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Trans rights, baby. She/her

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Rainbow Dash has a day off, and isn't sure how to spend it. When she flies by Fluttershy's cottage, she ends up running into Fluttershy's brother, Zephyr Breeze. The two have a heart to heart, and Rainbow asks Zephyr on a date.

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This is the only way that lunch date could conceivably happen without death being for dessert.

Just, for your ear drums Zeph, don't ask yes-or-no questions very often....

Rainbow just felt this kinda queasy feeling whenever the two of them tried to spend time together. Queasy wasn’t the right word, probably, but it was good enough

Rarity would want to talk about their friends, and Rainbow would have to explain why she’s been avoiding Applejack, which she couldn’t do

“Wait, marefriend? Zephyr, Fluttershy has never had a marefriend.”

Adorable

”She’s asexual you dork!”

Based

”And I know I’ve got looks like this and this” he said, striking poses

Fabulous

“You ask this mare out for lunch or something?”

Rainbow, you absolute disaster

who would go to a gay mane stylist

You're joking, right? Please say you're joking.

“I bet I could be a better marefriend than her.”

Dawww

Leaned into stereotypes, and it worked for what the story was doing. RD's self-awareness felt like a pleasant subversion of them. I feel like the tummy flutters mystery was there to set expectations just to make the competition line work better, and the bit about avoiding explaining why she was avoiding AJ supported either way it could have ended up. Great story.

This story turned out so much better than I was expecting. :twilightsmile:

I enjoyed it.

Wait, so did she ask out zephyr or applejack?

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In the story? Technically she asks Zephyr to attend a double date, but she plans on asking out Applejack in the next few minutes to be her date/marefriend

“I’ve had a rivalry with Applejack for forever. I bet I could be a better marefriend than her.”

I have no problem believing this is how they got together and it is now my head cannon.

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