The Original Storm King.
The OSK.
He whose name is known by two.
The living storm.
The Storm King had many titles even before he decided to conquer the world, and now that I am in his body, even more titles will be made.
The Storm King, the title, not the person, is a title that is given to the current king of the storm kingdom.
The Storm King is the ruler, The Storm Prince is the next in line, and The Storm Father is the previous Storm King.
I do have a real name, one that only Strife and I know. It is tradition for only the father and the individual to know the TRUE NAME of the individual. The OSKs father, the previous king, disappeared when the OSK was young, leaving The OSK to rule the kingdom as a child.
Strife, was the father's right-hand man and advisor, according to himself. The Original Storm King didn't really care to remember the names or faces of those working for him until he was already 20.
So the current Storm Family tree is Me, The Human soul piloting the body of the OSK. My Mother, who remained on Storm Island with the women and children who haven't joined the fleet, and Strife as an honorary family member for how long he's been around.
Long enough to know some things about my race that the OSK doesn't.
"Strife," I call to my right-hand cloud, interrupting him reading a report from the Storms Landing Storm Base.
The First batches of magically-accelerated-growth crops are ready, as it would seem.
"Yes, my liege?" Strife puts down the report on his desk and turns to me.
"I have some questions that have been bothering me recently, I would like you to answer them," I tell the sentient cloud creature as I take a chair from the corner and sit in front of him, Crossing my legs and laying my hands on my knees.
"I will answer to the best of my ability, your Majesty," Strife says as I get ready to ask my first question.
The question that is unquestionably the most important.
"What happened to my father?"
The cloud takes a moment to ponder the ask, before looking at me and answering "He died fighting your grandfather," That's worrying to hear.
I know the previous storm king was missing, but dead? And fighting his own father, no less?
There is a story there.
"I see..." I murmur to myself, trying to keep a disinterested act, even though I am more interested than I was when I entered. I can ask questions about my race later, a story about why my father died is the important part.
I mean, He's the OSKs father, not mine. I'm a human!
Need to get my act together it seems.
"Why... Why did he fight my Grandfather?" I ask, hoping for Strife to start telling a story of intrigue and betrayal, George R R Martin will be jealous of.
Strife looks me long in the eyes before averting his gaze to the door of his room, An office space with a cot for him to sleep on. No windows, only one door.
He floats away towards the door of the room before closing it, locking it behind him, before floating back to his chair and sitting down. He wipes a cloud hand across his face and lets out a tired sigh.
"You're father," He began, "He wasn't a good ruler." And that is something that actually shocks me, According to what the OSK knows, His Father leads the Kingdom through a prosperous time, following after his father.
"He was soft," Strife continues, "Very soft," The glowing holes that make up his eyes seem to glint in melancholy remembrance, "The people liked him for his personality, the kindest king our land had since his great-grandfather. But that kindness of his was also his weakness.-"
Flashback scene!
We see a tall Storm-creature, the same race as my grandest self, walking through a corridor in a castle made of black stones. Outside the castle there is a heavy rainstorm, flooding the hard land and ruining the cities.
"Every time a calamity happened, He would open up the treasury to fix it, no questions asked," Strife explains as the other storm-creature, My father, Is seen addressing a hall filled with tired and messy Storm-creatures, of the short and stout variety, the peasants. Not to be confused with the tall and powerful variety, the royalty, like myself.
"The people loved him for it," The crowd cheers as my father showered them with food and blankets, "But the resources weren't endless," Strife continued to explain as the treasury can be seen slowly being drained of gold coins.
What was once a Scrooge McDuck vault is slowly growing colder and emptier.
"His father didn't approve of his spendings," An older Storm-creature, one more muscular and regal than the Storm King in the flashback is seen watching my father from a balcony.
"And after years of growing farther away, every argument and disagreement fueling a grudge that slowly grew in your father." The previous Storm King is seen walking down the corridors, the straight back and bright smile from his earlier showing is gone. Replaced by a grim frown and a hunched posture.
"And it all came to an end," Strife continued, "When you were born,"
A Baby storm-creature is seen sleeping soundly, wrapped in a blanket, being cradled in the arms of a regular female Storm-creature, my mother, as King and Grandfather both watch from outside the door of the small infirmary where the birthing took place.
Flashback End!
I once more find myself on the airship, sitting in front of Strife. The Images that flashed through my mind as he spoke reminding me of Kasa's words on King Twiga the Giraffe.
A Flashback, an honest to television Flashback!
But as the excitement of seeing a real flashback roars its head, I smother it till it dims as I look back at Strife.
Sobbing quietly, tears of glowing white liquid filled with sparks of electricity flowed from his eyes in small droplets, filling the room with the smell of ozone.
"I apologize, My Liege, Could we please postpone this talk until-" I interrupt him.
"Very well, We shall continue this story some other time," I say as I stretch my arms, Strife looking at me in shock. Likely expecting me to force him to recollect the story even through his clear unwillingness.
"On another note," I continue as I get comfortable in the small chair in front of the talking cloud.
"Would you mind telling me another story of my father?"
Strife slowly wipes away the electric tears from his face before his eyes spread as if he's smiling.
"It would be my pleasure, Your Majesty,"
"And one more thing before we begin, Strife. When It's just us two alone, in a casual setting like this. I allow you to use my real name."
Strife blinks before wiping a leftover tear from his face.
"Of course, I could, Prince-" And that's all you get to see!
You think I would reveal my name all willy-nilly like this?!
NO! You have to earn a Name Reveal!
Tata~
Bro, you blue balled me. I need our glorious leaders name.
Strife is a very loyal servant of the OSK bloodline, even though he disagree with OSK father way of ruling, he is still saddened to see his masters fight to their deaths.
Storm Kings father and Grandfather may have unknowingly provided a reason for why the current Storm is malevolent but brutal leader in Strife point of view.
I wonder if his name is something embarrassing like fluffy or cuddlycloud?
Than k you for the chapter!
Damn Cliffs leaving us hanging all over the place, Just walking around reading a good story and then Bam! A Wild Cliff appears and leaves you hanging on!
This story is awesome
โฆ this world really does work on cartoon logic, and it is awesome
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Yep.
Flashbacks.
Power of friendship.
Willpower.
AMBITION.
Rainbow beams of concentrated harmony.
A supposedly tragic(?) Backstory that we learn more of as the show continues.
Yep, pretty much a cartoon ๐
I suppose in a world where flashbacks actually happen like mini movies fourth wall breaks arenโt particularly unrealistic. Wonder how much magic you have to have to get popcorn during the sequence.
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I don't know, Ask Pinkie Pie instead
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My hopes for an answer would like with either her or Discord. Iโm right hosed on this one.
To be fair while he is conquering lands it seems that even the osk was thinking of improving lives of his people and people he conquers yes what happened in the movie was bad but so far what we've seen in this campaign is actually pretty good I wonder when he's going to meet Fizzle (honestly I thought that maybe she had gone to the storm Islands herself specifically because of her electricity based magic flares being so common that her magic would you know not be a danger in such an environment where creatures are practically immune to lightning)
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Fizzle? Do you mean Berrytwist Fizzlepop? The evil commander of an entire legion of stprm creatires?
She'll make her introduction the same as in the prequel comic, soon after Abyssinia but before Hippogriffia, just outside of Klugetown.
Classic Fizzlepop
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Seriously she should have actually been on the Storm Island from the beginning considering her magical outbursts are electrical in nature and what you've already established with the lore means that it would honestly have been beneficial for her to have figured out where the storm Island is already you've already altered some of the comics events so why not bring her in sooner or hell at least her hedgehog buddy should be more mentioned beforehand to hint that her showing up
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Oh, Grubber will appear, don't get me wrong.
He's actually already part of the fleet, just didn't get mentioned yet.
Also, Pretty much nobody but super old wizards like Celestia, Tirek, Starswirl, or Sombra or characters with rule-breaking knowledge like Discord or Cosmo even know that Storm Island even exists.
They were pretty much isolated from the world until the OSK built all the airships, There's also an in-world explanation for why they originally secluded themselves and removed information about their existence from the rest of the world, I just haven't published it yet since the new Storm King didn't figure it out yet, It'll be hinted at in future chapters, don't worry.
But I'm glad to see that you're enjoying the story so far, I really didn't think I'd make it far with what originally started as an elaborate shitpost.
Also, in regards to Fizzlepop, I think it's more believable for her journey outside of Equestria to be to find a way to fix her horn, not to control her outbursts.
I'm guessing Ponies haven't invented Prosthetics yet, just amputate the horn and replace it with a magical staff, how hard could that be?
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If you're going to go by comics shouldn't you also include Accord in that (not criticizing he's just the a comic book exclusive character in discord's twin brother who represents order the other half of Harmony)
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He doesn't really fit into the story though, I thought of putting Cosmo as an antagonistic force but decided against it.
This is a comedic Storm King story, after all. No need to add ALL the comic exclusive characters.
I already have trouble with the Diamond Dog princesses in my Pokemon crossover story, don't want to add too many characters into the story who won't be relevant to the plot.
Even Abyssinia and Zebrica won't be accurate to the canon, I'm pretty sure they're on different continents altogether.
This is an AU after all.
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I always figured the reason he didn't show up in the Canon is the elements of Harmony typically put their balance as order tempered by chaos and that's why they were able to summon Discord when he was needed Accord just doesn't need to do much since the elements almost always lean towards the majority of order
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Accord is the result of Discord goofing around with a Cosmic convergence and transforming himself from a spirit of chaos to a spirit of order, they're at the end of the day still the same person, even with a different personality.
And Discord is all the way inside of a statue by this point in time, he then get released for a few hours and turned back into a statue, and even if he was free, he won't interfere with anybody if it isn't to help Fluttershy or because Celestia "Asked hm nicely" to.
Accord is an interesting concept as a whole, making pure Order a villain that wants everything to be the same, he just doesn't fit with the story.
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plus discord would approve our protagonist is creating chaos in his wake, for discord it would be like a full course meal of chaos, probably why he was suspiciously absent during the movie events
Nice! ๐
Good keep the fey courts from finding out your name
I wonder about Strife. That appears to be something of a unique creature. Could it be his father?
A king who is a troll; truly a real king.
It can't be any more prissy than Fizzlepop Berrytwist....
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...from experience..yes.
Yes it absolutely can get worse than that.