Shiro & Xander C-A support

C-support [music: What Can You Do?]
Shiro: [grinning] I choose… you!
[neighing sound effect]
Shiro: [grimace] Argh! Ow! Okay, forget it!
Shiro: [grinning] You, then! I will mount you!
Shiro: [worried] …
Shiro: [worried] …Hello? Are you even awake? *sigh*
Shiro: [grinning] Alright! Third time lucky! You!
Shiro: [determined] Wow, you’re- basically perfect. As far as a pegasus without wings goes, anyway…
Xander: [neutral] …
Shiro: [smiling] Alright… brush your mane, that’s the first step…
Xander: [neutral] …
Shiro: [smiling] There, how do you like that, girl?
Shiro: [worried] Or- boy?
Xander: [neutral] Girl.
Shiro: [injured] WAUGH! [neigh] Uh- High Prince Xander?!
Xander: [neutral] …Just ‘Prince’. What, exactly, are you doing with Lady?
Shiro: [worried] Huh? Oh- the horse?
Xander: [neutral] Yes.
Shiro: [neutral] Why is the horse called ‘Lady’? Wait, is this YOUR horse?
Xander: [neutral] She is, yes.
Xander: [neutral] I take it you were planning to ride her?
Shiro: [worried] Uhm… Yeah, I mean, all the other horses in here are kind of grumpy. Pretty sure that one over there was trying to eat my fingers.
Shiro: [smiling] But Lady’s- uh-
[neigh]
Xander: [neutral] She wants you to scratch her ears.
Shiro: [neutral] Huh. Like- this?
Shiro: [smiling] Oh, hey, you like that, huh...
Shiro: [grinning] Aww- oh, hey! She’s nuzzling me! …You’re not trying to eat me, right?
Xander: [smiling] She prefers carrots to flesh.
Shiro: [injured] H-hey, don’t say that so deadpan…
Shiro: [neutral] Uh, what are you doing, your… uh, princeliness?
Xander: [neutral] You’ll need a proper tack and saddle if you’re going to ride her.
Shiro: [determined] Wait -you’re okay with me riding her?
Xander: [neutral] She’s a good horse for learning.
Shiro: [injured blush] Hey! What makes you think I’m learning?!
Xander: [smiling] You’re holding a kinshi saddle, for one thing.
Shiro: [injured blush] …Aw, crud.

B-support [music: Implore the Dawn]
Shiro: [grinning] Alright, so unhook the saddle, here goes the girth, and- there we go!
Xander: [smiling] You’re getting faster.
Shiro: [smiling] Yeah, well, Lady’s pretty patient.
Shiro: [smiling] Thanks for, uh, letting me use her, by the way.
Shiro: [worried] …
Xander: [worried] …Was there something else you wanted to say?
Shiro: [worried] Well…
Xander: [worried] Go ahead.
Shiro: [determined] Why are you doing this?
Shiro: [determined] From everything I heard, aren’t you Nohr guys kind of…
Xander: [worried] Kind of?
Shiro: [determined] Er- standoffish? Aggressive? Warmongering? And you’re the Big Cheese of Nohr, so I figured…
Xander: [injured] That I’d be the most aggressive warmonger of them all?
Shiro: [grinning] Yeah, pretty much!
Shiro: [determined] Or at least that you’d be more possessive about your warhorse.
Xander: [injured] …
Shiro: [injured] (…Crap. Did I go too far?)
Xander: [frowning] Our reputation isn’t undeserved, particularly not as of late.
Xander: [frowning] And I can’t say I haven’t helped it along.
Xander: [frowning] But – if you’re to rule Hoshido, you should understand how your neighbours see you.
Xander: [frowning] Your granaries overflow every harvest. Your waters border on infested with edible, nutritious fish. It rains, but never floods. All seeds take to root.
Xander: [worried] Whereas Nohr’s fields lay barren. Mokushu is battered by tidal waves. The Wind Tribe rely on magic to bear harvest. Even Izumo and Nestria envy your prosperity.
Shiro: [injured] How is that our fault?
Xander: [frowning] It isn’t. But Hoshido stands aloof. It refuses to help its neighbours in their time of need. Even when whole villages were dying from famine, Hoshido refused to lower its prices. Hoshido didn’t need the money, or the rice. But Nohr did.
Shiro: [injured] My father wouldn’t...
Xander: [neutral] No- of course not. This happened years ago, when my own father was prince. But the scars it left on our people remain.
Xander: [worried] When every village carries that kind of memory, it’s easy for aggression to be rationalised as restitution.
Shiro: [injured] …I…
[horse neighs]
Xander: [injured] -Perhaps I’ve said too much. I’ll leave you to your time, Prince Shiro. [leaves]
Shiro: [worried] *sigh*
Shiro: [worried] Man. Politics is complicated, huh, Lady?

A-Support [music: Petals In Flight]
Shiro: [smiling] Lady… Camilla? Elise?
Shiro: [smiling] Nah, that’d be like if Aunty Hinoka’s pegasus was called Takumi.
Shiro: [smiling] Wait- what is Aunty Hinoka’s pegasus called…?
[horse neighs]
Shiro: [grinning] Right, yeah. Uh. Lady- Azura? Nah. That’d be even weirder.
Shiro: [smiling] Uh- what was that Queen’s name?
Shiro: [smiling] Lady Kaitlyn? Lady Katrana?
[horse neighs]
Shiro: [grinning] Oh! Katerina, that’s it!
Xander: [injured] What about Katerina?
Shiro: [injured blush] Crap! Uh- nothing!
Shiro: [injured blush] Sure wasn’t talking to a horse or anything, because that would be WEIRD…
Shiro: [worried blush] Unless you talk to your horse, in which case it’s totally normal.
Shiro: [worried] Um.
Xander: [neutral] Why were you talking to Lady about Queen Katerina?
Shiro: [neutral] She was your mother, right?
Xander: [neutral] Yes. What of it?
Shiro: [worried] Uh- just, um- I was-
Shiro: [worried] (Crap, crap, crap!)
Shiro: [worried] -I talked to my old man! Uh, my father. About what you said, with the famine and stuff.
Xander: [neutral] Oh?
Shiro: [neutral] He said it was for real.
Shiro: [worried] Not that I thought you were lying or anything! Just that- it sounds weird. Not like the Hoshidans I know.
Xander: [neutral] Nor those I’ve met.
Xander: [neutral] But I wouldn’t have met them, if it weren’t for [Avatar].
Xander: [injured] I was prepared to wage war on Hoshido. Because it was what my King commanded, but also because of that sense of injustice.
Shiro: [neutral] Because you basically grew up hating Hoshido, right?
Xander: [injured] Mm. Hoshido seemed perfect to the point of sanctimonious. Traditionalism to the point of snobbery and arrogance.
Shiro: [neutral] (Sounds like dad.)
Xander: [smiling] I wouldn’t go that far.
Shiro: [smiling] Sure that just isn’t diplomacy talking?
Xander: [smiling] That High Prince Ryoma has a son so unafraid to voice his opinions speaks well of him.
Shiro: [grinning] Ha! Stop it, you’ll make me blush, your crownliness!
Xander: [smiling] I’m serious. You’re fortunate, growing up as you did.
Xander: [smiling] You’ve been able to reach maturity without holding those biases.
Shiro: [smiling] Yeah, but- having those biases and then overcoming them is pretty good too!
Shiro: [grinning] I mean, you’re basically Captain Nohr, so if you can be friends with Hoshidans, anyone from Nohr can, right?
Xander: [smiling blush] I- I suppose you’re correct.
Shiro: [smiling] I mean- we’re friends, right?
Shiro: [smiling blush] (Crap, did I overstep?)
Xander: [smiling blush] Well, Lady seems to be vouching for you.
Shiro: [smiling blush] Yeah, but she seems like the kind of horse that likes anyone.
Xander: [smiling] Actually, you’re the first person she’s taken to in a long time.
Shiro: [smiling] Really? But she’s so nuzzly!
Xander: [smiling] According to my sister Elise, she only likes people who are kind at heart.
Shiro: [smiling] Aww, well, thank you, Lady! Oh yeah- Lady what?
Xander: [neutral] Eh?
Shiro: [smiling] Like, ‘Lady Hinoka’? ‘Lady Elise’? What’s her name?
Xander: [worried] Wait- is that why you were talking about Lady Katerina earlier?
Shiro: [smiling blush] Um…
Xander: [angry] You think I named my horse after my dead mother?
Shiro: [grinning blush] When you put it like that, it sounds bad.
Shiro: [worried blush] Wait, you’re- smiling? That’s- good, right, that’s a good sign?
Xander: [worried blush] That name is- preferable to the truth.
Shiro: [grinning] Okay, now you HAVE to tell me.
Shiro: [grinning] C’mon! It’ll be our royal cross-cultural friendship secret!
Xander: [worried blush] …
Shiro: [smiling] What if I promise not to tell my dad under any circumstances?
Xander: [angry blush] *sighs*
Xander: [angry blush] Well… I began riding Lady shortly after Elise began talking, and…