I rested on my wings, floating above the crystal city. Even with the falling darkness, you could see clearly where the magic stopped working.
It was as if somebody had taken a circle of a nice warm area with farms and the city and plopped it in a frozen landscape of snow and tundra.
All this supported by the crystal heart.
Sighing, I shifted course, slowly banking into a turn. I can’t believe she would think that. It was like… ugh.
Fine!
Say that there was interest in Sunset, as stupid as it sounded. Why wouldn’t I have talked it through with Luna beforehand!?
That’s was the most frustrating part about this all!
Looking up at the appearing stars, I sighed and beat my wings, slowly rising higher. I thought she knew me better than that.
Slowly starting to circle the castle, I rested on my wings as I floated lower again.
A spot of colour drew my attention and I shifted my course. Circling the castle once more, I then came in for landing on top of a balcony on one of the taller towers. “Hey.”
Sunset looked up from the book she was reading in the light of her horn. “Hey.”
“What are you reading?” I asked as I walked over.
She showed me the cover of the second Daring Do book. “Nothing serious.”
“That’s a good one,” I said and settled down next to her as we both avoided the subject. “I think I might like the third one better.”
“Mmm, that one’s good,” she agreed and then sighed, closing her book and letting the light from her horn fade away. “This is stupid.”
“Yep. Like I would be attracted to you.”
“Hey!” Sunset exclaimed and looked at me. “What do you mean by that!?”
I cringed and then shook my head. “Didn’t mean it like that!”
“So, what did you mean?” she asked as she turned to me.
Finding myself a bit lost for words, I sighed and shook my head. “…I just meant that… damn it, Sunset, you are messing with me!”
She grinned and nodded. “Yep!”
I thwacked the back of her head with my wing. Or rather tried to, she ducked before I could.
She smiled and then shook her head, shifting to look at me, “Not interested in you in that way either,” she continued, “we both know that if I was, you wouldn’t stand a chance.”
“Oh really?”
Sunset winked at me. “Oh please.”
Chuckling, I shook my head. “Please. You are the one that wouldn’t stand a chance,” I said and stretched my wings. “Alicorn, remember. Only male one. With your fascination with alicorns, you would fold in moments.”
“Somepony is full of himself.”
I winked at her before we laughed, and I shook my head. “So stupid. Just because we are friends…”
“Best friends.”
“Best friends,” I corrected. “We are romantically involved? Okay, I can see Twilight thinking that, but Luna?”
Sunset frowned at me. “Why would Twi think that and not Princess Luna?”
“Experience mostly?” I said and shrugged my wings.
“…Fair enough,” Sunset admitted and then shivered as the wind picked up. “Us being involved? That’s silly.”
I nodded before I frowned. “Cold?”
“I’m fine, not sure the heart is fully powered up yet,” she said and shifted a bit. “Twi said it might take a couple of days.”
Nodding I moved a bit closer, putting my wing across her back. “Better?”
Sunset sighed and then nodded, scooting close and leaned against my side a bit, “Thanks. On top of all the other stuff, the fact that alicorns don’t get cold is just unfair.”
“It is,” I agreed. “No complaints from me though, I hate being cold. Very nice fringe benefit.”
She grumbled something I didn’t hear before she lit her horn up again and opened the book again, going back to her reading.
I looked over her shoulder. “Oh, that’s a good chapter. I like when she…”
“Hush! You can read with me, but no talking.”
“Fine, fine,” I sighed and settled down.
“Page?” she said after a couple of chapters.
“Hmm?”
She turned the page and then glanced at me with a small smile. “They were being silly, right?”
“Ridiculous,” I agreed with a smile and shook my head as I sighed. “…I should likely apologize for yelling before though. They both meant well.”
Sunset nodded. “Yeah. I should talk to Twilight too. You know, it’s actually kind of sweet.”
“…It was,” I said and couldn’t help but smile. “Though I guess it’s interesting to know that Luna has no objections to me having a hot unicorn marefriend. We talked about it in the past, it just never struck me that she was actually serious before now.”
“Hot unicorn huh?” Sunset teases and rubbed against my side, fluttering her eyelashes at me.
I smirked at her and pulled her closer with my wing, brushing the primary feathers across her cutiemark. “It’s no wonder ponies think we are involved.”
“I know, right?” Sunset agreed with a small hitch in her breath, her nose touching mine as she turned to me and our eyes slowly met.
We managed to hold it for about five seconds before we broke down laughing.
I wonder if Cadence was referring to them when she said stupid ponies for not realizing their true feeling.
That is some fine denial there!
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Probably... Hopefully.
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Can't wait until it happens!
Now the question is, is the hitch from holding in laughter?
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That's what I was thinking.
Guess only time will tell though (since I doubt Hiver is gonna come out and give us spoilers XD ).
"Interested, but not interested in being interested" is a thing, though. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
I'm actually interested in them not becoming an item. A nice, close, male/female friendship seems all too rare.
Let’s see how this goes between them.
Oh you tease! GIMME IT NAOW! Just one! I just need one! ONE PECK IS ALL I WANT!
(A primal part of my brain is freaking out. Send love-y situations.)
Sunset should become an Alicorn just so that the banter can continue forever.
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Snarkset Shimmer. Princess of Quips, Banter, and other Witticisms.
Why does she need a confirmation though? Hmm?
I'm totally not thinking about the balcony collapsing and ending in a lion king scenario. Nope
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Eventually they would become an item too....
Methinks they doth protest too much
as guard captain (sort of) for his guard it would be highly inappropriate to hold rank and such a relationship. Clearly she needs promoted to concubine, so she would be the consort's consort
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Same here, and honestly I don't see how the two of them could take a relationship seriously. The interplay is just wrong as seen with the way they broke down laughing here. They just wouldn't be able to treat it as anything but a joke, and while that certainly wouldn't hurt either of them, it does mean romance is effectively impossible.
Always love any Sunset Shipping.
... I'd still ship it
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On one hand, I agree, they are rare. On the other, I'm a dirty dirty shipper and MOAR ROMANCE!!! is always a correct answer. To everything
ok Page and Sunset wright..
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*Cadence screaming in the distance* OH JUST BUCK ALREADY!
*Rest of Equestria screams* WE AGREE!
The fact that I can’t tell if they are serious or just in denial is a testament to how well this friendship has been built up. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
I can totally buy that they're in love. Platonic love that is.
They've become each other's best friends to the point where a romantic relationship wouldn't work.
Its closer to a battle buddies thing. They look so intimate because they don't have the personal barriers between each other because they've been through situations where one or the other had to knock some sense into the other, even if it was completely uncomfortable. Their relationship started with Page knocking Sunset out and dragging her back to Celestia, it was something she needed, and she later admitted it, and later Sunset is the one Page trusts with his plans to defeat Tirek, and plays a key role in defeating Starlight, not to mention they're the only ones they can share understanding about their experiences with humans. Then he took her on as an apprentice, and the pair spar regularly. Those experiences basically obliterated the personal space and emotional barriers between them, and it can seem romantic from the outside, but they just understand each other. In other words a bromance.
They don't need to be lovers, they've got everything such a relationship could provide already.
(Reading)
Okay. A pleasant talk with Sunset. Smart. Clear the air.
(Reading)
What? No it’s not that cold Page. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! NO! ITS A TRAP!!!
(Reading)
ABORT!!! ABORT!!!!
(Reading)
Are they really going to...
(Reading)
SONUVA BIRCH! HIVER YOU TEASE!!!!
Your love trolling us more rabid shippers don't you? ( I CAN'T HELP IT! I just want everypone to be happy)
#no homo?
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i'd still bang my battle buddy.
adrenaline is like a force multiplayer to whats already there.
unfortunately, some folks cant handle that divide once its crossed.
So i just came up with a silly idea thats definitely not going to happen, because guardrails but I thought I should share it anyway.
*they both fall off the ledge because of laughing*
*page tries to carry sunset, cant and calls her heavy*
*sunsets like you wot mate*
*page flips them around so he will impact the ground because hes more durable then sunset (alicorn more durable than human)*
*page impacts the ground, people get the wrong idea*
*starlight asks sunset why she didn't levitate herself*
*sunset face-hoofs*
I wonder what she said that he couldn’t hear:
“Your warmer than Twilight.”
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It also could have been "Do i tell him what i feel?"
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“Oh sorry, you were rubbing weird on me. Doesn’t mean anything.”
Hiver, you’ve unleashed bith the biggest ship-wreck, or biggest ship setting sail!
It seems to me that they're both each other's heterosexual gay-friend.
...Suspicious....
THE SHIP IS READY TO SAIL, STOP MAKING IT BIGGER DAMN IT.
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While I grok where you are comming from. Your opinion is wrong
After all, love is like a forest fire and should be pasionate and raging, should spread wherever there is fuel, and should lead a trail of destruction it its wake...wait, that got weird.
I wouldn't mind friend-shipping, but I want this damn it!
(OCxHarem OTShip)
Too many mixed signals. Cadance had the right idea.
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Hence the rank of akward besties (next comes crush, then girlfriend, then lover [I hope someone gets the reference])
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Yeah, but we kinda already have that with Page's relationship with Celestia and Skitter. Not sayin'g you're wrong, just saying you're missing that.
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I really don't feel that he's as close to them as he is to Sunset. Certainly he's friends with them, but the friendship just doesn't feel as close.
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Only because we haven't had the focus on them lately. Before Page gave Celestia her little vacation we had a few scenes that were quite close-knit. And Skitter was his bodyguard who basically has agents in place to keep him safe at all times; seems pretty darn close to me.
Anyway, PageXSunset is not exactly a hill I'm going to die on, but I'm saying if it does get romantic I don't think your argument against it really holds water, at least not from that angle. If you want to argue that their behavior towards each other is not ideally romantic at this point, indicating that they're not all that interested in each other that way, you could stand on that.
Well, at least he needs to keep an open mind. He would make an excellent foal daddy for Twi and Sunset should they get together with one another. And you know Celestia is going to want a baby once Luna gets pregnant.
So either Page is going to have to do the deed, or they'll have to magically artificially inseminate. Which would totally ruin the fun.
Though, if I was Blank Page, I'd get all the Princesses together, along with Sunset, and just... explain things. That one, he was in love with Luna and she was more then enough mare for ANYONE. Two, if in the future any of them desire to have foals, and Luna consents, that he would be more then happy to donate. Being the only male Alicorn is rather important. As Twi, Celestia, and Luna will probably not be able to have foals any other way. I'd make sure to be a part of any foal's lives, but if any of them want to be a mother, who is Page, as the only male Alicorn, to deny them?
Still, I am loving this whole 'relationship chicken' that Sunset and Page are doing to one another. First one to blink, loses!
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I'm thinking twilight insists that sunset is the carrier so she has something to remember her by. Akwardness ensures.
And they wonder why everypony is getting mixed signals...
I seriously can't decide if they are just awesome friends that are having fun messing with us... or if they are so far in denial that they somehow magically displaced Egypt into Equestria...
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Im shipping them because to me its funnier and happier.
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Yes.
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Signals are very mixed indeed.
Remember. Denial always starts the relationship.
If they’re not romantically involved, they are friends with benefits at least.
But by golly — JUST DO IT LIKE RABBITS ALREADY!