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Tell me about your world's legends and heroes. If you can tell me a good story, I'll tell one in return.

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The sun is older than the planet itself, you know. When the earth was but a lifeless rock filled with fire and ash, when the earth was a frozen wasteland where life could never exist... One day, too, the sun will swallow the earth, without a care, because that is simply fate. Something with a span longer than that of entire planets, something on the scale of a star, the single point of light and heat in space... No matter how powerful or how much magic a mortal has, they're still mortals, you know? Do you think someone on a sun's scale can notice that? Can you look at a swarm of ants and see which one is stronger than the rest?

Well yeah, Twilight and Fluttershy were talking about how ant colonies work one time! The workers aren't the biggest ants, but there's more of them and they work together REALLY well to build their home and gather food! And there's also soldier ants that are WAY bigger than the others and help make sure all the other ants stay safe!

[Yup, point missed. Partly due to the laws of comedy, but also because a lot of her culture is based on identity and community. Nopony's insignificant because everypony has a special talent and purpose, something to contribute to the whole. And they have to oversee every part of nature itself, from the hourly shifts in the weather to the falling of the leaves to changing winter into spring itself. Even the smallest members and tasks are vital to the world as they know it not falling to pieces.]

Ah, is that so? You're very smart, then. ♥ In that case... On the planet we've left, near a shop just a few hundred meters away from the dock where we landed, there was an anthill. Tell me, which of those ants, specifically, was the strongest?

[sadly, fate/bullshit does not work like that. Sorry, pony.]

Hee, you're right, I probably couldn't tell you that, but if Fluttershy were here I bet she could. Her special talent's talking to all sorts of critters!

This Fluttershy is a friend of yours? Another pony, then?

Yup, she's a pegasus! She's really sweet and shy and takes care of LOTS of different animals!

Edited 2016-08-06 08:21 (UTC)

Oh, she sounds very skilled. And a pegasus, at that... A Phantasmal Beast of that rank must be quite something. Now, then. Can you tell me which hair in her tail is the single most lustrous? Which feather on her wings is the single most important?

What's a Phantasmal Beast? She's just another pony like me!

That's kind of a weird question, though, isn't it? I don't even know what's the best hair in my OWN tail. Do you?

[And if Twilight were on the answering end of this riddle, there'd probably be a mini-speech about how all the feathers work together to fly, and all the hairs come together to form the tail. But Pinkie's best riddles are more lateral and funny rather than deep and philosophical.]

Ah, never mind. I don't. That's what a mortal looks like from a god's perspective, you know? An ant in a far away hill, a single hair on a tail, one feather on a wing. The whole may be noticed, but an individual certainly won't be, no matter how important or powerful that individual is from a mortal perspective.

Huh. I GUESS that make sense?

[The concept at least; kinda hard to understand the WHY of it when the closest thing you DO have to gods regularly interact with mortals, and in the princesses' case actively rule and care about their subjects.]

So when it's put like that, don't you think it's rather arrogant to assume any single mortal could make the sun notice them?

[Now she could quibble that Celestia and Luna's immortality is a bit up in the air, and if she were a snarkier pony she'd probably respond with "well you're talking to me, aren't you?" But that's not her at all. In fact, a new thought niggles at her quite a bit more than those things.]

Soooo when and why DID you start noticing people then?

When indeed... Time flows a little differently. More accurately, I was outside the time axis as mortals understand it, you know? I think it was a couple thousand years ago, though. I first noticed when I noticed a country had begun to pray to me.

Well that's good. When did you start talking with them?

Edited 2016-08-07 02:08 (UTC)

Not until I was split off from the goddess' main self.

... Huh?

What?

How'd THAT happen?

[Sure, she's cloned herself with a magical pool before, but splitting yourself up sounds REALLY weird and kinda painful?]

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