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// Princess Celestia Has Dyed, Part 2 
// Story: Letters from an Irritated Princess 
// by Tired Old Man 
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Suspect List


Pinkie Pie: The obvious suspect. Pink coat dyeing is possibly correlated to her overzealous pink-dyed acolytes (does she think I’m one of her biggest fans?), and she has indisputable, inexplicable access to my bathroom. This might be some kind of obscure Pinkist baptism, but that’s wild speculation. Could just be a “harmless” prank.

Or it could be more. I dread the thought of asking Pinkie if she had anything to do with this. But I might not have a choice in the matter if she comes to visit unannounced…

Huh. She didn’t appear unannounced at this very timely moment. Shame, that would have saved me a bit of time. And scared me out of my fuzzy pink slippers and pink robe.

…I don’t own fuzzy pink slippers and a pink robe! These were white! Eggshell white!

Calm down, Tia. Deep breathing. Deeeeep breathing—no, this means war. Though it might not be war against her.

Luna: Definitely a viable revenge prank coming from her. Far be it from me to put her above such devious pranking when I pranked her last week by swapping out the sugar container with salt in the kitchen prior to her morning coffee. 

Her spittake after drinking a cup of hot caffeinated ocean water was priceless, and she swore revenge for such “betrayal of a sacred morning ritual”.

If she did do this, then well played, sister. I obviously need to step up my game.

Sunny and/or Moony: Both have a high propensity for causing a never-ending storm of aimless shenanigans and unfortunate, unusual accidents. It’s entirely possible they dyed me on accident (or on purpose) somehow. 

I don’t know how they would have had the thought of dyeing my bubble bath bottle, but attaching a train of logic to their thinking is just asking for it to be derailed immediately. Even so, I can’t rule them out.

Appleclack: ...Well, if she did do it, I had it coming for a looooong time. 

But that won’t stop the misnaming. No, I think that would just escalate even more, perhaps even starting on the new way to poke fun at her name.

Brace yourself, Pineapplejack.

Rainbow Dash: A notable pranker. Certainly has a bone or two to pick with me regarding her Wonderbolt status. 

Not sure if she’d be smart enough to sabotage my bubble bath bottle—seems too subtle for her.

Discord: If this is his idea of toning down his chaotic nature, this is a real funny way of showing it.

Note to self: Ask Fluttershy if she’s tightened his collar and/or shortened his leash post-Tirek.

Various ponies on my castle staff: After everything they’ve been putting up with from me, Luna, Sunny and Moony, I can see this as a form of payback. Janitor Jenkins in particular has consistently put up with the most from all of us.

I’ll admit, the execution of this prank was quite clean… hrm… I’ll consider this.

Me all along??: Unless I’m starring in a movie directed by M. Night Shyamallama, I don’t think so.

Principal Celestia: Okay, I lied. Maybe it’s her. That spacetime tear in my bathroom kind of makes that easy for us to mess with each other’s bath products. 

And I clogged her toilet that one time and didn’t tell her (not sure why I thought I could hide that). I wanted to try it just once!

I don’t think offering a clean chamberpot afterward was enough of an apology.

Mayor Mare and/or Granny Smith: I should have considered these two way sooner than this. Two best friends that know my castle like the back of their hoof, and they even know about my love for bubble baths.

So of course I suspect them for this, because best friends can sometimes be the most clever and unsuspecting pranksters.

Unless you know they happen to be pranksters. And I definitely do.

Anyway, I think that’s about all of the big suspects I have. More not yet considered may be added later, but for now this is good enough to start my initial investigation. But first, some stress-relieving cupcakes!

...WHY is the frosting pink?! AAAAAAAA—