Reconciliations
I find myself sitting on a luxurious bed in a dark bedroom, light blearily filtering through the curtains. From my guess, and the emblem of Luna’s cutie mark on the door, I’d wager it’s her room. It’s been so long since I’ve even seen one of these that when I sat on it, I melted immediately and decided to lay on it.
I lay there for a couple moments before Luna breaks the silence. “So… Null…”
“Yes?”
“I just… I don’t know what to say… you’re here… and not a statue… even hearing you respond is surreal.” she states.
“You used me as a diary for a thousand years. I’m pretty sure any social boundaries are already broken between us.”
“I didn’t use you! You… were the only one who would listen…”
“You thought I was listening. You genuinely didn’t know if I was there or not.” I state indifferently. Letting the awkwardness hang in the air a bit, I continue. “But… thank you…”
She perks up a bit and tilts her head at me. “For what?”
I rub my face, a sensation I’m still not used to. “For doing everything you did. Despite everything, you still treated me like a person. You even named me; something I’m okay with because I forgot my real name… and what’s a person without a name? Ya know?... it helped… keep me sane...barely.”
She nods and startles me when she sits down next to me and lays her head on my stomach, looking at me. “Well… you helped me alot too. Even if you didn’t do anything… you were there when nobody else was.”
“Despite you being partially to blame for my predicament in the first place…” I trail off.
She cringes at this, and her expression quickly morphs to one of sadness. “I’m sorry… I should have never listened to my sister, but we were both exhausted from fighting Discord, and I was young and naive, an-”
I cut her off by raising my hand in a stopping motion. “Despite all that… you’re still partially to blame. You can’t change that. But, it wasn’t your choice. Even I could see that. And as I said… you were there for me all those years, and were actively trying to free me. You’ve already been forgiven.”
I see fresh tears building forth, and she grabs me in a hug, rubbing her cheek on my chest. Bit awkward, not gonna lie, but after so long of nothing, this kind of physical contact is definitely welcome. I almost don’t want her to let go… but another thought comes to my mind.
“Your sister on the other hand…”
“Null, you’re not still going to try and kill her are you?” she fixes me with a hard glare.
“Don’t look at me like that, that bitch deserves worse than death; death would be a mercy.” I spat at her.
“She’s my sister!”
“I don’t give a fuck! I don’t think you understand just how badly she fucked me up! And since you missed the little tirade I gave Celestia, I’ll enlighten you a bit! For a thousand years, I couldn’t do anything; not eat, breathe, sleep, anything. I couldn’t even look around on my own. Constantly fading in and out of sanity, wishing I would die instead of live another day of that hell! If I ever go crazy again, fucking kill me. Because if you put me in stone again, when I get out, I’ll kill you too.”
She seems startled by my threat, and backs away from me.
“The fact you’re alive and well is the ONLY thing keeping me at bay. I thought you were dead Luna! When Celestia banished you to the moon, I thought that was it. I didn’t know how long I’d been out of it for after that. Then I wake up for seemingly no reason, free and alive. Of course the first thing I’d try to do is get revenge! For myself and you! But you don’t need revenge… you seem to have fixed YOUR issues with her.” I take a couple deep breaths; still not used to talking or breathing, these rants are really taking a lot out of me.
“Null…”
Great, I left her speechless. “If you want to keep your sister alive, you better keep her away from me. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop myself If I see her again.”
“Null, if you’re going to stay here with me, in the same castle that she also lives in, you’re going to run into her sooner or later… and I’m sure she’ll come to apologize as well! Just give her time.” she sits back down, but keeps a bit of distance from me.
“Doesn’t matter. She’ll never be forgiven.”
“B-but, I’m sure she’s truly sorry!”
“I don’t care! Luna, not everything can be fixed with a few words. Before you waltzed in, I was putting everything into perspective for her exactly how badly she fucked up. She’s probably feeling real guilty and upset about what she did. And that’s good! I want her to suffer that guilt, she deserves it. If she comes to me to pour her heart out, I’ll fucking laugh.” I give off a mock laugh just to put emphasis on my point. “Side note, where even were you anyways?”
She seems to want to ignore my recent question, but she knows I won’t change my stance, so she lets out a sigh. “I’d just gotten back from a meeting in a foreign country. Imagine my surprise when I find out Discord had just attacked… I came as fast as I could, but it seems the Element Bearers took care of it before I could get here.”
“Wait, wait, wait a second, Discord attacked? When?” I sit up and look at her.
“It was about an hour before I ran into you. Now that you know where I was, what about you? How did you get free?” she questions.
I raise a finger and open my mouth to respond but stop when I realize I don’t even know. “...That’s a good question…”
“You mean you don’t know?”
“I wasn’t even conscious, the fuck do you want from me?! All I know is out of nowhere I’m slowly regaining my consciousness, then a bit of pain, then I’m free.” I say harshly.
She flinches from my harsh tone, but let’s out a sigh. We sit in awkward silence for a bit, and I lay back down. I feel sleep starting to grip me, but Luna’s voice pulls me from it.
“What about your eye? The last one who had an eye like it nearly wiped out all life on equis…”
“The fuck was that guy called again? The hash slinging slasher or something like that? Doesn’t matter. Anyways, I don’t know shit about it. I got stuck in a cave one day in my home world and found a glowing blue orb, touched it, next thing I know I’m here in Equestria. I wandered for a couple days, then I ran into you after getting time warped. You know the rest. My eye used to be normal like my right one.” I say, pointing at my right eye for emphasis.
She looks at my eyes for a moment, and I look away from her, not wanting to see through her vision. “Sooo… what can you do with it?”
“Fuck if I know. So far, all I know is it can tell me things about other things, I can see through other people's sight, and I can blast shit apparently. Discovered that last one when I woke up. Hurts like a bitch too.” I say as I scratch off some of the blood that’s dried on my face.
“Could be a bit more I can do, but I haven’t found out yet. Being imobile kinda makes it hard to find out what you can do, ya know?” I see her open her mouth but I cut her off. “And if you’re wondering if the eye makes me want to destroy Equestria like the last guy tried to do, no. that guy was probably just a dick. Either that or it isn’t affecting me for some reason or another.” her mouth clicks shut.
I let out a yawn, reveling in the feeling of tiredness, but once again it’s torn from me as I feel something wet touch my face. Jumping back, I look at Luna floating a wet rag where my head used to be. “The fuck are you doing?”
“Well, you seem tired. I just figured you’d sleep easier without all that blood on your face. Plus, I don’t want it on my bed either.”
I go to say something but I realize she has a point. “Fine, whatever.” I lay back down where I was, and she starts wiping the blood from my face. Surprisingly it's actually quite soothing, and I find sleep gripping me even quicker. Before I know it, I’m out cold.
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Ah, dammit. I was hoping he was a little more off the deep end. However! I'm actually also glad that's not the case, because now we can see a shit tonne of other stuff involving his eye instead of manslaughter ponyslaughter? and proceeding to be put back into stone.
Or, y'know, killed.
Great chapter, bruv!
The first good night's sleep he's had in two thousand years. You never know how precious something is until you lose it.
Hm, I only have one real problem, and that's the swearing.
I get that he's extremely pissed, but there's no precedent for him swearing really.
It's a little difficult to read when everything he says is just violent anger and swearing. At this point I'm actually just expecting him to kill Celestia and Luna, and then still be pissed and kill everything else.
Downvotes here I come. Edit: Well look what y'all done did. Now I have a well like comment. Thanks guys & gals.
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luna wouldn't allow it this time.
woo new chapter!! hmm....liking the 'interaction' between them.
So Null explicitly states that being stoned is worse than death... You know what would be interesting? If Null found out about Discord being turned to stone as well, and destroyed his statue to spare Discord, like he would have preferred for himself.
Which screws up the timeline, of course. I don't need to see the standard MLP show all over again, just with a human angsting in the background.
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Upvoted because your comment amused me.
Null? Living with the ones responsible for his predicament?
He'd do better away from them - hell, becoming predator food seems like a reprieve when compared to dealing with them.
Seriously though, this was a nice chapter that clarified a lot to us readers what will be going on in the near future. Thank you kindly for your hard work, and may your hands be fruitful!
Just found the first story, power read through it. Feels a bit forced on the profanity at times - then again, 14. But all in all, I liked it quite a bit
The animosity take is always neat...This isn't going to become yet another dysfunctional human and princess romance is it?
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I mean... If you think the swearing is a bit forced, I don't think you've met me. I genuinely curse just as much, and I'm sure there's more who curse more than me. Either way, as for Luna x dysfunctional human? I can tell you that romance will definitely not be the main focus of this story. However, I've still yet to decide on if there will be any romance at all ...
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Don't get me wrong, I don't care about swearing itself. Just sounds weird when nothing is prompting it. But the maturity level of the character fits... so... le shrug?
Edit: Not a jab at you if you really do swear that much
I honestly hope Celestia comes barging in to do the whole "I'm sorry i fucked you up by imprisoning you for 2000 years on a possibility of a hunch" shtick... it's so quiet you could hear a mouse fart... and then Null just clocks her in the goddamn mouth.
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Heh, hash slinging slasher. Wouldn't Null also have an axe to grind against Discord as well?
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Maybe he could literally grind it against him
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You gotta remember, he was imprisoned in stone for 2000 years. I would throw f-bombs left and right as well, just because i finally can. 2 millenia without swearing. As a teenager. Now just wait, it won't be long before he empties Celestia's personal wine cellar and covers the castle walls with obscene graffiti.
Also, congratulations on scoring number 1 on featured, DekaSkittalz!
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Wouldn't be the first story where Celestia gets a knuckle sandwich.
I was not expecting this, puny pony.
I am quite pleased! and I can already see the I'm back memes
Darn it, I just laid down to go to sleep and decided to see if there were any updates on fimfiction and of course there is but I just had to read it so awesome chapter, but now I got to go to sleep cuz it is 4:30 in the morning, yay sleep.
*Gasp* THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER?!?
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Last I checked he was found at 3AM at the Krusty Krab.
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What did Discord do to him? Warp him through time? Literally free him
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I personally don't think she should apologize because I believe she knows it won't be accepted AT ALL. If anything, She would always be ready to f'in blast him off the face of existence because he clearly only wants her dead. What would apologizing to a man who wants you dead do other than get you dead?
I bet though the possible Celestia vs Null fight will be awesome.
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Culture also play a part in how much swearing is usual for a person.
For those who live in north of Norway, hæstkuk (horse cock) is legally considered an auxiliary verb in daily speech.
Depending on which tone you use and the setting, it may even be seen as a part of a compliment.
Several times have there been cases where northerners have called police officers this, been fined, then acquitted in court.
I once accidentally scared my cousin who was born and raised up there, and what followed was a solid 30 seconds of continuous swearing and a "...you scared me."
I would like to see the discussion that followed between Celestia, Twilight and her friends. And the reaction to their stone imprisonment of Discord.
Not to mention Luna having a conversation with Celestia about Null's situation after she was purified of NMM, till now. And why she wasn't told.
Oh I reaaaaaaally wonder what is going on with the Bearers and Celestia right now, and what our beloved Sunbutt must be feeling right now...
It must be nice to sleep for the first time in 2000 years... though the loss of consciousness for the last thousand probably really doesn't count.
And now Null is in Luna's world, and they can explore his Dreams together...
Great chapter!
On to the next!
The swearing is gettin to be a bit much, but he was a teenager before getting stoned, so I can't say it's out of character. Well, I can, since I don't remember this much of it in the first story. But he is angry, so hopefully it'll pass.
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I think I made him swear quite a bit in the first one... Either way, i don't get why people are attributing him swearing alot to his age; I swear just as much and I'm an adult. He swears alot because he just doesn't care anymore.
Okey, really, enough swearing.
It's not a problem of character, it's just feels... Dumb. Swearing makes his emotions look cheap. Like an anger of a drunkard.
Goodness me look at this update. It's good!
He's either gonna feel great, or awful after that sleep. I hope no one tries to wake him. They'll get a blast to the face.
So this might sound a bit overpowered. I don't know I'm not a writer. What if the eye eventually could allow him to see insecurities. Of any kind. Including emotional or psychological insecurities. Not quite as OP as mind reading but it'd help him push a few buttons, make his enemies lose their composure.
Trying to break something? The eye could tell him the best way to do that.
I'd just like to see more variety than names and a "fuck you" laser. I did rather like the POV hitchhiker thing though.
I wonder what will be the reaction of others after what Null told Celestia... He shouted it enough in the middle of the celebration that everyone managed to hear it.
Our boi is free, questionably sane, and really pissed off. Ah, makes me remember back when I was completely sane. Good times.
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To begin, I am not a doctor.
I would be really fucking surprised and worried if this character didn't have mental health issues as a result of their imprisonment. As someone who has suffered from psychosis and some other issues, I can safely say that this character likely is suffering some issues, potentially including but not limited to: PTSD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and so on. These issues aren't fun to deal with, and can be quite difficult to treat. I like the way the story is going, and felt I should put my input on this.
Huh... The Eye of Horus is a right eye, associated with Ra, and is a symbol of protection. The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and the god Djehuti (Thoth), god of Wisdom.
great chapter
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undertale? :3
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To be fair, he did spend 2000 or so years without a biologically-active brain. Sure he could think, but his brain couldn't produce things like endorphin, serotonin, and other chemicals that not only effect one's body, but thought process as well (aka emotions). Like the previous story said, he couldn't feel emotions, just that logically he should feel an emotion at something.
He's probably either grown unused to emotion as a whole and thus unable to control them OR his brain's making up for lost time.
Well ain't you a Speedy McSpeederson?
I suppose the next thing, is that he'll dream for the first time in forever?
Ow the edge
Damn I curse like a sailor and even I think this dudes got a pottymouth. It's like if you took shaggy but replaced the likes with swearing.
Welp, I’m all caught up...
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crap I’m all caught up!
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I'm sure it means exactly what I know it means. Despite having a big vocabulary already, I still check words before I use them.
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It's probably gonna be his only offensive power. I just couldn't get around him not having one proper ability that could be used as a legitimate attack. On top of which, you saw how it affected him; not something to be using freely. Lastly, you're disappointed to see him charge in without a plan? Given the context of his situation, do you really think he could think up a plan? He found he had the means to kill someone who took everything from him. What's that phrase? Don't mess with a man who's got nothing left to lose?
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No super strength? Don't know where you got that idea from.
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I'll admit that the swearing makes the story a little painful to read. I'm reading because the story itself is amazing and ties in the events of the show's lore very nicely, but the main character is an edgy teenager. If that's what you're going for then you've basically captured perfectly a 14 year old who thinks that swearing the holy grail of speech. It shows that despite all the time he spent in the statue, he's still an immature kid at heart, something that makes me wonder how Luna will react when she realizes he's just some punk kid.
My name is Winkdude and in the TEDTalk I will...
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Eh, I agree, it DOES feel excessive. I can attribute it to him being so angry still, but I think if he continues swearing this often once he's calmed down, it'll be less easy to take, because then it'll feel even more like he just lacks vocabulary (a problem many people who swear a lot seem to suffer from). I do admit my opinion is likely effected by the fact that it's a little wincey for me to read the F-word twenty-odd times a chapter, but I think the logic is sound.
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The version of that I've heard is the scariest person to mess with is one with nothing left to lose because they have nothing to fear.
Something like that.
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considering he's (technically) 14 and on the brink of insanity what you're saying isn't really plausible that he suddenly is a mastermind.
He was a normal kid before this.