“Really? You actually took her out on a date?” Sunset asked as she slowly came to a stop, catching her breath with a grin. “Seriously?”
Stretching, I glared at her. “Not a date.”
“Sounded like one to me,” Swift commented from the side with a smile as he watched Sunset stretch. “I heard there was dancing and everything.”
“Quiet you.” I snorted and shook my head. “Seriously.”
Sunset just smirked at me and then shook her mane back. “If you say so.”
I rolled my eyes and sighed at her antics before I let my breath out. “Are you done?”
“Oh, I can keep going all night.”
“…Oh Luna, you can really tell that you were Celestia's student,” I groaned, lighting my horn up and floating my water bottle over as Swift was busy watching Sunset.
Seriously? Minuette would kill you, dude.
Not to mention that Sunset would break him in half.
…Thought I had to admit that she was way too damn good at being distracting when she stretched like that. I have a marefriend, I’m not dead.
I notice these things.
“Why? Can she do that too?” Sunset teased before she giggled. “We done for today? I have some stuff to do before it gets dark.”
I nodded and sat down in the shade by the wall, looking out at the otherwise empty training ground. Today we just did some spell casting at targets and running. “Yeah. Sounds good. See you tomorrow?”
She nodded, “Yep,” and then looked down at herself. “Celestia, I need a bath. See you guys later,” she then added before trotting to the exit.
Swift looked after her for a moment before sinking down next to me, “…Dude.”
“Minuette would kill you.”
He considered that for a moment before he sighed. “Yeah. Sunset isn’t her type.”
“I think Sunset is everyone’s type,” I commented idly while glancing in the direction she left in, before I frowned at him. “Wait, what?”
Swift floated his water bottle over and took a long drink before he frowned at me. “What, what?”
“…Sunset is not Minuette's type?”
He shook his head. “She is more into pegasi,” he said before he grinned. “I’m just too awesome to ignore.”
I looked at him for a long moment. “…One of us is confused and I’m having the horrible feeling that it’s me.”
Swift frowned at me and quickly glanced around. “Is this a human thing?”
“Well…” I started before I frowned in thought. “Multi-pony relationships are more common than I thought?”
Swift shrugged. “Temporary ones are pretty common for foals, a couple of years long or so. Permanent ones less so, but not exactly rare. My uncle live with three mares. Dad and mom had Ruby Rose living with us for a couple of years while she tried to get pregnant. She is the mother of my half sister.”
“Oh.”
“It’s not that way with humans?”
I shook my head. “Very rare. Illegal is most places actually when it comes to marriage.”
“…Weird,” Swift said with a shrug.
“Comes with having more or less balanced amounts of males and females.” I said and idly poked the grass by my right hoof.
Honestly, I had not really considered the implications of it since I read about it before. But I had seen couples before… well, not couples really. But you get the gist.
I mean, not like I didn’t know about it. I just didn’t think about it.
Mostly because I stayed the hell out of any dream with a pink hint to them after the first time I stumbled into one. That had been rather embarrassing. I just hope I never run into the mare in real life.
“…So…” Swift asked. “About that date with Princess Twi…”
“Not a date!” I groaned, dropped my head onto the ground. “Damn it, Swift!”
He just grinned. “Just saying. If Princess Luna was against the idea, she wouldn’t have encouraged you.”
“…Wasn’t a date. Wasn’t meant to be one. Luna knew that.”
“Did she?”
I paused at that and then just closed my eyes and relaxed. Screw you, Swift.
I would just need to talk to Luna about it just to be able to make him shut up if nothing else.
“So, what else planned for today?” Swift asked after a moment. “Writing?”
“Editing. But that’s for tonight,” I answered and opened my eyes again, looking around. “Not sure what to do now to be honest.”
“Raid the kitchens?”
My stomach agreed with that idea, but I had other things on my mind. “Actually… let’s head to the markets. I need to pick up some stuff first. I’ll make us some pizzas.”
Swift raised his eyebrows, “Pizzas? Why not just go to a restaurant?”
“Because they don’t have pizzas!”
Swift shook his head. “Page, I had pizza two days ago, trust me, there are pizzas.”
“Those are not pizzas!” I exclaimed and got up, glancing around and stretching my wings before folding them and reapplying the illusion. “Those are strange abominations with hay in the dough and the wrong cheese, the wrong way of using tomatoes and… wrong!”
He looked amused as he got up. “And I suppose you can do better?”
“Damn right I can!” I said and picked up my bag, sliding it around myself. “Get ready to be amazed!”
“Lead the way boss.”
Funny, and Swift has a point. Part of the whole 'completely different culture' -thing.
And I have to say it...
Really man, I mean... really?!
8033556 No relation.
Page, don't you do it!
Don't you do it!
If your gonna do it, Sunset first! But don't you do it!!
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The only way to tell is if her gardening tools are also high-powered sniper rifles.
*goes back and reads the previous chapters* Wow... that actually was kinda date-y. Page never said it wasn't a date, in fact, he even called Twilight his date, and she certainly didn't disagree with him. Neither he, Twilight, or even Luna insinuated that it was a 'just friends' outing, and Twilight was... well, looking back on it, really, really friendly. Nothing brazen, but then again Twilight isn't exactly Sunset Shimmer. And she may have, in fact, asked for a second date, which you may have also said yes to.
Dang... I didn't even catch that the first time around. I mean, I figured there'd be gossip and possible teasing, but the idea that Luna/Twilight might actually assume it was a date never occurred to me. I guess I just took their tacit approval as a sign that they understood what he was really talking about. Man, this arc sure does love relationship drama doesn't it?
Seems like we're laying the foundation for something. Based on what Swift has said, the largest barrier to any expansion to Page's relationship will be Page himself.
They made PIZZA wrong!?!? How dare they! I will show them how awesome human made pizza are!!!!
Wisdom beyond the generations..................No one should have a PIZZA that isn't balanced Properly!
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Preach it!
8033622 ALL HAIL DECENT PIZZA!
Next chapter:
Page running for his life through the castle halls, swarms of kitchen staff hot on his trail, he sees Swift further up the hall, he calls out to him for help. Swift just turns to him, it was then he noticed that Swift, who was smeared in red, raised a hoof to point at him and unleashes an ungodly cry that no mortal's throat should make. Then charged with a surge of guards and serving staff from everywhere, with the same hollow, hungry look in their eyes, as one they scream.
MOOOORREEE
The power of human cuisine in any reincarnation/world travel story is truly a terrifying thing
8033637 But won't Page get in trouble for making a 7-meats pizza??
Yeah, It'd be a hit in Griffonstone & maybe the dragonlands.....
...but Equestria??
In other news, I made about 455lbs of dough today.
Fucking herds. So cliche.
Yesss! This HERESY of Poni Pizza Must! Be! Corrected!
bahahahaha! Yes, do eet!
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You know what else is cliché? A human in Equestria. And turning into a pony. Or an alicorn.
Clichés are like tropes: they can help build a story, but whether they're good or bad is based on the skill of the writer, not on the cliché.
"live" needs either an S or a D on the end of it. It's either ongoing or has happened in the past, unless Swift went caveman.
Considering Page didn't realize Luna was courting him in the beginning, I wouldn't be surprised if Twilight saw the date as something more than Page did.
Hay in the dough? Those aren't pizzas, they're lies!
Hay in the dough? Wrong cheese? INAPPROPRIATE TOMATO USAGE?
HERESY!
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So Swift knows what's going on. The 'Polygamy exists' refresher is either a big obvious confirmation or a big red herring.
I'm surprised Page was so confused, I barely noticed that when reading. It's pretty obvious.
In unrelated news, Grammarly is good for breaking Russian comma usage.
We as a species seem to get confused pretty easily.
Now the question is: Is adorkable little Twilight as oblivious as Page?
At this point I'm sure we can all agree a Inquisition against the pony pizza makers is needed.
8033981 Hello Darling, how was your time in Canterlot.
Great. I met with the Princess, I was able to see my folks, Page and I went to a charity Auction together, I got to see some of my old friends from unicorn School it was amazing.
What was that? About Page?
Oh! Page and I went to a Charity auction and Page got this antique dagger, we talked for a while he walked me home...
Then what?!
Well I went in and read that clover the clever memoir I found, did you know that...
Twilight! What happened between you date with Page?
Date?
It seems that the wind is blowing towards a herd, or at least the idea of being open to it.
They said Human turned pony stories were dumb....Hiver did it and they are now my favorite.
They said Luna falling in Love with a human is wish fulfillment....Hiver did it and I want this ship to be canon more than any other.
They said that Sunset coming back to Equestria would, could and should never happen...Hiver did it and she is just as awesome
OC changeling characters....Hiver did it.
Main character killing Tirek....Hiver did it.
Main character going Alicorn.....Hiver did it.
Herd?
I followed you this far, I'm with ya!
a vary good chapter I am wondering just how fare the Twilight thing will go?
heard?
I have no problem with that.
Sooo, there can be mulit-pony relationships are a bit common? Do i hear Sunset joining in with Page?
8033873 what if that "uncle" feeds off from the soul of three mares to live.
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page is gonna walk in on luna and sunset one evening and theyre going to have an interesting conversation
...Wait, what? How the hell do the palace kitchen staff not know how to make human-style pizza yet? I would have expected Page to teach them that by now since he has more than enough pull in the palace to get them to make him something special, and I would also expect it to be spreading beyond the palace since I'm fairly sure he's been dating Luna for at least a year at this point.
8034104 Yeah, I get the feeling that that is exactly what happened over there. I think there are decent odds Luna and the others were trying to push Page into adding Twilight to their relationship, and the only ones that failed to figure it out are the two who were supposed to be dating.
8034131 that is cause hiver can actually write pretty well without it going over the top or destroys our sense of belief. The story stays level headed.
8034858 Simultaneously on the Dreamscape...
"Luna! Did you send me on a date with Twilight?"
"....no, you sent you on a date with Twilight."
"But did you know, that I didn't know, that you know , that this this was a date with Twilight?"
"Uhmm..."
"Did she know that I didn't know this was a date?"
"Page! I'm asleep and I feel like I need to take a nap! Slow down and tell me what is wrong."
8034755 nope, it makes you a male.
i imagining it's something like this e621.net/post/show/377568/ Rating: Questionable
So...in your world, multi-pony relationships are more common in the short term than in the long term right? Especially if the stallion is just needed to get a mare pregnant for a mare-to-mare relationship?
So in other words...Twilight and Sunset can just be with Page for the short term as a sperm donor and then move on? I can still have my Twilight/Sunset cake after all?!?!
...I can accept these perimeters if that is the case. If most of the ponies in Page's "herd" is going to be temporally arrangements...I can work with it!
The following chapters are gonna be steamy...
...with the scent of properly made pizza, dammit!
*silently roots for "no herds"*
I mean I always gathered from the show that multi-pony relationships are uncommon, especially with Season 7's recent comment by the CMC about only being able to have one "special somepony." We really have never seen instances in the show of anything but monogamy.
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Yeah, but that’s canon not fancanon, get that shit outta here :P
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LOL!!!
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Monogamy just doesn't really work well with the world of ponies and their predicament of male to female ratio. Don't forget, though, that target audience of the show are teen and pre-teen girls. Just imagine backlash Hasbro would receive from parents of these girls if they show that polygamy is completely normal and there is nothing wrong with it (even in our world). Especially from religious parents which consider the mere idea of such relationships as a sin.
There's a Blaze Pizza advertisement at the end of the chapter. Is this a sign?
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Yeah, I almost did a spittake at that one. Especially since I have been rewatching rwby whike introducing my mom to it. So it is REALLY fresh in my mind. The spittake would've ruined my phone tho........
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Mine is Doomsday Preppers.
Not sure how to feel about that.
Also religion, but let's not get into that...please
...yeah, I’m going to be the evil one here and hope you do. (And we totally need a Queen Chrysalis icon or three for cases like this.)
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I'm actually inclined to disagree. It could just be that religions hate polygamy because the balanced sexes caused monogamy to be normal, making polygamy abnormal and thus wrong.
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Yeah, the ratio makes polygamy banned by religion, not the other way around
I guess I should be the one to say it...
“PIZZA TIME!”
Damn... Now i want Pizza...
Celestia is horny