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"And then she just stormed out of the building without even sampling the cuisine!" Rarity finished the story with a toss of her head.
Most of the others seated on the picnic blanket shook their heads and tutted, but one winced instead.
Fluttershy put a hoof on his thigh. "Is something the matter, Discord?"
"Well..." Discord fiddled with a stick of butter for bit, using it to spread raisin bread on a knife before saying, "What do you call that feeling when you realize that you're the only one having fun and that that's a bad thing?"
The mares traded uncertain looks. "Shame?" said Fluttershy.
"Regret?" Twilight tried.
After a bit of consideration, Discord shook his head. "Close, not quite."
Pinkie said, "Guilt?"
Discord beamed and nodded. "That's the one!" He leaned back, quite proud of himself. "I feel guiltish."
"Guilty," said Twilight.
"That too."
Applejack frowned. "Now why in th' hay would you feel guilty 'bout some froufrou food critic with 'er muzzle lodged up 'er own tail end?"
"Think about it." Discord starting ticking off points on his eagle talon. "Her color scheme's desaturated. Her preferences and behavior are the exact opposite of what you'd expect from a food critic. Twilight's cartographic coffee table considered her a source of disharmony on par with the collapse of a second-world city-state and a generations-old, landscape-despoiling feud."
"An' a Manehattan neighborhood what wasn't actin' neighborly."
"Hmm. Point." Discord shrugged. "Maybe the Map just gives Rarity the low-yield missions."
Rarity glared at him. "I beg your pardon!"
"Really? What did you do to need it?"
Fluttershy nudged him. "Discord."
"Right." Discord cleared his throat and dipped his head towards Rarity. "My apologies; just thinking out loud. I tend to lose my filter when I'm speculating."
"Here it is!" Pinkie Pie held up a rainbow-patterned loop filled with a irregular mess of wire mesh.
"Thank you, Pinkie." Discord took the object, swallowed it, and continued. "My point is that this Zesty Gourmand seems to have my appendageprints all over her. It says a lot that it took this long for anypony to notice. Not sure if it says more about fine dining, Canterlot, or ponies in general, but it says a lot."
Rainbow Dash looked up from her plate, having cleaned it over the course of the conversation. "Wouldn't you know if you'd done something to her or not?"
"Eh." Discord shrugged. "I could have perfect recall, but I don't. Same reason I don't have omniscience or clairvoyance. Total knowledge of the past is just as boring as total knowledge of the present or future."
"While I'm happy to see you want to take responsibility for your actions," said Twilight, "I don't think you're to blame for Zesty Gourmand's... eccentricity."
"Yeah," said Dash. "Unless you've been going around messing with ponies' heads since we let you out again, the Elements would've had to have missed her when we beat you the first time."
"True."
Twilight gave Discord an appraising look. "And you haven't been messing with anypony's head, have you?"
He grinned. "Only my friends'."
Dash wingshrugged. "Then Zesty's just a jerk."
"Oh." Discord crossed his arms, then folded the lion-furred talons over his chest. "That's... vaguely disappointing."
"The world doesn't revolve around you, Discord," said Rarity.
He grinned. "It could if I wanted it to."
Fluttershy looked to the eighth member of the picnic. "Starlight, you've been rather quiet. Are you alright?"
Starlight gave an uneasy smile. "Just... just a little shocked."
"Why's that?"
"Oh, you know, just that you're all friends with a physical god, comfortable enough to tease a being who could annihilate all of us with a thought." Starlight let out a slightly unhinged giggle.
Discord gave a much calmer smile. "As I'm sure you've noticed, Starlight, this group does an excellent job of instilling much-needed humility."
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I imagine a Discorded Zesty would be quite similar to the Discorded Vogon in So Long, and Thanks for All the Ponies.
Intriguing idea.
Let's all sing the homonym song!
Two, to and too,
These are the words you view!
Two, to and too,
Only one is right for you!
I'd suggest the first, but you don't need numbers
And if the third was what you needed, then I wouldn't be a mumbler
So of two, to and too,
Which is meant for you?
The answer, of course, is 'to'.
Also, this might just be the greatest sentence of all fanfiction:
7306813 what is the difference between to and too?
7306864 'to' describes the movement of a person or object between two positions. 'too' means the same thing as 'as well as', most commonly used to describe a person wishing to accompany someone who has already stated an intention to go somewhere.
Example: "I am going to the movies!" "Me too!" "Shut up, Jerry. Nobody likes you."
If she had an equals sign on her flank, would we even see it?...
Isn't it more of a question than a exclamation?
Huh. That's a... surprisingly good point that Discord has there.
Maybe some pony figured out how to replicate his personality inversion trick?
I absolutely love this one, both for pointing out that very interesting fact and for actually including them being friends with discord. I'd upvote this story again for each of those if I could.
That IS an interesting thought. O_o;;
Well, there are a lot of ways she could have slipped through the cracks. There could be substances the Elements can't penetrate, as a for instance.
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An H2G2 crossover? Well, that just made the top of my Read Later list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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Makes you think, doesn't it?
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Ugh. This is what happens when you try to finish a story before a pizza finishes cooking. Fixed, and thanks, both for the typo catch and praising that sentence. Writing Discord's dialogue is always a joy.
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Given that we never saw her cutie mark, that presents a disturbing possibility all its own...
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Not when shouted indignantly.
That's a interesting theory. She could also been on an Airship or some other transport that took her out of range of the Rainbow of Light.
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As a what for instance?
A tinfoil hat?
Beautiful.
7308929 Possibly.
We don't really know that much about how magic works.
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As punny as equestria is, your belief feels well grounded in reality.
The show needs more Pinkie helping Discord like that. Also more Starlight/Discord interaction.
This is possibly my favorite of all the bits I've read here so far. You really get Discord's voice down.
I imagine she'd be glowing bright neon and screaming about how much she loves everyone. Like Pinkie, but more.
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Is it weird I forgot what a cartographer was for a second and thought his magic had actually influenced her coffee table?
Interesting theory. What if she was discarded but went out of reach if the rainbow lazer....hmmmm.