Observations into ponies: By Midnight Starfall

Unicorns: The magical ones...well...the even more magical ones...

As a Unicorn I feel like I've the most experience with these ponies, I mean, it's only natural no? I know what it feels like to pick something up with my mind, or horn at the very least, I can teleport from room to room if I wished, make items appear out of thin air...but enough needless bragging.

Unicorns have always been the most advanced races, this is in no small part due to their magic, this allows them to perform tasks with absurd precision...or lift objects that are too heavy even for Earth Ponies. Though, Unicorns vary in power, mostly due to their cutie marks...a Unicorn who's special talent is gardening may be adept at telekinesis...but wouldn't be as good at wards or matter manipulation, whereas a soldier would naturally be better at combat magic. Sometimes there are those that rise above all others.

Starswirl The Bearded being one such Pony...back before Celestia was in power, he raised and lowered the Sun, with the help of several other Unicorns. It was also rumoured that he'd created spells that allowed him to travel in time, he is also responsible for bestowing Celestia with her Alicorn powers, to this date there are no other such spells, or even spell casters, to match his power and potential.

Just like the rest of the Mane Six, it turns our there are two Unicorns as well...which seems conveniently well balanced if you ask me...my group of friends included two Earth Ponies and a Pegasus...and that was it, then again fate, destiny and these "Elements of Harmony" may have played a large part (Note: Read up on The Elements of Harmony)

"Okay, it's been a couple of days since the whole Nightmare Moon fiasco..." I stand just outside Golden Oak library, I've been hesitant to enter due to recent goings on, but today seemed like a quiet day. I raise my hoof and knock on the door.

No answer.

"Okay I know for a fact she's in there" I say under my breath, craning my neck towards a window before I hear activity behind the door, I quickly recompose myself as the door opens revealing...nopony, I look around, then down to see a purple baby dragon wiping sleep from his eyes.

"Uh, hey what is it?" He asks groggily, I assume he's just gotten up..but it's 11am...on a Wednesday

"Hey, I'm hoping to speak with the librarian?" I ask, glancing around the inside of the tree house, books were stacked all over the place in unorganised piles.

"Librarian? Oh, you mean Twilight?" He asks, perking up a little "I don't know, she's kinda busy at the moment"

How busy can a librarian in a sleepy town be? "Busy? How busy?"

The dragon sighs then massages his temples "She's reorganising the library...again"

"Again? She does this often?" I ask, tilting my head in surprise. She makes herself busy...great...

"This is the third time today" The dragon says plainly

"Spike? Who is it?" a voice calls from inside

"Some stallion, he says he wants to talk to you or something" he replies, turning to face the voice without a face

"Well let him in then" She says, impatiently. The dragon...Spike stands aside and I head inside.

I haven't been in here since before the Nightmare Moon incident, back then it was an unorganised mess, it was a public library without a librarian...but now the place was actually populated, well, it still seemed like a mess...at least right now. I carefully navigate my way through the mess of books and scrolls, trying to find the Pony that lives here "So...you like reorganising eh?" I ask, almost kicking myself for asking such a dumb question

"Well I have to, if anything is out of place everything falls apart, it's better to start over" The origin of the voice was revealed as three stacks of books were lifted in a aura of violet magic, revealing a purple Unicorn sitting at a table "Please, sit" she said, beckoning to the chair opposite to her, but not taking her eyes off of her books.

I take a seat and glance around a little "So...I take it you're Twilight?" I ask, trying to get comfortable

"Yep, Twilight Sparkle...hmm..." Twilight said, a little absent-mindedly as she held two books in front of her, seeming to have some trouble sorting them.

"I'm Midnight Starfall...do you need a hoof at all?"

"No no...I'm fine, besides you don't know my system and...wait Midnight Starfall?" She asks, setting the books down for a moment, I quickly nod "I think I've got one or two of your books in here..." Twilight says, looking over at the shelves in thought

"Oh? Have you read them or...?" I ask, sitting up a little, eager to hear what she thought

"I'm content in saying I've read most of the books in here" She says with a smile...wait...most of them? She works fast "As for your books...I don't know, they've kinda dropped in quality over time..."

"That's great I-wait...what do you mean?" I'm not exactly insulted...yet at least

"I don't know...it's just something about them that doesn't really grab my interest y'know?" She explains, still probably in a more analytical mindset now that I think about it.

"I guess that's fair enough, I mean I've been falling off with my magical studies as well..." I sigh and look down at the oak wood floor

"Magical studies? You're a magic student too?" Twilight asks, perking up a little

"Well...I'm not worthy enough for Celestia's school of magic...but...yeah I guess" I manage a smile at least.

"I mean, I'm still working on my magic studies...as well as my Friendship studies...but I guess I can give you some pointers, if you'd like that is..." I can tell she's getting excited...I can also see her trying to hide her taking notes from the other side of the room.

It turns out that Twilight is some kind of magical prodigy...I'm almost a little jealous at how fast she's able to perform new spells that she hasn't seen before, when I attempt new spells more often than not I end up having to bootleg my own way of doing it, otherwise I have trouble casting it. Still, every Unicorn performs magic in their own way I suppose. It'd just be nice if it was a little easier sometimes.

A lot of Unicorns were learned types, ones who preferred acquiring knowledge or power, sometimes both...the aforementioned Starswirl was one of these, it turned out Twilight was to...but Unicorns are just as varied as the other two species, they tend to be quite varied in what they enjoy doing and what they do for work.

Upon reviewing the recollection spell for the towns local clothes designer, Rarity, I was a little disturbed to see exactly how long we'd been talking.

Four hours.

And in all that time the only useful thing that happened was that she took a lot of uncomfortable measurements, all necessary she says if I ever want something nice to wear...I've always found it strange how a clothes store like that, that sells designer clothes, can stay in business in a small town like Ponyville...another bit of weirdness in this strange town I suppose...