About Royal Destiny

Royal Destiny, or RD for short, is a "My Little Pony fan-fiction". Royal Destiny is not set in a known world, but rather in a world I made up on my own. Most of the characters have original character concepts and names. In this section of the site I would like to explain more on how I came up with the story, the characters etc.

The origin of Royal Destiny

RD was born in 1999, even though back then, that's not something I was aware of, nor something that carried a name. In 1999, I was already a My Little Pony collector, and I had purchased the first set of the Royal Ponies of the gen2 line (for more information on gen2 ponies please visit my site Rainbow Forest), which consisted of Ivy, Morning Glory (Fleur in the story) and Queen Sun Sparkle (Queen Regina). I still loved to play with the ponies, and so I made up how Ivy and Fleur were Regina's daughters, and they ruled over a rather small country.
Soon, however, I got more and more gen2 royal ponies, and in order for them to fit in my made-up country, I thought of more and more ways these ponies were related to Fleur, Ivy and Regina. By 2001, much of what is now Royal Destiny was living in my mind and this world became larger every day.
During this time, I also became a big fan of anime, and I was impressed by some long-running series. I decided, one day, that it would be awesome if my pony story was a long anime as well, and I started to write down how the individual chapters were called. This "episode list" is something I still have and use as a guideline for my story.
as I grew older myself, the stories I came up with became more complex and more character-driven. By 2003, I had revisited my episode list several times already, and the story, even the earliest parts, had evolved into a solid story with a clear beginning and ending, stretching over almost 400 episodes.
I have always been in love with writing. As a kid I always said I wanted to be an author, and deep in my heart I still do. In 2003 I decided to gather up my courage and start writing the only story I had which was, in my head, finished; Royal Destiny. And so, on December 30th, 2003, I finished the first chapter, not knowing if I was ever going to finish it.
 

The story of Royal Destiny

I quickly discovered writing a story is not a static thing; as I moved on in the story, things changed from my initial vision. Certain storylines became unnecessary or had to be expanded, and other things became right-out impossible or not in character. When I look back, I can see a lot of things changed over time, story-wise but also which characters appear in the story. For example, Joker was supposed to have also survived, but I decided it would be way too unbelievable to have all the children of Regina survive, and I also realized there was no place for her in the story.
However, no matter how much changed, the essence of this story is still the same; I wanted to write an epic, character-driven story that focussed mainly on the main characters' personal feelings and decisions than on the greater story. This is also why I chose to pick a select number of ponies from whose vision we see the story develop.