"Be Generous To Yourself"
Oh hello! Who am I? Why! I'm Rarity! Manager and proprietor of the Carousel Boutique! And bearer of the Element of Generosity!
What? What you mean I'm not generous?! What do you mean I'm the weakest link in the chain of the Elements of Harmony? Get out! Sorry about that, some ponies can just be so shallow.
Me? Not generous? The nerve! Just because I take pride in my appearance does not mean I'm not generous!
I once sliced off my own tail for a total stranger so he could have his beauty back!
I made five, technically -ten- custom dresses for my friends for free (it wasn't that kind of budget)! Not to mention I let a part of my soul die creating those sins against pony eyes.
I kept my trap shut about how much I loathed Fluttershy being in the spotlight instead of me because I thought she liked it!
I ruined my own mane just after cleaning it to keep Pinkie Pie's surprise birthday party a secret!
I went on a stupid trip to the middle of nowhere losing several days worth of business just to keep Applejack and the others company!
So I've done one or two selfish things. So I let those magic wings go straight to my head when I was supposed to have them to support my friend. So I tried to bribe a new friend into giving me her spare ticket. You know what they say: 'only Princess Celestia is perfect.'
So I don't like getting dirty, so I like things to be organized, so I like things to be pretty. So? So what if I want to help as long as it doesn't involve getting dirty or having chocolate getting rained on me?
Elements of Harmony stolen. More importantly my horn stolen! Into the maze. Separated from the others. Oh my goodness! These pretty gems are shaped just like my cutie mark!
That vulgar and drool Discord asks if I like them. Well of course I like them. Why wouldn't I? I've always liked things that are pretty!
But I have to find my friends and get to the center of the maze first. Certainly they'll still be there when I get back . . . certainly I'll be let back into the royal hedge maze after saving the world -again-.
BUT I WANT THEM NOW!
They might be gone later! What are the chances of me finding them in this maze again?! I have to have them now!
My hooves tear through the stone wall, I'm covered in dirt, -I don't care!- I can clean up later! My hooves are ruined -I don't care- I'll be able to BUY the salon with these beauties . . . no . . . not beauties . . .this beauty, singular.
Handsome, gorgeous, hot, sweet sweet hunk of a diamond! Heh heh, can I marry you? Tee-hee, I sound like Pinkie Pie!
Don't worry dear, I'll get you home safe and sound my already cut and polished giant diamond out of solid rock.
Oh dear, I've gotten so caught up in one misadventure or crisis after another that I forgot: diamonds are a pony-girls' best friend, isn't that right dear?
Oh this feels so good. Ugh, a bit heavy but good.
Oh, some of the others have found me. Well, good I guess.
Rock? Are they -blind?- There's no way they could mistake my dearest for a rock! They're trying to trick me. They want him, er, it for themselves! Humph! Well, fat chance. I found it, I dug it out, I'm carrying it, I don't care if it was in Celestia's hedge maze, I'll just say I found it elsewhere.
Isn't a pony entitled to the sweat of her flanks? 'No!' says Mayor Mare, 'It belongs to the poor!' 'No!' says Canterlot 'it belongs to Celestia!' 'No!' says Pinkie Pie, 'It belongs to everyone!'
Well, I REJECT those answers right now! What I've worked for and earned belongs only to me!
I've been a total foal, I've been trapped in lies this whole time. I knew I went on that quest to the dragon for the sake of getting part of his horde. Those five nit-picking with their dresses nearly permanently destroyed my reputation.
I got cursed by poison joked following someone else's relative who was already being followed! Trying to fix up Twilight's one ruined bird nest put me completely behind my quota!
I knew I had to save my own store rather than just stand around watching the town getting eaten by parasprites!
It felt so good manipulating those empty headed diamond dogs into giving me their fortunes they were just sitting on!
Trying to find my happy ending with somepony resulted in the worst night of my life!
Things won't hurt you, things won't disappoint you, things won't deceive you, isn't that right my dearest?
The only pony I should have ever been generous to, from the beginning was myself.
Be generous to yourself, care for yourself, love yourself, because you're the one that deserves it the most.
-Rarigreed, Greedity
Ooh, creative saying right there at the end.
Nice Bioshock refrence I like how Pinkie is a communist
'No!' says Indiana Jones. 'It belongs in a museum!'
I'm getting some serious Neon Genesis Evangelion vibes here
The parts near the end seemed a little disjointed, but otherwise it was creative and very good.
Been readin a bit. It seems your extremely good at point of view stories
Typos:
I'm guessing "vulgar and drooling" ...?
"poison joke" (no terminal 'd').
"hoard" when referring to a treasure rather than to an army.
Stick with Rarigreed. (almost rhymes with rarity)
And halorious work, good show. And I may be repeating, but
-Indiana Jones
But I think that's what Pinkie was trying to say in a sense...
Stick with Rarigreed. (almost rhymes with rarity)
And halorious work, good show. And I may be repeating, but
-Indiana Jones
But I think that's what Pinkie was trying to say in a sense...
Stick with Rarigreed. (almost rhymes with rarity)
And halorious work, good show. And I may be repeating, but
-Indiana Jones
But I think that's what Pinkie was trying to say in a sense...
Well, after the bitterness over the last chapter, this seems a bit nicer...a bit...
Isn't a man entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Thank you for that reference.
Dat BioShock reference.
Hello to you too.
I'm afraid they can be, yes.
Agreed.
Also counts.
And that's admirable of you. She didn't like it, but still.
Fair enough.
True as well.
Nopony is perfect. Not even Celestia, or else, she would have noticed that Luna was feeling underappreciated and that it was starting to corrupt her. (No offense to either Princess.)
If it makes you feel better, I don't enjoy getting dirty either, and I like things being organized too.
Indeed.
May explain her slight narcissism, she's pretty, she likes pretty things, so she likes herself.
No, but your heart is in the right place.
Fair enough.
...
A bit, yes.
And it doesn't strike you as suspicious that it's already cut and polished? Even in Equestria where gems are fairly commonplace?
You mean, a mare's best friend.
Well, at least it'll be some good excercise...
You guess?
Well, Diamonds are rocks in a sense...
What does Pinkie have to do with this? And you mean everyPONY.
Fair enough.
You have a point.
Indeed.
*sigh*
More than empty headed, it's just that like Dragons, to them Greed is a virtue, or, at least not a vice.
Unfortunatly.
I have to agree with you there.
I see.
Indeed?
droll
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fillies'
(possibly, mares')
the show never uses pony-girl.
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I see what you bucking did there!
... We need a emoticon of RD's rape face from that Daring Do episode.
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment - Mark Twain
Generosity is a double edged sword, you give and give, never expecting a return. Sacrifice to an extent.
But it can make your needs for compensation grow, hurting either you or your loved ones.
Ouch.
It's actually painful reading about their virtues being twisted. Great writing though.
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Thanks. I realized there were no stories for these POVs after Return of Harmony happened, and there still aren't.
A friend of mine did a high scale production of season 0 and most of season 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClMeWbsJ7wQ&list=PLB51B70AAB7E85A69
Is life going to disabuse you of THAT notion in a hurry!
And not a red flag was raised. Truly on your guard there Rarity.
Oh I don't know, my beloved, I was always partial to either mare or filly myself. Then again, Marilyn Monroe apparently exists in Equestria.
Cool, so if I utilize that logic then if I go through all the effort of breaking in and taking what I want from Carousel Boutique then I'm entitled to what I steal!
Thanks for the giant diamond, Rarigreed!
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Actually the whole point of the traps being like their cutie marks is because IMHO that it's something that would put the ponies OFF their guard, you can trust your own cutie mark right?
You know, this story really does show that more than words was involved. Discord is seriously getting in their heads, and I don't just mean that metaphorically.
Though I do have to wonder, are the ponies in these chapters telling the story of how they were Discorded after the fact or something? Because this story starts off with a hello.
jaja xD
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Thanks for the comment. It's been a long long time since I thought about these.