Fanfiction: Marelin (Friendship is Magic, Merlin AU)

[rionaleonhart]

I am suitably ashamed of myself for the title, but curiously unashamed of myself for writing a My Little Pony/Merlin fic in the first place. It makes so much sense!

Title: Marelin
Fandom: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 8,000
Summary: Merlin AU. In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests

Comments

[thewaterbandit]

This is part one of a series, right? Please tell me it is! Because it was absolutely brilliant. I had a big happy grin on my face as we were introduced to everyone followed by a massive D: at Celestia (in a good way!) and then :D again for everything else. I could imagine the whole thing in the style of FiM, and everyone was perfect. Bravo.

And you found a way to incorporate Pinkie! Yesss!

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you so much! I'd love to write more in this universe if I'm inspired to - this was so much fun! - and so there may well be future episodes, although I'm afraid I can't guarantee anything. ♥!

[futuresoon]

I don't even have words for how beautiful this is.

[rionaleonhart]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[wolfy_writing]

Balloony Weirdtail

I thought you might want to know the precise moment I fell completely in love with this fic. It's here.

“I get twitches sometimes,” Balloony whispers, her eyes going very wide and round. “They predict the future. Queenie thought it was an eensy-weensy bit too close to magic, so - whee! Banished!”

This is exactly how Pinkie Pie would say things! Is she hiding in your room right now?

“I was just trimming my mane in preparation for the royal proclamation,” the pony says, “and the scissors slipped, and - and - ” She shakes her head and the cloth falls to the floor, exposing an exquisitely coiffed mane. “Look at me!” she wails, slightly contradicting her earlier outburst. “I’ll be the laughing stock of Canterlot!”

Rarity! Her mane! This is all brilliant!

Also, I love that you wrote Twilight Sparkle thinking that Rarity was contradicting herself.

“Really, of course I do. A figure like yours and no suitable clothes? It’s simply inexcusable.”

Give in to Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, it's the only way.

“Do you think

[wolfy_writing]

The dragon draws breath and huffs out a tiny stream of green fire. He smirks proudly at her. Twilight, with some effort, manages not to laugh.

The Slash Dragon is Spike! And he's adorable!

“Oh,” the princess says, jumping to her hooves, “were you the guys I knocked over? Fluttershy’s okay, right?”

I like that she's only kind of a jackass in this.

“MFRFLGLFRG,” the princess splutters, which Twilight takes to mean ‘I’m face-down in the mud right now and have no idea what’s going on, so now is probably the time to magically slice most of this inconvenient web off and use it to pin that spider to the forest floor’. Twilight takes the princess’s excellent advice, bucks her onto her back and takes off out of the Everfree Forest as fast as she can run.

I love this entire paragraph and want to cuddle it and take it home and feed it tiny candies.

“Or are you gonna clean your own horseshoes from now on?” Applejack demands, seemingly unaware of the stares or of the fact that Rarity, next to her, has pressed a hoof over her face in

[rionaleonhart]

YOUR REVIEWS ARE SO AMAZING. Thank you so much! I'm really glad you think I've got the dialogue right.

I like that she's only kind of a jackass in this.

It was tricky striking the intended balance with Rainbow Dash; I wanted her and Twilight to get off to a rocky start, but I didn't want to make her a complete git, because, well, she's not a complete git (and if I return to this universe I want her and Twilight to come to understand and respect each other more).

You are ridiculously lovely. Thank you again!

Totally Agree!

[wolfy_writing]

I totally agree with everything said in your comment!The "kind of a jackass", all the dialogue being dead-on, (I swear she had the ponies sitting with her as she wrote this!) the "while the ponies are visiting, tell Applejack she is impressively awesome right there", and last but not least (actually I agree with this one MOST OF ALL!) the "Can I have a Twilight Sparkle to do my organizing for me? I promise not to reveal her secrets!" I totally want a Twilight Sparkle!!!!

[dracothelizard]

IT IS PERFECT. Spike is overrated! Rainbow Dash doesn't want a maneservant! KNIGHTMARES.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! I am glad you enjoy the terrible puns.

[dracothelizard]

No more puns than there in the show.

...Thanks for the PYRAMID HEAD ICON, by the way.

[captlebubbles]

I love everything in this. All of it. Especially the bit about Spike being overrated (Spike = Slash Dragon now makes me want a proper crossover where they're related somehow) and the part with the spider and the bit with the mane and the rest of it.

Since you've cast Applejack as Gwen, does that mean that Big Macintosh is going to be replacing Gwen's dad, or some other role?

(Also it took me an embarrassing amount of time to pick up on that you were using "maneservant" instead of manservant. *facehoof*)

[rionaleonhart]

I don't think I knew you watched Merlin! Or, if I did, I forgot. In any case, thank you very much! (I hadn't really thought about Big McIntosh's role in this AU. Hmm! Well, he's Applejack's brother, and Gwen's brother became one of Arthur's closest knights...)

[captlebubbles]

I watched it for the first season, and then lost track and never got round to catching up. But I did watch it for a time! And, you know, I'll read any MLP crossover you write, because the combination of magical talking ponies and Riona can only ever turn out well. (Have you done MLP/Silent Hill yet?)

Big Macintosh is my favorite pony, so I'm very concerned about where he'll end up.

[wolfy_writing]

(Have you done MLP/Silent Hill yet?)

Don't say things like that! She might actually write it now!