Ask Lyra

Show…? Must mean the cameras…

But hey there! I’ve answered that one before, and it’s a longer answer, so I’ll just link to it.

As for playing one, cutie mark or not, I’m really not the best. And it’s not exactly a contemporary instrument. So, I don’t get a lot of work as a musician. I’ve uploaded a bunch of stuff over the years, though I don’t really record much that I play anymore.

Cute? Awesome? Well, I do try to keep some bounce in my mane. But y-you know, it’s no big.

These are the rest of the treats @allgreymatters sent me! I got doggies and candies and skullies! The holographic ones are my favorite (specifically the one that says SPOOKY and turns into an eye)!

Sorry it took me so long to upload this. And sorry the lighting in my room is so bad (it used to not be this bad).

Lyra: Yee! For Nightmare Night, I’m going as Lori from Night in the Woods!

Bon-Bon: I’m going as a Will-o-Wisp. Which basically just means I’m going to be wearing a plain, white dress wrapped in blue Hearth’s Warming lights on a pulse timer.

Tootsie: I’m going as a Maredragora!

Lyra: And it’s a pretty elaborate costume, too!

Tootsie: Thanks!

Lyra: I can’t believe you all liked that episode…

Blossomforth: What? It was good! Cocoon was there! He’s always great!
Lyra: Ugh! Cocoon is the worst villain in the show. Why does everycreature like him?
Blossomforth: He’s devious and sneaky and dangerous and… he looks cool! He doesn’t just fight the heroes, he tricks them!

Raindrops: The doppelgangers were pretty cool.

Lyra: The doppelgangers were pretty cool-
Blossomforth: Cocoon made them!
Lyra: How?! Where was this skill acquired? And why was it never used until now?! Nevermind how much of a waste it all was. That plot thread went no where!
Blossomforth: He needed to find the source of the heroes’ powers!
Lyra: Which never would have worked if the heroes were acting like themselves! The writers could have done anything to fill in that gap, but instead they introduced these six doubles and dumbed down even Twain and Jacob just so everything would “work out”. Just like always! Every time Cocoon shows up the heroes act like lunatics! [Pause] No offense.

Princess Luna: We shall not feign that no injury was incurred.

Lyra: Sorry…

Princess Luna: You are forgiven.

Raindrops: Did… you watch the episode, your highness?

Princess Luna: Indeed. We found the plot structure to be rather juvenile, but resigned that the objective was comedy. And in that regard, believe a moderate success was enjoyed.

Bon-Bon: Kinda weird not being the only adult in the room for a change…

Well that episode sucked. Gonna have to get the ol’ cartoon club back together just so I can make fun of it.

You never call! Are you eating enough vegetables? Where’s my grandkids? Other things mothers say in shows and video games!

But how ya doin’, friendo? Still listin’ to jazz and taking shots at antiquated social conventions? Scare any Youtubers lately?

Lyra: Alright, you ready?

Bon-Bon: Not… really. How are you supposed to hold this thing?
Lyra: Like this!

Bon-Bon: Oh, okay.

Lyra: Alright, so these two are your attack buttons.

Bon-Bon: What’s the difference?

Lyra: This is for your basic attacks and this is for your specials. You press this one a bunch to do your basic combo, but you can press this one in the middle of a combo to do a special move. You can also just press it whenever, usually to activate some character-specific gimmick. Oh! But sometimes you have to press it a bunch too. Both by itself and in the middle of a combo. And other times you’ll press it once, and then mash the basic one. Then you press this button to dodge, but hold it to dodge and then go into a sprint. Then you have this button that activates your super special move, if you have a full meter. I usually use it to counter an enemy if-
Bon-Bon: W-which meter?

Lyra: This one! But each notch represents a separate charge for use. Then you just have your secondary weapons, your spirit focus, your lock-on, and your block button, and that’s-… Where you goin’? Bon-Bon! It’s a simple button-masher, I swear! [Pause] Ugh. Alright, Liza.

Tootsie: You know my conditions.

Lyra: Bu… but I want to play as Sheik for once!

Tootsie: You can be Toon Link.

Lyra: Blugh!

Lyra: I mean, you’re going, right?

Raindrops: Oh absolutely! I can’t wait to see Princess Celestia on stage. And… Um…

Lyra: You’re leanin’ in kinda close there-
Raindrops: I’ll actually be there on official Wonderbolt business, watching over the Princess. Shhh~…

Lyra: Oh, okay.

Raindrops: I bet you’re so excited! This must be a big deal for you!

Lyra: Eh heh heh… Ah W-why would…? [Pause] Why would it be a big deal to me specifically?

Raindrops: Oh… I don’t know… I always got the impression that Princess Celestia meant a lot to you. She helped you or something, right?

Lyra: Yeah… Kinda…

Raindrops: You’re going to be there though for the play, aren’t you?

Lyra: Eh-I… Y-eah! Of course!

Raindrops: Oh good! I’ll try to find you so we can sit together. It’ll be nice to talk to Bon-Bon some more, too. I don’t think we get to talk enough these days.

Lyra: Hey Bon-Bon.

[Pause]

Lyra: Hu… How’s it-?
Bon-Bon: You haven’t heard.

Lyra: Heard wha-?
Bon-Bon: Princess Celestia- No… Princess Twilight’s friendship school is putting on a play. It- Oh, in Ponyville. It’s going to be about how Princess Celestia first rose the sun. And THE REAL DANGED PRINCESS CELESTIA IS GOING TO PLAY HERSELF!

[Pause]

Bon-Bon: If you manage to pick your jaw up off the floor in the next hour, I could use some things from the market before it closes.

[Long Pause]

Please don’t. I can’t get you anything back. And you already got me that gift package/gift card for Hearth’s Warming.

There was a little while where I could gift games to others, and that felt great! Turns out I shouldn’t even have been doing that back then.

Thanks! Yeah I try not to make a big deal about it anymore.

Oh! But I did get the new Kirby game! Haven’t beat it yet, but it’s pretty good!

Also was gifted Chroma Squad on Steam! Which looks amazing! I haven’t had the chance to play it yet because of this event in ESO that’s been taking up all my free time (but is giving me tons of cosmetics). But I’m looking forward to it!

Thanks again, @mikedaws0n!

Ribbon: So… That new school of Twilight’s looks… lovely.

Lyra: Ugh… As if the castle wasn’t enough of an eyesore.

Ribbon: Well, at least it’s for a good cause.

Bon-Bon: Twilight had quite a bit of trouble getting the doors to stay open.

Ribbon: So I heard. It’s a shame how the EEA caused such a ruckus. Behavior like that is what starts conflict.

Lyra: Really? You’re one-hundred percent on board with an international school of friendship?

Ribbon: Hmm? Oh certainly. We’re lucky so many other nations are willing to participate.
Bon-Bon: Wait for it…
Ribbon: It’s the perfect opportunity to elevate these other species away from their antiquated traditions.
Bon-Bon: There it is.
Ribbon: Did you know Hippogriffs don’t even have a standardized currency? An established society like theirs? You’d only expect something so backwards from Yaks or Dragons.

Bon-Bon: It continuously amazes me how you can manage to be in the right, yet do so for all the wrong reasons.

Ribbon: Oh dear Bonnie. If you didn’t come to the same, financially-profitable conclusion you’re simply not being creative enough.

So… I just saw the ReBoot reboot trailer via The Forgotten History of Reboot and…

First of all, I liked Code Lyoko. I watched it a bunch. It was a fantastic show. It did a lot of things very well. But, I also watched ReBoot. It was a fantastic show. It did a lot of things very well.

However, ReBoot and Code Lyoko have ZERO analogs between each other. Even trying to say they’re both video game shows is like saying the original Super Friends is similar to Teen Titans. Nothing! Not the tone, not the stakes, not the characters- Nothing about them were similar! Code Lyoko was basically a high school drama with action, that gradually leaned more and more on the action. ReBoot was a comedy/action with consequences, and that ultimately took the show down a more mature path.

So… How do you turn ReBoot into a bargain-bin Code Lyoko? Was it an accident? Can that even be an accident?

Usually I ignore it, but I do get upset sometimes at things like this. I get angry, or sad, or disappointed. But right now I’m disgusted. Someone woke up one day and decided to ruin a license, one that wasn’t even very well known, and for what? There can’t be any money in this, at least not any more than a new franchise would have made without disgracing an old one.

Jolteon: Jolteon! Jo-jolt! Jolteon-on jo-jolt. Jolte-e-eon! Jolteon!

Miltank: Miltank!

Jolteon: Ooooo… lteon.

Lyra: That Maud Pie sure was… somethin’ else! I mean, Pinkie had said so much about her “humor”, but it really… uh… pales in comparis-
Bon-Bon: Are we seriously going to trot around how incredibly uncomfortable that was?
Lyra: Oh thank Celestia you said it instead of me. You are an Earth Pony, so I didn’t-
Bon-Bon: No, that was weird.
Lyra: Okay good! What the heck?! Was the joke supposed to be that it wasn’t funny? ‘Cause it wasn’t funny!
Bon-Bon: I mean, it’s not like I have wings or magic to lift things with. Of course I have to walk everywhere and use my mouth. There’s no other timely way to accomplish day-to-day tasks.
Lyra: Right? And it must taste awful too. It’d be impossible to never touch anything with your tongue.

[Pause]

Bon-Bon: This is not an open forum to discuss-
Lyra: Yes! NO! I’m so sorry! I-I’m just trying to be sensitive and-and-
Bon-Bon: Well stop it! Earth Ponies are a proud race and we’ve never needed extra consideration. Our Equestrian society may have developed in a direction that doesn’t glorify the use of Earth Pony magic, but it’s still there! I use it everyday!

Lyra: Yes! I’m sorry! I-
Bon-Bon: Stop! Being! Sorry!

[Pause]

Lyra: Okay…

[Long Pause]

Lyra: The rock jokes were funny though, right?
Bon-Bon: Oh yes! That was hilarious!

Lyra: Well that blew chucks.

Bon-Bon: Yes. Being held captive for 3 days isn’t what I would call “fun“.

Lyra: It’s a good thing for them that Twilight and her friends came back. ‘Cause I was about to give each and every one of those ogres a left… and a right!

Bon-Bon: Right…

Lyra: And a left.

Bon-Bon: Fantasies aside, that might have been the worst things have ever gotten.

Lyra: Nah. Discord was still out there, so even Tirek had him beat. And Chrysalis 2: Electric Boogaloo actually managed to capture all 4 princess and get away. It took Emo Backstory and The B Cast to save the day that time, with a little help from us. I’d rate Storm Drain right around a Nightmare Moon; lot of flash, not a lot of substance.

Bon-Bon: … You are so full of crap it’s dripping out of your ears.
Lyra: Heh.

Bon-Bon: I am starting to get a little worried though. I mean, these attacks seem to be happening more and more frequently. Where are we now? Bi-yearly plots to overthrow Equestria?

Lyra: Well, among those that manage to get off the ground.

Bon-Bon: That makes it even worse.

Bon-Bon: You’re… not looking so hot.

Lyra: Mmm.

Bon-Bon: More nightmares?

Lyra: Yee.

Bon-Bon: Reoccurring nightmares?

Lyra: Uh-uh.

Bon-Bon: You… sometimes make Tumblr posts about new ones. Did you-?
Lyra: No.

Bon-Bon: That bad?

Lyra: And graphic.

Bon-Bon: Yeesh.

Lyra: Why am I like this? I never hear anypony else having nightmares all the time. Isn’t Luna supposed to be watching over the dreamscape or something? Are my nightmares not bad enough? Is it just me? Am I overreacting?

Bon-Bon: You’ve talked to her one-on-one half a dozen times. Why haven’t you ever asked?

Lyra: “Oh hey, Princess Luna! I wake up multiple times every night weeping from the ghastly visions my broken mind won’t stop producing. What, may I ask, the [omitted], your majesty?“

Bon-Bon: I’m sure you could think of a better way to word that.

Okay, so in this nightmare I’m a news anchor. Or I work on the show or something. Anyway this other news anchor died. Never explained who he was or how he died. I was upset, but the rest of the news team was trying to turn it into some big publicized thing. And I was angry. I wanted to take control of the news story and change how it was presented. And I did. But I lost traction or something and they got control back.

So we’re at the last segment and I was there in the back and they said something that really got under my skin and I walked out there and I mean I’m ready to deck a fool. But as I’m holding the guy’s chair back and about to lay one into his face, I realize that I wasn’t the only one who missed him and he wouldn’t have wanted this.

And it hits me just how much it hurts. It just hurts so much that he’s gone. And-and I stumble off set weeping and I just curl up in front of a door and cry and cry. And when I wake up… it still hurts. And it’s stupid. It wasn’t real, but I couldn’t make it stop hurting. So all I could do is lay there, struggling to hold back tears, just so I can go back to sleep.