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Baron-Engel — I'm a pony!

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Description Sometimes my subconscious goes off and really complicates thing for me. Since I have started having dreams in my Equestria dreamscape, the only character from my other dreamscapes that has joined me there has been Petina.

Now Petina knows she is product of my subconscious and has on several occasions gone and taken advantage, abused, that knowledge. Like myself, Petina has found Equestria a very nice place to visit. Therefore the little white unicorn/ mouse decided maybe some my other characters might enjoy being a pony. But which one?

So with that thought in her pretty head, Petina went rummaging around in my brain and found Carol Harper fav.me/d56f109 . Perfect! Next Petina decided that if she appears in my dreams because she is a product of my subconscious then she should be able get into Carol's dreams to since she also exists in my subconscious mind. From there she'd bring Carol back to my Equestria dreamscape. So long as Carol was asleep she to could have pony dreams! The annoying thing is that it worked.

At this point I realized that my subconscious had created an interesting question. In the Angel and Knight dreamscape there is a TV show called My Little Pony. I have not yet watched it in my dreams, so I don't know how much it is like real world version. If I am having dreams in the My Little Pony world is it entirely my own version of the universe, or does Lauren Faust also exist in my dreamscape as an individual. If so am I and Petina sneaking into her dreams as characters that she is then dreaming of? I could imagine her waking up and wondering why she would want and go nuke the Everfree Forest fav.me/d59b312

For her part Carol thinks that being a pony is like a dream come true. She is particularly happy that she got a carousel for her cutie mark. In fact Carousel is the name she has decided to adopt there.

I am much more ambivalent about the whole concept of Petina hijacking characters of mine and turning them into ponies. For one thing I am rather enjoying meeting completely new characters like Cogs, Grist fav.me/d5774jr and Black and Tan fav.me/d57379o . Also I don't want to drag any problems that exist in my other dreamscapes into Equestria. I guess I am treating Equestria like it was some national park that I don't want overrun with foreign invasive species.
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Comments: 33

ChristopherDavies [2019-04-04 02:03:10 +0000 UTC]

I think Lauren still has a dA account. Why not ask her?

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Owlor [2013-02-13 21:49:31 +0000 UTC]

I have never before considered the problem of character ecology, how the characters you create are "native" to their particular stories or universes and that unleasing them in other stories might have pecuilar effects.

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Baron-Engel In reply to Owlor [2013-02-14 05:06:22 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they are kind of like little ecosystems.

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ryu238 [2012-12-09 07:49:26 +0000 UTC]

You went a bit meta here.

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Baron-Engel In reply to ryu238 [2012-12-09 07:53:52 +0000 UTC]

A lot of dreamscapes have been described as being meta.

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anzul [2012-08-05 14:20:33 +0000 UTC]

" I could imagine her waking up and wondering why she would want and go nuke the Everfree Forest "
LOL`d my head off at that line XD


"I don't want to drag any problems that exist in my other dreamscapes into Equestria. I guess I am treating Equestria like it was some national park that I don't want overrun with foreign invasive species"
aye, things can get pretty ugly if too many persons were to enter a new world just like that

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K4nK4n [2012-08-02 15:52:56 +0000 UTC]

The lovely anthro/furry mare is now a cute pony.

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Baron-Engel In reply to K4nK4n [2012-08-02 16:10:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm a pretty pony!

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ardashir [2012-08-02 15:45:16 +0000 UTC]

Aww, it's Carol the sexy anthro mare! Well, not she's cute and non-anthro, but still. She is so transcendentally happy!

Oh man, I just had an idea -- what if Dawn Fairmane (that Scottish mare mercenary captain from Andur) were to show up in Equestria? I can see her getting along with AJ and Dashie.

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Baron-Engel In reply to ardashir [2012-08-02 15:51:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, I just had an idea -- what if Dawn Fairmane (that Scottish mare mercenary captain from Andur) were to show up in Equestria? I can see her getting along with AJ and Dashie.

Actually I imagine Dawn being utterly horrified by the concept of being a pony. Remember she is one of those equines who is very assertive about the differences between equines and horses or ponies. In fact I discovered this little social detail when in frustration I called her a horse once. Got punched through a hedge for my slip of the tongue.

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ardashir In reply to Baron-Engel [2012-08-02 16:15:02 +0000 UTC]

One shudders to think what would happen if you called her a mule.

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Aramis-Dagaz [2012-08-02 15:22:48 +0000 UTC]

So long as Carol was asleep she to could have pony dreams! The annoying thing is that it worked.

Hold on a moment, so basically both you and Carol are dreamers wandering around a dreamscape (or are teleported to Equestria when you sleep via a means akin to astral projection). Except that she's technically from another world. And that Carol is also a product of your subconscious.

I'd just say that it's all dream logic and leave it at that, but the possible implications of this are too fun to not explore.

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Baron-Engel In reply to Aramis-Dagaz [2012-08-02 16:09:41 +0000 UTC]

So long as Carol was asleep she to could have pony dreams! The annoying thing is that it worked.

Hold on a moment, so basically both you and Carol are dreamers wandering around a dreamscape (or are teleported to Equestria when you sleep via a means akin to astral projection). Except that she's technically from another world. And that Carol is also a product of your subconscious.

Um, yes. Carol is a character in all three of Angel and Knight dreamscapes. Petina who is a character from my subconscious has figured out how to contact Carol while she's asleep through her subconscious and has then shown her how to get to Equestria. Then Petina somehow figured out how to make certain Carol/ Carousel would be a pony and would have a cutie mark waiting for her when she arrived. Also Petina jiggered with the timing so that I would be asleep at the same time Carol would be in Angel and Knight Prime dreamscape so we would be able to interact in the Equestria dreamscape.

I asked Petina how she was able to do this, and whether she'd done this to any of my other dreamscapes. She just smiled and patted me on the head and said I would get a headache if she explained it to me. Also this was a the only time she'd been able to rummage around in my head this much. Apparently my other dreamscapes have enough firewall protection that she has unable to "tweak" things like this. Then again there are whole parts of my mind that Petina has found off limits. Something she has found very annoying on occasions.

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Rindis8 In reply to Baron-Engel [2012-08-07 02:20:20 +0000 UTC]

Okay, now I'm suddenly envisioning all your dreamscapes as separate virtual machines running on a central server.

...I'd think about making sure the hypervisor is patched and up-to-date; Petina may have found a privilege escalation bug.

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Baron-Engel In reply to Rindis8 [2012-08-07 03:26:21 +0000 UTC]

You think Petina has found a backdoor exploit then?

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Rindis8 In reply to Baron-Engel [2012-08-07 04:03:54 +0000 UTC]

If she can do things with the Equestria dreamscape that she hasn't been able to do before....

You haven't clicked on any strange links in your dreams lately, have you?

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G-Everet [2012-08-02 13:14:47 +0000 UTC]

"I guess I am treating Equestria like it was some national park that I don't want overrun with foreign invasive species."
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I'm sure the Princesses would be appreciative of that.

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Baron-Engel In reply to G-Everet [2012-08-02 15:07:00 +0000 UTC]

Yes. I have already received confirmation from Celestia that she thinks it is the best course of action.

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EarlMcClaw [2012-08-02 13:04:53 +0000 UTC]

This touches on so many fundamental concepts of your dreamscapes, it's actually frightening. Please, if you get any sort of confirmation that others have shared your dreamscapes independently, be very certain of your conclusions before sharing that information.

As for Carol, I see a scroll heading to Canterlot in the near future.

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ZephyrTheDragonlord [2012-08-02 12:48:27 +0000 UTC]

then you really wouldn't want me there... cuz my "other half", Zephyrus is a bloodthirsty sadomasochist dragon-demon... he really wouldn't fit in there...

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CheskaMouse [2012-08-02 07:19:51 +0000 UTC]

The sad thing here, I would be doing the same damn thing.. Stay outta my head Baron.

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EarlMcClaw In reply to CheskaMouse [2012-08-02 13:06:22 +0000 UTC]

If I wound up a pony in Equestria (even just as a dream-visitor)? I'd be trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. The last thing I'd want would be coming to the attention of the Princesses.

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ardashir In reply to EarlMcClaw [2012-08-02 15:47:37 +0000 UTC]

Why? The worst I can see the Princesses doing* would be to send you back home, probably with an apology.

* -- Unless you end up in one of the more crapsack fanon places that has either Trollestia the Impaler or Nightmare Moon in charge. Then? Yeah, you'd be in serious trouble.

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EarlMcClaw In reply to ardashir [2012-08-02 19:54:40 +0000 UTC]

It's not that I distrust the Princesses, it's more a cynical knowledge of what's sometimes necessary for the maintenance of a peaceful society. I'd be not only an "outsider," but one with potentially catastrophic ideas and knowledge. Or at least I'd be worried about changing events. I'd probably end up advising the Princesses to keep me isolated from the rest of Equestria.

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CheskaMouse In reply to EarlMcClaw [2012-08-02 15:39:32 +0000 UTC]

Valid point, but I'd be giddy for the first hour or so.. then go all stealthy, Ninja Pony.

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EarlMcClaw In reply to CheskaMouse [2012-08-02 15:43:21 +0000 UTC]

My reaction to things like that is a little different. "What happened? Okay, deal with the immediate problems. Safe? Secure? I trust those around me? Okay, now you can get the shakes and vent."

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Caerdwyn [2012-08-02 06:49:19 +0000 UTC]

I am wondering if Equestria would survive contact with Abdul... or vice versa.

Somehow, I imagine that he and Pinkie would be on the same wavelength.

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Baron-Engel In reply to Caerdwyn [2012-08-02 15:08:19 +0000 UTC]

Somehow, I imagine that he and Pinkie would be on the same wavelength.

Uh, that might end up being critical mass.

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Ognimod [2012-08-02 06:23:52 +0000 UTC]

"Ugh -Craig, you're not gonna believe this, but I dreamt last night that some white unicorn wanted to bang Celestia!"

(Lauren's going to kill me if she reads that!)

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ardashir In reply to Ognimod [2012-08-02 15:46:02 +0000 UTC]

By now she's probably seen MLP fanworks a million times worse. I know I have!

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Baron-Engel In reply to ardashir [2012-08-02 16:12:28 +0000 UTC]

Still I wonder what she'd think of this, being my dreamscape, would she be fascinated, amused, horrified? Apparently I have an odd mixture of canon and noncanon mixed into it.

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Rindis8 In reply to Baron-Engel [2012-08-07 02:16:36 +0000 UTC]

Considering that it all started with, "what kind of stories did *I* tell with my pony figures..." I think Lauren would think it quite fun.

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ardashir In reply to Baron-Engel [2012-08-02 16:15:50 +0000 UTC]

I really think that she'd like it. A lot.

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