Roseluck is a mare on a mission. She saves ponies! She's the only one who can, because she's the only one who knows the TRUTH! And if something goes wrong while she's trying to share the TRUTH? Any fallout from that decision must be THEIR fault.
So if the obviously Ponyville Court says she needs to apologize? That writing a sincere apology letter will keep her out of prison?
Well, she doesn't want to play into THEIR hooves, but she needs to be free to share the TRUTH!
So she'll write her letter.
And she'll mean it.
Sincerely.
Written for Bicyclette's The Twilight Files contest. See the other entries here!
Crossposted to AO3 here.
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Oh, this is delightful. Brilliant bit of escalation peppered with the finest in conspiracy logic. Thank you for it and best of luck in the judging.
The Horror.
This got some pretty big laughs out of me. We can only hope Roseluck can one day
prove everything she said was the absolute TRUTHbe properly reintegrated intosheepponyPonyville society.A very much annoyed this
the histrionic Roseluck being a paranoid conspiracy theorist does track in a fun way! and she would definitely call the Ponyville Court System "The Forces of Evil"
i would wonder why Roseluck was trying to warn Filthy Rich of anything if she believed he was in league with THEM but actually that does seem to be how conspiracy theorists operate
yeah the existence of Changelings would just be the gasoline on any conspiracy theory fire...
oof, a lot to unpack here!
okay she might have a point about just this one thing
this is a very fun mental image
to be fair this kind of unfortunate chain reaction of events does sound like a typical day in Ponyville
oof, hope Filthy Rich has good insurance!
it is terrifying to see people fall to conspiracy theory logic in real life, but somehow it is cute and fun when the ponies do it, especially Roseluck! "The horror!", indeed.
thank you for writing!
You mean "aisle" not "isle" (isle = small island).
I have added this to The Triptych Continuum Rebooted the "Non Canon" Folder.
IMO, it loosely ties in to the stories "Enduriance" & "Pandunbic". Hopefully, it will bring you a few more readers.
Interesting! Too bad it doesn't work right as a downloaded HTML, or my mobile reader's bad. I'm not getting the slashouts. I'll read it on-site when I have the time!
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Cool fruit bat + bee lore!
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Echolocation damage??
That was a good story.