"Mmm." Trixie moaned as she finished off the tea she had just finished making. "Perrrfect. Now if only Trixie could make it this well every time." She lifted the teapot off of the small table that sat in the middle of her cart and placed it on her kitchen counter.
The sound of somepony knocking on her front door resonated through the cart as she was finishing folding up and putting away her table. "Hmm... Maybe they will go away if Trixie does not open the door for them." She mumbled to herself.
"Trixie open up! I know you're in there!" The pony at her door shouted.
Trixie sighed. "Dammit." Knowing that the pony wasn't likely to stop bothering her until she allowed them to be in her presence, Trixie walked over and yanked open the door.
Trixie glared at the pony who had the audacity to annoy her. "Sparkle, what a pleasant surprise."
"I know you dislike me, but is it really asking too much to have you call me Twilight?"
Trixie continued to glare.
"Ugh. Fine, whatever, that's not the reason I came here." Twilight brought a scroll out from underneath her right wing and unfurled it. She then muttered something under her breath before rolling it up and tucking it back under her wing. "Princess Luna has asked me to find a pony she can take on as a student."
"And this has to do with Trixie how exactly?"
Twilight let out a sigh of exasperation. "I would like you to be that pony."
"Let Trixie think about that." Trixie me a face as if she was thinking really hard for about a second. "Hmm... No."
"WHAT?" Twilight was absolutely shocked. She couldn't believe that anypony, let alone Trixie, would ever say no to being one of the Princess' personal students.
"You heard Trixie." Trixie replied with an amused look upon her face.
"Bu-bu-bu..."
"Now if that is all you came here to say, go away and please don't come back." Trixie backed up and began to close the door, but it seemed her doing so had gotten Twilight to actually do something besides stand there and stare.
"Wait!" Twilight took a hold of the door with her magic and prevented it from closing.
Trixe breathed harshly through her nose and gritted her teeth. "What is it that you want now?"
Twilight balked at how angry Trixie was. "Well... Why not?" She spoke hesitantly, afraid to get Trixe any madder than she already was.
Trixie let herself relax, the sudden burst of anger disappating. "Of course that's what you'd want to know. Well, since you certainly won't leave Trixie alone until she tells you, Trixie supposes she'll have to indulge you." Trixie waited until Twilight released the door before pushing it back open. "One, Trixie doesn't want to have to deal with any of the drama being a Princess' student will bring Trixie, and second, Trixie only just got her magic show back to the popularity it had before she arrived in Ponyville, no thanks to you, and Trixie won't give it up just because one of the Princesses wants a student."
Twilight thought about what she had said for a good two to three minutes before replying. "What do you mean by 'no thanks to you'?"
"Trixie forgets how much of a dunce you can be sometimes Sparkle." Trixie paused as Twilight glowered at her. "Since you clearly don't know, your friends spread the word that Trixie was not only a rotten liar, buy also that it was she who brought the Ursa into Ponyville. As Celestia's student, you should be intelligent enough to know how laughably false all of that is, and you should have done your best to correct your idiotic misconceptions you friends spread. That incident caused Trixie to lose the majority of her fanbase, which she has only just now regained, hence why Trixie said 'no thanks to you'."
"They really did that?" Twilight couldn't believe her ears.
"Yes." Trixie firmly replied. "And Trixie is not going to let all of her hard work go to waste to go prancing around learning 'friendship' or whatever it is you do all day."
"Oooh." Twilight smiled as she momentarily forgot about what Trixie said her friends had done. "I understand now."
Trixie looked at her in surprise. "You do?" She asked.
"Yup!" Twilight smile changed into a full out grin. "And I'm happy to tell you that won't be a problem!"
"Explain." Trixie demanded.
"Gladly!" Twilight chirped. "Being Princess Luna's student in no means you'll have to move to Canterlot or give up your magicshow. I'm sure she'll be happy to have you transported to and from Canterlot in her chariot for your lessons."
"While that does make it a doable thing for Trixie to do, her answer is still no."
"WHY?"
Trixie laughed at Twilight's flabbergasted face. "Because even though I wouldn't have to give my show up, the position will still come with a bunch of drama that Trixie does not need. She could deal with it as drama isn't something that's at all new to her, but Trixie is still mad at you and your friends for ruining her show, so she won't just to spite you."
"Isn't there anything I can do to change your mind?" Twilight asked, her desperation showing through.
"Well..." Trixie paused to flip a lock of her mane out of her face. "Trixie supposes that since you are so desperate that she can give you a chance to change her mind. Trixie will go be Princess Luna's student if you make your friends give a formal apology for the slander they spoke about Trixie and get it printed in every newspaper in Equestria. Until then however, Trixie is... not interesed."
Twilight's face fell.
Trixie grinned.
I could get behind more of this, it feels like it might turn out more slice-of-life-y than something filled with drama though as the singular genre tag may imply.
7836439 Really? Actually... I can see it. If I decide to continue this then I'll add that tag, but if I don't then there's no need to.
7836446 You don't have much of a plan for this do you?
7836458 Not at all. I got the idea yesterday and I wrote it today. The closest I'll get to a plan for this is when to have Luna teach what to Trixie, and that's only if I get that far.
7836533 I'd love to put out more. But I have to figure out what Luna could teach Trixie first.
7836465 I could PM you a few ideas for a general direction and see if you like any of them?
7836541 That would be awesome!
7836657 I'll be doing more, no worries. It might be a bit though.
There are grammatical errors a plenty, but much the same can be said for every story. What most peeved me was this particular section:
The reason being that Twilight ditches her character and says something she knows will spite Trixie without even trying to be the slightest bit polite about it only moments earlier expressing hesitance in fear of angering Trixe further. It's highlighted further when in the next paragraph Trixie for some reason says "of course that's what you want to know." Its a redundant line that serves no purpose, she didn't even make it sound sarcastic or arrogant.
But it's still better than anything I could ever write so my opinion's forfeit. I guess I should be making my leave now, I'm only writing this so I don't have my own atrocious stories, oh how I despise writers block.
All right! This is refreshingly different from the norm. I'd very much like to see more of this.
And by "the norm", I mean that almost every other story on the theme has Trixie practically leaping at the opportunity to apprentice herself to Luna, Celestia or Twilight, despite the fact that 1) she's an adult with an adult's life to concern herself with, 2) she's a stage magician and needs to focus on improving her skills in that field, which most potential mentors would be ill-equipped for, and 3) she's an extremely proud pony who would be offended by the implication that she'd need to relearn her abilities from the start, or that she should become dependent on somepony else when she's happily independent. (Twilight obviously doesn't understand this, because she sees the pursuit of more knowledge as the most important thing ever, and she glorifies Celestia, so she thinks that studying under a princess is something that anypony would desire above anything else.)
Contrast Starlight Glimmer, who was desperately in need of learning friendship due to her loneliness and toxic worldview. Trixie, for all her faults, is a much more balanced and healthy individual.
Which is not to say that stories with Trixie as the student can't be good, but they have to go further than making her a Twilight knockoff who is desperate to learn stuff for the sake of learning. You have to ask "What does Trixie want to get out of this?"
And, again, a refreshing change from the norm. I'd love to see more of this, definitely.
Before that, Twilight has to, one, confront her friends with Trixie's accusations and whether or not they are true, and two, convince her friends to make a formal apology to Trixie no matter the validity of Trixie's accusations, and three, convince them to allow said apologies be printed for all of Equestria to read. Then, and only then, do you worry about what Luna will teach her. Though one thing I can think of off the back is teleportation. I know that in itself will be difficult for Trixie to comprehend. After all, how many ponies do we see actually being able to do so (without magical artifacts).
7837318 Anything Twilight does with her friends will be 'offscreen'.
I honestly hadn't thought of teleportation, so thanks for reminding me that it exists. It is something that Luma can teach Trixie, but... whether or not Trixie will want to learn it is a whole nother matter.
7837066 Soo.... you tell me there are grammatical errors, but don't tell me what they are so I can fix them?
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Umm... I'm not seeing it (probably because I wrote it and therefore have a bias). What exactly does Twilight say that she knows will make Trixie mad?
7837146 I agree with everything you just said. Literally everything. Oh, don't worry, you'll be getting more.
I definitely want to see more. Something she could learn from Luna would be more advanced spells and ways to make her stage magic far better than she ever could by herself which in turn would improve her image even further and gather a larger audience and fanbase than she could've alone. Heck if played her cards right she could gain the potential to become an alicorn princess or even discover something Twilight couldn't that could help Equestria as a whole in some way.