First Attempt: Arrival (video & action)

[kind_to_all]

[ It's a little traumatic to go to your nice, cozy home on the outskirts of Ponyville and find it already occupied. But indeed, what Fluttershy hears upon arrival at the front door is... her own voice coming from inside.

She stays just long enough to peek in a window and see herself cleaning things up before she flees the scene.

At which point she decides that the bridge in front of her house is the safest place to take up residence until she can muster the courage to go inside and see what's going on. In the meantime, she examines the new scroll in her possession. ]


[ A video post goes out some time after her arrival. ]

Um. Excuse me. I’m sorry to bother you all… it’s just that… um…

[ She opens her mouth and tries to speak, then glances behind her, offscreen, looking towards what was until very recently her hut. If she had the courage to go talk to her double right now, she would. But alas. ]

I was just… wondering. Well, it’s not very warm right now and… well, if anypony has a blanket they could spare? Just for tonight, I promise.

Oh, this was a bad idea. Never mind. [ The video clicks off. ]


[ The pegasus might be found wandering around Ponyville in something of a daze a little later, hiding under bushes and things while she tries to figure out what's going on. But for the most part, she'll stay under the bridge until it gets too cramped. And then she'll stay a little while longer. ]

Comments

[kind_to_all]

[ ... Is that a lion? ]

I can't!

[stalksindarkness]

[A lion with wings and talons for front paws. Some Griphon transformation didn't go quite right.]

Why not?

And why're you so skittish?

[kind_to_all]

Um...

[ She goes pink and looks down. ] Sorry. Sorry. I just-- there's someone in my house and I don't know what to do, and... it's me. [ Gulp. ]

[stalksindarkness]

You mean... a doppleganger?

There's two of you?

[kind_to_all]

At least.

[ She counts three bodies and four separate entities. ]

[stalksindarkness]

Can't you just say, I'm Fluttershy too, can I stay at Fluttershy's cottage?

I can't see a reason why she'd say no other than the me and her living there with a buncha little critters.

[kind_to_all]

I... I guess.

I don't want to bother her... me.

[stalksindarkness]

I can ask since she let me stay with her and all.

[kind_to_all]

I can... wait. She did?

[ She squints at the lion. ] Well, I guess I would...