Before Time Began to Flow

by Humanity

Rating: teen
Tags: Discord, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Other, Princess Luna, Mystery, Queen Chrysalis, Violence, Princess Celestia, Sex
Length: 335

Out of sight and out of mind, a dark figure contemplates a lost art and his past reign.

Out of sight and out of mind, a dark figure contemplates the past and the impending future.

Side story and minor prequel to The Lost Element

Written in a burst of inspiration

Available in paperback.

Published 2015-11-10 00:20:03 UTC
Last updated 2016-01-18 03:39:39 UTC

Purge

Nonbeings

Nothingness.

Eons ago, during my reign, bold scholars sought to achieve the impossible. To create life out of just that. Nothingness.

By some miracle, they succeeded. But even then, it was by more means perfect. While they were able to create life, it is simply not possible to create a soul from nothing.

These soulless dolls… These…as they would come to be known… “nonbeings” physically resemble the creatures they are crafted to resemble. Yet they are still imperfect. No matter how self-aware they may become, they can never develop a soul. When they break, or as the more sympathetic observer would say, die, they fade back into absolute nothingness, leaving absolutely no trace of their existence behind.

Nonbeings are nonexistent in the truest sense of the word, their creation and demise being equally cruel. They always begin as emotionless puppets, but are able to learn and develop identities of their own. But their physical anomalies cause them to be easily identified from natural beings. They may seem to become like normal people, but they are empty inside.

The creation of nonbeings is an act of sheer cruelty. The sight of them beginning life as barely more than dolls to their final moments of realizing that nothing await them beyond death… It is rather…entertaining… That expression of absolute despair.

The more I think about it, the more useful these nonbeings sound to me. What if I were to craft one in the visage of another natural being? One of great power and skill.

My time to escape this oubliette draws near. And I have seen the man I intend to mold my pawn to imitate. Nonbeings have a rather laughable habit of developing strong senses of identity in a vain effort to validate their pointless existences. And nothing is more convincing of one’s existence than memories.

It will be my finest tool. The cornerstone of my return to power. For what better being to model a nonbeing after…than the man who slew a god?

Balance

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Corruption

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Harmony

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They Who Do Not Exist

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