This first little piece is for Lightwing, who gave me the prompt of our OCs meeting up for a drink and chatting. Lightwing, all I can say is that you 1000% should have seen this coming.

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“Would you stop giving me that look?” Cupid Strike asked, raising an eyebrow at the unicorn mare sitting across from him.

Eloquence giggled and took a sip from her cup of cold cider before responding. “What look?”

“You know what look! That little grin you get when you think I’m being silly.”

“To be fair, you are being silly.” Eloquence kept her grin firmly in place.

“All I said was that I think Daring Do and Rainbow Dash would make a good couple. What is it with you judging my ships?”

“I don’t judge all of your ships my dear, just the silly ones.”

Cupid Strike rolled his eyes. “Alright then, why is it silly?”

“Well, first of all, because Rainbow Dash is a real pony, and Daring Do is a fictional character.”

“Oh come on! You’re a writer, use your imagination!”

Eloquence attempted to look annoyed by that comment, but her amused smile betrayed her. “I tend not to use my imagination to pair fictional characters with real ponies, however, if I were to use my imagination and simply go off of what I read in Ring of Destiny I still wouldn’t say that they could work together. I think that Rainbow’s impulsive nature would get to be too much for Daring to deal with given that she’s much more calculating, not to mention that Rainbow would still need to move much further past her idolization of Daring.”

“But both of those issues were addressed in Ring of Destiny. Just from their one adventure Daring learned to be more trusting while Dash learned not to put Daring on a pedestal and to be more rational. They were able to learn so much from each other just in that one day, think about how much they could grow together as a couple!”

Eloquence tilted her head, contemplating. “I suppose you make a good point, but I still just don’t think that Dash’s idolization of Daring makes a good starting point for a relationship, even if she is moving past it.”

Cupid chuckled before finishing the rest of his cider. “That’s fair. Maybe they aren’t perfect, but there aren’t a lot of potential ships in the Daring Do series. Whether you like them or not they’re pretty much the series OTP by default.”

“I wouldn’t say that…”

Cupid raised an eyebrow at that. “Oh really? Then who is?”

“I, I don’t know. I just, think there could be a better pairing. It’s not important though; I mean it wouldn’t even make sense. Forget I said anything.”

“Aww, come on! Tell meeee!” Cupid’s eyes widened, hoping to sway his unicorn friend.

Eloquence blushed. “No, really, it’s nothing…”

Cupid smirked. “Fine then. If you want we can switch to a different romantic topic. Maybe we should chat about your love life. You could tell me about that griffon I keep seeing you with, oh, or that accomplished gambler who asked you out during his interview with you!”

Eloquence huffed, hoping that the color in her face wasn’t starting to “match her mane” as her friends liked to say. “You’re going to keep doing this until I tell you aren’t you?”

“Yep!” Cupid gave Eloquence a wide, toothy smile, the picture of blatantly feigned innocence.

“Fine…” Eloquence sighed and paused to consider her next words. “Have you ever really thought about the relationship depicted between Ahuizotl and Dr. Caballeron?”

Cupid thought for a moment before a smile slowly spread across his face. “Go on…”