open Life in Canterlot Castle

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

42 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"What? Not even the kitten?"

"We ponies find all kinds of things adorable. Babies, animals, animals wearing little sweaters."

"Nope." Ruby declared "Sure it fills the definition of positive cuteness, but that doesn't do anything to me." "I feel nothing if I see something adorable, I lack the ability to feel whatever you feel that makes you to go 'awwww'."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

16 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

Rose indeed saw this huge cloud of smoke. "Seems like so."

Though this made her think their relation through. Maybe she was too hard on her and needed to forget about the respect thing about her after all.

"That bugbear is probably dead."

Arrow has seen many dragons, so he had plenty of room to make that guess.

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12 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

"Nope." Ruby declared "Sure it fills the definition of positive cuteness, but that doesn't do anything to me." "I feel nothing if I see something adorable, I lack the ability to feel whatever you feel that makes you to go 'awwww'."

"What is it that you can feel then?"

He definitely believed that she could feel all emotions, he just needed to find the things that Ruby has experienced and work from there.

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

Just now, Lucid_Nightlight said:

 

"What is it that you can feel then?"

He definitely believed that she could feel all emotions, he just needed to find the things that Ruby has experienced and work from there.

Ruby shrugged "No idea." "I guess it is possible that there is possibility for same emotions as you can feel, since we have words for them, for example itov, cirau, and lilbhiahin..." "...which translate to Love, kind and joy, though I learned them from a book, no dragon I met used any of those..." "But I have yet to feel any of those, nor do I know any of my kind who has felt those..." "...though then again, besides my mother all dragons I have met tried to kill me, and even she tried to when I accidentally ended up on her territory after I had been thrown out." she sounded oddly casual about it, like there was nothing unusual about it.

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

37 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

Ruby shrugged "No idea." "I guess it is possible that there is possibility for same emotions as you can feel, since we have words for them, for example itov, cirau, and lilbhiahin..." "...which translate to Love, kind and joy, though I learned them from a book, no dragon I met used any of those..." "But I have yet to feel any of those, nor do I know any of my kind who has felt those..." "...though then again, besides my mother all dragons I have met tried to kill me, and even she tried to when I accidentally ended up on her territory after I had been thrown out." she sounded oddly casual about it, like there was nothing unusual about it.

"If those words are in your language, then the emotions must've been experienced by someone of your kind."

Hearing about how everyone wanted to kill each other sounded pretty messed up to Somnus.

"Perhaps it's not because of your species, but because of anarchy. What sounds like to me is that some sort of government needs to be put there to make and enforce laws."

Somnus decided to ask a question.

"Would you be ok with me going to Celestia and suggesting military advancement on that territory or would eat me?"

He was obviously joking.

Edited October 25, 2018 by Lucid_Nightlight

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

1 hour ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"That bugbear is probably dead."

Arrow has seen many dragons, so he had plenty of room to make that guess.

"Yeah, but I guess it asked for it. And I'm pretty sure I'll be asked to award that dragon with a medal or something for such bravery." Rose rolled her eyes. She actually didn't like the idea of awarding someone who wasn't polite, even for a single second. To her eyes, Ruby wasn't worthy of any recognition.

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

24 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"If those words are in your language, then the emotions must've been experienced by someone of your kind."

Hearing about how everyone wanted to kill each other sounded pretty messed up to Somnus.

"Perhaps it's not because of your species, but because of anarchy. What sounds like to me is that some sort of government needs to be put there to make and enforce laws."

Somnus decided to ask a question.

"Would you be ok with me going to Celestia and suggesting military advancement on that territory or would eat me?"

He was obviously joking.

Ruby started laughing, it wasn't a laugh of joy, more like insulting laugh "Government." she kept laughing, until she stopped as quickly as she started "We are lone creatures living on our own territories, most of us are not willing to serve anyone, even each other." "That's like trying to create government for sharks or some other wild animal." she looked at Somnus and spoke with rather knowing tone "We are not like you, we are not civilized, we are not moral, we are wild animals, intelligent and sentient animals, but wild animals nonetheless." "Civilization, morality, government, anarchy....we don't even know those words, they aren't in our language, they mean nothing to us." "We are animals, and we live by rules of nature, period." she was obviously an exception, but she hoped Somnus was smart enough to understand that without her specifically saying it, and like pony could go feral, dragon could come civilized, but one creature is different from whole species.

"And to answer to your question, joke or not, I wouldn't care less." 

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

13 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

Ruby started laughing, it wasn't a laugh of joy, more like insulting laugh "Government." she kept laughing, until she stopped as quickly as she started "We are lone creatures living on our own territories, most of us are not willing to serve anyone, even each other." "That's like trying to create government for sharks or some other wild animal." she looked at Somnus and spoke with rather knowing tone "We are not like you, we are not civilized, we are not moral, we are wild animals, intelligent and sentient animals, but wild animals nonetheless." "Civilization, morality, government, anarchy....we don't even know those words, they aren't in our language, they mean nothing to us." "We are animals, and we live by rules of nature, period." she was obviously an exception, but she hoped Somnus was smart enough to understand that without her specifically saying it, and like pony could go feral, dragon could come civilized, but one creature is different from whole species.

"And to answer to your question, joke or not, I wouldn't care less." 

"Obviously I wouldn't suggest a war, but what I will probably do is suggest diplomacy. Of course, if any of those dragons tried to attack Equestria, then we would have no choice but to take over that land with the help of some allies. I doubt it would get that bad though, we Equestrians are good at diplomacy."

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44 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"Yeah, but I guess it asked for it. And I'm pretty sure I'll be asked to award that dragon with a medal or something for such bravery." Rose rolled her eyes. She actually didn't like the idea of awarding someone who wasn't polite, even for a single second. To her eyes, Ruby wasn't worthy of any recognition.

"Somnus obviously sees something in Ruby and I've never seen him be wrong about that sort of thing."

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

2 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"Obviously I wouldn't suggest a war, but what I will probably do is suggest diplomacy. Of course, if any of those dragons tried to attack Equestria, then we would have no choice but to take over that land with the help of some allies. I doubt it would get that bad though, we Equestrians are good at diplomacy."

"Good luck talking with every individual of my kind separately, because that's the only way for diplomacy." Ruby declared "But why bother, I'm first of my kind to come here during the existence of Equestria, and even I know about this place only because I left our lands." "And isn't that pretty harsh, attack a whole species because one of the finds your home and tries to attack?" obviously she didn't care, but she was just pointing things the flaws in Somnus's thinking "Like I said, we are loners, every dragon lives only for themselves, you won't be getting organised attack from my kind until you somehow piss off the whole species." "Which would happen only if you invaded the territory of every dragon, but then again, we fight to the death, so there wouldn't be anyone left to attack." 

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

2 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

"Good luck talking with every individual of my kind separately, because that's the only way for diplomacy." Ruby declared "But why bother, I'm first of my kind to come here during the existence of Equestria, and even I know about this place only because I left our lands." "And isn't that pretty harsh, attack a whole species because one of the finds your home and tries to attack?" obviously she didn't care, but she was just pointing things the flaws in Somnus's thinking "Like I said, we are loners, every dragon lives only for themselves, you won't be getting organised attack from my kind until you somehow piss off the whole species." "Which would happen only if you invaded the territory of every dragon, but then again, we fight to the death, so there wouldn't be anyone left to attack." 

"We could just have ponies go into those lands, build towns, then we be like "Hey, this us our land. You play by our rules now." That would get the message across."

He went back on the subject of emotions.

"Being in rough enviroment where everything tries to kill you can mess with your head a bit. Perhaps your mind has gotten use to being constantly on high alert, resulting a lack of trust towards others. If I keep showing you around Canterlot, it is only a matter of time before this high alert mode is turned off. That, or I get you a therapist, but that's expensive."

Somnus was joking about the therapist part, he didn't really think Ruby needed one.

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

5 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"We could just have ponies go into those lands, build towns, then we be like "Hey, this us our land. You play by our rules now." That would get the message across."

He went back on the subject of emotions.

"Being in rough enviroment where everything tries to kill you can mess with your head a bit. Perhaps your mind has gotten use to being constantly on high alert, resulting a lack of trust towards others. If I keep showing you around Canterlot, it is only a matter of time before this high alert mode is turned off. That, or I get you a therapist, but that's expensive."

Somnus was joking about the therapist part, he didn't really think Ruby needed one.

"They would rather die than let you build anything, not that you even know where said lands are." Ruby pointed out "Besides, if we think with actual brain, Celestia wouldn't be stupid enough to start a war with intelligent wild beasts that have nothing to lose other than their lives." "And she doesn't seem greedy enough to take over far-away land just for sake of it."

Ruby shrugged "Perhaps" "Or maybe I just am an animal, it shall be seen." she blinked at Somnus "Maybe your weird emotions just stop you from seeing the reality that not every creature that can talk is like you, maybe some of them just are talking animals." a reasonable point, this is one of those moment of compromise, Ruby had already accepted that she could be capable of those things, but Somnus needed to accept that he too could be wrong "You said you don't try to change me, yet you won't accept the possibility of me not changing."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

5 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

"They would rather die than let you build anything, not that you even know where said lands are." Ruby pointed out "Besides, if we think with actual brain, Celestia wouldn't be stupid enough to start a war with intelligent wild beasts that have nothing to lose other than their lives." "And she doesn't seem greedy enough to take over far-away land just for sake of it."

Ruby shrugged "Perhaps" "Or maybe I just am an animal, it shall be seen." she blinked at Somnus "Maybe your weird emotions just stop you from seeing the reality that not every creature that can talk is like you, maybe some of them just are talking animals." a reasonable point, this is one of those moment of compromise, Ruby had already accepted that she could be capable of those things, but Somnus needed to accept that he too could be wrong "You said you don't try to change me, yet you won't accept the possibility of me not changing."

"I meant that I won't try to change your personality. As for emotions, I'm not trying to change them, I'm trying to trigger them. I'm aware that you can feel shame, and earlier I sensed some other sort of emotion that appeared for a brief second, this wasn't long enough to find out what that emotion was, but it was obviously one that you claimed to be unable to feel. Given the circumstances, I am given plenty of reason to believe that you can feel these emotions."

"Also, I don't consider you an animal. Even if you were one, animals can feel the same emotions ponies do. Fluttershy seems to have proven that."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

 

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Edited October 25, 2018 by Lucid_Nightlight

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

6 hours ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"Somnus obviously sees something in Ruby and I've never seen him be wrong about that sort of thing."

"Maybe he sees something in her, but I don't. I see in Ruby no more but a rude being whose only reason to be here is protect the Equestrian Treasury! She'll have to demonstrate me herself a better image I eventually could get of her if you all want me to consider her better than I do now."

Edited October 25, 2018 by Emperor Blu Traincrown

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

15 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"Maybe he sees something in her, but I don't. I see in Ruby no more but a rude being whose only reason to be here is protect the Equestrian Treasury! She'll have to demonstrate me herself a better image I eventually could get of her if you all want me to consider her better than I do now."

Arrow ate a bit of his cotton candy.

"Perhaps her life previous to living in Equestria messed her up a bit. We cannot forget that there two sides to this."

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

2 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

Arrow ate a bit of his cotton candy.

"Perhaps her life previous to living in Equestria messed her up a bit. We cannot forget that there two sides to this."

"Fair point, but she needs to understand that here we respect each other. It isn't going to end up well for her here if she doesn't behave, I'm afraid." Rose stated as she opened her bucket of sweets and put some into her mouth, to chew on them. She gave a questioning look to Arrow as she slightly bended her bucket towards him; asking the stallion if he wanted some.

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

21 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"Fair point, but she needs to understand that here we respect each other. It isn't going to end up well for her here if she doesn't behave, I'm afraid." Rose stated as she opened her bucket of sweets and put some into her mouth, to chew on them. She gave a questioning look to Arrow as she slightly bended her bucket towards him; asking the stallion if he wanted some.

"You wouldn't be able to do much besides a few punishments. Only Celestia can do anything to her, which she probably won't."

As for the bucket of sweets.

"Nah, I'm good."

----------------------------------Meanwhile with Ruby and Somnus.

@Catpone Cerberus

"I know what we can do! How about fishing?"

Somnus liked his suggestion, fishing was like only the best thing ever!

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

10 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

@Catpone Cerberus

"I know what we can do! How about fishing?"

Somnus liked his suggestion, fishing was like only the best thing ever!

"Fishing?" Ruby repeated "Like the only thing I don't know how to do." she then shrugged "I guess, if nothing else I can eat what we get, if we get anything." fish were rather small creatures, so Ruby had never bothered to try and hunt them, because not only was something small hard to catch, it wasn't worth the hassle because she could barely taste it if she ate something so small in her dragon form.

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

10 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"You wouldn't be able to do much besides a few punishments. Only Celestia can do anything to her, which she probably won't."

As for the bucket of sweets.

"Nah, I'm good."

"Valid point, I can't do much to her without Celestia. But I fear that if she behaves like that with somepony who potentially can kill her, even in dragon form, it doesn't end well for her. And I'm pretty sure the pony could get away with it by legitimate defense if it is proven Ruby happened to attack first."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

7 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"Valid point, I can't do much to her without Celestia. But I fear that if she behaves like that with somepony who potentially can kill her, even in dragon form, it doesn't end well for her. And I'm pretty sure the pony could get away with it by legitimate defense if it is proven Ruby happened to attack first."

"Somnus could probably calm the situation down. Besides, he's trying to help her now as we speak."

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8 minutes ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

"Fishing?" Ruby repeated "Like the only thing I don't know how to do." she then shrugged "I guess, if nothing else I can eat what we get, if we get anything." fish were rather small creatures, so Ruby had never bothered to try and hunt them, because not only was something small hard to catch, it wasn't worth the hassle because she could barely taste it if she ate something so small in her dragon form.

"I'm sure we'll catch something. Just follow me, I know of a nice river nearby!"

Somnus started to lead the dragon to a river that he saw as perfect for fishing.

Edited October 25, 2018 by Lucid_Nightlight

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

2 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"Somnus could probably calm the situation down. Besides, he's trying to help her now as we speak."

"Well I hope he can soften her up and make her at least understand she isn't in her dragon world, but in a pony one. And in a pony one, we respect each other. Simple as that."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

50 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"Well I hope he can soften her up and make her at least understand she isn't in her dragon world, but in a pony one. And in a pony one, we respect each other. Simple as that."

"If anyone can soften Ruby, it's Somnus."

Arrow decided it was probably a good idea to focus back on the date.

"Ready for some teacups?"

[Emperor Azurailo 1,092]

42 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"If anyone can soften Ruby, it's Somnus."

Arrow decided it was probably a good idea to focus back on the date.

"Ready for some teacups?"

"I trust him, I'm sure he will."

However Rose smirked as the idea of the teacups ride. "You bet I am!"

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

9 minutes ago, Emperor Blu Traincrown said:

"I trust him, I'm sure he will."

However Rose smirked as the idea of the teacups ride. "You bet I am!"

Arrow went over to the teacups and got in line.

"Nothing ever bad happens on the teacups!"

[Catpone Cerberus 23,604]

7 hours ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

"I'm sure we'll catch something. Just follow me, I know of a nice river nearby!"

Somnus started to lead the dragon to a river that he saw as perfect for fishing.

Ruby shrugged again and started following Somnus, she threw the empty can away now that Calti had finished eating and was resting on her head "What do you usually do with the fish assuming you like fishing." "Since neither you or your hamster eats meat."

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

5 hours ago, Catpone Cerberus said:

Ruby shrugged again and started following Somnus, she threw the empty can away now that Calti had finished eating and was resting on her head "What do you usually do with the fish assuming you like fishing." "Since neither you or your hamster eats meat."

"If it's a tiny fish, I typically throw it back due to the whole legal size thing, if it's a bigger fish, I just give it to some kind of animal shelter or something since I have no use for it."

He walked over to the river and took a fishing pole from a nearby log.

Edited October 26, 2018 by Lucid_Nightlight