Fatpone thought dump

 

Semi-obvious influence from playing Oblivion Remastered all of the prior day: a "princess" or more of a spirit, in the vein of Nirn's Aedra and Daedra, instrumental in the formation of the various fatquestria timelines. She influenced the sitting princess (Celestia, see below) and any applicable royal with clout and influence to begin the era of fatquestria. She is a deity of gluttony, and thus revels in all forms of obesity and indulgence.

 

Her visual form is dependent on the power of gluttony in the lands. She was merely chubby, at low power, when starting her influence campaign, and resembles Rainbow Dash in this image https://derpibooru.org/images/1081390 when fatquestria is in full swing. That may seem thin for a "deity of gluttony", but in reality, standard fatquestria is nowhere near enough to bring her to full power. A fatquestria where the average weight is one ton would bring her closer to the size of this character https://derpibooru.org/images/921843 and a fatquestria where the entire world is like Foaledo (with apologies to whoever made that settlement up in the first place for ruining it like this), which means even the foals are immobile and the average adult could be well over two tons were it possible to weigh them, Glimmer in https://derpibooru.org/images/1284400 would probably represent her size.

 

The Spirit of Gluttony has unknown potential for how large she can get. It depends on how much gluttony is worshipped and by how large a population worships it - "worship" defined loosely by engaging in gluttony and being obese. She has no physical form so there would be no detrimental impact, but her metaphorical and spiritual size could be astronomical in the literal sense of the term given enough worshippers.

 

In making the documentation for the world, it was meant to be open for interpretation when it started so anyone wanting to use the concept could decide if they wanted to ignore S3's princess ascension of Twilight, or make Twilight the one that fattens the world, or an other option. For the purposes of anything I personally make in it (rare as it may be), my "canon" would be fatequestria starting while Celestia is in power, and being in the early days while the show canon proceeds.

 

Some time after the timeskip where Twilight is the reigning princess and the sisters are retired (and thus free to do whatever, indulge however) is when fatquestria is engaged in full. This gives some nice ways of ponies and the mane cast fattening up over 9 seasons' worth of time, and an era of corpulence when the princess of hayburgers has her full size unlocked. Full-sized princesses (and queens, don't think I forgot about bugbutt for a second) make the blorp at least 20% hotter.

 

Having fatquestria be a thing that's been ramping up for some time makes the stories and characters I put together (most unpublished) make more sense as well.

 

Related to the Spirit of Gluttony and a character's shenanigans, an idea came to fruition where a unicorn who was very overindulgent went a bit too far one day, deciding to scarf down an entire massive wedding cake meant for a canceled wedding after eating an entire wagon of other baked desserts. Averting disaster, he cast a healing spell, one like the basic healing spell in Skyrim where you have to keep casting it, on his stomach, repairing the damage that probably would have killed him for his gluttonous hubris. (I don't know and don't care to find out if a burst stomach is survivable with medical care.) This earned him a visit from the Spirit of Gluttony: Not for nearly killing himself with his culinary greed, but because his healing had the side effect of greatly expanding the size of his stomach - the healing generated new stomach flesh where the tears would have been, nearly doubling how much food could be stuffed in there safely.

 

Related ideas formulating after that involved the character getting blessing from the Spirit of Gluttony that may or may not be put to use in anything "official". Obvious inspiration is the midas touch, and that one story where Sweetie Belle gets it and you either have the lame lesson teacher version or the version where she blorps out severely. The name of the effect came to me just now: "Glutton's Tongue". Any healthy food or beverages are converted or fattened up upon consumption. Some unhealthy food and drinks are also affected, because of course they are. This is a major blorp, even blobbening effect. Not everything gets changed, but enough does that someone with this affliction, were they to obtain it unwillingly, would struggle greatly to not put on lots of weight. Foods that are safe from the effect are already fattening foods.

 

Water becomes something akin to koolaid but with way more sugar than is ever needed, like a full cup of sugar for 8 ounces of water. Tea becomes iced tea, with- let's just assume every beverage where I mention there being more sugar uses that same "1 cup of sugar per 8 ounces" measurement unless otherwise specified. Tea, natural fruit juice, coffee, starbucks fattener coffee type stuff, milk, all have big boosts to sugar content. Coffee and tea of all types also have heavy cream added. Soda, sports drinks, smoothies, energy drinks? Big sugar boost. Milkshakes? Fuck it, make them super fattening. That infamous 3000 calorie baskin robbins milkshake? It's 9001 calories now. Get fattened. Alcohol? Triple the calories.

 

How about food? That daisy sandwich from S1E3 is now a quadruple hayburger soaking with grease. A nice, dainty salad? Eating it makes it a three pound tray of lasagna with extra (meat-equivalent) and cheese. Oreo-style cookies? They become "whoopie cookie" cakes. Cupcakes? Full-sized cakes. Full-sized cakes? If you get unlucky (or very lucky), one might become a wedding cake. Apple fritters and those similar fruit pies? Full-sized pie. Now I'm very in that kind of mood, so maybe there's a small chance that any given thing drank or eaten, even if it has already been converted by Glutton's Tongue, gets tripled in calorie count? Perhaps also with a chance of it being tripled in size for that hot "suddenly really full + belly expansion" thing, or reduced to 1/3 of its size so the afflicted doesn't know the effect occurred and has that much more room to keep eating and drinking.

 

Obviously anypony afflicted with Glutton's Tongue is going to blorp up quite a bit even if they're careful. Maybe it's something that can be "cured", maybe it's a temporary affliction, maybe someone who has it did something to deserve it. It must be a very rare thing, otherwise it loses its specialty. Oh, and it comes with an "optimized" digestion trait: not only does the afflicted digest food faster, the body is tricked into thinking as much of the food is vitally necessary nutrients as possible, prioritizing storing it as fat over the other thing digestion does. Did I mention the hungrier the afflicted gets, the more ravenous they become?

 

I've got a small collection of characters that haven't really been published (although two have had art made) for various reasons, and a number of attempted stories that were abandoned for those reasons and others. Backstories, personalities, homes, interactions, but nothing complete and ready to ship. Some of the reasons for not posting are basically no more, so maybe...

 

For now, a basic outlining of them without their actual names will suffice.

-Big Blue

"Main protagonist", used to be a self-insert or mascot oc of sorts, for reasons kind of relegated more to just being the main fatpone. Unicorn, stallion, hybrid via earth pony mother, extremely fat. Canterlot native. Grew up fat in part due to his mother, during the era where fatquestria was still ramping up and obesity was common, but not universal. Was "the fat one" in school, Big glutton, eats a lot, has similar tastes in the opposite sex. He also has a non-fetish side where he's very interested in advanced magical studies and largely dedicates his school and post-school life to said studies. Fruits of that labor include magical amulets that compress body fat and weight into pocket dimensions, developed and incremented upon in cooperation with Crystal Empire R&D. Actually had to move to his own house because he got so fat the family home became too cramped. Sometimes goes on extreme crash diets that inevitably backfire, sometimes hides the fact he's wearing one of those amulets while exceeding their capabilities. Kind of sort of has two wives. Oops.

 

-Gray Businessguy

Big Blue's father. Unicorn, very thin by fatquestria standards (normal by normal standards). Canterlot native. The type of fat fetishist who exclusively enjoys it on others. Loves and personally fattened his wife, is congratulatory toward anypony else engaged in blorpening in any manner. Runs multiple businesses including the companies that manufacture Quik-Gro and Gro-Assist, which are government-enforced monpolies on the market. Makes enough money that his children are able to own their own houses and live without the need to ever get a job.

 

-Caramel Baker

Big Blue's mother. Earth pony. Dodge Junction native. Early revisions had her "normal", later revisions make her quite fat. Comes from a family where every member has been obese long before fatquestria - males are all Big Mac types who are given "too much" food and do all the farming, females are all chefs and bakers who make far too much food, and sample lots of it to make sure it's good. Owns the Silver Whisk Cafe, where she carries on that family tradition of sampling 10% of the goods she makes for sale, which is done by making 110% of a batch and skimming that 10% off the top. It is very successful and enjoys a very, very large customerbase (both in quantity and rotundity), but the sheer amount she makes both leads her to grow into the Enormous category by the time Big Blue is an adult, but also leads her to bring home an entire wagon full of unsold goods every single night - which she decided early on should be something Big Blue can eat at his leisure.

 

-Big Imouto

Big Blue's younger sister, conceived and born around the time Big Blue had to move to another house. Unicorn, Canterlot native. Newer character idea, not very fleshed out, but very likely to follow in her big brother's very heavy hoofsteps.

 

-Littler Blue

Batpony-Unicorn hybrid. Canterlot native. Unicorn, but shorter, weaker, and with those FANGS HNNNNNNNNNG. Her parents ignored her for being a poor fit for military duty, and disowned her entirely later on as she started getting fat and her brother was born. One of Big Blue's best friends in school. Moved in with Big Blue partway through school as she'd be homeless otherwise. Could be mistaken for Big Blue's sister, as both are the same base colors in mane and body, but she is darker. Still has emotional scars and trauma from her strict, militaristic, scarred, and traditionalist (strongly opposed to fatquestria, now living in remote communities) parents, and is very dependent. Got fat in school precisely because she hung out with Big Blue and he took her along to lunch and other meals all the time. As an adult, she works at the Silver Whisk Cafe with Caramel Baker, and has been taking on the family tradition in every sense of the word. Struggles with mobility even more than her husband Big Blue due to her shorter frame, weaker body, and having to contend with the pregnancy weight from her foal, Big Blue's appetite necessitating very large meals for all involved, and eating 10% of her creations at work.

 

-Littlest Blue

Unicorn filly, Canterlot native. Probably not even blue. Not fleshed out much by now, but she is the child of Big Blue and Littler Blue, conceived before the two of them got too fat to actually do the deed.

 

-Kirinbro

Big Blue's other best friend in school. Came to Canterlot with his family, who opened a buffet. Often played second fiddle to Big Blue as "the fat guy", but sometimes surpassed him. Drifted apart from the others after school, as he became a gluttonist (extremist sect who treat gluttony and obesity as the entire reason for existence) and began hanging out (virtually) only with fellow gluttonists. "Worked" as a living billboard for some time for his father's buffet, using the windows of the second floor and a sign painted on his gigantic and ever-growing belly as an advertisement, and one that actually worked. This ended when the floor gave out and over a ton of immobile kirin fell into the preparation area. Was moved with great effort to some warehouse in a gluttonist-friendly area, and later to Foaledo.

 

-Kirinsis

Kirinbro's sister. Minor character, works as one of the delivery workers for the kirin buffet. Holds serious disdain for her brother after he became a gluttonist and blames her father for pandering to him, but felt the building demolition and rebuilding was enough punishment. Upgraded to a plus size model, plus a few more pluses.

 

-Tardbug

More of a gag character. Changeling who uses a pegasus form as a disguise. Doesn't realize changelings have reformed and even his Queen has been tamed, because he slept through the A Canterlot Wedding event conveniently in a cart that had already departed the city. However many years later, he still thinks he needs to spy on the ponies and leaves reports in dead drops that somebody is still picking up and reading. As fatquestria has become more and more implemented, he has to contend with the culinary changes impacting his form, and the mares who like fat stallions unknowingly accelerating his blorpification with love injections.

 

I think I'll let them kind of float around. I don't think I could, nor do I necessarily want to, get back into the same headspace that led to a lot of the old stories. Being able to write more often wouldn't be bad, but there's the risk of it coming with whatever the FUCK made some of the things that happened in the isekai story occur. That story in particular led me to places that make me question why I even went there.

 

Focusing on Fatquestria is also a matter of coming to realize, especially after The Wizard and the Queen, that I am very not cut out for normal story writing. Writing that one was a blast in many ways, but it didn't translate into text. It became very apparent to me that most of the details that made it amazing existed only in my imagination as I was writing it. The details, descriptions, they were present in high quality 3D in my head, but what was transcribed on metaphorical paper may as well have been stick figures in blank square rooms. Instead, my writing "talents" are more on the level of writing worlds and scenarios, not so much the events transpiring therein.

 

That er, orphaned story about orphans and Fatquestria documentation, I wrote up this whole thing about the hedonistic city of Foaledo relying on the wealth they get from some form of trade to fund their lifestyles, and relying on hiring often-immoral mercenary companies to do manual labor and military operations for them in part due to the populace scarcely being able to waddle across a room, and I believe part of that was in relation to there still being hostilities between Equestria and non-pony nations where the mercenary companies would be sent of to fight and kill griffons, dragons, moosen, etc. and said hostilities leading to situations where ponies in less established areas could be orphaned by the violence. Could I adequately write up a story describing those conflicts and the emotional trauma of seeing one's parents slaughtered before them, surviving only because a scarred and angry pony burst through the door and slammed an axe through the killer's neck, dropping its head in front of the terrified filly? Probably not. I could write up a scenario where that sort of thing explains why a group of terrified foals were transported by boat to some shady building in Manehattan where a well-meaning but dicey businessman who's a single donut away from losing every button buys up frontline orphans to stock up his orphanage that may or may not be a front to hide his other, less legal businesses.

 

It's nearly 7PM on a sunday, I was meaning to do something with it since it's a holiday weekend and I don't have to work tomorrow, so I think I'll go do that now.