Epilogue
From The Wasteland Survival Guide
Changelings*
Changelings. They are always hungry. If you learn nothing else from me, learn that. But, you ask, what is a Changeling? What do they eat? What do they look like? The answers are simple: They are parasites. They eat our emotions.
They can look like us. Any of us. But they don’t know what we know. To expose them, catch them in a lie or contradiction. What you do with them after is up to you.
They are a rare sight these days. Before the war, they almost conquered Canterlot, and since the war they almost went extinct. I thought they had gone extinct, actually! So be careful, but don’t get paranoid. They are a threat, but rarely are they deadly. They feed on our emotions; happiness; love; not our bodies. But what is a pony without those good feelings? They are rare enough as it is, these days. Don’t let your fleeting moments of happiness be stolen away.
Don’t become just another hungry monster in the Wasteland.
*This new section was made possible by the contributions of Seel Ranger Kernel and her associate, Surprise.
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Well that was one of hell of story. I'm glad that you found enough patience to write it to end.
Thanks for coming back to finish the story, rather than leaving it.
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And thank you so much for reading it to the end!
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Thanks! It did feel good to finally mark this as 'complete.' I don't even really disagree about the mess comment, haha
I wonder if Worker will ever get the "Thorax" treatment.
Its good to finish this
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Thanks! But what do you mean by Thorax treatment?
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Right so Thorax started out as a Black Changeling than metamorphosed into the colorful ones. So will Worker end up going down that path? It seems shes started on it
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Oh I see. Idk, I only considered the MLP canon up to season 3-ish when I first planned this, so I didn't think of Changelings as anything other than how they were presented in the wedding episode and the early comics. As far as I was concerned, the important part is Worker's internal change, regardless of how they look
I just finished reading this and I enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time make and finish your story.
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You're welcome and thank you!
The whole way through, only one thing bothered me, how could a changeling be bothered by tight spaces?
Even still, time and time again this story proved to be near the best I've read out of the FOE stories I've read aside from the original, Hooves Of Fate, and Project Horizons.
I will be reading that story you published on amazon.
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Fantastic to hear! Glad you liked it, and thank you for checking out the book!
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Sorry for any confusion! The lack of punctuation was on purpose; meant to give the impression of a train of thought/rush of memories as Worker's vision started.
Glad to see you're enjoying the story!
While it was good that you came back to finish the story, the ending seems, honestly, lacking. The whole chapter felt like a rush of trying to invoke as many sad feelings in the reader without bringing the narrative to a satisfying end.
Basically the entire last chapter was you killing off most of the characters with increasingly improbable events, for example, if they were the first in such a long time to make it to the crystal empire, then how, and why, did three enclave soldiers also end up there?
Your tendency to give detailed recountings of some (rather boring) events, yet only refer to others as "they trekked for 3 days" gives the story a disjointed feel.
Also, some interesting dynamics that could've been explored were just burned immediately, the interactions between Rainbow Dash and the others could've been great. Perhaps those first reactions to the "friendship-hive-mind" could have made an interesting few paragraphs.
And the lack of explanation or consistency in regards to the hive-mind thing also irks me, if these links are friendship-based why did Rainbow Dash get immediately connected despite not being their friend at that point?
Honestly, after finishing this story, while I'm not left wanting more, it's not because the story was nicely concluded, it's that I don't think I'd be able to read more awkward interactions followed by random character deaths.
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The Enclave soldiers got in because the Windigo blizzard disappeared and the hateboom cleared the sky. I found that reasonable.
Rainbow Dash’s death was anticlimactic, though, and clearly written in just to stay consistent with Kkat’s FOE, since this story is set before FOE. If Rainbow Dash were to survive this story, it wouldn’t make sense how she never shows up in the later events of FOE. So she had to die, and it’s just unfortunate how anticlimactic it was.