is such a human story, showing all the reactions anyone can have to evil. Clip's detached attitude and Soarin's brutality are so anti-pony it makes you rethink what makes them different. The "betrayal" and lack of civility is such a grim reflection of the actual time period it really sells it.

Huh. American Civil War almost never gets any love, so that's neat.

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