Chapter 1: An Unwelcome Discovery
Discord
Discord was in an unusually-happy mood that morning.
He knew that it might seem surprising to those who knew him only as a merry spirit of Chaos Incarnate, prone to play his mischievous tricks far and wide -- at least that's what he thought it meant when Ponies screamed, often dropping whatever they were holding at the time, and ran in doors, or into the forest, or the nearest handy caverns, whenever they saw him. An unwillingness to join in the fun, or something like that. However, that at least implied that they knew he was all about fun. That he must seem to everypony to be a rather happy and carefree sort of fellow.
But there was one Pony he knew who was almost always willing to join in the fun. As long as he didn't hurt anypony, that was. And it wasn't as if he wanted to hurt any ponies any more. He'd promised not to, after all. To her. And he especially didn't feel like hurting any ponies any more. Especially not when he was with her.
She was a Pony, and how could he possibly want to hurt any of the same species that had produced her?
So he stepped in that direction indescribable to most Ponies -- only one could see it clearly, and that particular Pony lived with her family in South Dunnich, some fifty miles from where he was going -- and toward Fluttershy's parlor. Or that was going to be where he was going, except at the last moment he decided to step into her bedroom, because that would be a much more fun thing to do. Either she'd still be asleep, in which case he'd do something spectacular to wake her up, or more likely she'd be downstairs in her kitchen and then he could dramatically fly down into her parlor.
One step, and he was there. "Surprise," he started to say ...
The first thing he noticed was that, while Fluttershy was in bed, she wasn't asleep.
The second thing he noticed was that, while Fluttershy was in bed, she wasn't alone.
She was not exactly in flagrante delicto. But the presence of the head of what was indubitably a stallion (and a remarkably large one at that) on the pillow next to her, the rumpled condition of the bed-clothes, and a very strong smell of sweat and sex in the room made it very obvious that he had avoided catching her in that position by a matter of mere minutes.
That and the look of extreme shock on both their faces, and fear on the stallion's face the moment he realized just who had abruptly appeared in the bedroom of his inamorata. The guilt that a moment later flashed onto Fluttershy's face made it obvious, if all the other evidence had been inadequate, exactly what had just happened.
He started to make a move forward, and Fluttershy's expression shifted instantly. Determination blazed in her eyes.
"Discord, no! Don't hurt him!" she said, and behind it was the force of her Stare, and so of course he could not act as he had intended and turn her prince back into a frog. That was a classic transformation, one of his favorites. He dimly wondered through the sick sense of betrayal, how she could just do that to him.
Stupid bugs, he thought sourly. Where'd they get the power to do that? Then he remembered. Oh yes. Possibly not my best decision ...
But it was not just some stupid bug, it was Fluttershy -- his Fluttershy, or so he had thought, whom he'd also considered his friend, who had done this to him. And how did she even know that would work? he wondered. The last time she'd tried to use the Stare on him, he'd pretended to immunity.
Either she'd figured out later just what had really happened, or she'd just been that worried about her lover's well-being that she'd tried it without even considering that it might not save him. The depths of emotional intimacy and attraction the latter interpretation implied depressed him further.
Fluttershy snapped the Stare closed, turned toward the stallion.
"Bulk, you have to go," she told him in a low, calm voice. "Now," she added, when he hung indecisive.
"But I ... what if he tries to hurt you?" he asked her in a voice that seemed ridiculously childlike, despite its breathy gruffness. Concern was plain on his exceedingly-ugly face.
"He won't," Fluttershy assured him. "And if he wanted to --" she lowered her eyes sadly, "-- you couldn't stop him. Now go."
"But ..." Bulk said again, clearly torn between the desire to protect his mate and the desire to obey her.
"Now!" insisted Fluttershy. The Stare flickered briefly, and he cowered back. Tangling himself in the bedclothes as he did, Bulk -- with an exceedingly unhappy look -- bolted out of the room and down the stairs.
She turned back to look at him, unafraid.
You forgot to tell me not to hurt you, Discord thought darkly. Old desires stirred within him, old habits churned beneath his greater emotional numbness. Did you forget? Or are you just assuming that I won't, because I'm your friend?
In his mind, which was very great though very disorganized, the pieces of what amounted to a weapon clicked into place. Energies rose within him. Realities prepared to warp, to turn Fluttershy into something physically-incapable of Staring at him ... but he couldn't do it.
It wasn't the old geas she'd put on him months ago -- that had long since worn off, as was inevitable when cast against a being at his level of power. It was, alas, exactly what she'd been counting on.
He couldn't hurt her ... because he still saw her as his friend.
Despite everything, he still loved her.
With a howl of inchoate rage that shook the whole cottage, created a flock of a bird species which had been extinct for ten million years, and triggered an unplanned deluge of iced tea over a random part of the Everfree Forest, he stepped back home, leaving that accursed bedroom far behind him.
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Bulk
Bulk Biceps tumbled out of Fluttershy's front door, uncertain of where to go next. Without really thinking about it, he galloped down the lane leading from her doorstep across her wide front yard. cutting corners on her twisty path up the low hill, across the little bridge, toward the gate opening on the main road. Running was the best plan he had available ... for now.
Bulk was not the most brilliant of Ponies, but he was smarter than he looked. Which, admittedly, wasn't all that difficult to achieve, since he looked like a mindless slab of muscle in roughly equine form. He knew exactly why Discord might have been so upset to find him in bed with ... for a moment, he almost lost track of his thoughts in utter worship of the wondrousness that was Fluttershy, the sweetness and beauty that she had privileged him to so intimately know ... well, yeah. Fluttershy had told him that she and Discord weren't involved that way, but he knew how guys thought. Being one himself.
And, for all his brief bravado, he knew that there was no way he could fight Discord. He remembered the Day of Madness three years ago, a day he'd spent being chased all over town by a swarm of creatures that looked like butterflies but had appetites and teeth that no butterfly naturally born had ever owned. That was something Discord had done to him by way of idle amusement, no hard feelings. What wouldn't the Twister do to someone who he caught in bed with ... momentary distraction, forced down by combined willpower and fear .. somepony he thought was his mare?
Yeah. And not the happy kind of "yeah" either.
He was running away, leaving her -- his Goddess -- alone with that monster. Even though she said he wouldn't hurt her. Because, in the end, Bulk had no choice. He was just an ordinary Pegasus, caught in a clash of divine forces.
For all his size and muscles, at that moment Bulk felt very small.
The next moment he felt very surprised. Because as he reached the gate, a familiar pink mare had popped up from behind a wooden gate that surely must have been way too small to conceal her. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen her approaching along the road, either.
"Hi Bulk!" Pinkie Pie said with her usual squeaky good cheer. "We gotta get you to safety!"
"Yeah," said Bulk, galloping back toward Ponyville, Pinkie easily keeping pace with him despite the fact that she was bouncing rather than properly galloping, and doing it backward, "that's what I'm doin' now." He generally liked Pinkie -- it was generally impossible not to like Pinkie, annoying as she so often was -- but this didn't seem like a good time for a party.
"No, silly!" said Pinkie. "That's not safety! Discord'll look for you there first!
Bulk slowed and stopped. The crazy pink filly -- he had never really perceived Pinkie as a mare, even though he had once heard that she was only a year younger than his goddess Fluttershy -- actually had a point. "Where's safety?" he asked, not unreasonably.
Pinkie spoke a set of syllables that did not sound like they could possibly have come from any equine throat, then cocked an ear as if listening for a reply. Her whole body seemed to tremble. She smiled in mad glee.
"There's safety," she said, as the very air in front of them shimmered and in a circle opened to show a very different landscape, some sort of hilly woodlands with oddly-regular mountains in the background, on which the Sun seemed to be shining at a different angle, judging by the positions of the shadows.
"Twister's on his tail!" shouted Pinkie into the circle of altered vision, though Bulk could see no one on the other side to whom she might be speaking. Wait ... was something distorting the view? Bulk leaned forward, tried to see more clearly ...
Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Bulk screamed like a little girl as three invisible, wet tentacles wrapped themselves around his middle and both forelegs. He struggled, but the tentacles were tremendously muscular, their owner far stronger than himself.
They began dragging him toward that changed circle of air.
"Thanks, Claire-Bear!" Pinkie said. She grinned madly at Bulk himself. "Say 'hi' from me to Inkie and Blinkie when you meet them! And I hope you like rocks!"
"Aieee!!!" shrieked Bulk as he was pulled into the portal.
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Pinkie
"Nice fella," commented Pinkie to herself, aloud.. "A good sport. He was friendly on the trip. I can see why Fluttershy likes him.
"But boy, is he excitable!" The last word was almost a happy cry, her voice pushing the upper registers of the Pony hearing range.
"Oh well," she said. "He's not my colt-friend." Pinkie smiled, perhaps somewhat more goofily than was usual even for herself, at the thought of the very special stallion she'd met just this August, who wasn't quite yet her colt-friend but whom she very much suspected might assume that role in her life.
Pinkie Pie was 23 years old, an age at which many mares were betrothed or even married, yet it had only been this year that she had noticed herself looking at stallions in a strange and exciting new way. Not mere marehood and mild sexual attraction -- that change had come to her a decade past -- but the thought that, maybe, one of them might be The One with whom she could be happy for the rest of their days.
It had seemed impossible to her for so long -- she was a Daughter of Paradise, and a very unusual one at that, and she hadn't seen how anypony could really understand her. There were Ponies she really liked, whom she felt she might be tolerably content with -- her fifth cousin Big Mac was one pretty awesome guy, and really kind and caring under his 'I'm-a-big-tough-stallion-who-feels-no-pain-not-even-when-I-get-an-ouchie' manner. And she knew that in one worldline they'd actually gotten married, and seemed to have really loved each other -- she was kind of glad that the details of that were hazy, or they might have broken her heart to contemplate. So she'd thought about him a little that way -- but he didn't really have her own sense of fun. Nopony did, which was the problem.
Then -- well then Cheese Sandwich had blown into town. And he was fascinating and annoying and enraging and -- absolutely wonderful. With those dreamy green eyes and that wild long curly brown mane so much like a darker version of her own, that manic energy which meant he could actually keep pace with her, that quick mind, that warm heart, that sense of humor and ... and he was linked to Paradise! Just like her! Even though he wasn't a Child of Paradise, for Paradise told her that it had sired no Sons ...
She didn't totally understand him. Even Paradise didn't totally understand him, and it was older than this Cycle of the World and had all the secret knowledge of the Age of Wonders plus everything it and its Ponies had thought about for three thousand years stored within its self. But she didn't have to totally understand him, because there was a part of Pinkie Pie, a part of her soul that had never opened or been touched before, that was now blossoming and wanted very, very much to be touched. By him.
Pinkie was glad that she'd refused all the offers she'd gotten over the years from other stallions. And some mares. Offers from the few who wanted her despite the fact that everything other than her body was telling them that she was an immature filly, too young to mate. Those weren't usually the nicest kind of Ponies, anyway, and most of the time they were making these offers because they had a serious and fundamental misunderstanding about the function of a "party pony," much like those meanies Aloe and Lotus sometimes had to toss out of their spa did about the nature of their profession. They were not whorses -- and neither was Pinkie.
So it would be Cheese. She'd already decided in her heart, though of course she wouldn't let him know right off the bat. And she was glad that Cheese would be the first -- hopefully the only -- Pony she would give herself to. It would be much funnier that way. And much sweeter.
She sighed happily. She loved sweet things. Then, she remembered the problem at hand.
Let's see ... Bulk's safe now, once he realizes Claire and the Flappies aren't going to eat him, and he stops screaming, Granny can tell him he's in her wards and Dissy can't get in there without trying real hard. And Dissy's lazy -- never woulda liked living on our farm! Well, I didn't like it that much either -- but that was mostly because it was boring ... I'm super-okay with hard work, as long as it's fun ...
She supposed she could have sent him to the Crystal Empire instead. Its Crystal Heart was the original model for Granny's wards, and it was much stronger. But then making Gates was Claire's Talent, not Pinkie's, and if Granny thought Bulk needed to be in the Crystal Empire, Claire could send him there. No point second-guessing Granny, Pinkie decided. She's one big smartie-Pie, she thought to herself, then snorted appreciatively at her own joke.
I should go check on Fluttershy, Pinkie decided. She's prolly kinda frownie right now, and nopony puts a smile on somepony's face like me! A possible problem occurred to her, and she tasted the probabilities. Oh, Dissy's gonna be gone a while, he's gotta get in touch with his innner self! So Fluttershy it is!
She smiled happily, bouncing toward Fluttershy's house, glad to be alive on such a lovely autumn morning. Sbe spared one last thought for Discord.
I really hope his inner self can talk some sense into him!
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Yay!! New story!!
I like this!
Poor Discord.
Discord, you poor Draqonecuus, you... Great story, though!
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Poor Discord, indeed. What, no sympathy for Bulk?
I mean, maybe he's a waffle stealer, but it's more like the waffles were offered to him with love. And he really cares about the cook ...
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Jordan writing a Discord story...
Oh, this is gonna be good.
"Flappies" plural, huh? It'll be interesting to see how that works out.
I quite like the pairings. Flutterbulk is always strangely adorable, and Cheesepie is the best kind of reality-warping romance. That you're drawing inspiration from Scoots2's work is very encouraging. And then, of course, there's the fact that Fluttershy feels confident enough to allow herself to be loved.
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(I especially like that not even Paradise itself knows what the crap is going on with Cheese Sandwich. Even shiny, happy Yog-Sothoth is stumped.
In any case, looking forward to more.
I am inwardly screaming with delight. And awww. Thanks!
I know my first thought was "Bulk? BULK? Seriously?" But he's on my list of plausible ships, isn't he, and handsome is as handsome does, and the heart has raisins that the raisins don't understand and all that. I can actually see why Flutters might pick him out: for all his size, Bulk is incredibly safe. He's kind of an equine version of Hairy the Bear.
I also cheered when Claire made her appearance. I can see why Bulk might feel a bit concerned, but he really is about as safe as he could be, and Claire is awfully cute for something that's got eight heads and tentacles.
I do feel sorry for Discord, although I see him as acting or feeling more like a disappointed child than a disappointed lover here. I'm really interested to see where this goes.
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I feel more sorry for Bulk than I do for Discord. I mean, I do feel sorry for Discord, in that he is completely clueless and didn't recognize that this was likely to happen and take steps to either prevent it or accept it ahead of time... but Fluttershy does not belong to Discord. If she has never made a romantic overture to him -- and given how very affectionate ponies are with their friends, I think it's quite reasonable to say she's never done anything that she thought could be misinterpreted as romantic -- and he has never made any to her, then she should expect Discord to be exactly as jealous of Bulk as any of her other close friends would be. (Although, since you seem to lean toward Flutterdash shipping, maybe at least one of her close friends would react the way Discord has, albeit with less potential transformation into inanimate objects.)
Bulk, however, is in love with a lovable pony, who just happens to be friends with a particularly volatile and immature god. He's the only one here who's done nothing wrong. (What Fluttershy did wrong was to not tell Discord ahead of time. If she had broken it to him more slowly by telling him about her friend Bulk and she thinks maybe she's in love, Discord would have picked up that Fluttershy is interested in romance with stallions other than himself, and would either have accepted that he was friendzoned because Fluttershy would still be giving him the attention he wants, or would have had time to come to terms with the notion that he wants something more and put some thought into how to win it. Discord doesn't have to actually want Fluttershy sexually to feel that she's throwing him aside for her bed partner, because close best buddy relationships are often damaged when one of the best buddies finds love. Had Fluttershy broken it to him slowly, she could have gotten it clear to him that this wasn't going to interfere with her friendship with him... but no, she didn't tell him, and ran the risk of him walking in on her and Bulk.)
Personally I despise the concept that a guy should avoid love with a woman who wants him and is not romantically involved with anyone else, just because there's another guy who wants to be romantically involved with her. I know that people with ship goggles glued to their face might feel like Discord deserves to be with Fluttershy and therefore Bulk deserves to be threatened by Discord, but this simply isn't true.
Poor Bulk he goes for the girl and some god dude decides to be well the god of making bad things happen. Btw I am confused was I suppose to read the "pony POVverse" series first? I didn't get the whole part about someone holding a grudge against Dissy. At first I was hoping it was Celestia since Delestia is my OTP next to SombraPie and FlutterBulk. Yeah I am in love with weird ships.
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Ah ... you get it!
Fluttershy is not exactly the most experienced mare at handling this sort of situation, for all she's the second oldest of the Mane Six (24 at this point in time). Her romantic experience consists, basically, of having a lifelong romantic friendship with very occasional and partial benefits with somepony who's known her since they were small fillies together (Rainbow Dash), being seduced and abandoned by a conniving hustler (Nosey) at 16; befriending and being physically-affectionate (but not overtly sexual) with Discord; and then, finally, recovering enough from the fear of stallions she got from encountering Nosey to open up to an actual love affair with a (admittedly outlier type of) normal stallion (Bulk).
Bulk -- as I've made obvious from his POV -- more or less worships Fluttershy. She's incredibly beautiful, has superpowers, and is an acknowledged and Heroine of Equestria who has repeatedly helped save the whole Realm and is one of the battle-companions of a Princess of Equestria. And she's a really sweet mare, on top of all that.
Bulk is humiliated that there's nothing he can do but run. Fluttershy makes him run, not because she wants to humiliate Bulk, but because she is terrified that Discord will kill or balefully transform him right in front of her. She is very much aware of what Discord can do, and while she's not very experienced she understands enough of male psychology to understand the basic reason why Discord might do it. (She would conceptualize it as male rivals fighting over a female as among many animal species, and she gets the implications of Discord's superior strength in any such confrontation).
Understand -- for all his gentleness, Bulk is no coward. If any other sort of assailant had appeared, he never would have run, and left Fluttershy to fight it alone. He's a Wonderbolt -- a member of an elite Guards Pegasus fighting organization that basically does shows on the side as a Pegasus recruiting strategy for the whole Guards. The notion of running from something and leaving a civilian to fight it (well, technically Fluttershy is Militia Reserve and as one of Twiliight's Companions theoretically a member of an elite Guards unit herself, but she's basically in a civilian occupation right now) -- let alone a beloved civilian -- that seriously bothers him.
Bulk's attitudes are actually not that dissimilar from those of Rainbow Dash, and he in fact likes Rainbow Dash -- she is the head of the Ponyville Weather Team and was his team leader at the Equestrian Games; and he admires her as a capable and caring commander. That's part of why Fluttershy is willing to accept him as a lover -- he reminds her of something between a male version of Dashie and Hairy the Bear. (She may not have fully communicated these thoughts to Bulk, for the obvious reasons).
Rainbow Dash actually likes Bulk too, and if Fluttershy's going to take a male lover she's glad that she's fallen for someone as fundamentally decent as Bulk Biceps. Dashie thinks he's a bit of a blockhead, but a courageous and caring blockhead, and her main concern is that Fluttershy not get involved with somepony who is going to hurt her. She knows Bulk won't hurt her. Rainbow Dash is very protective of Fluttershy, and her protectiveness far exceeds any jealousy she might feel. Whatever happens -- whoever they wind up marrying, whether each other or other people, Rainbow Dash will always love and be loyal to Fluttershy. It's simply in her nature.
Also, Rainbow Dash may be interested in someone else.
Yes, exactly. Bulk didn't even pressure her into sex. It was Fluttershy's idea. He's ecstatic that somepony like her wants him that way, but he would have loved her and been her friend with or without the sex.
The problems, I suppose, with Fluttershy's approach are twofold.
The first is that she's inherently polyandrous, or polyamorous, whatever you prefer to call it given that she's bisexual. She's not comfortable with promiscuity -- she really needs to like and trust somepony a lot to sleep with him -- but her instincts are essentially a combination of those of a Pegasus with those of a Changeling Queen, and they're telling her to either raise a brood of Pegasi or start her own Hive with by getting started on some nymphs.
Her upbringing was more than a little bit unusual too -- she was mostly raised by her crazy mother and then fled to become a semi-hermit living in the woods. Her morality is more about love and trust than about reputation, though she's not entirely innocent of the concept of reputation either. And, anyway, Equestrian morals aren't that opposed to pre-marital sex, and the Pegasi are notoriously the least sexually moral of the Pony Kinds (a reputation they have largely because few ponies are aware that the Changelings are one of the Lost Kinds). (*)
The second is that she's very inexperienced with this sort of situation, so she didn't realize why she had to communicate better with everyone with whom she has any kind of romantic involvement. Rainbow Dash -- who is not exactly suave herself -- makes allowances for Fluttershy's shyness, as she's been doing for going on fifteen years by the point of this story. Bulk and Discord don't know Fluttershy quite so well.
The third, of course, is that she's dealing with Discord, who is basically a giant baby with incredible semi-phenomenal almost-Cosmic powers. Discord is hard to deal with at the best of times. Even Fluttershy thinks so, and she genuinely loves him.
In any case, Fluttershy would be perfectly happy with "all of the above" when it comes to a choice of mates. And she's naive enough that it never occurred to her that there might be any problem with it, especially if she failed to discuss the issue with anyone. What happens, really, is a logical consequence of this naivete, made all the more worse because it is Discord going off in a jealous rage.
Note well, though, that when push came to shove, even an angry Discord wasn't able to bring himself to hurt Fluttershy. Bulk, sure. But Fluttershy, no.
No way, no how would Fluttershy drop a friend -- even if it wasn't one that she'd been practically given as a Royal assignment by Princess Celestia -- because she took a lover. Fluttershy has very few friends, and she values them way too much to casually lose them. But then, she hasn't talked about this explicitly to anypony either. Though Rainbow Dash could tell you. Not that Discord would ever ask Rainbow Dash anything, especially about that sort of topic.
As for Rainbow Dash and Discord, they're not particularly jealous of one another. Dashie's main fear involving Fluttershy and Discord is that he will hurt her, emotionally or physically, and compared to that fear, her jealousy is irrelevant. And even Discord understands how Pony emotions work well enough that he knows that Fluttershy's romantic friendship with Dashie has been going on since they were small, and that if he tries to interfere with it they will both be angry at him. He doesn't much care if Rainbow Dash is mad at him, but he does care if Fluttershy is mad at him.
Plus, Rainbow's female. I don't need to tell you the stereotypically male attitude regarding a love interest being bisexual, and possibly having a girlfriend, do I? Let's just say that it's crass, and that Discord has it in spades.
Rainbow, incidentally, would never want a threesome. And if she did, it would not be one involving Discord. Or even mentioning Discord. Rainbow does not like Discord.
This actually goes back to the fact that she was the only one of the Mane Six who was indirectly Discorded by fairly simple trickery, as opposed to being mind-controlled or slowly broken. She's terribly ashamed of that, and it made her really hate Discord -- a hate that has now faded to deep dislike, but in any case makes sexual love for him right out of the question for her.
Rainbow Dash is, in her own way, quite a romantic idealist -- having almost a rough version of the Cult of Courtly Love. And having sex with her enemies is very much forbidden by her idealistic moral code. Definitely back when she's first introduced on screen, and that part of her code hasn't changed a bit in the intervening four years.
Discord, by the way, could have avoided the worst and most embarrassing aspects of this situation by simply not planewalking into Fluttershy's BEDROOM. Going right into somepony else's bedroom without knocking is considered very rude in Equestria and pretty much every Pony society throughout history. Yes, Rainbow Dash once did this to Fluttershy, but that's because Rainbow Dash is brash and Fluttershy's lifelong best friend. And Fluttershy was still irritated by her behavior.
I completely agree. I'm very glad that you see that the part narrated from Discord's POV expreses his opinion of the situation -- not my own. And Discord is very biased on this matter.
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(*) Some Pegasi would retort that it's more important to ensure that the best genes have the maximum opportunity for propagation, and that the absurd obsession with family and marriage on the part of the Unicorns and Earth Ponies weaken them, which is why those Kinds need the Pegasi to protect them. Others, of course, would reply that their morals are as good as those of any other Kind, but that they are simply less hypocritical about them. Still others are quite prudish -- the Pegasi aren't turned out on cookie-cutters, where sexual or any other attitudes are concerned.
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Oh -- I'm glad you like what I've been doing with this story.
Plus in canon they act attracted to one another. And for Fluttershy to flirt with a stallion is so very much OOC that I think the writers very much meant to imply that something was developing there.
If you look at when this happens, it's in the aftermath of their success at the games, when both of them would be feeling happy about have worked hard on something together which turned out well. It's exactly the kind of shared experience that -- given that they initially liked one another, would lead to romance.
Fluttershy is actually, once she gets over her shyness with somepony, a fairly direct Pony sexually. She understands the "game" from the POV of making sure that the other Pony really cares about her (as I explained in A Robust Solution) and that's pretty much it. She's not at all prudish, just shy -- which is not the same thing.
This doesn't mean that she's very sexually experienced. She's not. Quite the contrary, she's only ever done anything sexual before this with Rainbow (and done that well short of even full intercourse by lesbian standards) and with Nosey (full intercourse) when she was 16. The experience with Nosey frightened her off from stallions for eight years -- this is Fluttershy finally becoming confident enough again to look for a stallion lover.
Discord is not her lover. She loves him and she's very physically-affectionate toward him, but they haven't done anything overtly sexual yet. She might at some point in the future -- but she won't if he starts seriously threatening her other friends. Or lovers.
Discord is making very big and very possessive unwarranted assumptions here.
And remember: Fluttershy almost always gets her way.
Claire was actually snatching Bulk to safety, because her twin sister Pinkie asked her to do so. Pinkie really should have explained to Bulk about Claire, but time was short and Pinkie is demonstrably in canon sometimes a very poor communicator, on any topic other than arranging parties.
Exactly. I feel sorry for him too, and I understand why this is serious to him, but -- he's reacting childishly.
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Ah. The pony who holds a grudge against Discord, whom we shall soon meet, is the original owner of the body Discord is using, and twisted into a Draconequus form some 2500 years ago. That's the major PonyPOV reference.
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On the CheesePie love ...
This is, obviously, fairly early in their relationship. On my chronology, Pinkie meets Cheese in late August 1504, this is mid November 1504, which is a bit over 3 months -- but Cheese has been traveling all over Equestria most of those months, stopping over in Ponyville only a few times and briefly. So they're still very much getting to know one another.
Pinkie is something of the opposite to Fluttershy where her approach to love is concerned. She's very extroverted but she's cautious about sexual involvement even if she likes someone -- she likes a lot of Ponies and if she weren't sexually-restrained she'd be having sex with the whole town. As it so happens, she's at this point in her life still a virgin -- this is partially because she's a very strange filly (hence incompatible with most other Ponies) and partially because she's slow to psychologically mature (she's 23 years old but she is emotionally much more like an exceptionally-silly early to mid adolescent).
She's seriously thinking about making Cheese Sandwich her lover, and she's hoping this will last and develop into betrothal and marriage. She already loves him and thinks they are very compatible; she mostly wants to get to know him a little better and discuss their intentions. Neither of them is a very direct communicator about anything other than parties, too, so this may be a bit difficult and strange for both of them.
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Excellent thanks for explaining it. It seems you have a very interesting headcanon here I like how you wrote everyone since you mentioned flutters being bi would Pinkie and Dash be straight? I admit in my canon Pinkie is a huge slut pardon my language there but its actually kinda nice to see her portrayed as a virgin for once.
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Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie are straight. Twilight is mostly-straight but very strongly attracted to one particular mare. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are both bisexual -- Fluttershy prefers males, Rainbow Dash has no particular preference in this regard.
None of them are promiscuous. Though some of them have varying degrees of sexual experience.
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You know, I can see why, to most Ponies, being pulled through a Gate in spacetime to an unknown location by a giant invisible tentacle-monster does not immediately seem like a "rescue."
*double space
... I'm sorry, but whenever they say "the Twister," I can't help but think of the natural disaster rather than the occupation / title.
I may star this story, but the only blemish on the face of this story is Fluttershy having sex with BULK BICEPS?????!!!!!
WHYYYYYYYY 
NOOOOOOOO 
HE IS NOT WORTHY
I hope there will come a time when Discord goes back in time where he will stop Fluttershy giving her virginity to Bulk Biceps 
IT'S NOT RIGHT
Only on the first chapter and I'm hooked! Really wanna know what Discord's choices are going to be in this story, as at the moment, he's not coming across as someone I'm sympathetic to.
I love the name "The Twister."
On to the next!