(Lemme know if you ever want or need to un-submerge the rest of that iceberg.)
It was our very first one, though. It took us to this town in the mountains near the Crystal empire. All the houses looked the same, all the ponies looked the same with the same WRONG smiles, they even had the same CUTIE MARK!!! It looked like this on EVERYPONY: =
ANYWAY, the pony running it was Starlight Glimmer, and SHE thought that differences cause friendships to fall apart and that taking away everypony's cutie mark would fix that, and that everybody in her village was perfectly happy. I didn't like it at all from the second I saw those "smiles".
And it WASN'T perfectly happy. A couple of ponies MISSED having their cutie marks and their special talents. One of them even used to be a baker, and her muffins were AWFUL afterwards, and one turned out to be ANOTHER PARTY PONY!
And then WE ended up getting our cutie marks taken away, and we were trapped in this tiny little shed with only a couple of window and this really loud recording telling us that being all the same was great, and I started losing my ability to feel happy or tell jokes. I think it was even WORSE than being tricked by Discord or Tirek stealing my magic!
But then we figured out and showed the ponies that Starlight still had HER cutie mark, so those ponies that missed theirs chased after her and ended up getting their AND our cutie marks back, and then Starlight disappeared into the mountains until later.
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It was our very first one, though. It took us to this town in the mountains near the Crystal empire. All the houses looked the same, all the ponies looked the same with the same WRONG smiles, they even had the same CUTIE MARK!!! It looked like this on EVERYPONY: =
ANYWAY, the pony running it was Starlight Glimmer, and SHE thought that differences cause friendships to fall apart and that taking away everypony's cutie mark would fix that, and that everybody in her village was perfectly happy. I didn't like it at all from the second I saw those "smiles".
And it WASN'T perfectly happy. A couple of ponies MISSED having their cutie marks and their special talents. One of them even used to be a baker, and her muffins were AWFUL afterwards, and one turned out to be ANOTHER PARTY PONY!
And then WE ended up getting our cutie marks taken away, and we were trapped in this tiny little shed with only a couple of window and this really loud recording telling us that being all the same was great, and I started losing my ability to feel happy or tell jokes. I think it was even WORSE than being tricked by Discord or Tirek stealing my magic!
But then we figured out and showed the ponies that Starlight still had HER cutie mark, so those ponies that missed theirs chased after her and ended up getting their AND our cutie marks back, and then Starlight disappeared into the mountains until later.