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Quickfic - Unintended (4/?)
07/08/11(Fri)19:40 No.27522416UNFORGETTABLY SHAMEFUL
Fashion Show May End Career
by Withers Greenfoal
PONYVILLE - A painful critique
of local designer Rarity was the
result of last night's fashion show.
"Rarity the unicorn will never,
ever, be a designer of note,"
Canterlot fashion mogul Hoity
Toity summed up.
The show was advertised as a preview
of dresses for the Grand Galloping
Gala, a high-society ball to be held
in Canterlot later this spring.
Several prominent citizens of
Ponyville immediately cancelled
their Gala formalwear orders,
including Mayor Wheat Dreams.
Twilight looked up from reading when the door to the bedroom slammed. She walked up to it and knocked gently with a hoof. "Spike?" she called.
"Go 'way," he said.
"Spike, this isn't your fault." She sighed. "It's ours."
Silence from the bedroom prompted her to continue. "We don't know anything about fashion, but following fashion trends is her livelihood. It was wrong of us to try to fix her designs. While you were in Canterlot convincing Hoity Toity to attend the show, you couldn't have known what we had done."
The door opened a crack. "So you mean, it wasn't my fault?"
"Of course not, Spike," said Twilight, "You were trying to help her career. If she had insisted we use her original dresses in the show, none of this would have happened. But she was so generous to us that she allowed her own career to be ruined. If you had any part in this, it was unintended consequences."
Spike came out of the bedroom. "But Rarity's career is still in the outhouse."
"I know," said Twilight, frowning. "I wish there was some way to convince Hoity Toity to see our real Gala dresses."
Spike thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers. "I've got it." |
