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Who: Kitty Pryde and everyone who tags!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Planet fun! Or Windrose maybe. I'm flexible.
When: Now or nowish. Definitely now-adjacent.

[Broadcast]
I have an important request. I need someone who can make cheese. Do cheese makers have an old timey name like cobblers and haberdashers or are those only for clothes? Anyway, calling all of those.

Cheese doesn't seem to be a thing here from what I can tell, but we're just one ingredient away from some really great pizza. I have no idea what cheese requires other than cows or goats or something. I grew up so close to Wisconsin, but I feel like I learned so little.

I would also accept alternative cheese. I know there were vegan kinds made out of hopes and dreams or something I assume. I can pay you or share the finished pizza or do something in trade if I had skills. I could beat someone up for you maybe. [She's not going to do that. Probably.] We'll work it out.

[Action]
[She's on the planet doing all of these things and more but this post won't get to CAPTCHA! You might find her on the Windrose veeeery rarely!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, what's the worse that could happen? [Asks the girl who was literally trampled to death by her husband.]

I could accidentally upset her and the last time I did that she had a complete crisis of faith, quit everything that was dear to her and was about to run away from her home and friends forever.

Okay, that's a decent worst-case scenario. [Well played.] Feelings are risky business. Doesn't make them not worth it.

[He's thought long and hard about this. ]

...Yeah. I guess you have a point.

I hope so. It's kind of what I'm running with too.

It's a good, solid idea to run with.

I'm glad you think so. Probably a bad time to decide differently anyway since you're already with her. And I definitely don't want to be the reason you change your mind. Can't have the fleet's only party planner mad at me.

Hey how, there's two of us these days. That's like..twice the party planning fun.

But no...I'm glad it's how it is. It feels right. Scary. Like...terrifying, actually. But right.

Oh. Sorry. I didn't mean to insult your profession. [Is every pony a party planner? Who picks up the trash? Who manufactures the balloons? How do you pick things up!?!]

Hey, don't worry about it. Honestly, I never would have found my destiny if it wasn't for her.

[Don't ask, Kitty. You'll be at it for years. ]

[Should she ask? If only she could consult the wise and wonderful brackets. It's okay though. She comes to it on her own.]

That's...great. Can't underestimate a solid destiny.

[Equestria is a strange and terrifying place. ]

A pony without a destiny would be an awful thing. No cutie mark, no purpose, no nothing. I owe a whole lot of everything to her.

[Can she hear the adoration in his voice? It sure is there. Senpai is the best. ]

[She definitely hears it.]

Cutie mark? [Kitty, why are you asking?]

[WELP, no going back for her, now. ]

Yeah!

[He turns a little to show off the cheese-sandwich-accordion picture on his flank. ]

Every pony gets one when they find out their destiny. It's like a...coming of age, kinda thing.

And your destiny issss...[what is that?] grilled cheese? I hope it comes with tomato soup.

Oh, no. My destiny is to bring parties to ponies who need them. To make them happy whenever they;re feeling sad.

Uh, cutie marks are sometimes a little vague.

Yeah, I'm not sure I would have gotten all that from the picture. [Mostly because she didn't.]

It's okay, there's lots of ponies who don't even understand them. They can be pretty mysterious.

Did you understand yours right away?

I did. I ran into Pinkie Pie and realised that wow that's what I wanted to do. Make anypony who was feeling down happy. And just like that, I got my Cutie Mark.

[He's missing out the part where his foalhood was horribly lonely due to his crippling shyness, but still. ]

Glad you got that worked out. What happens if you never get a cutie mark?

Oh, well. I don't think that's ever happened. Ponies eventually stumble on their destiny one way or another eventually. Because...well, destiny, I guess.

But I do get it. I know humans are different, that you guys have things a little less set in stone than us Equestrians. It's about as different as you can get.

It does feel like it might be a little different, yeah. [Understatement.] But I guess it works for you.

You do seem pretty happy about it. Not so much a trapped by destiny vibe.

Nah, it's not like being trapped at all. It's like...knowing exactly who you are. It's pretty comforting, really.

Yeah? Doesn't make it boring? [Just safe and comfy maybe? Okay, it could sound worse.]

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