My faithful student,
I know you've been bugging me for the past week or so about the lack of dedicated academic assignments you've received since your move to Ponyville. That said, assuming the mailmare didn't get lost or dropped off my package at one of your neighbor's homes by accident again, you should have received a dozen books by now. What I want you do with them is simple:
Read them. They're important texts that the Canterlot Library has just received new copies of, and I'm fairly certain you would benefit from the updated information. I know you can probably read them all over the weekend, but I'm not asking for that. Take your time with them, especially for one textbook in particular.
The new set of field researchers at the Dragon Grounds submitted their complete findings on the Dragon Code of Conduct, which I've sent a copy of in this delivery. Given your present situation with Spike, I think you'll find that knowledge quite vital in terms of making sure he doesn't do anything drastic.
The previous version covered just a few bits about their diet, indentured servitude, and a few other essentials about their manners around their kin. Pretty bare bones, but that's all I could get from the last set before they got boned. This time, the new information details that while all dragons adhere to a general code, personal addendums may be added by the dragons as long as it does not conflict with the general code.
Given Spike is still young, he's no doubt added some bits and pieces to the general code that may be a bit much for him to handle without fully realizing the implications. Things like life debts, for example, carry consequences far beyond mere service for debt repayment, and as such aren't entered lightly for such reasons. Things like being their consort, tending to every need and desire they request, and even holding silent vigil and guardianship of their grave until their death if the debt has not been formally declared repaid.
If this letter didn't get your attention before, it should now. Keep an eye on Spike as he develops, read the textbook, and make sure he doesn't make any rash decisions he will regret. Don't ask me how or why, but today, I just have a bad feeling about him.
Love,
Princess Celestia
Hello, Luna. Did you need someth--
NO! Get that little firestarter out of here!
I don't care if I fireproofed my room five times over, get that baby dragon out of he--wait.
Luna, please tell me that dragon in front of you doesn't owe a life debt.
Oh great, he does. Good, then do me a favor and dissolve it before he burns half my castle down and--GODS, that fireball was close!
"Doesn't have control over his fire?" Oh really?!
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Oh, those little reptilian creatures and their life-long servitude.
Adorable. Adorable, I say.
That's before the episode, right?
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Correct. To my knowledge, it began with Tia sending Twilight a pile of books to read over the weekend. I figured that had a letter sent around the time of its arrival at the treehouse--er, housetree? Whatever that library is supposed to be.
You threatened to "dissolve" a baby dragon...
Yeah, don't play with fire.
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"Dissolve him? Really, sister? Well, as thou sayest -"
"Not the dragon, Luna, the life debt! Step away from the acid and put him down!"
It always bothered me that Twilight had no idea what was going on with Spike, in the episode where he was hoarding and growing. The implication being that for all her time spent with her nose buried in books, she never once bothered to read up on his life cycle.
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dragons weren't properly studied yet...if you ague what you said, you can argue, why didn't celestia change Luna's story a little so she isn't painted as a villan?
5810692 oh my goodness this fits so well. Poor spike and his life debts...
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Zecora knew, just like she knew about parasprites, and poison joak.
I knew lots of people in college who only studied what might be on the next test, and were useless in the real world. It's not difficult to picture Twilight as one of them.
5810987 poison joak?
it's poison joke
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Yeah and ponies are so very trusting of Zebras.
Besides, changing the story so "Luna sacrificed herseft so the elements could seal the Nightmare away", for someone who had about a thousand years to make sure her version of history is what gets written in the books, would have been quite easy. Luna is Celestia's sister, Celestia is the only one alive who was there when it happened, who are you gonna believe, her or the zebras?
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Well, this is greatly entertaining. Celestia as the one mature adult in all of Equestria. Sometimes dispensing wisdom, sometimes needing coffee or something stronger, and sometimes bringing Brutus to bear. I'm quite enjoying this, and I look forward to more.
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Okay, I really need to keep fluids away from me when reading the comments. This was fantastic.
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Thanks for the good words. I put a ton of effort into making these letters be just as much fun to write as they are to read and discuss, and I'm definitely happy you found this entertaining.
And I can't say this enough, but thanks to everyone for reading. It's always a blast.
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For the record, she doesn't misplace or fail to deliver them. She read them first.
In her defense, they are pretty good books.
It just dawned on me that you ALSO go by the broadcast order. Most other sources I find, TV Tropes included, do production order, but I like to go by air dates when considering episodes, largely due to the interlinked episodes from S3 being so offset in production order but consecutive in broadcast order.
...speaking of which, you could probably find some way to creatively treat "Just for Sidekicks" and "Games Ponies Play."
A Dragons diet book? Don't need that. . .
I had Rarity for lunch
You ate her?
Ah Wut?
Spike what did you do?
We ate lunch together
Twilight are you alright?
Just reading into it way too much
Yeah Twi you're reading too much Play Colt magazine
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Yeah, I do go by broadcast time for these. Although there are a few moments where I wonder exactly why they did two Applejack, Rarity, or Fluttershy eps in a row, it's still relatively easy to follow in terms of some kind of chronological order for the most part.
That said, the two episodes you mentioned took place at the same time, iirc, so it'll definitely be different to handle compared to the rest so far. Not quite sure how I'll do it yet, but I've got a bit of time before I reach those eps to figure it out.
5811361 To be fair, the shifts have all been moving one episode either forward or back and shifting those ahead of/behind it over accordingly. "Hearth's Warming Eve" pushed two episodes back, "Just for Sidekicks" pushed three up, and "Trade Ya!" pushed three up. Most of the simultaneous spotlights were ALSO in the production order.
5806948 2 blondes don't like my jokes. Sadly all my non blonde jokes shouldn't be said on a site dedicated to friendship. (Ahem clopfics)
Anyway as for that last one with the bull.
Comfortable
Com-for-ta-ble
Come for the bull
;)
5803323 You mean you haven't seen any of the promos at all?
5811343 Is it bad that I thought that Spike had literally eaten Rarity alive? I'm not very good at this innuendo stuff.
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They took the pun on ‘Poison Oak’ as a spelling guide.