Sepia Tock: Adventures of the Ponyville Clockmaker

"Sepia Tock" isa ~25000 word fan-ficition written by "CanvasWolfDoll" and can be found on EquestriaDaily. It was written with the express purpose of creating a persona for the brown background pony with the hourglass cutie mark that had nothing to do with Doctor Who while commenting on the Doctor Whoof fandom at the same time, and does so in a dry, tongue-in-cheek manner.

Style
Sepia Tock is written in a third-person perspective with a heavy emphasis on dialogue. That majority of any given chapter consists of a conversation between Sepia and one or more other characters.

Plot
The story opens by taking the reader through a typical day for Sepia. He is awakened by the many alarm clocks in his store, which he subsequently turns off in sequence to confirm that they are operating properly. He then receives his morning mail from Derpy Hooves, who refers to him as "Doctor" despite his half-hearted attempts to (once again) make her call him by his name. As Derpy leaves, Sepia's assistant Colgate arrives and begins working in the back room while Sepia deals with the curious Cutie Mark Crusaders. He gets a call from the Mayor to come pick up a clock for repair. As he walks to get the clock, he overhears the gossip his presence sparks, all of it speculation about Doctor Whoof.

Subsequent chapters have Sepia traveling to other towns and encountering ponies such as Princess Luna, Trixie, and Soarin'. After these events, Ponyville finds itself suddenly subjected to strange time bubbles that transport ponies to other points in recent history. After the Mane 6 vanish trying to find the source of the problem, Sepia reluctantly takes up the role Doctor Whooves would take: hero.

Sepia Tock
A light brown earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark. The latest in a long line of clock-makers, he loves his job and would like nothing better than to be able to invent the next great style of timepiece: the 24-hour clock. He knows the ins and outs of clockwork like nopony else and can make just about anything that uses cogs and springs. Unfortunately, every pony in Ponyville and beyond seems to think he's secretly a time-traveling hero. He's long since given up trying to fight it, opting to simply ignore it and hope it goes away. This has given him a sarcastic streak and loads of patience, but when the stakes are raised he'll willingly do his part to make things right.

Colgate
A light-blue unicorn mare with an hourglass cutie mark. She works as Sepia's eager and loyal apprentice, using her magic to handle the detail work even Sepia's ingenuity and labor-saving devices have trouble with. Unlike her boss, or perhaps in spite of him, she is amused by the Doctor Whoof stories and makes a point to stay up with the current ones. She occasionally teases Sepia and drags him to a Doctor Whoof play at one point, but she cares deeply for him and worries when he needs to head out of town.

Ragged Rock/ Master Ragnarock
A dark grey pegasus who purchases a strange pocket watch from Sepia early in the story and later returns as a power-mad villain with control over the flow of time. Driven by jealousy and a morbid fascination with Doctor Whoof, he fashions himself into an arch-enemy worthy of the famed Time Lord and attacks Ponyville to lure him out.

Luna
Having been written prior to Season 2, the story contains yet another speculation on Luna's character, and specifically why she was absent from Season 1 after the pilot. CWD depicts Luna as a timid and slightly eccentric shut-in who likes to hold tea parties in Canterlot's clock tower with sock puppets. Ashamed of her actions as Nightmare Moon, Luna is afraid that ponies would reject her attempts to befriend them. Sepia spends time with her and promises to write her on a regular basis.