Student and Teacher, Servant and Mistress, Citizen and Ruler, Friend and...Lover?
by Fuzzyfurvert
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“Twilight? Can you hear me from over there?”
Twilight nodded as she flipped the page of the spell book in front of her. “I can hear you perfectly. I still don’t see anything in Starswirl’s notes about this sort of outcome. The spell matrices I used might have been fundamentally flawed somehow.”
“Oh come now, Twilight. You know as well as I do that your spell work is among the finest Equestria has ever known.” Celestia smiled and bounced up and down gently, testing the surface under her hooves. “Besides, the spell is degrading quickly. You don’t have to create a counter when I’ll be back to normal in short order.”
Twilight snorted. “Hehehe...’short order’ she says.”
“You know what I mean.”
“Yeah...still, I’m really sorry about what happened.” Twilight looked back over her shoulder at Celestia. “I mean, it’s my first time on the job as your official Mystic Theurge and I messed up. I know it’s temporary, but still!”
“Pish-posh. Mistakes are simply opportunities to learn. Haven’t I taught you that?” Celestia waved her hoof dismissively.
Twilight nodded again. “Yes….aaaanndd that I should run if the mistake involves flammable or corrosive chemicals.”
“Safety first!” Celestis called out in a sing-song voice.
“You do seem oddly nonplussed by the situation.”
“Live as long as I have and you will find it hard to get worked up over small things.” Celestia grinned as that pulled another giggle out of Twilight. They drifted into a comfortable silence after that, Twilight reading as she lay there with Starswirl’s notes, Celestia feeling her way around.
After a few minutes, Celestia spoke up again. “Twilight?”
“Yes?”
“Have I ever sung you the song of my people?”
“What? Twilight raised an eyebrow and looked back at where Celestia, all one inch tall’s worth of the mighty alicorn, stood on the peak of Twilight’s left butt cheek.
"My anaconda don’t want none
unless you got nice buns, hun!
I like big butts
and I can’t lie…"
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Actually, doesn't "nonplussed" mean "bewildered" or something along those lines?
I think Twilight is trying to say that Celestia is pretty unfazed by her current situation, but by using the word nonplussed she's actually saying that Celestia is bewildered by it.
I hate that word :/
People keep using it as a way to say "unimpressed, unfazed" etc when all the sources I recall having looked at insist that's not what it means at all.
THAT PIECE OF NITPICKING ASIDE... This was pretty humorous.
5362479 It's an informal usage.
5362479
What 5362488 said. Here in the southern US, that is how I have always encountered it being used: as an almost curious lack of surprise or reaction to a situation.
Weird regional evolution of language. The original meaning is British in origin and more likely than not, some jackenape idiot here misused it and then taught that flip flopped meaning to others, OR, they flip flopped it as a linguistic middle finger back at the mother country.
Additionally, here, I don't hear it pronounced 'non-plussed', it's 'non-pulsed'. Cuz, regional accents. I had to search for a good couple of minutes when I wrote that to find the actual spelling.
5362689 Sounds plausible enough. Thanks for the explanation.
I was slightly disapointed this was not about Twilight doing ass math about Celestia or vice versa (e.g Twilight writes a paper proving Celestia's arse is the best objectivly using math) , the title assmatician made it sound like a portmanteau of ass and mathmatician.
Still totally worth it for the end joke though.
5363259
It's actually the start of a series that does indeed involve math and ass and the mass of the ass and numbers that make it awesome. More will be forthcoming in the collab.
You know...you almost cost me my laptop with that last line, author. I just took Celestia's voice and imagined her trying to sing that song. I almost sent my soda to places other than my stomach.
Ah-heh-heh, it's like imagining the Queen of England trying to sing something like that!
Twilight accidentally shrinks Celestia, so Celestia stands on Twilight's purple butt and sings.
...'Kay.