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The Rise Of Discord

Arukir
Warnings
Creator chose not to add warnings
Fandom
My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship is Magic (Cartoon 2010)
Other characters
Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) Original Pony Character(s) (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) Original Characters
Other tags
Kid Fic Old Equestria Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Alternate Universe Not Beta Read Orphans Alternate Universe - Medieval No Betas We Fly Like Rainbow Crash! POV Third Person Art Fanart No Smut Fluff and Angst Humor Slice of Life Wilderness Survival Theft Mythical Beings & Creatures
Language
English
Originally published
on AO3
Stats
1,160 words1 chapter + prologue 13 sparks0 comments0 bookmarks6 readsUpdated 06 Apr 2024
Summary

Tumble was a child, trying to navigate a complicated world where absolutely nothing made sense and no creature was anything like him. It doesn't help that his magic didn't work like he'd told it should, and he could barely control it anyways.

Discord as a kid! AU series of drabbles (I think that's the right word?).

Notes

I have a headcanon that Discord's name was originally Tumble, but he changed it later for whatever reason.

This is set in the past, but is as well an AU -- Alternate Universe. Discord goes on a very different journey than in canon, which means he will have friends and won't be evil. I will as well change some things about how pony history played, partly on purpose and partly because I don't know everything about it.

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Prologue

Basically just setting up the series.

Pretend he's a bit thinner in the Fanart.

Tumble was a child. Or, at least, he thought he was. He didn't know for sure, but there were a lot of things he didn't know. What his parents looked like, what his species were called, his real name -- he only called himself Tumble because he had to be something, and he fell out of trees a lot.

 

He was bigger than most adult Ponies, though he'd been more pony-shaped when he was younger, and he was a lot older than them. He used to keep track of his age, but gave up for two reasons. One -- he couldn't remember his first years, he just sorta remembers looking for food in a forest. Two -- he once used a lot of Really Big Magic to guard his territory from these frost horse things, and got so tired that he took a nap in a cave, and when he woke up there were a lot Ponies who knew a lot more Things. He wasn't sure how long he missed, so he completely lost count of how old he might've been.

 

Point was, he was older and bigger, but he didn't feel like an adult. Surely an adult would have better control of their magic? Surely an adult would've stopped growing? Surely an adult wouldn't have such a high-pitched voice?

 

But that could just be his species, whatever that is. He's all long and mismatched and different, but he must be part of some sort of species, right?

 

He'd never met any other member of his species, but he was sure they were out there. Until he found, he was content to live among Ponies. Well, not so much 'among' as 'in a cave in a forest nearby their towns while frequently raiding farms'. Most Ponies didn't like him much, and he didn't like them, and his bursts of uncontrollable magic widened that rift everytime he tried to make friends.

 

He eventually decided he was happy with only one friend, a jackalope he called Lokî. He had a loyal friend, a cozy cave, a giant forest to play in, and all the towns he could ever raid -- what more could he possibly need?

 

Really, he had everything he wanted, and he was happy. He certainly wasn't lonely, nor was he afraid, nor did he ever spy enviously at little foals with their parents and siblings and all that. Who needed any of that stuff?

 

Tumble was just fine, he could take care of himself. It didn't matter in the slightest that he was only a child.

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