Character Roleplay Meme: Azalea and Twilight Sparkle · 5:11pm Oct 4th, 2014
Same deal as last time.
WHO ARE YOU? WHAT’S YOUR RACE/AGE?
Twi: I’m Twilight Sparkle, alicorn Princess of Equestria. I’m 28.
Az: Like there’s anypony out there who doesn’t know who you are at this point. We can barely go two weeks without your picture showing up in the paper.
Twi: Heh, yeah, I guess I have been a public figure for a good while now. You get used to it after five years.
Az: Five years since your coronation. You weren’t exactly unknown before that.
NOW WHO’S YOUR LOVER? WHAT’S HER AGE/RACE?
Twi: That’s actually kind of complicated. Pegasus, obviously, but age is trickier.
Az: Depending on how you count, I’m some combination of 22, 37, and 6. All us former changelings have the same problem. But hey, three birthdays a year!
Twi: You might think she’s kidding, but we actually do celebrate two different ones. You’re so spoiled.
Az: Rotten. And you wouldn’t have it any other way, would you?
Twi: Never in a million years.
Az: They’re really more like half-birthdays, though. All the friends and family I knew back in Trottingham celebrate the one from the pony I used to be, but here in Ponyville we have a different one. Pinkie really goes all out, but then there’s quite a few of us who consider it our ‘official’ birthday.
Twi: The first few years I was pretty down on it, but as time goes by I find I’m glad that it didn’t just end up being the anniversary of the changeling invasion. Better to have happy memories associated with it than bad ones.
WHAT MAKES YOUR LOVER SO SPECIAL?
Az: Geez, what doesn’t? I hit the jackpot when I landed her. To think I nearly sabotaged the whole thing for myself by psyching myself into believing she’d never look twice at a pony as bland and ordinary as me.
Twi: There’s nothing bland about you. If anything you’re even more special than I am. There are four Princesses, but there’s only one pony who can calm me down when I get a little manic the way you can.
HAVE YOU EVER DOUBTED YOUR LOVER?
Az: I had a really hard time believing she was actually interested in me. And there have been times when she pushed me out of my comfort zone that I thought she was just completely crazy. Which she is.
Twi: Hey!
Az: In good ways, dear.
Twi: Hmph. Well I guess that’s alright then.
Az: Mostly good.
Twi: Anyway, after we got off to that rocky start there were definitely things I hesitated about confiding in her.
Az: That was partly my own doing, considering how I reacted the first time you dumped something big on me. And it’s not like I wasn’t hiding stuff from you at the time myself.
Twi: That was probably for the best, all things considered. If you’d mentioned your past on the first date there wouldn’t have been a second one. I was still an eensy bit of a bigot toward changelings at the time. You should have seen my right after I broke out of the loop.
Az: Yes, Butterscotch told me about the dinner with your parents where you nearly tore his head off.
Twi: Not my finest moment.
Az: Should we change the subject? Because it sounds like the moral of this story is ‘if you’re a racist and lie to your special somepony, you’ll end up ascending to be a Princess and fall in love.’
Twi: I’m not saying that! Bite your tongue or Press Release will have my head. He already lectured me for an hour about what would and wouldn’t be appropriate to say for this interview.
Az: I can see the headline now: ‘An interview with Princess Sparkle and the six-year-old who impregnated her.’
Twi: Don’t use that headline. In fact, don’t even write that... you’ve already written it down haven’t you?
Az: On the plus side, if there’s a coup and you get overthrown I’ll finally have you all to myself.
DID YOU EVER USE PICKUP LINES ON YOUR LOVER? IF SO, WHICH ONES?
Twi: We actually met on a blind date, so it wasn’t really necessary.
Az: Oh really? I seem to recall somepony trying to get me to come into her library with ‘Want to see if we can extrapolate this trend line?’
Twi: I can’t believe you remember that.
Az: I remember every second of that night like it was yesterday. Every one.
Twi: Well, I seem to recall being told that I ‘really knew how to make a mare all wet.’
Az: We were in a lake at the time, for context. Oh, and of course we do have pet names for one another. Isn’t that right, water walker?
Twi: Absolutely, grounding wire.
WHAT’S THE MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT YOU’VE EVER HAD WITH YOUR LOVER?
Az: Remember the time Cloud Kicker almost walked in on us ‘assembling a bookshelf?’
Twi: I try very hard not to. What about the marriage proposal that ended up with both of us in the lake? Again.
Az: I’m not letting you change the subject that easily. Of course, it’s a good thing Cloudy wasn’t a few minutes later or she’d have stumbled on me calling you ‘Darkness Nightsha—’
Twi: Next question, please.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN WAITING UNTIL AFTER AFTER MARRIAGE TO HAVE SEX?
Az: Nope.
Twi: Very nope.
DO YOU HAVE ANY DESIRES YOU’D LIKE TO TRY WITH YOUR LOVER? IF SO, WHAT?
Twi: Most ponies have heard that in the months after the Regalia melted I started eating a ton of food to fuel the ascension process. What’s not as well known is that wasn’t the only... uh... enhanced appetite I experienced. Most of the fantasies got checked off the list pretty quickly.
Az: That’s not a figure of speech. There’s an actual checklist she keeps in her nightstand. Me, I’m just looking forward to her not being fat anymore.
Twi: I didn’t complain when you were the pregnant one, you know.
Az: If you’re ever looking for new ideas, I’m sure Cloudy could suggest a few.
Twi: I don’t know, she’s mellowed quite a bit since she got promoted into Rainbow Dash’s old job.
Az: Maybe not as much as you’d think. My cousin has stories that are definitely not appropriate to print in the paper. They get up to things you wouldn’t believe.
DO YOU KNOW YOUR LOVER’S WEAK SPOT? DO THEY KNOW YOURS?
Az: Twilight here has a history of freaking out a little bit when she thinks somepony she cares about might be in trouble. She tends to make some rash decisions, and she can get a little controlling. Like the time she tried to have me thrown in the dungeon.
Twi: What did you expect? I’m hundreds of miles away negotiating trade arrangements with a pack of Diamond Dogs when I get a letter telling me you, Rarity, Cloudy, Morning Glow, and Shooting Star are heading out to the edge of the freaking Badlands to look for a changeling nest.
Az: They needed a guide who knew what to look for. You weren’t there; Rarity would have gone out there all by herself, the state she was in at the time. I can promise you Princess Celestia wasn’t thrilled about the idea either.
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU FIND YOUR LOVER WITH ANOTHER MARE? HOW WOULD YOU INTERPRET THAT? FAMILIAR? FRIEND? CHEATING?
Twi: There were definitely some jealous pangs for a couple of months whenever you hung out with Cloud Kicker, especially since you two used to date.
Az: That was a whole other life, and I wouldn’t exactly call it dating. More of a very sensual interrogation.
Twi: To be fair, though, you’ve never been the biggest fan of Star Gazer.
Az: That’s different. First of all, she hurt you pretty badly back then. Second, you two were married.
Twi: If it’s in an alternate timeline, it doesn’t count.
Az: I guess I should just be happy you came back with less baggage than some of your friends after all that. For all I know they could have gone and turned you straight or something.
ANY FANTASIES WITH YOUR LOVER? PERVY ANSWERS ALLOWED.
Twi: Like I said, we’ve experimented pretty liberally already.
Az: Actually, after what you’ve told me I’ve always been a little curious about Princess Luna. Maybe she’d be up for some excitement once Star Swirl finally kicks the bucket.
Twi: Azalea! That’s a terrible thing to say. I know you aren’t his biggest fan, but he really is a genius.
Az: He’s a jerk.
Twi: Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Az: We’ve never really seen eye to eye, and he made a heck of a first impression that morning in the marketplace.
EVER HAVE FIGHTS?
Twi: Now and then. Lately over what I’m allowed and not allowed to do while I’m pregnant. And she says I’m the controlling one.
Az: You are the controlling one. And it’s not unreasonable to forbid somepony in your state from jumping into a freaking volcano looking for a magic eggbeater.
Twi: Spatula.
Az: Whatever. But there have been others. The first conversation we had after I ran out on her because of the changeling venom thing was probably the biggest one.
Twi: Yeah, any fight that ends with accepting a date from another mare out of spite is a bad one. Although if I’d known what Algae Bloom was like I wouldn’t have.
Az: Turned out just fine in the end, though.
Twi: I guess. In hindsight, I wish I’d handled that whole debacle myself instead of dumping it on Cloud Kicker. Maybe things would have turned out differently and I wouldn’t have had to throw Rainbow Dash in jail a few months later.
Az: It was only for a few weeks. And she did kind of bring it on herself. The whole Applejack thing had her pretty out of control for a while there.
Twi: Or what about the time you nearly took my head off because I leased your shop?
Az: Oh, I was furious. That whole Badlands trip had just put me through the ringer physically and emotionally, and then I get back and you basically dictate to me that I have to move in with you and start putting money towards rent payments I had never agreed to make?
Twi: I didn’t tell you that you had to move in with me. I just calculated the financial implications of a number of different possible scenarios is all. But I’ll admit that you running off like that did make me want to sort of tie you down in Ponyville. I was really scared.
Az: Welcome to my life! You think I never worry about you when you do exactly the same thing? But I really did almost break up with you right then and there. Thank goodness for Bon Bon.
Twi: Yeah, I’m glad she was there to defuse it like that. Although I do feel bad that it spoiled the surprise she’d been working so hard on.
Az: Lyra said yes anyway, which is all that really matters in the end. I’m sure she was annoyed at the time, but someday it’ll just be a funny story that they can tell their daughter.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR LOVER’S FAMILY? DO YOU KNOW THEM?
Twi: They’re great! It’s quite the extended clan, and they were all really warm and welcoming the first time we met. Although I wasn’t exactly the center of attention on that trip.
Az: Yeah, my parents pretty much fell in love with her the minute they found out about us. Then again, bringing their child back from the dead goes a long way towards winning their approval.
Twi: You hit it off with my parents pretty quickly too.
Az: The one pony that I was most nervous about winning over was Celestia, actually. Being invited for a three-hour private tea with a mare who you clobbered in the back of the head with a baseball bat before she casually flung you out a window on your last encounter made my heart skip a few beats.
Twi: I was most nervous for when she found out you had been a changeling once. Then of course it turns out she knew that since before I’d even met you.
Az: The rest of them were a cakewalk by comparison, and we get along great. Cadance was one of our bridesmaids, and even talked me down from a minor panic attack on the wedding day. Best sister-in-law ever.
SPEAKING OF FAMILIES, DO YOU WANT TO START ONE TOGETHER?
Twi: Way ahead of you. In fact, we’re about to expand it from three to four.
Az: We decided to keep the sex and race a surprise this time, although I know my parents would be thrilled to have an earth pony for a grandchild. Not that they don’t love Leafy horn and all, but my extended family definitely leans in that direction.
Twi: Based on the how hard he kicks, I think there’s a good chance they’ll get there wish. Oof.
Az: You’ll get no sympathy from me. Try having something with a pointy, stubby horn on its forehead squeezed through your birth canal, then we’ll talk.
WE’RE FINISHED, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW?
Twi: I have some paperwork I should really finish.
Az: Before you do, feel like grabbing something to eat?
Twi: Do you even have to ask? I ate three hours ago and I’m already starving again. Deli?
Az: You read my mind. Dibs on your pickle.
Very fun read. It's nice to see Twi and Azalea again, their characters are really nicely defined.
2506296 Agreed. Plus, I like how this this described Az's relationship with CK:
I don't think that I've ever put those two concepts together, but it works.
You should have seen my right after I broke out of the loop.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN WAITING UNTIL AFTER AFTER MARRIAGE TO HAVE SEX?
This make me want to reread the trilogy all over again.
Either im not remembering things to well or you expanded on the story a little in this interview.
I really enjoyed this.
Now when does Cloud Kickers perspective on this story get an update??
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Yeah, there's a lot of things referenced here that are planned for future chapter of Changing Lives.
I was going to say that I just updated that story, but I checked and couldn't believe it's been over a month now. Better get cracking!
That was awesome! Made me laugh several times. Had a video playing in my head with the two sitting side by side jabbering at each other xD
Are you planning to wirte some of the stuff mentioned down into another story?
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There are a good half-dozen events referenced here that I'll be using in future chapters of Changing Lives eventually.
Such a nice pair, makes me wanna re-read the trilogy.
2506476 Oh, good. I was pretty happy nodding to most of the Timeloop ref. Then got kinda 'oh noes! I'm missing all kinda story here.' Guess it's time to catch up with CL.
Yes, I like this :D It's a great read.
This is adorable.
Yay :D
...the list of Eakin I need to reread never stops from getting longer...
2506476 Good to hear! New chapters are always welcome.
I finally got my girlfriend to read the trilogy. But then it backfired on me... She pulled an all-nighter last night powering through all three and now, well... I think you can imagine....
Oh god yes WE GET TWO!
Moral of the time loop trilogy:
Twi and Az still feel real and loving and fun, living a full life from the most insane dating experience either could possibly have. I admit I'd really love to see how Az's family reunion went, or how Celestia politely interrogated the shapeshifting spy girlfriend of her beloved student, but maybe both are best left to the imagination.
Mostly I just adore that they're still clearly in love.
Dawww~
Can't believe nobody's yet commented on:
Azalea Prime, Changeling and Azalea 2.0, in that order, I'm guessing?
(I imagine that the two they're celebrating don't include the Changeling one.)
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Was that even canon?
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Right on both counts, age wise. As for the bookshelf, I actually posted a link to a future scene in the Changing Lives comments, but I'm not sure how many people actually noticed it.
And the spatula is totally canon. Maybe not the little vignette in my shorts collection about what happened when Luna and Celestia went to retrieve it, but it does exist in some form or another.
2506393 So I take it the RD in jail thing and the trip to the badlands are also teasers towards future chapters of changing lives? Or did I miss a story that is part of the time-loop-verse? (I have read the trilogy, the Reign, and Changing Lives as far as it currently exists)
Either way: ARGH SPOILERS!!
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Changing Lives stuff. She does a thing based on emotion that probably could have been handled better but isn't morally indefensible.