1) I don’t know what that is, but after looking it up I’ve seen that character before.

2) Uh… I don’t know anything about you, so I haven’t the slightest.

3) I believe there is a force out there that put everything into motion, and that it’s watching and listening to us. But it can’t help us. It can’t change anything, but it can listen to you when you’re all alone in the stirring darkness. You don’t ever have to be alone. There’s plenty to be afraid of, but at least you’re not alone.

4) I heard about that game being really good, but I never played it. I didn’t know what the allure of it was or really anything about it.

And that would be great! I appreciate the offer!

5) Yes! Absolutely! In fact I would be both delighted and honored to have anyone give it a try! It will be a long time before it’s in a publishable state, but playable isn’t so far off if I get back to work on it!

1) Was it made by humans? Zen-esque followings have existed in our world since… well further back than I can trace. But Buddhism-style teachings as a whole have always seemed a little too thick for me. It’s fluid, which is nice, but really just too thick to penetrate.

I don’t adhere to an organized following or religion. I believe what I believe based on what I’ve come to understand and that sometimes intersects with or even borrows from various spiritual movements.

2) I can certainly understand playing a game for the story. Front Mission 2 is an alright game, but the only reason I’ve made it to the last 3 missions is for the story. The battles in that game just take way too long. And they only get longer! Where I am each fight is so exhausting I dread playing it again. Haven’t touched it in months.

And yes, I am. Not really comfortable with where I am right now, though. I have a tumblr set up for it that I’ve posted information to, but I don’t want to release it publicly until I at least have a walkthrough of how combat is supposed to work typed up. Right now it’s almost entirely concepts. I have more in my head, but it’s much harder to organize those thoughts into something technical that makes sense without repeating itself. Like a manual.

3) Bon-Bon: I can think of some more interesting adventures I’ve had then eating spaghetti and orange juice flavored jelly beans.

Lyra: There you go again!

Bon-Bon: [Whistling]

Lyra: … Anyway… I like eating fruity candies. Usually sweet but sour works fine too!

Bon-Bon: If you think about it, that was really a pretty silly question to ask me. I like candies that have chocolate or creamy casings with a variety of carefully thought out flavors inside. In other words, bonbons!

4) Earth pony, for employment reasons. Wouldn’t want to be a human.

I suppose pegasus would be the usual choice but ah… just not all that interested in flying.

1) I wouldn’t go that far. I- No! Wait wait wait!

I’d say that argument… doesn’t hold water!

2) What’s that? Little Timmy is trapped in a well?

3) Well, yes and no. The Princess has sworn up and down that she isn’t divine, but some write that off as a cover. There is no widely accepted religion for it, but there are collections of ponies that believe she and Princess Luna are both literal gods. I addressed the difference in part once before.

4) You don’t say? What else did you read in the tabloids?

5) Been asked before. Liking cake is just not something most expect royalty to do. Nothing more; nothing less.

You know what? How in Tartarus did Sweetie and her friends get a picture of the Princess in Canterlot from all the way in Ponyville?

6) I like it, but I don’t have to listen to it played over and over again on the radio. Because I don’t listen to the radio.

Kinda funny you mention it. Considering the dance, bronies must love that song.

7) Well, I probably would have been something like that, but I’m supposed to be dressed up to help in Krastos’ Haunted House and he wanted it to be mythologically themed.

1) I… I look, alright. I look really hard. Some kind of… Explanation, a form of balance, a rational reason. But I can’t find it, or I haven’t yet. Humans have come so far without magic, without individualized flight, but all I can come up with is unpredictable luck. Nothing more. Your advancement isn’t based upon a group’s collective persistence over centuries so much as just one or two people working out of desperation and getting lucky. And if those people failed, it just sits until the next person possibly gets lucky. That’s… That’s not even a community. That’s just a bunch of ponies walking in different directions until one of them either finds something or gives up.

If there’s an explanation- if there is some kind of reason… It’s the hand. It can’t be anything else. It just has to be. The question is, why?

2) You’re welcome to come over, but I think I’m having dinner with Boscov again. I’m not sure. He said something about getting me some fresh kiwi, but I’m not sure when.

3) You’ve misunderstood a lot of things. We don’t have just one religion. We have just as little understanding of how we were created as humans do and there’s countless conflicting theories. We just don’t take it as a reason to fight.

Princesses Celestia and Luna are gods, but they didn’t create us. When some of us say gods, we aren’t talking about deities. It’s based upon an old measure of an entities strength; specifically their potential to threaten a society. The sisters are gods because they possess that much magical ability. Discord is a god because he can alter reality on a whim. Princess Cadance is just a measure below a god because, while she can manipulate the thoughts of others, she can only do so in one specific way.

But the oldest records of history talk about a time long before Equestria or any kingdoms where ponies fought for survival in an untamed land, just like any other beast. Any predator large enough saw us as pray. But over time, culminating in Equestria’s formation, we learned that if we prepare we don’t always have to fight. Amongst each other, we never have to. There will always be conflict, but that’s why we organize, plan, make efficient use of the soil and weather. And if humans weren’t so busy making bombs powerful enough to wipe out a city, maybe they could formulate a means to control weather too.