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Before Bon Bon married the love of her life, Lyra Heartstrings, an odd event one day lead her to a short, bittersweet affair with a strange, two-legged creature she'd never seen before.
A My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic x Fallout: New Vegas crossover, featuring Bon Bon x Red Lucy as the core ship. (Please note, while this IS a MLP x Fallout crossover, it is NOT a Fallout Equestria fic)
Written for Bicyclette's Woman x Mare shipping contest.
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I've played New Vegas numerous times in my life, and yet, somehow, I never met Red Lucy. Lovely story written there, and I love the crossover. The site really needs more New Vegas writing.
i am so hype for this
i know the feeling. also, it's a small thing, but i am happy to see that the Fandom Police officer arresting you here was a woman. #girlboss!
so true! as fun as it would be to see Bon Bon in full suspicious grump right off the bat, it's also nice to see her nicer
ah yeah, EqG world being part of the canon does make humans in Equestria just another weird event like any other
ugh, Bon Bon is so cool!
indeed! Bon Bon is in a unique position compared to most Equestrians, better able to appreciate Equestria's peace and safety by knowing firsthoof what it takes to keep it that way. it really does make her a perfect pony counterpart for an HiE story, and i could go on!
aww! love little bits of equine body language like this
hehe, good on her for starting on the inclusive languages seasons ahead of schedule
aww! that is so very Twilight
ah, just love this little moment of understanding between them. it's funny, since i definitely see Bon Bon as having to manage Lyra's obliviousness and lack of social graces on behalf of the ponies that are around them, being the one that is more observant and serious by temperament and biography. this is sort of a reversal of that dynamic, of Bon Bon having to look out for someone who is less comfortable speaking up instead, and it works just as well. again, i love it!
ugh, so adorable! i know, i know, how else are earthponies supposed to do things?
i do imagine the LyraBon relationship starting out when Bon Bon rents her spare room to Lyra, so it's nice to see this match my headcanon
two restrooms for a house inhabited by one pony? such luxury, Bon Bon!
that does sound like a very nice evening
i love it!
hehehe classic
humans normally wear clothes!
that is the difference, living in a TV-Y universe
yes, she said the line! yes!
diabetes existing in Equestria is a bit surprising considering Pinkie's presumed diet, but horses certainly can get diabetic!
ooh, a gun?
a good call!
i always did think that was kind of silly!
huh, is this based on 28 Pranks Later establishing zombies as a cultural concept that exists in Equestria? or something from FoE?
a fun connection there! Fluttershy has to feed her carnivores somehow
i loved this entire exchange to the end, but this part is especially squee-worthy. just feeling Red Lucy's trepidation about being out of place in this innocent cartoon pony world, even though i have a far smaller gulf to cross than she does
really nice to see the S1 characterization of the Everfree coming back here! and it makes perfect sense that it's the part of Equestria that would feel the most familiar to Red Lucy
gotta admit, the idea of taking down a creature made up of magically animated logs with a gun is pretty funny
huh, guess shooting them in the head works!
absolute perfection that their first kiss comes in the thrilling wake of nearly dying from trying to murder a family of magical creatures. i love their love so much!
perfect and i love it
honestly, not sure if there could be a better first date for Bon Bon than killing magical creatures in a forest together!
yessssss title drop
if you are trying to kill me then you are succeeding
ugh you got me, i am actually tearing up in real life, okay?
agh, my heart!
my heart again, tears again, how dare you do this to me
you've played my heartstrings like a fiddle. i am actually sitting here crying over a HiE Fallout: New Vegas crossover. how could you do this to me; what is even life
it really is paradise, isn't it?
agh, so perfect. just imagining her carrying the little jar around for the rest of her hard life to remind herself of a certain little pony in a magical world of harmony and i am crying again
thank you so much for destroying me emotionally, i really needed this. this is everything i could have possibly ever wanted from this contest, and more besides. i loved it so much. thank you.
Finally got around to reading this. I can see why Bicyclette loved it so much. A nice, wholesome romance with a sprinkle of action and cultural exchange.
Thanks for writing. :)
(...I must admit, though, I'm quite curious how rail service between the Las Vegas and DC areas got restored. I'm guessing this is after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, but still. Not really a criticism, more just a result of me being interested in trains, I think. :))
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Ah, I should have mentioned before: this is a reference to the Tale of Two Wastelands mod, which connects Fallout 3 with Fallout: New Vegas. With it, you can switch between both games with an underground train leading from the Capital Wasteland to the Mojave Wasteland, all without having to shut down or start up either.
To my knowledge, there's no explanation in-mod/in-game for why or how the metro exists, either.
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...Ah. Well, thank you for the information, but thank you for leaving the reference subtle enough that I could(/can, as far as what's going on in-universe is concerned) assume it was something still somewhat odd (How and why was it built? How is it operated? Why doesn't Red Lucy encounter any crew or other passengers at the DC end? Why does it sound like the Capital Wasteland is still in such bad shape given when in the timeline this'd need to be?*) and suspension-of-disbelief-straining but not story-ruining (for me, at least), as it sounds like the full thing from the mod could well have been. Which would've been a pity, given how peripheral where Red Lucy's train is going is to the core of the story.
I still think it might be better from a plausibility perspective if it was a train to the NCR, which as I recall was my leading hypothesis before DC was identified as the destination in-story, though that would admittedly probably require Red Lucy to have a different reason for making the trip, which might potentially change some other things. So having a route to the Capital Wasteland does serve a purpose there -- though, thinking on that now, I'm wondering whether she decided to start at the eastern terminus, or if she already exhausted to her satisfaction the egg-gathering potential of the intermediate stops**.
(To be clear, I can see how a mod like that would boost some people's enjoyment of the game, and that's fine, and that likewise some readers of this story wouldn't mind or would actively like the reference, which is also fine. For my own personal enjoyment, though, the presence or at lease plausible possibility of Watsonian explanations for things tends to be very important.)
*Though given my opinions on the decision-making abilities of a number of people on the East Coast, that admittedly doesn't seem that big a question.
As a disclaimer, I admittedly haven't played Fo3 or Fo4 (I did try for a bit to get the former running, but as far as I recall, the furthest I managed to get before it crashed, froze, or hung was the loading screen just past the "New Game" button.), but while the games clearly have much to recommend them to many people, what I've heard and read about them in relation to my own mentioned-above set of preferences has been... not good.
**Yes, I gather that the mod the train is a reference to doesn't have intermediate stops, but this is me basically putting a headcanon patch on the story. I, uh, hope you don't mind? I am doing it because I want to like the story, and if I'm doing it the way I want to be doing it, rather than slipping up, I'm not contradicting the text, merely filling in things the text doesn't cover...***
...Anyway, though, continuing to hope you don't mind, it occurs to me that the western terminus of this line is likely in Shady Sands; this seems like a project the NCR might find useful, for both practical and symbolic reasons, albeit with a fairly high cost. Still, perhaps they decided extending one transcontinental rail line to the old capital would still be cheaper than trying to take and hold large chunks of territory like the Mojave. Ohh, might also be a function of increasing NCR presence in former Legion lands (since while I think this idea could fit with a number of version of NCR, House, or Courier victory at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, it does look like it'd require the Legion's defeat). Okay, yes, this is seeming increasingly plausible!
***This is a thing I do sometimes, basically a response to liking a work but finding some detail or other a bit... questionable: I'll try to add headcanon to explain to myself how, actually, that detail makes a fine amount of sense, at least in the version of events now running in my head.
I do hope I haven't offended you? My apologies if I did...
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I'm not offended at all, you're fine.
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Oh, good! :D
Thanks. :)
What a fucking nonsense ship.
I love it, thanks for writing it.
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You're welcome!
I'd say this is the strangest thing I've ever written, but uh...I've written Regular Show fanfiction back in the day, and by the very nature of that show, I think ANYTHING one would write for it would make it strange.
In retrospect, I don't remember quite HOW I came up with this ship, but it was a DELIGHT to write, and I had a great deal of fun doing so. Red Lucy x Bon Bon OTP FTW!