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// Chapter 2: Marigold Blueblood 
// Story: Ichor 
// by Ice Star 
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Marigold Blueblood was a name that nopony wanted to remember, especially the House of Blueblood themselves. On their neat and prim family tree, this little flower was nothing but a weed from the start that had cost the brother of the then-current head his place in the household. Even though Marigold herself was a name that was meant to be forgotten to these nobles for more than just the scandal of her birth, soon Equestria itself would want to curse her name half the time and just beg that she be forgotten the remaining portion.

Marigold, like all foals, wasn't born with any proof of what she would grow up to be. Maybe somewhere in her mind was the latent shallowness that had been known to affect some members of the Blueblood house, or it could have been something all her own, which the staunchly moral Bluebloods wished had been the more popular rumor.

Rumors were how all of Canterlot came to know of Marigold Blueblood before she even entered the world and the first rays of light that she would ever see touched her wicked eyelids.

The two Blueblood Brothers — as they had been popularly known in their time before the younger's disinheriting. They were two of the stuffiest stallions in the century before the return of Princess Luna at the end of Celestia's Millennium. Palladium was the elder and heir to an ornamental house, only in succession because of an archaic tradition that few bothered to follow. He was average and unremarkable except for the wealth he was surrounded by from the first day of his life. Unlike his younger brother and baby sister, Platinum VII, he was groomed to sit on a large sum of money and whatever gossip passed for politics in Princess Celestia's social court that only acted as a foil to the crown jewel, Celestia, no matter how much ponies could forget that.

Platinum had yet to grow up and realize that she had been given a gods-awful repeat of a name that only her house would ever praise, as empty as those words would be and about as original as her parent's naming 'sensibilities'.

The middle brother to both and the younger to the heir Duke Pallas was Rhodium — or Dee for short. If there was anything Dee hated more than anything it was stopping to think about the decisions he made. He was the epitome of recklessness and rash decisions.

How he got through life was a joke among the high ponies of Canterlot and a problem in his family, who only hoped that all their efforts would pay off and he'd be responsible and mature at some point with his siblings' help.

With Pallas' help, Rhodium was able to convince a sensible and wealthy businessmare to marry him. For Pallas, Platinum, and the rest of the Bluebloods this was all they could hope for.

And then Rhodium met Petunia Petals, a young and equally reckless earth pony mare. She was a tourist from the fledgling village of Ponyville.

It wasn't long before all of northeast Equestria spat at their names and Rhodium Blueblood was only Rhodium, disgraced unicorn and there was nopony at his side now as news of the first affair in Equestria in centuries.

One year later, Petunia Petal gave birth to a little filly she named Marigold, the false addition of Blueblood hanging after the little filly who was hidden away in the Manehatten streets so nopony would recognize her and her mother, despite the name of that followed Marigold.

The forest of Equestria was about to meet the blight of the Bluebloods.

But first she had to grow up...