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Once a year, towns and cities across Equestria hold their breath as news comes down from Canterlot about a momentous chance for certain ponies.
Who will be the next Frozen Foals? Fillies and colts that have had their ages permanently stopped at a certain age. A tradition almost as old as Equestria itself.
This is Twilight Sparkle's first year doing so as Ruler of Equestria, and despite a vocal minority's cries and demands to end it, she intends to make it one to remember.
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I had no idea this had just been published. I was wondering for a few minutes why I just received a bunch of downvotes on Forever Young all at the same time.
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Sorry about that. Plus I didn't know if you cared to know or not if this was out. Trying to keep this as separate as I can from yours while making clear the inspiration came from.
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It's fine. You did nothing wrong and were under no obligation (in my opinion) to tell me.
Interesting premise. Ill have to try reading both yours and the inspiration in the morning
What’s with all the downvotes, did the author piss someone off?
I did like the original story a lot, despite wishing it had expanded further on the theme of being trap in a foals body for centuries and the consequences that comes with it, but also the marginal 'benefit of having a living pony from the different eras of the past explain how life was like in those days. I would wonder. While I did like the slightly creepy foalcon undertone or the original, I can certainly life without it, and might allow to better explore different aspects that there frozen foals do with their lives if they benefit from a stipend from the crown and don't actually have jobs, I would wonder if a lot of them actually work at the castle as part of the staff like pagers, messengers, announcers for the cute factor, and that they don't have to always be looking for foals to take those roles; I would guess a lot of them prefer to work there because unlike the rest of Equestria it's almost a static point in time when Celetia ruled where she kept things as they always were, or at least their idealized version of who it was. I wonder if S.MI.L.E.S. have their own Frozen foals as spies, and investigators, or just staff for their secret missions and such. I wonder if a lot of frozen foals were foalnapped over the ages, as curiosities by rich beings or kingdoms or experimented, in futile attempts to unlock the secrets of the process.
Personally, I think this is a choice that a foal is asked to make for this is horrible because they don't have the reasoning skills to really weigh in on what the choice means as they aren't of age.
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Hate from the source story spilling over probably. And people just being triggered about me making fun of the PC and SJW crowd possible. Like I could care what the haters think anyway.
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We do not speak of that thing BonBon used to be a part of around here. I despise it above anything else from the show. Canon or not. So no comment on it.
The rest is open for sure. No real idea. The foalcon from the original will be addressed in the next chapter.
Interesting, I wonder what happened when Tirek or Cozy Glow stole all the pony magic, when their collars were sucked of their magic? in fact could Cozy be one of them despite not having a collar, it might explain why she was so smart; or could it be she was an experiment in trying to replicate the same magic. I would wonder how easily influenced these forever foals like children despite all the life times of experience they have, do they ever get to make choices for themselves as in the last story they had to have an owner. Can forever foals own their own property, or inherit it from dead relatives that they outlived them or was the last survivor member. Do they exploit their youth to get extra benefits in doing some crimes or get revenge on other ponies, I would get it passed them that they are impulsive or vicious like foals. What happen when a forever foal does really bad crimes like murder. Do noble family also use them as living artifacts of their family heritage, and have kept them on staff for centuries. How does really old and extremally conservative foals would be like, having their minds stuck, set in their ways, in the past that does exist and things that the old(and often very bad) traditions should be kept, like herding, gelding, slavery public exaction, or even extremally bigoted one that predate the unification of Equestria.
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Tirek I can answer since it won't come up in the story. This whole thing started after Celestia and Luna fought him the first time, so they designed this magic with countering him in mind.
The magic that sustains each foal can only be cut off if their necklace is removed, and only an alicorn can remove them. So even if their magic is removed, the necklace would keep them alive.
Cozy, in my head, was a filly who wasn't chosen to be one, and decided that if she couldn't have magic like that, then no one would have magic, and whatever nonsense she said in Season 8's finale.
The rest of your comment is actually tied into what Celestia hinted at Twilight use. But more would be spoilers, so 😝.
Wait… so if they choose a new one every year then won’t there be like over 1000 foals???
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Yeah. I thought of that after I started writing this. I do have something in mind that will explain it. Just won't say what yet.
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I wonder if… the real reason why the sisters did this…
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Hum, sounds like you are going out of your way to keep your original idea intact. IT's not biggy for me if you want to keep it that, but I thought it was worth asking the question.
By the way did you consider that collar sort of froze their minds from their era, staying in perfect clarity to them, but everything after what would have been their original life time they eventually is just forgotten if not constantly reminded or stimulated, like if you make a Forever foal a friend if you stop seeing them or have some form of contact with for a few years they just eventually forget who you ever were.
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... No comment
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Dude. You really need to stop thinking so depressingly about this. If you want doom and gloom, go read the original story. Yeah, I did think of that. And immediately threw it away because there's no reason for it to be a thing.
Except for drama sake maybe.
So... there are some foals who've accepted eternal youth (and everything that comes with it), to give their Princesses - the ponies revered by pretty much everypony in Equestria, whom they'd do just about anything for - a chance at being a parent without having to worry about outliving their children.
Unless it's one of the birth parents or other legal guardians objecting, I can't imagine why anypony would have any legal right to interfere in a foal's choice to accept this.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
P.S.: The Princesses must get swamped with Mother's Day cards from their adoptive foals every year.
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"Unless it's one of the birth parents or other legal guardians objecting, I can't imagine why anypony would have any legal right to interfere in a foal's choice to accept this."
Back when it all started, ponies thought it was unnatural and went against the natural order of things. Which to be fair, they had a point. But still.
Now someponies are just too stupid to know they will never win. Just look at our world and how people try and stop all kinds of things they object to. To no avail in most cases. Those that do win usually have someone in a position of power that gives them what they want.
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Mm.
Yeah, I can see that... I wonder how they'd react though if it was presented not just as a way of staying a foal forever, but as a cure for senescence, the process of deterioration with age.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.