"Yyyyeah. Humans are...pretty violent," she said. "I would not be surprised if there was a kind of mental inoculation to the humans who are near the portal to kind of roll with magic, because the further out we go about it, the more likely they are to think its just some kind of trick. I would be a lot more nervous how the population at large would react to knowing about Equestria." More of the worlds attempting to keep the peace when outsiders show up.

"Ponies wouldn't be as violent, but we do still have a superiority trend when it comes to other creatures," she said with a grimace. Even if not all ponies were like that, there were certainly enough to cause problems.

She nodded. "Slow and careful would be best. And hey, if I'm immortal, we certainly have enough time to do it," she said.

"It is. The shapechanging is fascinating. By all logic, any species with such thorough shapeshifting involved would be inclined to longer lives or being able to figure out how, since cells are being altered so dramatically with no ill effect," she said. "Then there's being connected to emotions and connection itself. Its not quite friendship magic, but it is getting into that vein, and I've seen that proves pretty powerful wherever it crops up in the multiverse."