In a sense, it was ultimately Night Light's fault. He was the one who wouldn't let Twilight Velvet throw out Shining's old toys, remembering his own lost collection of meticulously sorted baseball cards.
Granted, by that logic, Shining was the one to blame, swearing he'd come get his stuff out of the basement "next weekend" for several hundred weekends until disaster inevitably struck.
Of course, everyone agreed that the real culprit was the wild Equestrian magic that found its way to the basement and struck as said disaster.
An entry in Thought Prism's Ultimate Crackshipping Contest. No familiarity with Chibi-Robo! is required to enjoy this story.
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I feel like I should recognize the figure on the cover image, but I can't for the life of me place him.
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Drake Redcrest is from the Gamecube game Chibi-Robo! (Not shouting; the exclamation point is part of the game's title.)
Nice!
So, where did Twilight put Ro-Barb's mind?
That Secure Server, but she's not doing anything?
Typo:
bacl up the stairs. > back up the stairs.
Happy that someone love Chibi-Robo as I do. I hope for Chibi-Robo for Switch!
So, I'm torn here. On one hand, "durance vile" is a fixed expression, and changing it makes it lose its punch. On another hand, "durance dire" is clearly superior here.
Huh. That happened. I knew this contest was gonna be weird, but still.
Oh gosh, I loved Chibi-Robo! Kind of mean of Twilight to 'kill' Drake and abandon Barb, though.
Magical girl vs. Super Sentai! Honey-glazed ham for all!
Always nice to see allusions to Midnight Sparkle. Is it weird of me to want more of her in the series?
Ok, time for me to start taking notes. Pushing aside my bias for both Drake and the author is going to be very difficult, but will be done.
THIS WAS SO ADORABLE
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Ro-Barb is currently in stasis until the world is ready for her and vice versa. Also, Twilight plans on removing the mandatory robospeak from her dialogue generation, but it turns out that bit got written at about 2 AM while Twilight was operating solely on caffeine, force of will, and the power of music. Thus, figuring out what it actually does is going to take the better part of three weeks. And that's before taking into account how magic introduced all those significant typos and Unicode snowmen into the code.
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You have summarized my inner struggle with the chapter title perfectly. Kudos.
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I choose to take this as a compliment.
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To be fair, based on past experience, Drake probably would've ended up growing to colossal size and rampaging through the city or something, and it's not like the girls have a set of Zords handy. But yes, Ro-Barb's treatment was unacceptable. Procrastination runs in that family just as much as communication problems.
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I certainly don't think so. I especially like stories where she and Sunset Satan bond over being repressed dark sides.
And yes, given the genres I was working with, this story called for more ham than a hog farm run by Zapp Brannigan.
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I am sure your judgement will be fair and even-handed.
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Glad to hear it. Romance isn't exactly my strongest genre. I keep getting distracted by opportunities for jokes and/or magical shenanigans.
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You're welcome then.
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What about a romance with jokes and/or magical shenanigans?
Was there a short in which Twilight created a robot companion for Spike that I missed? Because if that's canon . . .
Then again, it wouldn't be the first time any version of Twilight started an experiment and decided that the aftermath was Future Twilight's problem.
It looks like Spike has watched the EG-world's version of Toy Story.
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Yes, there is. It's quite fun actually. :)
ME: Okay I think I've finally found a story by FoME that I probably won't enjoy that much.
FATE: We'll see.
[some time later]
ME: Dammit.
FATE: Also that robot dog that you sorta disliked before? You like it now.
ME: Dammit!
I would likely have encouraged them to run away together into the vast cosmos. This is why I shouldn't be trusted with the products of mad science.
Also, I am inordinately charmed by the idea of shot-greetings and dramatic poses being formal protocol.
This was quite funny and adorable and I absolutely didn't expect to see a romance with Ro-barb (once again I absolutely adore your wit in naming things).
After watching that video of Space Hunter Drake Redcrest!! 💥 though I think the story could have used a few more of his hammy catchphrases. I didn't notice any of those.
As someone who counts Chibo-Robo as one of their favorite childhood games, I loved this. It makes me wonder what else you could do with the other toys from the game, and maybe even Park Patrol. Bravo.
this could've been avoided if Twilight just refined more uranium
Maybe another "toys coming to life" thing might occur, involving Aurora, Bori, and Alice. Perhaps the girls need to deal with the likes of a disgruntled toy named "Hurly the Drifter" (who's originally from "Deadtime Stories: Terror in Tiny Town").
At least it won't turn evil or anything like Midnight, right?
Nope.
Yep.