#ponei

// Hey, I got your DM version of this yesterday, and I wasn’t ignoring it. I generally take a long time to respond to things, as my RP partners would know. Most of the content that’s been showing up on my blog is from my queue (which is set to be depleted at the very beginning of November), and aside from that, I’ve been having some health/mood problems for the past couple of weeks that’s made it harder to be productive. So yeah, I hope you weren’t getting anxious or anything, since it’s just been a day.

Considering how often Monoma and Pony are placed together in art and scenes, I can imagine they’re probably on the warmer side of Monoma’s relationships. I’m no expert on Pony, but taking this from Monoma’s perspective, I get the feeling he sees her as perhaps a little impressionable–trusting if not naive. In Pony’s Ultra Analysis page, he is described as her “Japanese teacher?” And judging from his suspect smirk in said excerpt, as well as the scene in which he tricks her into smack talking class A, his motives seem to be at least partially prank or amusement related. He might legitimately teach her good Japanese at times, but I can see him inserting his own agenda or at least messing with her because of her unsuspecting nature. I also expect he possibly likes the concept of taking her under his wing, being like a more knowledgeable senpai in matters of Japanese. Plus, given his tendency to enjoy Western aesthetic (French comics/food/dorm room style, Victorian hero costume), perhaps he is prone to taking a liking to Western foreigners, as well.

I found it interesting to notice she does make a rather disappointed face (not sure if in the manga; I’m too lazy to check) once when he was chopped for making a scene at the buses at the beginning of training camp.

So she’s not totally oblivious or dismissive of his inappropriate behavior. That being said, she’s not the only one to have never physically voiced protest against him. Of course, there are plenty of class B who haven’t talked about him at all (the curse of being minor characters with very few scenes). But of those he has interacted with/around… Correct me if I’m forgetting, but I don’t recall Tsuburaba, Tetsutetsu, Shiozaki, Shishida, Tokage, Komori…and probably more, ever speaking up. I vaguely recall maybe Tetsutetsu implied he’s a coward for backing out of the punishment game at the end in the light novels, so maybe that counts as something, just not the usual complaint. It’s really only a handful of people that have truly expressed being irked by his behavior, the most outspoken being Kendou, of course. Though he does get a bunch of tired/odd looks from others (including Pony).