So...I'm a brony. And I coerced my other brony friend into giving me this prompt. My face was permanently manic-happy while writing this and you may need google to have any idea what's going on, unless you too are a brony. Even if you dislike this ficlet I will still love and tolerate the shit out of you.

Theme provided by: Mylaervain

Rating: T

025. Brony

It's something Seifer has been hiding pretty well so far, though he thinks Fuujin is onto him at this point. Rai is just as oblivious as ever and probably would join in if he knew, just because that's the kind of friend he is. He's a fairly intelligent college student, and a badass who gets into fist fights and sometimes bar fights on a regular basis, but every Saturday, without fail, he goes online and waits until the new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is posted. As far as he's concerned it's completely and totally legitimate for a twenty-two year-old to watch a cartoon aimed at young girls simply because it's awesome.

A knock at the door pulls him out of his thoughts and for a moment he's pissed off, because the video had just finished loading. Getting up, he opens the door to his dorm and blinks a few times, not really understanding why Hayner is standing in front of him. He's got several bags with him and Roxas is right behind with more stuff, and it's pretty much the most confused the other student has managed to get him in quite a while.

"Your roommate dropped out, mine wanted to room with his new buddy, so we're stuck with each other," the brown-eyed man said by way of explanation as he pushed his way past the larger blond.

"Okay…Sure this isn't just a scheme to torment me more than you can in our lit class alone?"

"Mostly sure, but it could be if you want it to, I'm pretty flexible with the whole friends or enemies dichotomy."

Shrugging and deciding he didn't care, he grabbed the rest of his new roommate's things from his spiky-haired friend and threw them on the bed with the others. Ignoring him in favor of the new episode, he put his earbuds in and was just about to play it when he heard Hayner speak again.

"Is the new episode up?"

"What?" Was the most intelligent response the scarred blond could manage on the spot.

"Of MLP. This episode has Derpy in it, and she's my favorite non-mane-six pony. Fluttershy is my favorite of those. You seem like more of a Rainbow Dash guy, right?"

"You're a brony?"

"Uh, yeah? How else would I have recognized the cutie mark stickers of Dash and Twilight Sparkle on your computer? You're not as subtle as you think you are, Seif. Mind if I watch the new episode with you, since you have it loaded and all?"

"Yeah, sure. My favorite is Dash, you're right. Outside the mane-six it's Luna."

"Princess Luna is pretty cool once she's not evil. Still think Celestia was a bitch to send her to the moon for so long."

"Celestia is kind of a bitch in general, really. Why do you like Derpy so much?" He pressed as he pulled his buds out and let the smaller man sit next to him on the bed.

"Dunno, she's just pretty cool. I like how Faust just sticks her in randomly for the fans to see, I think in this episode she's going to get a bigger part."

They shut up once the episode starts and are silent pretty much the whole way through, and Seifer can't help but think that this whole roommate thing is going to work out just fine. Even if they only have this and their high school years in common it's more than enough to make Seifer tolerate him for however long it is until the end of the semester. Doesn't hurt that his long-ignored crush on the other had pushed itself to the front of his mind again after hearing the other read a few lines of The Divine Comedy like he really got it. It was a weird thing to find sexy in a guy, but whatever, if people were going to judge him they had a ton of better targets.

"Derpy hasn't ever talked before, has she?"

"No, and they've never referred to her as Derpy in the show either. Awesome episode. I've got some homework to do, so I'll leave you alone," Hayner tacked onto the end of his statement, sliding off the bed and going to sit on his own.

"Hey, same time next week?" He said suddenly, not sure why, but he could always blame pony friendship themes for it later.

"Yeah, that sounds great, Seif," the tan student answered, smiling.

And if he leaned into the smaller man a little more the second, third, fourth, twentieth time they watched an episode together, he could blame ponies for that too. But probably not the kissing, the dating, or the sex thereafter.