Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab

by Foals Errand


Citizen by lyra_lover777 (sad)

by lyra_lover777

Twilight looked down into the blood red coffin, tears streaking down her face as she stared at the body inside. It was pastel yellow, its mane golden rod with swirls of blue. The dead pony's name, scribbled on cards and in front of innumerable flower bouquets said "Carrier Kane." The pony's flank adorned a picture of a newspaper.

Only Twilight knew the pony's real name, or what she actually looked like.

It was Chrysalis.

The pony wasn't even female like Chrysalis. It was a hunky stallion, but Twilight didn't care. When they were alone, she changed back to herself.
Or had, anyways.

President Celestia, Twilight's adopted aunt, trotted over to her grieving niece. She nuzzled Twilight softly while a single tear streaked down her face, Celestia wiped it and rubbed her eyes to persuade the tear's kin to stay locked away in her eyes.

"K-kane. Wh-hy did you ha-have to le-leave?" Twilight asked before burrowing her face in her aunt's swirling mane, sobbing her heart out as Celestia nuzzled her softly.

Soon everyone sat down in over thirty rows of seats. Celestia and Luna, who was Vice President, sat on Twilight's right side. Twilight's family and a few changeling drones disguised as Carrier Kane's family sat to her left.

Twilight watched as various ponies stood behind a podium and gave short speeches about Kane. Twilight had no idea who they were. Probably work friend's of Chrysalis.

But Twilight watched as the last work friend, the pony before her turn to tell about the life of her late wife/husband, took the podium. He had a gray coat with a white fur spot where his cutie mark was, which was a band-aid with two hearts around it. His purple and blue mane, styled so it stuck up in the air around his horn, shone in the artificial light of the room.

"I am Aidan Aide. I worked closely with Kane for many years. He invested in my hospital while I placed ads all around my city and throughout my hospital. i even named a wing of the hospital after him."

Twilight slumped as a tear trickled down her face. Just another boring story. But then it began to pick up.

"But the thing about Kane was that he wasn't just like any other old business stallion. He wasn't uptight and afraid of manual labor. He couldn't care less if he spilled coffee all over his suit on his way to a meeting. And the funny thing is nopony else really cared either."

Twilight almost smirked. Sounded quite like Chrysalis, all right.

"Kane was different. A good different. He was so much like you and me that he could be mistaken for an everyday civilian. A Citizen. A Citizen Kane."

Twilight looked up into the eyes of Aidan while everypony around her clopped their hooves together. He smiled sadly at her.

Citizen Kane. Twilight thought as she began to trot up to the podium to read her speech.

Citizen Kane.