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Given Regality's costume choice, it was clear who Synth had to be. Dressed in the classic black vet of Han Solo with a prop gun hooked into the belt around his waist, the stallion squeezed his way through the crowd after his date as best he could given his large stature and flowing mane. It certainly was cumbersome trying not to bonk anyone in the crowd with his signature curls.

As the mare came to a halt near a pale mint colored mare he stood in silence. He knew better than to step into his darling's spotlight. "Your sister?" He smiled, eyes twinkling with interest, eyebrows raised. "I don't think we have met, though i may have glimpsed her working in your family's cafe from time to time." He smiled at the star adorned female. "It's a pleasure to meet you!"

That explained quite a few things.

Regal laughed softly at his explanation of it being a gift, some sort of expression crossing her features before she seemed to melt into a minor state of shock. Or perhaps confusion.

Did he just....use a pick up line on her sister?

Tiny hairs at the back of her neck stood on end as Regality glanced from her stare spangled sister to this ship of a stallion, eyes blinking rapidly. She felt a weird mix of emotions rise up inside her as she did her best to keep her face in check "Oh how adorable! She is quite positively the best star to bump into." she smiled, gently nudging her sister forward a bit. It was only fair Minty find a handsome stallion to spoil her as just as Synth did herself.

But her stallion was best stallion, or at least in this vain mare's mind and heart he was. When he appeared at her side in matching costumes she all but swelled up with pride and thrust her head back triumphantly. "I'm so excited you two finally get to meet in person!" she squealed like a filly in a toy shop. Or in her case, a beauty shop.

May Day watched as the yellow alicorn got her snacks and seemed mollified for the present, and he seemed mildly surprised at being acknowledged, even after the awkwadnsss of having been left alone with one another for a quick stretch. He gave her an uneasy smile and took a pretzel.

“I’m May Day,” he said, wondering if he should correct her term of Candy Dandy’s ‘friend’. They were certainly more than just ‘friends’, but did Candy feel comfortable offering that info? Also, what was he freaking out about, this was a total stranger—not her parents. “I’m glad you’re here to protect us in case someone needs to be punished in the name of the moon—Sailor…?” He waited for her to fill in her own name.

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“She’s definitely the brightest—I mean, you’re both very lovely.,” said Prime to Regality with politeness and a blush, realizing the glamorous mare was probably the worst person to offend in the aim of getting in her sister’s good graces. Prime Meridian was marinating in his own embarrassment as the mint vision spoke, her good nature shining through her words and putting him more at ease.

Uh.

Until that.

Fond memory? Gorgeous and brilliant phony…

His heart sank for a moment as he considered that she must already be taken (it had been pretty foolish to think otherwise), but the rest of her recollection made him freeze. Her face, her eyes, her coloring—weren’t they familiar? Didn’t he know her from somewhere? It wasn’t possible…

It was too hard to see, too hard to focus. He took the rocket nose off his head as her sister spoke, introducing her beau—and Prime did a doubletake wait, wasn’t that guy an actor?! How famous was this family?—his hair spilling from the helmet and revealing his face for the first time.

He waited with held breath for the green mare to say her own name in introduction, trying not to guess at it himself.

He remembered a young filly, kind and generous and sweet and mature beyond her age, helping that poor other little guy… what was his name? Wet Sandwich? Wet BLANKET. That was right. Could she have really grown up so quickly? Or was that longer ago than he thought? Holy crap. Buttermint.

Well! Synth was...polite, if nothing else! Buttermint smiled brilliantly at the stallion despite the faux pas - she most certainly had her own business that she worked very hard for, but she didn't expect a Phony of his caliber to know or dally in such things - bowing her head to him politely in turn. "Regality has said no end of sweet things about you." She glanced playfully to her sister; the truth was more like she said no end at all of things about Synth. "Nice to meet you, finally! I thought Regal would hide you forever!" A soft giggle escaped her, eyes flitting to said sister again as she was nudged forward. What was that about? Even so, she continued to gently tease her long-haired sister. "It isn't for lack of trying--"

But her gaze drifted, in part because she was intrigued by the shuttle-stallion, in part because he kept saying such sweet things, possibly even flirting (which was brazen, given being in the presence of her sister!), and something so warm and familiar about his voice. And when her eyes met his, with the nose of the costume off, everything in her went utterly quiet.

She exhaled, and didn't seem to inhale again. Her eyes went a touch wider, her smile freezing before slowly melting off into shock with a smidgen of horror. Buttermint lifted her head as though jarred, the stars woven through her hair bobbing in sharp contrast to her otherwise unmoving form. She did not. She did not just do what she absolutely just did oh no oh gosh oh stardust open mouth insert hoof--

"Prime," the name was slightly squeaked through her frozen half-smile, a soft, dusty pink swarming her face hotly. "I'm -- you -- we --" SMOOTH. REAL SMOOTH. "I'm -- Buttermint, from -- we, at your -- I -- my sister, Regality, her boyfriend, Synthesis." The usually carefully controlled and driven Phony was, perhaps for the first time in her adult life, tongue-tied. "Regal, Synth, this...he's -- " You know, the one I just called gorgeous and brilliant to his face can I just not exist now-- "Prime Meridian."

Buttermint felt like her blush was going to consume her face and make her melt like the mint she was named for. Even with her eyes locked to him, anchored so she couldn't actually flee to the other side of the shop, she ducked her head and made a motion as though to hide behind her sister's hair, perhaps the only thing pinker than her face.

As much as Kiwi Kiss had tried, her original costume idea — a ladybug costume — just hadn't worked! Putting another pair of wings on behind her already very real pair had ended up in a few painful clips into her wings and she just wasn't risking damaging them! So it was Plan B which won a night out on the town. Dressed up like Nurse Joy from the Pokemon series, Kiwi Kiss felt confident in her choice for the evening! Her wings fluttered as she hovered slightly off the ground upon entering the store, eyes flicking about as she examined the decorations. Lovely! Splendid! Maybe next year she should host a party, too!

Now the hard part kicked in — she didn't know anyone. The two phonies she knew were not at the event, leaving her — for the first time in a long while —anxious. Her mouth pursed slightly under the pressure, hooves touching the ground as her wings came to a gentle stop. Her store, Kiwilicious, was her pride and joy, but honestly? A store selling kiwi-centered goods just didn't get a lot of customers, and that made it hard to really connect with out phonies. That was the entire reason she was here, after all! Nerves weren't something Kiwi felt often, but there they were, and here she was; nibbling the bottom of her lip as she stood by the door, content in simply observing the pretty costumes and lovely decoration for the time being.

Synth smiled blankly, blissfully unaware of the tension and awkwardness of what was currently unfolding around him.

"Your sister is certainly as sweet and lovely as you've described her to be," he chortled, pushing his bothersome mane of curls away from his face.

"I'm sorry it took us so long to meet, often times i have a hectic schedule and when i'm free... Well I have to be careful to be sneaky going out." His eyes sparkled as he looked over the mare he hoped would someday become his sister in-law. Regal's family had always seemed to friendly and kind from what he saw of them at a distance, it was a pleasure to see they were as he imagined.

Slowly turning to examine the stallion she referred to as Prime, he blinked and rubbed the back of his head with a hoof. "Ah, well I am relatively new to old enough status I suppose. That and they still play reruns of my old show! I'm quite flattered to hear that you know of my work."

And just like that, it all fell apart. What was she expecting, anyway? Buttermint literally hoof-palmed when her sister repeated her own words of endearment, face burning a dusky pink; when she lifted her head again -- he was gone?

There was a sharp feeling in her chest in his absence -- was this disappointment? -- swallowing hard for her suddenly parched throat. "No, it's -- c'mon Regality, this is mortifying, as much fun as you're having." She laughed, and it was a few octaves higher than usual. Ugh, girl, get a hold of yourself! Buttermint tried to square her shoulders, and it was about the same time Regality nudged her to go get him girl. "Get him and do what--?" she squawked softly, but she'd taken a few steps with the nudging, and then a few more.

What could it hurt, really? The worst of it had literally already unfolded, what with her giving him inside trade on her thoughts and him flirting before he knew. They were both suffering from hoof-in-mouth syndrome, made for each other, really--

The blush hit her so hard she felt light-headed. "Hey, Synth, we'll have to -- catch up after the party, huh? I haven't had the chance to play big stuffy little sister." She cast him an apologetic smile as she was almost out of earshot. "Sister. Behave!" she called to Regality before lowering her gaze and pretending not to slink towards the food table.

She poured two cups of punch, giving herself a brief mental pep talk and holding her head high, heading over towards the rocket man. It was only as she took a breath to say something that she realized he had company, awkwardly swallowing down anything sweet she might have said. Let's not embarrass ourselves in front of strangers, too. Buttermint slid a cup to Prime, and lowered the one she'd poured for herself to the hippie foal. "Happy Halloween," she offered lamely.

Her eyes widened as Hybrid changed the color of her outfit right in front of them. She'd never seen anyphony do that before! She had so many questions, and they all tangled up on her tongue before she could get one out properly. May managed to ask at least a couple of the queries she had, and sh silently blessed him.

"A paint shop!" she said finally, once her words had untangled themselves. "That's so fun! And perfect timing too: I've been meaning to repaint the store. It's been a couple of years, and it's looking a bit...dull." Luckily decorations hid it well right at the moment, but when they came down...Candy didn't wanna think about it.

Another party-goer came in, looking a bit lost, and Candy waved, paper legging fluttering in the breeze.

"Hiya! And thanks! I decorated maybe half of it. May here helped me a lot though." she winked and nudged him with her shoulder.

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Wabi looked up at the sparkle-eyed Phony and said "Oh! Sure! That'd be great!" He took the offered treat, his own eyes sparkling now. Soon after, he was being offered a cup of punch as well, and his little heart burst. What nice phonies!

"Happy Halloween to you too!" he said around a mouthful of pie. He swallowed, drank some punch and said "I like your costumes. They're very..matching!"






*fails so hard because she didn't replay for so long*