Autumn Blaze could hardly believe her luck when she was chosen to be the first ever kirin ambassador to Equestria. She didn’t know much about ambassadorship but she was going to do her best to represent the interests of the kirin who had sent her, especially since she’d be meeting with Equestria’s newest and most popular princess: Princess Twilight. She wasn’t sure what to expect upon arriving in Ponyville and heading to Twilight’s castle, but she most certainly wasn’t expecting to be placed into something thick, white and poofy that hugged her rump. “Is this a pillow? I didn’t know you wear pillows on your butt,” She blinked in confusion. “Is that a fashion trend for ponies? Is it part of some sort of costume?”
Twilight fought back a blush as she explained to her guest/ambassador. “Er… no… This is… well… a diaper.”
“A diaper? What’s a diaper? Why do I have to wear one? Do all guests have to wear them when they first visit Equestria or something?” Autumn pondered aloud. “Oh, I have so many questions. I knew I should’ve written to you before coming here, but I was just so excited.”
“Yeah, I can tell,” Twilight commented with a nervous giggle as she led the kirin inside. “A-anyway, diapers aren’t usually necessary for visitors from outside of Equestria but... well… We don’t really know much about kirin.”
“Oh, you mean like what we like to do for fun? Or what our favorite foods are? Or how we tell each other apart? Things like that?” Autumn Blaze guessed while poking at her diaper. “You know, this is so weird but this diaper is so comfortable. I just love how it compresses when you poke at it. I wish I knew how to describe that sound it makes.”
Twilight let out a sigh. “It’s called a crinkle. And if you want to know why you’re wearing that diaper, it’s because we don’t know about how kirin…” She coughed into a hoof. “Relieve themselves so to speak.”
The young kirin blinked in confusion. “You mean like the kind of relieved you feel after you’ve eaten too much or drunk too much and your tummy feels all funny.”
Twilight nodded. “Exactly, Autumn Blaze. And since we don’t know how kirin do ‘that’, I had to take precautions. I even enchanted this diaper so you can’t burn it off if you get angry.”
“Why would I want to burn it off?” Autumn asked. “I don’t mind wearing it. It’s so comfortable.”
“I guess you kirin don’t really do diapers or anything like that,” Twilight realized. “Do you just sort of go wherever you want whenever you want, or are there designated spots to do that stuff?”
Autumn Blaze answered. “Designated spots. Then we just wash off in streams afterwards. Sometimes, we get very long lines for the potty pits.” Then she pondered. “Speaking of which, do you have any around here?”
“Well, no. We have something a bit more sophisticated.” Twilight explained. “We called them bathrooms.”
“Bathrooms?” The kirin asked. “What are those?”
“Follow me and I’ll show you.” The young princess said.
Autumn Blaze followed Twilight down a long hallway, past several doors that all looked the same. But they eventually stopped in front of one of those doors which was then opened and she was escorted inside. Then the lights flickered on as the young kirin beheld a room unlike anything she had seen before. It had tiled floors that were cool to the touch, a few cabinets next to a basin with a nozzle and knobs hanging over it, and some kind of box shaped object with an overhead sprayer.
But the most interesting thing of all (at least in Autumn’s mind) was a tall, white bowl shaped object with a lid, a round seat, and a wide rectangle shaped object that was attached to the back which features a small metal ramp shaped object placed on the upper left side. “What’s this?” She wondered and pointed to the object.
“This is a toilet,” Twilight declared. “This is what most ponies use when they have to answer nature’s call as it was. Some ponies use something less sophisticated, and some don’t even use toilets at all.”
Autumn Blaze trotted towards the toilet and inspected the inside of the bowl. She could see that it was partly full of crystal clear water as well as a small hole of some kind. “How does it work? How do I use it?” She inquired, more worried about messing up somehow than anything to do with how it operated.
“It helps if you take off your diaper,” Twilight couldn’t help but giggle. “Then you just sit on the seat to do whatever you need to do, if anything. And after that, well… let’s just wait and see first. You may not have to go. I honestly thought that I wouldn’t have to do this again until I had foals.”
The kirin found it hard to take off her diaper. She felt embarrassed when Twilight had to pull it down for her and basically turn her around when she climbed onto the toilet seat backwards. “Not that way. You’re supposed to sit with your back against the lid,” And she sighed. “ It’s like teaching Spike all over again.”
“Who’s Spike?” Autumn wondered as she subsequently sat on the toilet seat, her legs dangling over the sides of the toilet bowl. Even though she was about the same size as this unusual device she couldn’t help but feel small. And compared to how she’d been acting earlier she clammed up, almost as if she’d never been cured of the Stream of Silence’s effect on her.
“He’s a dragon as well as my number one assistant.” Twilight answered, trotting a ways away and had turned her head (even going so far as to use her wings to cover her eyes) so as to give her guest at least the illusion of privacy. As it was if the bathroom had become a new Stream of Silence for both, no one said or did anything.
At last, Autumn Blaze felt her tail hike upward as something moved inside of her. And before she knew it, she heard a few plops and splashes. Those were the kind of sounds that even in her silent years she’d never mistaken, especially not with the accompanying smell. “Wow! I… I did it! I used a pony toilet!” She excitedly declared. “Oh, I’m so smart I amaze even myself!”
The kirin then started flailing about until she saw something metal. “What does this metal thing do?” She asked, reaching one of her limbs out and pressing it down.
Suddenly, Autumn Blaze found her words being drowned out by something much louder! When she looked down into the bowl, she saw her waste swept up by a dizzying whirlpool and was sucked down through a hole with the rapidly spinning water following afterwards! The bowl didn’t stay empty for long, the water soon returned and was sparkling clean.
“It’s okay, it’s nothing to be afraid of. That’s just the flush cycle that you triggered by accident,” Twilight giggled to the young kirin. “Now you just need to wipe up, flush again and then wash your hooves in the sink. As long as you can do all of that you won’t need to wear a diaper around the castle, or anywhere in Equestria for that matter.”
“Well, it was pretty cool aside from that loud noise. And I think that’s just because I wasn’t expecting it,” Autumn Blaze said with a blush before she got an idea! “Hey, do you think it’d be possible to bring toilets to the kirin? I don’t think my words or plays could describe how they work.”
Twilight nervously commented. “I don’t know. Actual toilets might be a little too much to ask for. But maybe we could use something a little more ‘old fashioned’, like say chamber pots. But I’ll explain what those are later.”
“Okay, but tell me one other thing,” Autumn Blaze demanded. “How exactly does the whole flush thing work? Where does it all go? It has to go somewhere, right?”
At that Twilight held her nose and made a gag face. “Trust me, you’re better off not knowing.”