- I posted this in the thread where the project got started. Many details have since been changed.
- >fluttershy goes into the everfree forest because of reasons
- >stumbles across family of deer
- >deer are semi-sapient, ponies and deer have a similar kind of relationship as humans and other great apes do.
- >fluttershy about to leave, apologising
- >hears voice telling her not to worry about it
- >reveal young filly with branches on it's head
- >fluttershy shocked into silence
- >runs back to town
- >tells mane6 about filly
- >they set out to find mysterious filly
- >after opening credits see flutters running through town
- >gathers mane6 in library
- >tells them
- >they go into everfree to search for filly
- >find her, along with deer
- >they seem friendly
- >they ask what she's doing there
- "What do you mean? I'm a deer! I live here!"
- >tension rises between rainbow dash, who insists she's a pony, and [insert pony, maybe Pinkie?] who says she's whatever she wants to be.
- >Rest of cast say she can make up her own mind, but she should see the pony world first.
- >convince her to visit ponyville, maybe with a song about how great it is.
- >she agrees
- End act one.
- >enter ponyville
- >everyone gives filly with branches on her head funny looks
- >RD keeps trying to convince her to take them off / "Accidentally" knocking them off her head
- >do tourist stuff, visit each pony's house/workplace
- >she's not impressed
- i'd like to make her nervous while indoors, but that might seem like a re-hash of chickenpone from Canterlot Games ep.
- >most at home on AJ's farm, helping plant crops (she's an earth pony)
- >She and AJ do farmwork while rest discuss her in the barn.
- >half say she should stay in forest, half say she's better of in p'ville.
- >twilight unsure.
- >AJ walks in, having left her outside planting
- >AJ voices opinion
- Not sure what yet, but I think I can see her siding with RD on this.
- >Discussion gets heated
- >hear voice
- >filly is at the door
- "I-I think I want to go home now"
- >ponies arguing for forcing her to stay look ashamed
- >they agree to take her back to forest
- End act 2.
- >enter clearing where deer were
- >they're nowhere to be found
- >mane six befuddled while filly rushes around worried, examining clearing
- >filly uses tracking skill to explain what happened with flashbacks, Aragorn style
- >ambushed by timberwolves
- >filly follows tracks into forest
- >mane 6 give chase
- >find deer family surrounded by timberwolves
- >twilight catches filly before she charges with magic
- "It's too dangerous for you"
- >mane 6 attract timberwolves attention
- >they turn to face mane 6, but deer are still trapped
- >fight scene
- >each of mane 6 at some point hesitate, allowing a timberwolf to knock them out of action in various ways
- >timberwolves turn back to deer
- >all seems lost
- >filly charges with the force of a thousand suns
- >knocks timberwolves apart in one charge
- >timberwolves half reform and limp off with tails between legs
- >filly knocked out
- >she comes to surrounded by ponies and deer
- >has bits of timberwolf lodged in head where antlers would be (not sure if this is a good idea), might have to scrap it
- >mane 6 surprised with ferocity of her onslaught
- >decide the deer are her real family and she belongs there
- >possibly get cutie mark for tracking?
- >letter to princess; "It's not who you were born to, but who raised you that makes you who you are" or something
- end act 3