Starlight Glimmer must save her very much alive friend from being hauled away to the Promised Pastures. After all, Sunset Shimmer is not bereft of life, she is not pushing up the daisies, and she is not ringing down the curtain and joining the bleedin' choir invisible.
As a former student of Princess Twilight, Starlight's first instinct is to open a book.
Her second is to reach out for help.
Things get a bit complicated after that.
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Good luck getting God to do an extradition.
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Perhaps a nice Cultural Exchange! Come and see Horse Heaven.
Written well
Gotta love beurocracy and the loopholes they contain.
~Skeeter The Lurker
10489383
As Estee taught us, you find that rule the bureaucracy enforces without question, exploit it, then you get to negotiate.
Excellently written, but I feel like a little potential was missed somehow. Evergreen obviously has blind spots where alicorns and extradimensional beings are concerned. No proof is ever provided about whether Sunset Shimmer really is borrowing life-time from others- we only have Evergreen's word for it. Rather than confront the bureaucracy or attempt to fix it, the can is kicked down the road- and possibly not as far as the characters might think. And the biggest feature of the climax- that Evergreen is confronted mostly by human-world analogues and not ponies, without knowing or recognizing it- seems to fizzle. The plot point doesn't quite pay off, because the resolution would have come down the same way without it.
That said, the interaction and comparison/contrast between multiple ponidoxes is excellent- exactly the sort of thing this contest is about. Well done on characterization and subtle work.
Something I'm concerned about is where Sunset goes when it's time for her to die. If her slot in the Pasture's taken by her human self, does that mean she's stuck in human heaven?
There's a guest stream no one will ever forget.
"GREETINGS, HU-MONS! CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME?"
"HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO HEAR TRIXIE THROUGH THEIR SERIES OF TUBES IF TRIXIE DOESN'T SHOUT?"
"Trixie, you don't have to shout."
As far as long-term fates for Namepending Castle go, "convention center" is certainly one of the more viable ones.
Obviously. That lyre's not just for music if she kept up with Twilight and Moondancer at CSGU.
The cake vaults would soon be remade into a burger bar, but the principle held.
Wait, does that mean she has one prepared for human Twilight?
Oh. Well. That just proves the system's fallibility, doesn't it?
That's how it starts. Next thing you know, he'll have a toothbrush in her bathroom.
Ah. That particular bomb hasn't detonated yet.
"Also something about making sure your AI doesn't run rampant and try to upload all of humanity? I didn't really follow that part."
Oh dear. The Ageless Archives will be lucky if they don't end up reorganized to within an inch of their afterlives when this is all over.
At least it didn't turn into a massive tome containing the code of every app and file in the thing.
So... is no one going to say anything about the confirmation of a human afterlife? One that apparently predates that world's magical contamination? Seems like that'd be a big deal.
This was a fantastic study of multiple sets of analogues, along with being a gripping drama. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
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Thanks, FoME. I probably could have answered more of those questions, but it would have taken another five-ten thousand words to deal with the scope of my overall attempt.
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It may end up being temporary. A sort of 'We need a Sunset Shimmer to stand in the gap long enough for us to fix the system' loophole. Now, if human Shimmer wants to stay a pony, then we've got a whole different story on our hooves.
I know you're on the word limit, but surely you could find some other word to cut out.
This was an interesting concept, though I couldn't help but feel that the ponydox part was the less-critical half of this story. There are also a lot of questions to be asked about the details (you've added an entire afterlife, after all) and, ultimately, the plot (the story ended, but didn't really wrap anything up). I think, if you wanted to address everything while staying at or below 15k words, this might have been better off as two different stories.
Really, I guess that's the main thing I take issue with: I think you might have tried to do more than you could with the space you had. It's good, but kind of incomplete.
Very well paced for a talky fic. I like the idea of their afterlife being "good" and "wayward". Tartarus is just too empty for a world that has flims and flams in it.
I also wish there had been more resolution, but of course there was too much to cover everything. Maybe some missive about Luna continuing her appeal could have kept things exciting towards the end.
(left this open an old computer i just picked up again lol)
This needs a sequel or another chapter, they said that Twilight's file stopped updating and they need to figure out why so I would love for them to find out that Twilight Sparkle has cheated death.