"Once upon a time the world was ruled by rigid order and the law obsessed Alicorns, who had rules for everything and anything, to how ponies walked to how they breathed. They were jealous of us sea ponies and our music, for it was the one thing they could not create in their cold mechanical hearts. Their slaves questioned their almightiness if their masters could not produce music as beautiful as the sea-ponies.
"They debated between sending us to the moon, or drying up our ocean with the power of the sun they had enslaved. Finally they chose to curse us into big ugly hairy horned monsters called buffalo, while at the same time ensuring we would drown in our own ocean.
"But Master Discord, who loved our music, saved us by making the grim choice to remove our ocean so we, and our songs, might live. But he could not undo the curse the Alicorns had placed on us as long as the so-called 'Elements of Harmony' still functioned, named so to disguise their true purpose of imposing unyielding order upon innocent ponies."
"What did Alicorns look like?" Ask Waterflower.
Aqua-Marine grimaced. "They were absurd monsters, with Virgacorn horns, hippogriff wings, and the bodies of Earth ponies but all stretched out."
Waterflower belched. "They sound ugly."
"They were. But they insisted they were beautiful, and all that was beautiful was therefore ugly. But Master Discord fought against the massive army of Alicorns and single handedly and restored the Elements to their true forms and was able to break the curse. He granted us our new ocean floating in the sky, safe from those who would still seek us harm and ensuring the ground below was also another layer of defense from those who would destroy us in jealousy of our music. And that is why we constantly produce new songs in tribute to Master Discord."
The seaponies all cheered and clapped their flippers and fins. An ocean of snowflakes, no two alike. Some resembling sea-horses, others with countless fins, octopi, some looking like dolphins, but all beautiful, all innocent, all cheering Aqua-Marine's recount of their origins.
Random foals stuck their heads out of the water on the side to watch the cotton candy clouds fly by, sticking their tongues out for a quick taste of chocolate rain. Others floated on the surface lazily watching the sun and moon switch positions. While others watched ponies on the ground far below listen to their singing.
Their ocean in the sky, the mighty floating body of water Master had given them that would never be taken away from them by the Alicorns.
Little-Ocean-Heart and Sea Apple hugged each other smiling as their daughter Waterflower did loop-de-loops out the bottom of their ocean with reversed gravity pulling her back in without fail.
LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well that was uhhhhh well interesting
2190588 The winner writes the history books.
YES!!! I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THIS AGAIN!! YES!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, man, look.
You have written a lot of huge stories. And they have good plots. They even have characterization. But they have terrible grammar and stuff. I mean, it's not that I dislike this because it has bad grammar. It's because the level of plot development and characterization and writing I've seen in your works is marred by the atrocious butchery of the language. I only criticize it because of how good the stories are. It's like if someone wrote Don Quixote and misspelled everything.
Asked. ASKED WATERFLOWER.
"Once upon a time, the world was ruled by rigid order and the law-obsessed Alicorns, who had rules for everything and anything, from how ponies walked to how they breathed. They were jealous of us sea ponies and our music, for it was the one thing they could not create in their cold mechanical hearts. Their slaves questioned their almightiness if their masters could not produce music as beautiful as the sea-ponies.
"They debated between sending us to the moon, or drying up our ocean with the power of the sun they had enslaved. Finally they chose to curse us to be transformed into big ugly hairy horned monsters called buffalo, while at the same time ensuring we would drown in our own ocean.
"But Master Discord, who loved our music, saved us by making the grim choice to remove our ocean so we, and our songs, might live. But he could not undo the curse the Alicorns had placed on us as long as the so-called 'Elements of Harmony' still functioned, named so to disguise their true purpose of imposing unyielding order upon innocent ponies."
"What did Alicorns look like?" Asked Waterflower.
Aqua-Marine grimaced. "They were absurd monsters, with Virgacorn horns, hippogriff wings, and the bodies of Earth ponies but all stretched out."
Waterflower belched. "They sound ugly."
"They were. But they insisted they were beautiful, and all that was beautiful was therefore ugly. But Master Discord fought against the massive army of Alicorns, single handedly restored the Elements to their true forms and was able to break the curse. He granted us our new ocean, floating in the sky, safe from those who would still seek to cause us harm and ensuring the ground below would be another layer of defense from those who would destroy us in jealousy of our music. And that is why we constantly produce new songs in tribute to Master Discord."
The seaponies all cheered and clapped their flippers and fins. An ocean of snowflakes, no two alike. Some resembling seahorses, others with countless fins, octopi, some looking like dolphins, but all beautiful, all innocent, all cheering Aqua-Marine's account of their origins.
Random foals stuck their heads out of the water on the side to watch the cotton candy clouds fly by, sticking their tongues out for a quick taste of chocolate rain. Others floated on the surface lazily watching the sun and moon switch positions. Others watched ponies on the ground far below listen to their singing.
Their ocean in the sky, the mighty floating body of water their Master had given them, that would never be taken away from them by the Alicorns.
Little-Ocean-Heart and Sea Apple hugged each other, smiling as their daughter Waterflower did loop-de-loops out the bottom of their ocean, with reversed gravity pulling her back in without fail.
I'm with fashion here; your stories are absolutely amazing, but I can't help but wince when I read them. Get a prereader to fix everything up.
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Eeyup
this story read well with "the Rains of Castamere" instrumental
I haven't actually started reading this part yet. Does this season follow Mind Games? I'm asking because this story's description makes it sound like it doesn't.
4432701 This story, as you will discover, takes place in an alternate timeline first introduced in Season Zero: the Dark World, the result of Discord's victory.
err.. o_0 in the words of Applebloom.. what jus happened?
So... Equestria is part of the Warhammer 40K Universe?
Okay, that makes me curious. How does the Warp and the Chaos Gods fit into the POV Pantheon. Since it's been stated in 40K lore that the Warp IS the afterlife for EVERYTHING (However, only the Eldar have enough psychic power to maintain consciousness once they die, unfortunately for them). And Tzeentch is so perfectly omniscient that literally EVERYTHING is part of his plan. Which would logically make him stronger than the Four Elders
Entropy: "YOU DON'T EXIST"
Tzeentch: "Exactly, just what I wanted."
*doink*
I'm looking forward to this story already
Ah! It's good to be back!
Is this a sequel
Until the morning comes...
7555805 I see I'm not the only Jurist who's a fan of POV
Okay, I've been meaning to find this particular story for a while now and I got to say, I'm very much looking forward to it after this.
So much mystery.
Were these guys duped by Discord?
Do they just view things differently?
Are they bizarro beasts?
Is it opposite day?
Or is everything we know about Equestria a lie?
Thanks for the ride, doc! Hoooooo boy this is gonna be a long one. Strap yourselves in kiddies, we got a lot of road to cover!
Them's fightin' words!
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Beware, technical details are abound in this season, a lot of them.