Dear Princess Sunbutt

by 2Merr

Letter 104

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have reason to believe Discord is plotting something.

He woke me up at around 4:00 this morning to ask me for acorns. My first question was why he wanted acorns. He said he forgot, but he knew it was very important. When I reminded him he could gather his own acorns or snap them into existence, he said they needed to be “acorns freely given.”

I wouldn’t trust him even if he wasn’t being so vague, so I refused. He removed his begging face and replaced it with a pouty one before disappearing.

I still have the begging face. It seems indestructible and keeps reappearing when I try to get rid of it. Even banishing doesn’t work. I’ve settled for keeping it on the wall where I can see if it tries anything funny. It doesn’t move or talk, but I refuse to take chances with Discord.

I suggest keeping an eye out for any acorn-related oddities near Canterlot. I’ll be doing the same in Ponyville.

Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle

Comments

[SeventhBrony]

Acorns, freely given? This could get interesting

[SomeWeirdGuy]

At least he didn’t ask for pinecones

don’t ask me why

[FredMSloniker]

Uh oh. Discord, did you do something acorn-related to Anon?

[Mitril]

9999330
Did you saw something disturbing with pinecones?
derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/8/17/76425.gif
derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/12/12/180388.png

Also, I don't know why but there is a lot of pinecones images with Trixie on derpibooru

[Illi]

I was hoping for a corny joke.

ba dum pish

[A Wild Magikarp]

I KNOW this has to be a reference... and it sounds SO familiar... but I just can’t place it...

[Mitril]

9999360
Me too
It reminds me of some old cartoon, maybe?

[SeventhBrony]

9999360 If nothing else the freely given part most recently that I can remember being referenced would moldymort

[Venerable Ro]

That does sound familiar... Alas, all that comes to mind is an elvish ritual for replenishing magic reserves, but that's hardly something that Discord needs to worry about.

Yeah I got nothing.

[bot105]

The "freely given " part tends to crop up in old school fae myth, but Im not sure how that is relavent.

[The Big Y]

9999360

I remember Anon mentioning to Celestia at some point that he gives acorns to Discord in exchange for human movies.

[FrostTheWolf]

9999389
Well, if you add a couple of squirrels into the mix... then you might want to look out.

God, thinking of squirrels and acorns is making me think of Ratatoskr

[EntropyEntropy]

I bet Anon and Discord are competing to leave Twilight as confused as possible, and the next chapter is gonna be Anon's attempt at making Twilight concerned.

[yellowbastion]

Meanwhile...
: “Squeaker squeak squeak squeaken?”

[p0nypanda]

Someone isekai Squirrel Girl here ASAP, DIscord has a squirrel fetish!

[Mist_Chaser]

Mission accomplished

[Hotel_Chicken]

Um... What? I don't... What?

Didn't Discord do something with Acorns earlier in the letters? I don't think he used them to pay his taxes, but I vaguely remember him doing something with them, but for the life of me I can't remember.

[Tempest_Flare]

9999388
oh so you read Artemis Fowl? nice!

[Venerable Ro]

9999459

I read very nearly everything. Except for the stuff that I don't read of course, won't have anything to do with that.

[Doomed Soul]

9999646
2Merr has stated Twilight is not an alicorn and will not become one.

So, no. She is not.

[Officer Hotpants]

9999452
I think it was Anon paying Discord in acorns for his services. That was a while back, though, and a bit of a one-off thing so far as I recall. Maybe he's trying to grow his own asshole magic tree.

[artofwar77]

9999336
It's a meme from the early days of the fandom: Trixie liking pine cones. Like, to eat.
I don't know where it came from or if it ever made sense, but it was amusing enough to catch on to a lot of people and spread quickly.

[Fancy Fox]

Anon hasn't been fueling discord's acorn addiction and now discord is getting desperate

[Neece]

9999177

[duckboy416]

9999401
"Acorns! Mmm, yummy!"

[vinyldash23]

Is Stu allergic to acorns? All is possible in the realm of the impossible.

[LucarioFan2066]

"Freely given", huh?
...Is he trying to perform a ritual like Tom "Snake-Face" Riddle did?