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Naoto Shirogane ⊗ Persona 4 Golden ⊗ OU

[pishirogane]

The blue pegasus with the navy blue mane had moved out a short distance from Ponyville to give herself some privacy. She asked for ideas, or at least, the basic fundamentals of flying, and gave her wings a stretch. Watching them unfurl from her small body, they seemed too big, but given she was a mare of slight stature and smaller height than most ponies, it only made sense. Wings open, she flapped them up and down, getting accustomed to the movement before tucking them in and taking a slow breath. With an exhale, she nodded, hat tipping down slightly.

"Alright... you know you can do this. Just flap your wings enough to lift off... keep the beat together..."

Closing her eyes helped her concentrate and focus on the muscles and bones working in her back. Slowly, they rose and fell, wings scooping air for a moment out-of-sync with each other, but falling into a rhythm across the shoulders. Once together, she began moving them faster. Naoto doesn't feel her hooves leave the ground; she's solely focused on learning to use the wings she now had as they should prove pivotal into this on-going investigation into the Pale Pony as well as they return home.

Someone may want to tell her to open her eyes though as she was getting pretty far from the ground. Considering she was working on flying, she was nowhere near experienced with landing.

o hai there

[foolish_seal]

"You know, it's usually better to fly with your eyes open."

Another blue pegasus has taken notice on the... odd flight form of this other pony, and figures he'd better say something before they inevitably crash.

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[pishirogane]

"I'm concentrating to remember how it feels..."

She peeks with one eye, but then opens the second when she sees Minato. His mane was a bit longer, but he's kinda oddly similar in coat and mane coloration to her.

[foolish_seal]

...Huh, that voice sounded kinda familiar. Sure it'll come to him after a few minutes.

"Just remember to save some attention for landing." Minato points down with a hoof to indicate that they were in the air, and then readies himself to catch her if she panics.

[pishirogane]

"... I've made a minor miscalculation."

Don't panic, don't panic, her wings continues flapping, but they're going faster. Worse, her legs tuck up. "O-Okay, how do I get down?"

[foolish_seal]

Yep, he saw this coming.

"Calm down. Stretch your legs and wings out and keep them there. We'll glide down."

He demonstrates the position to give her an idea of what he's talking about.

[pishirogane]

"Wings out and... legs down."

It felt like her joints were popping as she attempts to extend them again, wings wobbling, but holding flat. Glide, glide...! Her wings twitch, but she holds.

[foolish_seal]

Once he's sure she's in control, he glides down along with her.

"Good. Use your head to steer if you need."

[pishirogane]

"My head...?"

No one had mentioned that before. Still, she turns it slightly and finds herself listing to the right.

[foolish_seal]

"There you go. It shouldn't be hard to land from here. Just let yourself come to the ground."

He tucks his wings in to land first, looknig back up into the air to make sure she lands properly.

[pishirogane]

Watching him fly ahead, she attempts to imitate his landing. It isn't as smooth - her stumbling over hoof for a second - but she stands straight soon enough.

"... Thank you."

[foolish_seal]

It was pretty good for a first try.

"No problem. You're new here, I take it?"

[pishirogane]

"Yes and no. I'm new in the sense I haven't been here as long as my senpai or other first-years, but it's been long enough that I can walk. I thought it was time I should learn to fly."

Wings flapping a few more times, they soon tuck against her back. "I really should have taken some... pony's help, or at least, ask for a spotter."

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[topgun_textiles]

Privacy was something you could come by in Ponyville, but only after a little time. When someone mentioned a 'blue pegasus learning to fly', he didn't know too many who weren't already aces at it. With a quick detour to the Commune to grab something, Kanji was off like a shot to confirm whispered worries. Off-worlders and natives alike had no qualms helping others, and some of the pegasi had even put up fliers offering lessons for newponies that wanna know how to get off the ground.

With no wings, not even a horn to speak of, Kanji couldn't offer too much. But as he trot over the snow-covered grass and tried to fight the weird wobbly somersaults in his stomach, the least he could do is offer a handmade pair of goggles in case of rain or snow, now hanging from his mouth.

...Only, she'd taken off already. Were her eyes closed?! An icy ball sprouting to life in his stomach, he kicked up snow when he picked up into a run.

"O-oi...!"

[pishirogane]

Naoto kept her eyes closed, wings still flapping, feathers keeping her aloft. Hearing Kanji shout, her head turned in his direction, but she didn't exactly open her eyes. He sounded distant so it had to be working, right?

"Hold on, Kanji-kun..."

She was trying to focus. "Has there be a new development?" Because obviously, if one was going to interrupt a friend in the middle of something, it would be important. Feeling something against her hooves, she tentatively slowed her wings and allowed her feet to plant down. Not bad for a few inches off the ground.

[topgun_textiles]

...R-right, important interruptions. Kanji shook his head, but noticed she wasn't exactly looking. He relaxed when her hooves were back on the snow, and he lowered the goggles onto a lifted hoof.

"N-nah, nothin' yet. We're still goin' over what we saw. I-I, uh, figured you'd need somethin' like these! A lotta pegasi I've talked to said some eye protection's handy."

An awkward pause later, he extended the hoof. "They should fit... b-but there's some straps in the sides with the clasps that can make 'em real tight for faster flight when ya get the hang of it!"

[pishirogane]

Eyes opened again, she stared up at the stallion, but then lowered her attention to the goggles in his hoof. She had seen other pegasi wearing them, and she had been considering getting them, but only after she perfected flying.

Taking them into her own hoof, she examined them closer. There was no harm in trying them on for now. Strap in her mouth, she took off her hat. "Hold this for a moment."

[topgun_textiles]

He nodded and took the trade, taking the bill of her hat in his mouth as he wondered how ponies managed to be so dextrous with their hooves. How would they be if they all suddenly became human?

But then he thought of people walking on their hands and knees and he was letting his mind wander again. He shook his head to clear it.

"Y-yeah, it's kinda weird to think about how... punctual the pegasi are, y'know? We're used to weather reports, but ya ask any of 'em with wings and they'll tell ya, 'oh it'll rain on Tuesday, and to balance it out we'll put some sunshine up over the weekend'."

Ooh, that reminds him- "You ever think about doin' that? Seems like everything around here's pony-controlled."

[pishirogane]

Kanji's mind running, Naoto was trying to get the goggles on. It's a struggle with a hoof, but bouncing to her hind legs and using both front hooves was just too silly for her.

"Since they control the weather, they have to be on time. And if there's a schedule, who knows what they have to do to make up for a missed day..." Though, that wouldn't be too bad, right? Goggles on comfortably, she lowered her hoof and immediately felt much more balanced.

"I've thought about it. I stood on a cloud and broke another. Still, something about manipulating the weather myself, and how everything is pony-controlled strikes me as odd."

[topgun_textiles]

"Yeah... this whole world's full of ponies, but this weird part of my mind kinda wonders what would happen if pegasi went extinct or somethin'. Then ya got earth ponies like me that can haul heavy stuff and do hard labor, and then there's the egghead unicorns that write everything down! If any one of 'em gets gone..."

What a scary thought. As he learned about each of the three kinds of ponies, he was learning how important even wingless, hornless ones like him were.

[pishirogane]

"Yes. It makes their ecosystem dependent on them. It's one way to live with nature so to speak, but at the same time, a potentially catastrophic co-dependency."

Turning her head, she could make out some ponies in the distance and imagined if one group was missing. Things would certainly be less colorful... "... Would this world cease to function without one of the three? It's a dangerous thought."

[topgun_textiles]

He canted his head in thought. "Well, I heard the Princesses are pretty old... like a thousand or somethin'. They gotta know about the three kinds, right? Maybe even know how they got to where they are now without feelin' left out compared to the others."

Unicorns were slight, not too strong of body. Pegasi weren't magical, save for being able to grant themselves lift with small wings and manipulate weather in subtle ways. Earth ponies, while grounded and without magic, could move mountains and maintain the health of the very world beneath them, growing crops and the like. Heck, he'd learned the Winter Wrap-Up disallowed magic use!

"Wouldn't hurt to ask 'em, but... I-I've only seen one or two of 'em briefly... never got to talk to 'em." His face fell. They looked so awesome, but what if some stupid bodyguards jumped him for coming too close like he was some kind of thug?

[pishirogane]

"It's possible... but that depends on the age of this world too and if anyone came before them." There were two curious questions posed there... and another of why were they Princesses and not just Queens? Was it like some regions in their world that they needed to be married in order to assume the title?

"... The next time we see one of them, we should ask. Though, there should be some way to seek audience with them to ask a few questions. Then again, they may take our simple inquiries as insults and have us thrown out or imprisoned..." She still needed to study up on the monarchy - no, it couldn't be a monarchy in the proper term - on the royal lineage here and how everything worked. "We may be better hoping by chance we see on of them in Ponyville..."

[topgun_textiles]

"Imprisoned??" Kanji, for once, had to laugh.

"No, man, get this: Every native and off-worlder here has nothin' but damn glowing things to say about the princesses. They ain't born in this world- they're made, after they've grown as a person a bunch... kinda like our Personas."

But with a shrug he looked away. "Trick is workin' out where they are right now. They seem weirdly neighborly, but two of 'em kinda control the sun n' moon rising and falling. That'd make 'em pretty busy."

[pishirogane]

"Is that how it works?" That was interesting... though, since they were part of this world, we they included in that process? Naoto wasn't even used to her wings at first, and the possibility of being a princess in another world was too much pressure. She would... avoid that route if possible.

"So they just move around..." And her voice trailed, eyes opening a margin wider in disbelief. "The sun and moon? Does that mean this planet doesn't have a normal rotation pattern??"

That's a nerve-wracking thought. The planet's overall well-being was in the hand of two Princesses.