Meanwhile, in a world not dissimilar to the one our protagonist has found herself in, barring the lack of humans and odd presence of horses, a being with an identical mental state opens his eyes.
Little does he realize, the author has done even less planning than usual, and thus his life will be even more of mess than our alpha hero. This beta protagonist's political beliefs are still pure evil, and his devotion to the ideals of capitalism and false anarchism is unshaken. Indeed, this may be a darker timeline, despite the brighter world and kinder denizens. Said denizens being adorable and generally benevolent diminutive horses, or "ponies", as they have repeatedly asked the beta protagonist to refer to them.
Additionally, the beta protagonist is himself a diminutive horse. A physically female one, with an odd rose insignia branded upon his rear. Unlike the alpha hero, however, he refuses to allow any outside sources to alter his mind, for better or worse. This character is truly a bastion of resolve and grit, and his determination to stay true to what he believes is admirable, even if his views on economics are morally bankrupt.
To further solidify the differences between our two focal points, the beta character is, despite being the same age as his alpha counterpart, not enrolled in any sort of education, as is the norm for the diminutive equines who are not small children. This beta character has considered attending a school, if only to irritate the social norms of the horse creatures, who he despises, on some primal level. He suspects, however, that they'd just accept it, and thus he does nothing.
Anyways, the author decides to simply refer to this character as Beta, for the sake of not having to think up even more titles for the characters. Beta has just opened his eyes, and politely waited for the author to finish with the exposition dump, before getting out of his bed. That, or he is attempting to sleep in and is thoroughly annoyed by the narration. Of course, that depends on whether or not Beta is aware of the narrative. The author cannot decide, so she may make his awareness inconsistent with itself.
Beta rolls onto his side, and groans, partially from fatigue, and partially to embellish the fatigue for the sake of the reader. After a few minutes of mindless gazing at the opposite wall, he rolls over again, and lands on all four hooves beside his bed. Beta then picks up his glasses, and balances them carefully upon his muzzle. He doesn't actually need glasses, this form has excellent visual acuity. However, he wanted to wear glasses, and so he does.
The narrative skips over Beta's morning routine, as the writer feels it would be terribly boring to write out, barring a single scene, which is transcribed after she stops rambling about how she plans to write the scene.
Beta steps briefly onto the front doorstep of his house to grab a newspaper, grimacing briefly as a neighbour greets him with the name "Roseluck". He has suspicions that that is the name of this body, but he doesn't dwell on it, taking the newspaper in his mouth and returning to the comfort and safety of his dimly-lit house.
The newspaper rambles on about a multitude of topics that serve no real purpose for exposition, nor do they much interest the author to write about. Towards the end, however, mentions a growing interest in magical universe travel. Though Beta doesn't realize this yet, the concept of magical universe travel will never really be expanded beyond a macguffin to allow him to travel to the human world and encounter his other half, Roseluck.
The author tires of writing this intermission, and stops.