Chapter 3
As she entered Carousel Boutique to the sound of the bell above the door, Twilight blinked at the sea of purple that assaulted her. While the place usually had an…abundance of the color hanging from the ceiling or covering some of the windows, the rows and rows of purple cloth in every shade Twilight could imagine that lined the main room stunned the lavender unicorn into stillness for a moment. “Wrugh ruh regh?” she mumbled before the basket of baked goods fell from her mouth.
“Coooooming!” Rarity sang as she trotted into the room with a smile. “Oh, Twilight, darling! How good it is to see you this morning! Is there something you needed?”
Twilight looked around at the multiple shades of purple. “Um Rarity…what’s with all the…” she paused and frowned at the light purple, the dark purple, and the purple that was so dry it looked more like a grayish-blue black despite the fact that Rarity had insisted it was also a member of the umbrella term that was purple. “Wait a second…these are Mare Do Well costume colors.”
The other unicorn sighed. “Yes. Once everypony in town found out I made the originals, all the little foals were placing orders for an official Mare Do Well costume, and now I’ve got close to one hundred orders,” she lamented before her smile returned. “Of course I had to go buy the materials since our costumes had been made from my curtains.”
I thought that suit felt a little odd, Twilight mused as she looked up at the ceiling for a second before turning her attention back to Rarity, careful not to move her head too quickly lest it rebel. “I need to talk to you about Rainbow Dash.”
Twilight blinked as a small twitch occurred at the tip of Rarity’s mouth, making her smile seem a bit…forced. “What about Rainbow Dash?” the marshmallow unicorn asked.
“We need to do something about her!” replied a little too loudly and winced in regret a second later.
Rarity tilted her head to the side a bit. “Horn headache?”
A sigh escaped Twilight’s lips, and she barely stopped herself from nodding. “Yeah.”
“I’ve got some tea,” the other unicorn replied before she trotted into one of the back rooms and came out a little later with a small packet floating in her magic before she placed it in Twilight’s basket. “I’d brew it myself darling but…”
“It’s okay, I can wait until I get home and have Spike do it,” Twilight replied before she put her mind back on track. “Now, about Rainbow Dash. After yesterday, I was thinking we need to change tactics and go with a new plan.”
Rarity raised an eyebrow. “Excuse me?”
“I haven’t been able to think of anything yet. So I want you all to meet with me tomorrow and we can come up with something new to make Rainbow Dash apologize, and finally stop…bragging,” the purple unicorn mumbled towards the end as Rarity’s forced smiles slowly became a hesitant look. “Is something wrong?”
After clearing throat, Rarity spoke. “Um…look Twilight…I made the costumes for you girls and everything but…after yesterday and sleeping on this whole...thing…I’m out.”
“WHAT?” Twilight yelled, then winced.
“Look,” she replied while holding up a hoof to stop Twilight from saying anything else, as if the lavender unicorn could with the pickaxe buried in her skull. “I’m all for going to Rainbow Dash and demanding an apology for everything she said to us, but…whatever else you’re planning this time, count me out.”
Twilight’s mouth dropped open with disbelief as Rarity’s words reached her ears. “Rarity! I can’t believe…you’re just going to abandon a friend that needs your help?”
An eyebrow raise from the other unicorn was all she got for a moment. “Which friend are we talking about here? You or her?”
“Both of us!” Twilight exclaimed as soft as she could.
Rarity sighed and rubbed her head right beneath her horn. “Look…I have a ton of local orders to fill and special requests that are going to make me ride up to Canterlot so I can buy the materials I need,” she said. “I-I just don’t have time to deal with this right now. If you want to have us talk to Rainbow Dash about the way she was acting the other day, fine. Otherwise, just come and get me when the dust settles.”
As the white unicorn turned to get back to her work, Twilight was left standing in shock. I…I can’t believe what I just heard, she told herself. Rarity was…abandoning two friends in need? For...work? For some silly little costumes worth a few bits?
Twilight took one last look at the unicorn as she continued her work, then turned to leave.
A long walk, two groups of screaming fans that made Twilight cringe in pain before she signed some autographs to make them go away, and three more skull splitting migraines after she had left Rarity’s dress shop, got Twilight to Fluttershy’s house and noticed an odd orange addition to the usual scenery standing on her lawn with a pair of buzzing wings. The unicorn also noticed a rather large amount of hoof made signs that were scattered on the lawn proclaiming their love of Mare Do Well and Fluttershy.
After she set the basket down on the grass, Twilight looked over to the small pegasus that was trying to hop up high enough to see through the window. “Um…hey Scootaloo. What’re you doing here?” the unicorn asked in confusion.
“Trying to get Fluttershy to tell me about the time she beat up that dragon!” the little filly exclaimed. “Do you know she beat up a dragon, Twilight?”
“Well that’s not quite-”
“It was like, three hundred feet tall!”
“Not real-”
“And I bet it breathed fire-”
“That part’s actually tru-”
“And had scales so hard nopony else could touch it-”
“Don’t you mean hot-”
“Then it went I’m going to eat all the ponies in Equestria and Fluttershy-”
Twilight sighed and stuck her hoof in the little filly’s mouth. “Ummm, don’t you usually do this stuff with Rainbow Dash?”
The little pegasus rolled her eyes. “Yeah right. Applejack told me she’s just does things so ponies will like her because she’s such an ego…ego-something. Fluttershy’s the real hero,” the little filly replied.
“What? Now, hold on a second, Rainbow’s got an ego, but I wouldn’t go that far,” Twilight mumbled while wondering just what the hay Applejack had told the fillies last night, or if it was something that had been so misconstrued as Fluttershy’s quest to ‘slay’ a dragon all those weeks ago. However, her soft words were apparently unheard, and the foal of a fan was already going on about another story in her hero’s legend.
“Hey, do you know about the time Fluttershy saved me from this big cock-No WAIT! Don’t open that door!” Scootaloo screamed as Twilight knocked.
As the door opened, Twilight looked over at Scootaloo while the filly backed away in horror. “Don’t you know Fluttershy keeps Everfree animals that are dangerous to Ponyville locked away in her house to keep in shape for the next time she has to fight a dragon, or a hydra, or a manticore?”
Using all of her willpower, Twilight managed to keep from gaping at the comment. Where in the hay is she getting all this from?
Then, as the door opened, Scootaloo let out a scream and ducked behind the nearest bush as Angel Bunny appeared in the doorway. The rabbit took one second to give the terrified filly a dirty look that had Twilight frowning at the small creature or his actions, but she was in no mood or condition for a fight and simply moved the basket of goods in front of the animal as several others came to the door. “From Pinkie Pie. Leave the basket and the non-perishables.”
A few seconds after everything was gathered, Twilight blinked when Angel motioned towards the little pegasus that was sticking her face out of the bushes just enough to see. Once she had figured out what the rabbit was trying to say, the unicorn shook her head. “Sorry, I’m really in no condition to deal with overactive fillies right now.”
However, as Angel continued to look at her, the unicorn sighed. At the very least, she could give it a try. “Say Scootaloo, I…” Twilight looked down at her basket sitting by the door for a moment, she focused on the thermos and remembered her promise to Pinkie. “I have to head over to Rainbow Dash’s house. I bet-”
“Kay, bye,” the little filly replied before Twilight could even finish.
Twilight held in a sigh. “Well, I know she-”
“Look if you’re going to leave, then go so they can close the door before something escapes from Fluttershy’s basement!”
After another moment of just staring at Scootaloo, Twilight let out a groan and trotted back to the door. “Well…I tried,” she said before picking up the basket in her mouth and heading away from the cottage.
A few steps into the journey, Twilight heard a little crack, and looked down at the broken sign that had been discarded and…after closer inspection, trampled on by quite a lot of ponies…running away from Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Just what the hay happened here last night?”
In order to avoid her…admirers, Twilight took the long way around the outskirts of town until she came to the small mansion in the clouds that the pegasus called home. The structure of Rainbow’s house was like a floating contradiction for the pegasus. For somepony who avoided spas like the plague and never bushed her mane, she seemed to have an extremely…girly taste in architecture.
For a minute Twilight thought that if she was going to talk to Rainbow Dash, then it might have been better to have all the girls with her but…Fluttershy was hiding, Applejack wouldn’t come because of her anger and…in her condition, Twilight really didn’t want to have to go back and get Pinkie and Rarity. Even if she said she wasn’t going to help us fix Rainbow Dash, the other unicorn had said she’d talk with her.
The pains in her head reminded Twilight that magic wouldn’t be a good move, so she took in a deep breath…and thought of a better idea than shouting at the top of her lungs to try and get the attentions of a pegasus that might not even be home. Then Twilight glanced down at the basket by her feet. Oh…right…megaphone, the unicorn thought to herself.
Sometimes I have to wonder if Pinkie’s sense allows her to see into the future or something, Twilight thought to herself as she picked up the device and looked at the volume controls…and blinked in confusion at the three settings of FSS, Loud, and RCV. Apparently, even Pinkie’s devices made no sense.
Twilight looked the thing over in a vain attempt to find any instructions, then set it to RCV and spoke into it in a normal voice.
“RAINBOW DASH, YOU THERE?”
The world erupted in pain. Twilight dropped the megaphone to back away from it while it felt like her ears cried out…which they might have been as she could hear a constant ringing.
A few seconds later when it thankfully died down Twilight had to close her eyes when she was hit by a sudden gust of wind, and opened her eyes to find Rainbow Dash standing in front of her. For some reason, she looked even more disheveled than usual. There were traces of bags under the pegasus’s eyes and a scowl on her face. “Ugh, what the hay do you want?”
“I…” Twilight took a breath and pushed aside the confusion caused by Rainbow’s sudden appearance and her…disheveled appearance. For a moment Twilight thought about just giving her Pinkie’s drink and going but…the unicorn figured that wasting an opportunity to talk when they were in the privacy of Rainbow’s rather removed from Ponyville home might go over better than it did the other day. At the very least, Twilight knew she wouldn’t be interrupted by screaming fans, and in the best case scenario she could finally make Rainbow see the error of her ways. “I came here to talk to you.”
Rainbow’s eyes narrowed a bit. “About what?” she grumbled with a bit of a sneer.
The tone of the pegasus’s voice and look she was being given made Twilight frown and her anger rise. “What do you think?” she demanded in a heated voice. “About what happened yesterday!”
For a second, Twilight found herself on the end of a scrutinizing stare, and then Rainbow spoke. “…okay.”
Twilight let out a relieved sigh. Although her head still felt like she had lifted an Ursa Major and tossed it into space, the unicorn was able to make a checklist. “Okay first…the apology for yesterday.”
“Okay,” Rainbow agreed.
The unicorn nodded…and waited.
The pegasus blinked…and stood there.
“Well?” they both said at the same time. “What do you mean well?”
Then the moment ended and Rainbow’s face heated in anger while Twilight frowned. However, even with the handicap of her brain feeling as it were about to explode, Twilight could still get words to her mouth faster than the ego obsessed pegasus. “Apologize for that fit you threw yesterday!”
“You mean for telling you the truth?” Rainbow shot back. “How about you apologize for dressing up in that clown costume and everything else you did!”
For a second Twilight felt yet another increase in cranial throbbing, but pushed it aside in favor of cementing her position in the debate. “You mean for teaching you a lesson about your BRAGGING?” the unicorn yelled before a sharp stab of pain caused her to stop there and let the pegasus gain a hoofhold in their struggle.
“My bragging? What the buck is wrong with that?” Rainbow Dash demanded.
Twilight frowned back at her while fighting through the pain in her skull. “Are you kidding me?” the unicorn yelled as she ignored the spikes driving into her head in favor of getting her point across. “Remember Trixie? You were being just like her!”
“So I tied Applejack up and lied through my teeth?” the pegasus shot back. “Newsflash Twilight! Trixie was a lying bully! All I ever did was tell ponies about how awesome I AM!”
The unicorn winced as her ears rang from Rainbow’s audio assault, and she took a moment to try and collect her thoughts while the pegasus continued to go on. “And guess what? I LIKE to tell ponies how awesome I am! It’s called being inspirational! Truthful, and COOL!”
Twilight stomped her hoof as she refocused herself. “No! It’s called WRONG!”
“SAYS WHO?” Rainbow yelled again as she advanced, forcing Twilight to back up as she began experiencing another migraine on top of the headache, joined with her other pain in the head that she was a little too inhibited to name at the moment.
As her head continued to try and explode without gunpowder, Twilight wracked her brain for a response for a second before she came to her answer just in time to talk before Rainbow could get a word out of her open mouth. “Princess Celestia! She always told me to be humble and-”
“Stab a blue pegasus in the back when she talks about how cool she is?” Rainbow demanded. “Because you sure as hay didn’t do it to Applejack all those times SHE was going on about herself! Hay, remember when she decided she said she could buck her whole stupid farm all by herself and couldn‘t do it? How is that NOT boasting? Why didn’t you get everypony and show her that we could do what her CUTIE MARK says her destiny is better than SHE can?”
Rainbow jumped and hovered a few inches from the ground and looked down at the unicorn, forcing her back. “Or hay, how about the time Applejack challenged me to a bucking RODEO and I STILL beat her?” she demanded. “Before that she was going ON AND ON about how she was the best athlete in Equestria! How come you didn’t decided to enter the contest and magic your way to second place so she could feel like a total loser?
“Oh, and remember when Applebloom got two cutie marks, what was it? TWO WEEKS AGO?” she went on. “I didn’t see YOU walking around and telling everypony how much better yours was! I didn’t see YOU and Apple-smack having a problem with a pony showing off when it was her SISTER, who was really LYING BY THE WAY!”
Twilight winced in pain, and lowered herself to the ground in a crouch as she tried to think of what to say. This…this wasn’t the way things were supposed to go! Even though she hadn’t had time to make a plan, she had thought that just maybe, taking to Rainbow Dash would have gotten an apology, and instead…
“And then there’s Rarity,” Rainbow spat. “You’ve heard her. She never shuts up about how fabulous all her stupid dresses are! Oh, but you don’t do something to ruin HER DREAMS! No! You don’t just ignore HER going on about HERSELF! You give her a bucking pair of wings so the UNICORN can enter a contest for PEGASI!”
As the pegasus paused for breath, Twilight saw her opening, and desperately latched onto her argument to try and stem the tide. “But…you…Trixie,” she managed before Rainbow’s face became contorted in rage once again.
“Trixie! TRIXIE?” she repeated, making Twilight hunker down and cringe in a way she hadn’t done since she was a foal. “You’re still going on about HER? The one who tied Applejack up, zapped me with lightning, and made Rarity look like something that was dragged through a swamp? AND GOT AWAY WITH IT? You could take taken that idiot apart, but you sat on your sorry plot and gave her a free pass while I get…THIS!” she yelled while throwing her hooves out towards Twilight.
“Buck, even when I messed up, at least I tried to help ponies! If it wasn’t for that stupid costume, would you have even gotten off your sorry plot to do ANYTHING?” Rainbow demanded.
For a moment, the tirade stopped and Twilight started working to collect her thoughts to present a counter argument.
“You know, I was there to cheer Applejack on when she got her trophy and patted you on the back with everypony else when you saved the town,” the pegasus went on, but not nearly as loud. “But the second I start getting recognized as the hero I am, you and those four hypocritical nags you call friends decided to stab me in the back!”
Twilight shook her head viciously, fighting through the pain of her crippling headache to try and explain things to her friend. “It was for your own good!” she told Rainbow. “Everything we did, with the costumes and the balloon, and the cart and the dam-”
“Wait a second!” Rainbow pointed a hoof in the unicorn’s general direction. “Just how the buck were you all those places anyway?” she demanded. “I can get around Ponyville in ten seconds flat and you just and all the others just happened to show up in a bucking costume whenever there was trouble?”
The accusing question threw Twilight off for a moment, and she tried to collect her thoughts to try and explain things, but Rainbow beat her to the punch. “Sweet Celestia, you… You bucking caused them, didn’t you?”
“WHAT?” Twilight shouted, scandalized at the thought that her friend could accuse her of such a thing. “How in the hay could-that doesn’t even… Do you honestly think I would do something like THAT?”
Rainbow glared at the unicorn. “Wouldn’t be the first problem you caused, SMARTY PANTS!” she screeched, making Twilight recoil at both the loud noise, the accusation, and the memory it brought up.
“T-That’s not fair,” she mumbled as she remembered the town at each others throats, Princess Celestia looking down on her with angry disapproval. Despite the fact it had been a few weeks ago, Twilight still felt as if the memory was an open wound that refused to heal.
“You want to talk about fair NOW?” the pegasus went on. “You know what? Buck you Twilight! And the next time you think about doing something for my own good, stay the buck home!” her friend replied as she turned around and the unicorn watched as her wings tensed for takeoff.
Twilight forced herself to slow down her breathing as she watched her friend start to turn away. Somehow, she knew this was her one chance…her only chance to say something and fix things. “R-Rainbow wait!” Twilight said desperately. “Listen…I…I’m sorry we…upset you like that.”
As she saw Rainbow’s wings start to relax, Twilight took another breath, and gulped. “A-And…I…I’m sorry we went behind your back like that.”
Ten seconds passed.
Twenty…
Thirty…
“And?” Rainbow growled.
Twilight blinked in confusion. “And…now…don’t you have something to say?” she asked as she waited for her to apologize for her outburst the other day.
“Yeah, where the hay is your apology for thinking about me like you did?” the pegasus demanded.
Twilight filched back. “W-What?” she stuttered while trying to make sense of that statement and figuring it had to do with what she thought about the bragging. “Rainbow…you were out of control! You’re were just so unbearable and-”
All of a sudden, there was a gust of wind and Twilight found Rainbow in her face again. “I WAS OUT OF CONTROL?” she demanded. “I don’t lie, cheat, blow up dams-”
“I didn’t blow up the-”
“-AND TURN PONIES INTO A CRAZY MOB OVER A STUPID DOLL!” the pegasus shouted over Twilight’s words, which got a cringe for both the volume and the memory. “Princess Celestia HERSELF showed up, and was going to haul your sorry plot back to Canterlot until I stepped up for you, BUT NOW I’M WISHING SHE DID! You are not my friend, you were never my friend, and I’m ashamed I ever even thought about calling you that.”
Twilight’s eyes widened, and she looked back up at the pegasus. “R-Rainbow you…y-you don’t really mean that.”
The pegasus took in a deep breath and let it out through her teeth. “Yeah, I do you hypocritical control FREAK!” she yelled before Rainbow was replaced by her contrail as she disappeared back into her home.
For a moment, Twilight simply sat there and looked up at the house that her…former…friend had disappeared into. The pounding in her head began to lessen, and her thoughts began to clear as a dozen arguments popped into Twilight’s mind that countered all of Rainbow’s arguments, about how awful a pony Dash really was with her conceited outlook on life and why she just cared about herself to the exclusion of all others!
She didn’t care about anypony but herself!
She wasn’t a hero! If all those ponies would have fallen off that cliff, or downed in the river, or if that one pony would have crashed it would have been her fault!
ALL HER FAULT!
She wasn’t even worth helping!
Twilight’s eye twitched as she looked back up at the house. “Fine! Be that way you stupid, self-centered, illiterate, pig-headed pegasus!” Twilight yelled through the pain.
Although…the declaration didn’t make her feel any better.
So…
…she grabbed Pinkie’s megaphone to help her out and…
“AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO YOU TOO RAINBOW TRASH!”
The satisfaction of getting the last word in and actually seeing the pegasus stick her head out a window before flying off to get away from the truth felt good…
…the debilitating pain that almost made her want to black out…
...not so much.
Did Twilight just blow a vein due to the shouting during a migraine?
Twilight = worst pony.
Oooh, the confrontation. What fun!
So that's what the Tragedy Tag is for... Twilight becomes brain dead thanks to the shouting...
You are trying way to hard to make everyone else an asshole.
I'd really love to see Rainbow write a letter to the Cake Demon rescinding her support in Lesson Zero.
Good, gooooood, let the hate flow through you, Twilight.
Only then will you complete your journey to the dark side!
...Well, that escalated quickly.
Fluttershy Squee. Can't stop laughing. And I really like this story, keep going. I think that Twilight would write to Celestia about this, or Luna maybe, to try and understand it, you know? Seems like something to do. Or research. Probably both, actually.
Well.....Damb.
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To be fair, Applejack has always been an asshole.
4806538 Well maybe not Fluttershy. Shes actually not mad at RD and is regretful and all. Other than tat Rarity seems to be neutral. (and Pinkie's just straight up dumb!)
Now, the friendship is beyond repair without alicorn intervention. Please let Luna find out about all this.
everything rainbow did was to help ponies, so she got to bost a bit afterwards, that is kinda her right given she saved ponies lives. i mean, what does she get besides recognition, she doesn't get medals or trophies, just admiration, and fair enough!
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Or Celestia or Spike...
I think it would be best if the two sisters and Spike work together on fixing this mess... Before the mane six's friendship is gone for good...
Finally I am glad i wasn't the only on thinking they were hypocrites in that episode.
4806597 wait, who's applejack?
Ouch, Rainbow laid the verbal smackdown on Twilight. Things just keep getting worse and worse, makes me wonder what'll happen next.
I wonder if Applejack will get chewed out by Big Macintosh?
And shame on Scootaloo...
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The one with the 10 gallon hat on top of a 20 gallon head.
4806624 Well Rarity is also being a total douche. She was regretting what she did one moment, and then was like "forget about RDs problems I have to capitalize on making costumes for little kids."
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Somepony's death?
4806538 I gotta agree. It's like all characters chose to exchange their substantial and canon intelligence and consideration when you set up a conflict ball distribution post, with no refunds. EVERYONE'S A DICKWEED!
I'm taking back what I said about quality, this is forced as fuck.
Well, I'm right that Rarity was looking for a profit for the MDW outfits. And the way this is going, I think Rainbow and Twilight are going to soon go head to head, with only one of them leaving, and that pony will probably be Twilight, but not before something happens that'll make her finally realize how ignorant and shortsighted she is.
As for Scootaloo, shame on her for turning so quickly. Same goes for Applejack for telling Scoots RD was being an a-hole.
4806541 Ditto. I get the feeling that Princess Celestia's not gonna be very happy with Twilight and the others over this mess.
Nice one, Twilight.
4806697 Oh, geez, I sure hope not.
There's other ways that things can end tragically without somepony dying, you know.
Like the permanent bust-up of the Mane 6, and their Elements being rendered totally useless because of it.
I hope that we get the next chapter soon. I can't wait to see what happens then!
4806597 I think she's gonna spend the rest of the story bragging more than RD ever did.
I'm curios now, what are all of these arguments twilight just miraculously thought up to save her own opinion of herself? And when will she stop lying to herself?
find out next time on TOTAL. DRAMA. FRIENDSHIP!!!
What. a. bitch.
I don`t know what to say to that...
And this is where I give a thumbs-down. Too much anger, too fast, making it hold very little difference from other "fix fics" of MMDW.
Also, reading Scootaloo's words was a painful experience.
4806728 If you're talking about AJ, I think that you're right.
What does a gal do when her fave pony's being a bigger jerk than the pony that she's mad at? Geez, AJ. Need to grow up much?
TIME OUT! Foul on both sides. I want Celestia to show up and shove their noses in their respective corners, because they are acting like foals.
I really want to see what direction this all goes. Even if Rainbow simply moved to Manehattan after finding a replacement, the others seemed primed to tear each other apart.
Sometimes, Friendship is a high yield explosive.
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Rarity kind of has a justification. She does run a clothing store in a nation where nudity is the solid norm. An intelligent business mare would capitalize on the sudden rush on authenticate Mare-do-Well costumes. Every pony has to pay the bills somehow and pimping out Sweetie Belle only generates so much cash. Damn school night curfews.
Rarity also seems the one most likely to realize that the entire thing was stupid and wash her hooves of it.
4806699 Yeah it is interesting to see where this goes but they are forcing shit to break lose way too fast. Tension isn't building up. They may as well just had RD slap twi across the face instead of that conversation.
..Something tells me Luna and Celestia are going to have..words...
Some very loud, others very quiet, both laden with rage and disappointment.
And i HIGHLY doubt any of it will be aimed at RD..
Hell, twilight might even get jailed for this..
Applejack is going to be GREATLY discredited...
Fluttershy is probably going to become even more of an introvert...(To be honest..she didn't do too much..All she did was a fly-by. Literally, nothing else.)
Pinkie Pie...No idea..
Rarity is probably going to be the only one to stay FRIENDS with RD after this..Unless RD can forgive Fluttershy..and vice versa..(She didn't do too much, like i said.)
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A lot of the build up was kind of handled by the episode. At the moment, we're seeing 'shoot from the hip' emotional reactions that had their seeds in the episode. And tempers can flare mighty fast, going from spark to city eating inferno within heart beats.
Of course, if you just hate way the story is unwinding and would prefer something else, thats fine. I'm sure there're plenty of stories you'd find more palatable on the site.
Well, it's hit the fan.
Rainbow Dash has pointed out a lot of points, impressive. Until now, I hadn't thought about how Twilight could be seen as a control freak. Looking back at it all, she usually is the one who steps in with an idea or plan for everyone else to follow. Makes me wonder if the rest of the group did have any ideas but Twilight usually starts taking control of the situation.
First, she lost her mind over failing to write a report to Celestia and would be sent back to magic kindergarten. For someone so smart, how irrational of a thought process can you have? That whole smarty pants incident did make me question her sanity.
Second, Twilight always seems to know everything. When she doesn't she has to delve deep and if she doesn't still get it, loses her mind, again. Pinkie Sense, where she ignited into fire until finally accepting the fact not everything can be explained.
I don't know if being Celestia's student caused her to be so tightly wound or the lack of social interaction was it but she's had time to learn from her friends that no ones perfect. This whole situation just seems so messed up and now she's acting like she's the victim here.
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Sunset Shimmer: Went insane and evil.
Twilight: Went insane and has done some morally questionable things.
Both were Celestia's personal students.
A pattern begins to form.
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No, Pinkie is optimistic to the point of being ridiculous, Applejack has always been an ass, Rarity was always a bit profit minded (as any business owner should be), and Fluttershy is actually regretting it. Thing is, he actually is characterizing the characters well. More truly then most people realize.
See, when viewing their characters objectively, this is them. because there has to be justification for all the different ways they can act in all the scenarios and all the different writers variations of them.
As any person knows, you can only understand some-beings character when they are at their extremes. The author is taking observable characteristics from their extremes and combining them with that characters during temperate circumstances, to create a malleable, observable personality. and justifiable interaction.
Funny the Trixie thing got brought in. You know? One reviewer actually said Twilight was right not to step in. The reviewer points out that Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity brought it on themselves since they were the ones who started it and that Twilight shouldn't have gotten involved anyway.
Oooh boy. I wonder how long it will take before shit really hits the fan and the gang realize how horrible they were to Rainbow Dash.
I really don't see how the rest of the Mane 6 will see the error of their ways without Celestia. It's gonna take somepony of her caliber to put them in their places.
Celestia: "Answer me this, you five: Have you always been humble and modest in your accomplishments?"
or
"Twilight Sparkle...did you even talk to Rainbow Dash about this? Or did you decide to just go with this Mare-Do-Well plan right from the get-go?"
"You wanted to teach Rainbow Dash modesty and humility, but what you're doing as Mare-Do-Well...is no different than what you accused Rainbow Dash of doing."
Applejack: But Princess! Rainbow Dash was bragging and..."
Celestia: Oh? And you're not? How is using your reputation as Mare-Do-Well to increase business for your farm any different, Applejack? Or your business with all those costumes, Rarity? Parades, celebrations, fan-clubs? This doesn't look like a lesson in humbleness to me. It looks to me like the five of you were jealous of Rainbow Dash getting so much attention...so you decided to upstage her and take it for yourselves. I am very disappointed in all five of you. Especially you, my student. I thought I taught you better than this. But it seems I was sadly mistaken."
Not to mention everypony's reaction when they learn WHY the others became Mare-Do-Well in the first place.
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Well, this does have a Tragedy tag and those stories are NOT supposed to have a happy ending.
Ideas:
*Twilight gets a Sonic Rainboom-punch to the face!
*Apple-smack's barn gets Sonic Rain-nuked
*Rainbow Dash gets taken over by Nightmare Moon (what else would I suggest?)
*Trixie/Gilda shows up
*Rainbow Dash becomes a supervillain (been done before, but why not again?)
*DEATH BATTLE!
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Trixie is one of the side characters that was thrown under the bus. First a bunch of hecklers try to ruin her show(and getting the audience pumped is part of a show), then she gets blamed for the Ursa incident.
Other than being somewhat obnoxious, did she actually do anything remotely evil in that first episode? I can find clips of actual comedians who just verbally tear the shit out of hecklers and get applauded for it. Dash, Rarity and Applejack got off light.
FFS, Twilight.
You're not even worth helping if you still think you're in the right.
4806624 Rarity isn't neutral. She's staying out of the way so she can make money...
Everyone behaving like such petty foals...
Here is my prediction:
A distressed Twilight returns to the library and Spike comforts her and secretly sends a letter to the princess. Rainbow is behaving like a glory hound and oblivious to the fact that she called Trixie a loud mouth; hypocritical . Applejack is just hypocrite or worse since she is intentionally doing it to ruin Rainbow Dash. Rainbow and Applejack get to their limit and start fighting. The good thing about it is that no undeserving pony gets hurt and they both need a good ass whooping. Celestia arrives later. Pinkie is still very 'optimistic' so they have to use puppets and Celestia gives her the talk. Rarity was not a surprise and I won't be acknowledging her as a sentient being anytime soon . Fluttershy probably should ask if she could stay with one of her animal friends until this blows over.
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I'm still wondering how it would've been Rainbow's fault. When did she break the dam, send the bus flying to the cliff, knock over the construction site, or pop the balloon?
Yes, RD screwed up with the balloonist. So did every other pony with wings, a horn or Earth pony strength*. The rest? How can you rationally blame RD for those?
*If Pinkie Pie, a baker that is made up of 50% pastry by weight, is able to jump and catch her then so could most any other Earth Pony.
4806953 oh shiiiiiiiz, I forgot the tragedy tag was even there. Well tragedys may not have a happy ending at least they have revenge and vengeance
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9 out of 10 episodes are fueled by one of them or a side character being stone stupid and/or crazy.
Substantial intelligence? They were scared to death by a goddamn zebra.