Estate Pony
Maximillian “Max” Maxwell is a 25-year-old junior staff accountant, clawing his way through life at Coopers, Ball & Touche (CBT) with the burden of crushing debts weighing him down. Behind his professionally polished exterior, Max is desperate—cornered by financial ruin, bad decisions, and the relentless expectations of an uncaring corporate machine. When he discovers a hidden vulnerability in the massive accounts of the reclusive French aristocrat, Duchess d’Masculaire, Max seizes the chance, siphoning $100,000 from her vast wealth, hoping it will buy him time and safety.
But the Duchess is no ordinary client. Mysterious and powerful, she notices everything. Max’s crime is uncovered almost immediately, and he is swiftly arrested, facing a justice system ready to devour him. With his attorney offering little hope, Max stands before a judge, condemned to years of brutal imprisonment. But then, the Duchess intervenes. With her wealth, influence, and quiet menace, her attorney’s present Max with a chilling offer: total servitude at her remote manor, Estate Bastille, or rot in a penitentiary where survival is far from assured.
Driven by fear and desperation, Max chooses servitude, believing it a temporary escape. But Estate Bastille is no refuge. Nestled in the secluded wilderness of upstate New York, the vast manor is a world unto itself—silent, forbidding, ruled by the Duchess’s iron will. Here, the rules of society do not apply. Contracts are binding in ways the outside world cannot imagine. Resistance is not tolerated; will is reshaped into obedience.
Under her watchful eye, Max is stripped not only of his freedom, but of his very name and identity. Through a calculated, merciless regimen of physical and psychological conditioning, he is transformed into the “Estate Pony”, a human draft animal trained for her amusement and pleasure. His body becomes a machine for her needs, his mind trained to accept her commands. Bound in leather and steel, paraded through the estate’s echoing halls and manicured grounds, Max’s existence narrows to submission and performance. His humiliation becomes the stage upon which the Duchess asserts her control.
But in the quiet, hollow spaces of his new life, Max grapples with his own eroding self. As days blur into weeks, he begins to wonder: is there a way back to who he was? Or has Estate Bastille irrevocably reshaped him into a creature of her design? The boundaries between pain and pleasure, resistance and acceptance, blur until Max no longer knows where the Duchess’s will ends and his own begins.
Estate Pony is a story of submission and transformation, a descent into a world where power is absolute and identity is a malleable thing. As Max learns to navigate his new reality, the question lingers: will he survive her game of control and corruption, or will he vanish into the role she has chosen for him—forever her ponyboy?