try my own hand at a green for this >Be you >Princess Mi Amore Cadenza >Or just Cadence is fine >You got your horn and 'ascended' to an alicorn! the first alicorn in centuries since the prince emerged and took the throne. >maybe the only other alicorn EVER. outside of those silly foal's stories about the sun and the moon >You've been living in the palace for a while now >Its been amazing, living in the capital city with all the beautiful streets, freedom to come and go as you please from the palace (with a guard of course) >You just wish you and the Prince got to spend more time together >That and knew more about the stallion who took you in >You didn't know a lot about him but then again nopony did, the ruling prince of all Equestria was as much an enigma as his cutie mark. >A question mark. fitting for a pony who seemed to always remain aloof and separate from everypony else you guessed. >You do see each other at dinner sometimes though , when he's not too busy >>When he can make it to dinner, he compliments you, asks you about your day, how school was and how you're settling in >You respond politely like a princess is supposed to >The Prince is nice, nice but distant >Like he doesn't want to upset you when he speaks, which doesn't make sense >He's been nothing but kind to you, why would he think you'd be upset by him >Does he not like you? you like him. you listen, you say thank you and do all your lessons. >You even started foalsitting his student like he urged you to do >Which has, to be fair, been super fun, she's so cute and smart, even if it took a while to bring her out of her shell >The only ponies she spoke to before were her parents, her handsome brother and the Prince. >and the dragon hatchling but he just babbles so you're not sure if he counts yet >Today you went to pick up twilight from her lesson to watch her for the afternoon while her parents finished up work, she pranced up to greet you with the silly dance you two made up >Right in front of the Prince. >It was the first time you saw Prince Anon smile so genuinely >As you walked, Twilight yapped your ear off about star swirl, again, seems today's lesson was about him >Then she casually brought up she snuck into the palace library's forbidden section trying to find out if the prince and star swirl knew each other. >she'd swiped a book with his cutie mark on the spine thinking it was a history book about him >Turns out, it was something halfway between a grimoire and a journal >Twilight. >As smart as she is, often 'misses the forest for the trees' as the Prince would put it >To her she found a spellbook belonging to her teacher, not paying much attention to anything that wasn't the Prince's notes on the arcane >You asked if you could borrow the book for the night >She actually seemed ecstatic you wanted to borrow a book from her >She gets so giddy about the strangest things >That evening once you dropped her off, didn't blush when her brother said hello and headed home you get your chance to read >Its old. really old, the leather is cracked all over the place and the edges of the pages are frayed and yellowed >It must not have been touched for decades at least >Just lying forgotten in the shelves of the library >You run a hoof over the cover, feeling a tad guilty >You are prying into the Prince's business after all but... he had , clearly, forgotten about it and if its as old as you suspect maybe the prince that wrote it is completely different to the one you know which makes it okay? >You gingerly open the old tome and start reading >… >The Prince really must have changed a lot since he wrote this. >Outside of the pages absolutely coated in magical sigils, arcane ramblings and self-arguments the rest of the book is just pages upon pages of the strangest things >Lyrics to songs you've never heard of >Small sketches of ponies, a few with faces that made you giggle >Drawings of animals, weird creatures and weirder buildings and machines, you think some of these are machines anyway >Theres a few drawings of slightly warped circles with smaller circles over them attached to some of the weird creatures he drew, weird. >You'd just about given up reading, ready to pass the whole thing off as a collection of random magical stuff and scrawls >But then the next page, a third of the way in, is where it gets juicy >Real diary entries! >Some of them are separated by days, others by weeks and months, a few by years, lots and lots of years. >You greedily drink up every detail you can about the Prince's thoughts >Your eyes practically glow with interest on the page you land on >In a rougher form of his hoofwriting the entry reads >'Met the xenomorph queen herself today. WOULD. I told her as much, that i'd give her all the love she could want, that she could be the evil queen that steals my love and my heart. The handsome prince to her wicked dragon like that Disney movie. She spat some green stuff at me and told me i was a disgusting, impish beast in a crown. Gosh. I want her, is that bad? no one has spoken harsh to me like that since I got here, not since star swirl but his beard didn't exactly spark the imagination like her fangs did. Would it change things too much? No, she wouldn't like me back, she'd transform if she did and I doubt she'd look as nice sharing love as she does stealing it. sigh.' >The prince had a...crush. on somepony.a 'xenomorph queen' >What was a xenomorph? >Who was this pony he had a crush on? why did she have fangs? what in Equestria is a Disney? >You aren't sure if Prince Anon liked this pony or not even after re-reading the entry a few times, she sounded very mean but the prince liked that? >...Maybe you'd be better off reading other entries to understand the Stallion.