Cruel Fate
"Anon..."
"Thank you for coming such a long way, my faithful human."
"Did you follow my instructions to the letter? Does she know?"
"No?”
”Good. You see...
“Yes, you are correct, this is about her."
"Or rather, the both of you."
"Please drop any sense of formality, it will make this easier."
“I wish it were so simple, I truly do!"
”No, no, I’m afraid this is a friendship problem of sorts.”
“A dire one.”
"Anon, I... I'm sorry."
"Not since I banished my sister have I been so distraught."
"Yes. It is awful, and this will cause so much hurt, my faithful subject."
"I don't expect this explanation to make it any easier, but you deserve to know. You've earned that much."
“Luna and I can see the future.”
"And because of that, for untold generations we steered this planet towards a future of peace and harmony."
"By our hooves certain doom was stopped time and time again, but it could not last forever."
"My sister and I can’t be everywhere.”
"You’ve already seen it, we can't possibly keep Equestria safe on our own. Not anymore."
"Were our six friends not born this generation, I shudder to think what would have happened to my little ponies..."
“Luna and I knew the element bearers would come. All manners of divination foresaw their births."
"Twilight is to be my replacement, as Cadance is Luna's."
“Luna and I are tired and old beyond the most ancient of dragons. It was inevitable that one day we’d have to pass on the torch.”
“Not that we would stop working, of course, but we won’t be around forever.”
"Yes, you heard correct, Twilight will rule Equestria.”
“I’m sure you’ll agree there is no better pony up to the task.”
“All divine magic points to futures of her and her friends leading Equestria into a golden age."
“…”
"All futures that... don't have you...”
"I've been so confused since that day Twilight summoned you to help with Nightmare Moon."
”Me and my dear sister, neither of us ever foresaw your arrival.”
”Yes, yes, Twilight has told me time and time again it was an accident.”
“Goodness, I created the spell she cast and even I’m not sure what went wrong.”
”Would you believe I thought you a villain?”
“Yes, some agent of Nightmare Moon at the time.”
”But you helped save my sister despite having no stake in that fight.”
”A wisp of Discord’s chaos magic, I then thought. He always did relish playing the long game…”
”But you and your friends bested the lord of chaos himself.”
“I daresay you kept Twilight’s sanity intact through that whole ordeal.”
”But I still had my doubts.”
“Some foul new breed of changling?”
”Sombra sleeper cell?”
“A tendril of the nightmare being?”
“Member of Tirek’s tribe?”
“An entirely new threat?”
”You proved me wrong every time.”
“There’s not a malicious bone in your body. Never once have you shown contempt toward my subjects.”
”He’s the best accident that ever happened, she told me…”
”She certainly did, you’re very dear to her, as I’m sure you know...”
”Oh heavens above, Anon, I’m so, so sorry.”
”You don’t deserve this. Twilight doesn’t deserve this…”
”I swear on my life, what I am about to say is the truth.”
”Something happens, Anon!”
“Something very bad happens if you stay with Twilight!”
”Thousands of magical tests, all showing something terrible is fated to happen, and I can’t allow it!”
”Dowsing, blood magics, dream prophesies, paths of the stars, and complex, brutally powerful spells to see the many potential futures…”
”But it’s not just spells known only to me and Luna.”
”The Griffons cartomancy, and reading their tarot and playing cards.”
”The cleromancy of the Yaks, who cast lots to see the future.
”Even the Dragon shamans and their dracomancy…”
”They are all predicting something.”
“Something unspeakable with you and Twilight.”
”Endless wastes.”
“Dunes of billowing ash choking what vegetation dares to grow.”
”…”
”And those are the good ones, Anon”
“…”
“No.”
“I cannot show you these things.”
“It shames me to admit, but for all my power I cannot show you these visions.”
“I have no proof except what me, my sister, and what the mediums whisper to me.”
“I mean no insult, but someone unskilled in magical theory cannot possibly comprehend how difficult these are to understand, much less cast.”
”No. No, Anon. Divination is not time travel. Not exactly.”
“I remember the adventure you two got into when you found that scroll in the Canterlot Archives.”
“What we see is no mere coincidence.”
“We have millennia of experience seeing the future.”
“Untold events have happened as we foresaw, and just as many were altered to maintain harmony.”
”No… No, I… What exactly brings such destruction is uncertain.”
”Maybe Twilight gives her life to protect you.”
“Perhaps the elements are slain because of something involving you. “
“Perhaps Twilight decides to settle for a humble life with you in Ponyville, and does not wish to take the throne.
“I just don’t know.”
“Vague meanings and cryptic signs are normal, but with you…”
“Every future is bleak.”
“That even the primitive magics of other species are seeing something…”
“That might be the most frightening.”
”It might not even be you; if Twilight managed to sire a child of yours…”
”You two have gotten so close it-“
”Oh my word, that ring…”
”So you did plan on asking her.”
”Oh, you sweet man. You ill-fated, sweet man.”
”…”
”You know what I’m asking.”
“Don’t you, Anon?”
”Anon? ANON!”
”Don’t you dare!”
“After all I’ve told you, don’t you dare try to run!”
“Of course Luna knows! It tore her apart that it had to come to this!”
“She pleaded I do this without her. She has the utmost respect for you, and so do I!”
“Why do you think she isn’t here!?”
“Twilight can’t know. You’re a smart man, Anon, you know she’d never believe this.”
“I’ve foreseen it.”
”Just… please, just come back here.”
”No! No, no, no, nonono, No bloodshed, I swear it.”
”Violence is always the final option.”
“If there’s ever an alternative I’ve always taken it.”
”The dragons, gryphons, the yaks, all their leaders… “
”They begged me to strike you down.”
”They pleaded I see reason, and I do. I really do.”
“Never before has something like this happened.”
”There is only one alternative.”
"Anon... You must leave Equestria."
"You must leave here and never return."
“You must leave her.”
“And she can never know.”
”Journey far past the Dragon Lands and the Yakyakistan mountains.”
"You cannot settle until reaching the very ends of the earth, and even then…”
“They have sworn not to harm you, on the condition that you don’t turn back.”
“But know they will be watching.”
“No letters. No messages. Not a trace of your existence can come back to Equestria.”
”Of course she will miss you.”
“She, and Spike, and all your friends…”
“More than you imagine.”
“One day, maybe two before she really starts to worry and contacts me.”
“She will search for you, she will grieve, and she will be hurt like no villain has hurt her before.”
“But in time she will move on, she will always have the support of her friends.”
”I will lie to her. It disgusts me to have so many plans for whatever the future holds.”
”I will say you returned to your old world through some cruel twist of fate.”
“I know you would never willingly leave your beloved princess of friendship.”
“Please, Anon, please. I can’t…”
“I have food, water, clothing, and supplies. Take everything you can carry.”
“By royal decree, Anon, you are forever banished from Equestria.”
“Equestria’s border ends at that vale.”
“You will cross it and not come back.”
"..."
“You have every right to say that.”
”I don’t expect you to ever forgive me.”
“Know this.”
“I won’t hesitate to do what’s necessary if you disobey me.”
“This is for the future of Equestria."
"This is for the good of all.”
”Please…”
“Just…”
“I am begging you.”
“Just go…”
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Like to see a Sequel where the actions taken leads to the dark future, instead of stopping it they helped make it happen.
Twilight's broken heart leads to the end.
The feels... THE FEELS!!!
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yeah, i have no idea who is talking but...MAN! the feels speak for themselves
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It's only Celestia speaking to you.
Since "Anon" is a self-insert for the reader, the general idea was to let the reader fill in the blanks.
I toyed with the idea of letting people know in the story's description but decided against it.
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Wait, are you one of the 'writefags' on /mlp/?
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I suppose so.
My schedule doesn't let me write regularly, but I do write often enough.
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me too, but with different obstacles on life
i very badly want a sequel to this
And then it turns out that the destruction she saw was because she sent Anon away
Anon tells Twilight about this; she refuses to believe Celestia; Twi and Anon run away together; Dark future... Celestia, you're an idiot.
Honestly if I knew how to animate, I would be very happy to make this into real life
I believe that the future became what it is because twilight gives up without him because of celestial she’s just domed her country and the world
Or you're in a Pogo Paradox by means of future sight and haven't realized it Celestia.
What if the broken Twilight heart this will cause, itself causes the calamity? Nice job breaking it, hero.
I picture Anon getting bestowed upon him some kind of power that warps his body and mind, making him very powerful, insane, hyper emotional and aggressive. Leading him to fight his way back to Equestria to regain everything he lost, destroy everything he hates, and creates the dead future Celestia feared so much. I would love to see how Twilight and corrupted Anon interact in that setup. His proposal would be interesting to say the least.
Nice story, curious as to what thread you posted the original in, keep it up, faggot.
I like the idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy instead of the 'this is what happens without him'. Because the other factions see him as the threat, if he stays they'll declare war on Equestria to try and remove him, causing the devastation seen. It ends up becoming the twist of 'because they believe it so much, they'll cause the issue themselves'.
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Thanks for the compliment.
Nightly Twilight Thread
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Press D to do a sick dab on Celestia.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
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I wasn't sure what I wanted when I felt very disgruntled by this story, now I do, Vengeance for Anon in a poetic manner. I get this feeling that the magic is going to make this very event happen and the prophecies are making them all banish him so he'll end up the next villain, I just hope it ends in a happy manner for both him and Twilight. It seems like the world needing balance for harmony or something type then he gets defeated by twilights love or something hopefully. At least that would be something I would want to see.
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It's kinda messed up for me to say this, But I want it!
Well. It was an interesting way to tell a story, at least. And I like that you didn't even try to give anon a personality.
Unfortunately, this read more like listening to a phone call than a story. And not a particularly interesting one either.
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I kinda want to see that too, to be honest. Sad and grim are great, but happy endings are my favorite.
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Always.
Like some others have said; would love to see/read a sequel of this, potentially Celly seeing that the calamity was a caused by a case of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Good job and keep it up.
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Pardon me, but i couldn't help but imagine this being sung as I imagined the proposal:
And so anon leaves forced out his home. Away from his love and friends. Hours in days, days into weeks, weeks in years, years into decades. All countries return to their normal state of affairs; anon forgotten. Twilight moved on, a space in her heart forever praying to Faust for anons return. Little did she know she was heard. One day letters are received, a council of world powers is called immediately. All receiving letters from an unknown sender. All written in a masters cursive in blood. "I'm coming for her. No one will stop me. This world will burn to ash."
Celestia pales, her letter violently igniting in a black flame. Scorching the tables surface. "You should have killed me. Ended the pain then and there. I'll be finishing what you started."
A figure sits at end of world where all ends and nothing begins. "Twilight, please forgive me...."
It would be nice to see a sequel to this so we know what happens. Does he end up killing everything? Does nothing happen? Does he die somehow?
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He does. He's leaving the one he loves one way or another. And regardless of which way it is, a part of him will die there. On that hill.
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Self-fulfilling? How so?
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Likely a pogo paradox or something along those lines.
My heart, I can't take it...
It's hurts. So much.
MFW - Anon being banished is what ends the world.
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Perhaps they mean that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy because the action that causes all these terrible duties IS Celestia making Anon leave. One often meets their destiny on the roads they take to avoid it.
Really hoping for a sequel.
Congratulations hag, I hope you enjoy the destroyed world Twilight creates to get her love back. Not that you care about self-fulfilling prophecies or anything
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Good Sucking Job, mate! You spotted it! Woot! Man, I got excited when I read that. Yes, Twilight will literally tear the world apart to find Anon. Only to probably find him dead somewhere. Jeez, nice catch.
9590819 LOL! What is a world to pissed off Twilight but a grapefruit to be ripped in half.
Then beaten to oblivion with a cast iron skillet.
And then ushered out the door with the help of a Tzar
well this is fascinating, twilight's reaction is what i want to know about. will the wasteland happen from her loosing hope in all things or because she learns what celestia did? i am curious
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Or even worse: These are all futures that happen with Celestia and Luna choosing to pass down their roles, and none of this would happen if they actually looked into ALL futures. They limited themselves because they are dead set on finally being able to settle down and die, and as such all futures that they look into have that particular variable as a constant.
You could also have the sequel as the dark future is happening she finds him and it causes a reversal where celestia is proven wrong and it was her sending him away that causes the bad future. Then they can rub her nose in it
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"those find their fate on the road they take to avoid it"
some old turtle 200-something
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That's why everybody is Kung-Fu fighting!
You haven't really specified if you plan on making a sequel, so do you?
Or are you leaving it up to us to think of how it works of backfires?
Cause I can already think of why it backfires
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What happens afterwards is ambiguous and up to the reader.
Whether Celestia is correct (or whether she's telling the truth to begin with) is up for interpretation.
Hey, maybe it's not even Celestia. Could be Chrysalis staging the world's sickest prank. You don't know for sure.
I like stories where not everything is revealed and you have to fill in the blanks.
And hearing how other people filled in those blanks is a great deal of fun.
I've given thought to writing a sequel, and there's a good chance I will.
But if I do, it's going to be more of the same.
It will stay as a "No happy ending for you" kind of story and leave things up for interpretation.
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Yeassss apocalypse timeeeee
Honestly just another chapter with nothing but celestia saying 'shit' would be good enough for me
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Great story,
Well done and agreed.
The Monk
Her hands were still bound with rope, she debated an escape before all the stupidity gave her an aneurysm. -Scarheart
kinda like to see a sequel where this lead to ruin for equetria because she sent him away
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All I want to see is twilight and anon getting together while Equestria gets rekt. Maybe have twilight feeling really down about the prophecy coming to fruition to the point of PTSD / and or depression, And now anon has to try to fix it. Though "Fixing" it can fall under interpretation. Like him helping twilight to recover or trying to stop the "Foreseen catastrophe" from being a thing. It's probably worse if you just do the same "Noone knows how it really ends" in a continuation and still leaves Anon in a terrible spot. Rather than leaving it as is.
OR
Twilight loses it and goes all nightmare on Equestria under the belief of him being dead, Causing Anon to step in and stop her. Not sure how to end that though, You could have them BOTH be banished but be together? And then just leave it there. That would probably still scratch your itch and make everyone happy at the same time. Not sure though because it's hard to do any thinking with how long I've stayed up.
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what's the name for that event where trying to change the future leads to that future happening because you caused the events in the first place? That is exactly what is happening here, just can't seem to recall the name for that event other than 'shooting yourself in the foot'
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Pretty sure that'd be a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Might be a fancier name for it, but if there is I don't know it.