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During a morning-time inspection with Rarity, Princess Twilight meets a special pony that she's never even heard of.

It's not every day that you meet a new alicorn, especially one that isn't called a Prince.

Shoutouts and credits to Popamile for commissioning this fic, and love to the background character. They treasure him enough to want to know more about his life, and that's something I think we all feel. Credits for the art go to Sugar Morning, over on the derpi.

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the background character.

Really? He's not an OC?

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Yeah, he appears a few times, and even once with a horn and wings. You can look up Rivet on the mlp wiki, he has a whole page! :pinkiehappy:

To the author- saw it featured in new stories & had to take a look.
hm?*tilts head to the side* looks like he could be the younger brother to air marshall www.fimfiction.net/story/416145/hello-my-name-is-air-marshal

Now. i don't know if the person who commissioned you had ya copycat this story or it's all just plain ole' coincidence!:unsuresweetie:

i'm not accusing ya plagiarism or anything! mind you cause that isn't me.
i've been on this site for about five years & wanna make absolutely sure that you're not banned from your account over such a matter
:heart:

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one persons interpretation of a background character doesn't make any basis for plagerism. I read that story when it came out. The only thing this shares is the concept. Which is not something that cam be claimed.

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Ah, sorry, but that link doesn't work, and I don't know the story :twilightsheepish: Does the body of the work contain a lot of similarities? Or is it just in the same vein (oc/background character explored deeper)?

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I googled the story, and it turns out to be the same background character! This is just a different take on the same show screw - up :rainbowlaugh:

This was cute. The good-natured carousing from the construction crew gave me some nostalgia, very well captured. Interesting story style with the transcription for their conversation, especially with Twilight adding her own 'corrections' to his speech. What a special talent though, that's the guy (stallion) you send up into space to stop the asteroid coming for the planet.

So he got a good touch of the alicorn longevity, if not any of the magical oomph.

Good story mate.

That was fun. Glad to have found this. :scootangel:

I enjoyed this! It had the low-stakes, character-driven charm of a Season 1 episode. Rivet’s backstory was neat, and I enjoyed Twilight’s reactions to him.

So the real question is did he have something in his blood that gave him this longevity or did his luck rear its head at some point and make him immortal.

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I did remember a lot of people pointed that out that that construction Pony have horn and a wings which a lot of people says it's an error design and there was a couple of error design on a couple of ponies if I remember correctly

Her ears flicked back as she heard the heavy sound of a hammer ringing through the air, and a deep voice called out, "Keep that rivet steady!"

What a lovely story. An excellent study into how a person is deeper and more complex than the one thing that made them famous.

"Nah, pegacorn," he said, shaking his head. "I wus born wit' a lil' bit of all three tribes, sure, but I ain't no alicorn. Ah'm, whatcha callit," he murmured to himself, placing a hoof on his chin as he thought for a bit before his eyes widened. "I'ma freak gene'ic mutation, from more 'n one recessive trait bein' active at one time."

Huh very interesting never heard of all that that's a new one

Well this was a turn of events it looks like Twilight and Rarity are checking out the construction of the new town hall but there was a certain Pony that caught Twilight attention apparently this Pony has a horn and a wings but he insists he's not an alicorn but a pegacorn which again I never heard of that before but I'm sure Twilight want to see her that

Wow ok so it looks like Twilight was going to ask some question to this pony name Rivet that how he was born with both feature with a horn and wings but unfortunately he's too busy but it looks like he will offer her for a dinner and even asking some questions which she offers to go so I wonder what kind of backstory does he have

T- I actually know a trio of fillies that are similar in that respect.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders and I only took them at least five years to get their cutie marks worth the wait

Wow what a life story he has and all the luck that he did and saving his brothers really Brave of him but when it comes to his family he will always back them up

Well this was a pretty interesting story about Rivet life story and it looks like Twilight still kept in contact with him even to the last problem once again this was a pretty good story keep up the go to work

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well i'm glad you found the story🙂

yeah, sorry about the link not working...i checked/previewed said message before publishing it. so blame my shitty laptop for that one!:flutterrage::facehoof:

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thank you:heart:

also would liked to point out that i don't accuse authors of plagiarism willy nilly! cause that ain't me.
i've several other things to worry about😅

Well to be a a Pegacorn he'd just lack Earth Pony genes

This good. I had fun time listening normal ponies talk around Twilight. For all that I like her. She is very very bourgeoisie.

And then the marble hits in between the two slots, real hard, and it splits in two. And those two pieces fly across the wheel, hit the wall, and they settle into slot one.

You see, SB, you're not dealing with the average stroke of luck anymore. I am a STAT HAXXOR!

Oh wow, that's a really nice way to wrap it up! Though, Rivet's lack of aging does seem to suggest that Celestia might not have been entirely honest when she examined him as a foal.

You know what? Now I want a sequel where Rivet is a guest at Flurry's Crystalling. Imagine, Equestria's TRUE first natural-born alicorn as the godfather Crystaller for the second one. I'm sure Sunburst wouldn't mind, especially if Twilight and Starlight rope him into the inevitable case study of the two extremes of natural alicorns. SCIENCE!!!

Short but great story. I hope there will be more of that kind.:twilightsmile:

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But he's a construction worker, implies at least some strength as well

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