I've been watching and re-watching this video today and can't seem to get it out of my head.
So while we're waiting to figure out where the hell we're going to go next with project, I'm going to take you on a journey, into my mind, and write a pony fanfic.
oh yes. This is happening.
I haven't felt this inspired to write something since I joined up here and proposed my idea for Joanna.
So here's the basic premise that the video is working off of that I am going to change and make my own:
"It tells the tale of what woud have been the origin of Nightmare Night, and the catalyst element that forced Celestia to banish Luna.
After defeating Discord, Canterlot was witnessing a very slow recovery. Misery could still be found everywhere around, specially for the ponies that had less means.
Luna thought that expanding the kingdom and founding a new pony colony elsewhere would give a solution to the problem, allowing the ponies that she would choose for the matter, a new brand future. Celestia refused the proposal of her sister to scatter Equestria. For after such a great lack of harmony she thought it could shatter the kingdom forever.
Being denied and in the shadow of her own sister, Luna decided it easier to ask for forgiveness than permission..."
So, for anyone who hasn't seen any of the series that I'm obsessed with, this means that the video takes place BEFORE anything in the series happens.
My idea is going to MUCH different:
So, Princess Luna, having been recovered from her possession by the nightmare and with her kingdom recovering from the latest round of trouble from both, Discord and the Changelings, doesn't feel as though she's doing enough for her subjects. So, one night, while the princess is stargazing in her private garden, he encounters a lost foal who has sneaked into the palace grounds because he has no where else to go; after the Changeling attack many foals were left orphaned.
Luna, being a royal figure, immediately soothes the foal's tears and lulls him to sleep with a song, the song in the video, and before fetching her sister and a guard to find him a orphanage, she decided to take him under her wing and raise him.
"If I cannot help one little foal, then I cannot help an entire kingdom of subjects."
So, there are a few of reasons that we are going to do this:
- To go over story creation and how to really get something started from scratch
- How to write a story, from behind the eyes of an experienced writer and what goes on in my head.
- To keep me accountable and writing this, I have a tendency to quit writing fanfics in the middle of them.
- to spread the power of ponies.
So, hold onto your seats, 'cause its going to be a wild ride.