005 [Video]

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[Being there when the portal opened up, Eraqus of course decided to walk through it and see what world they had discovered this time.]

[And it is a lot more colorful than the previous one. It seems like one of his Spirits is helping him hold up his communicator now, since facing it...]

[The Keyblade Master is now a gray earth pony with reddish hooves, a black, spiky mane and tail, and a gold Master emblem for a cutie mark. He's still got the facial hair and the scars, too. He looks less shocked about this than one might expect...mostly a little confused as to how quadrupeds are supposed to operate.]

Considering our previous conversation regarding your world, Celestia, I would say in hindsight this adds a certain degree of irony.

Comments

[letteropener]

If you'd prefer. My offer remains open. After all, this does increase my own odds of needing to learn to use 'feet' and 'hands' someday soon...

[Not that she seems bothered by the prospect.]

[hiptobe_eraqus]

I'll certainly keep that in mind.

Hmm, I suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility. Although if that is the case, I'm sure you'll adapt fine.

[letteropener]

I hope your faith in me is rewarded, when that time comes, although I wonder if I might have a harder time of it than others. After all, I have had a much longer time to get used to four legs and two wings than most.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

I get the feeling that whether it's for ten years or a hundred, we all get used to how we normally move in pretty short order. I think the same would apply to a new form.

At least, in my case, I hope so.

[letteropener]

I'm mildly surprised you became an earth pony. I would have guessed your capacity for magic would have reflected more.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[He has to admit, he's a little disappointed at the lack of being able to use telekinesis for object manipulation.]

I couldn't begin to guess there. I suppose just being capable of its use does not denote being a unicorn, then.

[letteropener]

I suspect your attitude and leanings, conscious and unconscious, influence the choice. Though I do wonder if anyone else will become an alicorn. It would surprise me, but not unduly so after everything else I've seen...

[hiptobe_eraqus]

It's possible. Although I don't know if that would make a difference to normal residents if they're simply born that way.

[Huh, so that would have to be the term for one with both wings and a horn.] I was under the impression that was a very special status, considering the abilities described.

[letteropener]

It is. Does that not also hold true of, for example, possession of a Keyblade?

[Or other examples she could get into from those she'd met here. After everything she'd been through, she could attest that 'special' is simply a matter of degree. Other alicorns might have earned their wings or horns, but she, at least, had just done the right thing at the right time.]

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Yes, but I am not sure how that would translate into this world's denotions of "special status." Keyblades enable great magic, but it hardly allows one to move the sun and moon.

[Others might fall more into that category, but it's hard for him to be a judge on that.]

[letteropener]

Neither am I. That is why I wonder what, if anything, this transformation would consider equivalent.

Then again, it does take an extraordinary something to become an alicorn, so perhaps the transformation is incapable of reproducing that, even where it might be warranted.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

I suppose we wouldn't know unless it happened to someone here traveling to the world.

'To become?' I was under the impression that various types of ponies were born that way...

[letteropener]

The status of 'Princess' is one that is earned. [She is firm, though not chastising, on this point.] After all, it is not one to be taken lightly.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[Well, that's unusual to what he usually experiences with princesses. Definitely not in a bad way, though.]

Hmm, I see. I can understand that.

[letteropener]

[In some ways, Equestria has a pretty decent grasp on what's important.]

I do not know if my sister or I would sense such a thing, so if you see any alicorns, do send word? I suspect not everyone is in a hurry to make public their new form in our world.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[He nods.]

All right, I will do so. [He doesn't know who would qualify for that, but it would pique his interest.]