Rainbow stared at the library book. The cover looked interesting enough, but that didn't change the fact that reading was for eggheads.
"I really don't want to read you," Rainbow Dash said.
To her great surprised, Daring Do turned around and looked at her. "Why not, Rainbow?" she asked.
Rainbow Dash dropped the book. "Whoa! You...you can talk?"
"Of course not," Daring Do said. "This is just a day dream you're having. So, what's up, pegasister?"
Rainbow nodded. A dream. That made sense. "Well, I have to write a book report about you, but I don't like reading."
"Lie about it," Daring advised.
"What?"
"Just take the book description from the back cover, and send it to Twilight. She'll never tell the difference."
"But I'm...the Element of Honesty..."
"So? I'm a fictional book. Are you going to let some stuffy librarian boss you around?"
"No!"
"That's my girl!" Daring Do said, winking at Rainbow. "You're pretty cool, you know that? I had rainbow hair like you, before it turned gray."
"Thanks!"
Discord whistled as he strolled down the street. The whistle started off happy, then it turned into a train whistle. He pulled the train out of his ear, pushed it together like an accordion, and when he separated his hands, a paper appeared.
Elements of Harmony TO DESTROY UTTERLY
1. Trixie, Element of Being Self-Centered and Useless
2. Fluttershy, Element of Pretending to be Nice, then Turning into a Total PSYCHO!
3. Rainbow Dash, Element of Self-Deluded Grandeur
4. Applejack, Element of Never Getting a Coltfriend, Ever
5. Pinkie Pie, Element of Weirdness
6. Rarity, Element of Fake Accents and Hair Spray
"Slam bam, thank you, ma'am!" Discord said, as he made a little checkmark next to Rainbow Dash's name. "The Element of Honesty is now a bold-faced liar. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the cruelest of them all?"
The paper turned into a small hand-mirror. Discord's reflection scowled and said, "You're only halfway done with the job."
"Who asked your opinion, Mirror?!" Discord shouted. He turned the mirror into a pomegranate and ate it. Then he reached into his mouth and pulled a gold-colored apple.
"I haven't tried this trick in a few thousand years, but it should work fine," he said.
Dear Apple Family,
I greatly admire all the hard work you do in providing food for the ponies in Ponyville. I wanted to thank you, with this rare Golden Apple that I found. Please give it to the hardest-working member of your family.
—Sidcord.
Applejack put down the letter that came with the apple. "Who the hay is Sidcord?" she wondered. "I ain't never heard of—Big Mac! What do you think you're doing?"
Big Mac had his hoof stretched out towards the golden apple. "Eating," he said.
"That apple ain't yours!" Granny Smith said. "It's for the hardest-working member of our family, and that's me!"
"What? I work harder than anypony else!" Applejack said.
"Eeeenope," Big Macintosh said.
"I think I work pretty hard," Applebloom said. "And the apple's kinda big, so nopony should care if I just take a li'l bite..."
Applejack knocked aside Applebloom's hand. "No taking my property!"
"You just want it 'cause you love to eat!" Granny Smith said. "You don't deserve that apple!"
Discord smiled, as he listened to the wonderful, wonderful chaos coming from the Apple household. "Element of Generosity no more!" he said.
Twilight Sparkle had thought about it long enough, and she finally decided to write a letter.
Dear Princess Luna,
My name is Twilight Sparkle. You probably don't remember my name, but I was the pony who came to visit you on the moon. Kind of. I mean, I don't remember it because I was an evil alicorn at the time, but you were an evil alicorn, too, so you probably don't remember either.
I'm writing because I don't know who else I can talk to. Ever since I got back from outer space, the ponies in my town have been treating me differently. Sometimes, even my friends seem a little bit worried about me.
I was wondering if you've been having the same problem. If so, can you please give me some advice to convince everypony that I'm not crazy or evil?
—Twilight
PS. Please don't tell your sister about this. I don't want to worry Celestia with my problems. Although I wouldn't mind it if she gave me an assignment or something!
"...Wow," Twilight said, crossing out the first paragraph of the letter. "That is a terrible first draft." She pulled out a new paper and tried again.
Dear Princess Luna,
My name is
"Hey, hey, Twilight!" a voice called.
Twilight looked up to see Rainbow Dash, hovering near the window she had just flown through. "Hi, Rainbow. What's up?"
"I finished your book!" Rainbow said. "I also wrote that book report."
"Oh, great!" Twilight said. She flew up to her friend and took the piece of paper that Rainbow pulled from her saddlebag. "So, what'd you think of the book? Did you like it?"
"Oh, yeah, it was great! Daring Do is a pretty cool, you know? Plus, she kinda looks like me."
"...Your book report is one paragraph long."
"Well, yeah, but it's a quality paragraph!"
"Really," Twilight said, unconvinced. "What was your favorite part of the book?"
"I liked how she flew away from the bad guys at the end! It was a daring escape!"
Twilight winced at the bad pun. "You didn't read the book at all, did you?" she asked.
"Huh? I totally—"
"Where'd you get this report from? Did you ask one of the—you took it from the book cover!"
Rainbow Dash drew her wings in and landed on the ground. "You're right. I didn't read the book. Sorry."
Twilight landed next to her. "Rainbow, we had a deal! I already signed up to join the Young Fliers Competition, so you have to read this book!"
"But I don't like reading!"
"And I don't like flying around in front of a huge crowd," Twilight said. "But I'm doing it anyway because I'm your friend."
"Oh, yeah? What kind of friend bosses somepony around and forces her to do boring egghead stuff?"
"Gee, I don't know! What kind of friend promises to read a children's book, and then lies about it to her face?!"
The two pegasi were standing face to face, snarling. They spread out their wings and began slowly circling around each other.
"Face it, Twi. Nopony wants to read any of your stupid books! You should close the library!"
"It's more important than what you do! You spend half a minute kicking clouds, then spend the rest of the day sleeping on them!"
"If I wanted to sleep, I'd read your boring book! That's all it's good for!"
"And all you're good for is bragging about how great you are! I can't wait to see you finally get put in your place when you lose the flying competition!"
"Ha! As if! I'm going to win with my Sonic Rainboom!"
"You can't do a Sonic Rainboom!" Twilight shouted. "You're lying again! If you did a Sonic Rainboom any time in the past ten years, everypony from here to Canterlot would have seen it!"
"Yeah, well...at least I never tried to take over the world! I know you're not good enough to be a pegasus, but that—"
Twilight quickly spun around, smacking Rainbow Dash in the face with her wing. She immediately shifted her balance to her front hooves as she bucked Rainbow Dash in the face. Rainbow fell over backwards.
"Don't ever talk to me about that again!" Twilight shouted. "Now get out of my library, or I'll have you arrested for trespassing on government property!"
"FINE! I'm leaving!" Rainbow Dash said. She took to the air, then reached into her saddlebag and pulled out Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone. Throwing it at Twilight's head, Rainbow said, "Here's your dumb book!"
"Ow!" Twilight cried. She charged at Rainbow Dash, but the cyan pegasus quickly flew out the window after throwing the book.
Twilight flew up to the window but didn't leave the library. "Yeah, that's right! Run away, you big loser! I hate you! Nopony cares what you...think..."
A tear ran down Twilight's cheek as she punched the wall in fury.
Not long afterwards, Rainbow Dash knocked repeatedly on the door of the Carousel Boutique. "Rarity! Open up!"
"Coming! I'm coming!" Rarity called. She opened up the door eight seconds later. "Rainbow Dash? What are you—aaaaaa!"
"Is it that bad?" Rainbow asked, unconsciously rubbing one of her black eyes.
"Come in, come in!" Rarity said, stepping aside so Rainbow could enter. "What happened to your face? It looks like somepony kicked you!"
"Somepony did kick me," Rainbow Dash said. "Twilight."
"Twilight? No, you must be mistaken. Twilight would never—"
"Do something like that? Ha! I said I didn't want to read one of her books, and she threw a fit!"
"Oh dear," Rarity said. She was rummaging through a makeup counter, trying to find something which could help cover up Rainbow's bruises. "What happened exactly?"
"We, uh...we made a deal about book reading, and I backed out. Now she's mad because I told her that reading is boring."
"Well...she does have a book for a cutie mark," Rarity said. "I can see how she wouldn't appreciate hearing you say something like that. Still, I don't see why that would be enough to make her resort to physical violence."
"I...also kinda...told her off for becoming Nightmare Moon Junior..." Rainbow Dash said. She frowned. Now that she thought about it, that was a little harsh.
Rarity paused. "I thought we all agreed we weren't going to mention that to Twilight, unless she brought it up."
"Yeah, but...I can't just forget that she tried to kill us! If it wasn't for the Elements of Harmony, we'd all be dead right now!"
"Well, true, but Twilight's our friend, and if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have had the Elements of Harmony to begin with."
"I guess, but...how do we know she's not going to turn evil again? I mean, she bucked me in the face!"
Rarity was hesitant to agree, as she liked Twilight, and she knew firsthoof how infuriating Rainbow Dash could be sometimes. "I'm sure she's just having a bad day," Rarity said. "She'll probably come by later to apologize for what happened. ...But maybe we should contact Princess Celestia, just in case."
Twilight and Rainbow Dash weren't the only ponies with friendship problems. At Ponyville Elementary, Scootaloo was once again feeling lonely. Deciding to make new friends, she approached a filly named Twist, who had glasses and a curly red mane. "Hey, you wanna play tag or something?"
"Printheth Thootaloo? You want to play with me?"
"Sure."
"That'th tho thweet!" Twist said. "I get to be with a printheth!
Scootaloo winced a bit, having a hard time understanding Twist's words. "I can start, unless you want to, Twith."
"Twith."
"What?"
"My name ith Twith."
"...That's what I said. Twith."
"Twith! Twi-thhhh!"
"Scootaloo!" Applebloom called from across the playground.
Oh, thank Celestia... Scootaloo thought. "Sorry, somepony's calling for me!"
Scootaloo bounded across the playground, stopping when she reached Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. Scootaloo was happy to see that the two of them were by themselves and needed a third pony. "Hey!" she said.
"Hi, Scootaloo. We were—" Sweetie Belle began to say.
"What happened to that new girl? Scubaloo?"
"She got her cutie mark in scuba diving yesterday," Applebloom said. "Nopony's been able to get her out of the town river since then."
"Hey, hey, hey..." a colt with a deep voice and a leather jacket said. "What's up?"
"Who are you?" Scootaloo asked.
"I'm Scooterloo," the colt said, pointing to his Vespa, which was propped up near the side of the school building. "I'm the newest member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders."
You have got to be kidding me. They were calling Scooterloo, not me?
"Mechanical scooters are all the rage nowdays," Scooterloo said. "They're so much better than the ones that you push with your legs."
"...If you say so," Scootaloo said. "If you like scooters so much, maybe you could get a scooter cutie mark."
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS SCOOTER RIDERS!" the children shouted.
"That sounds like fun!" Sweetie Belle said. "We'd invite you to come along, Scootaloo, but—"
"Yeah, yeah...I know," Scootaloo said, walking away. "Sorry for bugging you..."
"—there's only enough room for three ponies on the scooter," Sweetie Belle finished. She scratched her head. "Why does Scootaloo look so sad?"
"I dunno," Applebloom said.
"She probably wanted to ride on my awesome scooter," Scooterloo said.
Pinkie Pie walked into the library. "Twilight! Twiiiiiiilight!" she called. "Oh, there you are! My Pinkie Sense told me that there was a doozy here two hours ago! What happened?"
"...Pinkie Sense?" Twilight asked.
"Uh huh, it's one of my special abilities!" Pinkie Pie said enthusiastically. "Sometimes, I get feelings which tell the future! Like my tail gets twitchy whenever something's going to fall! Or my back gets itchy when something lucky is going to happen!"
"That's not—I think those are just coincidences."
"No, it's real!" Pinkie Pie said. "And my Pinkie Sense tells me that something really bad happened here! I think somepony even used the h-word!"
"Hackensack?"
"Hate!" Pinkie Pie said. "Whenever somepony says that word, my eyes twitch and a huge shiver runs up my spine! It's the meanest word anypony could ever say!"
Twilight's face fell. "But how did you know that somepony said that here?"
"I told you! Pinkie Sense!"
"But—but that's impossible!" Twilight said. "Your body can't react, every time a pony says a certain word! That's unscientific!"
"Yeah, but unicorn magic is unscientific, and they do it all the time!"
"True, but I think unicorn magic follows certain rules," Twilight said.
"You think? Don't you remember when you had a horn?"
"No, I don't! I don't remember a single thing that happened two weeks ago, and I wish everypony would stop bringing it up! They all treat me like some sort of monster!"
"Was that the doozy?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Rainbow Dash and I had a doozy of a fight, if that's what you mean," Twilight said. "She practically accused me of turning evil again!"
"That doesn't sound like her!"
"She was mad because I caught her lying, and she was bragging like usual, and RRRRGH! She's too much sometimes!"
"Not to mention she used the h-word!"
"No, that...that was me."
Pinkie gasped. "Twilight! You know you should never ever use that word!"
"I know that, but..." Twilight sniffed. "I got mad when she lied to me, okay? She said I was a boring loser, so I called her a lazy bragger, and...I kicked her."
"Sounds like you need a hug from your Auntie Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie said. She grabbed Twilight and hugged her tightly. "I'm sorry you two got in a fight."
"I'm sorry, too," Twilight said. "It's just...so hard to deal with things right now."
"But you can't let yourself get angry! The only way to make things better is to apologize."
"I know that, I just...maybe I can't do it. I said some pretty horrible things."
"There, there," Pinkie said, patting Twilight's back. "Rainbow Dash is your friend, and I'm sure she'll accept your apology."
"Thanks, Pinkie."
"You're welcome, Twilight."
"..."
"..."
"Um...Pinkie? You can stop hugging me now."
"...You smell nice."
"Seriously, let go! You're cramping my wings!"
"Oops, sorry!" Pinkie Pie said, bouncing backwards.
Twilight couldn't help but smile at Pinkie's antics. "I guess I should close the library to go see Rainbow and—huh?"
A scroll materialized in midair, in front of Twilight Sparkle. She immediately recognized the royal seal on it.
"It's from the princess!" Twilight said, picking up the scroll and reading it. "But I didn't finish writing my letter to Luna yet! Maybe Celestia...?"
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I apologize for sending you this letter unexpectedly, but it has just now come to my attention that you attacked another pony today. This is not the first complaint I have received about your behavior in the past week, and I cannot—
"AAAARGH!" Twilight shouted.
Pinkie Pie was taken aback by the ferocity of Twilight's scream. "Holy Hackensack!" she commented.
Flying high with the superman sock
Uh oh. Rarity taddled. Pinkie is getting a little close to Twilight there.
Too bad Twilight is going to fail at the flying competition. That is just not her special talent.
It's odd to see Discord being subtle. but it's refreshing at the same time.
3305256 At least she is going to try. Rainbow Dash completely threw the book at Twilight.
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Have faith. After all running wasn't her special talent either, but in the show she finished first being a first timer.
That and the show isn't about speed. It's about style, technical stuffs, and pulling it off. Even if she doesn't win (and the only reason Dash pulled off a Sonic Rainboom was to save someponies, if it wasn't for Rares she'd have failed, and failed hard), she'd at least have shown that unlike Dash she was being honorable about the deal.
Wow!
Somepony out there really does not like our bewinged little Twilight ...
I really wish I could give her a good hug right about now
3305256 Maybe she'll come in fifth, and beat RD who gets disqualified?
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Ok something that kept me up last night was a clear, and rather uneasy feeling line between Rainbooms and Royalty Series Celestia and this one. I'm not downvoting, and I'm ranting because of lack of sleep + flu = need to say this. Plus I'm not downvoting. Love this AU fic. But parts of it are getting rant worthy.
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I'm not going into Celestia here not clearly guiding the Bearers into being the right elements, with undefined roles. That's actually something that's going to save them. Nor am I 100% saying what she's doing with Scoots is a rather semi-dick move [it's something that's needed for a group dynamic between Scoots and Twi. Something that you realy don't see in fics, and other than that she's been more of a D-bag than she was to Twi, and I'll be going into that.]
No here's what's pissing me off with Celestia. When she finds Twilight she takes her under her wing, as her protege. That means that Twilight was going to be under her protection, raised alongside her, and more importantly taught by her personally. Groomed to be her right hoof pony (since she could take Twilight's place, but she could have a future far better normal ponies). In Rainbooms in Royalty. Yes Dash is made to do lots of learning about politics, dealing with nobility, how to handle royal social situations, on top of flight training. She never got to do the Rainboom during her training, but she was still trained personally by Celestia.
Celestia here comes across as throwing her in a school made for Unicorns, who are a group of tribalist who constantly assault her under Celestia's nose in the same room as the head librarian who does nothing to stop it. She's not been trained to fly by Celestia from what we can see, and from her level of flying is greatly beneath one who should've been trained by an Alicorn ruler.
Now not counting, the ignoring of Twilight, we haven't been shown her really do anything other than stick her in school of rascist, and ignores the abuse before sending her to Ponyville to get the bearers together. Not fully warning her about her sister, nor keeping any type of eye on her at all preventing her corruption from Nightmare Moon.
Then comes the last two chapters. Last one I was really hoping that I was misreading things, that her being outright ignored by Celestia was an accident, or just wasn't shown. Then comes this chapter. Even Dashie (latest Cold Hearts, Nerves of Steel chapter), Dash puts on the Alicorn Amulet (we'll see how that goes). But where that Celestia is like a mother to Dash, and stood by her. This Celestia basically disowned Twi without a phone call letting her know she's been canned. Replaces her, and then without investigating, listens to ponies whom she didn't do diddly-squat to supress thier distrust / fear / hate.
I really hate this AU's Celestia and her self-righteousness. She's been the most mindless, unintentionally cruel, and useless pony of all time. Please tell me that she talks to Luna, and that either Twilight becomes Luna's Protege, or get's Luna to see that Celestia has made the same mistakes with Twilight that she's made with Luna. Then Luna tears into Celestia.
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I hope I don't get perma-blocked for this. You are a good author, but Celestia in this fic really grinds my gears. Now I'm going to go die for an hour, have a good sunday.
Maybe if, oh gee I don't know, you didn't treat her like yesterdays trash and leave her in a place where everyone distrusts her and every little thing she does is now under a microscope and MAYBE TRY TALKING TO HER ABOUT THE SO CALLED COMPLAINTS INSTEAD OF DOING THE CHICKEN SHIT THING AND SENDING HER A LETTER THINGS COULD PROBABLY BE BETTER.
3308699 This guy said it best about this Celestia.
I would love that a lot, hell maybe Discord will help with that.
3308699 Thank you very much for your feedback.
1. I am a total jerk who deliberately messes around with people's emotions, for no good reason. The truth is that I wrote out Celestia's entire letter to Twilight. Then I cut it off in mid-sentence to give everyone the false impression that she is mad at Twilght, when she's not.
...I'm a jerk, I know. I apologize.
2. I am having a hard time, explaining the relationship between Twilight and Celestia. Pegasus Twilight is not Celestia's protege, or even her personal student (like in the show). It's more accurate to say that the two of them are friends, and Celestia helped her get a job.
Do they meet often? No. I envision that, over the past fourteen or so years, they have only met face-to-face about ten times. Celestia kind of mentions this in passing, when she tells Shining Armor that she's visited his house three times.
But due to my sloppy writing at points, I sometimes fall into the trap of saying "Twilight is Celestia's student", just because that's the relationship between the two that everyone is used to. And that's not accurate to the situation, because you're right, that would make Celestia a negligent jerk who doesn't care at all.
3. Twilight was angry, so she naturally exaggerated the racism of the unicorns in Canterlot. At most, she had to put up with some teasing in elementary school and a grumpy boss who hates everyone.
That's actually a semi-problem with the first episode of the TV show, too. The premise is that Twilight grew up in Canterlot, and she never had friends before. But what happens in the opening scene, the only time we see the Canterlot ponies? They politely invite Twilight to a party, and they are clearly disappointed when she brushes them off. My guess is that the Canterlot ponies are not as bad as Twilight made them out to be, and they could have been good friends if she had given them a chance.
4. I must be broadcasting my moves, because "Luna talks to Twilight and helps her" is a scene in the next chapter. The first scene I wrote, actually. And your suggestions are making me want to rewrite it, because seeing Luna tear into Celestia would be extremely entertaining.
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You're welcome, and:
1: Shame on you, "pinkiehappy: I'm glad there's more to the letter though. *Gives cupcake*
2 and 3: While in the prologue and chapter 1:
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Then you have numerous times, most recently Winter Mix up, calls herself Celestia's honorary student / Celestia's student.
If being her actions would've made Twilight being her protege, make her look like a negligent jerk. What does that say when Twilight is her dearest friend? What of her saying that students would rip out feathers? Or result to name calling? I know that in the prologue she was treated like a joke because she was a Pegasus hired into a Unicorn school. Which while nice in intention wasn't thought out that well.
I mean if she was put in the royal archives, or Celestia's personal library, or even any other field that would use her talents with books, allowed her to use her experience / knowledge learnt to help Celestia quicker, and could even be put in a position where she would be safe from prejudice where a lot of the workers are Pegasi, and Unicorns. Or was the teasing part of the things blown out of proportion?
If she's treating her friend with that level of passing detachment, I wonder what she'd do with her enemies.
4: It would be highly entertaining. Celestia needs to open her eyes to how detached she's been to everypony, especially one she'd have the nerve to call friend. Although technically you could without changing anything have her be her protege. After all they are friends, and she took Twilight in a manner "under her wing". Without it simply being bad writing habits.
Seriously though, I can't wait to see Twilight and Luna's friendship blossom. Maybe even taken under her wing as an honest Protege, and Twilight be the best big sister to Scoots ever !
One last question. Will we see what being an Alicorn did to Twilight long term? Since even though she's not evil, she must have the 3 races flowing through her at a lesser level. Since the 3 Races aren't evil, but how she was created into an Ali was. At least imo. Take care and I can't wait to see the next chapter.
3309893 The beginning of Chapter 16 (The Battle in Ponyville) is where the story first starts referring to Twilight as Celestia's student. Basically, I wrote the first five paragraphs of that chapter, about Celestia and her students in general, and I liked it so much that I didn't want to rewrite it. So I fudged a little and said to myself, "Well...Twilight researched the Elements of Harmony at Celestia's request, which _kind of_ makes her Celestia's student". And now I'm stuck with a plot point which makes no sense, unless I can think of something else for Twilight to study.
Why wasn't Twilight put in the royal archives, or Celestia's personal library? I honestly did not consider that possibility. Wow, that makes so much more sense than what I did.
Maybe I'll go back and add a line or two, downplaying what happened to Twilight in school. The way I see it, Twilight's childhood would mostly be the same, no matter which species she was. In the show, Unicorn Twilight isolated herself from all of the other kids. Pegasus Twilight basically did the same thing, with the only real difference being that she can use "I'm a pegasus and they're not" as an excuse for avoiding other ponies.
I haven't directly referenced this in the story, but I think Pegasus Twilight had a rough patch when she was a filly, learning how to fly. It was difficult for her, because she didn't have any pegasus family members to turn to. Also, around that time, her wings grew larger before her body did, which was just awkward in general. I was thinking of adding a flashback scene of this in an early chapter, when Scootaloo tries to check out a book on flying from the library, but it didn't really fit in.
And yes, my plan is to have the story go more in-depth about Alicorn Twilight. So far, that's the only scene I've written for the eventual "Discord takes over and does nasty stuff" chapter. I'd say more, but as of right now, the scene is mostly build-up for a dumb joke. Which says a lot about the way I write, I suppose. Why is Discord going to take over Equestria? It's because I wanted to slip in a joke about the Canterlot Wedding episode. Who cares if it doesn't fit the plot of the story? I'll make it fit! The joke must stay, no matter what!
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Other points of study:
- Foreign Affairs
- Politics
- Historical Villains that may pop up, and their weaknesses (if any).
- Magic for dummies
- A book on what to expect when you become an Alicorn.
- Celestia's Big Book of Pranks, Counter Pranks, and Prank Warfare. [This one to assist her in her Prank Sprees].
- Nobility Training [to learn how to deal with Nobility when acting along side 'Tia as Tia's +1, when she wants to invite Twi onto something].
- Archivist Book Codes, how to properly sort, stack, and gather tomes from the Royal Archives.
Those are all that I can think of. And yeah toning it down on Twiley's childhood would be best. As it is, it makes the entire school look like a bunch of rascists D-nuggets, and Tia look completly incompotent. But I like you're whole "I'm a pegasus, they're Unicorns" excuse to avoid social situations.
And yeah more Twilicorn someday on this fic would be awesome, and I can't wait to see your joke. I will lol with the power of Zues's indigestion when I read it ... hopefully. Well almost as hard as when Lulu tears Tia a new one, since Woona is best Princess.
3318091 No way, all of those research topics would be useful. Celestia would rather send Twilight into a dangerous situation, blind. Let's not forget the letter Celestia wrote in the episode where Twilight became an alicorn:
"Oh, hey, Twilight, I thought I'd give you one of Starswirl the Bearded's old spells. I'll conveniently forget to mention that it's unfinished, and it will completely ruin your friends' lives. Also, it makes it so you can't go three minutes without a musical number. Enjoy!"
Okay, I rewrote the small bit on Twilight's past. Actually, I changed it so Sunset Shimmer was the racist bully who picked on Pegasus Twilight at the university. I say that works, even if she didn't exist when I first started the story.
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It does (Sunset Shimmer), and of course Celestia teaches her those things. But never tells her what it's for, puts her in a learning environment where she's constantly being driven near insane. To preform at levels that the Empire's (Star Wars) Imperial Army would find too cruel and inhumane.
Then after throwing her into the wolves with all the indirect knowledge, but all the direct knowledge of a soggy tissue soaked in Pre-Shippuden Sakura's. That and you're wrong, that's fimverse Twilight. It's Trixie who Celestia's going to be screwed like a Prench 2 bit Whorse in this AU.
Sweet Celestia Twilight......