Flitter
Bonus Two
Fatherhood
The changeling looked at the foal much like a space explorer would look at an alien life form. He resisted the urge to prod it.
The tiny blue unicorn was lying in a hospital bed, next to his mother. The pegasus mare was fast asleep, though, completely exhausted from the labours of foalbirth. The changeling was more than thankful for this. He realized all too well that the deal he had made three months earlier hadn't been a good one. The dying stallion whose place he took had well and thoroughly screwed him over. All love in this relationship was constantly being poisoned by underlying currents of silent resentment, and with his limited understanding of pony relations, the changeling only now started to realize why.
But he had promised he'd look after them. And even if the mare would continue to silently despise him, the foal was quite a different matter.
Flitter realized, though, that he knew nothing about foals. The small blue thing was looking at him with wide open eyes, radiating an emotion that felt oddly like, well, hunger. Or rather, the changeling equivalent of hunger. The foal had nudged its mother and found her unresponsive, and had instinctively turned to the other occupant in the room, looking for the affection it needed.
Flitter felt an odd kinship with the tiny being. Both had been denied the affection of the mare lying in the hospital bed. Though he realized all too well that the foal, unlike him, would readily receive all the loving care it needed once she was awake again.
He reached out with the telekinetic magic that came so easily with Swift Star's aura information, and plucked the foal off the bed. He sat down on the floor and gently put the tiny thing down between his forelegs. The foal looked at him as all foals look at the world; trying to make sense of the brand new colourful shapes around them. Its disproportionately large orange eyes looked at the disguised changeling, whose eyes, mimicking the foal's biological father, were exactly the same colour.
Apparently satisfied with what it saw, it snuggled its head into its surrogate father's forelegs, and promptly fell asleep.
Flitter stared at the foal, utterly shocked at what he just experienced. He would never have imagined such strong emotions coming from such a young and underdeveloped being.
His eyes softened, and he smiled, gently stroking the tiny thing's blue coat with a hoof. Even asleep, the foal reacted with an affectionate nudge towards the caring appendage, and a whole new flood of radiated happiness.
Flitter felt revived. After months of neglect, these raw untainted emotions of pure love for a parent were exactly what he'd needed.
He nodded slowly. "You and I, little one, we'll get along just fine."
Nice
Pointless d'awws. Pointless???
There is no such things a pointless d'awws!!!! What there is, however, is a need for more Flitter antics!!!
Dawwwww!
3 quarters of a page of D'aaawwws are totally worth the emotional uplift to get me through the next 12 hours of night shift. Thank you so very much.
2009347
Yeah what he said. D'awws are never pointles.
MOAR
POINTLESS DAAAAWWWWWWWING!
LOVE THE FOAL, LOVE IT!!!
it may be pointless to you but to those of us that really like this story and the newborn aspect, sorry but its just made our day
2009373
2009401
Glad to be of service
I mostly think it's 'pointless' because I have no idea how I could ever expand it to a true, full story... I mean, sure, there may be some anecdotes to write, but that's hardly a real story
The ride never ends. Even when the story in long since over.
I REMEMBER THIS FIC!!!
AND NOW IT IS ON THE WEEKS BEST!!!!
2009420
Alas, this is true... once you create characters, you never really stop thinking about them. They're just... part of you, somehow.
Pointless D'awws are never pointless! D'awwing is a point in and of itself!
pointless d'awws. And if you have random anecdotes you can write, go for it! You know we'll love them regardless.
2009401
Well, I guess I DID cheat you guys out of that "newborn aspect" when it came to Junebug, huh?
2009471 considering SOME stories, it could SO easily be worse Im just thankful for more Flitter
2009373 Sounds like someone's in Afghanistan. What kinda night shift you get stuck with?
Every daddy lose they children, and a lot of tasty love is just a berry on the cream, an little extra bonus.
2009347 Yeah! Next you'll be trying to say that D'awn Starshine isn't best foal or something! I mean, come on!
NEW FLITTER UPDATE!
. . .
Wait, I thought this story was done?
Doesn't matter, got flitter bonus chapter.
2009589 No, D'awn Starshine is, in my humble opinion, best OC foal. Followed closely by Milky Way and Lemon Meringue (from a different story, obviously) in joint second.
I honestly can't decide on which canon foal is best. canterlot.net/images/smilies/ponies/mlp-pp-shrug.png
2009633
That's what i as like
If D'aww's are pointless, let this story be as blunt as a butterknife!
Dawwww.
It may be short but I really like the story so it's still nice addition.
Nice chapter,I really hope you make a sequel to the story though.You ended this story really well but it has more potential I think.I still love your flashbacks though.
Why can't I fave this story twice!?
Now that was just adorable.
2009431
They came from your imagination.
And your imagination is a giant mix of all your emotions, experiences, knowledge and many more things.
Anyway i would like to tell you that this story was just amazing and that i'm a bit sad that it has ended.
Succesfully building a world where ponies and changelings can coexist with a background culture for the changelings? That's very impressive.
But yeah, all my love.
Clever, funny, heartwarming, and very interesting. Well done.
That's it? That was short!
My heart just exploded.
I'm giving you the bill next month
2009347
Seconded
now to sleep easy tonite
Daaawwws
More Bonuses!
This is just the right amount, I think.
SEQUEL PLZ PLZ PLZ.
Hnnnnnng. My chest, it hurts. I personally blame you for writing this, feel responsibility. FEEL IT!
But seriously, there's a lot of D'AWWW!
This story is what I'm counting alongside the greats of my favorites. You sir, have my undivided attention. I wish you good luck and tidings, and hope you bring other beautiful stories like this, into FIMFICTION.
MOAR!!!
AWWwww
2011097
I read all the comments. Please don't spam my private messages inbox with the same thing you post here
I feel like I'm betraying the only author I'm following, but I like Flitter more than Kuno.
2012540
In your defence, Kuno was intended to be a bit of a bitch
All love in this relation was relationship
2012921
Yeah, I guess my non-English roots do show from time to time... the two words are the same in Dutch. I wasn't sure about this one and left it in. Fixed now though, thanks.
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Dying! Dying of cuteness!
That was too adorable.
Excellent work, Author.
2010329
I'll forward it to that nice ego-centered group you created
*diabeetus*
HNNNGGGG