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[Well, he feels like a terrible person. But. He also thinks about what Kylo Ren could do to Pinkie. It's a horrifying thought.]

[Quietly:] That's the idea. Guns are for one thing. That's it. They're not for scaring people, or hurting people. They're for killing people, and it's only luck when that doesn't happen.

Pinkie, I'm a pilot. I fly an X-Wing for the Resistance. We're the people that Hux and Kylo Ren want to wipe out. I have a lot of fun being in races and doing trick flying, but an X-Wing is a fighter. I shoot down First Order fighters before they hurt my people or innocent civilians on other planets. That's my job.

Kylo Ren scares me. He hurt me really bad. I still have nightmares about it. He and Hux were going to have me killed. He almost killed Finn. He almost killed Finn's friend Rey. He murdered General Solo, his own father. So I'm scared as hell that he's going to come after me and Finn, or General Solo. And I'm scared as hell that he's going to hurt you, or Daenerys, or anyone else on our ships trying to get at us because he doesn't care.

I don't want you to be scared. That's never what I wanted. But I'm kriffing terrified.

I know you are. This can't be right either, though. You can't just go up to somebody and shoot them, Poe, that's what people like HUX do, that's what BAD guys do. That's what everybody else'll see since they don't know Ren yet, they'll just think you're taking some stranger's LIFE.

I know about having to keep your home and family safe, my friends and I do it back home too. We don't WANT to turn people into statues or put them back in Tartarus, but we don't do it unless we HAVE to. You've still got a choice, though.

[...wait what.]

I'm not gonna hunt him down and shoot him, Pinkie. I'm gonna keep my guns here, or carry one with me just in case. And if he tries to come onto our ship or hurt someone, then you bet your tail I'm gonna kriffing shoot him.

[Okay that's... a little better than what she'd been picturing. Her face softens a bit, but still remains serious.]

Good. And no killing him unless you absolutely HAVE to. Pinkie promise?

I think you're gonna have to trust my judgment. Have you known me to be trigger happy before this?

No, but you've never been scared before either, and definitely not enough to buy ALL of those.

[Her voice is calmer and MUCH less terrified now, but she still think that's erring on the side of overkill. Not to mention she notices you not making that promise.]

Yeah, you're right about that. There hasn't been someone here before that I thought would hurt you and everyone else on this ship just to get at me.

[She sighs deeply. He's not gonna let this one go, is he? She WISHES he would, neither Pinkie nor her culture have much experience with firearms, but she has a REALLY bad feeling this could end badly, not least of all for Poe.

Not to mention she's literally out of her Element here. She represents Laughter, making ponies happy and assuaging fears, but what do you do when that fear's so deeply rooted and, frankly, more than a little justified? Or if the thing that'd make somebody happy and not scared anymore is hurting somebody else, even if he says it'd only be in self-defense? She's not Friendship or Kindness, and Twilight and Fluttershy and the rest of her friends aren't here to help her out or give her guidance.

So for a second she just stands there quietly looking at Poe and guns and around the room and looking LOST.]

[But then she gets an idea. This may or may not get rid of the guns, but they aren't the real root of the problem.

She wraps a hoof gently around Poe's wrist and gives it a light tug.]

Come on.

[As long as she's not trying to take his guns, he's not going to fight her. Poe likes Pinkie. He's normally a pretty upbeat guy himself... just not right now.]

Where to?

[Physically take them away from him? Never. Convince him the guns weren't necessary and have him give them up on his own? That's what she'd hoped, but now's probably not the time, and it might not even be her place.

Right now that's not where her focus is, though.]

Shuttle bay; you'll see~

Edited 2016-09-19 10:12 (UTC)

[He's happy with the shift in conversation, if slightly bewildered. But he'll take it.]

Okay. I'm a fan of the shuttle bay...

[He'll go along. And leave the guns. Well all of them but a sidearm that he holsters at his waist.]

[Yes good. Once they get to they bay, Pinkie'll go to a tarped-up corner near the gardens and uncover... a bunch of paint buckets and brushes?

And she's just going to start loading a bucket or two onto her back, not even bending a bit under the weight. Small favors from earth pony strength.]

...paint? What're we painting?

The shuttles!

[As if it's the most obvious thing in the world.]

[Okay, that gets a smile out of him.] Sounds like a fine idea.

[And that makes her smile a little more real.]

Where do you wanna start?

Starting with the nose always seems like a good idea to me.

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awww Pinkie

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