While everypony who's anypony likes Winter Wishday, Sprout does not. He cares not for it in the slightest, and isn't afraid to voice his displeasure of it regardless of whether or not he's asked.
However, Sprout's friends in Sunny and Hitch become worried about Sprout's dislike of the holiday, and decide they need to try to at least get him to see it from a different point of view.
Then, that night, Sprout receives some unexpected visitors as he is made to confront his past, present and future in regards to Winter Wishday. And by the time it's over, he just might come to learn something new about others, or maybe even himself.
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I loves this story!!
Sprout deserves to be written about!! He's such an interesting character!!
How does a blanket cure Sparky?
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Keeps him warm.
Actually, WIshentine Day is what the PEGASUS call it - NOT the Earth Ponies. The Earth Ponies do use the "Winter Wishday" one. I think there might have been a small bit of miscommunication there.
But still, really good work on the exchanges, characterizations and general wrap-up. And, despite how this opened, I appreciate how you made this a lot more like "A Christmas Carol" and a lot LESS like "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (as the latter would have too much of a step backwards in character for Sprout, at least at first).
But, yeah, definitely looking forward to seeing what you come up with for next year.
Usually dragons don't really like the call too much sometimes they get affected pretty badly always makes me wonder how did Spike got through that throughout his younger years
Whoa I mean I saw that coming especially I watch this movie so many times but still such a harsh thing to say in a better tone inhuman
a little bit of Pinkie Pie figures that would be the case
And of course this is when things gets very dark and sad I've always did not like that part when I was a kid it scares me but it's always necessary
Well this was a pretty interesting take on of A Christmas Carol syndrome a little bit short but a pretty good one so apparently Sprout is not feeling so jolly and this holiday in fact he really does not like the holidays at all especially how things are changing and his reputation but yet sunny and the others were still give him a chance but he never wanted it so he's been kind of staying away from them and really has nothing to do with this holiday and sunny and her friends but then things change when the three Spirits show him the error of his ways and if he doesn't change his attitude things would become worse and throughout the night he's starting to see the new light of it and even spending time with sunny and the others and even Sparky even though he doesn't know if it's real or not but there is one thing he was just glad everything was okay again this was a pretty nice one keep up the good work
Charles Dickens, despite being dead for a century and a half, is still relevant with A Christmas Carol. Nice to include dialogue from the original novella.
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That's kind of my problem with the setup as well. The original story made clear Scrooge was directly hurting people who depended on him, ultimately leading to him being unmourned upon death because of how cruel he'd been. THAT was what he feared; not that he would ultimately die, but that he was so hated by the time of his death, nobody would care.
But Hitch doesn't depend on Sprout. Hitch can buy a blanket just fine. If it was established beforehand he was so poor that he couldn't, the payoff could work, but the way it is now makes it look like Hitch was too dumb to notice Sparky needed a new blanket. Which is a shame. A Christmas Carol with Sprout is actually a neat idea. You just need to show logically how Sprout is responsible for the bad thing he fears, like the original story did.