Boast Busters
Twilight Sparkle watched as Rarity, absolutely grief-stricken at her sudden mane-related disaster, ran off in hysterics. She couldn't believe that the unicorn bragging on stage had done such an awful thing to her friend. Granted, Rarity was probably exaggerating just a bit, but that didn't change how utterly rude it was for Trixie to do what she had done. Not only that, but she'd embarrassed and harmed both Applejack and Rainbow Dash as well. She'd never encountered a pony so braggadocios before. Well, except for Rainbow Dash. But it was somewhat endearing coming from her. With this Trixie pony, it was nearly unbearable.
"Well Twilight, guess it's up to you," Spike said. "Come on, show her what you're made of." He had been complaining the entire time about Trixie's bragging, and if it weren't for the fact that three of her other friends had gone up on stage in an attempt to stop Trixie, she might have thought that he was the most bothered of all by it. As much as Spike wanted her to go up, though, she simply couldn't. Her friends' words from earlier rang in her head; showing off one's talent as Trixie had been was unbecoming and reprehensible, and she just couldn't change her friends' opinion of her.
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked timidly, her eyes darting around to the ponies who were now staring at her. "I'm nothing special."
"Except for being Princess Celestia's prized student," Sugarcoat said, her head popping out of the crowd. "You know, that thing you can only be if you're really good at magic." All eyes now turned to Twilight, whose cheeks had turned pink enough to nearly mistake them as transplants from Pinkie Pie.
"Excuse me?" Trixie spoke from the stage. "Did you say that she's Princess Celestia's..."
"Shut up for once in your life," Sugarcoat said, waving a hoof dismissively in her direction. Then she focused back on Twilight. "You're about as good at magic as you are bad at friendship, and that's saying something."
"So...you think I should go up there?" Twilight asked. "And risk losing my friends because I'm showing off?"
"Oh, you mean the friends who already all went up there and tried to show off?" Sugarcoat asked.
"Um...Pinkie and I didn't go up there..." Fluttershy pointed out.
"The others did," Sugarcoat said, practically ignoring Fluttershy. "You realize you're totally interrupting a stage magician whose entire act is based around showing off, right? You should really get a clue."
"Yeah, but..." Rainbow stammered.
"But nothing," Sugarcoat said plainly. "Just let the pony do her act and leave."
"Thank you!" Trixie said from her position on stage. "Thank you for finally pointing that out!"
"Still talking," Sugarcoat said. She looked back to Twilight. "Friends don't stop being friends just because one of them is good at something. Why do I have to tell you these things? Aren't you supposed to be smart?"
Twilight, for what felt like the fifth time since she'd known Sugarcoat, stared at her in awe, wondering how she'd made the problem's solution seem so simple.
"...Wow," Twilight responded. "You're right. You're absolutely right."
"Duh," Sugarcoat said. "Now can you let the mare finish her show?"
"Yes!" Trixie bellowed. "The Great and Powerful Trixie must continue!"
"Your bragging's still really annoying," Sugarcoat told her. "Them making mistakes doesn't change that."
"I know!" Trixie responded with a flourish.
"Just making sure," Sugarcoat said as she sat down to watch the rest of the show.
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Personally, I want to see some more Sugarixie in the future.
Maybe in the Magic Duel chapter?
This one exceeded my expectations by pointing out the bloody obvious AND addressing the episode's moral with blunt force.
Now, what you do with the NEXT chapter will be the deciding factor on whether or not this goes into my Favorites instead of staying in Tracking.
I have high expectations for the Dragonshy chapter. Don't blow it.
And everyone stood and watched Trixie's act of tricks and enjoyed it and she left afterwards and then everyone sat and ate some donuts.
...that was awesome.
Sugarcoat is right. Twilight sucks at this.
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Considering this just severely undermined the whole reason for Magic Duel, I look forward to seeing how that's addressed assuming the story gets that far
Sugarcoat is basically the sane and sensible - if very, very blunt - voice of the audience.
Hat's off to you for managing to address the important points without taking a moral stand for either side. You really don't see that very often.
Yeah, she's going to be prevalent in season 1 a lot. A lot of people forget, especially those who think the show's gotten 'worse', is how childish season 1 was. Don't get me wrong, it's still good. I still enjoy most of these episodes, but a lot of them could have been resolved quicker with more mature characters, such as they are now.
So far, this story is really interesting, but it's a bit too short. That's of course nothing against this fic as it's main point is Sugarcoat to speak up her mind. Though...
Friendship is Magic: Them knowing beforehand about it wouldn't change much and Twilight was kind of anti-friends at the start.
Applebuck Season: While I did like that chapter {seriously, someone write a Sugarmac fic} I don't think Applejack would listen. She already ignored her own brother. A stranger wouldn't do much to sway her.
I'm interested in how you're going to go about Dragonshy... Keep writing this. Sugarcoat is my favorite Shadowbolt and I should really get onto writing a story about her.
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Well, it looks like the pressure is on for today, isn't it?
Gotta love Trixie
Welp, now there's no Magic Duel
You know, I went into this expecting to hate it. I thought it was gonna be some rehash of the episodes with some silly little twist. And I was mostly right. But three chapters in, and I'll be banished to the moon if I didn't end up liking it. And the only reason for this is quite simply...Sugurcoat. Every word she says, you can hear her deadpan voice saying the things we were thinking. And that is semi-pure gold. 7/10, a thumb up, and a fave just read more of Sugurcoat.
Tell that to Starlight Glimmer.
I just realised what Sugarcoat's job must be.
She's an insurance agent.
No, not somepony who sells insurance. Literally, she's a (secret) agent for the insurance companies, who enjoy a healthy premium on Ponyville due to its ground zero location next to the Everfree, but with Sugarcoat around and preventing all the antics Ponyville gets up to they barely ever have to pay out.
No Ursa Minor, for example
6567401 Well, you just got me thinking on how Sugarcoat would act without her cutie mark.
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I give up trying to make sense of this. I'm just going to sit back and watch what happens. I wonder how Maud and Sugarcoat will interact?
You do realize she makes money off this act? She's pretending she's better rather than actually proving it. The others just made it easy for her to win their challenges because of her telekinesis and tricks. Smoke and mirrors, that's all.
Said every brony who does like Trixie, or at least thoughts that AJ, Rarity and Rainbow were being obnoxious.
I like her. She's a giant ham, she KNOWS she's a giant ham, and she REVELS in it.
6772589 it was really just AJ. Dash flip flopped her opinion the instant AJ expressed displeasure and Rarity was just being herself.
Sugarcoat is my spirit animal.