A promising member of the royal guard, and Princess Luna's aide, was helping his two Canterlot Princesses with a personal favor involving their old home in the Everfree Forest. After a rather weird encounter with an unknown being, the royal guard codename 'Aero' discovers that he is now alone in the forest.
Later on, he also realizes that something very strange is going on.
Especially with the mares.
Set during Season 6, after "The Crystalling" Part 2 (from Aero's perspective).
RGRE [Reversed gender roles Equestria] (From Chapter 2 onwards)
Cover Art by Riouku.
First featured 01-12-2021. (That was really fast, to be honest. Thank you guys.)
Chapters (14)
hes so going to assume he came from the future.
And so the game of one million questions begins
...See, I wanna quote what Joker said in ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’, but I can’t remember it for the life of me.
I love it
Nice start m8, hope this doesnt die. Good writing btw
Ty for the chapter. PRAISE THE SUN \|T|/
This is going to be so much fun. I love rgre stories like this. Over the top gender role flip to make it funny with out it being to cringe. The fact that Aero seems to be a native equestiran from an egalitarian Equestria rather than a displaced anon is another plus.
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I hope too 🤞🤞🤞
This story is super well written, I hope there will be updates regularly.
your already winning over by having a fic not named anon, nothing against Anon fics.
Its just brings back memories of another fic that I wished would be confirmed cancelled instead of hoping for an update.
'I'm not the hero' is the name of it btw.
Any pictures of the creature cause right now it kinda sounds like a heartless crossed with fathers original form in fullmetal alchemist.
It took me a moment to realize that he was transported into another world. Nice.
Alright this is definitely a departure from your average RGRE. I'll be watching
Woah wait a minute, what does she mean by that?
Is it supposed to have a meaning or something?
Elemental?
Mage?
What is it?
What are the other reasons?
Aww, they’ll have some girl talk.
Are those symbols gonna be important?
Just like the guards, he’s stupid.
The premise here is interesting but it seems very self congratulatory to the protagonist.
A lot of ‘he so hawt’ ‘he’s so amazing’; telling but not showing.
He’s perfect in every way, which screams...well OC.
The build up is good. The Rgre aspect is interesting but the focus is on him too much.
Give him some flaws, something that he needs to struggle with.
It’s early, and I am curious on what will happen, but I’m not hooked. Do continue
I would suggest working on making your tenses consistent. Throughout your story you switched between present and past.
Wait, then why is he red?
Are we ever gonna meet them?
I mean, starlight does it, too. So I don’t think there’s anything to worry about.
Wait a minute.
Why?
Interesting
Wait, I thought he wasn’t a royal guard, anymore.
Wait, what makes him think that?
What?
I thought they were turned into necklaces.
Why?
It represents something?
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It's funny how nowadays we associate a certain color with nature. You thought he should have a green or white coat, right? He may have an unusual ability, but he's not a destined hero or something.
Maybe :)
Consider that this is a RGRE (Reversed Gender Roles Equestria) story.
In RGRE universes, stallions are very, very rare. Mares are accustomed to making herds with the few stallions alive. What's even more rare is to find a single stallion that's not in a herd (it almost never happens). If you add that he has good looks and a well-toned body, a mare from a RGRE will try to herd him whatever it takes.
He is Luna's Aide, and a member of a group of high-ranking royal guards. Explained in chapter 1.
Form Aero's perspective, Fluttershy doesn't remember him.
That he is interested in her (and therefore, start a herd with her.)
You...kinda get what he means at the end of the chapter.
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Oh my god, you can't just ask people why they're red!
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I honestly thought since he was red that he’s element was fire. Also, if he’s not destined to be a hero or anything, then what makes his ability special?
I honestly didn’t really think the tree represented anything.
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Ok thinking about it, I can probably see how that sounds wrong.
You almost make it sound like the Twilight in his universe suffered great injuries. And if so, it makes me wonder what the heck Twilight fought to end up that way.
Hmm very interesting I gladly await for more though I wonder/hope that Celestia, Luna, and maybe even Discord follow after Aero or maybe at least Luna and Discord if this is before Twilight learns to control the sun and moon
Interesting story so far.
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Maybe it was too much, my bad. It was only to make the point that, at the eyes of Aero, it was definitely Twilight Sparkle.
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Yes, that was the first thing I noticed.
There’s also a part that talks about the princesses taking “hundreds of years” to work up the nerve to return here. Celestia, sure. Luna? Not unless this is set hundreds of years after the show... which it isn’t, unless Aero is immortal, since he’s explicitly identified one of the first ponies to have approached Luna after her return. That cracks a plot hole in your timeline big enough for Former Dragon Lord Torch to take a nap in.
Well, aside from Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra, Discord again, and possibly even
HeartbreakerFlurry Heart, Tirek, and GlimGlam Rounds One and/or Two... otherwise he wouldn’t be after “Princess” Twilight, now, would he?Edit: okay, I see what you’re trying to do now. He’s not in his Equestria anymore. I would say that that tidbit was a bit too blatant. It’s too big a contradiction, so it slaps the reader in the face instead of starting down the AU hint trail gracefully. Instead, a reader coming at it cold just gets a “Hay! What the buck?” moment. The rest of the chapter doesn’t need it to make sense and reveal your twist, so maybe prevent that pacing problem and remove it?
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I get what you mean. I admit that I was thinking about the people that already know about RGRE stories when I had the idea for this story. I also made the first chapters that confusing because honestly, that's how it would be. Stallion from canon Equestria would be confused as hell, and a RGRE mare would be even more confused about a stallion that is not 'soft & fragile'
I do want to get the point across in chapter 3 tho.
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You're fine. When I read it again I see what you were going for. I just jumped to conclusions.
I wonder if there's any chance that the two different Celestias will end up meeting each other, and which would win in a fight.
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Man, that sounds like I really need to change that part a bit O:
Aero seems like an interesting OC.
This looks really awesome.
Can't wait to see where this goes.
So basically, Aero not only went into an Alternate Universe, but ALSO an Alternate TIMELINE?
This story is great, love to see more of this!
Did somebody accidentally the Publish button?
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Guilty as charged :(
Neato burrito
Where did he get it from?
Wait, really?
I can’t wait to see the others.
So if someone else said it, it wouldn’t sound wrong?
What episode was that from?
Are we gonna get more information about that encounter?
What crawled up her flank?
Wait, so that’s what he does?
Wait, what?
Thank god/celestia
And the fact that Aero’s been hopping between realms has finally sunk in.
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Rick and Morty?
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God, I hope not.
Cool. Im hooked.
Great chapter
So Celestial made the call to move toward herds before Luna came back, meaning she was from a time when stallions were normal. Now Aero is Luna aide and they’re going to see the princesses of this reality, meaning not only will his knowledge of the reclusive princess be surprising, but he acts as normal stallion should!
Two Lunas will be after the same stallion before long.
interesting,the ponie not hostle to changeling and this is not post-season 6
now i want to know Queen Chrysalis in this universe
Honestly I find it ridiculous how everyone including discord is so slow to think alternative universe,surely sunset and the mirror universe happened in areo universe
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I mean the human world with Sunset at least they have a link they know very well (the mirror in the Crystal Empire), and if I'm not wrong, the mirror universe is from the comics (I'm not using comics lore here, otherwise it would be specified in the tags)
Please understand that, at the time, everyone thought he was missing (like, still in Canon-Equestria). Celestia only identified that 'some sort of teleport magic was used', and the fact that Discord detected chaos magic (even if it's non-equestrian), doesn't mean he will immediately think of alternate universes.
He saw the clues during the chapter, and asked Twilight and Fluttershy just to be sure.
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When I meant mirror universe I was referring to equestrian girls also areo surly was told of the universe travelling mirror so surly he be able to work it out
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Oh, my bad then.
You see, they had plenty of time to study the mirror. Enough to know where it leads to. In Aero's case, they only have a tiny piece of unknown magic. They have very little to work with, and even then, Discord got lucky seeing that moment in the library, then he put 2 and 2 together. However, there's one pony who can help the Princesses and Discord. You may already know who it is if we consider canon and movies
And I'm pretty sure Aero will discover it one way or another in the next chapter.
I'm going to make a prediction that Rainbow will end up crashing into Aero or something like that happening in the next chapter.