005 - Do I Creep You Out

[preformthisneigh]

Who: Cheese Sandwich and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bishop
When: After his talk with Lily

Hey there my bipedal buddies. Does anypony have any of those little fox guys I can borrow for an evening? I need three to four of them.

It's for party pony business. Let me know if you have and we can work something out!

Comments

He is, he is

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[All hail the dominant pony race!]

I guess so, yeah. It's all magic, I guess? If that helps.

[He laughs out loud on that one/]

Nah, I'm a party planner. But our cutie marks aren't always literal.

Oooooh booooy.

[tallasaking]

[Well that is only slightly ...creepy.]

Considering how much magic there is? I find that utterly believable.

[Tyrion smiled, before he tilted his head curiously.]

So sometimes they are merely ... metaphors?

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Especially in my world. There's heaps of it!

[He gives a shrug of his little pony shoulders. ]

Something like that, yeah. We usually have our destiny figured out when we get them, so we don't really have to judge them by that they depict.

[tallasaking]

I sincerely hope there are not heaps of magic lying about where anyone might get into trouble with them...

[Tyrion mused, then wondered at the fact that he just saw a pony shrug.]

So - your destiny depends on your cutie mark. Do you ever find that ... well, narrowing?

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You can only really use it if you're a unicorn. Only them and alicorns can consciously cast spells.

You know, I get asked that by humans a lot. But for us ponies? It's just how things are. We're happy knowing what our paths are, and following them.

[tallasaking]

Ah hah - can other ponies ... unconsciously cast them?

[He nodded his head slowly.] It is like being born into a great house, then.

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Not really? I guess we all have a magic of our own, but it's not like it's something we can wield or anything like that.

[He remembers Anne Boleyn so this helps a little.] Sure, a little like that. Except most of us aren't...you know, rich or anything.

[tallasaking]

Hm. So only some of you wield magic - do those magical ponies rule over the rest of you?

[Another frown.] ... so you're all ... destitute? For the most part?

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Only the alicorns, they have wings and horns, and their position is earned? Not sure how, but we recently got a new one.

I wouldn't go that far, most ponies have enough to get by. We help one another out.

[tallasaking]

I see ... interesting. That seems like a peculiar way to rule, but I have no room to talk. We had five kings in the last so many years.

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Huh that's a lot. All our rulers are mares, the only kings we've ever had were thousands of years in the past, and they were usurpers who got defeated.

[Matriarchal society for the win, it seems. ]

[tallasaking]

Now see ... I know one Queen I would prefer to stand like that. A great line of Queens - wouldn't that be something? [He mused quietly. It's not a bad thought honestly.]

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We've sure never suffered for it. The Princesses rule us well.

[tallasaking]

Well, you certainly don't seem to be abused in any way - so I would say ... yes. Yes they do.

[Unlike Tyrion, whose scar runs across his entire face -- sigh.]

So tell me, Cheese Sandwich, do we humans seem odd to you?

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Welll, it's been a long while since I was home, but no. No abuse here.

[Poor guy. That gets a laugh out of him, though/]

Oh, you have no idea. Buuuuut I've got pretty used to humanity by now. Not to say you guys still can't surprise me sometimes. Believe me, you still do.

[tallasaking]

I am glad you come from such a happy world ... and I appreciate your honesty with me.

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After hearing about how some other worlds can be like? Me too!

Hey, don't mention it, I'm a cards on the table kinda stallion.

[tallasaking]

Oh, some are not so bad ... you simply must have the temperament to survive them.

[One corner of his mouth lifted.] Something I have slowly learned is more true than not of most people.

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I think I'll pass all the same. This place and Paradisa were tough enough.

[And he's used to villains trying to take over HIS home by sheer force every other month. ]

That so?

[He says that idly, half interested. He's not always completely truthful, and that HAS caused him trouble in the past, and as a result he's tried to be better about that. Unless the subject of his past comes up, of course. That's where he trips up.]

[tallasaking]

What is Paradisa?

[There was a new name he had not heard before.]

Yes ... that is so.

[preformthisneigh]

It's the place I was before here. Another one of those other-worldly-kidnappy places. Paradisa was a magical castle.

Hmm. Good to know.

[tallasaking]

By the Seven, how many of these prisons are there?

[Tyrion muttered, almost to himself. He had not realized there were other places here that had the same sort of ... rules. Or not rules, as the case might be.]

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A lot of them, from the looks of things.

[None of which sound even a tiny bit fun. ]

[tallasaking]

[Tyrion pinched his brow.] ... the question is, are they all in collusion with one another, or are they in fact separate evil entities?

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That is the question, isn't it? Seems a lot of power in all these places. You'd think there'd be some sorta power struggle, you know? Big powerful lunatics don't tend to play nice with each other.