mylittlejamjar | 6 Hearts [visual]

[Hey guys, Its Minako. And she looks quite thoughtful.]

Hey, guys? Maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but I honestly think you guys need to give the princesses the benefit of the doubt on this one. And yeah, even Zetta.

Yeah, they kept things from us. That sucks, I get that. Maybe they should have been more open about that plan, or maybe not. I know a lot of ponies will use that against the princesses.

But in the end, I can't be angry at them this time. In fact, I completely understand why they did it. Sometimes we have to keep secrets to protect people. And sometimes, yeah, things will backfire when you do that. But that's the nature of being a leader. That's why being an alicorn here is earned, don't you think? Its not always straightforward and you have to make the best decisions that you can with what you know. Leaders...ponies in power...they don't have the luxury of being 100% transparent. Sometimes divulging the truth is more dangerous than than keeping the secret.

Besides. Hasn't it occurred to anyone that us being angry at the princesses for this - us acting like this - is exactly what the Pale Pony wants? The more she can manipulate our fear, the more our fear causes us to mistrust and even hate others, the more of an advantage she gets. She says friendship is a weakness? She says friendship doesn't matter? Well? We're just proving her right. And she'll keep stealing stars. Or, at least I'm pretty sure that's what Princess Celestia meant with that, because the whole Pale Pony absorbing stuff and...stuff.

...

I know ponies are mad, right now, and I admit I was cheesed off at Zetta when he first started this...but we need to show the Pale Pony that she's wrong about us, and that just because she's got all that power, doesn't mean she's right about that.

[With that, she gets down on one knee.]

So...Princess Celestia, Princess Luna...Overlord Zetta. I humbly apologize for not believing in you. I hope you can forgive me.

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[She's crying again, but it's different now. These are tears that are sorry and... regretful.]

[She leans into Yukiko with her whole body. She feels heavy. She had been fighting these feelings since she came but after this past two weeks everything was shoved into her face all at once. The struggles with her new body, the dangers of this new world, and, worst of all, the reality that when she is unable to act that her friends will be hurt.]

I know. I know! I just... saw you so far ahead. I didn't want to be so far behind anymore. It's... stupid. I'm stupid. I just kept finding myself wanting to be somebody more than me. Like... like we could be like what we were before you came here.

And... I tried. Then all this stuff happened... and you lost your memory... and your persona... and I just felt helpless.

And I know you're my best friend. And I love you. And that's what made it so, so hard. I ended up... [she buried her face deeper] ...being, jealous. God, I'm pathetic. Here we are, a year later, and I'm still falling to the same old... poop.

Chie, we may have bodies of ponies but we're still human. We'll still feel those horrible things that we feel ashamed of but it's ok. It's a part of us. But instead of stewing into those feelings, why not try and do something?

[Yukiko what the hell?]

There's so many others from different worlds that might feel the same way like you. To show you're not alone.

Huh?

[No really. She hadn't even thought of that.]

[Did she do good?]

Finding others who share the same situation? That might help. Yu-kun did run into a pony in the Everfree that knew hoof to hoof, maybe they could help.

[She did good. :3]

Yeah, maybe...

[Actually she's sitting upright now. Sure, it may not be much, but put against feeling like she could do nothing, she'd take it. At the very least, she's now starting to think of some ways to start helping out. There will be other people doing the heavy lifting, of course, but...]

...I might be able to do that, yeah...

[Then there's a moment again, awkard and timid.]

...um... s-sorry... for causing you so much trouble, Yuki...

[She really does feel embarrassed, though. She never liked showing that she needed something. She'd rather help people out and make others smile. Though she knows she's safe, she's a bit ashamed of how she was acting now.]