Bathtime for Ponies Part 2

by Starry Eyed

Fleur

You turn the nob for the warm water, completing preparations for tonight’s bath. You now turn to make your way to find the young filly you will be washing. Thankfully, unlike your last job, Fleur’s parents lived in a house with a reasonable number of rooms.

As you walk through the house, you are still shocked at how… well, ordinary it looks. It’s a nice house, not poor like Photo’s, but still nothing more than a shack compared to Fancy Pants’ house. You would describe it as middle class, but not wealthy either. For what it lacked in grandeur though, the house had a wonderful sort of family feel, was comfortable, inviting, and warm. Overall it was much nicer than the mansion.

You step into the front yard to see a foal Fleur sitting with a foal Fancy Pants, and smile at the heartwarming scene. Unknown to most ponies, Fleur was something of an ugly duckling when she was small, and not many of the colts wanted to play with her. Thankfully, Fancy Pants never cared one jot what anypony thought, and enjoyed her company. And so, there they sat in the front yard, as cute as buttons. Fancy Pants noticed a pretty pink flower blooming in the yard and picked it with his mouth (he wasn’t good at magic yet. Fancy Pants sweetly offered it to her, and in gratitude (but misunderstanding), she ate the tasty treat. This left Fancy pants with half the stem, which he ate with a happy, “Om-nom-nom” and you with a super high pitched “Squee.”

You interrupt the scene before your heart can give out and tell her it’s time for tonight’s bath. Fleur doesn’t like baths, but Fancy Pants (whose contract to have you bathe him has already just slightly expired) assures her in baby talk that you know what you’re doing and to not worry. She hugs her friend goodnight (DAWW) and follows you to the tub. Once inside you close the door and make your way over to the mat. You pick her up and set her on the rim to test the water. This turns out to be a good decision, because due to recent baths being hotter than normal, you’ve made the bath a little too hot for her.

Thankfully Fleur is helpful and together you cool the bath slightly before helping her in. You get out your trusty, “Pretty in Pink” Shampoo and pour some into your hand. You used this shampoo because she has a pink mane. However, when you took the job you did not know that her mane had been a very pale pink when she was little, and had only taken on its glossy pink shine later in her life. Her mane is beautiful even now, but she hates it. You continue to scrub the little mane until it is time to rinse.

You scoop up a handful of warm water and pour it over her little mane. After seven rinses her mane is back to its pale form, much to your satisfaction and her disappointment. Choosing not to dwell on it, you ask her to lift her tail, to which she complies. The same story holds true with her tail as did with her mane, as it lacks the luster, softness, or elegance of her later tail. You pour some more Pretty in Pink shampoo into your palm and begin tenderly stroking it through her little tail. You start to scoop up some water to pour over it, but she quickly hides her tail beneath the water, not wanting it to be seen. You give her a deadpan, “Really?” look to which she nods with a definite, “Yes.” You ask her to at least scrub the suds out of it so that it so that it will be properly rinsed, and one cute wiggle later her job is done.

Normally the bath would be mostly over now, but she has been playing outside and has some dirt on her, which really shows considering she’s white. She doesn’t really mind this part, so it goes pretty well. You scrub her little legs and belly with the brush, which she doesn’t mind because she’s not ticklish. Or at least that’s what she keeps telling herself. She doesn’t even giggle, but her expression distorts into the funniest forms possible as ticklish tear barely form in her eyes. Thankfully (for her) this is over in just a few moments and the laughs she has been holding in escape as a mere sigh.

Since she didn’t you decide to laugh instead and you give her the bath toys which she gladly accepts. You watch as she begins by having them act out having a tea party fit for princesses. This somehow escalates into the princesses having to fight off Discord (who at this time remember was still sealed in stone, and was not thought of as anything more than a fictional character to scare fillies), and finally into the Princesses having tea with Discord. You think to yourself how quickly that escalated, but then notice that she seems sad not having anyone to play with. But you are an awesome foalsitter, so you play with her. She is girly, but has a personality, and wants to play with friends, aka: a normal filly.

With the bath over (and the water definitely too cold now) you take her out and unplug the tub. You dry her with a soft towel and by the time the bath has drained a dry foal stands before you with a VERY frizzy mane. The frizz covers her eyes but you can tell she is giving you a, “please don’t laugh” look underneath it. If she can contain a laugh so can you, and you pretend you have no idea what she’s ‘talking’ about.

She hugs you for not judging and you carry her off to bedtime.

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The next day, Fancy Pants stopped to play again, and the ice cream truck made a round through the neighborhood. Fleur never had ice cream before and has pleading eyes for it. Fancy Pants notices and tugs at his attendant’s coat. They buy the truck.

Author's Note:

.No time to explain, click here
But seriously, this links to a question I have: should I end Canterlot Nobles week after Blueblood and work on Bathtime for OCs and Nightmare Moon, or finish the week and delay them. Please follow the link to answer.

I know I say this too much, but I like everypony. I also research anypony before I write about them. Why does everyone think this girl is just a gold digger? I can see one or two people thinking so but everybody! Come on. She wasn't clingy enough to be a stupid gold digger, and not controlling enough to be a smart one. Plus, this is Fancy Pants we're talking about, he doesn't pick the "most proper" he picks the ones that have real value.

Give a one dimensional character with a bad rep a background that is wonderful and redeeming: check.
Now to do the same for Blueblood. Starry Eyed away!!

Comments

[Icarus Crimsonhoof]

Well said sir.

[SuperPinkBrony12]

I never thought she was a gold digger. If anything I thought the fandom loved painting her as a trophy wife.

[Starry Eyed]

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Remember, I do through research on every character before writing about them. I read stories, read the official and unofficial Wikipedia pages, and if feasible I re-watch the episode(s) they were in. I read Deviantart and fanon pages on them and in the end it comes out to several hours of research a chapter. If you dig like I do, you find some amazing things, good and bad. I've seen beautiful things like "My little Dashie", going all the way down to stuff more disturbing than sergeant sprinkles, "Cupcakes" (we shall never speak of it again.) I got the idea for this chapter from this picture:

fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/355/a/9/best_poster_by_thefishe77-d5oow7r.jpg

The stereotype for braces is ugly (that isn’t an insult, just a notice), but see how happy she looks. Seeing it made me ask, "What if she was an ugly duckling instead of a trophy wife? That would change peoples minds about her. I study Japanese mythology, and they have a version of beauty and the beast where the woman is the ugly one. Considering all of societies pressures for the woman to look great, I think it is a much more romantic story. I wanted Fleur to have one like it.

[Motion Paradox]

If your plan is to put a positive spin on Prince Blueblood, I'd like to recommend taking a look at the stories "Best Night Ever" and it's sequel "This Platinum Crown" (The latter of which has Blueblood's aversion to flying cake be due to a childhood trauma connected to the death of his father) and "Flight of the Alicorn" where he has an interest in designing airships and part of his issues are due to him becoming jaded as a result of his family line no longer being taken seriously and slow fading into obscurity (while his mother adamently clings to the old ways, despite not actually being genetically part of the line)

Oh! And I'd like to see Sapphire Shores & Hoity Toity

[TwilightsmyMare]

2813496 Aww that's a super cute picture of Fleur! (But than again braces kinda do it for me too...)
Great chapter!

[Starry Eyed]

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Thanks, I want everyone that offers any form of help to know I'm grateful. I've read, "Best Night Ever" as part of my research, and I've read some of the Platinum Crown. I'll check on, "Flight of the Alicorn" but honestly At this point, what with Blueblood being tomorrow and everything, I'll probably just stick with my plan.

So you'd like me to finish Canterlot Nobles week aye? I'm torn about that still. My Blog post discussing the issue is relatively fruitless, and divided so far. I'll see if I can wait for a better sample by Thursday. Either way I'll wash them eventually.

[Motion Paradox]

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Maybe give him a toy air ship (tee-hee)

Though I'm glad that you're planning to do their chapters regardless, I'm really looking forward to seeing how their chapters turn out (-^u^-)

[Hunter reaper]

Daww Fancy is such a gentlecolt

[Hypastpist]

They bought the truck