Tender Taps is living his dream. He's moved to Manehattan, gets to dance for a living and even managed to get a position in the cast of a Bridle-Way musical.
As he is getting ready to go on stage he catches the attention of a certain mare with connections to his past and maybe future.
This was written for the Down the Rabbit Hell Writing Club (or DRHWC for short)'s Mars event. The prompt was Attraction.
This now has a sequel: What I would have done. Written by the extremely talented: Applezombi
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I really liked this. The presence of Best Filly drew me in, but this genuine interaction between the two clinched it for me. It really felt like "two ships passing in the night." Just two ponies doing their job who happen to end up talking. Very realistic take on how relationships can form.
Babs felt very close to what we saw in the show. Granted, she never flirted depending on how far you take the tsundere model, but the tough girl attitude she put forth, along with a no nonsense blunt nature of a stereotypical
New YorkerManhattenite, I can totally buy her being that forward, even including the slap on the cutie mark.This was really good, and I would love if it we ever returned to this pair. Stay awesome!
Now there's a ship I haven't seen on Fimfiction in a very long time.
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Thank you, that means a lot to hear. Yes there is more planned with this couple. I'm especially glad I managed to get Babs' character down well.
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Oh there's more coming.
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Fantastic. Keep up the good work.
This was really good and a fun read. I hope to see much more from this pair, they are adorable together. <3
Never thought I'd see this ship, but it turned out really well. A nice little story about two underrated characters!
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Thank you. I have more planned for these two, not sure if I'll expand this one or release them separately yet.
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Thank you. It was actually suggested by a friend of mine, and I just had to try it out.
Interesting ship. Liked the interactions between the two, and while things moved a little bit fast you definitely set it up well. Good work.
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Thank you, and I agree about the pacing. I was working with a target word count of a 1000 so I had to edit it down more than I'd like. Yet I didn't feel like making an entire rewrite to post it on FimFic either.
So... Is Tender related to Scootaloo in this story?
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Nope, they just have the same colour coat and mane.
Although since they look alike, live in the same town and it took us ages to learn anything about Scoota's family... That's a reasonable assumption. I didn't think of that.
This was a fun pair that worked surprisingly well, both in how they would meet and how they played off of each other.
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Glad you liked it.