It's been a few months since Twilight Sparkle moved into the palace of her wife-to-be, the lovely Equestrian Princess Rarity.
Things are going well for the young sphinx, she feels that she is finally settling into her new home.
Little does she know that her peace is about to be shattered by the most unusual conversation. Just what about her paws does Rarity find so fascinating?
Takes place in Earthsong and Monochromatic's Raritwi Arranged Marriaged!AU, which can be found HERE!
Cover art by the talented Nonchalant
Edit: It's been featured?? WOO! 11/18/19
Chapters (3)
loved this lol...
This was super cute, and a great follow-up to The Sphinx's Riddle. Really nice to see Twilight getting more comfortable with Rarity and her family.
This was really cute.
...wait... what...?
Without a doubt this is among the best bean-related content on the site.
....im noy sure but... I think I just learned something here...
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Need something clarified?
Been hoping for some more of this AU and this did not disapoint.
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I HEARD THAT
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Toe beans!
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BEANS
Beans...!
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>among
You're fiiiine.
the BCU is something in its own right. But this? Maybe I'm biased cause it was fun to do coverart for this, but it could also just be that Raritwi is a greater force even than beans.
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…I will concede that point.
Raritwi is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
I like this, it's cute.
This has far fewer dick jokes than I expect in bean related content.
Beanis confirm?
Hoof butts are now a thing!
Hrm
Flashbacking to Irrespective stories
great story hope you do more in this AU.
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Don't tempt me.
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why not
Before I read this, I must know: Why does every chapter title have "bean" in it?
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It is not a beanis story, nor does it involve the food bean. Simply read and find out
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B e a n o s
BEANS
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Paw nuzzles AND hoof kisses? So saucy. Very silly and adorable fic!!
Lingo, you have provided precious SphinxAU content. Unfortunately, that now means the brainworms will be targeting you.
BEANS!
How did they even get engaged if this was a big advance in their relationship?
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Reading more into the AU will answer that. It's called "Arranged Marriage" for a reason. They are both from different countries, it's a political marriage.
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Oh, I didn't see that part of the note at the head. I guess that covers THAT
:D beanies!
Maybe it's just me but I'm very confused right now beans am I missing something?
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=toebeans
BEANS
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Any questions?
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Oh ok I get it now yeah that went right over my head thanks for the explanation
My paw obsession is happy
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I'm glad you like!
I really have to question the terminology here. Perhaps I’m to literal minded.
Odd yet, ridiculously cute. Sums up this beanifully story nicely, I think~
This fic is amazing!! I’ve always loved monos sphinx fic so ive wished for more. Thank you
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Thank you! I've got a sequel in the pipeline.
Is that a JoJ- Enchanted Library reference?
Leave it to Rarity to reference a RariTwi fic while talking to her fiance Twilight.
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This!
I love this!
Feels so natural!
This sort of shit happens in real life!
Ambient noise drowns out the person in front of you!
In movies, it's sometimes annoying that people in noisy scenes can perfectly hear each other! Conversations in a single engine propeller plane or helicopter are hard because of how noisy they are, and so you need the headphones plugged into the aircraft just to talk to the person adjacent to you.
In movies, there's scenes of characters talking to the pilot of a helicopter flying 5 feet away, and they understand each other clearly.
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You have NO IDEA how starved I've been for Sphinx Twilight Arranged Marriage content!
Here I thought I was lucky to trip over this fic and get a taste of a good AU.
NOW you (semi)recently say you're developing a sequel?!
This is a good day indeed!
I forsee Queen Rarity casually brushing her wife's lion/Sphinx/kirin mane while conducting day court.
Sitting on her throne, and talking with subjects in her throne room, and brushing her wife.
Brush manufacturers will put in bids to make the new brush set.
Important people trying to butter up the Queen will gift the couple with bejeweled brushes.
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YES. You get it.
It's frightfully realistic, and I personally hate asking someone to repeat themselves when what they're saying gets obscured, I'd rather just go with it and hope for the best.
Also, to be honest, this was a bit of a cop out on my part, as Rarity's canon parent names are just... really not regal sounding. So I nabbed a page from the Fairly Odd Parents playbook of How to Comically Avoid Revealing a Characters Name and used a "Sound-Effect Bleep".
This granted me the freedom to have the Canon name stay intact, but as a fond nickname instead. I felt that it meshed better with the AU than having the Queen's name have been "Princess Cookie Crumbles" before she took the throne.
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