3 AM we seemed alright, on our way into the mingle

[shoujoreject]

Who: SS Caprine + visitors!
Broadcast: Maybe
Action: The Caprine (duh)
When: All month long

[Friends! Ships! Friendships! ... other ships? Maybe!]

Comments

Visiting Pinkie but also OTA

[preformthisneigh]

[After getting Pinkie's rather distressing message, Cheese hopped onto a shuffle and made right for the Caprine. Crew will find yet another tiny horse wandering the corridors of the ship, this one albeit being a lot more lanky and a lot less pink. He looks worried, feel free to talk to him while he searches around for his friend. He also has a rubber chicken draped across his back. That's a thing.

Pinkie, where you at? He is here to make you happy and put the universe right again. ]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[It won't take too terribly long to find her either, considering she's expecting him. He'll eventually run into her just outside the engine room. Her mane's not deflated or anything, thank goodness, but her smile does look a bit tired. it does help that he's here too.]

Hey, Cheese.

[preformthisneigh]

[He offers her a smile as he walks over. It's not his usual vibrant, crazy smile; worry has strained it a little. Still, at least all his time dealing with other people's problems in various worlds has made him a lot better at comforting people than he is back home. Yay for that life lesson, he guesses.

As such, he'll head over and put a comforting foreleg around her shoulders, pulling her in for a gentle hug.]

Hey, Pinkie. Me and Boneless were worried about how you were holding up.

[He was worried. He is worried.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Aw, Cheesy. She nuzzles against him in term.]

Better now that you're here. Nothing REALLY bad happened but... it's kinda not stuff somebody who wasn't somepony would really understand, you know? And I don't wanna make my crewmates feel bad either.

[preformthisneigh]

[The nuzzling gives him the warm fuzzies, but he has important things to focus on now. Somepony made her sad and THEY NEED TO PAY.

..Or cheer her up. Either or. ]

Oh, well you tell me all about it. I'll see what I can do to make you feel better about it. Because wow have I learned a thing or two about cross-world whoopsies.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[NO, Cheese, no, yandere is not her type, okay? Okay.]

I bet... [There's actually some light hoof shuffling...] How do you think I look?

[preformthisneigh]

[That was not a question he was expecting and for a second he looks like he's teetering between surprise and utter terror. The hoof-shuffling is hard to miss though, and the last thing he wants to do is mess up and hurt her feelings (once was more than enough). ]

L-Liiiiiike in general? [What does that even MEAN, Cheese?] I mean you look just fine to me. Better than fine! I mean you look-

[Adorable. Perky. Beautiful. Sunshine itself. PICK AN ADJECTIVE!!! ]

Like the best strawberry sundae ever.

[Wow. What the hell was that. He stares into the middle distance for a second, before clearing his throat. ]

I mean. Uh. Why do you ask?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Okay, phew that helps.]

Heh, well... There was this new guy on the comms, and he was having kind of a rough time and getting sick, so I responded... but then when he figured out the communication device and saw my face... he started freaking out WORSE so I switched to text, and THEN he kept saying he wanted to hurl and that there's no way I could exist, and when I finally DID convince him this is my actual face he said he couldn't handle it.

I mean I know some humans are kind of surprised the first time they see me, and most of them are really nice about it, but... I don't look THAT weird, do I?

[preformthisneigh]

[Ugh, this. His ears flick back, and he lets out a little snort of annoyance. He's grown used to this sort of thing, you get a hard skin with it, eventually, learn to turn it on them. But Pinkie is still so new to it, so unaware how some humans can actually be. ]

That's nothing to do with you, Pinkie, I promise. It's just some humans, they come from sorts of Earths where nothing different than what they know ever happens. And when you get those kinds of humans who also happen to be big jerks, you get that kind of thing happening. They just see us and think "wow, talking ponies, they shouldn't be a thing that exists!! I'm gonna yell at them more!!".

[He gives her a gentle bump with his shoulder. ]

But that's their problem, not ours. Some of them never come 'round, and there's not a lot you can do about that. You just got to leave them be. But a lot of them do come 'round eventually, realise that not everypony in the universe looks the same as they do. Some even apologise.

[He offers her a small smile. ]

You want me to go find him and stare at him creepily for a while?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Okay, that does help quite a bit.It's a tall order for her to ever turn it back on somebody that isn't trying to take over Equestria, but maybe turning the other cheek might do for a while.]

No, that's okay. I don't think it'd work anyway; he's still on the Marsiva.

[Sigh.] And at least one of Guy #2's crewmates stood up for me.

[preformthisneigh]

[That much, he could understand...for her anyway. She's lived a life of love which she's shared with others. Turning her back isn't something Pinkie would ever be prone to do. He considers that a good thing, all things considered. It meant he had a second chance. ]

Ugh, well that's just rude.

...

Wait, there's a second guy? What did he do?

I'm so sorry for the text wall.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Uh, well, afterwards there was another guy texting about how his sister had been sent home and that there's gonna be a blood drive soon, so I texted back to say I'm sorry and to offer to make food for after people donate. And before the food came up I'd mentioned I was a pony, and then he asked me if I worked with meat, so I said it's a little awkward for me because there's a lot of sentient species back home. But I didn't wanna be rude since it's not his fault humans NEED protein to survive, so I asked how often he needs to eat it, and THEN he said he eats meat ALL the time and he doesn't think he'd stop at sentient species. And that's when I started getting mad but then his crewmate Allen made him apologize so everything's okay-ish?

[DON'T KILL HIM, CHEESE.]

the GLORIOUS wall text you mean

[preformthisneigh]

[Wow that's a lot to take in in such a short space of time. Cheese blinks for a second, before his expression settles into a frown.]

He said what? I mean, I know humans can be pretty barbaric with their meat thing and everything, but I've never had one say they'd eat me before! What a jerk!

[Still, Allen's good people...he guesses so. ]

Allen told him to apologise you said?

[forcesensitive]

[Finn's working out in the cargo bay when the shuttle docks, and he sets aside the staff he'd been using to see who it is.]

Hey. Pinkie's friend, right? [What was his name, some kind of food.] Cheese?

[preformthisneigh]

[Finn gets a wide smile regardless of the pony's worry. If he knows Pinkie, then he is automatically good people. It's just how it works.]

Sure am. Cheese Sandwich, at your service.

[forcesensitive]

[Finn nods and waves for him to come on in.] Finn. I'm Security over here. What's that you got there?

[Cause it can't be real chicken meat, if he's as vegetarian as Pinkie is.]

[preformthisneigh]

Nice to meetcha, Finn.

[Cheese glances at his back, before turning back to Finn. ]

Oh, him? That's Boneless 2. He's a rubber chicken. He wanted to come with me to make sure Pinkie was okay.

[Yep. The inanimate object wanted to do something. Y.E.P. ]

[forcesensitive]

[Yeah, no, that's...confusing. Is it alive? It looks like plastic.]

Oh. Uh--

[And then the rest of it hits him.]

Wait, is something wrong?

[DOES HE HAVE TO GO KICK SOME ASS?]

[preformthisneigh]

[It stares at Finn with DEAD RUBBER EYES. Maybe it's only alive for the righteous at heart. Or...you know, batshit insane equids. ]

I don't know. She said she wanted somepony to talk to, company, you know. I don't think things are as okay as they should be, though.

[GO KICK THEIR ASS, FINN. He'll hold your flower. ]

[forcesensitive]

[Or he could just be pretending? Finn nods, looking a bit unsure, but then he snaps back into focus.]

Well, tell her I got her back too, okay? It's probably real weird for her to be around all humans all the time, even if she's got a good attitude about it.

[preformthisneigh]

[That gets a genuine smile out of him.]

It takes some getting used to, and she's only been here a short time. It just takes some...adjusting.

[Because humans can be INCREDIBLE ASSHOLES, no offence, dude. ]

But thanks, I'll tell her. It's awesome of you guys to look out for her here. She- means a lot to me, so I'm glad she's got friends aboard here.

[forcesensitive]

[HONESTLY HE WAS THE SAME WAY growing up with human supremacists, but that was before Chewbacca knocked some sense into him. Besides, at least they speak the same language. (They may not actually speak the same language. The augment just makes it seem like they do.]

She's a good person. I got her back.

[??? does that expression even exist with ponies who knows]

Just let me know if you two need anything, yeah?

[preformthisneigh]

[It absolutely does! It's okay Finn, you're safe with any body part expression that isn't a hand or a foot. ]

I absolutely will, and I'm glad you have her back. She really is a good person. The best, actually.

[forcesensitive]

[He's beginning to suspect Pinkie has something of a fanclub.]

Yeah. You just be sure she knows that, okay?

[preformthisneigh]

[Or rather, one weird socially inept loser who worships the ground she walks on. That's the more likely scenario here. He gives a little salute with his forehoof.]

Aye aye, I'll do that!