'I'm Counting To Ten'

"You can stop counting."

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My submission to 's newest theme for this week, Pony Inspired by a Book. Sort of. Actually, I kind of bent the theme a little and did it a little differently. Instead of portraying a ponified character from a book like everyone else has done, I opted to do a ponified scene from a book. Hopefully it still counts this way.

Anyway, this pic is portraying a pivotal scene from Ray Bradbury's book, "Fahrenheit 451." It was an idea I had originally gotten from the theme a few weeks back, "A pony's greatest fear," but despite it being a cool idea, it didn't fit the theme. At first I was going to do it anyway as a little side project (that way I could take as long as I felt it needed) but then this theme came up, and it happened to just barely fit, so I used it as an excuse to put it together.

But this is why Twilight appears in this pic. 'Cuz I wasn't going to do the pic without her, in short.

I suppose the two fireponies are Montag (right) and Beatty (left), but I didn't really have anypony specific in mind with either of them, so they can be whoever you want them to be.

For those familiar with the book, this is the scene where they're at the house filled with books that they are about to burn, but the old lady who lives there refuses to leave and ends up setting the kerosene-doused books aflame herself. Except Twilight has replaced the old lady (relic from the original theme I had devised the pic for).

Speaking of which, the pic's title, and the quote for Twilight (above), are both exact quotes from the book.

I was going to shade this, but it took longer to color this pic than I expected (it was those darn books) and decided it looked pretty good as is, so I left it like that for now. I might go back and shade it later, though, time permitting, because what I have in mind would add emphasis on the situation. EDIT 4/1/2012: Finally sat down and shaded this, displaying the lighting I had in mind. It does make it seem much more dramatic, and makes the original feel plain in comparison.

Oh, and there's a little cookie (not a literal cookie) hidden in the pic. I'm curious if anybody will see it.