A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)
A traveling salespony stumbles into a mystery: a town where there are no mirrors.
Eventually, he finds out why.
"We shall not sleep, though poppies grow..."
I thank for prereading: FanOfMostEverything
Cover Art: detail from Van Gogh's "Field With Poppies" (1889)
(I made a custom crop of a small bit of that painting.)
#custom-story-commission #commission (see author's note for details)
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Your right in that it's not what I expected, yet it's very poignant and sad. Powerful stuff, especially the implications and parallels to our own history.
Rather grim! And intriguing! Interesting to see a post-war fiction from you!
(I realize you have written at least one war fiction before).
I used the pinkie happy emote although I realize Pinkie's actual expression during the story is:
Honestly, my mind went at first in horror directions, as I didn't pay attention to the tags, but that reason is honestly interesting too. I'm not sure why everywhere mirrors and any loud noises are avoided, but perhaps Pinkie is just everywhere
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That was an intentional maybe-fakeout, thanks! Also, like, literary metaphors or some such stuff.
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I appreciate your comments too, even though I guess I don't know much to say about them, except thanks? It's nice to know how each of you sees the story.
This hurts very excellently.
Are the "two reasons" her eyes?
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Thank you for your compliment (I assume.)
I think you have a good interpretation!
When I was writing the story, I just made sure the story supported at least two reasons, and left selection up to the reader.
I would say some possible reasons also include (but are not limited to) feeling uncomfortable looking herself in the eyes after what she's done, not liking to see her own physical scars in the mirror (both because she might feel that she now looks hideous, and because the scars might remind her of other things about the war.)
Another reason for the mirrors is to support a metaphor: war as a vampire that feeds on human (or pony) blood. Even if Pinkie survived and 'won,' she did it by taking the lifeblood of many other ponies, and she might never get over that.