An obersavation of Sweeteries. (Finished)

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It was a pleasant sunny day in ponyville, which gave a pleasing warm touch to the feathers of Grantisimo, as he walked over the stony paths and approached the market, looking around from his haughty stance, his stare alone seeming disapproving of every single thing he saw. His surprisingly elegant steps and methodical swishing of his tail eventually leaded him towards a stall, where they sold sweets and chocolates. Something that the griffon indulged in, admittedly a bit too often. Fashion business was stressful.

The curiously-haired Griffon, Grantisimo, observed a selection of delectable sweets being sold at the ponyville marketplace, from pieces of chocolate to bonbons and those delectable types of sweets filled with a nougat or nut-paste. Some of them were outright strange to him, but they were obviously more catered to the ponies' plant-loving tastes, and not a Griffon's sweet tooth. A claw was raised to his sharp dark grey beak and idly scratched it. Ponies did not appear to like him much here in ponyville, distancing slightly from him overall. It was a funny sight to him, because most of his fellow griffons considered him short, but he still easily was a hint larger than a stallion due to Griffons simply being a somewhat larger race. "May i... Try one of these confectioneries?" he asked to the shopkeep, not really caring too much for her confirmation, figuring he was polite enough for asking at all. he took one of the bonbons he was eyeing and threw it in his mouth, enjoying the flavour somewhat. He'd pay for it afterward, when he had ordered some more chocolates... Probably.

But for now, he would be distracted by a pony catching his eyesight and coming closer to the stall aswell, evidently also interested in these sweets. How would this pony react to a griffon standing large at the stall he wished to be aswell, and how would he approach the stall if at all?

[Candy Bass]

Candy was approaching the market with a big grin on his Face, and a bit of sweat from the heat. The weather itself felt really nice on his feathers but made it a tad too warm on his fur. But still despite the somewhat uncomfortable weather he had still was really happy. Today was the Day he got his allowance and what does that mean for him, lots of sweets of Course.

As he walked down the road he came into view of the marketplace and confirmed that his favorite stand is opened already. The Stands where they sold sweets were his favorite and everypony there knew him by name,the most even had his usual orders already ready when they knew he would come. One thing was there that he did not excpet, a Griffon was also standing at his loved stand and also munching on some sweets.

'Candy, don't be scared, its just a Gryphon at a Candy Stand, nothing will happen' he thought to himself nervously, 'and i hope he wont make any stupid comments about my wheight' he sighed.

He finally arrived at the stand and just mumbled a hello to the gryphon and placed his order at the stand
"The Usual please, plus I want some of these Candy and these and 2 of the nougat chocolate bars"

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"Well, you certainly know your chocolates, don't you?" The gryphon said, looking towards Candy, his eyes were sharp and rude. "If only you knew how to carry it." he said, making a rather vague remark towards the pony. He didn't seem very nice at all, but upon closer inspection, Candy might notice that the Gryphon was not exactly the thinnest person either, having a bit of weight around his orange cat-like stomach. "I'll have a box of Bon Bons. A Dozen, one of each of your best sellers." he requested, in his demanding tone as he grabbed some bits to pay it and the one he had eaten beforehand off. It then came to him a second later he was trying to be nice here. "uh, Please." he added, at the end, which might sound very strange coming from a gryphon.

[Candy Bass]

"Yea I do, I buy stuff here every day, well every day since we moved here" Candy said and just plopped down next to the stand and started eating a few hoof full of his bonbons and some more and some more, after a few minutes only his usual order remained.

He massaged his belly a little bit and looked back towards the stand and thought about maybe buying some more candy or maybe he could go to the hayburger place ?

What he mostly forgot, was that the Gryphon was still standing there, and he also placed a Order.
That reminded him, didn't the Gryphon made a comment about him being fat ? Maybe he wasn't saying it to be mean and just made a little comment. he really couldnt tell because he wasnt looking at him while he said it, the body language could have told something.

The Gryphon placed an order, similar in size to what Candy used to buy, now it was a bit more, but that was besides the point.

One thing he also saw at a closer look, the Gryphon was also more on the chubby site, not quite reaching his Size but quite a bit more than your avarage fit pony.

Maybe he should try talking to him, maybe he was just making conversation instead of being rude, 'not everyone has to act like most of the dumb foals at school'.

He stood up and went over to the Gryphon.
He took the bag with his candy in his Wing and offered it to the Gryphon. "Hey do you want some of my Candy?".
 Maybe that was a decent Conversation opener ?

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Er.. No.. Thank you, i'm fine without the extra sweets... he said, giving the young pony an unfriendly judging stare. That stare however did ease up after a second. Thank you.. For offering, i suppose. he added on, his gaze looking in the other direction, Because he found it difficult to look someone straight in the eye when being polite.

You look. Different, when you have a stash of sweets in your cl-er. Hooves. He corrected himself, pony anatomy still confusing him somewhat as a gryphon. His eyes were fixated, even as Candy simply sat and ate, the fact he was smiling instead of nervously walking somewhere, as he was at the start, made him look very different in his eyes. This must be some of that 'anypony is beautiful' talk he heard when he was younger. It was hard for him to imagine Candy looking any semblance of graceful or awesome. But perhaps the statement wasn't entirely untrue, perhaps even the... Nerdiest looking pony could beam with a confident step and a smile. The thought pecked at Grantisimo's mind, much like a gryphon could peck at your patience. My name is Grantisimo, Youngling. he introduced himself for some reason, being rather quick to do so. While introducing himself, his head was held high and his beak was slightly slanted in the sky, which really helped make him seem larger than candy. He looked away for a second, before, again, as usual, adding the polite thing to do afterward. What is your.. name? He asked, his tone somewhat more flat, as if he didn't really care. To be honest, he didn't care that much, but it was the polite thing to do, and if he wanted to test his theory, he'd have to be polite enough to make the little fellow happy.

[Candy Bass]

"Well ..." He said while eating some more candy "My ...Name ... is Candy ... ... , Candy ... Bass" He said with frequent chewing pauses. He looked in his bag and saw that he was almost halfway trough is candy supplies.

"Your Name is nice, .. I guess, I don't uh, know really much about Gryphon names" he looked at the Gryphon and asked "Where are you from i haven't seen you before? Well I haven't seen any gryphon here in quite some time, ok well mostly because I'm not playing outside much. ".

After that he started looking around himself and getting quite nervous, after a few moments he looked relieved and went over to where he sat down before talking to Grantisimo, He came back with his saddlebags on him.

"Whew, almost forgot my bag, i thought i lost it", He said with a sigh.

He shook the bag off so that it landed on the ground, then he put his remaining Candies in the bag and took out something to drink, "that would have been really awful i lost my old Bag i had before that, i looked for it for days and didnt manage to find it"

"Oh and hey im not a youngling, do i look like a little foal to you ?" He asked with a big pout on his face.
He wiped some Sweat and Candy crumps of his face and pushed his glasses back on his nose. While he was 'tidying up his messy face' he thought of what the Gryphon said before introducing himself and asked him in a nervous tone " Uh what did you mean with the I look different thingie ? "
He facehoofed and said "and uh sorry im probably being annoying with all the talking" .

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The young Candy Bass was energetic and talkative that was for sure. he didn't seem to take kindly to being called youngling, so it seems like Grantisimo would have to do an effort of remembering and saying this ponies' name. What a bother. "I suppose you could do with keeping to one conversational topic at a time." he said, initially berating the pony for all the talking he did. Talkative ponies could be so annoying to him, he just wanted to get started with the things he cared for! he continued on, answering one of candy's statement. "Well there's not much to know about Gryphon names. They start with a G, i've noticed. And we use less... words in our names." he said, speaking of pony names which were... rather literal in their usage of words, something he simply could not wrap his mind around.

"As for you appearance, quite simply, you look Bo-erm... That is to say.. You don't look like the most charming when you walked up to me nervously, but when you smiled.. You looked... a little better." he stated. he was about to call Candy Bass 'boring, uninteresting, slow and not very confident' but.. that might have been slightly too rude, which means he couldn't test his theory. Although it was starting to dawn on him that to test the full extent of his theory he'd have to 'befriend' this pony. What -was- happening to him? he would never even have considered something like this earlier. He disliked the notion of it, but the feeling of his multicolour hair reminded him of his bet and what he was trying to do... Perhaps a friend wouldn't be so bad. "Would you.. Perhaps be interested in a few.. Pointers for your appearance? I'm no Hoity Toity or anything of that rank of the fashion elite, but i do say that i have something i could add to almost every ensemble." he spoke in perfect fashion-speak, reaffirming his job as fashionista. Helping somepony like Candy definitly wasn't for business, although he'd love to make some business from it, he wasn't about that anymore. It was more of a... pet project.

[Candy Bass]

"hehehe sorry," He said while scratching his Head. "I usually don't talk to other ponies, uh and I mean others in general, much " He looked away and down to the ground and thought 'ugh I probably messed that up a usual -well done- you idiot'.

"Yea we Ponies seem to be the ones that stick out namewise compared to Gryphons and Dragons and Buffaloes, and" he trailed off "I'm getting 'rambly' again, aren't I, Ugh" He Stomped on the ground at that.

"were you going to say boring, sounded like that" he looked away again "and uh I do look better when i am smiling, really ?" ^{"not like it could get any worse"} he mumbled under his breath.

"oh, you are a fashion pony-´? uh well, not pony you know what I mean, do you work in that field or just as a hobby? "He sighed again
" I will probably need more than a few Pointers ..." he hummed while thinking about what kind of pointers Grantisimo was talking about.
"it is probably going to be advice about my mane and my tail,mmh I don't want the colors you have dyed you mane with, you look like you dunked the back of your head in a rainbow" he chuckled a bit, but stopped a moment afterwards "sorry i wasn't trying to be mean, I apologise if that was rude" He looked at the Gryphon to see his reaction and said "uh back to topic then, what would the kind of 'appearance tips' be ?" he asked "and also I think we shouldn't talk here, we are kind blocking the stand". He went over to the stand and bought some more chocolate for later and asked: "uh any suggestions on where we should go ?"

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He twitched ever so slightly at the comment towards his hair, as he had not dyed it of his own choice, but had it dyed because he lost a bet, and kept it dyed to remember his purpose. He hated it himself, and the way Candy remarked on it and laughed about made him want to do something rather rude. "Please. No comments on the hair, you twer-CANDY." he forced out, his tone sharp and frustrated,about to insult candy, ,but barely remembering himself last second to remain polite. "do.. Excuse me." he grunted. He would have added 'and excuse yourself too.' but he was aware enough to know that wasn't all too polite. "and no, i have no recommendations for your mane and tail. You'd be surprised how much I can... WE can do without actually changing your appearance. You might require more than a -few- pointers yes... We should probably go somewhere bright, comfortable and where it isn't too busy, because you'll likely be making a fool out of yourself for most of the time we're working." he added, ,he was still somewhat irritated about the hair comment, which is why he did not bother with being very polite with his final statement. He probably wasn't wrong anyway, this candy looked like a total twerp, and probably wouldn't catch on his pointers directly. Prhals he might be surprised. Although he thought it seemed -really- unlikely.

"how about some fields just a small way away from ponyville? Close enough to see this town, but not so close that anyone will be seeing what you're doing. It'll be bright and sunny and all happy and stuff too. You ponies like those kind of stuff, don't you?" he said. He honestly preferred the homely dull feeling of gray skies and ruined stone that his less than charming hometown of griffonstone had. He found it perfectly acceptable and charming though. He started moving towards the closest edge of ponyville, expecting candy to follow him.

[Candy Bass]

He looked down and sighed "Sorry, that was really rude, it won'thappenagain." he mumbled towards the End. He was still looking anywhere but at the gryphon as he continued to listen.

"oh, we are going somewhere, ok I'm fine with it." he said "and yea I totally get that I'm probably going to make a fool out of myself *sigh*"

 'and working? I hope he doesn't want me to exercise'.

"Where exactly do you want to go? is it far?" Candy asked while hoping the answer was going to be 'no'.

While he was saying Grantisimo was alway walking away and was already quite a few hooves away, Candy started moving faster and called after him "hey wait for me, ... I'm not ... that ...fast ..." while panting.

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Grantisimo rolled his eyes and decreased the pacing of his steps, waiting for Candy to catch up. He thought on what he should say, but decided that most of the things he thought of were unfitting. calling someone a doormat wasn't exactly the most polite thing to say. "We could fly there, if you so prefer." he saidd, observing Candy's wings. He was a Gryphon after all, and quite capable of flight. If Candy could fly faster than he walked, it would surely increase the speed of the two. Although, a bit of walking wouldn't hurt the little fellow, as far as Grant was considered. He carefully observed Candy's rush. 'Bouncy. Unfit. Looks ready to trip over his hooves any second.' were the thoughts that rushed through the fashionista's mind. Getting this pony to act a little more refined and walk a little more confidently and elegantly would be a whole task.

'How much time am i willing to spend on this... unlikely endeavour?' was the thought that came afterwards. He would have asked Candy if he already had any experiences with fashion outside of what he saw. Perhaps the pony had once picked up a fashion book for fun. that was certainly more likely than anything else the Gryphon had in mind. However, Grant waited for Candy to reply to the current question before adding more to the conversation.

[Candy Bass]

"Thanks  ... ... for ... waiting ... ... for me " He said, his face covered in sweat , which could be compared to a waterfall with how much he was sweating.

He listened to Grantisimos question and pondered on what he should answer. Flying would be a tad faster, Walking not as exhausting, he really should fly again though! Even if he disliked all kinds of exercise, being unable to fly was a thing he really would hate to happen.So that was one thing he was begrundingly exercising for.

He started to unfold his wings, and did give a few testing flaps. They were kinda uncomfortable because all the moving made the Candy slosh around in his packed belly.which made him wince a bit

' I really hope i won't be too slow for Grantisimo'.he was thinking 'im already annoying him a lot'

" I can fly, if you let me warm up a moment.Sorry, im a bit 'rusty', my wings could use the exercise, hehe" he laughed nervously at the end.

After a few minutes Of exercise/break and 2 failed takeoffs, he was hovering in Place and said " 'm ready."

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Grantisimo watched the rather sad situation unfold infront of him. Despite his somewhat chubbier stature, when Candy was done, he simply spread his wings and took of with one large flap. Naturally, Gryphon wings were larger than pegasi wings, and it was harder for a gryphon to get so out of shape that his flying would become weaker because of it, But Grant had little knowledge of and little care for those facts. He still thought Candy was a rather sad sight to behold. "Have.. you ever picked up... Anything, at all, on fashion?" He asked, definitly a berating tone in his voice, as he was not impressed by a single thing he had seen thusfar. As far as he was concerned, this was just some bothersome nerdy twerpy doormat, who didn't even know how to walk straight and hold his head high.

'I wonder if he's ever even felt confidence in his life. Pfah, probably not, too stuck with imaginary book character's achievements than his own.' He thought, with a bit of a sneering snicker to himself. He flew a slight few steps ahead of Candy though, so he figured Candy would not notice it. Why was he helping this disaster case again? Oh yeah, beauty in everything and whatnot. He would have to remind himself of that quite often today. A short flight later, the two found themselves on sunny green hills not far from ponyville, where Grant descended calmly and easily, his wings letting him glide and slowly come to a halt, and rather silently land on the floor, the wings slowly and elegantly folding back to the sides of his back. He looked at Candy, wondering if the pegasus could do anything even slightly similar.

[Candy Bass]

Flying was working decently, still a pretty exhausting thing to do. Candy thought 'Whew good that we only flying a bit, I really am not long distance flyer material'

At first he didn't notice the wuestion pointed at him, because he was busy breathing enough, after a few moments he finally responded "pfft, ... do i ... look like it ? ... ... ... No not really, ... The dumb foals ... At school ... ... always have ... something to ... complain: i look stupid, walk stupid, ... my glasses look dumb, i should cut my mane off ... Because its a lost cause, ... .... I should try clothes,... what the ... hay are you ... ... wearing, and so on" he looked really down after saying all that.

After what felt like Ages to the round colt, it was finally time to land. Grantisimo nailed the landing as far as his eyes could see.

He of course wasn't going to have such a smooth landing, the descent still worked passibly, but he was still going to fast to have a point landing.
He tried to hold the wings against the wind to take out some of the momentum, which did not do much, what he decided to do instead was just folding his wings in and landing on his rump, which fortunaly did work without any real bruises.

"Whew, done, that could have gone worse, right ?"

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"If all you're doing is trying to stay alive. Yes. If you were trying to impress anyone, like say, a slug? no." he said straight to the point and straight to Candy's face. "So, First of all, Fashion isn't all about the -looks- and following the trends. There's effort and love to put into something to make it look good. True, You don't look perfect, your mane could look better and your glasses are simply oversized, but I'm not here to talk about that. That costs bits, and i think we both know where you spend those." he said, looking at his bonbons and then at Candy's stomach.

"And i'm going to focus on your walk. Yes, they say it's stupid, and no, they're not wrong. But i suppose if all they do is call it stupid, you don't very well know what to do, do you? Especially if you don't read any fashion whatsoever. Hmm. How to explain it." his large claw gripped around his beak and tapped on the top a bit.

"Your Gait, that is to say, your walk... Is your show to the world. That you're strong, you're proud and comfortable!" he set a few strides over to the left, making sure to move his shoulders perfectly, his claws and paws remaining on a perfect line, his shoulders remaining low and his head high. "You need not wear the perfect attire or have the proper look to make a statement, much to my own surprise. You simply need to show the world. Shoulders and Withers low, head high, steps in as much of a perfect line as you can possibly manage." he said, walking to the other direction infront of Candy, showing it again. "I suppose you should try it yourself."