Friday's Featured Fic: The Motion of the Stars · 5:07am Mar 14th, 2015
The Motion of the Stars
Author: Carabas
Genre: Post-apocalyptic quest.
Word Count: 14k
Synopsis: Once upon a time, Equestria burned in the fires of war.
Now it falls on two sisters to reclaim what they can.
What element can define the post apocalyptic genre better than hope? Hope that somehow, some way, the world can be made better. Refusal to believe anything different in the face of overwhelming odds and evidence to the contrary.
Hope is what drives post apocalyptic fiction. No matter what medium it is in.
Water World, Mad Max, The Walking Dead, in all these stories, hope is the driving force behind every the actions of every protagonist and even quite a few of the antagonists.
Fallout: Equestria epitomizes this concept perfectly. No matter how horrendous the circumstances become, Little Pip remains firmly convinced that she can make the horrendous, nightmarish world she inhabits better.
Motion of the Stars however, is this concept distilled.
Third place winner of Equestria Daily’s More Most Dangerous Game Contest, Motion follows a world-weary Rarity as she attempts to renew the cycle of day and night in a war-torn Equestria.
As both a reader and a writer, I am all about the characters. And the characters are the penultimate aspect of the post apocalypse story. Not way in which the world met its end, not the raiders, not the setting, the character. After all, you can’t have hope without the hopeful.
Motion understands this. Understands what enraptures this genre’s readers isn’t whiplash fight scenes and gory depictions of violence, but the struggle of the protagonist. What so many Fallout: Equestria side stories fail to apprehend, Motion displays masterfully.
All that remains of Equestria is an ash covered ruin. The world is torn asunder between perpetual night and day, and Rarity is determined, no matter what the cost, that the Sun and Moon will rise and fall once again.
Every story that I feature in these posts is a good read, but Motion of the Stars is a freaking great one.
Check it out. You owe it to yourself.
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You won't be disappointed! Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I edited it. So you know it's good.
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It's taken me a while, but I just realized that the cover art was broken because you changed it. Whoops.
Anyway, it's been posted again over at the Compendium.
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The heartage is doubled.