1) The only time you have to use your legal name is in legal capacities. You’re free to tell any random passerby on the street that your name is whatever you want to go by.

Unless they can prove that they’re a member of the guard and are asking for your name on official business, which still falls under legal capacities.

2) Can’t go wrong joining the Illuminati. Just be careful; I’ve heard it’s like Hotel Coltifornia. You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave.

3) Like someone lifting you up only to slap you back down.

4) Wouldn’t matter if he did or not… Equestrian society requires that in any marriage involving a pony, both participants must take the surname of the pony. It was put into place when interspecies marriage was legalized in an effort to ensure proper Equestrian societarian integration.

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It’s… It’s fine, though. Was never all that interested in getting married anyway… I mean, it’s just a formality, right?

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His last name is Arctos.

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