I'm not here. You can't see me. No one can see me.
In which I write for the prompts of the Thirty-Minute Ponies blog, and also upload some other scraps and short stories. As you can expect, being written in half an hour means most of this stuff is pretty raw. Still, hopefully you'll get some kicks out of them every now and then. Some may be sad, some comedic, others dark or shippy - it depends on the prompt, really. Each story will be tagged for genre when it gets uploaded.
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I guess one of the main ideas that got me writing this story was the idea of one (or both) of them not talking. Frankly, Dash and Pinkie are two of the most talkative characters in the entire series – there's barely an episode without either of them, and of course there are a multitude which include both.
So really... how could either of them STOP talking? It just... how does that work? Pinkie Pie, trying to play the Quiet Game with Fluttershy maybe? But wait, no – this is a RainbowPie story.
While I pondered, I got thinking about mortality and life and such, an obvious progression of thought from forcing two characters that ought never be silenced into submission. And then it hit me – obviously, one of them is dead. And clearly that was Pinkie Pie – I mean, come on! That girl never shuts up. The only way to do it is for her to be dead.
The rest really just went from there. I probably could have done this story without Dash speaking as well, but for the sake of Twilight's exposition, it was better that she was able to talk – if not for her own sake, then so that Twilight wasn't just yapping on about who knows what to a pegasus who didn't even care. Well, clearly Dash doesn't anyway, but it just works better this way.
And heck, even with Pinkie dead I couldn't stop her from talking. That segment in the third-last paragraph – all you need is quotation marks and a change of tense, basically, and you have a nice little bit of dialogue.
But let's call it 'Pinkie Pie Power' instead, yeah?
Also, for a first time ever doing RainbowPie as a ship, I don't think this went too badly. Despite, you know, killing one of them. But heck, I gotta stick with what I'm good at.
So, this thing is actually really, really old.
I first wrote Echoes in October last year, at around about the same time I first wrote Hearts Aflutter. It was for a national short-story competition, and... well, typical of me - I forgot the deadline and it never got entered. But this year I entered it again, rewrote it with another year's worth of writing experience, and now have it here in ponified form for your enjoyment! It's still kinda bad though...
I guess the main idea here was to get as many feels as possible. Not much more to it than that, I don't think.
Anyway, like I said - it's a year old. I can't go into detail about what I was thinking when I wrote it or anything. I simply don't remember.
Oh well.
You already know I love these. Great to see 'em finally up.
This one sure felt sad, but I think whatever sadness I may have felt was stunted by the words, "GildaShy? What the sense make?
" running through my head. One of these days I will find that ON switch for my willing suspension of disbelief.
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I mean no offense, but I think it's sad that you need to suspend your disbelief to take a story at face value, due only to the characters in it. That must limit your enjoyment of so many things
Think of all the possibilities if you can get past that - Princess Leia/Wicket, Picard/Q, Beast/Gaston...
The possibilities are endless.
...Scar/Nala
Anyway, at least you got that it felt sad. Your mitigation aside, I'm glad I managed to get a bit of that across.
1557147 Didn't you have to disregard any notion that it would be difficult for Gilda and Fluttershy to both start and maintain a relationship before doing this?
Also, I don't know who/what Wicket is, I don't watch any Star Trek and I had to Google Gaston to know what you meant (Beauty and the Beast?). As for The Lion King, I don't know too much about prides among lions, but it might actually be fortunate that Scar, as the king of it, wasn't already mating with her along with the other lionesses... Then again, I think I actually am a little too preoccupied with plot holes and fridge logic.
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I didn't have to disregard anything at all.
Difficulty isn't an issue for me, really. I saw two characters who:
a) I found aesthetically pleasing when presented together
b) Were essentially opposite in personality; one is basically the paragon of kindness in the Equestrian world, while the other is a really big jerk.
Now, that first point is incredibly biased on my part - I'm sure there are some people who just simply HATE brown, yellow, pink and white being anywhere near each other, while I personally quite like that.
The second, on the other hand, covers so many of the romance stories that exist beyond fanfiction. There's a girl who's pretty happy with her life (Fluttershy) - then, along comes something she doesn't understand, and it niggles at her, and she can't get it out of her head, and so she goes and tries to learn more about it, to try and understand it. The thing she can't understand is Gilda's mean-ness, clearly. It's a common theme - essentially, there's a 'bad-boy' (or girl, here) that intrigues the main heroine, and despite herself she wants to know more (or even perhaps she doesn't, but they are constantly thrust together by circumstance). Repeated interaction brings development, eventual feelings, eventual romance - a relationship.
It's basically as I said - difficulty is not an issue. One of the most common tropes of romantic stories that exists is the fact that not all romance begins with compatibility. I don't actually have a backstory that explains how Gilda and Shy got together in this story, but I could make one up, no problem. In fact, I have plans to.
So yeah.
Glad to ramble for a while!