Hello, everyone. If you are reading this, then you have read [and hopefully enjoyed] this story. However, I decided to make this little outro for all of you just to give you a little clarity on this story; you see, there are many factual errors throughout this story and felt it was necessary to address them for all of you, as well as give you some fun facts. So, let's not waste any time and get right into it, shall we?
How did this story start?
Well, the idea for this came to me one night while I was working [around 12:30 in the morning]. A certain song started playing on my ipod that really caught my attention. It was "Theme of Rocky Ridge" from the Sonic Free Riders soundtrack [Found on youtube here: /watch?v=d20PbhmLNjE. Guaranteed you'll never be able to look at this song the same way again!]
Listening to this song for a while, I began to imagine some kind of dance for it. However, listening to it a little more, my twisted mind began to envision a stripper dancing to the music. After listening to it a few times, and hearing the overall country-esque feel of the song itself, my mind began to imagine Applejack from Equestria Girls dancing to the song...as a stripper. Thus, the ideas of making Applejack a stripper was born!
Problems
One of the biggest problems I faced with this story was the story itself. You see, I had never written Mature stories like these before, so this was something new to me. Although I have read a few M-rated stories in the past, I never saw myself sitting down and writing one.
Another problem I faced with the story was its plot. From the get-go, I wanted to make the main climax of the story the striptease, but I didn't want it to be a generic smut-plot. I wanted it to feel like the audience was reading a child-friendly story before being hit in the face with the strip scene. Furthermore, the goal was to make the story feel like it could be a possible episode from an Equestria Girls series [e.g. learning a friendship lesson] without it being an episode.
The last major problem was the stripping scene. I'll admit that I had a real out-of-body experience with coming up with Applejack's dance, mostly because it's very hard to take a dance you see someone doing on a stage and turning it into words. My mind was able to envision the dance [what really helped was that most of the dance was choreographed to the song mentioned above], but it was really hard to get the moves down on paper.
Factual Errors
As mentioned before, there are a LOT of factual errors with this story, many of which have a good reason...maybe...I'll let you decide...
01) Strip Clubs often tell you it's a strip club!
Yes, I know that strip clubs let people know that it's a strip club, either by neon signs that say "XXX" or "Live Nude Girls" and other such things. The only reason why this club didn't was mostly for suspense purposes [which, I'll admit, didn't really work because the plot of this story was highly predictable!]
02) Strippers don't hit on girls!
In the club, a stripper is seen hitting on Sunset Shimmer. The only reason this was done was for humor purposes. Any stripper knows that hitting on another female isn't very profitable [unless, of course, they really wanted it...I suppose. I don't really know how that works, but I'll stop now before I offend someone.]
03) Consensual Age?
This was one of the most troubling parts about this story. Since consensual age varies depending on regions and whatnot, Applejack's age was purposely left out. I know most regions have the age at 18, but there are some places in the world where the age is younger. Just to play it safe, I made certain to leave her age out.
04) Unrealistic Events
There are a few things that did seem a little unrealistic throughout the story. Applejack being able to lie to her family for so long and Fluttershy puking at the sight of nudity is pretty unrealistic and I apologize for that, but in the end, this is a story based off a movie about multi-colored people.
Other Fun Facts
Here are some other little tidbits of trivia from the story!
I really wanted to make this story a Teen story, but my descriptors made it a Mature story.
Many of you who read this story on this site might have noticed a heavy abundance of the dreaded LUS [Lavender Unicorn Syndrome]. I apologize for that; it was mostly because I've never written an EqG story before. DeviantArt's version of the story doesn't have the LUS because I went through the story and edited it before uploading. I plan to edit this version of the story very soon!
In the story, it's stated that some of the girls are able to drive vehicles, namely Sunset Shimmer, Rarity, and Applejack. Their modes of transportation were based off of this comic [just remove the brackets to see!]: [niban-destikim][.deviantart][.com]/art/Sunset-Shiver-398007315
Granted, it's not the type of truck I imagined Applejack driving, but it still helped inspire the idea.
Rainbow Dash's middle name, "Jennifer" was based off the youtube video, "Rainbow Gets Her License" [Found here: /watch?v=lNaHWQV3m1U]. I don't know about you, but that name seems to fit her really well!
The name of the strip club is "The Dark Side"...'nuff said!
A lot of research went into the strip club, from how the inside of the building looks to how the dancers are paid. Furthermore, I did a little research on strippers themselves, just to get an inside look on what goes through their minds that makes them do this sort of work, as well as how they get into the industry in the beginning.
In the strip club, it was originally Pinkie Pie who was going to be hit on a stripper, except it was off-screen. It was changed to Sunset Shimmer because of humor.
For reasons I don't really know, the song that helped inspire the flashback scene in Chapter 4 was, "Look to Your Orb for the Warning" by Monster Magnet. The song has little to nothing to do with the story, but it helped plan out the flashback from how it was written to what exactly happened.
In the last chapter, Sunset Shimmer is holding the door open as a "young man with a black mask on" exits the café. This is a reference to my pony OC, Diamond Arrow, who is known to wear a black mask on his face [despite the fact that he hasn't hit the paper yet]. What can I say? I like cake!
Yes, the ending was a jab at the show, Friendship is Magic. Admit it, you can totally see Sunset Shimmer saying such a thing about writing in a diary to record what she learns!
Sequel?
With the success of this story came the demand for another. In all honesty, I did plan to make another story from the beginning. Believe it or not, this story made a small foreshadow to it, but the idea that I originally planned was scrapped. However, I still am making another story. As far as continuity, I'm not sure if it'll take place before or after this one. It'll take place in the same universe as this, but won't really mention the events that happen here.
From the start, I wanted the next story to star Fluttershy, but the original setup was to make it a generic high school love story. Feeling that that was too generic and boring, I decided to make another story, this time, involving Fluttershy as she faces the most common [and most dangerous] problem that our modern-age faces!
Be on the lookout for the next [absurd] tale from Canterlot High: Equestria Girls: Fluttershy's Strange Addiction
Outro
Thank you everyone who read this story! I hope this answers some of the questions you've had about this story and gives you more insight on what you have read. Thank you for all your support with this small project; I didn't think it would turn out as well as it did, but you have proven me wrong on so many accounts.
Thank you again for reading! You all rock!
~darkshadow051