Where is this stranger named Iron Will from? How is it that only Fluttershy knows what a Minotaur is? What sad secret hides behind the bulging muscles and powerful voice?
(Another semi-experimental series. I'm trying to keep this cut to the minimum. No extraneous actions or scenes, no needless asides, just a pure story, done in one quick sitting, however long that makes it.)
New Old Fluttershy knows everything. Also, I love this minisode. :)
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Thanks! I hope your enjoyment continues as new episodes come out.
Interesting. You have explained every other hybrid at this point, I guess it was time.
Concrete makes me .
Corrections time: 'why would even bother' seems to be missing a 'you', 'he ask a statue', missing an 'ed' there.
Looks like Kag beat me to it on the errors. I look forward to more, as you know.
It's good? This rarishy is awesome. Want more
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Fixed!
the end confuses me. How can Iron Will be? imean. uhh. my face.
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He said outright, Minos was his father, as far as he knows. If Minos is a king then he would be a prince. He also said Actaeon gave him a name. But he lived with Minos for a year, long enough to get his own name. What it comes out meaning is, his real name is Asterion, and he is regarded by the locals as a prince. And apaprantly, dead.
599403 When? I thought it once said earlier in the story that IronWill was not at all wanted in his homeland...
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Yes... isn't it very strange that the things he believed may not be true? Almost as if he may have been lied to?
599503 uhh. ok?
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Ugh... I'm trying to imply Iron Will was lied to and his family history is different and more complicated than he thought. I wanted to be coy. I'm a writer. It's my job.
That remind me, forgot an 's' there. I made peace with out destination, or maybe our?
New developments, dun dun DUN!
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Has anyone ever told you that you are as artless as Twilight?
600106 GASP! NEVER! Millions of people have said that I am as Artful as Rarity! I like drawing things! APPLEBLOOM SAID SO!
599545 Also, I understood your comment. The uhh ok was a joke.
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Well, welcome to the internet. Without context cues a joke looks exactly like a serious statement. i've seen more obtusestatements
600206 Eeyup.
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Nice parry.
600283 Parry? Yeah, I baked it myself, right? It looks delicious. How does a parry taste like? More importantly, what is a parry?
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A fencing term, like a riposte but less counter-attack-y.
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Touché is too cliché.
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Touché also means you won
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Hush you.
“Oh… you two are Sapphiric females."? is it meant to be Sapphic females?
But still this is good.
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Continuing the (bad) rock puns, instead of the island of Lesbos, they have the island of Sapphiros. And the implications are exactly as usual
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Awwwwwweeeeee Yaeh
It's extremely nice yup. nice
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Grr, Fimfiction screwed up and didn't save my favorite, so now I'm late; I hate being late.
Anyway, the Sapphiric bit was a non-groan worthy pun, don't know how you managed that.
And the puns that hurt return; Feldsparta... really?
Called Discord when they first mentioned the Trickster statue a while back and called Theseus being Actaeon last chapter.
her were just an object. He, maybe? sobbed and lower: lowed.
You caught me unaware with Minos dying, but I guess it was bound to happen. Discord's message and last act, hilarious. I also quite like the the crown. Fine work.
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I had always intended for Iron Will/Asterion/Minos to take the throne by the end of the story. And I thought it made for a properly "Greek" story to have Minos die. At least he got his son back first. Doing this as a quick story made me miss a few things I wanted but would have involved a LOT of delays to set them up. For instance, I had the idea of Iron Will falling for one of the female pegasus guards. Just to make things even more interspecies.
HAIL MINOS XXVIII !!!!
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No need to toss the idea though. A little side story from his perspective later on could work that in and, honestly, I think it'd be better to have it separate from this as it'd be an entirely different style. We always love new interspecies relationships around here and I think there could be a nice story there.
Oh, the the king dying does make it very Greek, agreed.
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I suppose you're right. That's actually not such a bad idea. After all, in addition to my various series, I'm writing a Changeling romance story. Standard (at this point) but reasonably cute.
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Glad to be of service.
Very nice
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Yay, double Pinkies. Twilight's fun has been doubled! Thanks for the kind words.
You sir. You have won my satisfaction. You have made me happy. And for that I am grateful, Sir Gabriel LaVedier.
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I typically aim to please
Nicely done :) I really liked Discords recording
I found the part about a thousand beautiful bitches hilarious. Perhaps it's a sign of immaturity in me.
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Ahhh, a Diamond Dog nation. Hilarity ensues for those used to mares ^.^
This story was too finely written, I dare say I'm envious of your under appreciated and refined skill. This was something worthy of Sophocles, or perhaps Homer, and your geology/ Grecian puns, c'est tre manifique. As for Iron Will being a half cow/ half diamond do hybrid, I was taken aback, but that was absolutely brilliant! Short, strong, and fulfilling, that's how I'd sum this up, good on you sir.
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So glad to hear it. I did try my best to remember the classical unities and make the story compelling.
Thank you for the kind words.