
Digital Effigy
Even Equestria's powerful magic can't heal every sickness. But years after Sweetie Belle passed away, an enterprising young bat uses her final brain scans to give the little unicorn a second chance.
Lucid Storm imagines a world beyond death, where no pony will ever need to truly say goodbye to the ones they love. When all the magic and medicine of Equestria failed one young Sweetie Belle, he proposed a radical new technique--total brain recording, taken minutes before her death.
Years have passed since that day, years spent scrounging the funding for a body and experimenting with many failed machine intelligence models before tinkerer ponies all around equestria finally came together in the perfect synthesis.
After all this time, Sweetie Belle will finally have her second chance.
Written for Lucid on my Patreon. Edited by Two Bit and Sparktail, who also sponsored it. Cover by Magfen.




40201 words: Estimated about 3 hours to read
19 Chapters:
- I Think 2022-09-26 19:05:02 UTC2038
- Therefore 2022-09-27 01:50:32 UTC2026
- I Live 2022-09-27 16:00:05 UTC2036
- Again 2022-09-28 16:00:04 UTC2250
- But 2022-12-24 20:28:57 UTC1588
- Living 2023-02-01 00:23:12 UTC2660
- Requires 2023-02-07 17:00:05 UTC2154
- Change 2023-03-07 17:00:09 UTC2025
- Together 2023-04-07 16:00:06 UTC2209
- Ponies 2023-05-02 16:00:05 UTC2019
- Build 2023-06-06 16:00:02 UTC2147
- Through 2023-07-04 20:30:04 UTC2303
- Adversity 2023-08-01 16:00:04 UTC1888
- Until 2023-09-05 16:00:04 UTC2095
- Discovering 2023-10-03 16:00:05 UTC2280
- What 2023-11-09 17:00:05 UTC2103
- Can 2023-12-14 17:00:05 UTC2088
- Be 2024-01-11 17:00:05 UTC2081
- Created 2024-02-08 17:00:05 UTC2211