After the death of Spike, Twilight Sparkle begins to struggle with depression and alcoholism. Friends fall away and her life unravels around her. Faced with the bleakest of times, Twilight finds her new assistant has a dark secret that might help.
God... This chapter hit like every stone in the world tumbled down on me, and felt every bit as crushing. Reading these opening chapters is like sliding my hand through a gauntlet of barbs and broken glass to reach a bottle of whiskey. If that's what you were going for then you succeeded in spade. Watching Twilight's life fall apart, and every little thing break away or blow back in her face was, again, miserable and grueling, but outstanding all at the same time from how raw and authentic the misery feels. Excellent, if but depressing, work!
11205830 Thanks. I didn't want to just throw suicide in as a plot device unless it was truly a believable decision for the character to make. I thought a perfect storm of bad things on top of bad things would make the necessary concoction... and also grow reader empathy...
God... This chapter hit like every stone in the world tumbled down on me, and felt every bit as crushing. Reading these opening chapters is like sliding my hand through a gauntlet of barbs and broken glass to reach a bottle of whiskey. If that's what you were going for then you succeeded in spade. Watching Twilight's life fall apart, and every little thing break away or blow back in her face was, again, miserable and grueling, but outstanding all at the same time from how raw and authentic the misery feels. Excellent, if but depressing, work!
11205830
Thanks. I didn't want to just throw suicide in as a plot device unless it was truly a believable decision for the character to make. I thought a perfect storm of bad things on top of bad things would make the necessary concoction... and also grow reader empathy...