I am a unicorn living on Earth. I use my magic to cure human cancer.
A short little feel-good one shot written for Admiral Biscuit's ponies working on Earth not-a-contest.
Written on an impulse, so proofreading may be spotty.
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Thank you for this beautiful story!
Even before ponies, I’d thought of magic users being able to cure cancer by magically identifying the rogue spells and simply targeting them, doing what the body’s immune system can’t. Indeed, some modern treatments (still in research, I think) are using modified viruses to infect the cancer, leaving a clear marker that the body’s immune system can fight.
I really like the idea of the magic working if the patient wants it to work. It feels right to me; it feels pony.
Having the doctor spend half her (I assume; I don’t recall you saying) time attempting to cure patients and the other half of her time being studied by scientists who want to know how she does what she does. I do wonder, though, if once the early trials are completed, it would make more sense to have the unicorns solely working on child patients, especially if there are so few of them who can do it. The children are more likely to believe, and thus the treatment is more likely to be effective, and it’s human nature to want to help prevent children suffering.
I can’t imagine how hard it is to be a doctor, to know that despite some of your best efforts, some of your patients will die, and I can’t imagine how much worse that would be working in a children’s ward.
This is a great story, and I hope if the muse strikes you, you write more about this doctor.
Rude. Clearly a visiting Wisconsinite or Chicagoan.
https://apnews.com/af69154e0cea4564b6602e72c5b24de4/Ken-Burns-turns-his-attention-to-the-Mayo-Clinic
This was a lovely story! I really liked how you explained that if the person believes they can get better and has hope, they usually will improve. That sounds so much like an Equestrian philosophy, a pony way of thinking. Seems to be a good idea for our world, too.
I hope you write more about this healer. And I hope she finds friends.
Just FYI, unless it’s intentional, you might want to put your title in Title Case.
screw cancer!
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That's actually based off my own personal beliefs and my own upbringing regarding healing and medicine. But I guess it is a pretty "Equestrian" philosophy.
Or bronies.
You did good, man. Real good.
I got the same feeling of fearlessness from the girl in the story as I did at that age. To us, it's all just a part of growing up.
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I love this story idea. And I think it's well realized here
Ponies interacting in the human world is one of the more intriguing ideas from the fandom in my opinion. How novel an idea that magic could literally cure cancer!
I've been scheeming up a story idea myself, which would also have alot to do with Pony and Human interaction. I can talk more about it if you'd like?
They should have pre-screened the old guy when he entered and was the way he was. The treatment most likely wasn't going to work on him and was going to cause pain because he wasn't going to relax. Just wheel him out, give him a placebo pill and bring in someone more worthy.
Damn, I wish this was an option when I was going through chemo.
This reminds me of something I read recently (I think it was actually part of 2Merr and Snow's 'Dear Princess Sunbutt'/ 'To Anon; From HRH Sunbutt' sister stories) that ponies can't get hurt unless it's actually the intent. Like, imagine one of those videos where somebody accidentally whacks a child in the face (doing whatever) and they go off and cry because they got hurt. If an equivalent happened in Equestria, since no harm was actually intended, the kid would just stagger back and keep doing whatever, completely unfazed. So essentially if nobody ever intends to harm anyone, no pony would ever actually get hurt by another.
I really like the idea of energy influencing results (your 'if you want it to work, it will' idea). It's why I ask people to send good vibes on top of wishing good luck. It's the positive energy that clinches it. And so far it's always worked.
Only six? I think thousands of people would want to be cured by him.
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Of course thousands want to be treated by her. The number of patients she can take is limited by her physical stamina (she gets too tired after six patients a day).
Interesting that you imagined a male unicorn. I intentionally made the main character's gender ambiguous, but I imagined her as a female unicorn. I don't really mind either way. I'm not Fluttercheer.
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I also imagined a male, but that was because of the male patient having cancer in an exclusively male organ.
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I remember that Ursula K. Le Guin had a similar problem with The Left Hand of Darkness
One of the characters was a member of a race of hermaphrodite aliens
She visualized the character as female, but most of the readers visualized them as male
Oh & it would be easy to establish "Does the patient's attitude determine the effectiveness of the cure?". Just keep track of "who did/did not believe" & " who was/wasn't helped"
See if there's any correlation.
Although, if the other 2 don't get similar results, it's probably her subconscious not her magic that's causing it
It should be 'staring'.
Kinda wished that you went a little longer to the part of the day where the unicorn was getting studied to figure out the mechanism of how he's able to cure cancer.
(As you can see, I also pictured the unicorn as male (either subconscious bias towards doctors being males because the majority of my doctors have been men, OR that I just read a short one-shot where the pony interacting with humans was male)
I wish I found this back in August. Thank you, I needed something like this after my dad died from lung cancer.
Mind doing that for COVID-19? It’s driving me insane!!