A/N – This is just an attempt at starting a story. It will be a self-insert human-turned-pony-in-Equestria and not liable to be finished. If I have enough people following the story and leaving reviews in a positive way (saying it's good, constructive criticism, or ideas to use) I will try to work on it more often and try to complete it. This story is not intended to be good in any sense of the word. I am merely trying my hand at writing.


The Luck of the Insomniac

Prologue

My name is Joseph. I'm your average Senior at your average Midwest American high school. I'm 18 years old, 6'1, with dark brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes; though many would say they're black. I'm not really athletic and to be honest, a little overweight. I really hate my life, as I'm the brunt of most of the verbal abuse at my school. Home isn't really much better. Due to this, my heart has pretty much become a black hole, so to speak. The only things I've ever actually enjoyed in my life are games, Ponies, and anime. I first discovered My Little Pony while playing on a ponified Team Fortress 2 server in the middle of the summer of '11. It made me curious as to why many of the people on the server liked it so much. I began to explore the internet and watched the first episode, instantly enjoying it. My favorite pony at first was Rainbow Dash, but later switched to Fluttershy after a while. You could almost say I admire her.

I was just finishing some matches of Shattered Horizon, a space based first person shooter, when I felt the familiar sense of fatigue. I figured I may as well get ready for bed. I have never slept well at night. I always wake up tired and in a different position than when I fell asleep in, usually with all my covers on the floor. To make matters worse, I most often can't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning, around one or two. I wake up every morning for school around 7:50, have my contacts in and am dressed within five minutes, and get out the door on my bike by 8:00. It takes me approximately five minutes to bike to school, and five more to get everything ready for first period. At 8:15, school starts and the boredom begins. Roughly 7 hours later, at 3:20, school gets out and I'm off to work. I'm there for around two to three hours, depending on what needs to be done. When I get home, it's still more of the same routine, homework, dinner, games, shower, and finally bed. Day in and day out it's the same thing, always repeating, never stopping. I wish I could get out of it. I wish I could leave the world. I wish I could go to Equestria. I wish. Yeah, two words I've said to myself for years. Little did I know, as I lay down to sleep for the night, that those years of wishing would finally pay off.


A/N – Well, there we are, setting up for what has a 2% chance of being a decent story. I think this prologue went fairly well, but I may just be giving myself too much credit. As I said, more reviews and follows will make it more likely for me to work on this and try to complete it. I'm going to hold off on writing the next chapter for now, just to see some of your opinions. I will warn you now though, I only have a single thing I'm planning on doing in this story right now; otherwise everything else will most likely be spur-of-the-moment, as-I-think-of-it kind of stuff.