When your child leaves and starts living their own life and you’re back to living by yourself, how can you fill the void they left behind?
When you have been having a weird, yet eerily familiar stranger in your dreams and everypony around you thinks you’ve been on vacation, could you handle knowing the truth; even if it meant your life will never be the same again?
A determined Father trying to move on after his daughter leaves him behind.
A bewildered Mare trying to make sense of what’s going on.
A story of saying goodbye and letting go
All will be revealed and explained in “G.N.D.”: Yet another sequel of the well-known short story “My Little Dashie.” By ROBCakeran53
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For clarification:
-Yes, this is an MLD sequel (Strike one)
-I have written no previous works (Strike Two)
-And did I mention this happens to be my absolute first fic? (Strike Three)
According to Sports Law, I’m dead. Baseball, Zack Morrison references, and feeble attempts at humor aside, I just wanted the audience to understand I was not unaware of depravity of my deed. MLD sequels are notorious for being bad and I cannot possibly claim what I have written is good. That is up to you, dear reader.
Understand that I have read many of the sequels while writing this, and please realize I have done my best to exceed the average sequel in story and in development. But I must stress I have only tried to exceed the garden variety MLD sequel. This is not arrogance, nor is it because other authors are inadequate, but because ROB has taken enough flak just for being generous enough to allow others to use his work as a springboard.
I have done my best to make sure it is not only well-written, but also to expand upon the original as all good sequels should. (If only because it is entirely rude to the author of the original piece if you soil his name and reputation with a shoddy fic)
Hate it if you wish to hate it, like it if you choose to like it. It is here, it is done, I am done. Come what may, I do hope you enjoy some part of it. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll find it a good MLD sequel.
My Little Pony and all official characters listed therein are the property and copyright of Hasbro
The story of “My Little Dashie” and the character of the father are the intellectual property of ROBCakeran53
As someone who has been with Nibs here, since before he left, I can say that he put a colossal amount of effort into this. Whether or not anyone who reads this likes it, I just want you to know that he took this very seriously, and he put the best he had into writing this.
...this is probably the single most under-appreciated story on this site
2406871, it's not underappreciated.
It was just approved, minutes ago.
Two things:
1) Glad to see you writing at last.
2) Also liking the type you chose.
I'm looking forward to seeing what your take on it will show us.
I shall read on.
This is deeply depressing and...in-depth.
Hopefully there will be a happy ending...
I shall read on.
...Nibrudly, I don't know how much you doubt yourself, but you simply cannot do that with this being written.
I'm almost weeping as I read this...
You're perfectly conveying the internal misery that Dad goes through for all those years.
I shall read on.
...oh well, seems like I glitched the page.
Regardless...
I am sad that there was no happy end for these people...
But I still cherish this with all my heart.
You clearly know how drag the reader into the events that unfold.
It is sad that with this, you shan't return....
Farewell, friend, and a farewell to Dad as well.
May your fictional heart beat in an other life.
Have fun, both of you.
This, this whole story, I have to say, was just as sad, if not more, than MLD itself. Excellent work.
1 question. 1: How old was Rainbow Dash/Dashie's human farther at the end?
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We are never told how old Dad actually is, so I did not have a definite age for him.
But here was my formula:
Start of MLD
Dad is mourning the loss of his parents, lives alone in their house. So he has to be old enough to be self-supporting, but not old enough to have started his life. (Most likely a college drop-out if that’s when his parents died. Age 24-30)
Life with Dashie
Fifteen years with Dashie (Age 39-45)
Life with David
Twenty-nine years later (Age 68-74)
So if you really want a singular number, I’d say 71 would be the middle age here.
And kudos for asking something I hadn’t even thought of.
haha you did it! this has come a long was from the drift u sent me! Good job my friend! Hopefully see you soon.
This is the only thing I can say :
