The Park | Saturday Afternoon

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"What the fuck is this?"

Those were the words that Ronan was repeating as he tried to slog through the massive amounts of glitter that he'd encountered when he'd gone out to get something to eat. It'd covered his jacket and it was in his hair and it nearly hit his knees as he walked. After last week where he'd told someone (vaguely though it was) about dream things, now he was trudging through glitter.

"Fucking Gansey, fucking Declan, fucking Glendower," he seethed, kicking some glitter. That only served to spray it in an upward motion and right into his face. He growled and resisted the immature urge to throw a tantrum. Instead, he just pulled himself to a bench and sat down as glitter continued to rain down./

"I hate my life."

Ronan would have honestly preferred a night horror over this. Well, maybe. Very very slightly maybe.

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Pinkie, on the other hand, was loving it. She sproinged up even higher than usual as she skipped along through the park, occasionally sticking out her tongue to catch the falling glitter. At one point she stopped and made a glitterball with her hooves to hurl at an unsuspecting tree.

She eventually found the bench where Ronan sat and sproinged around it in a gleeful circle.

"BEST. BLIZZARD. EVER!!!!"

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"You can't be serious," Ronan said, glaring at the bouncing talking pony thing. "It's fucking glitter. What about this is good? What about this is the best?"

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie paused in her bouncing and gave Ronan a fairly impressive withering look. "Uh, that it's made of glitter."

Come on, Ronan. Don't be an idiot.

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"It'd be better if it were actual wet, cold snow." In his humble opinion. "At least that would come off easier than this crap."

He brushed some glitter off his jacket. It did nothing but spread the glitter out.

[locointhecoco]

"Snow is really fun," Pinkie agreed easily. "But snow blizzards happen all the time. A glitter blizzard is special!"

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"You're a talking pony, I don't know if your advice means anything. Maybe I just took some bad drugs," he said though he knew that wasn't true. "This?"

The blizzard of glitter that was currently raining down.

"This is stupid."

[locointhecoco]

"And you're a talking human," Pinkie said. "What's your point?" Why were humans so obsessed with the whole "talking pony" thing? Really, it was like they expected to be the only sentient beings in the whole world. "And I'm pretty sure the glitter's inanimate. So it's not smart or stupid at all."

Just to be sure, Pinkie tried greeting some of the glitter as it fell and swirled around her. Nope. No tiny little glittery responses.

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"In case you'd missed it, talking ponies aren't really a normal thing unless you're on acid or watching a movie," Ronan said, shrugging. "Or on this weird ass island, apparently, where anything can talk and be alive."

[locointhecoco]

"That's silly," Pinkie said, though her cheer was starting to wear slightly thin. She picked up a clump of litter in her front hooves and started shaping it into a cylinder. "Where I come from talking ponies are totally the most normal thing. Humans don't even exist. It's almost like 'normal' is a totally subjective term or something!"

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"No humans, huh?" Ronan's lip twisted for a brief second. "Probably a nice place considering how often humans destroy everything around them."

[locointhecoco]

"Oh yeah, Equestria's the best," Pinkie said. She set her cylinder down on end and started on a second one. "Everypony lives in magical harmony and we have adventures and the pegasuses control the weather so you always know when to schedule a party to get the most sunshine." Didn't that just sound amazing, Ronan? Didn't it?

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Sounded a little less dour than the world he lived in, that was for sure.

"And that doesn't ever get boring?" he wondered. "There's no conflict?"

[locointhecoco]

"Every now and then ponies get into arguments," Pinkie said. She started making a third column. "That's just part of life. And sometimes a monster attacks or an ancient evil rises up and my friends and I use the Elements of Harmony to take them out and save the world."

[nuclear_snide]

Bob had no problem with the glitter - it sparked a bit when it went through him, but apparently the island didn't think it important enough to be tangible. He was mostly just incredibly amused by it.

A cartoon pink pony bouncing through the glitter? Now that was a sight to be seen! And laughed at.

[locointhecoco]

Laughter was Punkie's favorite! She giggled in return and bounced over. "Hihihi! I'm Pinkie Pie!" Then she giggled again, because THAT RHYMED.

[nuclear_snide]

Bob grinned at her. "I'm Bob. You're a teacher, too, aren't you?"

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie grinned. "Yupyupyupyup! Derek and I are teaching cake decorating this semester. What do you teach?"

[nuclear_snide]

"Defending yourself against magic." It really was impossible to do anything but grin back to Pinkie Pie, wasn't it? "You're a fan of glitter, then?"

[locointhecoco]

"I'm a fan of anything super fun!" Pinkie said. "Or even jut a little bit fun. Fun is the best."

[nuclear_snide]

"And teaching is fun?" Bob asked. Not that he didn't enjoy it himself, but he wasn't sure "fun" was the right word.

[locointhecoco]

"Sure it is!" Pinkie said. "Especially when you're teaching something you love with your bestest human friend in the whole world."

[nuclear_snide]

...and now Bob was wondering what Pinkie's "bestest human friend" could possibly be like. Did this Derek wear a lot of bright colours and glitter and constantly smile?

"Where are you from?" He asked, curious. "I've never seen any beings like you before."

[locointhecoco]

"Almost nopony here ever has," Pinkie said. "But I never saw any humans before I came here, either, so it makes sense. I'm from Equestria. It's a beautiful pony country between Saddle Arabia and the Crystal Empire."

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"Never heard of it." Bob shrugged. "I'm guessing from the name everyone there is a pony?"

[locointhecoco]

"Nah," Pinkie said. "There are griffins and cows and draconequuses and zebras and dragons and goats and minotaurs and things, too. Just no humans."