Well, this is a pickle...

My whole announcement that I am now a Unicorn named Rare Hue WAS meant to be in the spirit of April Fool Day. I was a Brony before this ordeal, and have been sense the beginning. I was before Bronies were called such. It was just a thing. I didn't make to much out of it, I spazzed about episodes with friends, and reveled in the eye rolls from other Furs. Even collected some merchandise. I fell in love with all the fan music, and many of the fan animations.

Then something changed. It wasn't instant, several little things occurred. The first major one was actually almost 3 years ago sitting in the Bar at MFM 2013 surrounded by Ponies and Bronies. We talked under the haze of whiskey and good times much about MLP, Equines, and Phenotypes. I remember that night fondly. Repeated it (or tried to at the last MFM 2014). That was the same night as the Pony Dance. It was in that dance something magical truly happened to me. I had had one of the worst years of my life up until that point, ite was truly BAD... There under the glare of Ponies, and the music it all drained away and I danced and played all night. Under her Majesty's watchful Eyes (The Moon). It was as if I was in a waking dream. I have often looked back on that Saturday night, the Pony Dance, The Friends, the Frolicking, and the Ball Pit. Oh, the Ball Pit...

Though after that night I was still not yet there. I was still disconnected some where. Still floundering around lost in my confusion about everything else, not fully realizing I had lost my self somewhere in the previous year. Not seeing my difficulties for what they were, a new change had come. I was reluctant to let go of the life before, even if it caused me great pain, and illness. I knew something was off though. Rat no longer spoke to me, and he had been gone from my dreams for a long time. So, I went back to my old stomping grounds, Raccoon. Why Raccoon, is a much longer and more complex story for another time. Still however, something was wrong and I did not know what.

Then last weekend I had a dream, one of those super real dreams. Those I get when its important (Read my LJ over the passed 10 years, you'll see). “Luna”, came to me through the mist of dreams (Yes Luna from MLP, but it should be noted that she is actually founded on concepts in real world myth and lore), I was in awe. Her mane like the nighttime heavens, her eyes jewels, her voice like a gentle breeze at night, her movements like clouds across the darkened sky, her majesty EPIC. She truly IS a celestial creature... She spoke to me at length about many things telling me many secrets, and information that I MUST know. We talked for sometime as we wandered across the plane of dreams. Then she stopped, and said, “Shhhhh... This is all you will remember.” and I woke up. With the only clear memory of the dream being vague snip-its that linger just out of grasp of my mind, and that last part. I am beginning to understand now that dream, but that is for another post.

The next day was the first tiny local Brony meet, and I had no idea who I was looking for as I had never met any of these people, but I saw a guy with a Luna shirt. She peeking at me from the lip of his jacket. It was them... A Sign? Coincidence? Dream Magic?... What followed was a good day. That night once again Luna came to me, and she asked for me to walk and then sit with her as we watched the moon cross the sky, and I basked in her glory, and wondered at the beauty of the dreamscape nighttime; I could sense she was pleased... Definitely a sign.

To April Fools. In spite of the previous information I still did not get “It”. Not taking it all to seriously. Its just a cartoon after all. Right? Well, I thought this would be a good time to express my Broniness. So, I came up with yesterdays April Fools announcement that I am now a Unicorn!... Convenient, as I had a stack of doodles of my Pony OC laying around, and years worth of FB shared posts of MLP fan films, and the like. My friends all knew I had a border line obsession with the show. I played Legands of Equestria, and have a Second Life Pony Avatar. So, totally, believable April fools joke. Right?

I loved many of the reactions, some congratulatory, some ambivalent, some shocked. The three private ones I guess you could call negative or even hostile were the real shocker though (Also for another post). It was another good day today. Not only did I receive more “Signs”, and some of the dream came to me in a vision (and I have a feeling that is part of the plan and will happen again at the right moments), and I feel at peace with this change. It feels good. In spite of the trouble its going to cause me (Yet another Phenotype change Eye Rolls)

Here is the rub, I do not want to go back. I like the change! So, a Unicorn I will stay!

Though there may be a tweak or two... That name for one, “Rare Hue” its very pony like, but what do you call me? Rare Hue doesn't quite roll off the tongue; “Rare”, or “Hue”, or oh god “Huey” Cringe

But that is for later.

All Hail the Night! All Hail the Moon!
Rare Hue

Still a Unicorn.