Ask Captain Equestria

5th February 2012

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I’d rather be bored…

Celestia, ah take it back.

Give me mah unappreciated boredom.  Ah can find somethin’ to do with mah time.  Ah’ll check out more books from the Library.  Ah’ll take up knittin’.  Ah’ll dress real nice like and go to Manehatten shindigs.  

Anythin’!  Anythin’ but this burden.

And it ain’t the burden of mah secret identity.  As rough as that can be sometimes, ah’ll take that any day a’the week.

Celestia, give me anything but the load that it takes Captain Equestria to shoulder.

Sparskull ain’t dead, and she brought friends.

Ah, buck, there it goes again.  Gotta go.  Ah’ll write when I can.

12th November 2011

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Overheard in the Market

Got a burr in my saddle today.

I’m off-duty, doin’ my bit in my secret identity.  When I hear some…some…pony speakin’ down on the caped crusaders like myself AND the Guard!  She kept on to her friend like they don’t need us anymore.  That Equestria’s SO peaceful.

She know what it takes to have Equestria like this?  The Guards; every unicorn, pegasus, and earthy pony; puts themselves on the line every day.  They’re not just guardin’ the Princess like everyone thinks.  They’re a deterent to our enemies, sure, but…who was it that said it…Oar Well…Church Hill…”ponies sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough ponies stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”  Well, those rough Guards face a lot of bumps in the night.

They do the manticore’s share, but my pappy and granpappy and his pappy…and so on.  They’ve worn this armor for a reason.  Someone has to protect the folks of Equestria, and the Guards, as good as they are, can’t be everywhere.  Batmane and the rest do it for the same reason.  We don’t do it because we’re bored or like not sleeping at night.

Papa died patrolling.  He wasn’t wearin’ the armor at the moment.  Maybe if he’d had, he’d have had a chance.  That displacer beast was on him too quick.  He’d taken that path through Everfree, not just ‘cause he was rushin’ home.  He always took that path.  He figured if he could find one o’Everfree’s monsters in the forest, he could keep it from hurtin’ anypony.

Granpappy died patrollin’….so did great-granpappy…I’ll probably eventually too, but I understood that risk when I put on the armor.

Equestria, never forget that the world IS a dangerous place, but remember that brave mares and stallions stand between you and that danger.

Thank them.

Tagged: Veterans Day

1st November 2011

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Direction

It’s a bit hard to know where to go with this.  It took a lot o’ponderin’ to figure how I was going to use this here tumblr thingy.  Yeah, I said I thought I was pretty safe in my anonmity…but saying that and actually talking about my secrets, even in a round about way, are two different things. 

My family knows about my secret.  It IS a family secret after all, but I can’t really talk about it even with them.  It just ain’t done.  They’re as much my secret identity as I am.  Speaking about it would break that secrecy…that don’t make much sense.

We do talk about it, just in secret.  Talkin’ about secrets in secrets when everypony knows all the secrets!  Makes my daggum head hurt.

So I suppose I’ve got y’all…the few of y’all who are readin’.  Well, that’s enough fer lil’ole’me.

I reckon I ought to start with a bit about me.  As I previous hinted to someone else, I’m a mare.  I guess pa wouldn’t have considered me more than a filly, but I’ve had a lot of growin’ up real quick fer family and tradition.

Unlike some superponies….Batmane, I’m typin’ at you…I don’t really galivant around a particular city goin’ after purse snatchers.  I am Captain Equestria after all.  I travel a good bit.  Thank Celestia for various family relations I visit to ‘help out’ that I can use as excuses for my absences.

I’ll tell ya more as I figure out what I feel right saying and if y’all ask me.

Promise that I will never lie to y’all no matter what ya ask.

((I did take a bit of brainstorming to figure out what I was going to do with this blog.  I didn’t know if I was going to have a mopey Cap bemoaning a canonically peaceful Equestria or do something more.  Well hell, what kinda of fun is a peaceful story?))