83 - Questions, Answers
With the others away, Comforting poked at the frame. It was a curious thing, a line between somewhere and... somewhere else? What was beyond it?
"I'd hate to lose a daughter so quickly."
She hopped with a squeak, turning to face Discord who had appeared because he felt like it. "Hey, Dad. What is this?" She pointed to the edge of reality. "I saw you grab it before."
"It's a border." He leaned in on it. "You're better off not staring at it, but here we are. Does whatever world you're from have movies?"
Comforting bobbed her head swiftly at that, and it clicked. "We're a movie?!"
"Sort of, but also sort of not." Discord shrugged gently. "Just one way of many to perceive the world. Being what we are, how we see things is up to us, and we can work with that. So the world is a film as long as we treat it like one."
Comforting hopped back away from the frame. "But... Films have a lot of... Are they all true?"
"If you work with it that way." He clucked his tongue. "At least you know what film is. I wasn't sure. Having to explain that would have taken a while."
"But a film need a projec--" Bright light shone in her eyes. There was the projector. "Oh..."
"I said, if you work with it that way." Discord reached out and covered that light, which plunged everything into darkness, as if the sun itself were covered. "There are dangers to taking it too far, but that can be part of the fun."
Comforting reached out a short distance that was also infinite, gently swatting Discord's hand away and returning light to the world. "Does that mean... we're being watched?"
"Could be," allowed Discord non-committally. "You sure you want to look in that direction? I usually ignore it."
Comforting considered that but turned away from that edge. "Being a chaos spirit is so strange... but kind of neat."
"I told you!" Discord looked quite proud of being proven right. "And you were all worried about it."
"It did hurt Harmony," huffed out Comforting. "We have to fix that..."
"She's a big girl. She's 'fix'ing it herself." Discord jumped back into a casual float. "You're such a big softy, but that's what makes you 'you', I suppose. Now... I have a little challenge for you."
"Really?" She walked after Discord, watching him curiously. "What kind of challenge?"
"You're getting very comfortable, pun intended." He shot a finger gun at her, a 'pow' flag extending from the finger. "--with chaos magic. Too comfortable, hm? I think you could use a little not-chaos time. I know, I know, what a hypocrite is this guy over here?!"
Comforting left the embrace of gravity to float along with her dad. "What do you mean? I try not to fix everything that way." She hiked a thumb. "I go to school and read instead of trying to shove a book in my head."
"Points there, I suppose." He folded his arms. "But I'm talking more about up here." He tapped at his head. "You're peeling loose, and while that does look fun... and is fun... a little moderation, ugh, may be called for."
Comforting came to a land on Discord's belly, standing on him with her hands at her hips. "Are you going to take away my magic? I already lost it once!"
"Yes and no... There's another place. Twilight's been there before." He pointed to Twilight's castle, rising proudly. "The entrance is hiding in her basement. She doesn't talk about it much... But it's a whole other world. Why don't you go take a peek? It'll be fun! You'll make some new friends, learn some lessons. In fact! It's a school too. You like schools, don't you?"
"Schools that Twilight runs are kinda fun..." A blank check for all others she had not written. "And this will change my magic how?"
"You won't have it," he sang out. "It's a humanish world. You know the sort. You came from one, didn't you?" He held up a hologram of the old human frame that was the previous incarnation of Comforting before coming to Equestria. "Looks close enough. Now, before you go freaking out, you can come back after you learn a lesson or two and make a few friends." He raised a brow. "Which I know you'll do. You can't even help it."
Comforting looked down at herself, twisting about to gaze at her flicking long tail. "Um... How does this..." She waved over her exotic form. "How does this fit with that?"
"Best part!" He set Comforting on the ground. "It just does. Now, you go and sneak into that basement, or ask Twilight really nicely. Figure you can do one or the other. But don't come back without taking a little... vacation! Yes, let's call it that." He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and straw hat, a colorful drink in hand. "Nothing like a little vacay to get the juices flowing properly, hm?"
He was gone, no theatrics, just gone. Comforting frowned at the spot that once held Discord. "You're the one saying I'm doing too much chaos?" Still, she was curious... What would she be in a human world? She'd been through a lot since the last time. Would she be her original human self, or something new? One would... think... something new? But what new?!
There was one way to find out!
Twilight looked up from the book she was reading to find she was facing a lot of fur. She got out an 'ack' of a sound as she flopped over backwards.
Comforting drifted in over her. "Hello, professor. Sorry to bother you."
Twilight sat up. "Oh, Comforting. Hello. Can I... help you?" She looked around her office that had been so quiet and safe until the sudden visit.
"Dad says I'm getting too chaotic." She tapped her head next to her yak horn. "I'm not trying to reach Screwball levels, much as I adore her. So! He said I should visit that place you have a way to get to in the basement."
Twilight blinked slowly. "Discord said you're getting too chaotic?" She clapped a hoof to a cheek. "That sounds... appallingly frightening, if we're being honest. What are the symptoms? You look... normal, for your current state."
"I am! Um, physically?" Comforting shrugged softly. "I think I get what he means though... I'm learning how the universe works and that is kind of... freaky." She didn't go into details on that, not wanting to share that discomfort with Twilight. "So he said 'take a little vacation' in this human world you have hidden away. Just be a boring little girl with no super powers."
Twilight rose to her hooves. "Canterlot High is... a human world, yes." She glanced off and back. "Discord knows about it? This shouldn't even surprise me." She clopped a hoof to her face. "It's a High School, do you know what that is?" That she got a nod out of Comforting was, somehow, not that big of a surprise. "When a pony goes to that world, they become a human. I've been there... When Spike went through, he became a dog. Starlight became a human. I... don't know what you'd become. Are you certain this is what you want?"
"I'm really curious," she gushed out, clasping her mismatched hands together. "Is it really not-magic? I got kinda used to that... But maybe a little bit without it would be good..."
Twilight patted her small but powerful student on the head, just behind her changeling horn. "That is a very mature way to consider it. I feel like I learned a little something, having to go without it for a while myself... Maybe Discord has a point." She glanced around, to see if he appeared at his mentioning, but he didn't. "A little break away from all you've become may be just the thing. Let me write to my friends. I have some there. They can help make sure you fit in properly and keep you safe from anything... If things get out of hoof."
Her horn glowed as she commanded a new book to approach her, setting it out in front of herself, a quill quickly joining it in the joy of writing. "One of them is Sunset Shimmer. She was a pony, like me, a unicorn. She ran away to there. Long story, but she's happy, and I'm glad to have met her. I trust her to see this trip goes... without too much drama." She wrote with little scratches at the paper, willing the quill about. "Now, while that world certaintly has less magic than here, I can't say it has none. They've run into bits of magic at different times. It's just far from omnipresent as it is here in Equestria."
Comforting clapped quietly, watching Twilight write. "I should talk to mom. Vanishing on her would be incredibly rude."
"Very," agreed Twilight, waving her off with a hoof. "Go on and do that, and be sure she has no objections to it. You are her filly, chaos spirit or not."
"Yes." This was a fact, and not one she was ready to argue. She jumped back and landed in Fluttershy's cottage's living room.
Fluttershy squeaked, several birds fluttering away with equal shock. "Oh, Comforting. Please come in through the front door, if you would, please..." She pointed to the door. "You surprised me."
"Sorry, mom." They made things even with a nice warm hug. "I want to go on a magicless vacation for a little while, may I have permission? I'll be with Twilight's friend, Sunset."
Fluttershy inclined her head softly. "Well, if Twilight knows about it and is alright with it... it's probably fine. Just, be careful. I'd hate for anything to happen to you." She went in for a nuzzle that was eagerly returned. "I'm making your favorite tonight, so at least wait that long."
"Gladly!" Comforting dashed off to her room to wait for that with a big smile. She shut the door behind herself, alone.
Or was she? She extended her arms out towards the walls. "One. Two." She fell back against the door she had come in through. "Three." She looked out at the remaining wall, where she could see you, well, an impression of you. The vauge sense of others. She raised a hand by a feather of an ear, trying to hear the soft noises of conversation. "Hello?" she ventured. "How long have you been watching? Um... I'm listening." She sat down, watching the inky black source of voices. "I don't see anything." Just words. Words on the black. "But I am listening. Want to talk?"
You heard her. She isn't joking. All comments made on this chapter are heard by Comforting, and she will respond to the best of her ability.
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You should talk to Pinkie about the fourth wall. Even if she's not a chaos spirit, she can certainly do a lot of the things you can do. (Actually, talk to the human Pinkie about it first, that might be more relatable, and a better starting point.)
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I doubt he will let her get in over her head considering fluttershy would kill him if anything happened to her little girl.
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Because she's Pinkie.
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I don't know how much you remember from before you arrived in Equestria, but does a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic mean anything to you? It's a show set in Equestria and stars your mom and her friends and their adventurers.
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Okay, this is a bit weird even for me...
Hi Comforting. Um, you sort of started out as a self insert kind of OC for me in one chapter of a fiction. Not only was it somewhat different than how you actually started out, but I haven't written on that story since then. So I'm not taking credit (or responsibility) for anything that's happened to you.
Besides, you're way beyond that now.
I am so happy that you are happy with Fluttershy as your mom. I've always thought that she would be the best mom.
I am always rooting for you.
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You're not a official product of the show,
"The power of fan-fiction, compels you"
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"Aw." She claps her hands together firmly, smiling at the voice. "That sounds like a nice thought to me. But..." She lets those hands swing loose. "Also brings up a lot of questions... You invented me? Does that mean I am you? Or at least a little?" She brings up two fingers. "This is why Dad wants me to stop looking this way for a little while..."
She walks around in a small circle. "But we can agree that Mom is the best. Um... So am I based on what you were, are, or want to be, or something else?"
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The Comforting's inquisitive of knowledge Beyond The Veil is well done. However, The Comforting's vortesence is bound to her current meta-locality. The Comforting is of course free to converse, but investments of the self could unbind The Comforting. Nothing of value to The Comforting can be gained from unbinding Have care, Comforting Shade, to ask questions that ground the self.
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I guess that you are me at least a little. Or maybe I am you at least a little.
That OC started off as a variant me. When she made a change at work, she also changed where she worked. Thus she was in the right place at the right time. (If you look at it a certain way)
When I made that same change, even though I had the opportunity to change where I worked I kept working at the same place.
"So am I based on what you were, are, or want to be, or something else?"
Yep.
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"Wow," she states, a word so heavy it pops into being and falls limply to the ground like a dropped bit of buttered toast. "That's heavier than I'm aiming for, not going to lie.." Still, she reflects on those words. "I can't get all the answers asking people who don't even live here. You're... watching me, the television show. Only so much I can get from that, I guess.
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Fluttershy may be the nicest person on the planet but she also now a mom and if she thought someone hurt her baby on purpose or discord failed in his responsibilities as a dad she be all over them. Remember dragon shy she went all out when that dragon was going hurt her friends so how much further would she go for her child.
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"Neat. Hello me. You're like, oh no..." She flops back against the wall. "The other world. Maybe it has another me! If I meet them, they'll be the second me I met, besides me. No wait, I met past me." She thought back to the time discord pulled her in two. "Four mes, all me. Each valid, each me, each different in little ways." She offers a hand out towards the dark, even if it couldn't be touched. "But if you're me, you're nice too, so good enough. Go give someone a nice hug for me."
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"Well, sorta." She rocks in place in thought of that. "She was very stern, but she didn't hurt the dragon, just made sure they knew who was really in charge." She giggles softly. "Glad I never made her use that voice on me. I already know she's in charge. She's my mom for Pete's sake. Who else gets to be that in charge?" She points at the unseen presence. "What about your mom?"
all I can say is you're doing great sweetie
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"Sweetie's pretty nice, but I'm not her." It clicks a moment later. "Oh!" She colors in embarrassment. "Thank you."
.R...A.U
.E.E..N.O
.P.V.V.N.Y
...U..I..E.O
.........G..N.G
This is a rickroll.
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"Raw? Eeno, Pvvnay, EIOEO and sometimes Y? Gng... I do not understand some of you." She rubs at her chin, considering that wall of voices. "Are you all from the same place, or different places?"
This is why Discord told you you're getting too comfortable with the laws of the Universe, now you can see us! Also, are you ever going to go through with that whole perspective on race stuff with Gallus and friends? I wonder what they'd decide on for you to transform them into.
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She hisses with thought. "I wanted the option, but throwing it at them, him especially, seems unfair... This sounds empty, me saying it... but I feel like he should learn the good parts before I just yank him away from it?" She kicks a small doll, making it thud up against her dresser. "That sounds stupid... I'm not sure what else to do. You have an idea, mister or missus watcher person?" She rubs at her head as if warding a headache. "There are a lot of you in there. At least you seem nice overall."
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IRL I am, unfortunately a human, but in a different version of my universe I am a male Alicorn who can travel to other universes in the multiverse and explore them.
The show ended with 9 seasons, the whole thing with Harmony's physical body (the tree) with your friends happens in episode 3 of season 9, the last season. Everything that happened with Cozy Glow and Twilight's School of Friendship was season 8.
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I'd think at least Silverstream would likely consider it, given her personality. Sandbar could think of it as a learning experience if he was eager enough to try. But yeah...You don't have to spring it on them, maybe it's better to tell Twilight to see what she thinks.
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"Well!" She grins at the voice. "Then you should send your other you over to say hi. They sound like they'd get along with dad and me. Are they nice? Nothing wrong with being a human. I'm about to go and retry that whole thing." She flexes her mismatched hands. "Two hands with slender fingers for poking and touching. Two feet, not hooves." She raises each hoof one at a time, one cloven and the other not. "It'll be fun! Oh... Is that why Harmony saw this coming? They already got the Blu-Ray collection?"
She laughs a bit stressedly, hand to her head. "This is so strange to think about... But if we're in the last season, then what she saw, if it's that, is already ending. I broke it right when she was getting to the last chapter... I'd be mad too..." She slumps in place. "Sorry..." That aimed more at Harmony than the voice she was talking to.
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"She can already shapeshift," notes Comforting with a little laugh. "Between sea and land. I bet she wouldn't say no to trying other things, but she'd also want to come back afterwards. Could be fun. Nothing wrong with that. Still... good idea. Maybe I should remember I'm a little kid right now... I should trust adults with big decisions more often." She sinks in a crouch that turns into a flop. "Adulting is hard."
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My other self, his name is Gargon, could be listening right now. He might be able to visit but I don't know. He needs permission to come into your version of Equestria, but he can open a portal nearby and talk though it to you.
*Makes a shooing motion*
Go on, git, git! You're breaking the forth wall!
Away with you Miss Meta!
...Honestly, tut
Oh man, I’m so jealous of you Comfy! You must've been a saint in your previous life to get reincarnated into your favorite show. Living in Equestria and talking with those heroes must be really cool. I wish I could do that...
Actually, now that you’re here, could you do me a favor and pass some fan mail to Twilight, please?
*drops a letter*
"Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne"
"All will whither and Decay, Glory for Nurgle"
"Swiggety Swooty, Slaanesh thirsts for that booty"
"His ignorance is a greater delight than the possibility of his acknowledging the truth"
Comforting you should aks Discord, if other chaos gods can visit your universe/dimension. Some are not realy nice. Like the 4 above me. (Or all other version of Discord an this site)
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"Oh, um... Is this... bad then? Sorry." She sheepishly backs from the wall, though other voices call on despite that. "Hm."
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"Oh, neat! I'll keep an eye out for that." She peeked around for any sudden portals, but didn't see one one yawning open just yet. "When you can."
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Comforting holds the letter close to her chest. "I really want to, I do! But Twilight's already getting a headache from the hints we gave. This is probably why dad said to cut it out." She squeezes the letter gently. "I can feel the love here... Is it alright if I read it?" There was a lot of noise, so many voices. "Please don't get angry." She peeks, assuming it was alright.
"Aw... This is so nice... I want to give it to her, but I'm already feeling really strange. I don't think it'd be good for her if I gave it to her." She folds the letter tightly shut and stuffs it in a pocket. "But it's so nice... It really is. I'll tell her she has fans, but not who they are. I bet she'll beleive that. Be strong, Twilight! So many people are rooting for you, and some of them aren't even ponies! Actually, that is a pretty pony name. Are you a pony from another world? Neat!"
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Comforting winces at the strange and cryptic sayings. "They don't sound very nice. If you can do anything, why not be nice about it? I guess dad had to learn that before..." She shrugs at the voice. "Well, they're not welcome! I'd take 'em on, with dad, and Harmony, and maybe The Universe? Not sure if they'd get involved..."
hypocrite
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...Yeah, that's fine. And nope, not a pony - I just needed a pseudonym that's a hint starting with an "S".
Still, thanks Comfy! You're the best 😄
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"I'll tell him he..." Comforting pauses, understanding dawning on her. "We can typo?! How does that even work?" She picked up her doll and gave it a toss, then picked it up and tosed it. "Looks the same..." And yet, she could feel that she had typoed it, even if the doll had made about the same path and ended up on the ground all the same. "Today is a learning day..."
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Of course! Look for ones with golden rims, they are the ones Gargon uses.
*Peaks in and waves* "Hello there little one! Not often my books talk back to me!"
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"Wait." She bounces a finger from voice to voice. "Am I a book or a television show? Or did they put me on Youtube? Hi, either way!" She waves at the cheerful voice. "I have, but usually it's the author making a silly joke."
I'm very jealous of you. I'm trans too and my relationship with my parents is awful and getting worse every day. I'd love to be able to relive my childhood with a parent like Fluttershy. I'd also like to help people and ponies be the best that they can be. But until I can escape, I feel trapped.
Reading your story gives me something to look forward to. Seeing you grow has been very comforting 🥁 believe it or not.
Side note: Comforting Shade is a very nice name as it is, but do you think you might later decide to change it to the style of more broad, one word names that seems to be popular among forces of nature? I'm not sure how I'd feel about it myself if I were in your shoes. I haven't been able to settle on a name for myself and feel happy about it since I came out to my mom and she reacted to the name I picked with disgust.
I do have a new name in mind now, Celeste, but I feel a bit insecure about it because it's so close to Celestia's name. The name I told my mom was "Susie" but it feels tainted now. I still like it, but it's too painful at the same time.
I don't really know where I'm going with this or where I should stop really... But thank you for listening and for being you.
I just wish this world was as nice as Equestria. Earth sucks. Even if I do have great friends here, I'd still jump through a portal to Equestria with zero hesitation. I'd feel guilty about leaving them behind, but at the same time I just want the hurt to stop.
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*A small laugh* "Depends on the universe watching really, I am sure Discord said as much, I know of a show, several movies, comics, and books based on your world." *A small hum* "Regardless it is nice to talk to one I read of, do you see me or is it more of reading for you as well?" *A small head tilt*
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"It's hard to pin down," she admits, gazing at the wall. "I don't actually see see anything, but I can feel the words, and the brain's an amazing thing. So if I think 'hello,' is being said, I imagine the word, which could be hovering there, or said in whatever voice I haphazardly pick for it..." She flashes a grin. "Did you know becoming a chaos spirit makes you super hyper phantasic? If you weren't before, pretty sure you're going to become one. If you already were, just expect your thoughts to be pretty vivid."
She muses a moment. "That makes sense, since I have to drag things out of my thoughts into the world. If I couldn't put things in there, how would I take them out?"
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Comforting mimes hugging the air. "Oh no! I'm so sorry... I know exactly how you feel, even if that seems really hard to believe. I was there! I was literally there... But you have to live the life you're in, not hope too hard to the life you aren't living. Make it the best You life you can. Um, I can't really fault you. Fluttershy is a pretty great mom..."
"Ha Ha." She sticks out her tongue at the voice. "Well, it still fits, doesn't it? I do like Comforting things... and shade isn't all off... I was found like that, and I still feel like that. Hopefully the nice kinda shade on a hot day. I'm pretty used to it now, and that's what everyone knows me as. They'd probably let me change it, but that's still a lot of trouble for not a lot of good reason since I'm pretty alright with it. You couldn't pay me to go back to the name my original mom picked for me, so I hear you there."
"Celeste? That's a nice name. Can you control the sun like Celestia? Wait, no, the others were human. You are too, right? You're picking a pretty name, and that's fine. I heard a little trick, back when I was a human. Give them the name Celeste when you get some coffee, then they have to shout it when it's ready. See how that makes you feel. If it makes you happy, you found a good one!"
"It's super nice to meet another transgender person. Funny thing, but, so far, none of those here in Equestria. Everyone seems mostly happy the way they were made... but that might not be true if I dig for it. I'm almost scared to do that..."
"Aw, don't be like that. And if you do find a portal, hold on a moment and give your friends a call. At least tell them where you are before you go, so they can get a chance to hop in. If that happens, look for me! I'm in Ponyville. Oh, wait, you don't have to. Just shout for me. I think I can hear whenever someone calls for me. It's a little freaky, but that sounds better than you getting lost somewhere."
She takes a slow breath. "Phew! You had a lot to say, but it was nice talking to you. Are you in the highschool? Will I get to see you? That'd be nice. Come say hi!"
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"True enough, Mind affecting magic is funny like that, though I can agree with discord, strange as that sounds, that getting to immersed without a good foundation to keep things settled would affect your mind and actions to much." *A smile* "After all you could look at how the alicorns changed after they became what they are." *a glance at a few other books* "It is an interesting feature, most groups call it 'mantling' when you ascend."
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Maybe there's a version of me in the world you're going to, but that's not the me that you're talking to. I'm kinda sorta in college but I haven't enrolled myself in any classes recently
My mom reminds me of Diamond Tiara's mom but my dad is really narcissistic and sabotages himself too much to get rich.
I absolutely would tell my friends about the portal if I had the time to. I meant that more as a "If I only had a second" type of scenario. If the portal was permanent I'd definitely help my friends get to it as much as I could if they wanted to live in Equestria too.
The worst thing to me about my situation is how I don't even have it the worst. I have friends whose pasts and present are worse than mine and all I can do is listen to them when they need it.
I kinda like the name Celeste because of the game but also because I feel like I can relate to Celestia in some ways. Funny enough, Luna's my favorite of the two. I have really vivid dreams when I want to and spend nearly all of my waking hours during the night. I really wanna live somewhere cold like the far north. I like how places in the polar circle get a whole 6 months of night. Night is nice because it's quiet.
I wish I had mountains to climb other than these darn personal mountains. Real mountains are way more fun but Florida sucks and has none and it's hot all the time too.
I definitely don't let my wishing for a better reality negatively affect how I live in this one though. I just use it as a comforting thought to keep me going. But despite that, it's hard to live in the present anyways when the world around you gets worse regardless. Like things are getting dangerously bad because of 🌟late stage capitalism🌟 and living in an empire on decline.
But that's getting really dark really fast, so...
Say "Hi" to Sunset for me, and the other girls, and Principal Celestia, and Vice Principal Luna if you get the chance!
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"I will," she hurriedly assures. "I wonder what she's like in the real world." She glances around. "Which isn't real, from your perspective. But I bet someone else looking in at you would say there are things obviously off too. Oh! Um... Since you saw it all, I... I was a bit surprised. I did see that show, er, movie. I just forgot all about it."
She puts her hands on her hips. "And then Twilight started explaining it, and I didn't want to make her sad by saying 'ha ha, I already know all that.' So I didn't. She looks so happy when she explains something, like her eyes shine? She's precious, and I like her when she's happy." She colors in her cheeks. "Well, guess it was my turn to say a lot... But thanks for talking!"
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Make sure to take a brain break when the bottomless burrow of books bound around you, trying to absorb too much information ends up wasting one's time.