So... Flutters, Rainbow or Sunset? I'd like to say Fluttershy due to the build up and Rainbow being too squicked by it, but that fowardness is rare on her.
And am I the only one that thinks that Sunset doesn't give a damn to preference norms due to ponyness is more interesting than otherwise?
9452541 I'd agree with you... except the behavior of the girl in question screams more Rainbow, then Fluttershy. Confident(though that could be explained away with the sex high), somewhat agressive(see previous addendum, with possible different sex based persona), and the last bit with the wings. The last one really nudges it in Rainbow's direction for me. Powerful beat of wings? Sexing in the air? That strikes me as a Rainbow move, more then Fluttershy. Now, it could be Sunset, as she checks some of the same boxes, but the mid air coitus is just such a Rainbow move that I doubt it.
9452541 Don't forget Twilight. She too has wings. But I too would say Fluttershy, mostly because: 1) she took his number 2) she's one of the most physically gifted in this story
He kept one hand on her shapely hip and kneaded her supple breast with the other.
9452576 I refuse to believe she continues to lack wings even after the Friendship Games ascension!!
9452614 Agreed with 3 in special, but dunno, I was expecting some reversal. But Mythril most likely never decided who it was and wants to keep the possibilites open, the meanie!
9452625 So does that mean everything after Friendship Games is non-canon to you? Because every time she ponied up in those specials, it was only the ears and hair extension.
Hmm... Rainbow, Flutters, or Twilight.... those three only have wings but judging from the dialogue and the lack of stutters, I'd say most definitely Rainbow Dash
9453184 Yeah. She's gone from being the School Bully to the School Pariah to a Literal Untouchable. Literal Untouchables are a rare breed of girl in that only one in like 125 girls count--she's that one girl who is so incredibly perfect that she's out of EVERYONE'S league, even the preppiest, most popular jocks. So nobody even tries asking her out, because she's obviously going to say no, right?
That's gotta be Fluttershy. The clues point to it being her.
1. Ponies up: Well, we know for a fact it's one of the Human 7. They're the only ones at CHS that do that.
2. Wings: Well, there's only three options, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle. This narrows it down a bit.
3. Well endowed: Fluttershy is definitely on the bigger end when it comes to her rack when it comes to the Human 7. Certainly moreso than Dash and Sci-Twi.
4. Motive: Of the girls that weren't instantly put off by him, friendly about it, and actually took down his info into their phones, only Fluttershy is the one that matches the description of the girl depicted. Pinkie Pie is indeed pretty well endowed herself, but she does not gain wings when ponying up.
Assuming this is a Fair Play Mystery (yeah yeah, I'm well aware of the perils of the word 'assume'), all of the clues point only to Fluttershy. The personality shift is accounted for in canon extensively, and is extrapolated here logically when a girl is in a sexual encounter she's enjoying (shy girls very much become more outgoing, energetic, and aggressive when they're having sexy times). None of the other girls have wings when they pony up (including Sunset Shimmer, despite however much you think she deserves them by now or whatever; she wasn't an alicorn either time we see her return to Equestria and her native pony form) except Rainbow Dash and Sci-Twi, and neither of them showed interest.
If it weren't for the mention of wings, then I'd be more inclined to say this was Pinkie Pie in the end.
Chance came off seeming creepy to me. Not because he asked nicely for sex (well, not so much that). But because he cares too much about popularity:
He mentioned that the cheerleader he want to the prom with was popular (as if that mattered). And he wants to be friends with the Mane 7, because they're the most popular girls in school.
That's sounds really shallow. And really problematic.
9455937 He likes to take his chances and go for the brass ring. His name reflects that. It's less that he cares about popularity and more that he likes going big.
Eh. Wanting to have sex with the most beautiful women around, I get that. But wanting to be friends with the most popular women around, if he would see that as part of "going big": That still seems problematic to me.
If he had some piratical reason for wanting to be friends with the popular women (like hoping a well-connected friend could find him a woman who wants sex), that would be a different matter.
But if so: He shouldn't have said “I've heard you girls are the most popular bunch here, I wouldn't mind just hanging out sometime”. That implies that he wants popular friends, for the sake of having popular friends (or as part of “going big”). And if I'm one of the popular girls: That's really going to make me think twice, before pursuing a friendship with him.
9456206 Counterpoint: He has less than a year at this school and it's his last year of high school. If he's NOT making popular friends to raise his own game so he can have a decent senior year, why bother at all?
9456308 Forgive me if it seems like I'm missing the obvious. That said:
I'll agree that having friends will make his year more decent. But what does popularity have to do with it? How does a popular friend make his year more decent, then a non-popular friend?
9456320 What draws more iron filings to it: a weak 50 cent bar magnet you get out of a gum machine, or a meticulously crafted electromagnet?
It's called networking. If you hang out with popular people, you become more popular. Then more people want to get to know you, and more people hang out with you. As adults, we can reflect on friendship and high school and have the wisdom to see that WHO are friends are, deep down, is more important than how popular they are or how many friends we have.
But when you're in the jungle that is high school, fighting over scraps like hyenas, the popularity totem pole is everything to anyone who ISN'T at the top of it.
The Rainbooms ARE the top of it. So they don't CARE. Everyone else though? Is scrambling up that pole trying to find a place to hang on.
9456441 I was actually in a weird zone in all the highschools I was in. I had tons of female friends, was generally well liked. But didn't care about popularity, or who was cool or not. I was just generally friendly to everyone; hustling my peers for cash (in the form of doing guaranteed grades for writing assignments (that they needed to copy in their writing) for money, hooking up people who were good at something with those that needed X service; selling relatively cheap products for upcost that was popular with my classmates; homemade booze); and was able to ease into the jocks, deliquents, hackers, drama clique, and others easily.
But yeah, moved around alot like Chance (22 different schools in my life). But never really paid attention to the popularity totem in the jungle. I simply was myself (which is exactly like I am online). Although I don't know if having lots of female friends who were of multiple different cliques, same classman and upper classman means I was popular or not.
9456441 Interesting point. I guess I was never the typical teen.
There's something to be said for having a friend who's good at networking. A group of friends is basically a team. A good team will have different members, with different skill-sets. Networking is certainly a valid skill.
But the teenage obsession with “popularity”, that's something else. Something childish and shallow. If I'm one of “the popular girls”: I wouldn't want to be a scrap that gets fought over by a bunch of overgrown children. That's a scary thought, frankly. And someone who sees me as a scrap to be fought over, he's a creep!
Call me old-fashioned. But I think people in their teens and 20s should be young adults, not overgrown children. As a teenager, I always expected a basic level of maturity from my friends. And I got it. There are quite a few teens (and 20-somethings) out there, who really are young adults. And I think that's a second set of teens who don't see “popularity” everything: Young adults.
So, in conclusion: What would really make Chance's year better, is if he grew up and appreciated the magic of friendship. Instead of being an overgrown boy, fighting over scraps of "popularity" like a hyena.
Nice chapter, but I sincerely think that it would have been better if you stopped without including the wings. That way it would leave the possibility of it being any of the girls with him.
I'm putting my bet on One of the twilight's. Cause, pony twilight has wings, not 100 percent sure on human twilight though, can't remember if she has wings or not.
My vote is Fluttershy. We've already seen from a lot of your works that she's a bit of a naughty girl behind the shyness, and she WAS the only one to defend him. AND she took his number.
I'd guess "Wondercolts do it right" was memetic in-universe even pre-Princess Twilight. So, sure.
Why do so many people assume we'd recognize the student in question? The entire plan was to proposition as much of the student body as possible as quickly as possible, magic's continuing to slowly spread around, ponying up for the first time seems like a weaker and less committed approximation of getting your cutie mark, and statistically somewhere in the Canterlot High School there probably at least one girl whose most notable talent (at least right now, among the occupations and recreations available to a human high school student) is going to be sexual. And the Humane Seven are mostly only finding out about the expressions of magic which are public and/or causing problems. There could be lots going on at CHS they haven't noticed yet and that's been off-camera for us.
So... Flutters, Rainbow or Sunset? I'd like to say Fluttershy due to the build up and Rainbow being too squicked by it, but that fowardness is rare on her.
And am I the only one that thinks that Sunset doesn't give a damn to preference norms due to ponyness is more interesting than otherwise?
Heh. I thought he was going to end up with all of them.
9452541
Sunset doesn't have wings when she ponies up. Can't be her.
....I thought Flutters was too shy.
9452541
I'd agree with you... except the behavior of the girl in question screams more Rainbow, then Fluttershy. Confident(though that could be explained away with the sex high), somewhat agressive(see previous addendum, with possible different sex based persona), and the last bit with the wings. The last one really nudges it in Rainbow's direction for me. Powerful beat of wings? Sexing in the air? That strikes me as a Rainbow move, more then Fluttershy. Now, it could be Sunset, as she checks some of the same boxes, but the mid air coitus is just such a Rainbow move that I doubt it.
9452541
Don't forget Twilight. She too has wings. But I too would say Fluttershy, mostly because:
1) she took his number
2) she's one of the most physically gifted in this story
3) the shy one is always a pervert
9452576
I refuse to believe she continues to lack wings even after the Friendship Games ascension!!
9452614
Agreed with 3 in special, but dunno, I was expecting some reversal. But Mythril most likely never decided who it was and wants to keep the possibilites open, the meanie!
Either Fluttershy or Rainbow since they got feather wings unless Sunset finally got the Alicorn upgrade to her pony-up form.
9452625
So does that mean everything after Friendship Games is non-canon to you? Because every time she ponied up in those specials, it was only the ears and hair extension.
>when you're trying to join the mile high club but she's afraid of heights, so you get the three foot club instead
Also, definitely "yay".
9452625
What 9452649 said.
... definitely Fluttershy.
9452649
9452674
Our Most Holy Bacon Horse scoffs at the notion that insignificant trifles such as mere canon should limit her magnificence!!!
Being serious though I didn't see those, I only read the fanfics, so I didn't know. Sunny should have wings though, imho.
9452758
Don't worry, the majority of the fandom, myself included, feel Sunset should have wings by this point.
Fluttershy. Dash was too "Bah, another fucking Zephyr" and Fluttershy was saying he wasn't and was the first to add his number
Sunset has best reason.
9452580
She's also the only one we see add Chance's number to her phone, and the first one to defend him.
9452625
Nah, I know exactly who it is. I'm just leaving it open-ended specifically for the kind of discussion going on right now.
9452832
Will it be revealed in the future?
9452758
if i remember right Sunset's pony up form in friendship games has ethereal wings
9452847
Nope! Suffer, peons. Muahahahaha.
9452856
Daydream Shimmer is a one-off and doesn't count. Every time she's ponied up since it's been a regular pony-up.
9452580
Fluttershy puts the "I" in "Hentai".
9452871
i haven't seen any EQG stuff sense friendship games
bacon horse should have wings tho she earned them
I want to agree its Flutters but the girls talking at the end was far to...direct for the shyest of them all
Ironic thing about it is that Zephyr has only been creeping on one girl throughout all realities so far. Even Spike has a more wandering eye!
And here I was expecting him to end up with one of the Crusaders.
9452871
You're evil, EEEEEEEEVIL I SAY!!!!
Interesting. Nice guy, too, being upfront about it. Shame he jumped into the deep-end of the crazy school.
I was kind of hoping for more Fluttershy/Zephyr scenes, but this is fun too.
Funny you are all assuming it has to be one of the main 7. He very well could have talked to others afterwords.
9453003
And how many girls at CHS outside of the Rainbooms can pony up and grow wings?
Long as they don't discovered p**tang pie.
Hmmmmmm....
So, that final scene.
One of the Human 7 who has wings decided to take him up on his offer. Now, the question is, who is it?
*Dons a deerstalker cap and pulls out a magnifying glass*
*As Sherlock Holmes*: The game is afoot.
Hmm... Rainbow, Flutters, or Twilight.... those three only have wings but judging from the dialogue and the lack of stutters, I'd say most definitely Rainbow Dash
It's kind of sad for Sunset? I mean nobody even trying is kind of depressing.
9453092
Woops I forgot which story this was and confused this with a story where everybody gaining Pony up powers was a plot point.
9453184
Yeah. She's gone from being the School Bully to the School Pariah to a Literal Untouchable. Literal Untouchables are a rare breed of girl in that only one in like 125 girls count--she's that one girl who is so incredibly perfect that she's out of EVERYONE'S league, even the preppiest, most popular jocks. So nobody even tries asking her out, because she's obviously going to say no, right?
That's gotta be Fluttershy. The clues point to it being her.
1. Ponies up: Well, we know for a fact it's one of the Human 7. They're the only ones at CHS that do that.
2. Wings: Well, there's only three options, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle. This narrows it down a bit.
3. Well endowed: Fluttershy is definitely on the bigger end when it comes to her rack when it comes to the Human 7. Certainly moreso than Dash and Sci-Twi.
4. Motive: Of the girls that weren't instantly put off by him, friendly about it, and actually took down his info into their phones, only Fluttershy is the one that matches the description of the girl depicted. Pinkie Pie is indeed pretty well endowed herself, but she does not gain wings when ponying up.
Assuming this is a Fair Play Mystery (yeah yeah, I'm well aware of the perils of the word 'assume'), all of the clues point only to Fluttershy. The personality shift is accounted for in canon extensively, and is extrapolated here logically when a girl is in a sexual encounter she's enjoying (shy girls very much become more outgoing, energetic, and aggressive when they're having sexy times). None of the other girls have wings when they pony up (including Sunset Shimmer, despite however much you think she deserves them by now or whatever; she wasn't an alicorn either time we see her return to Equestria and her native pony form) except Rainbow Dash and Sci-Twi, and neither of them showed interest.
If it weren't for the mention of wings, then I'd be more inclined to say this was Pinkie Pie in the end.
Damn that's great. Very nice work!
Chance came off seeming creepy to me. Not because he asked nicely for sex (well, not so much that). But because he cares too much about popularity:
He mentioned that the cheerleader he want to the prom with was popular (as if that mattered). And he wants to be friends with the Mane 7, because they're the most popular girls in school.
That's sounds really shallow. And really problematic.
9455937
He likes to take his chances and go for the brass ring. His name reflects that. It's less that he cares about popularity and more that he likes going big.
Eh. Wanting to have sex with the most beautiful women around, I get that. But wanting to be friends with the most popular women around, if he would see that as part of "going big": That still seems problematic to me.
If he had some piratical reason for wanting to be friends with the popular women (like hoping a well-connected friend could find him a woman who wants sex), that would be a different matter.
But if so: He shouldn't have said “I've heard you girls are the most popular bunch here, I wouldn't mind just hanging out sometime”. That implies that he wants popular friends, for the sake of having popular friends (or as part of “going big”). And if I'm one of the popular girls: That's really going to make me think twice, before pursuing a friendship with him.
9456206
Counterpoint: He has less than a year at this school and it's his last year of high school. If he's NOT making popular friends to raise his own game so he can have a decent senior year, why bother at all?
9456308
Forgive me if it seems like I'm missing the obvious. That said:
I'll agree that having friends will make his year more decent. But what does popularity have to do with it? How does a popular friend make his year more decent, then a non-popular friend?
9456320
What draws more iron filings to it: a weak 50 cent bar magnet you get out of a gum machine, or a meticulously crafted electromagnet?
It's called networking. If you hang out with popular people, you become more popular. Then more people want to get to know you, and more people hang out with you. As adults, we can reflect on friendship and high school and have the wisdom to see that WHO are friends are, deep down, is more important than how popular they are or how many friends we have.
But when you're in the jungle that is high school, fighting over scraps like hyenas, the popularity totem pole is everything to anyone who ISN'T at the top of it.
The Rainbooms ARE the top of it. So they don't CARE. Everyone else though? Is scrambling up that pole trying to find a place to hang on.
9456441
I was actually in a weird zone in all the highschools I was in. I had tons of female friends, was generally well liked. But didn't care about popularity, or who was cool or not. I was just generally friendly to everyone; hustling my peers for cash (in the form of doing guaranteed grades for writing assignments (that they needed to copy in their writing) for money, hooking up people who were good at something with those that needed X service; selling relatively cheap products for upcost that was popular with my classmates; homemade booze); and was able to ease into the jocks, deliquents, hackers, drama clique, and others easily.
But yeah, moved around alot like Chance (22 different schools in my life). But never really paid attention to the popularity totem in the jungle. I simply was myself (which is exactly like I am online). Although I don't know if having lots of female friends who were of multiple different cliques, same classman and upper classman means I was popular or not.
9456441
Interesting point. I guess I was never the typical teen.
There's something to be said for having a friend who's good at networking. A group of friends is basically a team. A good team will have different members, with different skill-sets. Networking is certainly a valid skill.
But the teenage obsession with “popularity”, that's something else. Something childish and shallow. If I'm one of “the popular girls”: I wouldn't want to be a scrap that gets fought over by a bunch of overgrown children. That's a scary thought, frankly. And someone who sees me as a scrap to be fought over, he's a creep!
Call me old-fashioned. But I think people in their teens and 20s should be young adults, not overgrown children. As a teenager, I always expected a basic level of maturity from my friends. And I got it. There are quite a few teens (and 20-somethings) out there, who really are young adults. And I think that's a second set of teens who don't see “popularity” everything: Young adults.
So, in conclusion: What would really make Chance's year better, is if he grew up and appreciated the magic of friendship. Instead of being an overgrown boy, fighting over scraps of "popularity" like a hyena.
Nice chapter, but I sincerely think that it would have been better if you stopped without including the wings. That way it would leave the possibility of it being any of the girls with him.
I'm putting my bet on One of the twilight's. Cause, pony twilight has wings, not 100 percent sure on human twilight though, can't remember if she has wings or not.
EVIL!!!! YOU ARE EVIL FOR THAT ENDING!!!
EVIL I SAY!!!!!!!
My vote is Fluttershy. We've already seen from a lot of your works that she's a bit of a naughty girl behind the shyness, and she WAS the only one to defend him. AND she took his number.
I'd guess "Wondercolts do it right" was memetic in-universe even pre-Princess Twilight. So, sure.
Why do so many people assume we'd recognize the student in question? The entire plan was to proposition as much of the student body as possible as quickly as possible, magic's continuing to slowly spread around, ponying up for the first time seems like a weaker and less committed approximation of getting your cutie mark, and statistically somewhere in the Canterlot High School there probably at least one girl whose most notable talent (at least right now, among the occupations and recreations available to a human high school student) is going to be sexual. And the Humane Seven are mostly only finding out about the expressions of magic which are public and/or causing problems. There could be lots going on at CHS they haven't noticed yet and that's been off-camera for us.