Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Patreon)

ur rubbing off on him twily~

Okay so. Y'all might've noticed that my content lately has been focusing on entirely new characters and storylines and whatnot. This is because much of the older Pandoraverse characters and content (most of which was first made seven years ago) has long grown stale and flat to me. Even Twicord. My oldest, dumbest OTP. Which is a problem, cuz the Pverse was kinda built on the Twicord ship.

Sooo. Just out of boredom, I rewatched the episode that first got me into this ship, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Here's a relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umk1MEYyqvA&t=155s

And it was like a brick to the face. I remember why I fell in love with this whack ass ship. It's because of their dynamic in that episode. Discord is his regular trickster dick self, but he's also a mentor to Twilight. Sort of. In his own incredibly unhelpful way. And even though Twilight is like hey buddy friendo pal if you keep this cryptic shit up for another minute i'm actually going to murder you, the thing is, Discord actually does help her. Even though he has no reason to. He's fascinated and invested and honestly kinda flirty with her for some unexplained reason, he's the meddlesome Q to Twilight's Jean-Luc Picard. And I just find that dynamic really interesting and charming. The show moved away from it in later seasons, with Discord moving away from treating Twilight like a plaything and into just being an ass to everyone. I wish they'd done more with Discord as an omnipotent meddling mentor.

Anyway, I'd like to incorporate more of Discord and Twi's old relationship dynamic into the pandoraverse. I think Discord and Twilight are in a strange, nebulous quasi-relationship, but not married. Marriage is antithetical to a being of chaos, and Twilight can't see herself settling down with that hot mess. Discord is not even around much of the time, popping up mostly to annoy Twi/make some misguided poorly communicated attempt at wooing her. Twilight doesn't have a lot of patience for this. Discord can admittedly be charming sometimes, buuut mostly she just finds him exasperating, especially in his odd attempts to steer her in learning about harmony/friendship/magic/etc. Twi and Discord do still have their oopsie baby together, Pandora, whom they both do love, even if she's the glue that keeps them stuck together forever. They are also not an exclusive couple. Twilight has tried dating a couple of pleasant, straight-laced ponies (Flash Sentry, her old friend Moondancer, etc), cuz she figures she should probably model a functional relationship for her daughter, but these relationships always flicker and die, because Twilight secretly finds her partners a bit dull, and would rather be alone with her research. Or at least she could be if Discord didn't routinely pop up to drag her off onto some terrifying adventure/insist on a picnic together with Panny in the third dimension/poke fun at her newest dating partner/steal her fanfictions for dubious purposes/generally be a pest. A pest that she maybe-kinda-sorta enjoys-in small doses- but a pest all the same.

Although they don't like to define their relationship, Discord absolutely will introduce her to ponies as his wife if it means she gets flustered and huffy. Discord is definitely in love with Twilight and often can't help being a lovesick idiot. He's an omnipotent immortal entity that saw  a dinky purple horse and went "yep, that's the one for me", and never looked back. Twilight's feelings are more vague....but she does get curiously worried when Discord is missing for too long. He is perhaps the only being left in Equestria that can truly challenge her, force her to grow, and keep her guessing, and she can't help but appreciate that. The closest word Twi can use to describe Discord is her baby daddy, which she hates cuz it doesn't seem very fitting for a Canterlot-raised princess. Though her friends worry about her and sometimes try to set Twi up with a nice pony, Twilight has confided (while sloppy drunk on red wine), that she's perfectly content with her life as is, with her friends and Spike and her little girl, and the the village idiot she's screwing sometimes. It's not the life she thought she'd have, but honestly, she's pretty interested to see where it goes next.