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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

Horse Shiro seeing that Uma Shiro looks like a near copy of her previous life; "BEING EEEEEXXXXXX!"
That's not actually true though. Sure Shirogane is short as fuck, but she's normal height for both Japanese women and umas and Shirogane has grey hair and not blonde.

Also the hairstyle is different and even Shirogane's eye colour too. I suppose both Shirogane and Tanya wear military uniforms but WW1 era German officer uniform and a napoleonic era cavalry uniform are very different.
 
Her sharp tongue usually results in some colorful expletives and imaginative blaspheming. Too bad horses can't talk.
To be fair, in the LN Being X initially read Salaryman's skepticism from his mind, or something about thinking and speaking is the same as a soul, but Salaryman wasn't initially intending to communicate his doubt, which made Being X rather annoyed.

Haru Urara, a contemporary of "IRL" Shirogane and a classmate of Uma Shirogane lived all the way up until just last year. It would thus not be unbelievable for the hardy Shirogane to live for a similarly long time. Honse Shiro reacting to Uma Shiro?
Grass Wonder lived until last year as well, and Mejiro Dober is still alive, so horse Shiro could very well be a retired horse somewhere.

Honse Shiro reacting to Uma Shiro?
Granny Horse Shiro trying desperately to teach her fans how to make better financial decisions and stop rolling gacha or sending her too much ryegrass.

All the joking about horse Shiro made me think that her and King Halo would create a stronger and even more punch happy Princess.
Any of her theoretical foals she didn't raise would be very hard to control. A lot more intelligence than normal and much less self control.

Im feening for a chapter ;)
Unfortunately that isn't happening anytime soon. I've been quite busy this past few weeks (I was work for 16 hours the other day, halp) but I have made some progress on the chapter, so have a preview:

Shirogane stepped up to the plate and pulled on a pair of disposable cooking gloves, before drawing the steak knife from its place, spinning in her hand to get a feel for its balance–

"Whoaa!"

–and sliding the edge into the soft, tender meat, the keen blade parting the well cooked flesh easily as she chopped it into more easily edible slices, sliding them off into a pan which Grass Wonder promptly took control of to distribute to their ever hungry classmates, though not before the two of them claimed their tax, simply taste tasting of course.

Shirogane hummed in satisfaction at the savory, buttery taste as she chewed, quite pleased with how her preparations and Taiki's grilling had turned out.

"Wow, this is good," Grass mumbled next to her, clearly at least mildly disappointed she had missed out on some of the earlier batches.

Another hunk of meat was deposited on the cutting board, and Shirogane carved it up with equal efficiency, trying not to grin at how readily the knife could cut. For all her silliness, Taiki Shuttle clearly knew her way around a grill.

"Wow! Where did Shiro-chan learn to use a knife like that?" Haru Urara cried, hopping up in front of Shirogane, tail wagging curiously. A few others looked similarly curious, but hadn't voiced it aloud.

"How kind of you to ask," Shirogane chuffed, tossing her knife in a quick spin, catching it by the tip between her fingers. "My family runs a small restaurant in Fujisawa, and I help out in making the food sometimes–"

"Oh thank God."

She flipped the knife around and resumed cutting as Taiki Shuttle added another finished hunk of meat.

"Oooh! What do you sell?" Haru leaned in curiously, a bit too far, so Shirogane gently poked the pink haired uma in the forehead with the butt of her knife, which got her excitable schoolmate to back out of the hazard zone.

"A lot of bento boxes." While they weren't in Fujisawa, and it seemed unlikely that her classmates would ever go there, there wasn't any harm in some advertising. "What we're really known for are pierogis, which are basically Polish gyoza. Its name is Suzukiya and it's in the middle of Fujisawa if you ever find yourself there." Not the most creative name but it seemed to work.
 
Who said that, I wonder? No way it was Haru
My money is on Seiun Sky, but if she's not in the scene when the whole thing's published, just going off of who's in the preview, Grass maybe? It's definitely not Haru, and I don't think Taiki Shuttle would mind if the knife skills weren't from cooking.
 
Haru Urara might be reassured what Shiro is not a ninja, but after her trainer took a note of her i proved training, she might get into some ninja theme shenanigans. Accidentally. Like running up the Wall in excitement.

Need to think more about it.

Sorry, SUFFERING FROM a fever now
 
Oh, this is a really nice fic. Very nice to see Tanya that isn't a carbon copy of life 2 tanya.
Yeah, I believe the essence of writing Tanya is lost if she is merely portrayed as a replica of her second life. While her second life can influence her third life, Tanya is fundamentally a character who adapts to her environment. This adaptability is the main appeal when writing Tanya stories.
 
What do you do that makes you work that long in one day sometimes?
Probably some sort of doctor, or doctoral residency. One of my family members is a doctor and would often regale the family members with the stories of such times. Sounded like rough work, much respect. Constant crazy hours.
 
BREAKING NEWS!
We might be getting a new Golden Gen Umamusume. Specificially, the Golden Gen's Double Tiara and 3‐time G1 winner Phalaenopsis.
Cygames is gonna make me have to retcon her also being a Tracen student now, lol. I guess she's in a class geared more towards umadols so they don't interact much.

My money is on Seiun Sky
It was Sky yes.

"Do none of you guys find it just a little bit creepy that Shiro is so good at sneaking up on people and cutting things?"

She is the only Front Runner, so it makes sense she equates knife skills with her being chased by a psycho.
Sky doesn't like getting bothered while napping, but she really doesn't like it when she wakes up to see Shiro just sitting nearby, having gotten there without making much sound.

What do you do that makes you work that long in one day sometimes?
Manufacturing, specifically technical support. I was dealing with a really weird problem.

Oh, this is a really nice fic. Very nice to see Tanya that isn't a carbon copy of life 2 tanya.
My thought is that since Salaryman and Tanya bear no physical resemblance to each other, there is no reason for third life Tanya to look all that much like her previous lives
 
Sky doesn't like getting bothered while napping, but she really doesn't like it when she wakes up to see Shiro just sitting nearby, having gotten there without making much sound.

I'm imagining just a yawn, she looks around, notices Shiro, nodding at her, then shifts to get back into a more comfortable position… then does a double-take at Shiro being right there.

Cue scream as she leaps out of her seat.

Then an insistent "Stop sneaking up on me like that!"

"Sneak up on you? I'm just sitting down."
 
Shirogane is probably going to get recruited as a horror movie slasher character during the eventual Tracen Halloween event
She's going to find too much success in it that they need to tell her to stop. The startled umas caused too many damaged walls for it to continue.
 
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Cue Shirogane's first alt costume in the mobile game is a Jason costume from the horror movies
I imagine That costume variation also gives a different unique skill animation - That horror movie character she plays, turns around, looking at the umas That were running behind her and make a cute pose, sending a kiss and floating little heart. Like Frieren. And then That little cute heart explodes painting the world Red. And we hear cute little laugh.
 

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