004 - If That Isn't Love

[preformthisneigh]

Who: Cheese and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Bishop
When: Sometime before Belth's meltdown

[The video falls on the grinning-like-a-lunatic pony. Guess what time it is! It's pony holiday story time!!!]

Heya everypony! Happy Valentines day. Back where I come from, we call this Hearts and Hooves Day. Buuut that doesn't really work here given that I'm the only one with hooves. Hopefully everyone has a heart of some description though. ANYhoo. We celebrate this day pretty much the same as they do on Earth. Spending time with our special somepony, hearts, flowers, yadda yadda.

[He's forever alone, it's not important to him.]

The story of how it came to be is waaaay different though. OKAY so a loooong looong time ago a prince created a love potion to give to a princess he loved. He wanted her to love him back. Unfortunately it turned out to be a love poison and it made the two so lost in each others eyes that they couldn't perform their royal duties. There was a dragon and the kingdom fell, chaos reigned. It was the worst.

Luckily there was an antidote. The prince and princess had to be kept from looking into one another's eyes for a whole hour. Then the love curse broke and everything began to be restored once again. And from that day on everypony celebrated that day as one of love because-

[He taps his chin with a forehoof.]

...Actually I'm not sure. It's not really a romantic story when you think about it. I don't know what the moral is. Don't force love? Don't drink a suspicious drink that your stalker gave you? I dunno. We made a holiday with it anyway. So enjoy that, if you have a special somepony and be glad they didn't poison you? Yeah.

Comments

[thezerothlaw]

I have neither blood nor circulatory system, so of course I don't possess a heart, either.

[With THAT out of the way...]

I do find it curious that your culture chooses to celebrate what strikes me as a serious crime.

[preformthisneigh]

What, really? Um. Okay. Do you have feelings? Because I'm sure they count too?

[Probably. Hell if he knows. He's the guy with the accordion and the off the wall humour. He doesn't DO feelings. ]

Yeaaaaaah. That's kinda... weird. But most of our celebrations are kinda odd when I look at how other worlds celebrate similar ones.

[thezerothlaw]

I imagine many cultures seem peculiar to outsiders, of course.

[It's meant to be soothing.]

I... believe I do have feelings, though they are not necessarily the same as what a biological organism may experience. They are analogous, though.

[preformthisneigh]

Ain't that the truth.

Well, then. That sure counts. Do you have a special somep- someone to spend the day with?

[thezerothlaw]

Surprisingly, yes.

[No one is more shocked than he is.]

You are the only one of your species here. Is this difficult for you?

[preformthisneigh]

Oh well, good for you! I hope you both have a great day together.

[Oh. That.]

I miss other ponies, sure. But I'm...not really good at the romance thing. I'm a loner.

[It's like 50% true. ]

[thezerothlaw]

If you are content with that, then.

[Because some people are! He knows that.]

Humans, at least, are social creatures, even the more solitary individuals. Are ponies the same?

[preformthisneigh]

I sure am!

[Not really. He's very lonely. But if this is the life he's meant to lead, so be it. ]

Oh yeah. Ponies usually spend a whole lot of time together. I'm a rarity.

[Bitter internal laughing at the play on words there. ]

[thezerothlaw]

[Luckily, emotion-reading doesn't work through a video connection. Daneel takes him at face value.]

I suppose that is fortunate, then.

[preformthisneigh]

It sure is. Hahah. I'd probably be crazy otherwise. All alone. Forever.

Haaaaaaaaaaaah.