In the distant, cyberpunk future of Equestria, everything has a price--including love. And, if you're the sort of creature needs love to survive, you learn to do what you must keep you and your family safe.
And then some politician comes around to screw it all up. Time to have a word with him...
Based on the "Shadowrun" universe of games.
Tags for discussion of sexual topics, nothing appears "on camera."
Proofread by the inimitable Chinchillax!
Heh. Winter Mute. It wouldn't be Shadowrun without plenty of Gibson references.
Very nice glimpse at a well-fused crossover. I'd love to see more.
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Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm still trying to crank out the sequel to Celestia XVII--this was just a quick one-off that I've had sitting on my G-Docs. I may come back to it later, but we'll see...
Huh, okay, that's an interesting inversion of the Shadowrun setup, I wonder where-- whoa wait
Historical note: When Gibson wrote this, dead television channels showed static instead of flat blue or black.
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Good catch!! I was going to put in a note about the actual color of the sky (gray and black) but I forgot to do so before publishing... I'll get to that later this afternoon.
Looks like you highlighted some words in italic, but then applied italic to whole text - and now words previously italicized are not.
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That's actually intentional, believe it or not. The italics are intended to set this first section apart from the remainder of the story.
That's a lot of double-crossing. Color me confused. @_@
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Here, let me see if I can help...
The development in question is (or, at least, may be) an attempt by the changelings to "go legit"--to get the love they need, not by preying on lust, but by being neighborly to non-changelings.
Does that help at all?
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Step 3 works really well as a fridge horror reveal, I think it's just that there was so little time between steps 2 and 4 that I was a bit whiplashed by the end. :B
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The fact this needs to be explained these days makes me feel very old.
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It looked far more as if it was a 'equinist polyclub' (in equivalence) hit that uncaring runners did and they rebuilding for the matters.
And the look of them rebuilding in this for matters in the damage that only runners can do.
The worst of what you tend to see runners doing when its pure about the money, and what you did present in part to matters of this in how it comes across.