You wake up fully rested and eager to seize the day... in the early evening, and it's finally stopped raining. Everyone around you are still sort of hibernating through the crappy weather, so you decide to do your host a favor by making dinner for everyone. After a refreshing shower, you tiptoe your way to the pantry and dig a plateful of seeds out of a sack to fill in the feeders for the birds, along with some strawberries, grapes, apples and oranges to slice into a large bowl of fruit salad for the bigger animals(mainly rodents, and of course the pony). Preparing all of this takes about ten minutes of your times total. And everyone's still snoring. You roll your eyes and sneak back to your cot, making sure not to step on Sweetheart's wings and hooves, all splayed about. For a creature obsessed with being as inconspicuous as possible, she has somehow covered over half of your bear-sized cot. You sit down against the brick wall of the oven and can't help, but sneak a peek at the cute pegasus as she sleeps, her usually tidy pink mane frizzy and running down her face.
There was something comforting in the idea that even though these creatures clearly matched you in intelligence, they still possessed certain animalistic properties, such as enhanced loyalty to those they've claimed as one of their own and a far more intricate usage of body language. They certainly had a knack for making you feel wanted, even cared for. During that brief moment when Luna had done that... weird Vulcan mind meld thing with you, you'd even sensed it, that herd mentality, the need to stay close and support one another. Even their shepherds, the Princesses, were not alone. It was a far cry from the human pack mentality of judging one's value based on one's abilities and capacity to benefit themselves.
Only now you realised that Luna must've been able to sense your perpective as well. Hoo boy. You must've come across like the ultimate ass. Wait, no... these guys got reptiles as their butlers. What am I saying? They're probably trying to domesticate the shit outta me. "Doing a pretty good job too." You say out loud and poke Sweetheart on the nose, causing her to sniff a couple of times before smacking her mouth. "Wakey-wakey, Sweetheart. Dinner time." No reaction.
Time to bring out the heavy artillery. Without further ado, you place your hands on her sides and start running your fingers over her barrel in rapid fashion. Immediately, Sweetheart lets out an involuntary snicker in her sleep and starts kicking aimlessly with her hind hooves. You can't resist also poking at her usually slicked down chest tuft and puffing it up a little, making the little pony look even more crazed. Finally, her eyes snap open and she sits up straight so fast that you were worried about her spine. A crushed bunny drops out of her wings and staggers away.
Sweetheart blinks and then focuses on you. She squints. You gulp.
...
With a flap of her wings, the pegasus springs towards you before you can even twitch and latches herself onto you, gripping your neck with one hoof and rubbing the top of your head with the other. In short, she's giving you the noogie of your life and judging from the quiet, excited neighs, she's probably also giving an Oscarworthy maniacal speech. You let her have her moment of victory, but then she freezes, and only her ears twitch and turn towards the door.
Then you hear it too. Quiet whinnying sounds and the very gentlest of knocks on the door. Sweetheart quickly releases her hold on you and flies in front of the wall mirror. The bunny, already on the move, grabs a brush from the bathroom and tosses it to you. You quickly run it through Sweetheart's mane and do your best to correct the damage sleep has done to her whilst the pegasus checks her wings and then looks back towards you expectantly. You turn to the bunny, who stands ready with pencil and paper.
"Wings-check-mane-check-chest tuft..." you whisper as the bunny checks everything off the list. "-now check. Okay, she's good."
5 seconds after hearing the knocking, Sweetheart slowly opens the door in perfect condition to reveal a grim-looking Apple Buttocks and a cheerful-looking pink filly you've never seen before. To your surprise, this one actually has one of those strange butt tattoos. You've been wondering about those. Do they get them after a rite of passage or something? In any case, the filly makes an O-face as she looks up to you. She soon snaps out of it though, and whinnies something to Sweetheart, pointing at you. The pegasus bites her lip, considering something. This is followed by sharp neighing from Apple Buttocks, who seems to give you the evil eye, though you've no idea why(note to self: pears are the way to go from now on). Meek as ever in the presence of anyone outside of the ones living in her cottage, Sweetheart takes a step behind you and then pokes at your back with her snout, pushing you forward.
The pink filly snaps onto your hand with her teeth, though not enough to hurt you and start pulling you out of the cottage. As you are dragged away, you look back towards home with an uncertain look, but Apple Buttocks shuts the door behind you with her tree-smashing legs. Yikes. You are almost happy now that you don't understand them as it meant avoiding whatever beef is going on entirely. Playing with a filly instead seems far preferable, yep.
She really is a cute widdle thing though, with her mane of orchid purple dashed with white and that delightful, tiny gem-encrusted tiara perfectly perched on her head. The only thing that gives you pause really is the ferocity in those piercing blue eyes, as if getting you to where you are going is her absolute goal in life at this moment.
It turns out, that place of universal importance is the town's playground, which you'd pointedly avoided until now so as not to frighten any parents or heck, the kids themselves. The little filly, on the other hand, has no compunctions over leading you straight in. You see her wave her hoof at another fancy-looking filly with a pearl necklace, grey fur and a fine, silvery braided mane. Also glasses. You didn't even know ponies could wear those. The filly with the spoon tattoo waves back and trots nearer to bump butts together with the pink filly in some girly secret handshake thing, before pointing at you and winking for some reason.
As if their minds were made up on something, they both turn to look directly at you with identical lidded smirks, knowing full well you have no idea what just transpired.
Danger, danger, Will Robinson...
What the heck are DT and SS gonna do with the human at the playground in the evening? I appreciate the fact that the language barrier is keeping we the audience almost as clueless as the protagonist, but I really have to question how this is happened.
He's helped out Twilight, AJ, and Fluttershy... Did DT or Filthy pay somepony to get their hooves on him? Did Apple Bloom do something to DT and now AB has to share the human with her to make up for it? Do they see him as the new town stray/mascot and they're just gonna pass him around to feed, hang out with, and have him do chores?
This is quite the cliffhanger.
why DT was with aj, i have no clue. and why aj is mad, im even more clueless. it seemed to start when he paid for an apple, but that hardly seems like something to be mad about... maybe she thinks fluttershy is making him do shopping or something? but even then, thats illogical. hope to find out more m8!
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"cliffhanger"
In some of the stories I'm reading they left off on empires falling, powers reveled, loves confessed, litteraly a character hanging of a cliff.
How can these be cliffhangers and you be absolutely right?
I need closure, author please update soon and thank you for bothering.
Danger evacuate danger evacuate danger evacuate
So... I looked up what he was sleeping on... Is it really a Baby Crib?
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd imagine DT is there to adopt him, and this was somehow set up by Applejack. I don't entirely know what her problem with the human is, maybe the whole thing with the bits upset her cause "it thinks it's people." Whatever the case, I look forward to seeing how this goes.
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No! It's just a round mat! Think something like this, but bear-sized
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At first, I thought Applejack just got put out that he appeared to be insistent on paying for something she seemed to be trying to give him as a gift. Maybe at worst she felt like he wasn't accepting her as a friend, since giving little gifts is something friends just do in Equestria?
But now there's this thing with Diamond Tiara and I've got no idea what's up with that. But this is when the CMC are blank flanks and thus DT is still presumably a spoiled brat, so it's probably going to go badly, if not end badly.
Wow, thats more then a handful of ways this is all potentially going wrong. Suspected of thivery? Insulting kindness? Sold as a pet? Made to work?
I can't call this, so well done on keeping it ambiguious :)
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A doggy bed
Why can’t he have a real human bed?
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He'd have to take two pony sized beds and nail them end-to-end to equal a human sized one. Lacking that, a sufficiently long mat and matching blanket to roll up during the day would do as well (Japanese style "efficency" bed).
I still have no idea what the devious duo want with him. It can't be good.
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can you do this on a human bed?
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I hope they realise he's a person like one of their many sentient, non-pet races.
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They kinda already do, it's just difficult for them to see it that way just as our protagonist is trying his best to not just cuddle all the tiny ponies.
Plus, he doesn't really mind.
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Lol
love the story.
I would like a chapter from Fluttershy point of view or any of the main 6 and princesses.
danger will robinson indeed, this can't end well
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heh heh
I think that is the problem; all the ponies are treating him like he is sentient (capable of feeling) and not sapient (capable of discerning).
Tongue-in-cheek difference between sentient and sapient:
Awww, no more chapters.
Looks like Anon needs an adult.
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I am considering that. Right now, I like having the narrative play out purely from the protagonist's POV and having a more unusual perspective of Equestria. I fear that having a chapter from the ponies' side at the moment would kind of break that immersion.
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Looking at the Mirror Test, some individuals in the elephant species, a couple species of birds, a single species of fish, dolphins, and some others are candidates for sapience: the trouble is how sapience is defined. While looking up sapient species, I found that there is a water bear (tardigrade) that has "sapiens" in its name, but I can't find any reason why it's called that.
This was a really good story and I'm looking forward to more great chapters.
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Oh boy, here we go...
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What in the heck did Anonymous accidentally do
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Knowing those two? It's probably something he DIDN'T do
And think, "Ahhh shit!"
Got to love the Dynamic Fluttershy and non magic Monkey have...
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Damn! Sooo true! Magnificent how well you hit it!
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Truth be told, I can hate the Batman show's Joker. That guy was an ass to Harley, moreso than usual