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(167 votes - 55%) Ask Twilight Sparkle what we should get her for her birthday - surely she knows what a 16-year old should get from her dad!!

Shining wrapped up the communication scroll addressed to his sister, invoking that spell she had taught him all those years ago, reserved for only those who were closest to her, friends and family that she wanted to be able to converse with at a moment’s notice.

A green flame consumed the sealed scrolled, dissolving the premium papyrus into a magical wisp of nothingness. Shining knew that sat this moment, Spike the dragon would be coughing the message up in a burst of his own green dragonfire, before finding a way to get the message to Twilight as soon as possible.

Knowing his little sister, and just how quickly she prioritized such things, Shining knew it would not be long before she would reply with a message of her own, which would appear before him in a si-

POP

Shining blinked, finding himself just outside the map room of the Castle of Friendship in Ponyville.

His knees shook slightly and he managed to quell a strange and overpowering wave of nausea… effects that he always found himself hit by after teleportation, something that he was never comfortable with even when he knew that it was about to occur.

The massive crystalline doors in front of him cracked open, slowly creaking wider and a voice from within, which he recognized as Spike’s, called out to him.

“ENTER.”

Shining walked in, immediately seeing Twilight sitting on her high central chair. All about her were mares of Ponyville, lavisciously languishing on divans as they were given fruit, drink, and food from a number of burly guardsmen. Slightly more distant from the bacchanalian debauch were Twilight’s friends, each wearing robes that befit their status as friendship lords of Equestria. Each laughed raucously with one another, toasting each other with frothy ciders.

“Uh… Hello?” Shining cocked his head in confusion as he walked toward the center of the room, looking up at the bored alicorn princess, sitting back on her throne with a lazy, surveying gaze as she looked over the myriad revelers about her. The air crackled about her with the fiercely constrained power of her unfathomable magical power.

Spike spoke up from beside Twilight’s throne, cutting him off.

“Twilight! Prince Shining Armor from the Crystal Empire has arrived in amity, showing that once again we have triumphed on the battlefield of friendship!”

A loud and bawdy cheer erupted from all the ponies in the room, save Twilight, who sat motionlessly. Ponies slapped each other’s backs and spilled their drink in mirth before a cutting voice silenced the entire crowd.

“THIS IS GOOD” Pinkie Pie held a hoof out, pointing at the friendship lords, “BUT WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?”

Applejack spoke up immediately. “The open orchard… a fleet canter… a dog at your side… and the wind in your mane.”

“WRONG!” Pinkie cut her off, then pointed at the bored friendship princess. “TWILIGHT - WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?”

Twilight barked aloud quickly with intensity, all while not flinching from her intent stare, making a clear proselytization from her throne.

“To hug your friends… to see them dancing before you… and to hear the exultations of their stallions!”

Another rumbling cheer went up around the whole room as Pinkie confirmed that this was the correct answer.

“Ummm… just what the hay is going on here?” Shining asked unsure of whether the entirety of Ponyville had gone insane.

Twilight’s stern face broke into chuckling mirth as she looked at her brother. “What hasn’t Ponan the Barmare-ian come out in the Crystal Empire yet? We were all watching that movie last night and thought it would be fun to act out that royal court scene…”

All the ponies around her chuckled and sat up, laughing with one another. Out of the corner of his eye, Shining could see the other elements beginning to laugh and chuckle about the role-playing they had just been doing. Rarity seemed particularly pleased about the war-pony like accouterments that she had designed for all of them as a part of the act,

“Uh… no… I haven’t seen that movie yet…” Shining shrugged.

“Oh.” Twilight seemed a bit surprised, a blush on her face. She sat up in her throne, then gingerly stepped down, walking toward her brother. “Then you must have thought that I was…”

“Crazy… Yes. I was thinking that.”

“Haha… oh, sorry about that. Court can get pretty boring, you know.” Twilight chuckled and waved at her friends as she stepped up to him and extended one of her wide, purple wings over his back, shepherding him toward the antechamber. “Hey girls, I’m just going to take Shining aside for a minute.”

“Sure Twi… don’t worry, Warlord Dash will take care of things!” Rainbow dash puffed her chest up, making the other elements chuckle.

“Sorry about that Shining…” Twilight’s ears splayed back slightly, embarrassed. “It’s really easy to get carried away when you can make all the rules - it’s just way more fun to have roleplay and acting days instead of the royal pomp and procedure day after day after day… I didn’t mean to freak you out.”

The two walked into the more secluded room that Twilight liked to use for her private audiences, quickly motioning to her brother toward a comfortable recliner before turning back to the door behind.

Shining sighed, slumping into the proffered chair as Twilight closed the door behind her, shutting out the din of the still playful group of ponies in the map room. “It’s… it’s fine… I just haven’t been able to have much fun these days.”

Twilight trotted over to him, pulling up a chair next to his and giving him a welcoming smile. “I’m sorry to hear that… I did read your letter.”

“And…? What should I do? If I don’t get Flurry Heart to love me by the time her birthday is over then-”

‘Pfft…” Twilight cut him off with a laugh. “Flurry loves you now… and you know that she does, you big goof…”

“B-but… why is she acting so weird around me, then? Why does it feel like there’s still so much distance between the two of us?”

Twilight hummed slightly, tapping her chin with deep consideration. “Well… Flurry’s growing up. It’s a weird time in a filly’s life, you know. You’re becoming an adult… getting all these new feelings and impulses…”

“How did you handle it?” Shining asked, looking over at his little sister. “I don’t remember you ever having a bad relationship with dad.”

“Oh, you have no idea! You were already off at officer school by that time… but I was just… the worst.” Twilight chuckled at herself, shaking her head softly. “Dad would ask if I wanted to go for a walk, or have a chat… and I would just roll my eyes at him and stuff my nose deeper into one of my books. It was awful.”

“Really?” Shining arched an eyebrow at his little sister. “Why would you do that? You love spending time with Dad now!”

Twilight thought back to that time, then blushed a little bit. “Well… it’s… not so easy. I was a bit of a… late bloomer. And it wasn’t like I had a lot of friends who were colts… so… dad was really the only stallion around.”

“So?” Shining tried to understand why that would matter.

“So…. um… Shining do you know anything about socio-dynamics of equine reproductive biology?”

“...y-yes?”

Twilight looked disbelievingly at him, a deadpan expression on her face. “You… don’t know what any of those words even mean, do you?”

“...yes?”

Twilight groaned, dragging her hoof down her face. “Well… it’s a bit of a holdover from our ancient biology… what with how many fewer males we have running around as well… see back when we were all feral ancient ponies, trotting about on the primal steppes, sometimes a herd of ponies would all end up being from one family…”

“Uh-huh…”

“... and then you know how when mares go into estrus they suddenly think that the stallions around them smell amazing?” Twilight motioned with her hoof in a circular motion, trying to prod along her brother’s comprehension.

“They do?”

“Uh… yeah… hasn’t Cadence ever told you this?” Twilight asked with an arched eyebrow.

“Well… most of the time she complains that I smell like sweat and butts… but every once in a while she really likes when I come in all sweaty.”

“Exactly. And sometimes that smell would only come from an ancient filly's sire… and that would be what she would get… aroused by. So we kind of have it built into us that if there’s nopony else around… we can get a bit aroused by our family members.”

“W-what does this have to do with you treating Dad like a jerk?”

Twilight groaned, staring at her hooves in surrender before looking up at her brother. “I… I had a thing for dad.”

“What kind of thing… a gift?”

“Shining… I was sexually attracted to Night Light.” Twilight enunciated her words as clearly as possible, carefully looking into her brother’s eyes to make sure that he hadn't misunderstood once again. “The reason I was so snarky to him is that I was embarrassed… you know how sometimes you stallions get awkward erections for no reason at all?”

Shining blushed, squirming nervously as he checked his own body unconsciously to make sure that he wasn’t sporting one himself at that moment. Awkward boners are the worst. “Y-yeah… those are awful.”

“Well, imagine if you got one of those every time you got a hug from mom… or you saw mom’s butt… or you walked past mom… or you simply smelled mom’s scent in a room she’d been in.”

“Oof.” Shining gulped. He almost wanted to admit to Twilight that there had been a couple of times when he’d popped a chubby - not a full erection -after accidentally catching sight of his mother’s heavenly behind. “That would suck.”

“It’s even worse.” Twilight groaned, shuffling her wings to make them more comfortable on her back. “Fillies don’t get erections… they wink. And let me tell you, unlike erections, winks can get… drippy.”

Shining grinned a bit sheepishly at this. “Actually… I wouldn’t be so sure about that Twily… my uh… ‘erections’ can get pretty drippy too.” Shining folded his ears back - just how had he gotten into yet another one of these ridiculous conversations with a family member?

“Shiney Gross!” Twilight blushed at the revealed information. “Although… I guess that makes sense… dad is the same way…” Twilight pawed at the floor.

“Oh? Did mom tell you that?”

“Ahhh hahaha… y-yeah… sure she did…” Twilight nervously replied.

“So… you’re saying that Flurry might be weird around me because she… has the hots for me?” Shining asked, head askew.

Twilight nodded slightly. “Well… maybe… I don’t want to make any assumptions or anything. It might just be that she is going through another of the thousands of teenage related melodramas that they all seem to go through. But… from my chats with Cadence… and with Flurry Heart herself…”

“What the heck! Do all you mares have some sort of secret gossip network?” Shining threw his hooves up in frustration.

“Shining… she’s my goddaughter, and I’m her aunt! ... Also yes we have a scroll network…” Twilight laughed. “But to sum it up…” Twilight paused looking up at him with some gravity. “Yes, I think she is attracted to you.”

Shining slumped back against the seat of his chair, trying to process the enormity of what he’d just heard. His little girl, the baby filly that he’d snuggled, kissed goodnight, told bedtime stories to, changed the diapers of, given stuffed animals to… she wanted to… have sex with him?”

The thought sat uncomfortably in his mind, his gut… making him feel almost nauseous with the implications - the impact feeling almost like a punch to his body.

And yet… there was something inside him that made him feel a little excited… proud even… A mare other than his wife found him sexy… wanted to do that with him! And she really was a beautiful filly… If he was a younger stallion, who had just met Flurry at high school - he would have been so turned on by the thought that she might…

No! This was his daughter! What was he thinking! Shining blinked hard and shook his head as if trying to banish the thoughts from even forming in his mind.

“Uh… are you… OK?” Twilight asked. She was looking at him with concern.

“Yes! Yes... “ Shining coughed. “I just… wow… I had never thought… that she… you know…” Shining coughed, rubbing his eyes.

“It’s perfectly normal, Shining.” Twilight smiled, patting his hoof reassuringly. “I asked Cadence about it back in the day… but as Princess of friendship, I can now confirm that relationships inside families are not only a lot more common than you think… but they’re usually quite healthy!”

“R-really?” Shining asked.

“Yep! And not just parental relationships - uncles, cousins… brother and sister…” She chuckled nervously. “...Y’know… I even had a crush on you for a little while…”

Shining’s eyes darted to his sister’s face. Scanning over her with disbelief. “Huh?”

“Sure! Don’t you remember how clingy I was with you? Especially when you got back from all that time away in training… you were like my big, cuddly teddy bear - and you never noticed just how much I’d sneak looks at your butt, or smell your hair, or sneak into your room….”

“W-woah!” Shining scooched back in his chair.

“Relax! It was just a phase!” Twilight giggled patting her brother’s hoof wit ha blush.

“Y-yeah? W-would… Flurry just be having a phase with me?”

Twilight stiffened slightly. “W-well…. I don’t think so… if I’m being really honest… with myself...” Twilight nervously looked left and right. “I don’t think that phases really exist… those emotions will always be there…” Twilight’s ears splayed back.

Luckily Shining completely missed the implication. “Crap - so I really gotta be careful about how I deal with this… What do you think I should do, sis? What did dad do for you on your birthday?”

Twilight’s eyes shot wide open, and her face blushed an even brighter shade of red. Her wings snapped wide and she swallowed some of the drool from her lips before it slipped out of her lips. “Wh-wh-what dad did on my birthday?”

“Yeah! I mean - I remember that you got really exhausted with the flu the day after your party, and dad said you needed to rest for a few days… but you seemed pretty happy with him even then….”

“Shining….” Twilight blushed, “Did you… did you not hear what happened that birthday night? Don’t you remember the screams - the loud thumps? Mom bringing in water and refreshments?”

“Sure!” Shining nodded. “I thought you and dad were having a dance party with heavy bass music - man I remember how the whole house was practically jumping that night…”

“....uh-huh…” Twilight’s mouth was halfway-open in what looked like disbelief at him, “...y’know what? Maybe it’s best if you find out what kind of party we were having by having a similar one with Flurry, big bro.”

“Do you think… do you think she’d like that? Should that be my present?” Shining asked with an excited look. “Do you think that kind of private after-party would help her to get over her weird attraction?”

“Oh, buck yeah…” Twilight grinned, wiggling her eyebrows. “She’ll get over it if you’re even half the stallion dad was…” Twilight bit her lip. “...I was so stuffed I was still dripping a week afterward…”

“Huh?”

“Nothing! Nothing… dripping sweat… I was dripping sweat a week afterward… now you head on back Shiny - you need to get some rest before the party tomorrow… I’ll see you there! I’ll even bring you a stamina spell so you can… uh… dance all night…” Twilight pointed toward the door with her hoof.

“That’s great Twiley! Thanks so much!” Shining trotted toward the door, reaching out to grab the large crystal doors, he stopped then looked over his shoulder back at his sister, who was watching him from across the room. “W-wait… why did you need me to walk over here just for you to teleport me back to-”

POP

Shining disappeared in a flash of light.

Twilight chuckled to herself, fluttering her large, excitedly extended wings. “Because I love looking at that cute rear end of yours, BBBFF…” Twilight chuckled to herself aloud, “... you big hopeless dope, Flurry’s going to have a fun time with you.”

Shining found himself back in his bedroom, blinking carefully to avoid that feeling of nauseous discomfort from overwhelming him again. He brought a hoof to his mouth quickly, doing everything he could to avoid losing his lunch all over the floor.

At least he had a plan for tomorrow and the party… a private, intimate afterparty, one in which he could address Flurry’s ill-advised attraction to him… in the same way that Night Light had done so with Twilight Sparkle... but how to execute it?

The FLURRY HEART METER goes up by half a point!

Currently the meter is at 9.5 / 10!

1)Simply wait for Flurry Heart in her room and let her have a fun time alone at the party with her friends and family. We finally know why Flurry is so uncomfortable around us, and hanging out with her at the party will simply make her nervous, unsettled… agitated. Let’s just meet her after the party to give her our gift of a more private interaction! - (This will make Flurry less aggressive/more submissive through the final scene)

2) Let’s go to the party but stay on the outskirts of the events as they unfold. We’re Flurry’s dad, we have to be present at the party! Not even showing up would probably make Flurry even more nervous than hanging out by her side all night. So what if we make her sexually uncomfortable? It won’t affect her mood that much before the private party. ( This option will make Flurry neutrally aggressive / neutrally dominant/submissive through the final scene)

3) Let’s go to the party and really get into the swing of things! Drinking, dancing, hanging out and chatting with Flurry - make her feel like the special little princess she really is! It’s a party! Everything has a bit of sexual charge to it! Plus, Flurry is hot to trot - that means she must enjoy being around us… why deny her that? It’ll be a good ‘last gasp’ before we deal with her at the after-party! ( This option will make Flurry very sexually aggressive and worked up / dominant through the final scene)

Author's Note

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