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Goddamn it I'm bored and what I'm going to do is essentially a total rehash of what I already wrote because I am a faggot.
>Night bullshit in Equestria
>You're walking through the dark alleyways in Canterlot, on your way back home
>Despite Equestria being devoid of violent crimes, you still feel unsafe and fearful going through them
>And not even because of your instincts and upbringing shaped by life on Earth
>Shouldn't have stayed that late with your stallion buddies from your workplace
>Usually you got home way earlier than that
>And you weren't walking through the barely familiar neighbourhoods
>But you couldn't refuse to accompany your buds in the bar for some Friday evening cider, right?
>You were a true friend after all
>But now you're regretting it
>Never again, for your own sake
>Going back to the actual reasons why do the alleyways feel unsettling to you
>It's because of bat ponies
>Creations of Nightmare Moon's dark magic
>She was turning pegasi into some weird, vampiristic pony-bat hybrids as her guards and soldiers
>They were known to hang around (sometimes, literally) in those neighbourhoods during nights
>Princess Luna hired them as her guards
>A lot of bat ponies in the capital of Equestria work as guards, in fact
>Often picked straight up from the caves in the forests of southern and central Equestria, since there weren't a lot of jobs there
>But there also were also a lot of bats working for various jobs in the city, often predating Luna's return
>The city crowd is different from the cave one
>They're more assimilated among the Equestrian society, needing to reject their comparative lack of morals to fit in
>Such as vampirism, as the cave bats often drank on their prey's blood, sticking to fruit juice
>Or the mares abducting the stallions of other races
>Raping and enslaving them
>The enslaved stallions, the "thralls", exhibited some bat pony features without fully becoming them
>But they've also served as their hosts, letting them to drink on their blood
>And were also incredibly loyal and loving to their abductors, defending them no matter what, their thoughts almost always occupied with the the mares that mindraped them
>The cave bats have all of that normalized
>They would often give visits to the nearby towns for fruits
>They wouldn't raid them just to take the lonely stallions for themselves
>But if the stallons from the villages nearby the bat settlements got lost in a forest during night, they would inevitably become bat mares' husbands
>Thus gaining a certain reputation on top of their ostracization in the Equestrian society due to their role as NMM's creations as well as pretty much taking the role as Equestria's vampires, even if Celestia kept the angry crowds from genociding them
>After NMM's defeat, she gave the bat ponies a role as Equestria's forest guardians, protecting the country from unexpected bullshit
