Chapter 1
Strolling through the fields sure was fun, I can't wait to get home and start preparing Rarity's birthday party. It's only in two more months! Which reminds me I should probably ask if she's too busy with the Summer Sun festival preparations for lunch. I could definitely eat right now.
And maybe Rainbow Dash too! She's never too busy for lunch. Oh no! What if they don't want to have lunch TOGETHER? That'd be super-duper sad. I better not ask then, I want to see them smile, not frown! So I'm walking back into Ponyville now, that's good, I like being home. And the houses are on my right, as they should be. Or wait, is that my right or my left? I always mix the words up. The homes are in the right place though.
Hehehe, right...
And now the pink fence post is in the same place as always. That makes me smile. But wait, who's that up ahead? I've never seen her before! But wait, I need to make sure that I don't scare her away, I want to be her friend! Okay, I need to focus on what she looks like so I can remember for later.
She's a unicorn, so she can do magic. Ooooo...her coat is lavender, that's a really amazing colour! And her mane is indigo and long. And it's straight! Oh no! That's the saddest worst news I've ever-
Wait...
That's just MY mane that goes all flooffy when I'm happy and normal when I'm really wierdy-sad. Okay so her mane also has a stripe through it, that's pretty! I like her. She's going to be a really super amazing friend! I can't see her eye colour because she's looking away and talking to-
Who's THAT?
I don't know, me, but whoever it is, they're not a pony. I wonder what they are, and WHO they are, and what their favourite snack is! Wait, she's looking this way now, keep smiling so she doesn't think you're weird or different.
Her eyes are purple, remember that! She's smiling too, that means she's happy to see me! YES! Oh...wait a minute, is that the floating square beside her? I thought I made that up when I was a filly. Does that mean she's important? I better make a good impression on her. Close your eyes and smile!
...
Okay, I've walked up to them, now stop and be normal, that means happy and smiling. The purple spikey one is motioning to me, what do I do?
"C'mon Twilight" he says, so her name is Twilight, and they're friends with each other. "Just try." she doesn't look happy anymore though, did I already alienate her? This isn't good, maybe I didn't stop early enough, or I should have said hello first? But I don't know her, how does she like to say hello?
She looks at me and smiles again. "Uh...hello?" she says, sounding...I don't know, confused? But wait, I just said that I don't know her. That doesn't make sense, I know everypony in Ponyville. She must be new! I need to throw her a Welcome to Ponyville party!
"OOOOUUUAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" I say really loudy. But wait! I didn't mean to! Now I've probably weirded her out. Run! Oh, the floating square isn't following me, I guess she IS importa-
THAT DOESN'T MATTER RIGHT NOW I NEED TO PLAN A PARTY! Is that Big Mac? Stop in front of Bic Mac, but look super excited and not panicy
"Big Mac!" I say after I stop, "There'sanewgirlintownandIneedtothrowherawelcometoPonyvillepartytonight!" He isn't saying anything, but that's normal, also I think I was waving my forelegs around, but I wasn’t paying attention to that. "Can you make it?"
"Eeeeyup" He declares in that absolutely sure way he does.
"Great! I'll send out the invitations later when I make them" He smiles and then goes back to what he was doing. I need to calm down a bit, so I start hopping instead of trotting.
Is that Golden Harvest walking beside Bon Bon? I need to ask them too before I go home and prepare! I hop over to them, but don't stop before you get to them! Hop and smile the whole way! Wait, where's Lyra? I thought she was visiting today for the festival
"Oh, hi Pinkie." Bon Bon says as she smiles, Goldie smiles too. Okay, I'm good, so now I smile for real...even if my face doesn't change.
"Hi Bon Bon, hi Goldie." I say before looking specifically at Bon Bon, "Where's Lyra? I thought she was visiting today, and when she's in town you two are almost ALWAYS together!" Good, I said 'almost'.
Bon Bon thinks for a second and then says, "She and Amethyst are shopping in Canterlot today before they take the train here later today."
“I hope they can make it to the party tonight,” I blurt out without thinking. Oops.
They both look at me confused. “Party?” Goldie tilts her head and asks. No! I had to explain it first!
“You’re throwing a party?” Bon Bon adds. Everything is off now! And I can’t just run away and hide, I’m stuck here! Check to make sure you’re still smiling.
Okay you’re good, invite them though so they don’t feel left out! “It’s later today!” don’t explain it though, you already missed your chance!
“Can you two make it?”
They look at each other and smile, smiles are good, but why did they look at each other first? Is that something they do when I do something different or weird? WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T LOOK WORRIED.
“Sure, it sounds like fun!” Goldie says.
That’s so super fantastic that I actually laugh, maybe I shouldn’t have laughed so loud, but that’s something I’d do right? Laugh when something’s going to be fun? I just hope I don’t mess up the party planning. “Yep, I’ll give you invitations when I make them!”
Well that’s good, I’m glad they can both make it. I need to hurry home and start making the invitations though so I can start giving them to everypony in town!
I’m just hopping away when Bon Bon calls out to me, “Wait, Pinkie.” NO! I can’t explain it, and now I’m all out of energy. Don’t let her see though, bounce back, be the Pinkie they all think you are! Check and make sure your smile is normal. Okay, now close your eyes so they can’t see your worry. Good, now say something.
...
SAY SOMETHING BEFORE IT GETS AWKWARD! I know it’s hard, but do it! “What is it, Bon Bon?” I open my eyes and look at her in happiness. I was able to say something, I’m so proud of me!
She looks a bit...well it’s not confused, what’s that look on her face? Her eyes look like they’re confused and NOT confused. And her ears aren’t confused. Her muzzle also isn’t confused. What is she looking like right now?
“I know it’s a party for the Summer Sun Celebration, but where is it happening?” Bon Bon asks, except it ISN’T for the Summer Sun Festival. I’m having a DIFFERENT party for that.
"OOOOUUUAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" I have another great idea! I could have Twilights Welcome-to-Ponyville party and the Summer Night Summer Sun Fun Summer party be the SAME party! It could be a Welcome to the Summer Fun Ponyville Night of Fun party! I don’t run away this time though. I can go ‘Ooah’ around them though because they’ve seen me do it before.
“I could just combine both of the parties! Thanks Bon Bon!” I say before I DO run now, I need to go prepare.
Author's Note
Heya folks! I go by alot of online names, but 'Kiwi' seems to be popular these days, XD
I've never written a My Little Pony fanfiction before, so if I did something you don't like, don't be afraid of letting me know. I've written a fanfic for Portal 2 four or so years ago, but MLP is new territory for me to dip my toes into.
You may have noticed...almost immediately that is...that I've decided to write the character of Pinkie Pie slightly differently than most, rest assured this is on purpose. You see, I've been (I don't want to use the word 'fighting' here since that isn't technically true, but it's the best word for the job) fighting Autism all my life.
I see the world differently, I'm slow to learn things, I'm deathly afraid of doing completely new things, and in general the act of socializing confuses me practically 90% of the time. So in the last year or so I've spent some time talking with, and sympathizing with other Autistic individuals.
In that time I've learned that the representation of autistic characters in...well basically every form of media is almost non-existent. The biggest example anyone seems to have is Rainman, and that may or may not be a poor example, but it certainly isn't the only way in which autism affects people.
So, I made a decision to write an MLP fanfic starring an autistic version of a character. I felt Twilight could fit, but seemed like the obvious choice for something like this. I was tossing around the idea of Applejack for a while, but decided against it, mostly because I'm afraid of trying to write her character correctly.
And thus we arrive at today, and the unveiling of two weeks of planning, 3 months of convincing myself to actually do this, and than another week of writing off and on. The finished product is completely out of my hands though.
To simplify everything for everyone. I hope that you all enjoy this, and if I get enough positive feedback I'll be sure to continue it (I didn't even finish the first episode for crying out loud)
Chapter 2
I sure am happy to see all my friends made it to the party! And nopony's even mad that it's a welcome party too. That makes me so happy!
Well, I guess not all my friends are here yet, Fluttershy still isn't here. I wonder what's taking her so long? I'm pretty sure she didn't get lost. Her cottage isn't THAT far away, is it? No wait, she's practising with her birds today, not at home! But if she's lost than that means Twilight is lost too! But that isn't good, I threw this party for her and everything. If Twilight doesn't make it to Twilights party...then...
...
"Ya'll sure this is a good idea sugarcube?" Applejack surprised me, thank you though, I really didn't want to think about that. "Not everypony likes parties the same way you do." Applejack is always honest, sometimes it hurts, why would someone not love one of my parties? But I have to stay happy, parties are what I'm good at, if I see a frown then that means I'm not good at parties anymore and...
I don't want to think about that either!
Keep your smile up, "Don't be silly, Applejack" I have to reassure her that I have everything under control. I know I don't, but she doesn't know that, "She'll be so surprised that she'll run and hide!" She looks at me kind of funny, so I have to add something, but what? I guess I'll just say the same thing over again. "Oh! AND she'll love it."
Applejack still has her funny look, but not like 'ha ha' funny, more, 'that's weird' funny. "Alright Pinkie, if you're sure." oo, she likes my idea!
I just say "yep," and walk away, I need to make super extra double sure that everything is ready for Twilight to be surprised at her party!
So the streamers look good, the library's never looked better! The confetti is ready to fall down. And the balloons are ready to fall UP. Hehehe! The only thing left is for Fluttershy to show up with-
"I hear someone coming!" I hear Daisy yell to everyone, but she interrupted me while I was thinking. I was going to say 'Twilight'.
WAIT! TWILIGHT IS COMING, WE NEED TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS! I have to run to the light switch and wait at the door before Twilight and Fluttershy get here! I have to make sure everyone is ready first. "Everyone!" I make sure they all hear me, they turn and look at me, I'm a bit uncomfortable, but I'm ready! "Yell surprise when I turn on the lights!" I run over to the light switch and it goes dark.
I can't see, so that means I can't focus on anything, which is bad, because if I don't focus on something then I'll lose my focus! And if I lose my focus then I might wreck everything. I have to see or hear something super fast. I can't look, because it's dark, I just turned off the light. So I listen.
"-we get here so fast?" That's Twilights voice, I'm glad I was paying extra special attention to her earlier, or I probably would have forgotten what she sounds like. "This is where I'm staying while in Ponyville," SHE'S STAYING?!
THIS IS SUPER DUPER EXCITAMZERIFITASTIC! I thought she was just visiting for the Summer Sun Festival! I'm so happy to hear that! Maybe I should have thrown a better welcome party? That doesn't matter right now, she's going to be staying! I can make up for this party by throwing her better parties later!
"WUAAAAHH" I hear Twilights spikey friend say, I made sure to remember his voice too. Oh wait, oops, I think I missed some of what they said.
"Aww, look at that, he's so sweepy he can't even keep his wittow bawance." Twilight says to Fluttershy, or maybe somepony else?
"Poor thing," Fluttershy sure does sound worried. I wonder what happened. "We simply must get him to bed." Okay, so that's what she was worried about. Fluttershy opens the door and brings him in. She sees me, but that's because she knew where I was going to be.
She sets Twilights friend on the floor before Twilight pushes her back out the door. "Yes, yes," I hear Twilight say, she sure seems to be in a hurry for her surprise party. I wonder if I accidentally invited her by mistake. That wouldn't be good. "We'll get right on that. Well goodnight!"
Twlight closed the door before Fluttershy gets inside, but then she walks to the middle of the room, PERFECT! I continue to listen as I open the door a tiny bit and let Fluttershy inside.
"Huh," Twilights friend says sounding a bit annoyed, "Rude much?" I go back over to the lightswitch and think about it. Is closing the door on someone rude? I didn't know that. My Pinkie Sense didn't warn me to watch out for closing doors! Plus Fluttershy looks fine. So maybe rudely closing a door isn't about getting hurt? I don't know.
Hmm...
Maybe Twilight and her friend can teach me more about being normal? I won't tell them that my brain is all different. I CAN'T! But maybe I can ask vague and unrelated questions and write everything down later at home. She has to have answers though, the floating square is still following her. I'll have to be sure to focus though so I don't forget.
"-ponies trying to make friends all the time." Oops, I forgot to listen again! RRrrrr!
"Now, where's the light?" Twilight asks. That's my cue! And I hear a click when I flip the light switch with my nose. And then I grab a party blower from my mane and rush over to Twilight, it's the orange one. Everypony yelled 'surprise!' when I turned on the lights. Perfect! Everything is going super amazing so far! I just hope Twilight is surprised.
I stand beside her and make sure to blow into my party blower close to her face. She loves it! Or at least I hope she did, I didn't get to see her face while I put my party blower back into my mane. But wait, I didn't get to yell surprise, that isn't good, what if she doesn't like my party because I didn't surprise her?
"Surprise!" I make she to be loud enough so that she can hear me, but wait, the floating square is in front of me now. I guess I must have made a good first impression ealier! This makes me so happy! Am I smiling? Check. Okay, she doesn't know your name yet, so introduce yourself! Wait, it moved again, will that keep happening? Nevermind! just say 'hi'.
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie. And I threw this party just for you!" Yes! Everything is super perfect so far. She needs to know that the party is for her and she didn't walk into someone elses surprise party.
Now I need to know if she's surprised. "Were you surprised?" She hasn't answered yet.
"Were ya? Were ya?" still nothing, keep asking, you need to be sure you did it right.
"Huh, huh, huh?!" She looks different, wait no, I'm just on the other side of her. When did I get onto the other side of Twilight? And did I run around her, or jump over her? That's not important, stay focused on Twilight.
"Very surprised." Yay, okay, she's surprised, that's half of her surprise party that's a success! "Libraries are supposed to be quiet." Hehehe, that's a funny joke.
"That's silly! What kind of welcome party would this be if it were quiet?" So Twilight likes jokes! I love jokes, we already have something in common!. But wait, say more then that. "I mean, DUH! BORRRRRING!"
She's starting to move, follow her! "You see, I saw you when you first got here, remember?" She might not remember what happened when she got here, not everypony is as good at focusing on things as I am. "You were all, 'hello', and I was all 'Ooah', remember?"
She still isn't talking, make sure that you keep explaining so that things don't get awkward. "You see, I never saw you before, and if I never saw..." Wait, have I never seen her before? Maybe when I was a filly, but I don't think she ever visited our rock farm.
Am I still talking? "...and if you're new, and that you hadn't..." Okay good, It's hard to pay attention to me sometimes. Wait, she's at one of the snack tables now, here's your chance to find out what flavour of cupcake she likes the best. No, wait, she grabbed the hot sauce and she's pouring it into some punch. Okay, so Twilight likes hot suace in her drinks. That's good to know!
What am I saying right now? "...throw a great big ginormous super-duper spectacular welcome party and invite everyone in Ponyville!" Oh! I sound like I'm done talking about why I threw her welcome party. Okay good, My super best friends are standing with me now. Sorry, I mean standing and flying. And hey, if Twilight knows why I threw her a welcome party, then we must be friends. And if I'm friends with her then she's friends with me. And if she's friends with me, then she's friends with MY friends!
Well be sure to let her know! "See, and now you have lots and lots of frineds!" Yay! Everything about this party has gone super amzatasticly! And Twilight's even turning around to thank me!
...Uh oh, she's crying! But why? Did I do something wrong..? Did, did I make Twilight hate me?
"Are you alright sugarcube?" Applejack asks, saving me again. She's really good at talking, I wish I was as good at talking to ponies as Applejack is. She just thinks something and then SAYS it. Twilight's face is red and she...jumps in the air!
She's not crying because she hates me, she just jumped, people don't jump unless they're scared or really happy! "Aww, she's so happy she's crying!" I need to make sure that everyone else knows too, they don't always see everything that I see.
Wait, where did Twilight go? I didn't see her leave, her floating square is still here, so I think she'll be right back.
Twilights friend picks up the hot sauce and holds it up. "Hot sauce," he says, but why, if he's Twilights friend then he must know that she loves hot sauce in her drinks. Maybe he wants some too? Maybe on a cupcake? I wonder what a cupcake with hot sauce on it would even taste like. He's holding the bottle, but I can't wait, so I tip it over in his hoof onto the vanilla cupcake on the table.
"Ooo" I say as I pour it, it sure does LOOK tastey. I take it and throw it in the air to eat it all at once. WOW! It tastes sweet and spicy and hot and cold and soft and sharp all at the SAME TIME! I gotta tell Dashie to try this. She's behind my right shoulder, so I turn to look at her. Her and applejack are looking at me kind of strange though.
"What?" Maybe I should tell them how this cupcake tastes before I tell them to try it? I look to my left and see Fluttershy and Rarity have the same strange looks.
"It's good!"
They all giggle, so I giggle too. I don't remember telling a joke, but if they're laughing then it was funny. I look down at Twilights friend and he holds out his...arm? I think that's what it's called, it's not a foreleg.
"Hi, I'm Spike." He smiles, which means we're friends now too, now that I've learned his name.
"Your name is Spkie? That makes sense!" You see, me? It's not hard to get to know your own friends! You were just being silly earlier.
Author's Note
They didn't leave comments, but I got a few of my friends to read the first chapter and let me know what to improve and add more of.
Honestly when I wrote the first chapter last week, that was the first I'd written 1st person perspective in quite a while, so if it felt wrong or off (and not in the autistic way I intended, but because it just wasn't written quite well enough) then I hope I've improved here.
I definitely had more content to work with this time around. Being that this was Pinkies proper introduction in the actual show.
More to come next week.
