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Andrew Joshua Talon


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Nov
24th
2019

Hands: Why Do you Love Me? · 5:42pm Nov 24th, 2019

One evening at Twilight's library house, Shepherd and Twilight are enjoying a nice, quiet evening of reading. Free of any drama or terror.

Twilight: "Mmm... Shepherd?"

Shepherd: "Yeah?"

Twilight: "... Why do you love me?"

Well, so much for that.

Shepherd: *blinks* "What kind of a question is that?"

Twilight: "It's an important one... To me..."

Shepherd: *sighs* "You're too good at the guilt game, you know that?"

Twilight: *Beams* "So you've told me. Many times."

Shepherd: "Okay, but why do you want to know?"

Twilight: *sighs* "... After everything we've been through lately, I guess... I guess I want to know."

Shepherd: "Okay... I love you when you're an annoying, inquisitive nerd who won't stop until she gets to the bottom of a mystery."

Twilight: *Raised eyebrow* "Really?"

Shepherd: "It's the truth. I love you because you're a brilliant, badass unicorn who's saved the world and me a lot of times... Not that I'm keeping track, of course."

Twilight: *rolls her eyes, giggles as he tickles her belly* "Hee! Of course!"

Shepherd: "I love you because you're kind, and honest, and gracious, and loyal, and fun when you let loose, or when you're studious-But that's probably because I'm a nerd too and seeing you in your science goggles is the cutest thing ever."

Twilight: "H-Hey...!"

Shepherd: "And I love how earnest you are about things that matter. How you do really care about people... Ponies... And you show it. You don't always show it right, but you try so hard. And you're brave. I can't help loving a girl who would go through all that crazy crap for everyone and everything. Especially some clumsy monkey like me." *Ear scritch*

Twilight: "Hee... Well... Those are all good reasons."

Shepherd: "All right... Since fair is fair, why do you love me?"

Twilight: "... I've been asking myself that question a lot, too."

Shepherd: *worried* "Uh..."

Twilight; "Oh no! Not-not like that! I mean... To put it into words."

Shepherd: "Oh. You kind of scared me for a second."

Twilight: "I suppose... At the start... The fact you were so unique in all the world drew me to you. The only human in Equestria, last of a long dead, legendary race. Just showed up out of nowhere, and I was there to save you. It almost felt like destiny."

Shepherd: "Okay...?"

Twilight: "And after that... Well... I mean, you were so kind, and so curious. Even being the only one, being so far from home, you asked so many questions. As many as me... Almost."

Shepherd: "Almost."

Twilight: "You loved to learn new things, and talk to ponies, and try and be useful and experience things. You were so passionate about making a difference and being more than just some strange alien victim. You were so different and yet you just dove right in! And weren't afraid to stand up to me. That kind of courage... Well, I admired that. I guess the fact you were also pretty intelligent and didn't dismiss my interests as boring also really attracted me... I guess I misread things a little though. That first night I, um..."

Shepherd: "I was just... Surprised. And terrified. You did kind of come on strong. Where did you get that dialogue, anyway? 'Take me now, my alien conqueror?'"

Twilight: *Bright blush* "... One of Rarity's romance novels. It said that you'd be so inflamed with lust you'd ummm... make me your mare and make me fat with your offspring."

Shepherd: "... Huh. I kind of wish I hadn't been such a pansy back then. You talk about me being courageous but I was mostly bluffing my way through things. I was trying hard not to think about being the only one here, and maybe never seeing my friends, family or home again."

Twilight: "But that's just it! A lot of ponies in your position would have just withdrawn entirely and hidden away. You just went out to try and make yourself a home here. Even surrounded by weird aliens, including one who may have, um... Sort of, kind of maybe almost sexually assaulted you?"

Shepherd: "... To be fair, if you'd liquored me up first I'd have been much more willing."

Twilight: "Shepherd!"

Shepherd: "Okay, okay... Sorry."

Twilight: "And finally... You get hurt so much, and yet you keep throwing yourself into helping others or trying to save us. You're such a good teacher and father figure to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Spike. You helped save the world-A world that isn't even yours. And you... You were able to spare Chrysalis. Even after everything she'd done. Even I wasn't willing to do that at the time..."

Shepherd: "... And?"

Twilight: "... I asked my mother about her relationship with Dad. And she said that true love brings out the best in the two ponies in it."

Shepherd: "Well... That would be why I spared her then. You've made me... A much better person. A better person than I ever thought I could be."

Twilight: *Nods* "And I think that's what you do for me. So... That's why I love you."

Shepherd: *Nuzzles her* "... You're not dying, are you?"

Twilight: "No! No! ... Are you?"

Shepherd: "Just of diabetes. You are way too cute, you know that?"

Twilight: *giggles* "I suppose I am..."

Sappiness concluded... For now.

Comments ( 6 )

And the entire comment section keels over from Dawwwabities... *Ack!*

Pretty cute, though not as cute as it could be and that's probably my fault a bit. Given the original premise of the fic was to parody harems and forced pairings, it does seem to have strayed from that to actually be what it was meant to be parodying. Not that that's a bad thing, its a good story. I guess reading it I had an expectation it would qt some point cease being romantic at all, or that they woukd separate and realize he was being pressured into a relationship only to reconnect with a more mutual and genuine seeming relationship. Instead as I'm rereading all the older chapters to refresh myself I find it just overlooking Andrew being forced into this, or everyone just saying "This is fine" but he still feels like he is being pressured to fufill expectations. I find myself asking, does it ever actually get resolved or do they just shrug and ignore it? If so, what chapter? Because I looking back I don't remember any real resolution on the old chapters. It just feels like its missing something without it.

That's very nice.

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