Pinkie Pie is, essentially, a walking talking recipe for disaster. Introducing her to fireworks is a bad idea. Letting her introduce herself to fireworks and interdimensional catalysts is the sort of idea that leads to all of Canterlot being on fire.
Talking sense into Pinkie Pie, though, isn't the most straightforward of tasks. Especially when the way to talk sense into her isn't an obvious one.
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One of my three entries for the Jinglemas collab, written for Nonchalant.
Image created by Mori, and will be deleted upon request.
Thanks to Wanderer D for his help.
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Thank you!! This was very fun to read, and admittedly a delightfully unexpected way to include the Hearth's Warming setting. Happy Jinglemas to you as well!
I was wondering for a bit where the drama tag would come in. I was also a bit worried that Pinkie would be presented as a pyromaniac for a serious story. However, you managed to weave this into a sweet and in-character moment for Pinkie, with her only wanting aliens to see the fireworks. Good job exploring that, with some nice humor with the fire.
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Confession time: I really struggle with writing Pinkie Pie sometimes. I know some of her hallmark traits - silliness, sanguine personality, not entirely happy on the inside - but trying to balance those elements without having one outweigh the others feels like it's a tightrope walk with all sorts of funny angles in the middle, and i worry that disservicing her personality by making her feel one-trick can potentially mucking up her legitimately interesting self.
I'm glad that you liked it, though. Helps me feel a little more comfortable about how to do her properly going forward.
Stories like this, where characters are so far off from canon and yet so in character, are always gems. I can't imagine a Season 10 episode of MLP where Pinkie Pie sets Canterlot aflame. But if she did, no doubt it would be exactly like this fic, and after reading, it's hard to imagine that Pinkie Pie hasn't had this incident in canon yet.
Headcanon accepted?
Thank you for writing this; we all need more Sunpie in our lives ;)
Bizarre and delightful. A truly Pinkie reason to burn down the capital. I can't help but think that the next thing Sunset teaches her about will be the human space program. If she can make a pedal-powered peppermint helicopter at a moment's notice, a satellite should take her, what, a week?
Lovely stuff. Thank you for it.