Some people who are brought here are beings out of legend or who didn't have humanoid forms in the first place. There's at least one world where humans don't seem to exist at all. For them, it's a bit more than a shock to be forced into a form they don't even have mental reference for.
[France can't say he understand the world that the ponies come from, but he can't imagine what it would be like to be forced to take a form that he'd never even heard of before. The concept is monstrous.]
[France brightens at Valmont's ancestry, his hand coming to tuck underneath his chin.]
Related is a good way to describe it. Everyone who is French or identifies a part of themselves as French has some relationship to me and I to them. There's a lot of politics of identity nowadays, but I consider anyone who identifies themselves with "French" as my own.
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Some people who are brought here are beings out of legend or who didn't have humanoid forms in the first place. There's at least one world where humans don't seem to exist at all. For them, it's a bit more than a shock to be forced into a form they don't even have mental reference for.
[France can't say he understand the world that the ponies come from, but he can't imagine what it would be like to be forced to take a form that he'd never even heard of before. The concept is monstrous.]
[France brightens at Valmont's ancestry, his hand coming to tuck underneath his chin.]
Related is a good way to describe it. Everyone who is French or identifies a part of themselves as French has some relationship to me and I to them. There's a lot of politics of identity nowadays, but I consider anyone who identifies themselves with "French" as my own.