User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Winter 2015-2016/@comment-7345250-20160228201542


 * Golden Age reflexively leaps halfway to the ceiling. She was not expecting to be approached from behind. Especially not by the formerly-late Copper Plume.

Golden Age: "Er... I..."


 * She is stricken by a very bizarre emotion. Here stands Copper Plume, the one and only Captain Orbit, her numero-uno friend and compatriot. And yet nothing about this encounter feels right. She witnessed what should have been his annihilation, and yet the stallion is talking to her as though nothing happened!


 * Even if the mechanism she figured out for his escape is correct, Copper's presence here is giving her goosebumps. It is hard to say whether she feels unworthy, inadequate, or simply puny—however, everything about the stallion is tripping an alarm. He was always a private pony, but he knows so much more about her than she does about him that she can hardly bear to stand in his gaze. She gets the feeling that what she read in his diary is only a small glimpse of the power he has held and kept hidden from everypony else.


 * Yes, all things considered—his selfless protection even when she was being stupid or cowardly, his reality-warping powers, and his return from the grave—Golden Age is getting the idea that her old friend is something more than a pony, something far greater than she can ever hope to be. Even the undying Acolyte never inspired this kind of unease in her.


 * She, Goldfin, is stricken by reverence... and fear.

Golden Age: "R-Right away, Cap'n!"


 * She hastily trots out of his presence.

Mare Do Well: "Princess Twilight and her gang are not mere 'allies' as you put it. When one of them is hurt, the rest only fight harder. Even their attitude in light of my departure will demonstrate this. I will be their martyr."


 * She politely and placidly applies a spread to another cracker. A quip about the foxes and their power of "community" enters her head, but it leaves just as harmlessly.

Mare Do Well: "They were chosen by the Tree of Harmony, just as my sister and I were in the distant past. They have all the tools they'll need to secure Equestria's future once Rat Trap and his diamond out of the way."