I am the Storm Scribe. Let my words thunder across all creation! Let my imagination rain down and bring life to new worlds and adventures. Above all else, may you enjoy what meager gifts I bring...
Ladybug is a newly transformed changeling. She and her race have been given a new start, a clean slate, thanks to their new ruler, King Thorax. Life is looking up for changelingkind!
Now if she could only convince the cynical Kevin of this...
A commission for Alex Warlorn.
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Heh its like my sexuality its in the books and covers...
If ya know what I mean
Kevin gave Ladybug quite the reality check...
Kevin's an idiot.
He gives Zecora as an example when the ponies were a) more afraid of where she lived and b) ended up befriending her anyway. He says the ponies only accepted the Changelings when they were pretty, which is not true; then he says Thorax had to befriend a dragon first, but you know what? That same dragon was raised by ponies. He's only that friendly because of the ponies. He has the gall to say Spike only cares for his friends because he doesn't have a hoard. The things with Bulk and Derpy, I don't know what he's even going on about. Bulk flew for Ponyville at the Equestria Games, for crying out loud. They had Derpy replace Rainbow Dash when they thought she couldn't fly. Ooh, look how they're hated!
Kevin is a cynical, self-absorbed idiot who would rather wallow in petty grudges than grow up.
Kevin does raise a couple of interesting points, but I think that this story would've benefited greatly from exploring those ideas with actual scenes. As it stands, it feels like it's more interested in making a political statement about the new changelings and crushing Ladybug's worldview than fleshing out a story about how ponies aren't as inclusive and caring as they seem.
Rather than seeing the underlying prejudice for ourselves, we're kind of expected to simply take Kevin's word for it.
It's a verbal smackdown thinly disguised as a story, and although there's certainly a time and place for things like that, this one doesn't have quite enough zing or burn for me to find it enjoyable. Ladybug's too shallow to hate, and Kevin's not likeable enough to root for.
8047430 Admittedly I was reaching when I mentioned them. I needed someone likely to be targeted for 'differences,' and went for ponies I've seen targeted in darkfics before. And while I don't agree with this version of Kevin's worldview at all, I did have him admit that Ponyville was different from the majority of ponies he's encountered in his life.
I was working within a word limit when creating this, so I couldn't fully develop it, but I sort of envision this version of Kevin as being similar to Mercer from G.I. Joe.
8047461 This was a drabble commission. Just a thousand or so words. *shrugs* I could probably expand it, but the buyer set the limit. I do as requested when working off of a purchased story.
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Agreed. The story would have been better if Kevin, for example, had showed how donkeys or mules are treated outside Ponyville ( "be cool or be mule....no offense"), simply because they look less pretty than ponies.
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Fair enough.
That last line rings hollow after Kevin sprayed his worldview at Ladybug with a riot hose. Also, how exactly did he know about the circumstances of Thorax's acceptance?
This is definitely an interesting piece, but it does seem like Ladybug has a few pieces of straw sticking out of her.
8047642 I may reuse the two in another story. The more I look at this story the less I'm happy with it.
Great story :) Any chance of a sequel in the future possibly...?
Wow, it's almost as if he's mad at ponies for basically acting like people!
Yes, just like us mean, awful humans, ponies can be very prejudice at times. They can be judgemental because of appearance or where somepony is from. But also just like humans, they have the ability to learn to look past these prejudices with time, controlled exposure and education, even though there will always be some that never will. That sadly cannot be helped.* An exact parallel can be made with the changelings and their development of their worldview. Ponies, changelings and human beings are all flawed.
Hell, one of the only real differences between ponies and us when it comes to fear, prejudice and xenophobia, contrary to popular fandom belief, ponies don't form angry mobs and kill the supposed threat, they spin on their heels, run away and hide, waiting for it to go away.
I'd love to ask Kevin something, since he's so enlightened: are we to understand that there are no dragons who mock ponies for their non-macho and non-warrior culture, calling their leaders "namby pamby" and ultimately deriding them for what they are and not who they are? Or better yet, are there really NO changelings out there, namely certain royalty, who have and still view ponies as nothing more then food, mere cattle who only deserve exist under the Changeling supremacy and fill the latter's bellies with their love?
Don't hurt yourself climbing off that high horse of yours, Kev.
... Yeah yeah, I realized as soon as I typed it.
(Ps, I promise that this is by no means an attack on the author, but rather the character Kevin and his tiresome world-view and hypocrisy.)
*But even then, it should be pointed out, whilst appearances may play a part in it, those ponies' distrust is mostly going to come down to the changelings' past atrocities against them, ie, state-sponsored invasions of their cities, kidnapping and draining ponies' love without consent.
8047971 The funny thing is he outright insults her and the others looks anyways. Being rather hypocritical in that regard.
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Sorry.