Trust Once Lost

by Greenhorne

Obligatory Hearth's Warming Chapter

Twas the week 'fore hearthswarming and all through the town,
The ponies were cheerful with nary a frown,
The trees were bedazzled, the stores were well stocked,
And each little pony had mittens (or socks?).

The markets were bustling as ponies sought gifts,
For friends and for family, some had lengthy lists.
The parks were now filled with the squeals of delight
The sleds crashed quite often, (the foals were alright).

But one little filly was not having fun,
For she knew her torment had barely begun.
"Bah Humbug." She said, "This is nothing like Christmas",
"These ponies won't quit with this hearth's warming business."

"They force me to parties and drag me to parks,
I wish they would leave me alone for a lark."
"I've books to be reading and sleep to catch up,
I just want to tell them I don't give a f-

"Hey Green, do ya want some hot cocoa?"

Author's Note:

Merry Christmas everyone!

Art by Lunar Froxxy

Comments

[Vaguely Demented]

Cocoa really solves most of life’s problems. Barring chocolate allergy. Or diabetes.

[DovahkiinMaster]

Snickering

[Witchery]

Cute!

[Boopy Doopy]

Very, very extremely cute. Thank you c:

[Asolem2]

Neat

[technofan]

Merry Chrysler to you too

[badninja]

Some people/ponies just may enjoy the holidays alone.

[shadow wolf1573]

Nice

[Black--Soul]

Neat X-Mas special. Grumpy Zecora style Green is awesome 👍

[Level Dasher]

That was pretty cute!
Merry Christmas!

[lazyreader19]

Merry Christmas to all
And to all get fed

[Panem et Circenses]

:)

[Pensive]

I see chapter update notification. I look at fimfiction's front page to see if it's one of the popular ones that updated while the tracking tab loads.

"Buck yes!"

See's chapter title

"BUck no!"

But you know what? That art at the end makes it all okay.

[harts fire]

that art rocks.
a grate fun little chapter.

[Talipedsnake780]

Very cute.

[Truthseeker]

This made me smile. Thank you.

[PinkiePieFox]

[Alondro]

Green doesn't give a fup! (it's like poetry, so it rhymes!)

[Well Geboren]

[Fluttercry12]

thank u 4 the short but cute as hell ch thank u

[gakposter]

I always put off reading this but it ends up being a good read when I get around to it

[Greenhorne]

11096132
I'm glad

[Shanenator]

Heh, nice. Good rhyming and cadence. Cute little segment!

[truebuckshot]

Merry grinchmas lol

[ChakatRedstripe]

I'm abit late to this, but it was good

[tsaukpaetra]

Green: I'm the Green who stole Christmas!
Everypony: what's a Christmas?
Green: mission fscking accomplished!.... And now I'm sad.
Everypony: oh don't worry Green it's hearths warming!

[Pensive]

Just some idol wonderings, where's Red Heart? She definitely one of my favorite background characters when done right. And we haven't seen her in a while.

[Greenhorne]

11101139

someone will figure out what she is

Twilight:
You're impossibly inexperienced at using your hooves. You're having magic surges. Sometimes you speak like – like you're from a different world. You never want to hang out with fillies your own age. You don't like going out in the sunlight. How old are you?

Green:
Eight.

Twilight:
How long have you been eight?

Green:
[pause] A couple weeks now.

Twilight:
I know what you are.

Green:
Say it. Out loud. Say it.

Twilight:
Vampony!

[Alondro]

11114559 Again, THAT'S THE CARTOON. Green is seeing the 'real' Equestria, and making assumptions about the 'real' world based on a fictionalized toy line production.

That's just stupid. But typical of humans. It's why propaganda works so well. You can make up crap and lie with a smile, and the dimwits will believe the beatings are for 'the greater good'.

[hmaf43]

11114601
but it's only source of information she has. and it has proven it accuracy so far.a good point to start from.

otherwise, how can you trust anything at all?

[Alondro]

11115161 But, then there's ANOTHER disturbing issue Green should consider: if the characters and situations are playing out according to a corporate cartoon TV show, how much control over their lives do the ponies actually have? Are they automatons obeying the script, or can they possess free choice?

Green should be quite freaked out if no matter what he does, the ponies all just blankly go back to the script.

Cuz that suggests he's in on of the Twilight Zone versions of Hell.

[hmaf43]

11115250
i thinks she would cope with that even better.
she hate that humans are unpredictable. she cannot trust humans.
but she doesn't need to trust anyone because there're rules in place, she assume that most will respect the rules. make them acts predictable like cogs in machine.
i thinks it's also reason why she hate dealing with emotional relationship like friendship and such.

if everypony are pre-deterministic machines that can be predicted, it's likely that she would be far more happy than living in actual alien planet.

[Glowbug]

We need moooaaar!

Seriously, this is one of the best filly stories I've ever read.

[falconstrings]

you know reading this story gave me a severe sense of Déjà-vu and then i realized i read the colt "version" first anyways good story so far, i hope to see more in the future

[falconstrings]

11104075
Green: face hooves outta frustration

or at least i would because of the twilight reference, pun totally intended

[chillingallday]

Any day now

[darklight731]

Gingerbread on Christmas tastes good. Hope yo had some.