Never the Final Word (Vol. 2)

by FanOfMostEverything

FredMSloniker's Mood Pie (The Hat Man's "Normal")

Author's Note:

[Comedy][Slice of Life]

This is a continuation of The Hat Man's Scenes From A Hat short "Normal" (1,384 words, [Drama])

NORMAL SPOILERS: Pinkie offers Maud a potion that will make her more visibly expressive for her birthday. Whether Maud actually drinks it or not is deliberately left ambiguous. For the purposes of this short, suppose she didn't...

"Okay, Maud," Pinkie Pie said a few days after the party, "so the potion wasn't the best of ideas, but my new idea is going to knock your socks off! So go get some socks and put them on, so it can knock them off!"

Maud Pie tilted her head the tiniest of fractions. "What is it?" she said, looking at the small object Pinkie was holding. It was a small yellow disc with three black marks on it: two dots on one half, and a straight line on the other. It looked a little like musical notation.

"It's an emotion badge!" Pinkie said, holding it up with the dots on the top half. "I just stick this to you—" She pressed it against Maud's chest, and it clung as if taped in place. "—and anypony who looks at it can see how you feel!"

Maud slowly blinked. Out of her field of view, the horizontal line curved downward and tilted to one side. "I don't get it."

Comments

[Crack-Fic Casey]

[FredMSloniker]

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That was a large part of the inspiration, yes.

The Hat Man responded to my post, incidentally, which led to the following exchange:

Cute idea! But I think you may have misconstrued the ending a bit. You see, it's actually meant to be ambiguous as to whether Maud took the potion or not. Draw your own interpretation from that as you will, though.

I guess what I meant is that I expected her to reject the potion.

Maybe she did.

I meant that I expected her to clearly and unambiguously reject the potion in a way that could not possibly be misconstrued.

Ahhh, I get you now.

Clearly I need some of my own medicine. 🙄