Author's Note

So, I am writing this last final chapter author's blog because, a personal pet peeve of mine is when a story is cancelled half way through and my mind drives itself nuts thinking up what if scenarios or wondering what the author intended to be the ending to the plot.

Keep in mind I wrote this at 2 in the morning while tired as balls.

So I decided to write out the intended plot towards the ending in summary form and then finally call it quits so no one drives themselves crazy looking for the what ifs and junk.

Here goes, my original idea for the remainder of The Side Character is a Deer.

So, it starts with Twilight and the rest of the Elements of Harmony rushing upstairs to find that Johan is in the bathroom and pretty shaken up both by his sickness and the fact that the entire house just shook cause the wall was exploded.

Twilight especially is confused because she expected him to be a solid platinum statue cause Derek said he would be a statue. Johan asks what the banging was. Rainbow Dash informs him that 'He is safe now and Derek is beating up the guy holding him captive.'

Johan understandably freaks and pushes them out of the way and rushes downstairs (stumbling a lot cause he is still sick.) to stop the fight. He arrives just in time to see Derek pinning Platinum to the ground about to take his head off with a spell.

Johan throws himself in the way and shouts at Derek to leave Platinum alone and shouts that Platinum is his friend. Derek gets mad but doesn't do anything cause the elements are right there. So he shouts and Platinum has Johan under a mind control spell or something and wacks the lil deer out of the way.

Platinum gets pissed, but is currently too beat up to actually do anything so he is forced to teleport away to lick his wounds saying that he will be back to give Derek exactly what he deserves.

The chapter ends with Johan alone, Derek storming off to brood and Twilight and the gang going with him. Twilight offers to help him fix the massive hole in his house but Johan demands she leave him alone. (Part of the reason I cancelled the story is because this would be peak 'rage bait' and would prolly piss everyone off.)

The next chapter involves a small time skip to a week after with Spike pressuring Twilight to check on Johan. The two end up going to his house to visit him. They surprisingly find the house mostly fixed and Johan in surprisingly high spirits. He claims he cleaned up so that when Platinum comes back the house is fine. Twilight still thinks he is under some kind of mind control even though Spike told her all about Johan's relationship with Derek and Platinum.

What is also surprising is that Johan's Antlers grew back incredibly quick and now they have weird Neon Green runes on them. So, Twilight deduces that the Antlers are in fact magic, so she tries to teach Johan how to use them. She also uses the time to see if there are really any spells tinkering with the Deer's brain. (Which there aren't)

Johan ends up discovering that he is indeed magical, however, he grows deeply distressed when he learns that not only is he only capable of only plant magic, but his magic is insanely weak, it takes all of his concentration and effort to grow a tiny little vine that wasn't even three inches long.

Suddenly, all of his emotions explode to the surface at once as he has a mental breakdown in front of Twilight and Spike, cursing out the universe as hating him and favoring Derek. He insults Twilight and the rest of the Elements as being Derek's whores, denounces magic in it's entirety and bemoans the fact that he thinks Platinum abandoned him or died of his wounds because he is permanently cursed.

He ends up marching into his house and slamming the door behind him in rage right in Twilight and Spike's faces.

Another flash forwards has Derek and the Elements visiting the next week. Derek once again forces himself inside and they end up finding Johan laying on his couch in misery. He is all emaciated like he hasn't eaten since his break down, and his antlers are literally snapped in half, the runes on the halves still attached to his head are scratched out as if he cut them up with a knife. (Can you see why I cancelled for the rage bait?)

Derek sighs and dismisses to Elements and tries to talk to Johan one on one about what life was like back as humans or whatever. Johan ignores him and doesn't even acknowledge that he is there and just stays there. Derek gets extremely mad and shouts at Johan that; 'He is only miserable because he chooses to be.' (a fucking lie.)

Finally, one last time skip. It's time for the Legion of Doom to make their move. The legion suddenly attacks Ponyville as 5 of the villains engage Derek in an epic anime battle, complete with a sword fight between Gregor and Derek, Gregor being the only one to be an equal fight to Derek ever because Derek fights him with a sword instead of using energy blasts saying; 'I will fight you with honor fellow swordsman, because while others studied the female, I studied the blade.' or some other pretentious crap.

While Derek is distracted however, Epoxy arrives at Johan's house and barges in, finding the Deer still with broken antlers and completely emaciated and miserable. Johan doesn't even try to fight Epoxy as he deernaps him, saying; 'If you want to kill me, just kill me I don't care anymore.'

Epoxy then escapes with Johan in tow, and the legion of doom retreats, leaving Derek confused. Derek shrugs, ignores it and goes back home.

Just that night however, Platinum arrives at Johan's house, but he finds the place ransacked and his deer (boy)friend no where to be found. He tries to find him but only finds a broken half of an Antler. He roars in rage and rushes to Derek's house, who is having a party to celebrate his victory over the Legion of Doom with the entire town invited. Platinum suddenly shows up, kicks down the front door and marches up to Derek and punches him right in his smug stupid face before dropping the shard of Johan's antler at the hybrids feet to inform him that he was deernapped.

Derek is infuriated and the entire party believes that Platinum kidnapped the Deer and is trying to ransom Johan or something. Spike then sticks up for Platinum in front of everyone and informs them that Platinum is really one of Johan's close friends and that he could be trusted. Of course half of the party thinks that Spike is just brainwashed and the other half thinks that Johan is a traitor who is totally evil cause he is friends with a super villain.

Twilight suddenly steps forwards with the Elements and says that maybe they should hear what Platinum has to say and investigate Johan's house together. Derek begrudgingly agrees and the seven ponies, hybrid and dragon leave the party to check out the house.

When they discover that it was indeed ransacked and Platinum was telling the truth, Derek starts to suddenly panic and freak out like a little bitch. He finally admits to Platinum and the Elements that he is actually has a really tiny pool of mana (or something like that) and that the only way he can recharge his power is to be around Johan, and Johan charges him like a battery. Platinum gets pissed about that and punches Derek in the face again for literally using his deer friend as a power cell.

Derek, after getting over his face punch, claims that they need to find Johan, ASAP. Twilight, in the first moment she has had to be actually useful and an actual impressive spell caster since Derek arrived in Equestria, casts a spell on the antler shard that will let them track down the creature the antler came off of, which of course is Johan.

They end up going after the Deer and find Epoxy's compound, leading to the group storming the base leading to some cool fights, like Rarity and Twilight using light spells to illuminate Void's tendrils to stop her from attacking with them, or Sketcher revealing that he actually makes all his best drawings with a pen, then instantly getting knocked out cause he is literal canon fodder for the Legion of Doom.

Derek ends up getting into a one on one with Epoxy in Epoxy's clone chamber. Epoxy actually starts kicking Derek's ass, until Derek gets a lucky shot and kills him, the mad scientist falling dead in front of one of the clone pods. Derek thinks he won and starts to leave. Then the pod opens and he quickly turns around as the clone steps out, reaches down, picks up Epoxy's helmet and puts it on. Epoxy comes back to life with all his memories and personality in the new clone!

This leads to a fight I thought was really cool in concept as Derek gets progressively weaker and weaker while fighting clones that, get progressively younger and younger until Epoxy is down to his second to last clone, who is basically only a six year old foal. Derek tells him he is beaten and starts to walk away. The 6 year old Epoxy then jumps on his back and sticks him with a syringe! Instead of injecting poison or anything, Epoxy actually withdraws fluids. Derek throws Epoxy off and uses the last of his power to kill the final clone. The last pod opens and a three year old foal who can't even walk falls out.

Derek shrugs and simply leaves, so he doesn't notice the baby Epoxy crawl over to the helmet slowly and put it on, suddenly standing up! The baby Epoxy then picks up the syringe and leaves the room ominously.

Meanwhile, Johan is strapped into a chair as the drill slowly approaches his skull, being piloted by Tornado. He doesn't even care anymore and is just slowly waiting for death. Suddenly however, Tornado is turned into a solid platinum statue in front of him! His jaw drops as Platinum grabs the drill and breaks it in half over his knee and frees him from the chair. This leads to a teary eyed (and potentially romantic~) reunion as Johan and Platinum hug each other.

Platinum then powers up his horn and the two suddenly teleport away just as the door opens again and Derek rushes in to find that his power source is gone! Derek cries out in rage as he is now powerless!

Platinum and Johan appear outside of the facility, right next to Spike, who Twilight didn't allow come inside because it was dangerous. Platinum and Johan wish Spike good bye and Johan thanks him for being his one friend for so long before the two quickly rush away from the compound and into the wilderness outside of Equestria, to explore the world together without Derek holding Johan down.

This would lead onto a sequel fic called 'The Main Character is a Deer.' about the two.

The last scene of the fic however, is baby Epoxy walking up to a last, super secret cloning pod hidden from the rest of the facility which has a fully adult Epoxy inside. Then the baby Epoxy injects the Derek DNA into it, and the clone slowly starts to sprout wings and a horn. Dun dun dun!!!

So there you have it. The intended story for Side Character. Yeah, the rage bait in the chapters following chapter 12 would have totally pissed literally everyone off. I think cancelling and giving it off to Toxic to do something far more inline with the actual description of the story is the best option.

Keep a look out for Toxic's version which will eventually come out lol

His exact words when I asked him for an ETA on when the reboot can be expected were;

Given that the franchise was just acquired it'd be best to think and make it good rather than Disney or Netflix it

On another note, I hopefully will have a new story soon. Expect awesome steam punk mechs and gritty and epic battles.