Shy and timid Nora finally works up enough courage to ask Princess Celestia on a date. However, there might be more to Celestia than Nora originally thought.
...Max, I'm wondering if you secretly hate me. Even though you probably have no idea who I am. I wouldn't be surprised.
I totally missed that this came out, even though I'm following you - fixed that! - and now a surprise update that didn't show for me, and I only caught because I was looking at the last time YHAY updated. On top of that, 1:30am update.
Fluttershy, you bein a bit creepy. Keepin Nora for several days after a potion turned her into a Black Bear before telling Twilight something was wrong.
so what is the proper term for a pony who's attracted to humans? Homosexual? no, that doesn't work, Sapiosexual doesn't work either, as that's a term for those attracted to intelligence.
Gynosexual, maybe? except that doesn't really work either as that would imply Fluttershy's attraction to Nora is because she is a human female, not simply a human.
More importantly, why am I putting so much thought into this?
For a split second, I could have swore that Majestic’s brow furrowed and a look of annoyance crossed her face, but when I looked again, her expression was relaxed.
So there's going to be a love triangle within a love triangle? Or... is there something magical going on with Nora's appeal here. Or am I completely misinterpreting all this?
I choose the love triangles option.
Edit: Oh shit, Majestic is Celestia. How didn't I see this?!
6254126 Yeah... I think Flutters just MIGHT have a bit of a thing for Nora. ... ... ... Who the REDACTED am I kidding it's REDACTED obvious the she's got a crush on the friendly neighborhood human.
Well the end surprised me, I didn't think you would reveal Majestic til later. Looking forward to the talk, lotta questions still to answer.
Also is Nora oblivious to Fluttershy's affection or something, or just doesn't reciprocate? 'Shy was adorable as shit, how can those levels of hhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg be ignored!?
I glanced around at all of them before tentatively asking, “D-did… did oi just ‘ave one of those Moment of Harmony things?” Upon Twilight nodding, I swore. “Feck! Oi ‘ate when that ‘appens. Oi can never ‘ear the music!”
Oh my god. I had no idea what you were talking about, and now that I've looked it up, wow.
Harmony has to be the most advanced philosophical prospect I've ever seen.
I love to imagine Celestias internal monologue when the party was in full swing and Nora was actually okay to be around, especially during the kiss and the song, was something along the lines of-
The moments with Flutters made me smile, specially when Nora mentioned that she was once turned a bear and Shy capitalized of that by not telling her friends for three days so she could have her own Nora-Teddy. Also the sock thing and Flutters not so subtly shock that Nora got "rutted" earlier. Not so subtly crushing Fluttershy is not so subtle.^^
Nora singing was also a nice moment, its rare that humans can not hear the music of harmony (in fact, I think this is the first Fic I ever read where a human can´t hear it). That and its pretty cute when Noras accent slips.
Now Cellie, you best weight your next words carefully, else you risk... well... ehrm... pain. So much pain!
Heh, Fluttershy's crush is very obvious. I wonder if Nora ever will notice, or if she did, she just chose to not pay it any attention.
But that truth question was pretty nasty. Spiteful Rainbow is spiteful.
Well, at least it didn't end up too bad... Or did it? We'll know for sure later! A talk is coming, and it's gonna be serious. That's gonna be awkward... for them. Amusing for us, probably
It took me a second to see it, but when I did, I was in awe of your subtle writing skills yet again, Blackie.
I glanced around at all of them before tentatively asking, “D-did… did oi just ‘ave one of those Moment of Harmony things?” Upon Twilight nodding, I swore. “Feck! Oi ‘ate when that ‘appens. Oi can never ‘ear the music!”
I'm assuming by the context that a Moment of Harmony is when the ponies have their big musical number.
I quickly settled on a song that one of my sisters used to sing to me whenever I was anxious or sad. Something told me that it was perfect for the moment, and I felt a warm feeling began to spread through my chest. Taking one last deep breath, I exhaled slowly before opening my mouth and singing softly.
So, you're saying that "something" essential told Nora to sing the song? That is was the perfect song for the moment? Well then, let's look at the song that Nora sung!
(Ufff, there is so much in here for a nut like me that likes picking stories apart. It's like payday! )
You choose the rose, love, and I’ll make the vow, And I’ll be your true love forever.
Are you listening, Celestia?
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne, but my love is fairer than any.
Are you listening, Celestia?
When the moon and the stars they were shining The moon shone its rays on her locks of golden hair, And she swore she’d be my love forever.
Seems like the song knows that Luna's up to something.
‘Tis all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass, That my heart is breaking forever.
ARE YOU LISTENING, CELESTIA?! A Moment of Harmony just basically told you that Nora wants you bad! Get with the lovin'!
Nora singing was also a nice moment, its rare that humans can not hear the music of harmony (in fact, I think this is the first Fic I ever read where a human can´t hear it).
For me it is the other way around, the HiE stories I read the human(s) can't hear the music. I don't think I've read one were they could hear it.
6255195 In Your Human and You, the main character can hear the music, but it doesn't affect him. He basically equivalates it to being similar to musicals in our world, except more spontaneous.
6255195 Funny that.^^ Most of the HiE fics I read, the human most of the time even has his/her own musical number moment. That or they deliberatley sing a (most of the times catchy) song to mess with the "Music of Harmony" concept just to irritate/influence/screw the ponies over.
6255230 I'm up-to-date on YHaY, I guess I just internalized the magic not pulling Max in to him not hearing it all. I'm now remembering a scene from Xenophilia where there were highly obvious pauses in a Harmony song for Lero to add in his lyrics. I don't remember if he could hear the underlying music or not.
6255248 I am now wanting to see a HiE story based on the movie The Music Man. Though it would not suprise me to find out it has already been done.
Fluttershy is creepy as fuck in this story and Nora probably knows that. What 'friend' doesn't tell the others that you have turned into a bear for three days long? Not talking about the fact that it would deviate the attention from us towards her instead of it being on Celestia's and Nora's struggles to participate in jolly coöperation.
6254223 The problem with it is that our scientific species name, homo sapiens, is entirely human-centric. We called our genus homo because it is comprised of animals like humans (the Latin homo being the word for humans). The Greeks had a similar word, homos, which means "same" and is the root for homosexual. The Latin was likely influenced from the Greek.
Luckily, reason need not apply when producing compound words! "Homosexual" in itself is a combination of the Greek homos and Latin-based sexual, so let's just slap two words together and call poor Flutters a humansexual. Or homophile might also work, though the connotation with sexuality for -phile is more ambivalent.
6256407 There's also the fact that homophile was a term adopted by the early 20th century gay rights movement, during a time when fitting in and assimiliation were the word of the day rather than standing up for being yourself.
Also that had to be the worst CELESTIA in disguise I've ever read, the story is nice. But when the disguise is worse than painting a cucumber orange and calling it a carrot, it takes away from it
I love your original spins on human in Equestria stories. Nora is a great character.
...Max, I'm wondering if you secretly hate me. Even though you probably have no idea who I am. I wouldn't be surprised.
I totally missed that this came out, even though I'm following you - fixed that! - and now a surprise update that didn't show for me, and I only caught because I was looking at the last time YHAY updated. On top of that, 1:30am update.
is it bad that as soon as mysterious OC cropped up I knew it would be Celestia?
Not the cliff hangers! I've already run out of nails to bite!
Fluttershy, you bein a bit creepy. Keepin Nora for several days after a potion turned her into a Black Bear before telling Twilight something was wrong.
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I am pretty sure all of us knew it. Also, it is usually Celestia or Luna when that happens
6254084 Nope. I did too.
It's very clear to me what you're turning Fluttershy into here, but does this action here signify what I think it does?
Despite all the shit I've read in the last 3 months in this fandom, I still had so look this one up.
so what is the proper term for a pony who's attracted to humans? Homosexual? no, that doesn't work, Sapiosexual doesn't work either, as that's a term for those attracted to intelligence.
Gynosexual, maybe? except that doesn't really work either as that would imply Fluttershy's attraction to Nora is because she is a human female, not simply a human.
More importantly, why am I putting so much thought into this?
Fuck, Nora, you jerked off only an hour or two ago!
So there's going to be a love triangle within a love triangle? Or... is there something magical going on with Nora's appeal here. Or am I completely misinterpreting all this?
I choose the love triangles option.
Edit:
Oh shit, Majestic is Celestia. How didn't I see this?!
Hahahaha! Not only is Celly sneaking in incognito, but Fluttershy has a very obvious crush on-
...never mind.
Also: that's the same random potion crate as showed up in YHAY, isn't it?
6254126 Yeah... I think Flutters just MIGHT have a bit of a thing for Nora.
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Who the REDACTED am I kidding it's REDACTED obvious the she's got a crush on the friendly neighborhood human.
Welp time to finish that bottle.
Well the end surprised me, I didn't think you would reveal Majestic til later. Looking forward to the talk, lotta questions still to answer.
Also is Nora oblivious to Fluttershy's affection or something, or just doesn't reciprocate? 'Shy was adorable as shit, how can those levels of hhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg be ignored!?
6254084 no, believe me, it was beyond obvious
6254223 pony's attracted to, or have fetishes for humans, are called skinny's.
6254233 You didn't see that Majestic was Celestia? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.
Oh my god. I had no idea what you were talking about, and now that I've looked it up, wow.
Harmony has to be the most advanced philosophical prospect I've ever seen.
So we see the Veritaserum potion made it out.
Who's with me that they should both take a nice big swig before starting their conversation????
Keep going! ;)
I can just imagine Rainbow's shit-eating grin becoming so massive that Nora began to orbit it, and Celestia would have to raise and lower it each day.
"Aw, feck."
Fluttershy probably wishes she got the dare to kiss Nora.
6254330 Well, In all fairness, pretty much immediately after that line I noticed, when she said she was from Canterlot. Alarm bells wen't ringing.
I love to imagine Celestias internal monologue when the party was in full swing and Nora was actually okay to be around, especially during the kiss and the song, was something along the lines of-
Oh no she's hot!
Oh, good. I'm glad you apparently aren't dragging this one out. I was afraid it would take several chapters to reach the end of this one.
whens next chapter?
Great chapter.^^b
The moments with Flutters made me smile, specially when Nora mentioned that she was once turned a bear and Shy capitalized of that by not telling her friends for three days so she could have her own Nora-Teddy. Also the sock thing and Flutters not so subtly shock that Nora got "rutted" earlier. Not so subtly crushing Fluttershy is not so subtle.^^
Nora singing was also a nice moment, its rare that humans can not hear the music of harmony (in fact, I think this is the first Fic I ever read where a human can´t hear it). That and its pretty cute when Noras accent slips.
Now Cellie, you best weight your next words carefully, else you risk... well... ehrm... pain. So much pain!
Heh, Fluttershy's crush is very obvious. I wonder if Nora ever will notice, or if she did, she just chose to not pay it any attention.
But that truth question was pretty nasty. Spiteful Rainbow is spiteful.
Well, at least it didn't end up too bad... Or did it?
We'll know for sure later! A talk is coming, and it's gonna be serious.
That's gonna be awkward... for them. Amusing for us, probably
6254432 from the previous chapters I'd say we have a real shot at getting that.
6254223 IIRC it would fall under xenosexual since their effectively alien.
I love this chapter. The dialogue works and there's this wonderful scene happening just behind the actual words. Really enjoyed it.
I'm sorry but I can't help the musical reference:
6254432 "Don't be intimidated, Celestia! Try to imagine her in her underwear!...Oh no, SHE'S HOT!"
6254466 What? You wanted it to take eight chapters for Celestia to reveal herself, plus another forty for any real romance to happen? Really? Okay!
It took me a second to see it, but when I did, I was in awe of your subtle writing skills yet again, Blackie.
I'm assuming by the context that a Moment of Harmony is when the ponies have their big musical number.
So, you're saying that "something" essential told Nora to sing the song? That is was the perfect song for the moment? Well then, let's look at the song that Nora sung!
(Ufff, there is so much in here for a nut like me that likes picking stories apart. It's like payday! )
Are you listening, Celestia?
Are you listening, Celestia?
Seems like the song knows that Luna's up to something.
ARE YOU LISTENING, CELESTIA?! A Moment of Harmony just basically told you that Nora wants you bad! Get with the lovin'!
Poor Flutterdhy, such an obvious crush and the target of her affection is clueless. Nothing but heartbreak can come from this.
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For me it is the other way around, the HiE stories I read the human(s) can't hear the music. I don't think I've read one were they could hear it.
6255195 In Your Human and You, the main character can hear the music, but it doesn't affect him. He basically equivalates it to being similar to musicals in our world, except more spontaneous.
6255195
Funny that.^^ Most of the HiE fics I read, the human most of the time even has his/her own musical number moment. That or they deliberatley sing a (most of the times catchy) song to mess with the "Music of Harmony" concept just to irritate/influence/screw the ponies over.
Fluttershy is crushing on our main girl huh? That's pretty cute. Also obligatory post:
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I'm up-to-date on YHaY, I guess I just internalized the magic not pulling Max in to him not hearing it all.
I'm now remembering a scene from Xenophilia where there were highly obvious pauses in a Harmony song for Lero to add in his lyrics. I don't remember if he could hear the underlying music or not.
6255248
I am now wanting to see a HiE story based on the movie The Music Man. Though it would not suprise me to find out it has already been done.
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Fifty, if you can manage it. Gotta take these things slow, you know.
6254697 What I find telling is that it still hasn't been put up. I too see it's enchantment playing a part in the next chapter.
I knew it! Good job!
wouldn't it be weird if this story ended with Nora, Celestia and Fluttershy in a herd. with Celestia being the stallion.
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Fluttershy is creepy as fuck in this story and Nora probably knows that. What 'friend' doesn't tell the others that you have turned into a bear for three days long? Not talking about the fact that it would deviate the attention from us towards her instead of it being on Celestia's and Nora's struggles to participate in jolly coöperation.
6254223 The problem with it is that our scientific species name, homo sapiens, is entirely human-centric. We called our genus homo because it is comprised of animals like humans (the Latin homo being the word for humans). The Greeks had a similar word, homos, which means "same" and is the root for homosexual. The Latin was likely influenced from the Greek.
Luckily, reason need not apply when producing compound words! "Homosexual" in itself is a combination of the Greek homos and Latin-based sexual, so let's just slap two words together and call poor Flutters a humansexual. Or homophile might also work, though the connotation with sexuality for -phile is more ambivalent.
6256407
There's also the fact that homophile was a term adopted by the early 20th century gay rights movement, during a time when fitting in and assimiliation were the word of the day rather than standing up for being yourself.
6255263 wow. I knew doom guy was violent but... Chill out buddy
Leik if u crie evry tiem
Also that had to be the worst CELESTIA in disguise I've ever read, the story is nice. But when the disguise is worse than painting a cucumber orange and calling it a carrot, it takes away from it