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My stories tend to focus on emotional drama, especially family drama--and much feels, to boot. Buy me a Ko-Fi! ko-fi.com/brokenimage321

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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!

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 13 )

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 :pinkiegasp:

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...

Historical note: When Gibson wrote this, dead television channels showed static instead of flat blue or black.

9532363
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.

9555846
That's actually intentional, believe it or not. The italics are intended to set this first section apart from the remainder of the story.

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

That's a lot of double-crossing. Color me confused. @_@

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Here, let me see if I can help...

  • Madame Butterfly lets the Councilor off with a warning. Expecting treachery, she tells her hive to move underground ("Magicicada") and has him followed.
  • The Councilor goes to a group of Shadowtrotters who are waiting outside, and sends them into the building to retrieve or destroy the files that Madame is using to blackmail him.
  • After the Shadowtrotters leave, thereby revealing the Councilor's betrayal, the Councilor is kidnapped by changelings (and presumably killed).
  • Six months later, the Councilor announces a new housing developent based on principles of love and friendship. The last line reveals that the Councilor is actually the Madame in disguise, and implies that this has been her plan all along.

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?

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

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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

9532363
The fact this needs to be explained these days makes me feel very old.

9797067
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.

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