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After Sugarcoat’s confession, she and Lemon Zest found themselves going to Canterlot on a somewhat frequent basis. It was easy to despise a caricature of stupid, lazy public school kids, but much harder to hate those who’d offered a sympathetic ear and covering the cost of your therapeutic sundae.
After a few outings, the four girls agreed to ask Twilight to the next one, the awkwardness having fallen to acceptable levels. With Dash occupied with a team practice, it was just the Crystal Prep girls, Pinkie, Twilight, and Sunset sitting in Sugarcube Corner.
“Tell me more about this technology empathy phenomenon,” said Twilight.
Lemon bobbed her head from side to side. “Not exactly easy to describe, you know? It’s like this whole other sense.”
Sugarcoat nodded. “The classic example of trying to describe red to a blind person applies. Though it lies more between hearing and, as you said, empathy.”
“And stuff just happening.” Lemon tapped the headphones hanging around her neck. “The sound quality on these babies has never been better.”
“And I was already drawing up party cannon blueprints even before Maud got rock powers!” added Pinkie. “I’d never been able to make the idea gel before the Fall Formal.”
Sunset screwed up her face, though some of that might have been the extra-thick milkshake. “It’s weird. I didn’t study much earth pony magic in Equestria, but I definitely never heard of any kind of technological rapport.”
“Could it be an emergent property of combining equine and human magic?” said Twilight.
“Possibly. I’ll have to ask Princess Twilight. I suppose I could experiment with it myself, but I’d rather keep myself to what I already understand.”
Sugarcoat gazed at nothing for a moment. “Picturing Twilight as royalty still feels… surreal.”
“Especially magic horse royalty,” added Lemon.
Sunset chuckled. “Ninety percent of the time, she’s a bigger dork than this one.” She jerked a thumb at a smirking Twilight.
“Gee, thanks.”
“And the other ten?” said Sugarcoat.
Sunset gave a serene smile that seemed better suited on some saffron-robed monk. “That’s when you see why and how she became magic horse royalty.”
“Hello.” The word came out as a long, deepening glissando, disrupting the moment. Everyone turned to see Vinyl Scratch all but draping herself over Lemon Zest. “You come here often?”
Lemon’s face flickered through several emotions: shock, confusion, intrigue. “Dude, is your voice Auto-Tuned?”
Vinyl smiled. “You know it, baby.”
Octavia came up to Sunset, frowning quizzically. “What precisely is going on here?”
Sunset gave a quiet gasp. “Just how many prosthetics does Vinyl have?”
“More than she likes to admit.”
“Would you say she qualified as more technological than biological?”
“I’d say that’s a rather personal matter for her.” Octavia smirked. “And she’d probably classify herself as ‘musical’ before either of those.”
“Ah.” Sunset nodded. “That’d do it. I think she may qualify as a speaker system for the purposes of Lemon Zest’s magic.”
“Well, it would explain why she’s been more…” Octavia cleared her throat. “Well. Never you mind. How do we stop it?”
“I don’t think we can. Musicians with earth powers are her catnip.”
“I am not sure how to feel about this.”
Octavia sat on her side of Vinyl's basement, taking a moment to let her retelling sink in. "And that was when you started commenting on the smell of her hair."
Vinyl's jaw hung open. The sound that came out was somewhere between a struck tuning fork and the Emergency Broadcast System.
"Quite. Sunset said something about sensory overload, you never encountering something quite like that before. Now that you've experienced it, you should be able to acquit yourself with greater dignity in the future."
Blushing bright red, Vinyl nodded so fast that her glasses nearly flew off.
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This was beautiful. Someone needs to make a romantic comedy out of this.
LOL, how cute. Well odd sympathies will show up until everything settles more.
I'm confused. What just happened and does Sunset have athing for Sci Twi or did I read that one chapter wrong?
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Human and earth pony magic combine in a way that makes technology like earth-aspect people. Lemon Zest has a particular affinity for audio equipment, and Vinyl has a lot of tech under her proverbial hood, including her auto-tuned voice box. The end result? Accidental supernatural attraction. Now that Vinyl knows it's there, she'll be able to resist it, but this time, it blindsided her. Good news is, Lemon's chill enough that they ended up becoming friends.
And Sunset and Sci-Twi do have a thing going, though they're still sorting out precisely what that thing is. It doesn't help that one still isn't sure if she's even sexually attracted to humans and the other wasn't sure if she had any kind of sexuality at all until recently.
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Lain was a pretty sweet and lovable cybernetic deity. That's kind of the best possible outcome of AI. Though IIRC the Big Bad of that series was an evil human who was trying to become a cybergod, which is also a possible threat in a Singularity.