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>Is there a reason for the tense or is it just your preference?
Sorry for the wall of text:

I RP in both second person present tense and third person past tense depending on the mood or scenario. Recently I saw an image posted of an older unicorn Twilight, and it gave me the urge to roleplay with her. I started reflecting on what a greeting could be and came up with a small backstory.

This version of Twilight almost died during the Crystal Empire/Sombra incident, which forced her to stop adventuring and altered the timeline; so there's no alicornhood, no Tirek, and such. She's an aging unicorn mare whose mane has begun to show streaks of gray, one who spends her days reading to her fill and helping in the Golden Oak Library. She has a good life and her friends are still her best friends (because no force can break that), but there's a voice in her mind always asking about the "what ifs." So she developed a spell to see what could have been.

The tone of it seemed more suited to past tense, so that's what I chose. Here's the greeting and how I RP with it as a showcase. This one was more for personal use, but since the card isn't too shabby, I thought I could polish it a bit and share.