After yet another unproductive meeting with several citizens, Mayor Mare comes to the realization that she and Ponyville would both be much better off were she not mayor. Unfortunately for her, the powers that be seem to want to keep her. No matter; she'll make Ponyville get rid of her! To that end, she tries every trick she can think of to make ponies angry. Luckily, Twilight Sparkle has offered to help, bringing this crazy idea she read about in some book somewhere called "democracy". How could it go wrong?
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I quite like the story idea. One grammar fix you need to make is that you need to remove the superfluous capitalization from the names of the pony races and the word "Royal."
Fun fact: the person who origionaly said, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" died when he was assassinated by his own people, whom he thought were his friends. I do believe that renders the quote a moot point at best, and ironic at worst.
It's a nice story and quite funny as well. I would've liked to see more shenanigans on Election Day with Ponyville ponies acting like they generally do when confronted with the unknown. Maybe also a cameo of Pinkie Pie unintentionally almost sabotaging the elections.
5532265 Thanks. I considered including more pony shenanigans, but I wanted to keep the story focused... and under 10,000 words. In that last part, I failed (following post-upload revisions).
I'm glad you found it amusing. I was torn on whether to include the "comedy" tag, because even though I thought it was funny, or at the very least absurd, others might not agree.
bwahahaha! She can't escape! Ponyville will not let her! Bwahahahahaha!!!!
5533571 Maybe Celestia knows something we don't? Or maybe she's just being her wonderful trolly self. Either way, the mayor will certainly be downing a lot of liquor. I think that's why, at least in my mind, she gets along with Berry Punch and Cheerilee (pretty sure almost every teacher I've ever met is a lush off the clock).
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Fun fact; No, that's not how Chanakya died, and no, that has no effect on the quote.
Chanakya, who is the origin of the quote (which, at the time, was applied on the level of states, with the idea being that you compete with those close to you and work with those who share a border with the close state but not with you), is generally believed to have either starved himself to death, or to have been burned alive by someone who made no secret of disliking him. While he was trying to starve himself to death. Ancient Jains were big on suicide by starvation, apparently.
Even if he was betrayed and killed, this would only apply if he was betrayed by someone whose primary connection to him was a third party mutual enemy or rival.
Obviously, Twilight isn't doing it right. You can only share democracy with others by applying drones, assault rifles and, most importantly, ICBMs.
Mayor be trolling.
Imagine Spike as Mayor of Ponyville.
It's not that Spike can't vote because of age it's because he's a dragon.
Did it again.
OMG BAHAHAHAHAHA!
AHHHH.... This is why Mayor Mare (Mary in my head cannon) is the best mare!
Oh my lord I laughed so hard reading this ending! Where do you come up with this stuff?
6878585 - Always put your best foot forward, I suppose.
To answer your question as best I can, since it's been over a year since I wrote and posted Election… I like stinger endings. I think all but one of my stories on this site thus far ends on a stinger. From the moment I started writing, I knew I wanted it to end with the Mayor still in her job, whether she liked it or not. Everything else just sort of happened as part of the process. Whatever I could do to prove "All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!"
Incidentally, what Granny Smith said to Princess Celestia behind closed doors was a very frank conversation that included the phrase "Remember your promise". In my universe, Celestia owes Ponyville and Granny Smith big-time for stuff that happened in the past.
This is a fun story.
The only gripe i have so fare is how they portray mr rich. In the show hes actualy a real nice guy
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Or, if society hasn't developed such technology, which was the case in France in 1794, with guillotines.
And then just to make matters worse an army of Pinkie Pie's appeared out of nowhere followed by a power mad unicorn called Trixie.
I can only take this to mean Granny Smith is an eldritch horror from beyond time and space. Or that if someone gets old enough physically they can out argue a much older but spryer individual. Or both.