Princess Gloria, and her regent Acting-Prince Archibald Dawnfeather, have been sheltering the Ex-Princess Luna since her failed rebellion against the tyranny of Empress Daybreaker. They have received word that the Empress will be visiting them shortly, likely to demand the extradition of her sister. While the meeting may begin as they expected, neither of them will foresee what the Empress is really after...
A story taking place in the Equestria at War universe, and more specifically in the context of the submod Gloria Rising that I authored. No knowledge of either is needed to enjoy or understand the fic. This is my first fanfic, not counting the writings of my submod, and I hope this alternate take on one of my favorite paths for Gloria helps those of you who like the concept, but not late game Hoi4.
A short but good story, with some well-written dialogue, excellent characterisation and a sweet ending. You've managed to fit a long story into only a couple of chapters and yet despite that it doesn't seem rushed or haphazard. Well done!
oh my goodness. a story about a non pony species, and a griffon no less, with OUT there being humans, or anthros, or robots, or smut, or some other crazy options!? just a normal story!?!?
I LOVE IT. THANK YOU. please do more! Like seriously, i was soooo happy to see this in my featured page instead of what's recently been up there. This was a breath of fresh air and I consider you a a great writer now!
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For a moment, I thought exactly the same thing.
From twelve? At such a tender age? Is it really so alright to be disrupting the formation of yourself, when say from maybe ten.. You're only just starting out with making your own choices?
Before anyone wants to assume anything, I have nothing against being transgender, being genderfluid, or being Therian. In fact, I proudly have no care nor screws to give for upholding gender norms myself.
What I ask, is that is it right to celebrate making such changes to your body while That young..? It's not the same thing as simply getting vaccinated; and it's not the same thing as helping someone as young or younger figure out why they struggle so much with how they see themselves, and why trying to make themselves forcefully fit in with what's expected out of them hurts.
So often, what is needed most is a lended ear, a compassionate, but-wanting-to-understand mind, and most of all, patience. Too often, most don't grow up with that.
So if you're told then, that as you slowly grow up, and as those painful, mucklike feelings slowly intensify.. That all it takes is routinely taking in pills, or the like, to modify your body chemistry while you're already so young, all for the sake of making your dreams come true - the greater question is, who Wouldn't want to listen to that..? All for the sake of something we want to believe in, so badly.
So then, it feels it can be forgiven how it feels so much like it's changing you, permanently. If it's so directly fixing the problem, why stop it?
However, consider how your feelings may change as you grow up. Say you tried it from 13, now you're 17. If there was a way you could've kept yourself looking like your preferred gender forever at as young as 13 back then, you would've already taken it.
But what if when you're seventeen, or eighteen.. Nineteen, or twenty, you get thoughts? And what if it's even harder to change yourself this time..?
So what I advocate for, is that adjusting your gender identity should be as free and easy as choosing clothes on a daily basis. But if an article is glued onto you, or stapled onto you; you may forever have to take it as part of your current ensemble.
All that can be asked for, is that we are taught these things. That we can Know - know and learn about the ways of how it can be practiced, without at risk of doing something Permanent to ourselves far too soon; or even worse, damaging ourselves in ways we never wanted to bear.
This comment was a lot longer than I thought it would've turned out -- what stemmed from concern, turned into a ramble I'm not sure everyone is going to want to hear through. But I'm not sorry for what I've said or for what emerged out of this; even if it makes me feel like the most awkward butterfly... If that made sense..?
But all of this to say -- Be very careful with what's been said, and the highlighting of doing this so young being themed throughout; as I can see some people taking this as direct, hopeful advice that it can undo everything going on with themselves.
But the theme with many hard problems is that it takes a lot of time, a slow understanding of your own self, as well as support, and ways to heal, to carve out the road of doing the best you can for yourself. The hard truth, is that it's always going to hurt.
It's always going to take a long time - and taking something artificial to speed the process up for yourself is a strong temptation, but hardly long term; or having the remains still standing to hold up enough to remain meaningful down the line.
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This entire comment ignores the scientific consensus: puberty blockers are not permanent and not known to commonly have side effects. You can stop taking blockers and experience little ill effects, there has been studies on this, on humans. It also implies that trans children are being "misled" or something. But children are also people, these aren't flights of fancy like saying "I wanna be an astronaut when I be an adult", and often you would have to consult with a few doctors to even begin transitioning. It's a time consuming process as an adult, imagine how much longer it would take for a child.
Acting like this is a "shortcut" for ending suffering and not a medically necessary process for people is denying both the scientific consensus and the lived experience of many people; as if they weren't children once with these same thoughts and experiences. It plays on the same fallacious reasoning as "holistic" medicine does with, say, depression: treatment must be hard, there cannot be an "easy answer", treatment must avoid taking anything "artificial", and ultimately the issue doesn't exist or can be suppressed with enough good thoughts. Instead of denying the existence of trans people, you instead think that dysphoria can be put on a timetable that's more comforting to cis people.
I came expecting an epic confrontation of a proud princess and a warlike empress, and found compassion and thoughtfulness in addition. Of hard choice, and deep desires, and sacrifice, and feeling. With recent events, it at least gives me hope, hope that others have hope. I know some who have lost theirs. Thank you for writing this.
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OH no....i haven't read it yet....IS THERE that stuff!?
*whines* WHY!!!!!??? why is every story on this site DOING THIS!?
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You are being trolled. There are no robots, humans, or sexual actions in this story. There are two ponies in the story, but it still centers on the griffon Princess Gloria. Unless one considers passing mentions of hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers to be inappropriate somehow this story is perfectly normal.
Meanwhile, in an alternative timeline:
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A pretty good story. I liked it. Good job.
This story... I like this. I'm not sure how to define the way this story speaks to me, I mean, it's only vaguely connected to my life story, but it still connected to me in a way that, even a couple days after reading it, I cannot just give it a like and be on my way with.
I think I need to change my pfp to a griffoness.
cool story.
I wonder how an interaction between the Princess and Kaiser Grover, and this Gloria would look like.
Okay, yep, this story has very quickly become (pardon the limited vocabulary) very special to me.
May I record an audiobook? My voice... doesn't pass, but this would mean a lot to me.
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If you'd like to, then by all means. I could even lend my voice as well, if you want me to.
Finally got to this! I think it turned out well. :)
Danm I really love this story
Althrow it makes me sad gloria can not become a full griffoness she needs to contiue to House of griffonstone somehow
Also she needs to be blessed by boreas and become his avatar that way someone can stand up to daybraker