Author: Larathin Bradley
Description: Growing up is never easy, especially when you’re a dragon among ponies. And it’s even worse when the closest thing to a mother you’ve ever had is a young, slightly scatterbrained unicorn. But when tempers boil over and things are said, can this makeshift family pull itself back together?
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My Little Assistant
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My Little Assistant
Additional Tags: Family, Dragon, Mom, Research, Assistant
27 comments:
Short, sweet, and enjoyable. A perfect little read.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful way to end the night, in my opinion. A happy ending and such. Danke.
ReplyDeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteFor the FFnet posts though, people need to remember to go back and double check the files they upload. Some formatting just as line breaks may not be kept when the story file gets translated into whatever format FFnet uses. FFnet has a built in file editor just for this purpose.
And more specifically, lines that are nothing but strings of asterixes just vanish into FFnet limbo.
S.Q.U.E.E.
ReplyDeleteI cried a little :*)
ReplyDelete@DJ Kat
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the story yet, but this raises questions as to what other pony materials are made of...
Manly tears were shed.
ReplyDeleteAt least this one had a happy ending. There's another fic based on this image over at Ponychan where the ending was rather...sad (well, there were two endings; one bittersweet and another sad)
I wanted a fic based off that image the moment I saw it and this fic doesn't disappoint. I really like this author's interpretation of their relationship too.
ReplyDeleteTears.
ReplyDeleteThey arose, but did not fall.
Still a damn fine accomplishment. Well done.
Such a heart-warming story :3
ReplyDeleteQuite a feel-good little story.
ReplyDeleteIf any fic is deserving of a 'Warm and Fuzzy' category, then this is it.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't we have one of those yet?
D'awww. Best way to finish a record grimdark readathon ever.
ReplyDeleteI loved it.
ReplyDeleteI saw very few mistakes (like two) but it was so awesome I didn't care. The bad part was IT'S TOO SHORT. NEED MORE.
I had many people tell me my pic needed a story or some kind of happy ending. (I can't write stories though) I'm glad to see people making their own endings.
ReplyDeleteLovely story! Felt the length was just fine for it and it was heart-tugging. >.<
ReplyDelete~onery
Twilight was out-of-character, as was Celestia. Meh. Was a nice thought.
ReplyDeleteDarn it. I was saving this one for the next friend off. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised somepony beat me to it. Now to read it...
ReplyDeleteI kind of like it ;) Simple story, a little bit to fast for my taste, but well written and executed overally - simply put, I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteBut If I read "My little assistant" anywhere just once again, I will commit murder.
@Anonymous
ReplyDelete>Implying one scene of a teacher being stern is out of character
>Implying this isn't the closest we can get to a motherly twilight
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Now to comment.
Leather bound journal? I hope the rest of Twilight's books are leather-bound, only real things should be allowed in her house... (cookies if ANYONE GETS THIS)
Anyway, that was great. Simple emotions that ran high, the perfect length, and I thought that the idea to start with flashbacks was really well thought out.
Quite a nice story, gave me a good feeling :3
ReplyDeleteNice little story, good use of intertextuality with a reference to Smaug!
ReplyDeleteThat was /cry a touching story. Very well done.
ReplyDeleteNow with that said only 2 moments in the whole story sort of made me pause a moment and think "wth?" 1) Twilight working with GLUE that is pretty morbid imo lol;
and the end 2) 'Leather' Bound Book lol;
To all the 'too short, needs more' and twilight/celestia 'out of character'
ReplyDeleteCelestia as all good mentors like to instill a sense of right and wrong, and when you do something bad a punishment however small is needed to instill these morals. Celestia entrusted her with something Twilight perhaps had to maybe plead for to borrow and swore she'd keep it safe, she didn't.
In that note Twilight loves Spike that is canon and she will take the blame for him to protect him, especially if her wild imagination made her think for a moment that Spike would be punished or taken away from her.
Twilight is a bit self absorbed but she's a good pony, when it counts I believe she'd do the right thing and take a loss if she thought it'd something special to Spike.
Now Celestia being furious on the other hand I don't buy, more like disappointed in Twilight and curious as to her reasons WHY she'd do that. She trusts Twilight and probably knows she wouldn't neglect her studies, or a chance to further them.
P.S. Even though technically Doctor Hoof was put in as a cameo reference since Celestia herself teaches Twilight Magic and control over it as stated she would personally teach twilight. I thought I'd just explain my point of view in this in hopes it'd make more sense
P.P.S Also the length ties up to what a story board idea for an episode would run at almost so not too too short really <3
P.P.P.S. just felt like adding more "P's" and "S'" because I can ;3
Cute story, short and sweet suits it perfectly. and lol at the stable wars thing.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read it yet, but by looking at this picture, I say I needs a 'sad' tag.
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