Fanfic / An Apple Sleep Experiment
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An Apple Sleep Experiment is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Dark Fic by Magpiepony. It’s inspired by the creepypasta The Russian Sleep Experiment.
It all begins when Filthy Rich insists that the Apple family owes him more zap-apple jam. Granny is in debt to him and, as a result, he requests all of the year’s zap-apple jam. With all of Equestria being in a drought, it won’t be easy to meet this demand in only two weeks.
Applejack begins overworking, but she’s not working fast enough for her liking. To make things worse, Big Mac had gotten a heat stroke. She asks Twilight to mix up a potion that will keep her awake for a complete day.
The potion works tremendously. a bit too tremendously.
It doesn’t wear off after 24 hours like expected. Applejack finds herself unable to sleep at all. As time goes on, this quickly takes a toll on the pony’s mental stability — a side effect that proves detrimental for the entirety of Ponyville.
A reading of the fic (complete with fan-art) by TheLostNarrator can be seen here
An Apple Sleep Experiment provides examples of:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Filthy Rich. Make no mistake, the show incarnation is a rich asshole, but he was at least a reasonable pony who respected his deals with the Apples (especially knowing the Zap Apples are the reason he’s rich anyway). But here, he seems to really not care for the Apples period and is willing to screw over Applejack over their deal. It does not bode well for him.
- Twilight is this to a degree. While the canon version was also known for causing problems, she would always own up to her mistakes and find a way to remedy them in the end. Here, she not only never tells anyone that the reason Applejack went insane is because of a potion she made, but she throws her under the rug and replaces her with Starlight Glimmer as the Element of Honesty. While it’s unequivocally true that it was AJ who insisted to take the potion and went off the deep end, Twilight comes across as just as bad for never saying anything.
- Caught Monologuing: As Applejack gives Rainbow Dash her Hannibal Lecture, Apple Bloom injects Applejack with the cure, most likely at the cost of her life .
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