I'm an eldritch abomination who likes to garden and make pop culture refrences
This story is a sequel to Clean Slates
Twilight Sparkle: Brilliant, Powerful, Sociable, the very model of the modern major unicorn. She, however, has a poorly kept secret. Her memory for everything non academic is terrible!
Caution: Contains adorable young twilight.
Shoutouts and mad props to Georg's "The monster in the twilight" and Commander x5's "Twiny" series for inspiring this.
I need a Smart Pants tag.
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while it's a cute idea the whole having all the scientific name of all the plants memorized kind of undercuts the idea of terrible memory unless it's related to magic
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Amusingly this is actually something I had thought about and agonized over. It's why she has a checklist. I'm still not sure if that's good enough, or if I should mention her holding a book, or... yeah.
5609149 Even someone with a terrible memory can memorize stuff not related to what they're good at. They just have to try harder. So it's actually conceivable, with Twilight's work ethic, that she memorized that. Especially if she used a mnemonic related to magic.
This was absolutely adorable, and I can't wait for the next chapter. Rock On.
This feels less like standard bad memory, and more like my problem - remembering geeky stuff is great, but names and schedules and all that stuff you need to lead a normal life just gets shunted into the 'not geeky' box and forgotten. More like a cataclysmic case of absent-mindedness and monofocus.
Hilarious and cute all the same, moremoremoremore.
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This is somewhat similar to me.
I agree with the person above, I shall be watching this fic for more diabetes inducing moments.
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I cannot remember names for the life of me, yet i learned the electromagnetic spectrum in second grade because it was in some TV show i was watching, and i still remember it, even though i dont think i have ever seen it anywhere else. and more random things that i see in books or on the internet. Go figure.
Go on...
Sounds like a brain storage priority issue. Perhaps she can shift that so at least the Princess has a higher priority? Although it's worth noting that she has a checklist, but it's not clear if it's a picture checklist or if she just remembers what the plants look like and not the names. I think Celestia is right to be worried that Twilight might be a bit damaged; whether it was her magic surge or not, well...
I really love this concept and can't wait to see where you take it!
I've got the next chapter done... ish. But it doesn't feel right and is missing something. I need someone to please help me by pre-reading it. I'm honestly half expecting to be told to scrape the next chapter and re-write it differently.
So the story suggests brain damage, but the description makes it sound like traumatic events leading to extreme OCD habits. If the second is true, then she knows what she needs to do, but won't do it unless it's on the checklist. Garfan's point supports this 5609149. So if t he second is true, it must've been something where she made a mistake in the heat of the moment and now has an irrational fear of doing things without planning them out thoroughly first. I wonder what could've happened?
5614287 I'd be happy to give it a shot if you still need someone. Just pm me or something.
there's really no reason to assume brain damage or any sort of flaw besides poor memory. We know cutie marks can contribute to a pony's behavior, perhaps she simply has a terrible memory and her cutie mark makes up for it in the realm of magic
I swear, this fic makes me even more like Twilight than I am already.
Hmmm, I know of a disorder for faces that leaves people unable to identify people by face but able to identify them by voice or attire (which doesn't help much in a culture with minimal attire.) Maybe that's one of several things Twilight has in this?
Typos
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abet slowly.
albeit
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Coco Pommel
(Earth pony in a magic school?)
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pointing at the other pont.
pony
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Filthy rich,
Rich
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everfree forest
Everfree Forest
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"Here to take you home sis"
sis."
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Fix'd except Coco. Earth Ponies might not go to magic schools, but pegasi don't just go to flight school, and unicorns don't just go to magic school.
Basically? I had been thinking it was possible for Twilight to have met Coco in the mixed classes. (general schooling)
And once again, thank you.
I like it
Reallly, though, in terms of fillies, filly twilight is fucking ADORABLE AS FUCK.
I wonder if shining armor could be described like:
He is te very model of a modern major general
With information animal vegetable and mineral
He knows the kings of Equus and he quotes the fights historical
From Mareathon to Waterloo in order categorical.
He's very well acquainted, too, in matters mathematical.
He understands equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorm he is teeming with a lot of news.....
Hmmm... 'Lot of news' uhhh.... Hmmm...
So one of them actually kicks at Celestia?
Emotions tend to run high here...
I guess you could say they've finally....
*puts on sunglasses*
... Kicked things into high gear.
Well, that escalated quickly. And Smarty Pants is best psychatrist.
Also, shouldn't it be "Herr Professor Doktor Smarty Pants"? I remember the doctorate being second rated, because it means the person has attained a doctoral-level degree (Ph.D., D.A., D.F.A., etc.), while professor means a person has attained a particular academic rank within an institution.
*Ding Ding* The Following Handicap Match is a Last Mare Standing match,
This seems cute. The only thing bothering me is the "brother" "sister" thing. They usually call each other Twily and Shiny. I think the main reason it bugs me more is that i'm a big anime fan and every time I read it I here Oneesan and Oneesan, lol. But yeah, it does pull me out of the story a bit. Still enjoying it though.
Hello. If Celestia is talking to Filthy Rich here then you goofed. Filthy is an Earth Pony. If she was trying to get Filthy to look at Twilight and understand her intentions then I think the wording is a bit confusing.
Hahaha, this should be good. Round one, FIGHT!
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Derp. I messed up. I shall fix it! I just don't know what went wrong!
Much, much, much better. This story is awesome. You've really gave it your all:)
Oh god, I have the weirdest writer's block. I'm going to have to warn you all that the new chapter 4, when it comes out, is only going to partially be 'canon'. Because i cannot imagine the fight without Pinkie Pie and Gummy announcing it like it was a WWF cage match.
I am so sorry for this.
Chapter 5 will be after the fight. Anyone not interested in 'non canon' Pinkie Pie announcer is recommended to skip to chapter five.
Eh. Pluck it. This chapter isn't actually ready. I published it by mistake. But I don't really want to disappoint people with a 'fake' update. Expect it to change some. (Though it's not getting any further scenes)
Also I was originally planning to wait until chapter 5 was finished to publish chapter 4.
Looks like Celestia won the tables match with an Attitude Adjustment.
I have a question for the author: Was Hard Knocks a reference to a sherclop song?
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No, it's a reference to a dream in which I was a han-solo esque space smuggler who rescued Twilight Sparkle and a very large guards pony from an abandoned pirate asteroid base that Twilight had basically cracked in half after the space pirates kidnapped her (and the guard) from Equestria.
Twilight came up to my armpit, barely. I came up to Hard Knock's shoulder, barely. And he was an older, scarred, earth pony guard with a cutie mark of a baseball ricocheting off of a brick wall.
Other than that he was white with a short cropped golden mane, and he had a bright pink scar across his muzzle. He basically growled menacingly at me and body-checked me out of my own cargo hold whenever I attempted to communicate with him or twilight. It was a weird dream.
5661403 Ah. Thanks for answering.
5661173 ...
That was confusingly awesome, impressionably funny, and hotcaked-ly cool!
Fun stuff.
5661383 That's what I thought at first too XD
5664344 Awesome XD
Honestly, this seems like ADD Twilight to me. Just the way you make her act reminds me of the symptoms.
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It's based on someone I actually know, though exaggerated somewhat. I don't know what mental disorders they have, if any.
I like it my good man please send us more.
I know there is a disorder that an individual can't identify faces, though that doesn't explain the lack of concentration for learning that fru-fru manners stuff.
SHOTS FIRED!
Not very diplomatic, Celestia, but at least your heart is in the right place.
EDIT, most gone one or two left:
Nobles' district (as it is district of (many) nobles)
Miss Smarty Pants
5674403 I don't think she can't learn the manners. I think since she had to treat people differently according to thier station and she can't identify them she doesn't know how they are to be treated.
5674771 Ah right! Can't ID their face, can't know when to be formal or informal.
5674687 thanks! I shall fix these errors as soon as I am not browsing on my phone. So in about 2 and a half hours or so.