Applegate

by Flutters Is Shy


25.1: Debilitating; Rainbow Rocks (unused content)

I mean, girl can wear whatever the heck she wants, thats her perogative. She wants to wear armbands, she can darn well wear armbands. She wants to go ahead and put on a sombrerro, she can do that too. I'm just saying that as far as I'm aware, armbands aren't exactly normal sleepwear.

But again, me no know much about 'fashions' and 'stuff'.

"Why're you still wearing shoes?" Rainbow asked, being the first to notice my entrance, "Take 'em off!" she exclaimed exuberantly.

"Can't," I responded, trying to ignore the fact that ALL of them were firmly focused on me. Lucky me. "Turns out my clothes... aren't exactly 'clothes'," I shrugged, sitting down with my back against the wall. While the room was actually fairly large, it still was rather filled due to how many people had decided to stuff themselves into it. "They're more like a second skin thing that looks and acts like clothes, but isn't removable."

Unsurprisingly, my body took this exact moment to arbitrarily act on my internal thoughts. My shoes shrank before my eyes, eventually leaving me with thin ribbons that wrapped around my ankles. Why they didn't just bugger off entirely I didn't know.

"Ooooh, can you do a bit of a flourish with some lace?" Rarity cooed, before wilting under my no nonsense glare. More acurately I stared at her, and she realized I didn't know how to do whatever the heck she was talking about.

"Man, even your toenails are green? Thats hecka weird," Rainbow muttered, her observation petering off under the disaproving stares of her friends. Not my fault they were green. I didn't want them to be green. I'd like them to look like normal nails, but noooo, stupid cube powers, being all nonuser friendly.

"Seriously!" Applejack huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. "For a girl who's somehow friends with nearly every athletics club, you sure have a bad sense o' how to make friends."

"To mock ones physical appearance is quite rude," Rarity added.

"Oh lay off," Rainbow whined, gesturing towards me, "she knows I didn't mean it like that."

Again everyones gaze turned towards me, waiting for my reply.

"Meh," I flatly stated, unwilling to devote energy to this than I already had. Green skin, green nails. Haha, lets all laugh at Wade. Whatever. Well, aside from one thing... "Also, 'he'. I won't ask for much, but I'd appreciate if you referred to me in male pronouns. Regardless of the skin I'm wearing."

At that last bit more than a couple faces got a little green. Not as green as mine, but still. Guess the idea of 'wearing someone elses skin' was enough to leave most people sick.

"It's just... odd," Sunset started, simultaniously drawing everyones attention off of me and allowing me to let out a breath I hadn't been knowingly holding. "The very idea of walking around as something else isn't anything new to me," she admitted, a wave of understanding nods bobbing around her, "but to walk around as an entirely different gender? Truth be told, I never quite learned that spell during my studies in Equestria."

Twilight nodded once again, straightening out into what was quickly apparently becoming her 'lecture mode' posture. "Typically, even a full grown unicorn with years of magical study behind them wouldn't have the magical power to perform a gender shift spell, let alone power it for any length of time. It's the kind of spell the princesses wouldn't have much trouble with..." at this her expression turned sheepish, as if finally remembering that she herself was one of those princesses. "Even with my relatively newly expanded magical reserves, I'd be slightly hesitant to try to maintain such a spell. It's not the type of spell to take lightly. Which is sad, seeing as the spell itself is rather useless. Why use a spell that is so magic intensive, and will only last for a few scant moments when modern medicine can impart the same effects, permanently? If somepony wanted to change their gender they could do so safely, and relatively easily with the help of any medical professional worth their salt."

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