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Shortly after her and her friends' victory over the smog-spewing dragon that threatened Ponyville, Rainbow Dash arrives at the Golden Oak to show off some new Wonderbolt Memorabilia she got recently. But when asked where she got the money for it, that leads to a somewhat lengthy chat with her friends.
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Good call-forward with just *whose* name is on that shirt Rainbow buys. XD
Also, there's a part of me that's seriously wondering if Twilight made up that bit about dragon gold being cursed. I mean, yeah, stealing it is a very, VERY stupid idea, but a curse on it? Hmm... (Plus, remember, this is Twilight "Curses don't exist" Sparkle. Remember the Zecora episode?)
Eh, the dragon probably took it all with him when he left. And whatever coins and gems he missed are his own fault.
Rainbow, what a fool you made yourself of.
Debt collectors are bad. Draconic debt collectors will make you wish you were dead.
Wind Rider's debut episode gave me the impression that Rarity didn't know who he was either.
I thought season 1 Twilight didn't believe in curses.
Twilight made that curse up, right? To get Dash to return the shirt?
Wonderful stuff, as always.
Wait...didn't Twilight once say there was no such thing as curses, or was that something else?
Ah well, I enjoyed the story!
lol yeah, better return that RD!
Eh
I wonder now how Dragons move their hordes from cave to cave: they've got pretty small hands and don't have pockets, so it seems like it would take an awful lot of trips. Do they have treasure-carrying cheek pouches, like chipmunks? Or maybe there's some sort of Dragon Moving Service they hire? Or Giant Saddlebag Rentals?
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...I like the cheek pouches idea.
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I half-expected that to be a bluff as well. While it is pretty well established mythology that dragon gold is cursed, she didn't believe in curses at around the same time. Depends on if this is before or after the Zecora episode. I mean that wasn't a curse but she did learn not to dismiss stuff out of hand without doing some research first.
10304950 Considering that Twilight's warning feels like a direct quote from something (I was tempted to say "The Hobbit", but I can't find any confirmation right now), I'd say it's an attempt on her part to scare Rainbow back onto the straight and narrow, and since she's a literature nerd, quotes are her way of doing that.
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It's not The Hobbit. Maybe the Silmarillion. My copy is buried right now so I'm not sure. However I think it's something else entirely. Tolkien drew on a lot of Nordic sources so possibly one of those.
I don’t think introducing hundreds of gold would have even the slightest implication on the economy or monetary policy. Not only is gold not that valuable, it’s two bits for a cup of cider, but their is likely millions, if not billions of bits in the economy so it’s like a drop in the bucket. Would have been funny though of rainbow taking all the gold and buying stuff only to later have a very large amount of taxes owed.
Missed opportunity for a joke at the end. You could have Fluttershy, after all her disapproval of Rainbow throughout the story...very suddenly feel the need to return her tea to the store after hearing Twilight's explanation.
As others said, this doesn't work as you have it. The bit about the economic impact it has, I can totally get into. But the girls are being total hipocrites here.
The dragon more than likely did steal the gold, and ate the ponies who tried to stop him. Why are they defending that? Because they are, telling Rainbow off like this.
Plus I thought it was Dwarven gold that was cursed? Dragons steal it from somewhere.
So... Yeah. The premise for the story is a complete and utter bust.
See, you say that now...
Personally, I had always figured the reason they didn't take the dragon's valuables was because either the dragon took it with him (I mean, why would he just leave it behind anyway? EDIT: reviewing the episode, Fluttershy also told him to "pack his things," and that would presumably include the treasure, so...), or because precisely as Spike said--the dragon would notice the missing items and come back to claim them...by force, if necessary. I mean, regardless of whether or not they were truly originally the dragon's or not, those dragons have demonstrated to be very possessive about these sort of things multiple times throughout the show. Even Spike occasionally demonstrated this, though more muted thanks to his pony upbringing.
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Well, there was one scene in "Dog and Pony Show" where Spike pulls a gem out of a pocket-like pouch on his hip:
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I don't recall him or any other dragon doing this ever again, so it might have just been a one-off sight gag...but it could also be something dragons use to move their treasures around (I'd assume they'd have two on either hip). Scaled up for a full-grown adult dragon, those "pockets" would be pretty sizeable and hold a lot of treasure--not for all that "Dragonshy" showed, so there would probably still need to be multiple trips, but enough to speed it up a fair bit.
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TIL dragons are really weird marsupials.
10305016 Honestly, after writing that, Dennis McKiernan's Dragondoom comes to mind. Considering that the supposed curse on dragon gold is a plot point in that book, I should have thought about it sooner.
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Dwarves curse gold, yes, but so do dragons. Here's a brief breakdown.
In the Volsunga Saga, where a dwarf curses a ring so that it brings misfortune. In the same saga, a half-dwarf is cursed and turns INTO a dragon, and then curses his hoard. So in that case the curser is both a dragon AND a dwarf. Possibly the where dragons cursing gold came from.
For dragons, in Beowulf the dragon's hord wasn't cursed per se, but taking it attracted the dragon's attention so it certainly brought misfortune.
In more recent works, in "The Silmarillion" Glaurung stole most of his hord from the Dwarves. The curse was held to be on the gold, but it is possible to read said curse as being due to either/or, as the survivers of the dwarves cursed any who'd keep it from them (whether metaphorically or literally), while Glaurung's malice was said to be able to spread through it. Tolkien drew from sources like the Volsunga Saga, so the ambiguity is perhaps not surprising.
Applejack showed it to her friends, pointing to the name. "This ere's a signed shirt from none other than Wind Rider!"
Ohhh ouch she has no idea how much disappointment she going to be
the gold curse is only greed, and not more, all leyend end in the same, when find the gold, like a lot and mean a lot, they got the greed curse, and is only dont use the gold, just have it, and have more and more... thats is the dragon curse its just to many gold to spend.
think in the historical contex, mid age 10 gold coin can buy a house, so what you do whit 1.000.000 coins or more? and dont know where use it, just hold it, and kill everyone who know about your gold, that the curse of dragon gold just greed. (IQ of mid age ppl was a lot low than now to, like 50-60 point top so that is a big point to)
PD: srry mi grammar, english is not mi main language