Flamehearth is a stallion living in a small earth pony settlement. A hopeless romantic, he looks forward to the romance that must surely lie ahead of him now that he has his cutie mark. Presented as a series of diary entries. Set in the Xenophilia
2287769 With this in mind, I've got some interesting new directions to pursue. So, thank you for your criticism. I would like to tell you that you're "more right" than you think you are about this "not sounding like a diary in the age it's set", too. No exact numbers, but this is set more than two thousand years before Lero's arrival. More than one thousand years before Equestria was unified as a nation. I chose this time setting because, while I like how the Xenophile's Guide defines cutie marks for the three tribes, I didn't want to follow those rules exactly. At this early a time period, I could simply say that those standards and traditions haven't yet developed fully in Earth Pony society, which I would peg as the slowest to develop a tradition like that because I believe they are the "least organised", or perhaps "least centralised" of the three tribes. They don't have nations at this point, but small villages. The Unicorns might have a feudal-esque system and the Pegasi would probably be more like (semicivilised) Klingons at this point, but the Earth Ponies have small villages led by semi-democratic methods.
Anyway, my worldbuilding aside, I have some work to do to justify Flamehearth's oddity and explore the consequences of it. Maybe I dug myself a hole here, but at least I can dig myself out.
Diese ist wunderbar! Have a mustache:
interesting story, go on
2287769 With this in mind, I've got some interesting new directions to pursue. So, thank you for your criticism. I would like to tell you that you're "more right" than you think you are about this "not sounding like a diary in the age it's set", too. No exact numbers, but this is set more than two thousand years before Lero's arrival. More than one thousand years before Equestria was unified as a nation. I chose this time setting because, while I like how the Xenophile's Guide defines cutie marks for the three tribes, I didn't want to follow those rules exactly. At this early a time period, I could simply say that those standards and traditions haven't yet developed fully in Earth Pony society, which I would peg as the slowest to develop a tradition like that because I believe they are the "least organised", or perhaps "least centralised" of the three tribes. They don't have nations at this point, but small villages. The Unicorns might have a feudal-esque system and the Pegasi would probably be more like (semicivilised) Klingons at this point, but the Earth Ponies have small villages led by semi-democratic methods.
Anyway, my worldbuilding aside, I have some work to do to justify Flamehearth's oddity and explore the consequences of it. Maybe I dug myself a hole here, but at least I can dig myself out.