Sharing our Sorrows
Octavia, a lovely pony that I had a pleasure of working with at the Grand Galloping Gala. Such a nice mare that is kind and courteous to everypony she meets. After that…aforementioned night where a crazy pink mare tried to change the music, Octavia went to become a very popular musician and is highly regarded across all of Equestria. Last time I heard about her was that she settled down with some…Disc Jockey I think the term is, in a town called Ponyville.
Who am I? Well I am one of the performers at the Gala. The piano pony with the black and white Eighth notes for a cutie mark. No one really knows me or even talks about me and my music. I am just a nopony from that night. They only know about the cello mare.
Whatever happen to me you ask? Well I manage to get a job at a local bar, playing live music for the ponies in Canterlot. Not a high paying job but that is all I need to help me pay my bills. I have been working here for a while now and the ponies really like my music. I am starting to get a little more attention but only to those at the bar.
Tonight is a Saturday which is our busiest of the week. It is where I earn a lot of my tips for the night. So tonight, I enter in the front door to what the manager likes to call his bar, “The Piano Bar” where mostly pianists play music for the upper-class. The bar is pretty small compared to the others but we still fit all of our patrons in here.
I walk up and take a seat at the bar. The bartender, who I got to know really well, is a stout blue unicorn with black mane that is receding with his age. He brings me my usual free of charge and lights the cigarette I took out of my cigarette case.
“Thanks Scotch,” I inhale my cigarette and let out a long breath. He leaves to go over and help the other customers who then let out a hearty laugh when Scotch told them one of his funniest jokes. Well, that is Scotch for you. He can be quick with a joke or to light up your smoke but to tell ya the truth, he really doesn’t like it here. One night before I was about to go on stage for my performance, he came up to me and told me about his problem. Scotch has a dream that he wants to be a thespian in the theatre and act in front of the high society ponies. He believes that when he gets out of this place, he will have a chance to aspire his goals to be a thespian. Well it is very hard to get out of a place like this. I’ve tried.
I finish my smoke and snuff it in the ashtray. I take my shot of whiskey and look around the room. I notice some regulars in the bar. Over at a table, the royal guard Iron Hoof is having a discussing with Asset, a real estate novelist. Iron hoof is a friendly stallion to talk with. If you ask him, he would tell you about his times in the royal guard which would lead to his future plans when he out of it. It is a shame that he will probably be in there for life. After all, he’s been in there for twenty years.
Now Asset, on the other hoof, is a different story. He is always busy with his work; whether it be looking up details on the housing market across Equestria or writing on his latest real estate novel. It was always work first and everything else later. He never had any time to settle down with a lovely mare and start a family.
Speaking of lovely mares, I see the waitress delivering a tray of drinks to a group of business ponies, From they way they are acting I believed that they got some of the good stuff. The waitress pony, Starlight, would sometimes have a talk with me when I am on break. She told me that she wants to be involved with politics. She said something about being a journalist for a newspaper here in Canterlot and write about politics. I wish her luck but it can be hard for her.
I notice one of the business ponies smack Starlight's flank. She is perturbed by this and I can tell because she dumped water on the pony that smacked her flank. Well at least they are sharing that drink called loneliness. It is better to share your loneliness with the company of other ponies. I do that all the time.
I finish my drink and leave the glass on the table. I walk up to the stage where my piano is. I sit down and get ready to perform. I see the manager talking with some of the bar staff. He sees me up on stage and gives me the sign to start my performance. He knows that everypony here just wants to see me play the piano so that they can forget all about their troubles for a while.
So I did. I played the piano for them and they all enjoyed it. At the end of my set I will accept request from some of the patrons
“I will now be taking requests. Does anypony want me to play anything for them?” I ask the crowd.
“I have one.” An elderly pony answers and takes a swig of his tonic. He is sitting at a table next to the stage. “I want ya to play me a melody, but I forgot how it goes.” The pony takes another swig of his tonic. “I know it is said and sweet and I knew it complete when I was a young stallion.”
“Well it doesn’t really help me.” I tell him, “Do you think you can hum a few bars for me?”
“I think I can manage that.” The elderly pony hums a couple bars from the song.
I stop him, “Thank you. I know what you want me to play.” The pony goes back to making love with his tonic and gin.
I start to play the song and everypony in the room just stops and listens to the melody. They all start to get into the song and sway back and forth. Well they all just want to forget their troubles and forget about their problems. That is what a bar is for. During the song,ponies start to walk up and put money into my tip jar. When I was finish the same old pony puts a generous tip into the jar.
“That was a nice song you played. It reminds me of my youth, when life was a simpler time of ponies.” The older pony compliments me.
"I know how that feels." I reply to him.
“But I have a question to ask you if you don't mind me asking you."
“Sure, you can ask me any question.” I reply.
“What are you doing in a rundown bar here. With your talent, I am sure you can be as popular as that new rising musician Octavia?”
Well there was no shocker there. Everypony seems to ask me that question almost every night. Why am I here with a talent like that? You deserved something better than this. The answer is quite simple. I am just like them. A lonely pony who just wants to share a nice drink and forget about his troubles. After all, this is a bar and I am stuck in here, forever to be known as the piano pony.
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This will be the first of many stories that I would like to call the inspired by music series. This series will entail all the songs that you guys know into stories that will surround your favorite characters. If you want to find out more on the series then you can go to my blog which I will post right...HERE! It will tell you about some of the songs I am writing and started working on. Please leave me a like and a favorite. Comment if you want to say how great this story is or how terrible it is and what I can do to improve it. Yuki Harima out!
1645463 umm...are you trying to tell me something...because I already watched that video and have an idea for it.
PLAY DAT FUCKY PIANO BROWN PONY
1645481 I take that as a maybe
1645489 *insert witty remark here* I can't think of any
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Well done my friend...well done...
Nice!
I look forward to more.
Well, I'm not quite sure whether to thumbs-up this or not. I mean, I love the concept. It's just that the writing needs surgery. My advice: Shop around for an editor. If this (a) gets updated at a reasonable pace, and (b) gets edited, I may even fave it.
1645601 forward to...*look that story is marked incomplete* crap...I forgot to mark it as complete! This is a one shot fic...I am sorry to make you believe it is.
1645669 Well then don't do either. You like the concept but hate the mistakes I made in it. So it is a neutral. I don't have an editor and most of my friends aren't the best at editing a story either...I use Microsoft Word to help me.
1645692 No, it seemed complete to me.
I meant that I was looking forward to the rest of the music series that you're writing.
1645819 oh yea....Thanks they are all going to be a one shot story. Easier to do that then a long fic.
I liked it, short sweet and to the point. :)
There's a few run-on sentences, but other than that,
short, sweet, and relatable. Good story, mate!
1646439 No need to add too much filler
1646448 Yea...Microsoft word won't pick up those
Very nice job, some errors here and there. Then again, what story doesn't.
Very good job sir or madam.
1646541 Well I am a *BRZZT*
Holy cac! Nice concept, nice main character, and a pretty damnaigh good conflict. It could use a grammar check, and I would like to see you to do more with this character. Only one complaint, it isn't really all that sad to me. With that out of the way this is 100% approved by Frostanimal12.
1646796 Well I find the story and the song to be sad and I am sorry to say but this story will not be continuing...I have problems with that.
1646805 It's OK, I just have a problem when the character development happened before the story, nothing to fuss about. Also have you noticed the weird words in my first comment?
1646813 yea you were using damnneigh.... The character is unknown but that is the point of him. Octavia is more known and she shared the same screen time with the other performers but she became the most popular.
1646859 So he purposely kept his name a secret?
1646866 Not really. The point of not saying the name in the story it to show off the fact that no one knew his name. so I let them figure it out.
1646893 Before I do the real reply I have to note something, In the description you mentioned the song Piano Man. I was oblivious at this fact and read the story anyways, saw no "connection" so I listened to the song. I remembered it and and had that stupid feeling pounding my chest. So with that over with, let us figure it out eh? Hmm... Well played my good sir.
1646928 Yep...All of my future stories are based off of the music video or just the song itself. You don't need to know the song but it will help you if you do.
Before I read this his name is Federic Horseshoepin.
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Unfortunately Microsoft Word doesn't catch every mistake(person experience here). You can always just proof read it yourself, you don't need an editor, that's what I have to do.
1647734 I do proof read it...But i won't catch them at all...I am bad at English.
1647709 Didn't know about that...that is interesting
A nice short story you got here, friend. The song in question is immediately what sprang to mind when I saw the title. I'll sit at the bar and put bread in your jar, and say "man, what are you doing here?"
Cheers.
1648121 thanks...Expect more like these one shot to come.
Brings a tear to my eyes. This fanfic is brilliant in both origionality and how it is written. Not to mention this song holds alot of sentimental value.Thank you for an epic origional fanfic.
1648443 Wow...I don't know how to respond to that. thank you. That was my original plan and create a series of one shots that all are influenced by songs we know and breathe life into them. they all won't be sad...but the mood depends on the song
Well well well, it looks like someone has been reading some memes in Memebase as regarding to the piano
manplaying dude that nobody seems to know and gave him his first fanfic. Kudos to you my mani.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/11/7/mCBJ9EHAN0Wp6Xk5X9HIaA2.png
1648587 Someone from my skype group told me about it and posted the exact same thing. I got the story idea from there and the song came to mind so I just weave it into a story.
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Lol, it was a joke my friend I read the description already and I wanted a excuse to add the meme to the discussion. I'm stupid I know :(
1648636 no it is funny. I don't find it insulting.
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Lol, why thank you good sir. But you have to admit, it does open your eyes about how the fandom works and how they can be biased towards background characters (such as between the Piano Dude and Octavia)
1648731 Yea I know...Think about it...most of the "fannon" characters are female...FEMALE...Either we are prejudice towards some of the males or the fact is that we never see a lot of male BG characters.
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Oh goody, never thought I can talk to another fellow fan about the fandom community itself
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I believe we do have many male BG ponies so it must be the factor of of prejudice of male characters in the fandom for besides Time Tuner (also infamously know as the The Doctor from the Doctor Who series), they receive little love. Another point of this would be Doughnut Joe as to how he doesn't even have a character tag in this site, yet he has the most lines compared to other background ponies we have thus far.
1648877 I have to agree with you on that.There are many fannon female characters that the last fannon character that was male is Rumble. I think...I am not sure. I think that since we are a male dominant fandom that we tend to think about the opposite sex. But then again...not their fault. There is a lack of males in the show at all.
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Indeed and you know what, I believe in a philosophy: Where one side is hurt, the other side weeps. For who said the female getting all the glory is necessary a good thing? Case in point, look at Lyra and BonBon and how people seemed to jumped the gun and believe that they are a couple due to hanging out all the time in the show (while there is time that they do not), as to how people people like to pair up Octavia herself with Vinyl Scratch where there wasn't even single scene in the show to prove they know each other. Mind you I have nothing against having a female being paired up with another female (so long it is executed properly like all other forms of romance) , but what I have against is the rational behind it that people supported the idea because ''the fandom says so'' which makes me wonder if its some twisted form of casual sexulization of lesbians, as in using them as tools. Look at this picture and look how ironic it would be if you were apply that kind of thinking else where
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1649045 Sorry for not responding...sleeping... Anyway I agree with you on that. In my mind everyone is straight in any story unless executed properly to make me believe that they are attracted to the sex gender. Now...the most influential community to make these fannon things come true is, Now I could be wrong because this is just an idea, The fanfiction community and the art community of MLP. There are several stories in this fannon that support some and if not most cases. Anthroplogy is looked at with high regard and supports the fact on Lyra being a human. Sure there were previous notions about her obsessive behavior towards it but Anthropology proved it to be true. The life and times of a winning pony is slowly gaining the fact the Cloud Kicker is a horny mare who just sleeps with everypony and now most people will believe that to be true. With the case of Vinyl and Octavia, I theory that they are both musicians but they are the opposite musical genre. So they got in their head with they should live together and then two's company, three's a crowd which is a popular Story on the site, help state the fact that Octavia and vinyl are a couple. Wow i can rant.
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I like you fellow user, never I would have thought I can level with someone with talks about these kind of things. One can imagine a backlash if one speaks against the ways of fandom. Anyhow, Its alright with sleeping, it proves you are not overly dedicated like most of us (I included) in regards to posting comments while you may have other priorities to see through.
/shutters
Don't remind me, I know very damn well where her infamous catch-line originated from. At the time, the origin of the catch-verse in question was amusing the first time since it was just a play with words (or editing as the case may be since it came from a video). But to hear it over again in a different franchise in a character that is inspired by the video has really gotten me irritated rather quickly since the line was non-intelligible, and rather demeaning since it was spoken by a male character, then its been re-purposed (if you want to call it that) in favor to a guy`s idea of a fanfic that people seem to think its the most original idea yet. But that's enough teasing, let me show you the origin of that.....speech, just look at the first 30 seconds of the video everything beyond that is rather....silly so you can stop the video at the 0:30 mark.
As for Lyra, it`s hard to treat her as serious background character anymore as everybody likes to drag her fan-made human obsession to the ground where it`s hard to integrate something original to the said character without people pushing you to add the overly-used fandom traits that they love. as for Anthropology, its been ruined for me as i would like to see it as a different way to express character in a given community but unsurprising they exploit this in favor of sexually threatened positions (in any given form of fanfics, arts or otherwise). I can tell you for as a fact that I can never look at Sonic the Hedgehog and the Star Fox fan community in the same way again (thus scarring my childhood memories).
Personally I believe there is nothing wrong with rants, so long as it is done probably, it can helps shows character that may or may not proves that you are not bound by any given social structures and can give a sound, constructive criticism without fear from backlash by the people to show that you are different (or so I would like to express it as anyways).
1650702 Well I can't watch the video...since I am i class. And this is my view on the types of Lyra.
1) She is roommates with Bon Bon and has an overly obsessive view towards humans which will bother her
2) She is dating Bon Bon but has a mild view on humans and is just curious
3) She is dating and/or married to Bon Bon and has no idea on what a human is.
4) she isn't into humans but if she meets one she will develop curiosity about them.
That is what I notice from the fan fiction in most of the stories I read. For any other community like sonic or star fox, I never knew the bad side of it and wasn't even contribute anything to that fandom. I like the games and characters, (Sonic over Mario) never knew how terrible the fandom is until people tell me about it. Now these stories that I mention are not terrible in my views and not saying that the writers are bad. It is how the fans view them and interpret them to become fannon. I love Anthropology and Lyra being a human but you need to give me a reason as to why she is obsessed with it. The writer gives an extensive back-story to it. So I can believe why she likes humans. For the other characters...you need to make me believe that this is true unless it is cannon in the show.
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pretty much sums up the types of Lyra's in the fanfiction, as for Starfox and Sonic, one can imagine you can search for popular and cool art work while while what turns out to be.......the typical results in well, female character in a demeaning posture as well as terrible OC (most popular out of these were like Sonic`s ''long lost sibling'' but with ridiculous overly powered things to kill the mood).
As for Lyra being either Anthropology or human, there can only one explanation for Lyra`s obsessions in the eyes of the fandom.......and it involves clop. I have yet to see a story without that element in stories as well as without romance.
1651987 Well I like human obsessed Lyra but to an extent where you need to tell me a reason why she is interested in it. I have yet to read a clop (or in fact any clop centric stories because they are not my type. With demeaning postures I don't need to say much without pointing out rule 34. So it is society's fault at that as porn will exist somewhere on the internet. I will read stories that have clop but not when the story is mostly clop.
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Sadly too is that it's the true of all fandom to have such underbelly activites, but what worries me is what percentage that makes up for approving such things. I found a research that has series of survey with bronies that attends Equestria Daily about thoughts about sections of the community. One question shows that 50% of the fans approves/engages the R34 with ponies while a total of 80% of tolerates R34 (of while the other 15% disagrees and loathes it). Another note too is that Rainbow Dash is highly recognized as a sexual icon for lesbians in the community to which I find very sad and even give pity for Rainbow Dash for how the community treats her for not the idea of her being a lesbian but how she is treated based on the perception of her appearance, such as her hair, and her personality.
Here's the link about the Survey about the Brony Subculture, its an interesting read to say the least: http://www.scribd.com/doc/94234033/Survey-of-the-Brony-Subculture
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Sadly too is that it's the true of all fandom to have such underbelly activites, but what worries me is what percentage that makes up for approving such things. I found a research that has series of survey with bronies that attends Equestria Daily about thoughts about sections of the community. One question shows that 50% of the fans approves/engages the R34 with ponies while a total of 80% them of tolerates R34 (of while the other 15% disagrees and loathes it). Another note too is that Rainbow Dash is highly recognized as a sexual icon for lesbians in the community to which I find very sad and even give pity for Rainbow Dash for how the community treats her for not the idea of her being a lesbian but how she is treated based on the perception of her appearance, such as her hair, and her personality.
Here's the link about the Survey about the Brony Subculture, its an interesting read to say the least: http://www.scribd.com/doc/94234033/Survey-of-the-Brony-Subculture
1655439 I agree with you on that. I do not partake in it and like to think of it as a kids show for younger people to love and we just came along and made it bad...I think they are adult in the show or at least teenagers. And I believe that they know what sex is but are not horny and don't go through the estrus cycle that people claim to be and don't have the urge to have sex. Like in the story My Second Life I found them to be the best and exemplifies them in the show. Now A glanced at the link since it is long and the time is late and notice that some of those characteristics are true about me while not so much on others. Remember...not everyone partook in the survey so there might be some mistakes with it. The grim dark gore aspect is that I believe to be loss of limbs and terrible damage...but not excessive amounts. I think they understand sex and know what it is but I doubt they have sex toys and porn mags, debating on models would count towards it like fleur. I am fine with shipping but please make it believable...I don't think that any of the alicorns should be shipped with each other, no twilight dating celestia. Shinning Armor and Cadance MUST be together and unless they get a divorce or something...make it believeable. The other shipings are fine by me as long as they a believable and have a great back story. FREAKING LONG RANT!