Title: The HiE guide
Disclaimer: I do not own my little pony friendship is magic that belongs to Hasbro
Summary: a quick guide made by a fanfic reader to help authors with some helpful ideas and advice.
A/N: I am not a professional I'm just a reader/critical thinker who wants to help new and old authors to avoid these traps when writing for this genre
Alright so first off I will cover this in multiple chapters regarding a different subject but for now today's subject is very simple.
Protagonist, when you have a human in Equestria you have got to get a few things down first. Now some of the stuff I say can be ok as long as it's written well and for a good reason
Rule #1: Do not make you're human a marine or soldier just so they can be a badass. A human does not have to be a soldier to have combat skills.
Rule #2: humans are both special and ordinary. A lot of times the humans in the story are special only because they're the only human there. This can be easily taken away if some other human shows up
Rule #3 Humans have got to have a good reason for being in Equestria if it's some random portal that pop's out of the universes ass then I will question why did not one else find it.
These are the 3 basic rules for writing the genre if you can pass always without me questing the why then you're good.
Now as I said earlier humans are both special and ordinary we have complex feelings, wants and needs. We are different form the equestrian society no matter how long we live over there our ways of life will clash.
If you're going to write a HiE story try for the love of Celestia think about it before you write. A human can be kind but also have limits, its ok for a human to stay mad at a character for messing up. It's ok for a human to be a prick without being evil.
Humans are complex we each have a good and bad part. We are survivors and adapters; it will take time for use to get use to the change of living in the sugar bowl world that is Equestria.