Home is for the Weak

by Pickleless


Dark is probably not evil.

"So is darkness evil?"

"Huh?" Nopony roused from his nap.

"So Princess Luna is the goddess of the night, right?" Scootaloo continued.

"More like god-dense, am I right?"

"..."

"Sorry, go on."

"So she's a nocturnal alicorn." Scootaloo huffed.

"Yes, she is indeed a night owl, or so they say."

"Does that make her the evil alicorn?"

"Of course not, what makes you say that?"

"Well, she did try to bring about eternal night, which would cause everything to freeze over and kill everypony." Scootaloo said with a casual roll of her eyes.

"That is a dark and morbid insight for a young teenage filly to casually state." Nopony responded.

"I made a plan to kill Princess Celestia in a way that would bring Luna to suicidal depression, which involved brutally murdering my best friends."

"Fair enough," Nopony chuckled, "I'm still proud of you for that, in a slightly concerned sort of way."

Scootaloo smiled from the praise.

Nopony cleared his throat, "anyway, no, Luna has dun goofed and almost committed genocide, but she's not evil."

"What the heck is your definition of evil then?"

"Discord used to be very evil, for starters." Nopony said, sounding surprisingly serious for once.

"Did he ever kill anypony?"

"Well, no, but he did cause a lot of mayhem."

"Who else?"

"Tirek, Chrysalis, The Sirens, take your pick."

"Did they ever kill anypony?"

"Of course..." Nopony trailed off, "Huh, actually, I don't think they did. Tirek stole magic, Chrysalis hypnotized ponies, and the Sirens caused internal strife, but nopony was ever killed."

"So, in other words, anything that annoys you is evil."

"Scootaloo, please," Nopony scoffed.

"Well, what is your definition of evil?"

"Those who spread chaos."

"So those who annoy you."

Nopony and Scootaloo stared at each other for a second.

"What was your original point again?" Nopony asked.

"Oh yeah! Is darkness evil? And because darkness is evil, is Luna evil?"

"Well, the idea that darkness is evil is flat out silly Scootaloo."

"We have a forbidden evil magic called Dark Magic."

"That... is a good point, but that doesn't mean-"

"We celebrate a holiday about a spirit coming from the night to gobble us up unless we give it candy."

"Look, I w- Celestia was feeling really bitter over her spat with Luna, and-"

"Celestia, Twilight, and Cadence are the princesses of the Sun, Friendship, and Love. We have three holidays, Summer Sun Celebration, Hearth's Warming Eve, and Hearts and Hooves day, which are all holidays where we spend time loving and appreciating good things in our lives. Luna's is the only one where ponies fear her."

"Are you done yet?"

"Is Twilight Santa Claws?"

"What?"

"Well Twilight is the Princess of Friendship, and Hearth's Warming Eve is a holiday where we remember the importance of friendship. So since that's technically her holiday, would that make her Santa Claws?"

Nopony stopped to think about that.

"Should we tell her that?" Scootaloo asked.

"And have her break into everypony's homes to force educational lectures onto little colts and fillies?" Nopony shot back.

Scootaloo shuddered.

"Anyway, getting back to the point, again, Luna is not evil." Nopony insisted.

"Are you sure?"

"Look, the spirit of harmony provides the lyrics we sing whenever everypony goes crazy and feels the need to do a musical. Can you think of a moment where somepony has sung about darkness being evil?"

Scootaloo stopped to think about that.

"No, not really."

"Well, there ya go." Nopony laid back down to sleep.

Scootaloo shrugged and buried herself under his wing. After getting comfortable, she started drawing on a coloring book she found in the trash.


We're here to let you know~
That we won't let it go~
Our music is a bomb and it's about to blow~!
And you can try to fight~
Be we have got the light of friendship on our side~!

Got the music in our hearts~
We're here to blow this thing apart~
And together~
We will never~
Be afraid of the dark~!

"Geez Sunset, could you think of a different tune?" Rainbow rolled her eyes. "You've been singing that song for the past two days now."

"Sorry Rainbow, it's just that something about that song really bugs me."

Applejack reached over their cafeteria table to put a comforting hand on Sunset's shoulder.

"What's been leaving your behind so sore sugarcube?"

"Well, the spi-"

Sunset stopped to think about what Applejack just said to her, then shook her head.

"Well, the spirit of harmony usually comes and provides lyrics for us when we sing, right?" Sunset asked.

The other six stared at her.

"Right, forgot you girls don't know about that. Well, usually the spirit of harmony provides lyrics if we have none. Fluttershy, was anything I sung with you girls part of your song?"

"No, I just thought we did a really good job ad-libbing. Well, I thought it was good..." Fluttershy trailed off.

"We could have I guess, but it probably was the spirit of harmony. Which kinda concerns me."

"What was wrong with the song? I thought it was super duper awesome!" Pinkie cheered.

"It was awesome, it's just that the song was made from what makes us, well, us."

"So?" Rainbow raised an eyebrow.

"Did any of you girls noticed how often we mentioned blowing stuff up in that song?"

Rarity broke out into a nervous sweat.