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[ms_perfection]

Guys.

Look at this.

[It's day two of her Jersey trip and Kamala turns the scroll over at the building which read Circle V. She then panned the scroll back at herself.]

Now this is just mocking me. Circle V? REALLY? Next you'll be telling me that there's Bruno behind the counter.

[Opening the door, Kamala poked her head in as she noticed a petite cow standing there, looking at the hot dogs made of meat and inhaling.]

Delicious infidel meat... She intoned.

[Kamala immediately backed out of the store, completely freaked out.] Okay, this world is totally messing with me right now. That's exactly what I did before I got my powers.

I'm going to just... go sit down for a while. Cause Jersey's more of a trip there.

That being said... I like it here. Other than the blatant references to my hometown in this place. It's like no other kind of Jersey exists.

Comments

[discorderly]

...........you considered cannibalism?

[ms_perfection]

No, no, it's a religious thing. I'm not usually a cow just a human but uh... I'm not allowed to eat pork.

[discorderly]

...ah, and the pigs weren't sentient!

[ms_perfection]

Yeah, well, pigs usually don't talk in my homeworld. If you discount Spider-Ham from another dimension.

[discorderly]

Whatever's the matter with eating them, then?

[ms_perfection]

Well... they're "unclean" by my religions standards, but more importantly hold a lot of health issues to eat pork. It's both religion and biological science backing up years of culture for my people.

It's really hard to explain.

[needsteaplz]

Well, Jersey is rather unique like that. Guess you could say it's one of those universal constants. The last time I visited my world's Jersey was when I studied abroad in New York a long time ago. Man, I should go back there and visit though.

"Infidel meat?" [Give her a second for her to put two and two together.]

Oh...I get it now. Never thought I'd hear somepony use a phrase like that with delicious before.

[ms_perfection]

Yeah I kind of make fun of my own culture sometimes? Just to alleviate the tension.

Bruno says either I stick with my principals or eat the meat. It smells SO GOOD but I gotta stay true to my beliefs.

[needsteaplz]

[She nods.]Nothing wrong with that. Everyone could use more self-aware cultural humor now and then.

I do have to commend you for sticking to your beliefs. It's rather nice to see that in younger generations.

[Saori, back home you look like a woman in her 30s. You're too young to be saying that.]

[ms_perfection]

Ah, thanks. I usually don't get compliments for it, but thanks! Sometimes its hard, y'know, being religious as well as culturally appropriate. I'm glad so many ponies and others are understanding here.

Voice

[wizardofharmony]

While the pigs and cows here tend to be irreverent, I wouldn't go that far.

(Lucia's voice is light, teasing.)

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[ms_perfection]

Well yeah, I guess... [Sheepish that she made the joke at all now.]

Twilight, right? The voice threw me for a loop for a moment.

Re: Voice

[wizardofharmony]

No, actually, though the mistake is inevitable. My name is Lucia, and I am Twilight's reflection in my world.

I've made a study of the different worlds, you see. This is the first alternity I've visited, but the idea was familiar to me.

So, there is a town that sells meat here. Interesting. May I ask your name, by the way? And of which world you've come from?

Re: Voice

[ms_perfection]

Huh, so like a version of another version. That's pretty cool.

And yeah, it's Jersey, a city-town next to Manehatten populated by ponies and a sizable contingent of cows and dragon-folk. I'm Kamala, and I'm from, uh...

Earth is what we call it, and Deadpool or Tony Stark or one of the two, once called it Earth-616. But Deadpool is barely a viable reliable source or reference.

[wizardofharmony]

Likely as not it's for the sake of the dragons, then. Still, it's worth asking.

Kamala. Well met. And Dead-Pool, that's... surely that's a chosen name, a name of power rather than the one they were born with. I can imagine someone who chose that name being untrustworthy.

[ms_perfection]

Yeah, we'll have to see what goes down here at least.

And yeah, Deadpool is a "hero" name. [Sarcasm apparent.] He's also a habitual 4th wall chewer and has this inexhaustible wit that makes people want to kill him. Usually literally.

Action

[notgivinguponyou]

Y'know, I'm kinda surprised any place around here sells meat.

[Man, what he wouldn't give for a hot dog right now.]

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[ms_perfection]

I'm surprised. Considering how many ponies and cows we've seen coming in.

Jersey. Such a walking pun.

Action

[notgivinguponyou]

Yeah, really. I wonder how long it's been open... [Considering it's mostly just been pony fold and other herbivores around, he can't imagine business has been too good.] ...How sick you think I'd get if I ate one?

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[ms_perfection]

Hnn... I've heard it's not as "dangerous" as it sounds, but if you took it slow and didn't force yourself, you could probably eat a hot dog in one sitting.

Ugh, just smelling it from here makes me so hungry!

Action

[notgivinguponyou]

Yeah, right? And man, I really want to try one. [He wasn't necessarily a big meat eater back home. But being forced to stick to a vegetarian diet had him really missing it.] I'm gonna try it. [...For research purposes, of course.]

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[crescentxrose]

...There's meat here?! Really?

(Tell her sister and she'll totes drag them to Jersey just to get some.)

Wait, what's infidel meat? I don't think I've heard of that kind.

Re: (Visual)

[ms_perfection]

Yeah there's meat. Presumably for meat eaters however rare they are.

Um... it's a joke. A cultural one. Basically put I'm not allowed to eat meat, and a running joke that I use is that it's "infidel" meat because... wow this is really hard to explain when the person next to you isn't Pakistani or religious, is it?

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[crescentxrose]

Ohhh...!

(She nods and listens intently to Kamala's explanation, blinking in confusion at the way she'd phrased it at the end as a question.) Um...I-I guess so! You'd have to ask Yang about that last part.

Re: (Visual)

[ms_perfection]

Hmm, I guess... It's really weird, I mean, back in Jersey we just don't dwell on this stuff but sometimes pork smells so good, it's mouthwatering...