[RFC][SI][Multi-Xover]Being You is Suffering

[Black Aeronaut]

robkelk wrote:

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Black Aeronaut wrote:

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The
primary conflict is going to be Garrick's unwillingness to be
befriended by anyone. He'll be cordial enough in his dealings, but for
the most part he'll be solitary as he tries not to form social bonds.

But... but Friendship is Magic! Don't you want magic, Garrick?

*Snrk!*  In all seriousness, Garrick will desperately want to make friends, but he's holding back for previously stated reasons.

robkelk wrote:

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Black Aeronaut wrote:

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Although
I'm working on an idea... Katherine leaving seeds behind that wind up
sprouting... and since they're her seeds she can maintain a line of
communication between them all, and potentially serve as guides for
future dimensional travel.

Good idea for later, but isn't Katherine still a sapling right now? Can she produce seeds?

... A most cogent point.  Oh well.  Celestia is pretty much a Goddess anyhow.  I'll think of something.
...Oh, and just imagine her reaction when she finds that Garrick is a slightly more than mortal?  I'd imagine at some point when no one else is around (except maybe Luna) she'll glomp him and start blubbering about how terrible it is spending thousands of years with others whose lives are so brief and what a joy it is she found him.

Foxboy wrote:

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Hm. Okay, you're going to want a lot of liquid consonants and clear vowels. I had been working on an "Equestrian" for another project, but that one went closer to "Make horse sounds musical, if you can."

Some sample sentences of that: (aeiou are Italian/Japanese, h is always pronounced, r is rolled/trilled/flapped, and v and f are pronounced with the lips, no teeth.)

I lihro hepu-za vo.
/ee LEEH-rro HAY-poo-za vo/

1p.s like/enjoy Apple-acc prsnt.

"I like apples."

It's got a bit of a complicated pronoun scheme, with inclusive and
exclusive plurals, and a "royal" register that tends to imply strong or
intimate feeling, mainly due to Celestia's use of it over the last
thousand years compared to the old Unicorn royalty. Additionally,
"hi'in" is supposed to sound like a "joyful" whinny, with the apostrophe
indicating a glottal stop: what the hyphen in "uh-oh" sounds like.

Soi, didua hi'in i-za vo-vis.
/SO-ee, DEE-dwa HEE-een EE-za VO-vees./
Yes(friendly) 2p.s.royal make.proud 1p.s-acc prsnt-fut.

"Of course you're making me proud, my little pony/my faithful student."

Whoah.  Yeah, you see, I'm no linguist at all.  I could never have come up with even half of that.  Would you like to help me out on the Equestrian Language until Garrick is fluent?  Pretty sure you'll wind up working out a lot of the kinks and expanding the vocabulary by a wide margin.