L12.3
Sweetie slowly walked out of the room, meeting the concerned gaze of her sister. Giving a weak smile, Sweetie allowed herself to be hugged. Turning, both walked out of the throne room, heading for where breakfast would be served. Sweetie saw various plates, and squaled in delight. Finally, something new to eat!
“Sweetie, I know you are very busy learning about this other looper, but I was wondering if you would like to spend some time with me in Canterlot today. If you are far too busy, that is quite alright. I suppose you can always do it another loop.” Rarity picked at her food, ears flopped down as she spoke. Sweetie tilted her head, and raised an eyebrow.
“Of course I’ll go. Researching is fine and all, but I wouldn’t miss out on a trip to Canterlot. I might even get my Cutie Mark!” Sweetie ‘eee’d as she thought of the many high-class marks she might find herself worthy of. Rarity smiled warmly, and chuckled in response.
“That’s good news. I’ll set up an itinerary for today while you get dressed.” Rarity finally dug into her meal, appetite restored. Sweetie learned, due to trying various foods, that she did indeed love salad. It was odd from her perspective, but really the freshness of the produce really drove the point home. Sweetie knew she would have to find a way to have it more often.
After breakfast, it was onto getting ready. Sweetie trotted to her room to prepare, beaming proudly as she walked around the white halls alone. It made her feel incredibly grown up to be left alone unsupervised here. It made her feel like she was really lucky, instead of unlucky, to be stuck in a time loop. Sweetie quickly got ready, and turned to see her sister walking into the room.
"Are you ready?" Rarity smiled as a nod came from her sister, and turned. Slowly, both walked out of the castle and into the bustle of Canterlot. Looking around, Rarity knew just where she wanted to go first. It contained shopping, and started with clothes. Sweetie breathed in sharply as she was led into a very expensive looking shop.
"Normally I would just make you an ensemble'. However, since the loop resets on Friday, I don't have half the time I need to prepare you a lavish dress radiating perfection. So instead, I shall purchase you an outfit that is close. I also ask that you give my future self a note I will give you later. It just details my plan, hopefully we agree and we can create the start of the perfect gown." Rarity began to go through the clothes, looking for items similar in color to Sweetie.
Eventually, Rarity picked out a dress with a pink and white chest, black waist, and white back. The back had the bottom tied up, and a note pattern on it. Rarity also picked out a pink pair of heels, the heel being barely a centimeter thick. Finally, Rarity picked up a black hat with a pink and white bow, and a neckband with a note on one side. Sweetie walked into the changing room to try them on.
Sweetie Belle looked a lot more mature in the clothes, almost appearing to be simply a small pony instead of actually being a filly. Rarity nodded, proud of her work. While she personally would have preferred darker colors to bring out Sweetie’s features more, it would still suffice. Rarity paid the bits to the clerk, and they exited the shop. Sweetie smiled at Rarity who lent down and pointed toward a poster.
"There's a concert in town, would you like to see it?" Rarity smiled, noting the enthusiasm as Sweetie nodded. Turning, they both walked toward the venue. Sweetie began to hum a merry tune. Rarity smiled down at her sister. Taking their seats, Sweetie fell silent as the concert started. Sweetie listened to the singers weaving music over the crowd and sighed, closing her eyes.
Music was like magic in a way. It was made to convey a message, pursue a thought, do an action. This song was about loss, but it also contained a silent hope to be found. Sweetie knew all this just from her ears. Opening her eyes, she blinked as her horn activated unbidden, and she felt a tingling sensation in her eyes. Sweetie blinked, and suddenly she was met with the sight of something truly amazing. For Sweetie was seeing music.
The song wove through people's ears, sometimes passing directly through them. Sweetie watched the crowd, noticing how some seemed bored, not even hearing the beauty of the song around them. How could they not hear this? Sweetie bit her lip, did she dare try to help? Glancing to the stage, Sweetie saw the concentration on the singer's face as she tried to weave her song. It sailed, swam, and yet Sweetie could sense it would not reach the intended audience. At least, not without some help.
Sweetie looked to her horn, and slowly understood the spell that had activated. It was almost as if it was made for her, to help Sweetie complete her task of helping the singer on the stage. Sweetie closed her eyes, folded her ears to the sound, and concentrated. Slowly, she opened both and focused on the notes in the air. A gentle nudge, a soft touch to slightly alter the course. Suddenly, the crowd transformed. Sweetie no longer saw them as ponies, but as the notes that comprised their own specific song. Sweetie knew what she had to do.
Slowly, Sweetie followed the note's back to the source, and altered each one as it emerged from the singer's voice. As the note divided, Sweetie altered each one more. Eventually, all the notes were exactly the same, and yet different on such a minute level that only the singer seemed to notice. Ears flickering, she opened one eye, eyes immediately drawing to the filly whose horn was aglow, concentration on her face. Slowly, the singer watched as the crowd changed from bored, to interested, until finally all were swaying in time to her music. Closing her eyes, the singer smiled, and her confidence grew to new heights, adding a final missing piece to her song.
Sweetie felt the magic on her horn fade, and opened her eyes to a normal crowd, no longer seeing the music. It didn't matter, for Sweetie could feel it. This music resonated with her, filling her with such strong emotion she wiped a tear from her eye. Beside her, Rarity was trying to hold back tears. And so, the song that would have fallen on deaf ears, instead moved an entire crowd to tears. Sweetie smiled warmly, feeling happy for the singer. This was what Sweetie had always wanted. No, it wasn't to see herself sing upon a stage, that never interested Sweetie. But many songs, from many ponies, fell short of what they wished. Many let their voices die out, to never be heard again. Sweetie hated seeing voices fade before their message had been spoken.
Sweetie felt a tingle on her flank, but didn't bother to look down at it. Sweetie didn't care anymore.
It was only a Cutie Mark.
Scuse the slightly chopped top, didn't center the puppet before taking the image.
Sweetie's Mark essentially means her talent is bringing out the heart in songs. AKA: Making others rise to the occasion, the medic, healer, bard, priest, etc etc.
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Wonderful description! Almost out of the loop!
Jump back, jump back, jump back, here we go again~
I think she should keep her mark. You've already had apple bloom get two different but similar marks due to the loop, it'd just be weird if SB remembered two different cutie marks/stories.
Leave the cutie mark. Especially if she is getting older with each loop. Plus it was a really wonderful way of her getting it. Looking forward to more of this story.
Hmmm... should the Cutie Mark stay or go. I guess it would depend on a few factors:
-Is Sweetie Belle physically aging?
-Is she mentally aging?
-She drains other people's magic each loop, but does her own magic get drained?
I'm leaning toward it staying, on the grounds that she has discovered her "destiny." Her memory doesn't leave her, so she will always have this epiphany.
I'd like to see her keep the mark, it seems to me to be the more intriguing option of the two. It would be especially interesting to see how Sweetie'd react to the news that what she dismissed as "only a Cutie Mark" was hers permanently. As for why she'd keep it, well, I've always felt that the marks are connected more to the pony's mind than they are to them physically, being representations of them realising their talent. Since Sweetie appears to be a static point while time loops around her, it would make sense to me that she'd keep it, considering that she seems to be the only one unchanged by the loops resetting.
The Cutie Mark is an expression of the pony's soul. At some fundamental level, it's who they are. I think it should stay.
I'd say she keeps it. Her magic seems to be building up, and since her mark is a part of that, it'd make sense for her to keep it, rather than have her have to keep repeating the same thing over again to get the same mark.
Leave it in after the reset. Easier proof for everyone ;p
Hmmm...
Well, it seems that if she keeps her memories, she would recall getting her cutie mark. However, if any injuries she gets fade upon reset, it may reset her body to how it looked at the start of the loop. All in all, I think it depends on what the magic that gives cutie marks influences: the body or the memory. I personally feel like it is the experience that is a part of who you are that makes the magic take form in the cutie mark, so it would b determined by memory. However, we do know that without magic, a pony has no cutie mark (as seen with Tirek).
I think it is a combination of the memory and past experience as well as magic that gives the cutie mark, hence why everypony who had their magic stolen didn't need to re-realize their special talent once their magic was returned (in Twilight's Kingdom).
However, I could just be spewing nonsense, so feel free to ignore me.
I truly enjoy how you've told this tale, and it resonates with me on a deeper level, making me feel for Sweetie Belle like only a select few tales have managed over the years. I'd truly enjoy it if she could keep her mark, not only would it help in keeping her happy and having others understand that time is looping, but it could be her anchor, and somehow could be the key to breaking the loop, if you could imagine a way that would work. I don't think I can, not smart enough and it's not my story.
Then again, the dark tag and way you spoke of her 'former' friends and the way they perished at the sleepover would have one to believe that it is not to be, and she would become rather depressed at losing it after the loop reset. I still cast my vote for keeping it, but I'm dying to see how it turns out!
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>Nonsense< You kidding me? That was so intellectual and well worded that it took me 2 times to understand it!
Things loop with her=CM loops with her.
I agree! The cutie mark should loop with her
I think she should keep it since it's her body.
Cutie Marks are about ponies finding their destiny. AB and Scoots loses theirs, because they reset at the beginning of the loop, so they forget what they learned and why they learned it. Sweetie, however, remembers. She will remember how she got the cutie mark, and what it means, so it will stay untill she forgets and then loops while forgetting.
Edit: Basically, it's not the action, but the intent, purpose, and understanding behind it. Looping so the action never happens doesn't matter, she already found her purpose, and understands it. She knows her 'destiny'. If it really is tied to an action, and looping wound reset it even tho she remembers everything about it, then the CMC in the show would have found their cutie marks already with all the crazy things they do, just be doing them, but as seen in the show it doesn't work that way.
I feel like since things loop with Sweetie, her cutie mark would loop as well. I feel like physical injuries might be reset but cutie mark is governed by...the inner soul, maybe. Sweetie Belle remembers how she felt when she discovered her cutie mark and that feeling will stay with her through the loop. A cutie mark is apart of you, small cuts and scrapes are not, so a cutie mark will stay while simple injuries wouldn't. Maybe. Perhaps.
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Thanks, I try to think things through.
I don't know if that makes me analytical, but judging from the grades I get from my English class, that is likely not the case.
now that she has her cutie mark will she loos it at the end of the loop?
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No idea. She wasn't hurt and we don't know if what she eat/wounds/ect follow along with her. I'd assume they do stay.
Love it! Small thing that needs fixing:
Sweetie felt a tingle on her flank, but didn't bother to look down at it. Sweetie didn't care anymore.
5323701 Nice spotting.
Beautiful.
I love how she realized that there is more to a cutie mark then just getting a picture on your flank. It is finding out who you are and what your destiny is.
Cutie mark!yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy
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That is an interesting question. Technically a Cutie Mark is Magic based, and the loops has a habit of stripping magic that doesn't correspond to the loop. And since technically she's seen with AB that a pony is able to get many different cutie marks, or for different expressions of something. she could potentially regain it through some other activity.
As for wounds, and what not. SS didn't come out of his loop with wounds, and from what we've seen when Sweets was outside her room when the loop resets she re-enters her room. Now techncailly I'm thinking that wounds, death, or harm wouldn't follow her since A) magical energy while it has physical effects isn't technically bound to the body. And since her magic / magic of the loop similar to an enchantment [ala Alicorn Amulet, the rings Daring Doo was focused on, magically preserved books] is focused in her room. I'd think that like the tree, or her friends. The loop would reset her physical condition (after all if it wasn't the case she'd constantly be aging in the loop while everything else stayed the same.
But it'll definitely be interesting to see if the magic made from the mark gets erased from the loop spell, or if it carries over. Or if it doesn't, then just how will Sweetie recact?
Btw 5323704 what exactly is her Cutie Mark about? I got something about connecting others to stuff is that right? And I thought subconscious spell casting (like how Sweets trapped herself in the loop) was tied to one's Cutie Mark (like Rares and the cache of gems). At least that's how they made it sound in the show. Or is her Cutie Mark more generalized, than simply linking audiences to music?
Amazing, beautiful, epic, you name it. This is what that is. Lately I've been reading a lot of feelz enticed fanfics. Quite peculiar indeed.
Now comes the big question... will the cutie mark follow her into the next loop.
If it does... then we have a problem.
that would mean that she is getting older within the loop.
Imagen if she gets stuck in there for years.
Rarity: "Sweetie bell, wake up. I made pancakes for you"
Granny Sweetie: "Good morning sis"
Rarity:" ARRRGHHH!!!"
5324979 Or it could be that her magical signature was permanently altered, not her aging....
That is the exact cutie mark I've given Sweetie Belle, only it matched her mane with the pinks and purples.
OMAFINGASH. BWAHAHAHA!
Sweetie's special talent is auto-tune. xD
Someone who wants to play Medic?
GIMMEGIMMEGIMME
That cutie mark is a bit over-used IMO, but whatever. It fits, so that'ls good enough, I suppose. X3
Wait...will Sweetie Belle lose her cutiemark when the loop resets? Or will it stay because she is the loop?
>the filly who's horn was aglow
*whose
Nice cutie mark. Somewhat similar to the one I designed for her, actually.
paid
wove through ponies'
swam
Just a cutie mark. By the way it pops up so often, I'm certain of option #1 being the only way out.
HHHEEEELLLLLSSSS YEEEEEEAAAAHHHHH BOYYYYYYYIEEE SWEET CUTIE MARK
Sweetie Belle's talent is autotune?
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lmao in part, yeah. That's how I read it. She has pitch correction magic.
5495090 Heck no! Autotune sounds obvious and horrible on 99% of people!
This is pretty good. The story has quite a few plotholes, but I'll wait until I catch up before making a final judgement.
5459666 my bets on number 4
i think she now loves salad because of the magic in the plants
just imagine to get out of the loop she needs to stuff herself with salad
Wouldn't that make her the bard?
And does that mean she's multi classed as a Mage?
Slick hybrid of the clefs
I adore this.
That Belle's a spy!!