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....
Adorable
Based
Fabulous
Rainbow, you absolute disaster
You're joking, right? Please say you're joking.
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.
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 have no problem believing this is how they got together and it is now my head cannon.