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Hardship, pain, loss both personal and professional, there aren't many storms Rarity can't weather.
So it wasn't until Applejack saw Rarity leaving the wake that she thought something was seriously wrong.


Entry for the Joy of Youth contest in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group.

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Oh, Rares... Yeah, grief is an ugly thing to deal with, and I say this coming from someone who's lost a few as well. It's... not pretty and not pleasant and on top of all that you do have to deal with the moneygrubbers and the like. I don't envy those who have to be the executors. I never have and I never will.

Huk

The dialog seemed a little rough around the edges in a few places, but it, all in all, it was a pleasant one shot.

But one thing I don't understand is why would anyone - aside from Sweetie, Rarity and their father - had any right to Cookie's stuff :rainbowhuh:? I mean, if she put someone inside her will, sure - but the way this sounds:

"I'm not mad, Applejack," she admitted, with a small, nearly imperceptible sniffle, "I'm sad that ponies I thought I could depend on turned out to be this way. Uncle Brightwood, I loved him when I was a filly. He used to visit and bring me around a big bag of sweets every time. He took me to watch the trains and he was kind. When Sweetie said she wanted to keep mother's record player and vinyl collection, because they used to play them and sing together, my uncle looked at her like he wanted to scream. She's a child, Applejack, she's barely keeping it together as it is and he'd deny her that memory of her mother if he could."

Is that Brightwood had thought, he has some right to the record player. Why? Is this based on some tradition I'm not aware of :rainbowderp:?

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As someone who's had to go through this sort of thing repeatedly in the past few years concerning grandparents, there's no "tradition" to it, but that doesn't stop family members from feeling they have certain rights to objects owned by the deceased, even if they were never promised them. Family turns into a shark frenzy over the dead. My maternal grandmother's sisters treated her like shit growing up and never once visited her when she was dying of cancer, but they're still harassing my mother eight years later over certain things that were left to her instead of them. Frankly, that was the most painfully realistic thing about this story.

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Inheritance probably is one of the most contentious things in human society, and after all MLPFIM became a way to hold a mirror up to the human condition without cutting too close to home. Dynasties literally have gone to war over inheritances; families have done the same in their own ways—vendettas, grudges, assaults, even murders over legacies are all too common. This is why wills and treaties hold the special place they do in law and custom: they are how society does its best to hold off those wars and grudges and the resulting destruction of nations or families.

Huk

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I realize that some people may think entitled to something, but it's the first time I heard about someone openly demanding something. This seems to work differently over here, or maybe I was lucky to never witness it first hand, til now.

Pretty sad, really :applejackunsure:.

10071969

This seems to work differently over here, or maybe I was lucky to never witness it first hand, til now.

Almost certainly the latter; every human society throughout history has experienced the problem. Certainly that’s the way I’d bet.

Huk

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Well, then it makes it even more tragic, I hope my family will have some more common sense than this :applejackconfused:

An excellent look at the meaning of our personal possessions and the peculiar brand of savagery that many families grieving seem to have.

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