After a mishap at your hometown, you're sent to the School of Friendship in Ponyville to finish your education. Though your time at the school is tolerable, you can not find yourself falling for the messages of harmony that both students and teachers preach. Nonetheless, your new home allows you to escape the troubles that have been plaguing your mind for the past several months.
But one day, all of that peace comes crashing down when Ponyville is suddenly attacked by an unknown magical entity. Just before you become a victim, you're suddenly overtaken by a bright light and subjected to a mysterious voice --- one that instructs you to learn about the value of friendship and hope in order to save Equestria from a growing threat.
When the light disappears, you find yourself in a new world, surrounded by ponies with little to no knowledge of the times before, but nonetheless seek to rebuild equine civilization as magic has suddenly returned. Can you find the solution to save your timeline from a looming danger, or will your lack of faith in goodness prevent you from learning how to let go of the past, and thus dooming everything and everycreature you know?
Rewrite of Friends From Across Time
Cover art is made by IRUSU on Twitter
2nd POV character will be referred by gender neutral pronouns (they/them). Most chapters will have three variations based on each pony race (unicorn, pegasus, and earth pony).
Story takes place in the same universe as Apostle
Spoilers for the G4 season 10 comics and G5 comics will be present.
Interesting so far, so instaed of the mc travelling back in time to the school of friendship, they travel forward to g5
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Yeah, it's something like that. I hope you'll enjoy it.
Maybe if they succeed. They can actually change G5 for the better? So, everypony won't turn on each other for stupid xenophobic reasons, won't lose their magic in the first place. And we can finally have the non-pony kingdoms/nations show up.
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The story is more about going into the future to change the past/present. But your idea doesn't sound that bad, though I still have hope that the staff behind G5 will explain why things turned out the way they did in a good manner.
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Me too. Also, when you said this;
How does going in the future change something in the past/present? Isn't that the other way around, because that's not how time travel works, I think?
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Basically your OC has to learn something about the "good" future in a separate timeline in order to save the present from falling into another timeline where the future is bad
what if the netfix virson is from the land they left behind
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If you mean that the main character/you are from the future (where G5 takes place)then no. The main character was born sometime after the Ending of the End
Why isn't there a dark tag?
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Thanks for telling me that. Looking back at my draft, the story does have some dark moments in the future chapters. I alter got the tag up. :)
things just got intense
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Definitely…
My oc is a bat pony, but I don’t know if they canonically exist in g5
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That's okay. Thanks for sharing!
Honestly, [Y/N] being a Earth Pony would make the story more interesting imo. Seeing as they don't have the advantage of using magic or flight, they'll have to get creative when solving problems.
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Thanks. I agree!
I'm really enjoying this so far! Really looking forward to more chapters
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Thanks! This is a story that I'm really dedicated to!
Why is chapter three so much longer than the other chapters?
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It wasn't something I expected to happen. I originally planned for it to be around 5k words, but I guess I realized I had to add it more details to the chapter as I worked on it. I guess I could have split Ch 3 into sub-chapters (e.g., Ch 3.1 and 3.2), but I felt weird about doing that. I might do sub-chapters in the future if I feel that the second half of a chapter is going to take a while to publish.
Yay another chapter!!! :D
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Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying the story! Chapter 7 should be coming out this March.
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Great 👍
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Will any future chapters ever be that long?
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Some of them probably will.
It's getting more and more interesting by the chapter! Can't wait for the next one!
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Thanks! Chapter 12 should be coming up sometime this month! Please stay on the lookout!
I am not too really sure about Yes/No, Your Name, [Y/N].
This is really awkward to read, not to mention that it is also distracting.
A complaint about you've gone about in involving us is a little too out there. Don't get me wrong, I am okay with second person stories.
Since it is about us, I would honestly prefer if we were given a proper name rather than us doing it up for you. That would have binded us to the character well. Unless the character is literally named "[Y/N]" for story reasons.
The main issue is that you've made it in a way that directly involves the reader's OC which they have their own headcanons about. Not to mention gender, race, and beliefs.
It is like involving us in a story where we have no say in how we're portrayed.
Otherwise, the best way to handle involve us without this finiky Yes/No is to either remove all mentions of his name or give us a set name. Heck, we have an Anon tag for a reason despite all the baggages that comes with him/her/them. Anon represents us.
Plus, I cannot stop calling him Bracket Yes-No.
P.S. Apparently there are 2 other chapter ones but with other races...
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I can understand your comments about the use of [Y/N] instead of a regular name like Anon. Originally, I was going to let the protagonist be referred to by a nickname, but then I figured that the reader would be more immersed in the story if they imagined that the characters of the stories referred to them by whatever name their pony OC had.
In terms of how the protagonist of this story may not have the same personality or beliefs as the OC’s of the reader, I just assumed that that’s just a normal risk that comes with writing 2nd POV stories. There have been a few 2nd POV stories I’ve read where the character does something that I could not imagine doing if I was really there, but then I come to a conclusion that many of the other readers probably would make those decisions. But for the most part, the protagonist in this story has a rather moderate temper, though a bit asocial as seen in this act.
Also, I apologize with you getting confused by how chapter 1 has three versions. I originally planned for the main character to be of any of the three pony races, but I eventually decided to just restrict them to one race to save time on writing and avoid chapter variations of different lengths. I was thinking of deleting the unicorn and pegasus variations, but I kept them for those who may have liked reading them.
Though I don’t plan on getting rid of the use of [Y/N], I do appreciate your honest comments.
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Question:
Is it acquired to read the other stories before this?
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Thanks for mentioning that! Most of the story of "Apostle" will be explained in a chapter of the new story I'm planning. To be honest, "Apostle" probably won't be finished until after I'm done with YFFAT and the sequel, as I feel like I can only divide my writing time efficiently between two stories at the moment. I'll be sure to update the author's note about Apostle.
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This just comfused me more
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Basically you don't have to do any additional reading. "Apostle" is set in the same universe as "YFFAT" and the sequel story, but "Apostle" won't be finished until the sequel is almost done. The events of "Apostle" and "YFFAT" will be brought up in the sequel. I just really like the idea of what I have planned for the sequel, so that's why I'm releasing it even though I'm not done with "YFFAT" or "Apostle" yet.