Chapter 98 - Ripping
Trixie rushed towards the front door. She ran through a list of possible entertainers in her head, crossing a few off with each step. The Wonderbolts were rather unlikely to be in this area of the woods, so they were out, but if she was lucky it might be a musician of some sort, looking to trade a tune for a meal.
Musician, that struck Trixie as the most likely. There were many more ponies that had a special talent involving music than there were actual jobs for musicians. Some of whom adopted a similar model to herself, traveling around, spreading song and tale like the bards of old to make a living. Though, unlike musicians, there were plenty of actual jobs for magicians, as natural magic talent was far less prevalent.
Excitement coursing through her veins, Trixie pushed the door open. She briefly considered if she’d remembered to take the frying pan off the stove, she was pretty sure she did. The only real question left in her mind was which instrument the visiting pony played. On the other side of the door, she suddenly found herself eye to wall-eye with a familiar pegasus. “What kind of—What? Derpy? You’re not entertaining!” She groaned, annoyed with herself for getting swept up in thinking everything had fallen into place perfectly for once. Since her first ‘plan’ of sorts failed, she immediately set to work on coming up with a new one.
Maybe Trixie could teach some of these birds to sing in a choir? No, that’s silly; animals can’t do that. There might be a spell of some sort that can simulate music, but Trixie doesn’t know one. A brief glimpse of her stay in the hospital flashed through her head, showing a very bored magnificent unicorn making rudimentary music by tapping her hoofs on the bedframe. Uh, let’s put that in the ‘maybe’ pi—
The sound of somepony clearing their throat drew Trixie’s attention back to the door. Coming down out of her scheming mode, Trixie looked Derpy over. She’d completely ignored the very uncomfortable looking gray pegasus in the doorway for a while now. Flustered, Trixie did her best to recover some semblance of polite conversation. “Ah! Derpy! Right! What are you doing here?” Trixie resisted the urge to headbutt the doorframe for asking such a stupid question. At least Derpy didn’t seem to mind.
“H-hey, Trixie. I, uh, I’m just delivering the morning mail. I-I just need somepony to sign here.” Derpy looked awful. She had bags below her eyes, and her face was white as though she’d seen a ghost. Her hooves trembled lightly while she held out a clipboard. A brown, paper package stood next to the doorframe.
Trixie nodded awkwardly as though it was some sagelike wisdom. Fortunately, it gave Trixie a few seconds to try to compose herself. She had Derpy here now, and she had to apologize somehow for what happened, but she had no real idea of how to go about that. Derpy was obviously here for work, so it would be strange to suddenly bring up what happened at the hospital, wouldn’t it?
Sensing she was expected to say something, Trixie glanced up at the afternoon sun, noting it was well past midday. Settling her eyes back on Derpy, something didn’t seem right, and she had to make conversation somehow or she’d never get a chance. “It’s too late for the morning mail, Derpy.” Given that Trixie knew at least one pony liked to give Derpy impossible deliveries with a block of wood, it did not surprise her that the pegasus looked so tired. Poor thing. She looks like she’s two deliveries from collapsing.
Derpy nodded, and Trixie noticed the shaking got a little worse. "Y-yes, it's just—Dinky was sick, H-headaches, and I needed to get her looked at. I swear. I missed breakfast so I could get the mail done in time, but—"
Trixie frowned, unsure if she really believed the story. Dinky hadn’t looked ill at all when Trixie saw her yesterday, but these things were unpredictable, right? However, she didn’t dwell on it after she heard that Derpy hadn’t eaten anything all day, that seemed like a terrible idea. Her eyes widened slightly as inspiration struck. This is it! She quickly raised a hoof, motioning for Derpy to stop. “Say no more. Trixie knows exactly how to deal with you.” She pushed the door open all the way and turned to trot back into the house.
This was perfect! Trixie could see it now: Her first omelet was practically done, so she could let Derpy have it. A good lunch would invigorate Derpy, and maybe even make up for the muffin Trixie had inadvertently come into possession of, which would lead right into the perfect chance to talk about how Dinky was doing, finally clearing up their misunderstanding.
It took Trixie a moment to realize that she was not being followed, and glanced over her shoulder at Derpy, still nailed to the ground at the doorstep, and looking increasingly anxious. It was understandable, she was already running late after all, and taking a break might feel irresponsible. “Trixie assures you, this will be over quickly.” With an impatient flick of her horn, she drew an orchid glow around Derpy, pulling her into the cottage.
The strange ethereal sensation of a tug on her magic, and the sound of hooves striking against wood, caused Trixie to glance back a second time, noticing Derpy had braced herself against the doorframe to prevent being dragged inside.
Although Derpy had been nearly motionless throughout their talk, at the sight of Trixie’s magic wrapping around her, she suddenly became shockingly animated! Struggling and beating her wings as though she were trying to fly out of a hurricane. “No!”
“It’s for your own good.” Trixie tried to reason with Derpy, but seeing her fight that hard weakened her concentration enough for Derpy to break free from the spell. Suddenly lacking any pushback, Derpy hurtled through the air, crashing into the wooden fence that bordered the path, sending letters flying everywhere while she tried to untangle herself.
Dumbstruck, Trixie just observed for a moment while Derpy clumsily got to her hooves, and rapidly tried to sweep the letters back into her mailbag. Maybe this had not been her best idea. At least Derpy looked to be okay. “You foal, be careful!” Trixie cautioned while she took a step forward, drawing her magic around the rebelling letters. A simple telekinesis spell prevented the wind from carrying the letters away, levitating them into a stack instead.
Without warning, Derpy screamed and shot up into the air, preforming an almost impressive, if entirely accidently, couple of loops before getting her bearings and taking off toward the sky.
“Oh, you have got to be kidding!” Suddenly very aware of how bad letting Derpy leave before they’d cleared this up could be, Trixie gasped. “Get back here!” All she had to do was cast a quick levitation spell and drag the pegasus back to her, but Derpy was already nearly at the edge of Trixie’s range, making the spell much more difficult than it should have been.
Surrounded in an orchid glow, Derpy nearly stopped in midair despite her rapid wingbeats. She looked back at Trixie. “L-lemme go! I swear I won’t tell anypony you’re here!”
“That’s not the point!” Trixie screamed back while she strained hard to keep Derpy in her grip long enough to convince her. Each time she spoke her grip on the gray mare lapsed, but she had to say something, and make it count. “If you’d just calm down for five minutes we can get this out of the way!”
Dropping the letters, Trixie focused all of her attention on maintaining the spell. Sweat ran down Trixie’s forehead while she watched a frantic Derpy slowly creep further out of range. “Don’t be scared of Trixie!” The spell flickered, allowing Derpy the few vital hoof lengths she needed to cross Trixie's limit and break free, leaving Trixie to watch as Derpy sped off towards Ponyville.
Trixie stomped her hooves on the ground. “No! Come on! Trixie knows you heard her!” As expected, she was completely ignored; Derpy did not even look back. A frustrated groan escaped Trixie while she watched helplessly as the gray dot disappeared from view.
“Seriously? Again?! This is just repe—What smells like burning?” Trixie sniffed, catching a whiff of smoke. “Eggs!” She spun on the spot, galloping back towards the kitchen. “No no no no no!”
Trails of smoke crept along the ceiling of the living room, and filled a good portion of the kitchen as Trixie burst inside. her heart beat in her throat while she franticly waved a hoof around to dispel the smoke and get a visual on the damage.
What she found was not what she expected. The pan with the eggs was no longer on the stove. Apparently she had remembered to move it after all. Instead, it sat on the counter, perfectly fine. However, a roll of paper towels was ablaze on the counter, and being scattered around by a bunny that was frantically jumping up and down on the fiery paper.
Trixie narrowed her eyes, raising her foreleg to her mouth to shield from the smoke. “Angel! What did you do now!?” As powerful as the drive was to roast him on his own fire was, she had bigger things to worry about: the fire was rapidly growing, flames licking at the wooden walls and leaving black marks already.
Fighting back panic as she stared at the rising flames, she set about casting the first spell that came to mind to deal with the situation. The black smoke near the ceiling swirled into a single cloud right above the stove. While she channeled the spell, Trixie cringed in pain; it was much more advanced than the basic spells she was supposed to limit herself to.
A small crackle of lightning ran through the cloud.
No lightning! Rain! It’s just a little change, come on!
A clap of thunder announced a short, but heavy shower onto the violently hissing stove and counter, barely extinguishing the flames before it ran dry. Weather magic had never been her strongest school. Mercifully, she was not trying to water a field.
Collapsing onto her haunches, Trixie gasped for breath while she cradled her head, trying to ignore the drumming headache of victory.
As hard as it was to see straight at the moment, Trixie could not look away from the dissipating raincloud, savoring the few moments she had with her creation. Weather magic of that caliber was an act of conjuring something up from scratch, or transforming existing elements into new forms. It revolved around changing actual reality to ones whim, something easy for a chaotic creature like Discord, less so for a unicorn.
Trixie, though talented and amazing, had about as much luck with conjuration as a normal Unicorn, despite her talent being magic itself. The amount of power it took to make more than a simple small thundercloud was just exhausting, and made Trixie feel a bit proud that she’d actually made one in her current condition. She’d even done it without using her more hidden talents. Maybe all the injuries and magic exhaustion she had been going through recently had increased her magic stores a little? She liked to think so, though thinking was becoming a problem due to the pounding of her head.
Heh, maybe Trixie has grown even more powerful? She resolved to test her new found powers at some point, for now she would be satisfied with just making the room stop spinning.
In the moment it took her to recover, she caught sight of Angel, staring at her briefly. “Just you wait!” she threatened, only to see him make his escape while she was incapacitated.
Whatever had possessed the rabbit to stick to his ‘burning’ theme for tormenting her was obviously staring to backfire. The pristine white fur that Fluttershy put so much effort into maintaining was scorched here and there.
Once she felt vaguely steady again, Trixie rose up to her hooves. Naturally, Angel was nowhere to be found again, but that was about what she expected. The kitchen was a mess, though funnily enough, nearly burning it down still didn’t match up to the disaster area Trixie had left behind that time she attempted to make pancakes without her magic.
Snickering at the imagined victory, Trixie set about restoring the kitchen to a presentable state. Mostly, this just meant she had to take care of the water, which was easy enough for somepony as amazing as herself… as soon as she had her magic available.
Not content to just sit around, Trixie returned to the front door. On her way there, she glanced at the mail she’d scattered through the living room when she’d rushed through there to deal with the fire Meh, at least the wind can’t get it here. Trixie will deal with it later. She had something much more interesting that she wanted to get out of the way first.
The large brown package still temptingly stood by the door post.
Trixie read the return address. Ponyville Library? Why does that sound familiar? Shrugging, Trixie reached for the letter that came with the package. Fluttershy. Well that makes sense at least... Wait, does it? She jabbed the package with her hoof, it was heavy. Did Fluttershy order all this? What is it?
Her curiosity was nearly overwhelming. Maybe Trixie should open it? She would have signed for it, right? She reached out a hoof towards the brown paper, running it along the surface tantalizingly. Just as she started to try to squeeze a small part of her hoof between the wrapping, Trixie quickly pulled away. “What are you thinking Trixie! You can’t just nose through another pony’s mail!” she scolded herself loudly while she looked around.
Seeing as nopony was nearby, she tore her hoof through the paper. “Woops! Look at that. Somehow this package was torn when it arrived! Trixie guesses she'd better make sure nothing is broken!” Glancing around once to confirm there was no objection, Trixie peered through the tear, and discovered books. Huh, well duh. Trixie is not sure what else she was expecting… Let’s see here… ‘Tempting the Draconequus’. Wait, what!? Trixie’s cheeks flushed. She’d read a copy of the book a few times. It was great for certain moods, but much more steamy than she had thought Fluttershy would be able to handle.
Carefully she dragged her hoof down a bit further, eliciting the ripping sound of paper a second time. "Seems like Trixie is all butter hooves today..." she mumbled, greedily peering at the next book. ‘Forbidden Apples’! Fluttershy! Beet red, Trixie remembered the ‘plot’ of this one: it was a story about a spicy apple farmer finding unconventional ways to sell her wares. One that Trixie now couldn’t help but see a little bit of Applejack in while she did her best not to imagine what Fluttershy was thinking when she ordered this one.
"Something, something, woops..." Trixie mumbled, giving up any pretense of what she was doing. Ripping the paper a little more, Trixie felt heated while she tried to guess at what else Fluttershy would be into, maybe she could get some good hints from these books. She brought the next title into view. ’Three's company’!? Trixie’s eyes widened, it was much more niche. O-Oh my Luna! No wonder she was so interested!
Her face positively on fire, Trixie quickly tore down to the next title in eager anticipation. ’The magic of slight of hoof’ Improving your technique, Flutt—Huh, wait a second. She blinked slowly while she read over the title again. Trixie knows this one too, but... this is just a textbook for stage tricks. Has Trixie's amazing personality convinced Fluttershy to try her own hoof at performing?
It didn’t make sense, what on Equestria was a dull book like that doing among steamy romance novels? Unless… Trixie smacked her hoof against her forehead.
“These are Trixie’s books!”
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed.
Sadly, my plans for a double update were foiled by illness. 
I'll have to try for it next week instead. 
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Ya know, I kinda wonder what Twilight thought when she saw these books? Also pretty sure Derpy is gonna be trading mail routes in the future.
You are on the featured box! Grats! Got a screen cap of it if you don't have one!
Nice chapter! Good job Trixie, you sound like a serial killer. Poor Derpy.
5357750 I agree, poor Derpy might be changing her route now after what Trixie said. Those books... O.O And I though my Trixie was dirty minded.
This line had me rolling.
Keep up the good work, and get well soon.
--Spade
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I imagine the sequence went something like this:
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Why else would it have taken Twi this long to return the books?
Derpy is gonna need therapy.
Until this day I always thought you were mistaken when you said it had been featured, I guess I cannot deny it anymore!
5357856
I swear it's the location. Derpy's replacement is even worse off.
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Thank you, I feel better already,
5358976 The fic becomes amazing when I get involved, not sure when I come into it, maybe around chapter 30 or 40? But get two awesome people involved in one thing and its bound to become better. LIke my modesty?
But yeah, when I have the time, I can spend several hours getting through a 100k fic, just because I want to see what happens in one go. Mind you, I don't leave nearly as many comments as you do each chapter.
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That looks about right to me. I also like the title of the book in the last image is 'The Frog King" I just feel the phrase " Are you Frog'king on my sofa!?" would come into a romance novel like that at some point.
That's a nice thing to say.
I also love the attempted kidnapping, there's absolutely no way that saying it'll all be over quickly while dragging someone into your house can be misinterpreted right?
5359003
Yes, your modesty knows no bounds
. But sserously though, that's true adding awesomeness to something only makes it more awesome. Like Icecreme Cake, or Pie flavored pudding.
5358470 Here's a message from bp oil company
5359003
As humble as is becoming of a Trixie fanatic.
That is such a bad pun I could croak.
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Trixie is slightly self absorbed on occasion.
I'm sure this will in no way come back to bite her.
5360441
Lies and slander.
5360842 We're sorry
5360783
There's absolutely no reason for Derpy to run and get the royal guard involved right?
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Ah yes, you're right.
I thought RD relied mainly on eye sight, since most of her feats involved her eyes, but they do mention that she can hear Big Mac "Eyup" loudly from the ground, and that she heard Twi's muttering.
Huh, when you think about it, it's a miracle Dash can stand being around Pinkie, considering how loud she must be to someone with Dash's hearing.
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IT works out in the vaguest sense of the word. I mean Cheese Sandwhich and Pinks ran from home and have the vaguest sense of proper social interactions. Flutters was a run away and was horribly bullied while the teachers watched. Suffers physical hallucinations, has an extremem fear of ponies, and the level of negligence causes her fear to make her wings physically freeze up.
Spike almost got aten by Timber Wolves but only survived by the pure luck of Apple Jack showing up. Those two colts survived by the dumbest of luck, and I'm wondering how many ponies aren't so lucky that ponies write up to them just having wondered away like ponies like most of the Mane 6, or ponies in their lives did?
Yet when things go bad. It's not the parents fault, or the bullies, it usually falls on the victim. If it gets any attention at all. Kind of like OrphanLoo fics [even if she's not homeless in canon. She has 0 adults to watch over her or give her the time of day. I would say I hope that she gets some love, but she's not the focus of this fic XD], she does things that almost kill her. Constantly. Yet unlike Sweets who has family show up in two shows and has many Rarity episodes. Or AB who has tons of family fics. Both of whom are only cared about when they are in eye veiw [other than the episode where te Mane 6 were totally fine with watchin the CMC run into the Everfree]. Scootaloo has nopony but the Crusaders, and when she needed them most they almost abandoned her ... and when they show up there's nopony home. Just like always.
So yeah, she needs to step up her A-Game. Which is something at the very least I'm going to start doing in GoldenVerse [starting with Types of Love, and moving into Golden Wings sequel Golden Crusade].
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And yes. Going for breakfast now. And it truly is the start of a perfect day XD. AFter that I'll resart reading the fic ^_^.
5362142
That just goes to show how much she cares about her friends that she can stand Pinkie Pie when that pony has moments when she's loud enough to be heard from the moon.
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Have we ever seen one of those just hang around Ponyville? I don't think we even see police officers or anything of the sort. She also doesn't have many friends for some mob justice... Huh, Derpy is nearly completely without recourse, isn't she? That... that's really sad.
5362165
True, they weren't being cruel for cruelties sake. But it's still like kicking a puupy or tossing a kitten at a fast moving carriage. It's slightly more higher on the evil scale than what Deets and Silvy did to Scoots on the Flight to the Finish episode.
And yes that was a bad joke, but true none the less, and for the most part you do the accent right 99.99% of the time. As for the misuse of y'all the writers are Canadians, which is the total oposite of the south ... and is one of main OCD triggering pet peeves. But yeah I chalk it up to poor writing rather than a character flaw. At least her family uses it properly.
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As for the bad jokes. Trust me this fic is not of the rating for those jokes to be appropriate to post *hint*. Which is my fault for having a gutter mind first thing in the morning, and a penchant for awkward humor
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I see what you mean. Though, I think it is not unreasonable for Celestia to allow these things to happen under the banner of freedom. After all, what is her alternative? completely ban access to the Everfree Forest? At what penalty? Erradicate all timberwolves? Same basic idea for teachers and parents. Where does she draw the line? What penalty? How is she going to find out? And, most importantly, how will ponies react to the super powerful ruler that suddenly has taken an awfully specific interest into what ponies are and are not allowed to do? One that is immortal, ruler by default, far too powerful to directly oppose, and who's values may not line up with those of the ponies themselves. It's practicly a publicity nightmare waiting to happen if she is seen as overreaching. Is it really her place to meddle in the private lives of her subjects? Will she justify scrying spells are being for the public good? Will the phrase "Innocent ponies have nothing to hide" be used at some point?
In summery, I can see why Celestia may choose a much more "hooves off" approach, provided Equestria does not come crumbling down around her as a result.
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she can do what has been done in this planet for centuries. Foal Protective Services. It's not about banning access. As much as it is about adults taking responciiblity for their children and making sure they grow up in a safe environment. Two kids leave home at night, bring in a giant monster, cause massive propery damage. Their only punishment is getting wicked mustaches. The victim on the other hand, gets all the blame, gets concussed, and is then gnaged up on and asssualted for something two stupid kids did.
Parents get 0 backlash.
Kid runs away from home, and is at the CMC age. Adults look at them and don't bat an eye. They grow up to be socially stunted, and who knows where educationally. Noone cares, or in some cases think they are annoying [since they don't have proper social skills], strange [same thing], or have bouts of anger / misunderstanding of their social flaws [like with Flutters].
But adults literally have 0 responsibilities or repercussions for their actions, and there is no system or service to protect them or look out for them. And when something bad does happen it's either the kids fault or some victim of the childs actions. Teachers can let bulying happen to the point where a kid gets psychological damage (Trixie in your fic, Flutters in Canon) and the teachers get off scott free.
Bullies can do almost the same level of damage to Scootaloo, and their is no adult, or thing in place to protect those ponies.
That's where the line is drawn. Simply setting up laws, regulations, and government services that let adults know that negligence has a cost. Rather than once a kids popped out and no longer in diapers it's the kids own fault if they get killed, or lost, or socially stinted and the adults have no responcibility for their young.
Their is a difference between Freedom, and Endangerment. Letting ponies say what they want, and read what they will. All good and fun. Treating kids as something that is a burden to be ignored, endangerment. That and they are a Diarchy, any constitutional rights they have are only in existance because the Princesses allow it. But they are so far removed from modern life that they don't see how much has changed over the centuries. And it's that blindness that's hurting their subjects.
5362190
That's a first.
For future reference, my pm box is open for anything to exceeds the story's tags.
5362240
I'll keep that in mind XD. But yeah, as far as kids go. Equestria isn't child friendly. Teachers promote bullying and abuse and those that suffer are at fault. Trixie had her worldly possessions destroyed, and assualted because parents didn't keep an eye on their children and let them endanger an entire villiage. Yet Trixie is the one at fault in the show and in the fic (in most ponies eyes), children runaway and grow up emotionally and socially stunted and it's that ponies fault that there was no net to catch them and help them grow in a safe and healthy environment.
And all the while the Princesses are unaware of it, and the adults don't care about enough to mention anything. But with Luna around to lift memories from dreams, I wonder if in this fic at least. She'll let Celestia know they are failing their ponies (since a 1,000 yrs ago the world was a smaller place, and communities were able to keep an eye on one another and the Princesses were slightly more world aware. Since there was more to see, and less watch over. Which sadly isn't the case any longer). Although it seems that problem isn't a bg one in Canterlot as much as it is everywhere else.
5362178
just because we haven't seen something in the show doesn't mean it doesn't exist, we also haven't seen things like banks. It stands to reason that ponyville has some kind of sheriff or a police/royal guard presence. It intrigues me that we haven't seen any police, only the royal guard, does this mean Equestria is under Martial Law?
I wanted to reply to those comments after I wrote and posted my next twelve reviews, but since I don't know when I'll get rid of that reader's block, I'm replying now.
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Thank you. I've just noticed your rant about Ponyville's treatment of Trixie and though I don't remember if Rainbow Dash and Applejack feel sorry about that (I need to reread this story), I agree.
5360076
Haha, yeah. Shining Armor is probably the most 'useful' of them all, and he tops at throwing his wife like a javelin. You can't even claim good aim because Cadance can redirect her trajectory with her wings.
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I think Flash Sentry is perfect for Twilight Sparkle. The waifu stealer and the spotlight thief (can you tell I like Sunset Shimmer better?) are meant to be together.
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Yeah, Rarity is pretty manipulative. Just look at how she made those stallions pull their carriage when they went to the Great Galloping Gala! What a good lesson to teach kids.
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In the Rant Chapter (48) they feel a little bad for it, but as of Chapter 66 haven't really apologised yet. Or shown that they're sorry. Heck Trixie's being charged with a crime that she had 0 part in.
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Hey! The ability to launch his wife was the main reason she picked him. It takes the work of having to take off away, and lets her become a Princessy missile of cuteness upon her foes.
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No pony deserves Flash Sentry. Not even Flash Sentry that's the worst punishment anypony can get ... and Twilight's too good for walking scenery. What she needs is a good mare to broaden her horizons.
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Yes that was a very valuable lesson ... other than RTM, and FWtST's in S4. There's been no episode that shows her being generous when she doesn't use that to get an advantage, or use it to get what she wants. Very good role model indeed. I'm just glad the Fanon Rarity was made to be a better, more likeable pony than canon.
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Looking forward to reading it... if I can get past that damn block.
I can see Applejack not apologizing since she's not wrecked with guilt. I'd expect Rainbow Dash to apologize though, but maybe she's too distracted with almost killing Trixie and scaring her half to death on a regular basis to think about the show that started everything.
That and she wanted to be close to Twilight. Because reasons. Not at all related to sexy times after her husband 'accidentally' dies also because reasons.
Walking scenery is putting it mercifully. He exists solely to make Twilight fall for him, when she wasn't interested in romance to begin with. Probably teenaged human hormones. Both movies would still be better without him.
But that's going away from this actual story, so I won't go on.
I liked her a lot more when I heard her sing 'And Now Alone I Stand" in Rarity Takes Manehattan. But that's like the only part of season four I've watched. Kinda lost interest in the pony show to focus on Sunset Shimmer and human!Rainbow
JerkDash.5362722
S4 had some rather good episodes, and totally made up for the disappointing filler filled flop that was S3. And all in all was a 7.3 out of 10. And we see that Scoots lives in an orphanage. But yeah Sunset Shimmer is pretty hot. Although it would be better if they had a universe cross over with Persona 4: The Golden.
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And that's right. Shining did say she married him because he was Twilight's brother. And that really was the only reason.
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Actually Flash had no purpose. In film one, the films would've been did proven quickly since Twilight was always with one of the Element Bearers, and Film 2 not even Twilight's human hormones could give him a shot. But yws we shall drop the name of
he who should not be named.5362561
5362178
There are 2 instances in which we see a police officer of some sort. (But they are probably just as useless as the Royal Guards.) In Read it and Weep, The pony who chased after, Screwloose I think, (The one who barks) looked like a sherrif, which was after the hospital chase scene.
The other instance was during Pinkie Pride. One of their songs had a transition to what was probably a police department with police uniformed ponies. I can't access a screen shot to show that right now, but I might show it later.
5362271 You know what seems to be missing in your logic? There sure seems to be a lot of talk about how it's the Princess's faults for allowing all of this to happen. But as you said, they are unaware of it.
But you know somepony who should be aware of it? The mayor of their town of Ponyville. Mayor Mare?
Princess Celestia may rule all of Equestria, but it's pretty clear that she doesn't have the power to watch over all of it 24/7. That's probably why Ponyville has a mayor at all. Mayor Mare's presence wasn't mentioned at all in your rants there, and I feel things like that should be looked into.
Question. Doesn't this fic take place during the mid season 1? How do they even know Discord?
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History. It is shown in the Celestia comic that Discord is to this day a detailed topic in her school. He was kind of a big deal after all.
Even in the show we see young foals being taught about him on a field trip. Right before his escape.
5363123 Well, considering no pony seemed to care about the legend of Nightmare Moon, I guess I'm just confused that they seem to know Discord like a regular thing rather than something from history so long ago, only ponies who would be interested in that would know.
Yeah, Cheerilee seems to teach about it now, but considering that was after Nightmare Moon, maybe changes happened in their history lessons.
You know what, ignore me. I'm overthinking it...
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Princess Celestia owns a stalker plane that she used to Spy on Twilight's life XD. The problem is that while they are unaware, they still make no effort to be part of the modern world and current events. It would take very little time to set up an organization to look over foals. But rather adults [which Mayor Mare shows to be part of the problem] ignores foals ad their actions. While letting the weight of blame fall on the victim.
But it's a problem that's happened for so many generations that child neglect has become tradition. Even in schools.
But I wonder what with Luna's ability to lift memories from Dreams why Celestia doesn't act on the Victim's Fault / Child Neglect = tradition? Anyways, yeah, the blame doesn't fall all on the Princesses. But it's odd that there's nothing to prevent rampant child neglect, and that kids can destroy a ponies livelihood and property and the pony wronged is the canonical criminal.
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But over thinking things is half the fun!
First of, let's assume you are right.
Even if Cheerilee only started doing the Discord lesson after the Nightmare Moon incident, that still proves that information about Discord existed before he was released. Twilight knew about Nightmare Moon, which proves the history for her was also available. So we know that the information existed, and was available. Now, granted, it may not have been widely taught, or it may be a simple footnote in history class that you generally don't remember once you've passed that semesters test.
Most ponies probably would not be all that interested in ancient tales, which is why nopony seems to know Nightmare Moon, but Trixie is a showmare and storyteller, she'd have a good reason to know about these ancient legends, especially if they aren't all that well known anymore.
(It is worth keeping in mind, this is from Trixie's perspective, so it's not necessarily common knowledge.)
5363257 Like I said, I was over thinking things because the only thing that I thought about that would disprove their knowledge of Discord, was the fact he didn't appear until Season 2.
I will say though, Trixie being a show mare doesn't exactly prove she would have that kind of knowledge, (especially since she admited that she made that story up about the Ursa Major) but it also doesn't disprove it either. She knows that an Ursa Major exists in the Everfree Forest, but didn't know what it looked like, thinking an Ursa Minor was a Major.
But this is what fanfics are all about. Unless it's 100% impossible, it could happen in a fanfic. Of course, the least likely that it will happen, the more the story would have to explain and so on.
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True, you can go pretty much any direction you want to, provided you can justify it.
I'll be sure to drop a brief reference to a class on it next time I get to a filly Trixie chapter.
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i thought the first one was a security guard employed by the hospital, i'll have to look up the second.
5363579 Here's the one from Read it and Weep:
i.imgur.com/LfVFZeg.png
And here's the one from Pinkie Pride, which happens as a transition from one of the songs:
i.imgur.com/dJd22gN.jpg
Whether or not you can call these legit is up to you. Considering how goofy those songs have been, I can't take the Pinkie Pride one seriously. As for Read it and Weep, the regular doctors and nurses took chase as well, so why would they need an officer?
I just can't take both seriously considering all that happens around Ponyville, and officers like these doing nothing about it. (Speaking of which, Twilight is now a princess, yet unlike Cadance and the rest of the princesses, she doesn't have Royal guards anywhere with her.)
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i couldn't find the scene in pinkie pride, do you have the timestamp for the screenshot? In read it ans weep, they show up inside the hospital first so I'm going with security guards, not police.
5363820 Around 5:45
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thanks. I forgot how much I dislike that episode (i'm not a huge fan of musicals). It looks like a police station, but I can't really take that scene seriously.
5363876 I can't take the entirety of Filli Vanilli seriously.
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oh, right that episode. I actually don't take a good chunk of season 4 seriously, although considering it's my little pony, i'm surprised that i take it as seriously as I do.
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Impressive memory.
That's really interesting information. The guard strikes me as private security for the hospital.
The cop though, I am not sure. I guess maybe in Manehatten, since it fits the big city look that area has going on.
Mhm, that reminds me. I'd imagine Appleloosa has a Sheriff because it fits the theme. The castle setting has royal guards as they fit that theme. Small farm town's on the other hand... mob justice fits that theme.
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Well, as Skylight showed us, at the very least we know that Ponyville has a security guard.
I'd like to believe Equestria is so peaceful they only have ceremonial roles for law enforcement services, like the royal guards. (Goodness knows we've never seen them do anything useful.) Which would also mean that maybe the towns just don't need police stations. Also, I'd think that we'd have seen a police pony if one existed by now, particularly arresting or questioning the mane6 or CMC.
On the other hand, having some some of actual peace keeping has nice story potential. Since Ponyville society has a tendency to be theme, what is a good peace keeping unit for a small town? I've no idea.
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These kinds of issues probably need an entire fic dedicated to them. It's well beyond the scope of this fic to bring it up, I've already got like three year of material just from what I'm still supposed to do.
I'll have to do some thinking on this though.
OK i have to ask, what's with every chapter beginning with a r-word? is that a thing you just decided to do or was it a challenge of sort? I've been wondering for a while now and finally decided to ask.
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Hehe, don't worry about it, that's a common question.
The answer is:
5364520 I'm glad it's not just me. BTW hope you're feeling better. I recall you said you were sick so hoping all is well!