The Grand and Prodigious Hexie is a self-taught magician! Just not a very well-received one. Will her latest attempt to earn a few coins be any more successful than her dozens of tries in previous towns?
Depends on your definition of "successful."
No Alt. Universe tag for reasons that become apparent by the story’s end.
This is the first of the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every Thursday for the foreseeable future.
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Aw, this was sweet. Clearly it’s Hexie’s personality that gets passed down through the ages, too. But of course! For Hexie has the Greatest and Most Dominant Genes!
Looking forward to future installments in this series.
Excellent job on this one shot. REALLY felt bad for Trixie's too many greats to list grandmother for how those superstitious jerks reacted to her show. But, at least she got SOME help, courtesy of Threadbare.
Anyway, REALLY good job on the action, characterizations, exchanges and actually sweet ending to this story.
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Unluckiness runs in their family, but so does spunkiness. I made doubly sure that Hexie remained upbeat and determined the entire fic, and that as a result karma finally threw her a bone at the end.
The chapter title isn’t a lie.
Despite what you said on Reddit the other day about Trixie not knowing her own father, having a pedigree so long that she can trace her line back 650 years fits the character. She's a loser who thinks she's hot stuff, like old aristocratic families that have become forgotten and impoverished but are too proud to live within their means. The fact that her ancestor was actually even more of a loser than she is, which is a detail that's probably been left out of 650 years of oral history by a line of egoists, is the icing on the cake.
This detail is inspired.
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I made certain to include that line immediately after Threadbare’s comment about being “rude in front of lady.” Character contrast is fun.
Also I just realized I’m not Following you back. My bad; I’ll fix that.
Hey, you put this one down!
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Yeah, gonna start uploading the big backlog. Vitty, Stock Image, Speedy Recovery, Cozetta... I’m proud enough of their stories to share ‘em with a larger audience.
Speaking of uploading the Snippets, I know you haven’t updated your Graybles in a hot minute, but would you want me to add them to the linked folder?
Really liked this from the concept tp the execution!
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Fuck, I haven't update them in a while, I'll try to get on that at some point. I'd appreciate it a lot.
Hm.
Oh what a mistake it was not reading this sooner
Nice little story! Take a like
This was my favourite part because it’s another example of your subtle worldbuilding that makes it feel like there’s a world outside the story. It makes sense that ponies would be more racist in the past. This whole fanfic reminded me of a throwaway line in another fanfic about how there were villages of Earth ponies who rejected magic.
Nice, though the end conversation would probably involve a lot more shouting unless her eardrums heal preternaturally fast.