Holly Jingle, daughter of Carol and Chris Jingle and a new Cutie Mark Crusader, ends up with an injured and jobless father, an overworking mother, and an impossibility of even hoping to celebrate Hearth's Warming Eve. What can one filly do to fix her family's problems?
Wonderful little fic, Dashie23, absolutely wonderful! And now for some colorful commentary of my own.
Everypony in town always thought that Chris was a weirdo since they couldn't for the life of them figure out what noun or adjective his name was supposed to be short for.
Well, I'm sure that this will only end well and completely noneventfully.
Oops.
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Come on kids, drop all your schoolwork and let's go see the fire way across town! I know Ponyville's a small town and all, but I just thought that was hilariously random (don't worry though, it worked out just fine story-wise).
To your credit, you didn't exactly write the Flim Flam brothers as being unnecessarily jerky or anything. I mean, I'm pretty sure anyone would lose their job after burning down their place of business, accidental or otherwise.
Wait...
...what the buck?
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Seriously, this needs to be a thing. I will pay good money for this to be a thing.
Chris ended up burning down that business as well when he tried to adjust the air conditioning. From that point on, it was just assumed Chris was cursed, probably because of his name.
Anyways, like I said, I really did enjoy this fic! It's a wonderful entry into the Poniverse contest and one of the best I've read so far. Thanks again for writing it, it most definitely warmed my heart. Have a Merry Christmas!!!