ooc Another Cultural Exchange

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,815]

@Illiad Easle

i do play NPCs, but for this time, I would like to focus on developing Chelsea, if you're okay with playing other NPCs.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

No problem, I don't do main characters though.

Could you give me an idea as to how Chelsea is perceived in town? What do the ponies of Ponyville think of her? Are they openly accepting? Optimistically cautious? Outright hostile?

Does she have specific friends/enemies I should be aware of?

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,815]

@Illiad Easle

Ponies in Ponyville completely accept Chelsea (not trying to make her look like a Mary Sue 'cause she's far from one). She has quite a few close friends. Fluttershy is one of them and so is Rainbow Dash. Applejack is her third closest friend in Ponyville. She also likes the CMCs as well. She has a little bit of a tension with Trixie. Her most notable enemy of course is General Iron Hoof who had their unarmed ship sunk. 

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

Alright, so she'd be recognized by those in town and they would be friendly towards her. Was it always that way? Or did she have to earn their confidence to start out?

I'm trying to judge how receptive the locals will be towards Snipes, given he's also an outsider, even more so than Chelsea in some respects.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,815]

@Illiad Easle

Because Gilda had made an impression of griffons, it took a little time, but when Chelsea revealed her pony ears and cutie mark, the townsfolk warmed up to her quite easily. 

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

Sounds good, I think I can work with that, As we go feel free to let me know if you think something or someone should do/act differently. While I'm standing these scene's up this is still your side of the RP, so what you say will be the final word in regards to what happens around our characters.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

In regards to Chelsea, do you want one of her local friends to come in and talk to her? If that's the case, do you have a particular friend in mind?

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,815]

@Illiad Easle

I would like if a friend comes to help out Chelsea. This won't be the last time she'll have a sobbing fit...

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

Well I'll need to know what friends she has, and what they're like, unless you want to play them or don't much care which pony comes to comfort her.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,815]

@Illiad Easle

She has a few local friends, including a Kirin who settled into Ponyville. Her other friends are ponies who are very supportive of her, especially during hard times. 

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Courageous Thunder Dash

Alright, I'll assume then that you don't much care which friend of hers comes in, so I'll take a liberty here. If you don't like who I chose we can change it or simply not have them come by in the future.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

Did you forget to react to Sleipnir's explanation of her unique body configuration? or does Larynx simply not have anything to say about it?

[Skylight Scintillate 1,897]

@Illiad Easle 

Oh, Larynx wasn’t sure how to ask, but I guess he could come up with a way to ask it. I think my edit works.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

I was referring to the fact that Sleipnir actually did explain in my last post, its in the section just after the nervous embarrassment is brought up

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

Specifically this section:

16 hours ago, Illiad Easle said:

Queen Sleipnir simply chuckled as she settled down, "It was just harmless fun, nervous embarrassment is a difficult emotion to cultivate, I simply had to take advantage of the situation." She stood up fully so Larynx could get a good look, "It's okay to look, I've had over a millennium to get used to it, and I rather enjoy the attention. My mother, Queen Gelatine, towards the end of her life was... erratic... my sister would use less favorable words, due to being abandoned by her love Rasputin Stalliongrad. Anyway, normally new queens are made at great cost and effort to the hive, and she wanted to see if the process could be made more efficient, so she tried to make two at once. She got me instead. Well, my sister got me, she killed our mother when she found out about me."

 

[Skylight Scintillate 1,897]

1 hour ago, Illiad Easle said:

@Skylight Scintillate

Specifically this section:

Yeah, I edited my reply saying hat Larynx wasn’t sure what to say about Queen Sleipnir’s family, but he asked further about her body.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

Ah, that makes sense, I haven't seen your edit yet since im on mobile right now. 

I was confused by your earlier post, 

2 hours ago, Skylight Scintillate said:

Oh, Larynx wasn’t sure how to ask, but I guess he could come up with a way to ask it.

By IT I thought you meant about her body, not her family. 

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Princess Skylight

I think now's as good a time as any to regroup, hash out what events and such we want to see happen and look into how we might make it happen.

Due to a number of factors in my own life I find myself with less time and focus to run my own RPs, between work and school I just don't have the same energy that I had over the summer, next semester should be better as I'll only have two classes.

That said, I don't have any plans on my end for where they should go or what they should do. But I'm happy to oblige if there are things that you are excited to see or do while they're still in Manehatten. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind moving to the switch, where Siren goes with Larynx back to the reformed hive.

What do you think? Any ideas, questions, or concerns on your end?

[Skylight Scintillate 1,897]

@Illiad Easle 

Yeah I have been pretty busy this semester too. 

As for plans, I'm thinking maybe we could do something where Larynx sings at the cafe. Other than that, I can't really think of anything else, so I won't mind doing the switch.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Princess Skylight

Alright then, we'll finish off the day with them going to the café to sing, then have them head off to the reformed hive the next day.

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

You know, I think this story has reached a fairly satisfying conclusion. That is to say, I don't know where else to take it at this point. Do you have an idea as to where it should go? Or do you think it's good to end it here?

[Skylight Scintillate 1,897]

@Illiad Easle

On 2023-09-02 at 4:55 PM, Illiad Easle said:

@Skylight Scintillate

You know, I think this story has reached a fairly satisfying conclusion. That is to say, I don't know where else to take it at this point. Do you have an idea as to where it should go? Or do you think it's good to end it here?

Yeah I think that this would be a good place to wrap it up. Maybe it's time to explore a cultural exchange with some other characters?

Edited September 4, 2023 by Skylight Scintillate

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

I'd be down for that, do you have another one in mind?

[Skylight Scintillate 1,897]

@Illiad Easle

Yeah I have several different ideas. Most of them are the idea of exploring different species of various different cultures as seen in season 8, and how they would interact with the different cultures in your headcanon. For example, how would a Hippogriff react if placed in a certain city? Or a dragon like Smolder? Or a bat pony? Or a kirin? What if an alicorn pony showed up? Or a robot pony? There isn't much information from the show for some of these species, so I suppose we would have to figure out how our headcanons would combine. 

[Illiad Easle 3,073]

@Skylight Scintillate

You know, I've been meaning to explore my headcannon for thestrals, which I've put forward as the purest form of bat pony, so that could work. Do you want to use the same premise as the previous story then, just with new characters/setting?