Had this thought earlier, I've seen plenty of art of the Pines family as ponies from my little pony, what if: portal horse Stan, ends up in talking horse world, would he be intrigued about finding a whole world of horses like him or just weirded out? Also, angst potential, he mentions it to Ford when he gets back and Ford spirals about it because, well, its a whole world! Of talking horses! Stan would fit in! What if he WANTED to stay?!
also unicorn/alicorn Stan for your consideration
Reverse portal Horse Stan gets portaled but misses the Nightmare Dimension and gets shunted into the horse dimension. Ford rescues him in like, a week, and Stan gets back decked in my little pony goodies and self help books to help him learn how to do things with his hooves and such. Ford is driven to a dilemma as Stan goes on and on about this horse dimension. Different horses! Horse accessibility! He could go around and talk and no one was weirded out! Fords thinking about risking the dimension just to put Stan back somewhere he can be accepted, even if it means he'll never see Stan again because at least Stan will be happy?
Brings it up to Stan tentatively and Stan immediately goes 'god no. I'm so happy you saved me. If I had to stay any longer I think i'd have to carve out my eyeballs.' and then Ford looks so confused Stan pulls out the one group picture he has and its this:
Stan can't live in that pastel little girl designed world Ford. He can't. Sure it was cool but at what cost, his dignity? Everyone had names like 'sparkle sunshine' or whatever. They kept giving him weird looks when he said his name was Stanley. Everyone had weird brands on their butts and it was a huge cultural thing he kept getting pitied over. Please don't ever suggest anything like this again.
As for a unicorn or alicorn Stan? Depeneds on how magical-
WAIT! The main thing here is that the Pines are a combo Centaur/Horse Minotaur mix. So the wings and horn have to come from somewhere, and I'm 100% assining the wings to Caryn because Unicorn Minotaur Filbrick is sending me into hystarics, especially if its canon GF unicorns. Can you imagine? That dainty head on Filbricks body? I'm dying. Shermie looks even more hidious. There's wings there now, but only on the human back. He can't fly with them, they're too small. His main is a rainbow of colors and he has those unicorn watery giant eyes, but human looking ones so he's just so bug eyed. No girl from Glass Shard ever had a unicorn/horse phase while the Pines boys were in school. They ruined it for them.
Sorry, back to Alicorn/unicorn Stan.
I'm thinking Fords the same here, except he got the ability to play rave music on demand and the lights get brighter around him. Where does the music come from? No one knows. He also knows where the closest rainbow is, and its a background annoyance.
Stan still gets kicked out here, but he becomes like, a show horse. Shows off his magic horn and big wings and does all kinds of tricks for money. Gets real famous but still doesn't get treated as anything than a really, really cool horse. Redeems himself by inspiring little girl unicorn/horse phases worldwide. Which means its a HUGE deal when he ditches work to go see his bro. Post Bill Portal Ford goes to court for 'stealing' Stan, then has to prove Stan's a person and therefore can't be stolen. He has rights! AND! Never signed anything! Hah! They have nothing to prove Stan has contracts or belongs to anyone, so there! Becomes famous for other poor centaur/minotaur mixed kids with similar lives. Uses all the money Stan got from all the back pay he never got over the years to make like, a horse help center. Helps provide for other mixed blood kids who don't have hands or are horrifying to look at, as well as getting parents help in raising their horror offspring.
Stan still has no hands, no magic, and refuses to fly on principle. He's still terrified of heights and it was a whole thing during his show career.
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