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// Flashback 
// Story: The Lost Legends of Equestria: Star Swirl the Bearded 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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“It’s going to be okay,” his guardian said, “Your first day is going to be great, it will be just fine, and you’ll be just fine without me, and I need you to understand what I am about to tell you, I won’t always be around to protect you, you’ll have to learn to do that by yourself and on your own, do you understand that?”

“I understand,” the young Star Swirl said, “And I will be fine without you, I don’t need you to comfort me, and you don’t need to worry about me either, I’ll be fine, I can handle myself around others, and I’m sure I’ll make some great friends.”

“Well I hope so, I have to go now, I can’t stay even if I wanted to, but I’ll come back for you later, have a good day Star Swirl,” and with that his guardian left him there all alone in the classroom, and soon the teacher Mrs. Shining made him stand up in front of the class and introduce himself, and then he sat down.

He listened to the teacher and lesson very intently, and he took down the notes that he needed to and remained silent and was polite, but when he was finally called upon to cast the spell, he failed, but the rest of the class did it quite well, and it was a very simple spell as he later learned, and he felt very sad and angry that he couldn’t do it, all the others and rest could, why couldn’t he do it?

But then after class was finished he was picked on for the first time by the very same bullies he faced today right now, and they had stuffed his face down in the toilet water and flushed the toilet, and that’s when he earned the nickname ‘Swirly’, an ironic name of what had really happened to him on the first day of school, and what would later become one of the worst days of his life, and he had many of them ever since that first day of school, and all were equally bad.