It's Diamond Tiara's birthday. To celebrate, her father promised to get her anything she desired. A promise that leads Diamond Tiara and her father to a family owned jewelery store.
But when she picks out something the owner refuses to part with, what's a filly to do? Well, one grey filly seems to have the perfect plan for both sides to get the things they most desire.
Many thanks to my prereaders: Mudpony for ripping my story a new one, Bootsy Slickmane for the early assist in editing, and the ever supportive Mattricole for reading and pointing out mistakes.
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Shoulda sent me a gdocs, I could have fixed like, two mistakes!
Pretty good. Pretty cute.
Gotta say, this is a cute take on both the tiara's origin and the first meeting of these two. Nice.
I love it! It's very cute and explains their origins perfectly.
6262740 I gradually worked my way to gdocs. It's just that google really, really, hates Firefix and Adblock. Also, at the time of writing it, I never thought I'd go this far with it. And thanks, glad you actually enjoyed it!
6265091 I'm still surprised I pulled this entire story out of this one picture. Thanks for pointing out errors, I really appreciate the help. I honestly didn't think people would enjoy it this much. Goes to who I really am my own harshest critic.
6265152 Your passion is strong, I'm happy you found it so enjoyable.
Wow! Such brilliant headcanon! I liked the part where Diamond was both friendly, but also got the best possible return for her investment, showing both kindness and being a brat in equal measures.
What can I say? It was a cute story with a side of an origin story of Diamond and Silver's friendship, only the best from you!
A nice little bit of origin story there. I thought that how you implied that DT was SS's first friend by SS's actions worked well. The rather feral DT at the beginning was... a little odd, but at least she returned to form soon enough.
How sweet those two are.
First, I'd just like to say thanks to all of you who've read the story and took their time to comment on the story, and bothered using that green and red thumb-y thingy on the top right of the story. Thank you all, and especially for taking the time to comment and vote!
6265638 lol Thanks! I tried not to spill too much sugar into the mix. Not to mention I always forgot how much yeast you're supposed to put in. I'm just glad I got the frosting right. Glad you found it to your liking!
6266010 Wow. That was some compliment. I suppose I did try my best to make it as enjoyable as I could. Thank you for the compliment! I didn't think people would enjoy yet another origin story this much. I'm happy you enjoyed this take on their first meeting.
6266553 Thank you, I noticed you added it to your favorites. Happy to see you find it worthy of being among other fine fiction in your library. Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it!
6266039 Yeah, kids tend to be pretty feral from my experiences, though many appear docile, they can get pretty nasty or loud without rhyme or reason. As a child once myself who also grew up around many others in a decently large community, and would later go on to babysit some kids later in life, I can tell you that trust and how you word something matters a lot.
Big and vague promises will only lead to a child feeling betrayed or unloved or just confused if you go and promise one thing but don't follow through. Not to mention you're forming how they'll percieve concepts like a "promise" early on in life that can have negative impacts in the future when it comes to trusting other people.
Fathers really should be more mindful with how they word their promises to their kids, while they might forget the reason or what the promise was down the line, they'll always carry that emotional feeling of those promises even if they can't recall the promise. Diamond, here, seems to be experiencing her first such conflicting emotion toward a promise from a very important figure in her life: Her father.
Well, the story is left open to interpretations and this picture's "grrr" and posture just sprung all this reasoning that sompony was likely trying to take her tiara away. So, this story happened. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Some of my favorite moments are Diamond Tiara growling, whimpering, and overall throwing a bit of a tantrum despite trying to be cool all the time.
And as far as spoilers go, you have a sharp eye! Again, thanks for the comment. It's always good to hear from you, I've oftened wondered if you or your friend would be releasing any new stories or chapters to that one existing story.
Awesome, a Silver Spoon origin story!
Huh. For a second there, I thought you had posted your entry from the Writeoff Association early, but it looks like your title matching this month's prompt is just a happy coincidence.
Anyways, this was an interesting take on the start of their friendship! Nice work.
6268634 haha, gotta love those. Sadly, no. It's hard for me to keep up with those what with time and such. Pretty sure I'd have to write something new to boot given you're supposed to stay anonymous until post event? But I would love to see what comes of it given my story happens to share the same name as the latest prompt I suppose. lol
Best of luck to all who enter! In the end, readers always prosper.
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You're quite welcome.
As to myself and Wargame releasing something new... well, we're working on it. We certainly want to do it, and have a decent idea (and a start) on where it'll go, just need to actually buckle down and do it! Annoyingly, the chapter after that one is pretty much written and would be able to go up pretty quick once we get chapter 4 out of the way.
As for work I'm actually doing, that can be being seen on Actually, I'm Dead.
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hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng oh my gosh this is so cute I love it. ^.^ A great little one-shot that's well written and super adorable all the way through. I love that Silvy is trying to pull off the kind of scheme that Diamond is a natural at, which might have worked if not for her target being, well, Diamond. I imagine that Diamond saw it and realized that Spoony's got ambitions, which is something Di totally gets, so of course the two would become fast friends.
Well... that was... something.
Deer Lords of the Tundra, why did I read this now?
It's too soon to be getting cute-induced cardiac arrests. If this keeps up, I won't survive the Christmas dinners.
*ahem* Seriously, though, lovely story, and nice touch adding the awkwardness of their fathers being present. If there's one thing I kind of might have tweaked, it's a mention of cutie marks. Presumably, Diamond doesn't have hers yet, but Silver Spoon did get hers already.
That's all, though. Very cute and heartwarming overall.
This was totes adorbs! And Silver Spoon what a smooth negotiator. Though i think most would agree Diamond got the better end of the bargain.
Not because of what's on her head but because she got Silver Spoon's undying loyalty in the trade!
Yikes, that was an unexpectedly amazing backstory for Diamond Tiara's Tiara... I mean I feel like you completely nailed her personality better than I ever could, and she is one of my favorite characters. I could totally see this as canon in the actual show just due to its sheer adorableness factor alone.
I had once thought about writing a backstory for DT's Tiara, but backed out on it due to writers block and inconsistencies in my writing. But after reading yours, anything I could've came up with would've been inadequate, lol. Not to mention Silver Spoon, I've always had difficultly in actualization a solid personality for that filly do to her irrelevance in most episodes that even involved those two fillies. But you managed to give her a insecure, careful, and calculated personality akin to Twilight; Which to me is right in every way.
Good writing Teraros, hope you come out with more to read soon!
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Heh, wow. That's quite the compliment. Thank you!
I did once have plans to write more fictions, though most of my old original note pads went poof with my harddrive before I started messing with gdocs. Life is just complicated though and over time it became harder to find the time and privacy to let loose and write without distractions. I only regret not writing more so now given all that's happened in the past few years. I truly feel I've let my friends and community group down by caving into anxieties and distractions.
But yes, I always enjoyed these two the most. They're so unexplored in the show yet you see so much of their mannerisms in the background that it kinda helped build the sort of image I have for them. I tend take the mannerisms and inflections they use on the show to build my own take on these girls' lives outside of the classroom or those off days where they're not bored off their flanks to stalk the CMC to see what trouble those fillies would get into.
I never saw them as truly malicious, just bratty and overly entitled with how they view society and how so many adults make cutie marks sound like the be all end all. Combine that with being born into money on both ends, in the end they're still foals that only translate the grownup stuff down into kid logic which often times have no grey areas, it's almost always self-serving black and white logic. Like how a kid will continue to make up rules in a game until it favors them to win. ;3
Silver Spoon is a lot of fun for me. I don't know why so many write her as such a hopeless spinless filly whose so repressed by Diamond all the time. She's her own filly, and clapping at something that you thought was pretty cool wasn't a sort of "I HAVE BROKEN AWAY FROM DIAMOND'S CONTROL!" moment. Even Diamond Tiara was left mouth agape at the story in Family Appreciation Day, deciding that given her own friend was won over by that crazy pony who hops over watering pales that she'd just let this one go and just put her head down in defeat.
But, like most kids when they see a wounded animal, (lol cause kids are basically just that) Apple Bloom can't sit still and let moping Diamond's lay, she had to rub in the salt to the woulds which caused Diamond to lash out. Making Diamond immediately regret her outburst given the reaction from the class. Something she knew would end up getting her in deep trouble now after the fact.
The show has a lot of blink and you miss it moments.
Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara have had quite the history of back and forths. It's a shame there weren't that many episodes with the gang to show off more rivalry moments or cool adventure stuff like they have had in the comics. But yes, apologies for the lengthy reply. I personally think you've done marvels with your older Diamond Tiara. And that Rumble and Rainbow Dash and Scoots have a lot of genuine character in them.
Thanks for reading, and more so for sharing your thoughts. Man, I so wish I could have at least written more with these two. I always felt I had to champion more for Silver Spoon than Diamond Tiara given how abused in literature she tends to end up, not like how Diamond is portrayed in anti-Diamond fics but more treating her like she has no character, no right to be a proper character. Not many truly explores her and it's always been a contention I've had with this fandom. She's shown plenty of initiative in the show, even if it's not what people would deem as enough to warrant her having a personality all her own.
If you love someone, you gotta love them for who they are. It's easy to love the good, but you can't have it without the bad. But with real love you can often help them become a better person.
God, I talk too much.
Thanks for the comment!
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You didn't talk to much; to frank you've really inspired me to get off my ass an get back into full swing with my writing. Your insight into Diamond and Sliver is truly inspiring, not to mention your knowledge on childlike behaviors that make kids what they really are. (I'd almost think you got a little rugrat!)
But onto a more pressing issue...
That almost sounds like you have no intention of continuing to write, which would be a crime all in it's own. Maybe I'm being selfish, I have only read two out of your seven stories. But it eats me up when I see good writers put up their pens, or keyboards in most cases.
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I'm afraid that's a rather complicated issue to talk about on this story's thread. But it's not that I decided one day I found it unfun or simply got 'too lazy' to do. It's certainly not for lack of ideas, no less. Just a culmination of things in my life I've had bearing down on me that I've not worked out yet. Things have improved, but not to where I feel I have the peace of mind to write.
If you want the long version I can PM you the rest. It's not something I'm ashamed of by any means that I couldn't post it here, just that I don't want to flood an E rated story no less with my personal life.