Sweetcream Scoops has an ice cream cone cutie mark, works in her family's ice cream shop, and her special talent is...singing.
This has caused some friction with her folks, and having to come back home from Canterlot after failed tryouts for the Trans Equestrian Orchestra didn't help matters. Now the mild-mannered Ice Cream Mare has to face the music when ponies close to her vanish without a trace, and she suspects her childhood hiding place and some quasi-mythical monster may be involved. She'd really prefer it if the mane six dealt with this.
Shoo bee doo, shoo shoo bee doo...
Chapters (3)
Who else thought that pony on the cover was Twilight Sparkle, but different style?
This story is well-written, with a believable main character and a plot that moves along nicely. The main character has good and bad traits, has a certain vulnerability that nearly defeats her, and overcomes her doubts to pursue her dreams.
All in all, well done!
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I bought that blindbag pony today, and that was my first thought: recolored Twilight Sparkle.
This is a neat story, though, and it plays nicely off what little backstory Hasbro was willing to bother with.
When I saw that someone had written a story featuring Sweetcream Scoops as the protagonist, I knew I had to read it. Kudos for giving some character to an obscure background pony who only appears in the comics!
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Thank you for the comment. ^_^ I was pleased as punch when I saw her showing up after I'd written this fanfic.
The only sticky spot was where the Elements of Harmony ran into the cave to defeat the ineffable evil and rescue the poor captured ponies, because since this was ostensibly a secret that only Sweetcream figured out, and Sweetcream already rescued all the ponies, who were too busy fleeing to plead their case to the 6 heroes... that effectively means Twi and the gang ran into a cave where a bunch of sea ponies were doing nothing other than sitting there hanging out, looking glum, and then proceeded to beat the shit out of them.
For... what again?
I guess... they just assume sea ponies are going to be using a certain sea magic to trap ponies in crystal, instead of growing kelp the easy way? They're like, "You have fins, so you must have captured the ponies in town!" After said captured ponies had all just ran by them without any actually appearing to be captured?
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Male Seapony Lyra was the spearhead of an invasion force, despite his protestations to the contrary. If the other seaponies following close after weren't plotting similar acts, they were at least complicit in his crimes.
That said, how exactly the element wielders figured out where the seaponies were is a bit of a plothole. I content myself with the knowledge that it matters less as they are just larger-than-life peripheral figures in Sweetcream's story.
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Not saying they weren't guilty as hell, but just that those 6 didn't seem to need any actual evidence of that to start swinging.