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Celestia has always felt like a maternal figure to me, so going beyond "polite hug" into "cuddle" territory would just be weird. Chrysalis is, well, actually evil, so no I don't get any affection vibes from her. Tempest would try to kill me even though she clearly needs a hug more than most ponies. So definitely Luna first.

Ears are the standout for me. They're just so expressive in a way that human ears aren't, and I love that the show consistently got that right. It probably helps that I went to horse riding summer camps several times as a teenager, plus I'm a cat person and my parents have had cats for most of life, so that kind of animal ear body language is second nature to me. And for some reason, when it comes to Twilight specifically, the wings are also adorable. I have no explanation for this.

"Shrine" is an awfully specific term that definitely crosses into "weird" territory, unless we're saying it ironically. I'm definitely not planning on praying to Princess Luna to chase away my nightmares It's even weirder for the Japanese side of my brain, because in that culture when you have a small "shrine" in your house full of objects that remind you of a single, specific non-divine person... that's how you honor a deceased family member, typically one who used to live there. I don't know about you, but I don't think about any of my favorite ponies that way If the actual intent was "would you put all your pony merch in one small cluster, or spread them all over your living space?" then I guess I'd do the former. But I'm not yet sure if I want to get any figures, plushes, etc, as opposed to things like stickers and keychains.

The show's given us so many examples of RD secrets that we pretty much know the most likely reasons she'd have yet another one are: she considers it "uncool" she's afraid saying it would hurt a friend Type 2 is pretty rare though since RD tends to be so brutally honest (unlike Applejack, who's usually anything but brutal about it). So it's far more likely to be another "uncool" thing. IMO, the most likely scenario is that her interest in Daring Do leads to her reading more "egghead-y" books about archaeology or ancient pony history. Especially since Twilight no doubt has plenty of those books in the same library as her own Daring Do collection Then she lets it slip when Sunburst shows off just the right kind of antique to Twilight

I assume you could tell by looking at it that it's not a rash or infected tissue or anything medically scary like that, but something much closer to a tattoo. And I've never had any interest in tattoos, mind-altering chemicals, or the kinds of parties where that sort of thing just randomly happens to people. So mostly this: Then because I like to overthink MLP:FiM mythos, I'd be puzzled that it appeared while I was asleep, because they're supposed to appear when you discover something about yourself, which is awfully hard to do while asleep (unless you're constantly lucid dreaming, like all fictional characters somehow do by default, but I certainly don't). Nobody ever seems to get one and then have to ask what it means (except in Apple Bloom's nightmares). Rather, knowing what it means is precisely what causes it to appear. So I'd likely write down everything I could remember about any dreams I had last night, or assume human cutie marks follow very different rules and start trying to figure out whether I got any other kind of magic in the process.

Depends how well I know each of them in this hypothetical alternate reality. If my pony counterpart was equally close friends with all of the Mane 6, then probably Twilight since we have the most in common.

The answer to this question is in a perpetual state of quantum flux. By which I mean, whenever I notice I've been conspicuously uninterested in one of the Mane 6 for a while, I immediately become interested in them again.

Since I'm extremely new to all this, the answer is clearly "not yet" If I keep spending this many hours on it, eventually all of my comic book-reading friends are going to wonder why I've fallen so many issues behind, and there's gonna be that awkward talk about "seeing other fandoms"... but I'll probably cool off a bit before that becomes a problem.

AFAIK most of the objects and creatures that exist in both our world and theirs (which we might reasonably assume are "the same size in both worlds", whatever that means) are significantly larger relative to an adult pony than they are to a real life human or an EqG adult or teenage human, and pretty much all of them seem to imply something awfully close to waist height as @A French Derpy full of Salt conveniently demonstrated. Real life "ponies" vary by definition a lot, but AFAICT they also seem to typically be about waist height.

Not yet. I'm sure it'll come up in casual conversation eventually. Or at the latest, when we see each other in person and they see all the pony stickers on my laptop. They're generally cool with everything so I'm sure they won't be weird about it. Most likely they'll find it amusing because my sibling was a brony ages ago yet the appeal was totally lost on me back then.

If you mean the concept of shipping in general, in most fandoms I don't really think about it, or at most I consider it odd if the source material has nothing remotely romantic in it. But with MLP, since the interpersonal relationships between the cast are such a massive focus of the show and get developed so thoroughly (including the occasional canon romance), to me it seems virtually impossible to like the show yet also have no opinions on who'd be a good match for who else. If you mean any specific ships, no not really. There are some pairings whose appeal is simply lost on me, but that's about it. And if the fanfics I've been reading are any indication, I could likely be won over to any pairing by the right author.

This isn't even wrong. But seriously, Sunburst for me.