This story is a sequel to The Fall of Opaline
Magic is gone. Opaline has won. Equestria has lost all hope. Her friends constantly fight and are on edge. As Maretime Bay figures out how to move forward in the midst of all this tragedy, Misty attempts to come to terms with the role that she played in its downfall, all while struggling to find her purpose in a town that has lost all of it. Can she forgive herself for letting everything go so wrong? And what are these increasing flashbacks she keeps having to key moments of her past…?
A/N: Part 5 of the Misty Saga. Rated T for uses of scary sequences, death, and strong violence. This series has carved its own narrative path separate from the later chapters of Make Your Mark. Therefore, any continuity errors with the show should just be accepted as being part of an alternate universe.
Welcome back!
I completely understand your predicament with a planned one shot becoming bigger than you planned. I'm in the same boat. My Halloween story was supposed to be a one shot as well but got way bigger than I could ever imagine and now I had to put JLE on hold until I finish it.
Now for the story. Misty self pity, Misty self hatred, Misty abuse. Yeah, that's not getting old at all. And Misty stole Sparky! I seem to recall worthless began exactly after this chapter left off so I'm curious to see what's gonna happen in the next chapters.
Fair warning, I'll probably won't be able to get through to this in one sitting. I just woke up an hour ago and I saw your update so I got through chapter 1 but I'll have some stuff to do today. I'll get back to it once I'm able.
Until then...
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Yeah, I structured the chapter in which it would lead right into Worthless. That’s actually the first Easter Egg that I put in here in regards to the whole series, in which you could put the two stories side by side and they would flow right into one another, almost creating this full-circle moment. It would’ve been better if it released on Worthless’s actual anniversary, of course, but hey, life happens. At least it still works as a companion piece.
Can’t wait to hear the rest of your feedback!
After seeing what Sunny has done, now directly being responsible for pony’s deaths, I can say that it is not looking like a bright future.
Doesn’t matter what happens, I don’t see any victories in the future that aren’t full of tears.
I've finished the first two chapters, and I'm really feeling the weight of the situation. Maretime Bay is practically a ghost town, Misty has completely lost faith in herself, and Hitch is close to going off the rails.
Zipp's condition is about as bad as I expected, and just as daunting. To be honest, I lost my own sister a little over a year ago, so I can really feel the pain that Pipp does at seeing Zipp slip away like this.
I'm gonna pick this back up tomorrow. Great work so far.
Nice that you implemented Misty's mane change from the show. But you really enjoy beating her down, don't you? You got on and on about how awfully she feels and how badly she feels about herself and that's been the case for almost the entire saga. It's like tormenting Misty was the only reason you wrote this.
Hitch is definitely losing it. For a moment, I thought he might fall low enough and feel enough resentment for Misty that he's follow Sunny To Opaline, but then I remembered that there's not a chance that he'd join the pony who killed his adopted dragon son.
My favorite part, though, and this is something I meant to mention in my comment on the last chapter but forgot, was izzy's backstory. We never really got that from the show, have we? In fact, she's the only one of the main cast whose background we don't know. I actually edited "Mysterious Past" onto her character page on TV Tropes myself.
Well, onto the future. I hope they finally pull themselves together and stand up!
Wow! So Izzy and Misty are sisters and Alphabittle is their grandpa?! Didn't see that one coming! But why was Izzy accepted despite being a half breed while Misty wasn't?
Gotta say, I think this makes more sense for how Opaline discovered Misty than the canon explanation. I hope this arc gets revisited in the future because I don't want Alpha B to get off Scott free for the events of this chapter.
Reading on...
I think you meant Bridlewood.
As God himself has said, all it takes to make a better world is acts of random kindnesses. Good, job, Seashell.
Okay, you actually made me excited for the conclusion of this saga. I'll be looking forward to it!
Oh...wow . Cool . Cool story
Oh. So cute 😢😢😭😍
Holy shit, I am SO excited and SO scared at the same time for the next entry.
I know things, I just know them, but even with my little knowledge about what's to come, I'm still afraid because I didn't got all the context, and what is going to happen terrifies me. At the same time, though, I'm excited to see how it all comes together. What Sunny did is beyond repair, but if her friends can forgive her and bring her back to light, then I really hope so can everypony else.
This was fantastic to read! Can't wait for the final entry of this saga!
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Sunny will realize her mistakes and she'll be welcomed back into Maretime Bay before you know it.
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Hehehe. My friend, if only it were that simple.
Sunny has crossed lines that should never be crossed.
I’m afraid that no matter what happens, Sunny will never be able to go back to a life of peace with her friends.
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While that may be true, I have a feeling that things will turn out okay in the end
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I envy your optimism
You just have to look at things like they have equal outcomes.
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I wish I can agree with that.
But if the anger shown when Hitch said he still saw Sunny as a friend is anything to go by, we shouldn’t expect anything less than a Pyrrhic victory. (Finally remembered what that was called)
I’m assuming you’re meant to still be conversing with me. If not my bad.
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Sunny can still be saved.
Yes, what she did will make things different when everything calms down, but she can still be saved and come back to fix things.
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I know Sunny can still be saved.
God, your stories always bring a fresh wave of emotions to me!
I had a feeling that Izzy and Misty were gonna be revealed to be sisters. When Izzy revealed the story of her parents, I immediately connected the dots to the opening scene in Forgiven. It was devastating to see young Izzy be so excited over her new sister, only to be separated from her just as quickly. So it was just as heart-warming to see that moment with them once they found out the truth.
...at least, until a certain moment that I know happens in Redeemed.
And Opaline used the same tactic to corrupt Sunny as she used on Misty to make her follow through on kidnapping Sparky. Suffice to say she kept that ace up her sleeve as a last resort when necessary.
Finally, and as some other readers have also said, I'm stumped on how Sunny will ever be accepted by anyone besides her friends again. But that just makes me all the more interested to see what's next.
It's been hard, but the wait was definitely
worth it! You did well, my friend.
I wonder how the Alphabittle of this story would react to the news that in the main timeline he's dating a pegasus.
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I mean, considering this takes place in the past, Alphabittle now probably feels silly for saying that, let’s be real. It’s for sure interesting to contrast between how he used to think back during the whole scandal and how he views the other tribes now, which was one of my intentions behind this plotline. If anything, this certainly shows how deep-seated the hatred for the earth ponies and pegasi had become at that point in time, and how this sort of mantra was ingrained in ponies like Star since birth. This storyline definitely be addressed in Redeemed as bringing the tribes back together again will be a key focus of Part 1.
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He had been acting pretty grumpy the past several moons. Probably acting up on guilt.
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I'll admit that was an angle I hadn't considered. I'd read it as him being a complete bigot rather than going through the motions of racial hatred.
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THATS IT!💡
The reason Opaline won against Twilight because she caused disharmony and diversion between the 3 tribes. But if they now all unite together, just like the finale of season 9, to defend their homes etc, they can defeat Opaline and save Sunny!!
Even if magic is gone, together they can create the strongest magic in Equestria that never faded!
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"A man chooses, a slave obeys." Andrew Ryan
This may just be the cynic in me speaking, but based on this story I suspect Sunny is beyond redemption. To be engaging in wanton destruction with no restraint suggests no empathy is left-and only a bloodthirsty monster remains. If this saga ends in Sunny's death at the hooves of those she betrayed, I will not be surprised. After all, death is preferable to being a slave to darkness.
I don't want to seem judgmental, but I've always found it odd how Pipp somehow managed to escape from the mob at the end of The Fall Of Opaline (without any apparent injuries, no less), despite the fact that she was in the same helpless situation as Zipp. If she had escaped, I would've thought it'd be because someone had saved her.
With that said, I want to ask: did you always plan for that to happen or did you change course at some point?
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While Sunny’s fall to the dark side was locked in months ahead, the ending crowd fight definitely wasn’t. So when I started writing Part 1 of Redeemed with an outline of how The Fall of Opaline ended (Purpose didn’t exist yet at this point of conception), Zipp and Pipp were both fine and them getting hurt wasn’t a factor in the plot at all. It’s only when I decided that I could have the plot go to greater dramatic heights and give Pipp a hidden arc by ending TFoO on a bigger cliffhanger did I put that plot point in. But by then, 20,000 words of Redeemed’s Part 1 chapter had already been written. So subtle rewrites had to account for the change.
My canon explanation is that she escaped the mob before any serious harm could be inflicted on her, and her whole guilt in Part 2 stems from the fact that she watched helplessly as Zipp was being beaten up severely and she blamed herself for it. Even though it was a bit of a late addition, I’m happy with it as I was able to give Pipp an arc, which funnily enough, was finally included because I saw someone hating on Pipp and I wanted to show them up by making her a major character in my story.