We Are Mirrored

Twilight

There still hasn't been even the tiniest of successes in this spell so far -- and this stallion isn't exactly consistent. Every other day there's some other wound on me, like different kinds of bruises or cuts, and by the looks of my eyes he must get into a fight with somepony practically every other day! The inconsistencies are an obstacle for sure, and they're making it difficult for the spell to even try to do its job properly at such early stages of development and testing. Really the only thing the spell has been able to grasp to is the similar minor burns on my hooves and tongue -- most likely from foods -- and an occasional throbbing in my horn, bringing me to the general area of Canterlot and/or Ponyville and telling me that he's a unicorn like myself. All my research beyond that has just gone into explosions and making my soulmate wonder where all of these chemical burns are coming from.

Cadence and Spike have assured me that I'll find him some day, and have tried to convince me that I should just let it run its course... but this isn't just about me anymore! All over Equestria there are mares and stallions who are just too far away or too busy to ever even find their soulmate. If I can successfully create this spell then nopony will have to wonder anymore, and less and less ponies will find themselves lonely or depressed waiting for somepony that they're just too blind to see! It will be a wonderful next step for ponykind, and I can't let myself be swayed away from such a groundbreaking discovery!

Maybe another trip to the Starswirl Wing could heed some answers...

Fluttershy

Oh, this is awful, just awful! I was just so beside myself when I finally learned about Bulk Bicep's scars, I just... just...

I know I should be happy -- I mean, not everypony is lucky enough to find their soulmate at such a young age, after all -- and I hate to be so ungrateful... I must sound like such a horrible pony, complaining about such a thing! B-But... oh my, it's such a big step from where we were and... a-and I... I...

I'm so very, very sorry. I meant to tell somepony about them, I really, truly did. But I simply couldn't handle it if the girl's became worried about me or did something rash! I've spent so much t-time keeping it to myself...

What would they... what would they do... t-to th-them? I don't... w-want th-th-them t-to...

It's all my fault. It's a-all. My fault! I'm a bad pony! A bad, bad pony! Bulk Biceps already had troubles as a child a-and my misbehavior caused him so much pain, and it's because of me that *neither of us can fly correctly and ple-please DON'T BE MAD AT ME***!

I wonder if Bulk could ever forgive me. I wonder if he could ever want a selfish mare like me...

Rarity

I simply don't understand where everypony has been dredging up these pointless coincidences! Honestly, the entire idea is preposterous -- I guarantee you that not once have I felt this way about another mare, let alone one so very close to me, and everything which has happened can easily be explained. Everypony is blowing this out of proportion.

Why just the other day all I happened to do was jab myself with a sewing needle while patching up a project, and as soon as Pinkie Pie is seen with a mark on her hoof the gossip starts. Pinkie Pie had been planning a party outside! She could have easily gotten stuck with a splinter. Yes, she fell down later that day, near the time I found myself also with an unfortunate headache, but ponies get headaches constantly, especially under such stressful time limits as mine. A-And perhaps I pricked myself yet again afterwards -- by accident, I assure you -- just to see Pinkie Pie with another... splinter... b-but... but...

I simply do not feel that way! She is a lovely mare, I'll admit that. She is one of my most valued friends, one who has stuck with we through thick and thin. Just a week ago I was feeling a bit under the weather about some rather ugly things said to me, and there she was, by my side, supporting me through the entire ordeal. And... yes, she is also quite peppy and makes me laugh on occasion, and I do enjoy styling her mane for her after a stressful day. And she is helpful, insisting upon leaving her shift at Sugarcube corner in order to help me complete a fashion line. She understands me quite well... I have... told her of some painful things not spoken to anypony else... I've shown her my worst and have helped her through her own spots... told her how truly beautiful she was...

P-Perhaps having Pinkie Pie as my soulmate isn't such a stretch.

Pinkie Pie

Well, I've been thinking about Rarity for a while now, and it feels like every time I'm close to her my Pinkie Sense just goes crazy! Almost doozy levels of crazy with how twitchy everything is. Plus we've sorta gotten hurt the same lately, which is kinda super bad because I get hurt a lot when I get caught up in the party animal mood, and those needles that Rarity uses must hurt a whole lot -- but at the same time it's also really great because that means she might be my soulmate too!

If Rarity really is my soulmate, and my tail sure seems to think so right now.... well, it would be the best day ever! Rarity is so nice and pretty and generous, and whenever I need help she just comes over and gives it, no questions asked. Plus she's actually really funny once she starts telling jokes about chickens crossing the road; and her eyes are an even prettier shade of blue than the sky!--

Of course, if she's not my soulmate, or maybe she doesn't want a special somepony right now... then that's okay too. I wouldn't want to push my friends into something like that, I mean. That'd just be awful and mean! So as long as Rarity is happy, then I guess I can be too...

Applejack

Well, I gotta say I really didn't expect this. Near ninety percent of this whole family tree of ours has been earth pony through and through -- earth pony mothers, earth pony fathers, earth pony foals -- and we all pretty much liked it this way. Not that it's too big a deal... but it looks like old Applejack here's gonna find herself being one of those outliers soon enough.

At first I didn't even know what had happened. It's been a while since I tuckered out on the farm here, and I honestly thought I'd been taking pretty good care of myself after last AppleBuck Season. When I collapsed... well, me and Mac just assumed that maybe I let something slip through the cracks -- after all, it happens to the best of us, getting so worked up during the job, and the headache and aching back told of that. It took some convincing, but eventually I just found myself lying in bed drinking water and wondering when the hay this darned day would be over and I could get back to it.

When Rainbow Dash came zooming in my window to tell me some blue fella she envied got himself in a crash, giving himself a concussion and breaking both of his wings... I can't say I didn't think anything of it. I still went on back to bucking the fields the next morning, after I got Apple Bloom off to school, and I tried my best to keep that fella off of my mind... but when I bruised my foreleg out there by myself... I hate to admit it, but I suppose I got all in a tizzy about it when the next day I asked Rainbow how he looked and turned out he had one in the same place. Can't say I'm ready to settle myself down yet -- I've got my family to worry about, after all -- but at the same time, here was... is somepony who all of these unicorns are convinced isn't nopony's but mine.

I suppose now he's there, whenever I want to build up my courage and see him. But... well... seems that's the hardest part of it for anypony...

Rainbow Dash

So I don't know who my soulmate is? So what? Not like Twilight knows her's either, and honestly, they'd probably just slow me down. He probably can't even take my training or anything, I'm just too fast for him -- "Oh, waaaah, my poor itty bity wing huuuurrts!" -- hah. He couldn't even hope to compare to Rainbow Dash.

But really, I don't get what the big deal is. You could have anypony and everypony you wanted, when you wanted him. Why would you even want to be tied down like that in the first place? I just don't see the point. So what if you get to make kissy faces and horseapples like that, when you could just go around the corner and do the same thing with somepony else? What all could one pony do for you? Hug on you, get married, have kids, take care of you when you're sick, help you through stuff, be your friend, fix you up after a crash, smile at you, tell you how awesome you are, heh, tell you that he lov--

I-I... I mean who needs that anyways?! I'm the awesomest mare there is, I can love myself!

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...Aw, who am I kidding...? Whatever... time for practice again anyway...