~. day 14's prompts: obscure + in love .~

rambles incoming !!

The two met when Lightning was sent to do community service at The Rockfarm after it was found out that the Washouts didn't have any of their safety documentation in order. Not to mention they didn't even have any qualified EMTs on sight when performing stunts.
The work was tartarus, the color palette even worse. Celestia damnit.. why couldn't she have just pestered her ex nurse Redheart to at least show up at the latest stunt show… the discomfort of that would've been leagues better than the constant rootrock soup and the odd family she's currently with.

I mean really, c'mon, Lightnings Family is a tad weird sure, everyone's family is, but this is a whole 'nother level.
Limestone with her completely irrational anger issues at everything. Maud with the blank stares and… pet… rock?? Cloudy and Igneous acting more like company owners to their family than parents. And Marble. Marble flanking Pie. She literally doesn't speak and never stands up for herself. How does a pony even survive in this world with that kind of an attitude?

But as Lightning continues her community service, the absolutely marbles family starts slowly growing on her.
All of their quirks start making more and more sense as the days go by. Apparently they're all autistic? Well that explains a lot.
And to be fair, Lightning never really minded any of their differences, she was more so just angry at her own fuckups and took her frustrations out on the family. For which she's extremely sorry. In fact, she's so sorry, she opts to stay an extra month after her community service hours are finished to help out with the upcoming north-east rock turning season. Well.. that's what she says, she actually just feels like she belongs somewhere for the first time in a long time.

And so the extra month turns into months, and the no conversations with Marble turn into occasional sunset watches and early morning tea blabbering sessions with Marble (Lightning is still doing most of the speaking, but still). They bond, albeit slowly, but they do and over time decide that "friendship" really isn't the label for them.

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Anthro Lightning's pose is referenced off a funny Pinterest doodle.