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[castrationfist]

Who: Caster and everyone
Broadcast: Anonymous text, fleet-wide
Action: Aboard the Vanquish if you're curious.
When:

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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[castrationfist]

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?

[spontaneouscombustion]

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.]

[castrationfist]

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.

[spontaneouscombustion]

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.]

[castrationfist]

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?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[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?

[castrationfist]

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.

[spontaneouscombustion]

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

[castrationfist]

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

[spontaneouscombustion]

... Huh?

[castrationfist]

What?

[spontaneouscombustion]

How'd THAT happen?

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