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

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Still late, if not as much as my reply in your other thread, but I agree the new version feels less overdone on the angst and misery, while still showing how hard the situation is hitting Garrick. Just one specific comment:

“It strange you have many bride,” said Twilight as she set about to tucking a more-tired-than-he'd-admit Spike. “But not unheard. Among pony, we call such family 'Herd'. Fall out of practice recent century. This despite gender imbalance. Ratio one colt, two and half filly.”

“Why did it fall out of practice?” I asked.

Twilight shrugged. “Not know certainly. Think culture shift to monogamy. Many book and play of monogamous romance start two-hundred year ago.”

I thought about that for a second. “Might have been Celestia. It's a clever method of gently influencing the populous to control population growth.”

Twilight gave me a shocked look. “How can say thing like that!?”

“Twilight, my Grandmother is a master manipulator, and I find her methods admirable. If this is what Celestia did, then she's not any different from my Grandmother. Hell, I bet Seto would love to spend an evening with Celestia. I can only imagine the debauchery those two would get up to.”

“But.. Princess is proper ruler!”

Of course she is, Twi, that would be why she set about making a big cultural change by quietly arranging a social campaign through arts and media that took centuries to work instead of passing down a royal decree and declaring that it would be obeyed or else. It probably wasn't even anything more than deciding which authors and productions she would support through patronage or just being seen attending the show and letting people draw their own conclusions. This way, no one got hurt and any direct changes were a matter of the ponies involved deciding to make them for themselves.
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