After an evening of drinking too much cider, Princess Twilight Sparkle and Eric Reed both wake up in the same bed. Twilight's bed, to be exact. All they remember is what happened before their first cup of cider, but everything after it is a blur.
They look for their friends to ask them what happened while they were drunk, hoping they didn't do anything they might regret.
In fact, would the hung-over pair even want to know?
This story takes place after the events of the story A Giant Adventure to Equestria. However, it's not required to read it first to understand this story (and laugh) other than to learn the human OC Eric Reed's backstory and how his bonds with the other characters formed.
Edit: made the feature list on 02/24/20!!
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nice work
I've always liked 4th wall author notes breaks
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I appreciate that knowledge of the previous story isn't necessary for this; it provided enough laughs on its own. Think I might check out the parent fic judging by this quality.
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Thanks!
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I almost didn't do it, but thought better of it. Glad you like that little touch!
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Thanks! I try to write these spin-off stories in a way that you can just jump into it. Kinda like how some HiE stories have humans with next to no backstory at all.
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Except HiE humans with no backstory at all are boring and stupid. A fine line of balancing between making them in-depth, but no so much that it's impenetrable to new fans.
I'M LOOKING AT YOU AUSTRAEOH-10101101
How much I go into Eric Reed character each story usually depends on the plot and how long it is. Some of my spin-off stories with him goes more into his character and/or with more on his backstory. The stories that does it the most usually have the "Drama" tag.
Up to this point, my "When Dating a Sunset..." story is the one that does it the most, but it's almost as long as the parent story.
Only Rainbow Dash could come up with a prank that causes somepony to question whether or not they're pregnant.
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In Big Mac's words: Eeyup!
This makes me want to reread The Inn At The End of Equestria, again.
Anyways, I love how I went from that random guy who complained on one of your stories that it didn’t make sense without the source material, to being a pretty big fan of what you’ve put out recently.
This story is no exception. Good job.
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That's a good turn of events, if I say so myself. Glad you're enjoying this and the other stories I'm writing!
Cute Story! But I have also read stories with similar situations of pranks like this that then go wrong, to extent of suicide at times.... I hate pranks.
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Glad you like the story. I think I've read some stories with pranks going wrong, sometimes badly wrong. I wouldn't write stories like that though: the pranks in my stories are all in good fun and that's it.
The exception might be if villains are involved. But even those are more likely just be a played for laughed version of revenge, but would be far darker if it wasn't. Stories like that wouldn't have the "comedy" tag.
Hrmmm... wonder how Sunset Shimmer would have participated assuming this story followed "When Dating a Sunset..." in the Eric Reedverse
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I was thinking that same thing when I was writing this story.
If Sunset was there when Twilight and Eric was getting drunk, she would have got Eric far away from Twilight the moment he called her hot once he got really drunk, no matter how much he would protest.
You hack.
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Gonna need to elaborate on that, because you stumped me on where you're going with that comment.
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You basically used the same premise as my first story.
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Oh, I see what you meant now. I really didn't have that story on my mind when I thought of the idea of this story, but I did emphasize the possibility of sex and the prank element of this story but yours didn't do anything like that, but our stories do share the part about the two main characters getting drunk. We just handed it very differently after they woke up, which was even a big part of this story.
I loved this one just as much as the sequel but the sequel was better
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Ugh, this was structured like a nightmare. Flashbacks are usually a bad idea. Linear story telling is vastly superior unless you have a very good reason for doing otherwise, and not one element of this story demanded the complete disregard for linearity you displayed. Combine that with your inconsistant use of first person perspective(a perspective that is widely inferior to third person), and you've got a painful read whose 'punchline' isn't worth the effort to reach.
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I see. Thanks for those thoughts.
I'm aware that the style I used don't appeal to all, but I've seen stories use it and do well, so that was why I thought to try it out here. I will say that the flashback thing isn't something I usually use. But, one advice I've heard is "don't be afraid to try out new things in stories" so for some of my stories, like this one, I'm using that advice, all the way.
Edit: You said "inconsistant use of the first person perspective" but in the case of this story, how I did it was needed. For my stories with the character Eric Reed, I use a first-person narration, and switch it to a third-person when he can't narrate for one reason or another. This is a style I've seen done a number of times, and it even give me to idea to do it myself.
One thing about me as a writer: I WILL listen to criticism to my stories and take them into account, no matter how well the story does. But if your criticism is more about the style I used, then there's not much I can do about that, other than keep on working on improving it.
Why were the times while drinking so specific? And who just chugs ciders repeatedly and quietly like that? Also why was our human boi's clothes not addressed? You'd think you would wake up buck naked, smell of sex, and dried liquids to come to the conclusion that you slept with someone tbh.
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They didn't "come" to the conclusion that they had sex, they were "told" they did, and they had no memory or a big enough reason to think it was a lie.
Flash Sentry not Shimmer.
Also, I would think that a pony/human hybrid gestation would average out to ten months, yes?
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It might would be ten months. Hmm.
And I meant to have Twilight say Flash Shimmer, not Flash Sentry, for extra comedy
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Thanks and glad you liked the story!
I poke fun at ships, like Starbrust, in a few stories, but I rarely actually do a ship in my stories.
wait twilights real i only thought pinkie was real
barffing intensifies
yep both me and twilight and aj and rainbow dash and rarity and mhmhmpphhh
quiet pinkie you heard this author bad stuff could happen