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Timberwolf Study, Part One

By Hearthsong
Created: 2025-12-14 13:22:08
Updated: 2025-12-16 07:07:17
Expiry: Never

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Accidentally mashed bits of Naturenon and Hermitnon together to create a morally ambiguous Alicorn student of magic and zoology that lives in a cave, whoops
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Part One:
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>The cave is dank, your mane is more grease than hair, and you haven't talked to another sapient being in a few months- you gotta be Hermitnon
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>And being an alicorn that lives out in the deepest part of the most dangerous forest in the country, you've come to a decision
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>Timberwolves are fucking based
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>Timberwolves don't sing songs about friendship and demand you do a 2 minute solo verse
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>Timberwolves don't poke and prod at you and get upset when you don't remember their favorite songs from foalhood
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>Timberwolves don't eat nothing but sugar and candy and apples
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>(You're actually not sure what they eat, or what actual purpose they serve in the local food pyramid)
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>And being an academic with infinite free time and no superiors trying to keep you on task, that sounds like the perfect project to work on as downtine when spellcrafting gets to be too tedious
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>Tracking down some specimens isn't exactly difficult, there's like three major animals authors use to chase anons out of the forest and they're the main one
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>Lousy with Timberwolves, the Everfree is
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>Capturing them? Both easy and hard
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>Easy in that waving a few spheres of flame around and screaming like a retard is enough to scare them shitless and corral them how you will
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>Hard in that actually keeping them in your cave is difficult
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>You had a cage ready at first, but surprise surprise, that shit's made of wood and they...
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>You don't want to say ate it - more like, assimilated?
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>The point is they're bigger now and increased size seems to make them more unruly
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>Shit man you barely even got your specimens and you're already making new discoveries
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>Probably
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>Ponies are so fucking terrified of anything that isn't horse-shaped or under their direct control you doubt they've studied these things that extensively
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>You fucking rule at this
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>A bit more fire, a bit more autistic screeching, and some liberal use of a stoneshape spell you nicked from Twilight's diary/grimoire (along with the entire book), and you got an enclosure
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>Now it's just a matter of poking and prodding at these things
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>Fucking science
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>Getting the obvious shit out of the way, it's time to figure out what these things even eat
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>You kept them in their enclosure for a full day and aside from snapping at you a few times they didn't seem too bothered
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>Pretty sure they don't eat ponies, they live fairly deep in the forest away from their prey, and Ponyville would probably be a lot more bearable if some of the residents were regularly getting munched on
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>First test subject: a squirrel
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>Bit on the lean side but as an added bonus it'll try and flee and give the hellions some exercise
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>And goddamn do they want that thing
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>Guess the urge to pick up small rodents by the neck and shake them viciously is just encoded in all canines, even if they are made of firewood
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>But they don't actually consume it, just leave a mess
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>Results: Squirrels are toys, not food
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>Time for another approach
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>Odds are good they didn't hold off on eating the squirrel because it wasn't enough of a meal, that's just not how predators work
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>Gotta get those calories in where you can
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>You can probably extrapolate that they just don't eat meat in general
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>Second offering: insects
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>Bit more of a pain in the ass, but you overturn enough rocks until you get that one scene from "The Lion King"
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>Hopefully they find these things to be slimy yet satisfying
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>And
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>Fuck they're a lot more aggressive about killing those beetles than they even were the squirrel
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>Real sense of urgency out there
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>Maybe they try and burrow into them like they would actual trees?
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>This is turning into a real bust
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>A few days of failure and the Timberwolves you got aren't looking great as well
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>Starvation, probably
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>It's at this point your giant, meaty brain gets a thought
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>Giant plant wolves
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>Plant wolves
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>Wolves
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>No wait, go back one
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>Plants
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>Anon you fucking idiot they're plants and you've kept them in a dark ass cave for almost a week
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>PHOTOSYNTHESIS, MOTHERFUCKER
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>Moving them out of the cave isn't too hard at this point
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>Hell forget corraling they're not even struggling that much, you can just dig a decently sized pit with magic and then levitate them into it
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>It's slow going at first and you're pretty sure you're going to end this experiment with a heaping helping of firewood for the winter
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>But some chance rain and the sunlight filtering in from the canopy of the forest do the trick with time
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>So that's one mystery solved, at any rate
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>Plus as a bonus you got essentially a moat of angry wolf plants near your cave just in case anyone wanders too close by
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>Could be handy
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>Though you're still left with the question of what purpose these things serve in the local ecosystem if they're not eating anything and just attacking whatever the Hell gets in their territory
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>Something to try and look into for sure, but you've already spent a week on this and there were some interesting rituals stuffed in the back of Purple Smart's diary that you're curious about whether they even function or if she was just spitballing some ideas to experiment with
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>And shit it's not like they're going anywhere or starve
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>Sidequest: unlocked
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>Now back to magic