[imagine if Honey'd been the one to have been impaled =D] [ ded fetus ] [ or... ] [or?] [>missing one eye like her father] [ Honey is taken to the clinic, and Liven notices Coral in her. He can only save one, so he saves Coral and Honey dies. ] [Why'd he save coral over honey?] [If Honey was conscious that would of course be what she'd say to do, but] [if she wasn't] [ because life is precious? :D ] [ *baby life [hmm, would be neat story there] [ then you play as Coral hue ] [ Quick would raise you...or hate you because Coral is Tide's kid. Then Feather and Cheren wold raise her. ] >Honey Rose falls in a fight with her friends, having been stabbed through and through with a spear in a magically fueled fight over a gem >She lies, bleeding out as the ponies around her snap out of their magical delirium >They frantically rush her to the clinic, Quicksilver meeting them halfway >She wails over her lovers dying body, Honey barely conscious and looking around with the drunkeness that comes with near-death >Liven has Quicksilver taken away as Honey lays in a bed, bleeding out >She tells him to save her child and let her die, knowing in her heart that she would not make it another 30 minutes, let along the lifetime she wanted to spend with her daughter >She tells her to name the child Coral, and to make sure, to [damnit] [hue] ;__; 9/10 would make canon >She tells her to name the child Coral, and to make sure, to MAKE SURE that she was loved as she grew, knowing it was the only thing she could beg from the doctor at this point >Liven didn't know there was a child involved at all, and he rushes to prepare for an emergency cesarian section >The child is 'born' from Honey as she slowly fades away, her final vision being the quiet but mobile form of the tiny little filly, the faintest of cries reaching her ears before her world goes black >Liven keeps the kid as his own pfft >Coral is put into the care of Quicksilver, who is quickly deemed as unfit for parenthood in her sudden streak of manic depression >The filly is given to Feather Duster and Cherenkov Light, the closest friends of the late Honey Rose >They raise her with all the love she could ever need, being the open type of parents who never let Coral grow thinking that her real parents didn't love her >However, the filly doesn't buy all the stories about her father, the captain who fell in love with her mother but then had to leave for the good of the town >You see, people talk >They don't think Coral hears, but she does >Coral grows with a fierce curiosity about her father, a growing desire to seek him out and find him >And so, when she finally turns of age, she begins to pack her things >Her body is tight like her mothers, and she is tall like her father >She holds his swagger in her step, but has the gentleness to her voice that only her mother could find at times >The mare hugs and kisses her foster parents goodbye, crying silently as she watches them disappearing into the distance of her quickly moving boat >And so her adventure begins to find the father that she grew up admiring but never knowing AWWW * FeatherDuster would watch this animu >She starts her journey in Manehattan, searching for any signs of him at the docks where she was sure to find his type >She finds nothing, no mention of the one eyed swanky unicorn who commanded the Four Cannon maritime force >One day, while sitting in an inn and listening to stories, she hears a particular tale about the Pirate King >She listens closely to the story, learning of the powerful mage who took down Equestria's finest men with a single, massive explosion of magic that shattered the docks of Manehattan >Her imagination is taken on a whirl as she listens to how he single hoovedly gathered up the ill content dock hands and turned them into the most rutheless, unforgiving group of pirates the land hadn't seen since the days of Captain Jack Gryphon >A particular tale broaches her ears that sends her spinning >The pirate captain was scarecly seen, though all know of his legendary missing eye, which was rumored to have been blown out in a duel with Celestia herself * Honey_Rose is having fun with this