All kinds of things. I mean my loss was bad enough. It stopped me from travelling. Every time I tried to leave the castle grounds, I hit this big invisible wall.
[Darnit, Cheese, you need to see The Lion King sometime! With popcorn. On a couch. Maybe a loveseat. And maybe a Pinkie to snuggle.]
Your LOSS? That... sound REALLY bad, especially since I KNOW how much you love traveling; it's how you throw parties and make everybody happy, after all! Did that castle take away something like that from EVERYBODY?
Uh huh. Everypony there had one. It was either a skill or a memory or an item. Whatever it was, it was something important. Something that would hurt them to lose.
I really missed travelling. There was a whole wide world out there I could never see.
(Lemme know if you ever want or need to un-submerge the rest of that iceberg.)
It was our very first one, though. It took us to this town in the mountains near the Crystal empire. All the houses looked the same, all the ponies looked the same with the same WRONG smiles, they even had the same CUTIE MARK!!! It looked like this on EVERYPONY: =
ANYWAY, the pony running it was Starlight Glimmer, and SHE thought that differences cause friendships to fall apart and that taking away everypony's cutie mark would fix that, and that everybody in her village was perfectly happy. I didn't like it at all from the second I saw those "smiles".
And it WASN'T perfectly happy. A couple of ponies MISSED having their cutie marks and their special talents. One of them even used to be a baker, and her muffins were AWFUL afterwards, and one turned out to be ANOTHER PARTY PONY!
And then WE ended up getting our cutie marks taken away, and we were trapped in this tiny little shed with only a couple of window and this really loud recording telling us that being all the same was great, and I started losing my ability to feel happy or tell jokes. I think it was even WORSE than being tricked by Discord or Tirek stealing my magic!
But then we figured out and showed the ponies that Starlight still had HER cutie mark, so those ponies that missed theirs chased after her and ended up getting their AND our cutie marks back, and then Starlight disappeared into the mountains until later.
It's a terrifying thought, though. A pony with the ability to take away others pony's cutie parks. To rip away who that pony was, to sever them from their destiny. Worse still, knowing that happened to Pinkie. That she'd been taken away from the happiness which makes every single living being around her feel better about themselves.
It's not something he'd ever like to dwell over. ]
Also, seriously, why does this sort of thing keep happening? Is Equestria just a hot-tub for magical weirdness now? Is this just what we're stuck with? I don't remember it always being this crazy.
Oh sure sure sure, of COURSE we are! Like I said, that was a while ago, we're ALL fine now, the village AND us! Hay, Twilight even stopped Starlight from changing the past and the future and made her realize what friendship's REALLY like. Now she's friends with us too, we even made cupcakes together a couple of days before I came here!
[And the problem, of course, is that she's putting herself into danger- she's one of the protectors of the realm, it's her DUTY. It doesn't stop him being any less worried about her getting hurt. Or that this time will be the time she doesn't get through it.]
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Date: 2016-06-17 10:01 pm (UTC)Oh...right that time was bad. Well, yeah but we still had oxygen. Less so on the gravity but you know Hiro's super smart and he got it all fixed.
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Date: 2016-06-17 10:03 pm (UTC)(Not necessarily you, but still...)
[Tacking a few miffed emojis on there.]
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Date: 2016-06-17 11:16 pm (UTC)No need to worry, I promise.
[Oh no not the miffed ones. He'll just add a few pathetically apologetic ones, there we go. That fixes things, right??? ]
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Date: 2016-06-17 11:42 pm (UTC)(Sigh) Sorry, Cheese. Kinda need to be extra careful. One of the new arrivals is a Bad Guy from Finn's world, and Finn helped blow up his weapon.
And I'm the engineer. I've gotta make sure my crewmates stay safe and happy, right?
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Date: 2016-06-18 12:33 am (UTC)Well, yeah. I guess that's true. We all look out for our crews.
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Date: 2016-06-20 12:25 am (UTC)They're still way less terrible than the magical castle though. So there's that.
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Date: 2016-06-20 01:05 am (UTC)[He couldn't run form his problems!! ]
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Date: 2016-06-20 01:13 am (UTC)Your LOSS? That... sound REALLY bad, especially since I KNOW how much you love traveling; it's how you throw parties and make everybody happy, after all! Did that castle take away something like that from EVERYBODY?
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Date: 2016-06-20 09:28 pm (UTC)Uh huh. Everypony there had one. It was either a skill or a memory or an item. Whatever it was, it was something important. Something that would hurt them to lose.
I really missed travelling. There was a whole wide world out there I could never see.
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Date: 2016-06-20 09:34 pm (UTC)We went to a place like that not too long ago. Have I told you about Twilight's new castle and the friendship map yet?
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Date: 2016-06-20 11:37 pm (UTC)Yeah. But surely it wouldn't send you guys anywhere awful, right? Friendship missions and all that.
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Date: 2016-06-20 11:55 pm (UTC)It was our very first one, though. It took us to this town in the mountains near the Crystal empire. All the houses looked the same, all the ponies looked the same with the same WRONG smiles, they even had the same CUTIE MARK!!! It looked like this on EVERYPONY: =
ANYWAY, the pony running it was Starlight Glimmer, and SHE thought that differences cause friendships to fall apart and that taking away everypony's cutie mark would fix that, and that everybody in her village was perfectly happy. I didn't like it at all from the second I saw those "smiles".
And it WASN'T perfectly happy. A couple of ponies MISSED having their cutie marks and their special talents. One of them even used to be a baker, and her muffins were AWFUL afterwards, and one turned out to be ANOTHER PARTY PONY!
And then WE ended up getting our cutie marks taken away, and we were trapped in this tiny little shed with only a couple of window and this really loud recording telling us that being all the same was great, and I started losing my ability to feel happy or tell jokes. I think it was even WORSE than being tricked by Discord or Tirek stealing my magic!
But then we figured out and showed the ponies that Starlight still had HER cutie mark, so those ponies that missed theirs chased after her and ended up getting their AND our cutie marks back, and then Starlight disappeared into the mountains until later.
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Date: 2016-06-22 12:13 am (UTC)It's a terrifying thought, though. A pony with the ability to take away others pony's cutie parks. To rip away who that pony was, to sever them from their destiny. Worse still, knowing that happened to Pinkie. That she'd been taken away from the happiness which makes every single living being around her feel better about themselves.
It's not something he'd ever like to dwell over. ]
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Date: 2016-06-22 12:14 am (UTC)Wow.
And you girls are okay now? Back home? You fixed it like you always do? Because I thought the whole Tirek thing was bad but this is worse.
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Date: 2016-06-22 12:33 am (UTC)... Are YOU okay, Cheesy?
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Date: 2016-06-23 08:50 pm (UTC)[And the problem, of course, is that she's putting herself into danger- she's one of the protectors of the realm, it's her DUTY. It doesn't stop him being any less worried about her getting hurt. Or that this time will be the time she doesn't get through it.]
Oh yeah. I'm fine.
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Date: 2016-06-23 09:02 pm (UTC)Are you sure? I don't think I've heard you NOT remember how crazy home is. Or not like crazy stuff.
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Date: 2016-06-23 10:09 pm (UTC)I just
It's scary. Thinking about the danger you and the girls face all the time.
[He half types "I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to you" but swiftly deletes it before he sends it. ]
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Date: 2016-06-23 10:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, sometimes it can get a little scary, but I trust the girls with my life, we can get through anything together.
Actually... We couldn't have beat Tirek without you either...
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