"Dearest Rarity, your presence is requested at the Canterlot garden party tomorrow afternoon. Yours, Jet Set and Upper Crust!"
Rarity let out a gasp, one which nearly caused her bag boy to drop the load he was carrying on his back, "The Canterlot garden party! Why, next to the Galloping Gala that is the premier event in Canterlot!" The squeal of delight from the fashionista was almost loud enough to break glass. Not since Twilight giving her the ticket to the Gala had she been so excited for a party. As fast as her mood went up, though, it whiplashed back down at the thought of Twilight.
"Oh, but if I go, I'll miss Twilight's birthday..." Rarity lamented. "But if I don't go, my new reputation in Canterlot as a Very Important Pony might be ruined! I might never be invited to another high society event again!" The worried unicorn went back and forth over her options frantically. "Friend's birthday...Very Important Pony..." She winced, pained by the decision she had to make. Neither one was optimal, but she had to make one and obviously couldn't do both. The more she thought about it, the more intangibles came into the equation. Upon further consideration, she figured that Twilight was more likely to forgive her than the Canterlot crew. With a heavy heart, she knew she'd made her decision,
"It's just too important," Rarity said softly. She retrieved a quill and parchment, taking a deep breath as she began to write. "My dear Twilight, I am afraid I won't be able to make it to your birthday party tomorrow, because... because poor Opal is quite ill, and she is in no condition to make the long journey back to Ponyville! I do hope you understand. Your friend, Rarity."
"You're not actually sending that, are you?"
Rarity let out a soft sigh as she heard that familiar voice.
"Please set my bags down," she said to the bag boy. She turned around just as she heard the loud thump of suitcases hitting the ground and gave Sugarcoat a look. "How long have you been here?"
"Long enough to hear you making a stupid mistake," Sugarcoat said. "Though I figure that's bound to happen to anypony who spends more than five minutes around you."
"I'll let that slide, darling," Rarity said coldly. "Now, I'm sure you were going to tell me anyway, but let's hear what you have to say on the matter, hm?"
"I can't believe I have to," Sugarcoat replied. "Though given your track record, I shouldn't be. You're actually ditching one of your best friends' birthday parties to go to some fancy-schmancy party full of prissy ponies?"
"I wouldn't use the term ditching," Rarity said. "And I can't help it! Twilight would forgive me much faster, and a soirée like this is a must for my status! If I cancel on them..."
"What?" Sugarcoat shot back. "What'll happen? You won't get an invite to the next one? What a pity."
"But I have a new reputation as a Very Important Pony here in Canterlot!" Rarity insisted. "And all the Very Important Ponies attend these events!"
"You already were a very important pony," Sugarcoat said. "To your friends." Then she groaned. "Ugh, this place is already making me dangerously corny."
Rarity, however, did not find the words as corny as Sugarcoat did. Her reaction was quite the opposite as she felt tears begin to form.
"...You're right, darling," Rarity said. "You're absolutely right." With that, she crumpled up the letter to Twilight and threw it in the trash.
"Thank you, Sugarcoat," Rarity said, wiping the corner of an eye with a handkerchief. "For showing up just in time to stop me from making a grievous error."
"What can I say?" Sugarcoat replied. "You're good at making mistakes."
"Very funny, darling," Rarity said. "But I'll be watching myself more carefully from now on. No more episodes of freaking out and making bad decisions."
"Yeah," Sugarcoat said. "I have a feeling we won't be seeing another Rarity episode any time soon."
careful sugarcoat you stealing pinkie pie's gig
....Sugarcoat....
When did you gain the Party Pony abilities of minor-scale Narrative Awareness?
Yeah, but when they do come, you'll even at one point get three Rarity episodes in a row
She has obviously seen all the episodes. Makes it far easier to put your two bits in at key moments.
Well, seeing as the next 'episode' is Secret of My Excess, I think Sugarcoat spoke too soon.
I wonder what will happen in Canterlot Wedding and Season 4 & 5
She can actually say that about most of them. Even though she does seem to be saying it to Rarity and Twilight the most.
Welp, there went the fourth wall.
Wouldn't it be funny if Sugarcoat somehow became an alicorn... and then started talking about how stupid that is?
6661497 Technically that was a Spike episode.
Good to see that the MMDW chapter was just a dud and Sugarcoat's back on track.
I wasn't feeling this one. I mean given her career choice and everything, social events are definitely part of the job. If anything, a Canterlot party is basically a networking event. I thought the moral was going to be, and should have been, not lying to Twilight and just explaining the situation and making it up to her later.
This is so kewt.
My gods am I loving this Sugarcoat. She manages to get everything right on the button. I'm very much going to be looking forward to more of this.
I'm also loving the little shippy nudges here and there.
IT'S FUNNY 'CAUSE IT'S TRUE!!!
(I count 'Secret of my Excess' a Sparity or Spike episode.)
I don't agree here. Sure, Rarity was a bitch to ditch her friends for the Canterlot elite, but to totally berate her because of that is forgetting that becoming an elite is her ambition and goal. Saying that you have never chosen something potentially cool and fun over your friends would be a lie nine times out of 10.
As RENT put it, Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn!
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I don't know who this RENT guy is, but that's a quote from Jesus.
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Also, I agree on the Rarity topic. What if Apple Jack needed to sell some stock to save her home or Future Twilight had princess/time duties? Everyone else will understand.
Sugarcoat being insightful once again!
OH MY GOD, THAT IS HILARIOUS.
6662544 RENT is a musical. Here's some more lyrics to make it clearer:
To you, and you, and you, you, and you!
To people living with, living with,
living with
Not dying from disease!
Let he among us without sin
Be the first to condemn!
Mary Sue-ness aside, if Sugarcoat thinks Equestria is bad, she should visit the universe of Dexter's Laboratory.
Oh, no...oh, no...
The Magic of Friendship is starting to sugarcoat Sugarcoat!
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I'm not a fan of musicals, but that sounds interesting.
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I agree, they are adorable basket cases! I just never completely noticed until the "MLP: FiM: Equestria Girls" time frame. I say completely because I knew something was wrong around season 2, but didn't put much thought to it.
...I also put "MLP: FiM" in bold because it used to associate with ponies. Now it's just crazy Highschool Muscical shenanigans and Sunset silently shouting "I'm the only pony in this movie!" every time she's involved with magic. That's a rant for another time, though.
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Two words: Dexter's Laboratory.
New headcanon: Sugarcoat is the EQG-verse version of Marble Pie. She inherited a lot more of Pinkie's Pinkie-ness than Marble, as well as a small portion of Maud's Maud-ness. However, she kept two things from Marble: Her tendency to speak as little as possible, and her infatuation with Big Mac.
I have this image in my head of Sugarcoat just constantly floating a squirt bottle next to her.
"You really think this is the way to go about it?"
"But... She was bragging..." Twilight sputtered.
Sugarcoat lifted up the squirt bottle. "No," she said, spritzing Twilight.
"But-"
"No." Spritz.
"She-"
"No." Spritz.
"We had to-"
"No." Spritz spritz spritz.
"ALRIGHT! WE WERE WRONG!"
Sugarcoat nodded. "Good."
Sugarcoat, that's less blunt, and more rude.
And that's just ruder.
Since when can you break the 4th wall?
6774833 "Since about chapter 2. See, here. 'You'd take 22 minutes to solve a problem that could be solved in two.'"