Diary of *illegibly smudged*

by Thought Prism

The Last Page

If anyone else read up to this point, I'm sorry. These contents are not pleasant. Honestly, I could have destroyed this diary. Maybe I should have. Instead, I've left it largely intact and marked the relevant pages to serve as a warning for the ponies who will come after me. I only erased all the dates and mentions of our names so that I nor my family end up blamed for what my father did. What his desperation brought upon Equestria. It wasn't his fault. If not him, another pony would have been chosen.

Now please, heed my words. I will share what I know of the aftermath, save the Event itself, which is best left forgotten. I found this diary next to my father's mummified remains. He had no external injuries, likely having died of thirst. Waiting for his luck to return. He was right in that her highness could not stop what he'd unleashed, the first threat she could not surmount. Friendship, magic spells, brute force, nothing had any affect on Lucky. It could now only be impeded until it chose not to be. Fluttershy tried to speak with it, ask it to stop, and its reply infected her with an incurable madness even worse than my father's. Her husband Discord is still taking care of her as they live their lives in his chaos plane, the only place she can be comfortable any longer. The others eventually just... gave up, even Twilight. And everything fell apart.

Sure, in public, she enacted her contingency plan. But she shared the truth with me, as my mother did with her. The plan will only delay the inevitable. Twilight had used divination magic to seek answers, with minimal results. To truly understand its nature would mean ending up like my father, and losing the power to resist. All her highness could glean was a name, its self-given name, one which roughly translates from the fundamental language as Shimmerwing.

In the years since, I grew up, and sought to understand what was lost. Now, as I write these words, I am terrified. For I imagine that I would not exist without Shimmerwing, and that my birth was somehow required for its unfathomable design. Or my own foals were. What will happen when the princess' carefully constructed efforts fall apart with time? When will Shimmerwing return? I pray daily to Celestia that it never does, and that nopony else follows my father's path. If you are wise, dear reader, you will do the same. And even if not, even if you forget your own name, you must remember this: do not obey the Six Winged One! Do not obey Shimmerwing! Do not obey!

Author's Note:

For Context: (it's timestamped)

Anyway, I hope this story hit you the way I hoped. I've actually never written horror before, fanfic or otherwise, and I wanted to try. I don't typically like horror media unless it's of the eldritch variety, and that's what I got inspired to do by the game. The Twilight Files Contest just gave me the last push I needed to turn this from an idea into an actual story while also inspiring the diary format.

Comments

[Secundum]

What was the context? I couldn't find the timestamp.

Still, I liked the Lovecraft-esque.

[FanOfMostEverything]

Oh. Oh no.

Fascinating and horrifying way to weave together the generations. I can’t help but wonder if this is the origin of Morpho Knight. Nothing less than the all-consuming Void can overcome this monstrosity. Thank you for this, and best of luck in the judging.

[TheAncientPolitzanian]

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In the Maretime Bay Adventure video game, there's a butterfly named Shimmerwing who guides you to your next objective if you get lost.

[Starlight Nova]

Why isn't there a tragedy tag?

[Thought Prism]

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Tragedy is generally when the bad outcome is due to faults in the protagonist's character. In this case, it wasn't really the writer's fault. He was being manipulated by an outside force.

[Thought Prism]

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Yep, you said that on my review of the game, too, haha.

[Captain Neckbeard]

Poor *illegibly smudged*. He/she deserved a better father/husband. But no, he had to bring doom upon Equestria!

[Neece]

Darkest Dungeon vibes, the good ones. Good story!

[Green121]

Aw hell naw G4 got cosmic horror'd 😭😭

[The Blue EM2]

The video timestamp doesn't seem to be working. Could you indicate the relevant part of the video?

[Bicyclette]

I only erased all the dates and mentions of our names so that I nor my family end up blamed for what my father did. What his desperation brought upon Equestria. It wasn't his fault. If not him, another pony would have been chosen.

aww, so that's why all the names are redacted!

And even if not, even if you forget your own name, you must remember this: do not obey the Six Winged One! Do not obey Shimmerwing! Do not obey!

hehehe, as a shaggy dog story that brings together an explanation of the G4-G5 transition and a way to make a video game contrivance make sense within the context of the universe, this was really great! and the contrast between the very bright and fun vibe of the game and the sinister implications of the eldritch creature behind it is just very fun. i am a sucker for stories with elements like this, and enjoyed them greatly. thank you for writing!

[Thought Prism]

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Thanks for the comments, glad you enjoyed! Seriously, your reactions were greatly funny.

[Kowhaifan]

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The diary writer is male, he calls himself a stallion couple times.

[Kowhaifan]

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Thanks

[PaulAsaran]

You can has review!