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Maud was trembling as she walked into the dark room. The bubbling gasps of the infant were soft and small, reminding her of her sisters. The door she had just came from was covered by her family: her mother and father, speaking quietly to one another. The last was her younger sister, Limestone. Limestone didn’t keep her eyes off her elder, a sinister smirk growing to life in her lips.
 
The filly continued until she stood before her infant sibling, her little sister Surprise Topaz Pie. She had been quite the surprise to her parents, but they welcomed her as much as any child they had. That was until they began hearing the whispers. While the children had something of a natural resistance to this manipulation due to their innicence, innocence waned with age. Maud had yet to hear the whispers clearly, unlike Limestone. She could write paragraphs of the things she was told by the Boulder, like a spider had crawled in her ear to murmur when it needed to command.
 
For whatever reason, Maud rebuffed the urges of the manipulation, their toes simply did take hold on her. But she could feel it, looming in the air. It was watching through her eyes, and the eyes of her kin.
 
For one last time, she viewed her baby sister. Her blonde hair and violet blue eyes, and the innocence of her smile.
 
Maud took a pillow between her hooves, gently but firmly laying it against her infant sister Surprise’s face, and closed her eyes.
 
And pretended she didn’t exist.
 
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EDIT: HOLY SHIT I’M SO FUCKING RETARDED???  
WHEN I WAS DRAWING THIS I DIDN’T START WITH REFERENCES SO I DREW AND COLORED FROM MEMORY…. THEN SOMEONE MENTIONED MAUD DISNT LOOK LIKE MAUD… AM I FUCKING STUPID??????????? my most embarrassing moment as an artist but I am smoking some dank shit
 
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Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -

Memetic eldritch horror
In a way surprise is lucky, unlike maud she doesn’t have to live under the constant tyranny of the thing inside holder’s boulder
Woofy
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Far from something that I am usually into, but that was actually a pretty interesting premis for a story and the picture is genuinely well done.
 
More of a happy ending sorta guy myself though. Would be nice to see a part 2, running away with her sister instead sort of situation.  
Maybe she takes her sister away and hides her in an orphanage or something before returning home. Her resulting punishment causes her to become the most emotionally reserved member of her family like in the show, but she never reveals where she hid her sister.  
I don’t know. Just a thought.