Letters Between Friends

by JumpingShinyFrogs

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Main 6, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Comedy
Length: 2582

A series of short letters between the many characters living in Equestria

Letters are standard fare in Equestria. They can bear good news or bad news, they can relay lessons learned, or they can simply be used to keep correspondence between the ponies of Equestria.

That last aspect is what we're focusing on here. Some are funny, some are sad, and some may even be romantic, but at end of the day, it's nothing more than a bunch of letters between friends.

Inspired by the Ace Attorney fanfiction Just a Note, by MadFox32, which you can read here.

This is a series of letters sent between various inhabitants of Equestria, with pairs ranging from Twilight Sparkle and Celestia, to Rainbow Dash and Steven Magnet. But I can't possibly be expected to come up with all of the pairs, now can I?

That's where you come in, dear readers. Have an idea for a letter? Then tell me about it, no matter how strange or ridiculous, and I will do my best to accommodate you.

Published 2015-08-02 01:50:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-08-05 00:25:51 UTC

1. Court is in session

Dear Princess Celestia,

How do you do it? I can't handle this whole 'court' thing at all! All these ponies are coming in asking for totally illogical things! Like for instance, Carrot Top wanted me to declare every Thursday 'National Carrot Day', where everyone would be forced to eat carrots for dinner. Or how Snips and Snails thought I should ban school so they wouldn't have to take a test.

I'm seriously at the end of my rope here. Any advice?

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

Why not try asking your friends for help? You are the Council of Friendship, after all.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I did try asking them for help, only they all made it worse! Would you believe that Rarity actually agreed with Amethyst Star that it should be mandatory for ponies to wear gemstones every day? Not only did I have to turn Amethyst down, but I also had to argue with Rarity for half an hour about why I turned her down.

Or how about when Pinkie thought that the Crusaders' request for bits so they could buy proper skydiving equipment was a great idea? There are so many possible results of that scheme and none of them are good!

So asking my friends for help is out. Any more advice?

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

You think you have it bad? I have to listen to snobbish nobles drone on and on about how I should lower their taxes and raise taxes for commoners because they're 'of noble blood' and 'so much better than the common pony'. At least your subjects will take no for an answer.

They also insist upon lecturing me about how I should choose their spoiled filly or colt for my next student, or how I should grant them funds to construct a new private country club or something of that nature. Honestly, I envy your position.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have an idea.

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

Do go on.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I, Princess Twilight Sparkle, do hereby propose to adjourn the Friendship Court and Solar Court on this day of Saturday, and all such Saturdays forth. Do you agree with this motion?

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

I hereby approve this motion. Court is adjourned.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia.

Author's Note

I plan for this story to be comment driven, so without further ado...

These are the rules for sending a request for a letter

Each pair can only be used once. It doesn't matter if you have a great idea for Twilight and Celestia, if it's already been done, I won't be doing it again.

For the most part, I choose the genre. If I decide it should be funny, then I'll make it funny, or sad if I think it should be sad. You are however, allowed to present me with a premise, and if it's a good one then I'll do it.

It doesn't have to be a letter. It just has to be in written format. The CMC passing a note back and forth in class, for example.

Nothing sexually explicit or overly morbid. This is an Everyone story, after all.

This should go without saying, but no OCs.

Nothing is too strange. Trust me.

To send a request, either PM me or leave a comment on the story. I'll write down all the requests and do my best to do all of them. If you'd like to write a guest chapter, just send me a message and we'll discuss it.

3. Shhh!

Author's Note

Imagine this as Pinkie and Fluttershy writing on post it notes. If this is hard to understand, I'll edit it in the future to avoid confusion.

3. Shhh!

Hey, Fluttershy, I know we're playing 'who can stay quiet the longest', and I REALLY wanna break your record, but I'm bored. Does writing count as talking?

I'm not sure. I guess not.

Yay! What was your record?

Um... I think it was eight hours. The referees thought there was something wrong with me, and so they took me to the hospital.

Wowee! That's a long time to be quiet. I'm bored already and it's only been half an hour! Imagine what it would be like if I actually did break that record? I mean, Ponyville would be so quiet and predictable because I wouldn't be able to jump out and say stuff like 'FOREVER!' because I'd be trying to stay quiet for eight hours! Can you imagine that?

Oh, my... That sounds wonderful terrible.

Doesn't it? What were you doing for those eight hours to not be bored?

Thinking.

About what? Cake?

Life... What's the meaning of life? Are we just waiting for our own demise, be it by chance or by inevitability? What awaits us at the end? Is there more? Or is there just nothing?

Uh... Hey, Mr and Mrs. Cake are planning on adding a new type of cake to the menu. I bet it's gonna be great. You should try some!

Maybe I should... But nothing will change whether I do or not. We'll all still end up in the ground some day. What do you think is the meaning of life, Pinkie?

To have...fun?

To you maybe. But not to me. To me, it's just a finite amount of time you have to try and unravel the meaning of life. And it's not enough time!

Can we...write about something else?

Oh, uh, yes. I mean, if that's what you'd like to do...

So...how about that cake?

It sounds nice.

...

...

Wait! I hear somepony talking about breaking a Pinkie Promise! This is a state of national emergency! Sorry, Flutters, but I'll have to break this record some other day!

How are you able to hear somepony all the way in town?

And she's gone...

5. Faithful Student

Author's Note

As suggested by atreyu

5. Faithful Student

Dear Mommy and Daddy,

Hi! I know it's only been a month since I first went to live with Princess Celestia, but I already miss you. But I'm having fun studying with Princess Celestia. She's so wise and pretty and perfect! And she knows lots of magic too! She has loads of books for me to read and she even gave me special permission to go into the Royal Library. I'm going to read all of those books!

The baby dragon that I hatched is named Spike. He's so cute! Princess Celestia says I'm too young to raise him, so she's taking care of him. She lets me visit him a lot. He likes to play with my tail, but sometimes he bites my hoof. Yesterday Princess Celestia told me to give him a present so that he knows I'm a good pony. I read up on dragons and the book said they like eating gemstones. I asked the Princess for a sapphire and she let me feed him.

Princess Celestia said she's training Spike to be my squire. I was scared she wouldn't want me as her student anymore because I didn't know what that was. But she just laughed and gave me a new book to read. The book said that squires are young ponies who act as servants to knights so that they can be knights themselves one day. I told Princess Celestia that I wasn't a knight and she just said 'Not yet'. I wonder what she meant?

How is Shining Armor doing? Did he make it into the Royal Guard yet? I want to come home and visit but I'm afraid that I'll miss a lesson with Princess Celestia and then she won't want me as her student anymore. I hope you write back soon!

Love, Twilight Sparkle.

6. Best friends again?

Author's Note

As suggested by Orion Caelum

6. Best friends again?

Dear Rainbow Dash,

I want to start out this letter by apologising to you. I know we already sort of made up in Griffonstone, but I never truly apologised for the way I treated you and your friends back in Ponyville. So, for that...I'm truly, truly sorry. I blamed you for what was my fault to begin with. If I hadn't been so aggressive and hostile, then I would've seen just how great your friends really were. Especially Pinkie Pie. I thought it was your fault, for making friends with people that I thought were 'uncool'.

While I was in Ponyville, I did some nasty things. I stole from somepony, and I played a prank on an elderly mare and nearly gave her a heart attack. And to top it all off...I made one of your friends cry. It wasn't even her fault. I saw her coming, I should've been the one to move, not her. She was walking backwards for Grover's sake! How did I expect her to see me?

And then, at that party...I wrongly assumed that Pinkie Pie had set it all up to get back at me, or to separate me from you. But even after she told me that she had just wanted to lift my spirits and feel welcome, I still refused to believe her. I even had the gall to try and use it as an excuse to get you away from her. And then you told me you had set the pranks. In that one moment, my whole world was nothing but anger. I hated you then and there for what you had done to me.

I started forming all kinds of revenge fantasies and plots. I would have done anything to make you feel as betrayed as I had in that moment. But after a while...the anger left. I was just empty. I was back to being a lonely griffon with no friends, because I had just thrown away the only true friend I ever had. I became the bitter griffon you met in Griffonstone. When you showed up, I was actually really happy to see you. But I didn't want to show you that. I just felt like I had to hide it, pretend I still wanted to enact my revenge, but I didn't actually know what I wanted.

I think I mostly just wanted my friend back.

And then I saved you, and Pinkie Pie taught me how to make friends. Everything had gone so well! But I still felt guilty about the whole thing. And that's why I'm writing you this letter.

Rainbow Dash, from the very bottom of my heart...can you forgive me? Can we go back to being best friends like we used to be?

Sincerely, Gilda.

Dear Gilda,

Gilda, of course I forgive you. I've been feeling guilty about that whole deal for a long time now. I thought it was my fault you were so angry. And to be honest, part of it was. If I hadn't neglected you so much to begin with, then you wouldn't have seen my new friends as competition. I should have visited you more often, and invited you to visit too.

I shouldn't have set all of those pranks at the party. I was riding a prank high from the day before...and I guess I got carried away. And then, when you got angry at Pinkie Pie, I just couldn't deal with you anymore. I said some things I shouldn't have, and I guess we went our separate ways. But I felt horrible. I knew that I had betrayed you, and that feeling was just eating me from the inside out. I'm the bucking Element of Loyalty! I should have been able to stick with my friend when she needed me.

So Gilda, now it's my turn to ask: will you forgive me?

Sincerely, Rainbow Dash.

2. Property damage

Author's Note

This one needs a bit of creative thinking. Imagine Rarity is throwing these letters out of her window and Rainbow Dash is throwing her ones back in.

2. Property damage

Dear Rainbow Dash,

No matter which tree you hide in, you still have to pay me for all of the things you broke. Really, I simply can't believe you ripped up all of my imported yak wool. Normally I'd overlook it as you are my friend, but I simply can't ignore the destruction of such a valuable piece of merchandise. You really must stop attempting to reclaim your record for 'most stuff broken in under one minute'. Thanks to your endeavours, you now owe me 300 bits in property damage expenses.

Sincerely, Rarity.

Dear Rarity,

Sheesh, I said I was sorry. I only flew away to hide cause you get really scary when you're mad. And besides, aren't we friends with the yaks now? I mean, can't you just, y'know ask them for more? 300 bits is a bit much, don't you think?

Though I will say that maybe your boutique wasn't the best place to try and win back my record. But Twilight's windows are a lot harder to crash through now that they're made of crystal. And she hasn't finished stocking the new library yet, so there aren't very many books to knock over.

Tell you what. I'll give you 150 bits, and I'll help you clean up. Deal?

Sincerely, Rainbow Dash.

Dear Rainbow Dash,

Make it 200 and you have a deal.

Sincerely, Rarity.

Dear Rarity,

Fine. I'll come out of the tree now.

Sincerely, Rainbow Dash.

4. Cock-a-doodle-doo

Author's Note

As suggested by crazypony300

4. Cock-a-doodle-doo

Dear Ma and Pa,

How are y'all doing? It's been a while since I last wrote. It's pretty lonely here in Manehattan. Aunt and Uncle Orange are real good to me, but they want me to be a 'proper Manehattanite'. It's hard learning all these new words, and ~~ete~~ ~~etik~~ manners. Like how I'm only supposed to use a certain kind of fork for salad, or a certain spoon for soup.

But I'm having fun too! I've been having a good time looking at all the tall buildings. And I didn't even know there was that many kinds of shop! There are other fillies here too. Most of them are just spoiled little rich fillies though. But there are a few who are fun to play with. Aunt Orange gave out to me yesterday cause I was hoof-wrestling one of the colts. She said it was 'uncouth' and that a lady doesn't hoof-wrestle. But I love hoof-wrestling! I'm good at it too. I always win.

I still haven't gotten my cutie mark. I'm sure it'll appear soon though. Maybe it would've been for hoof-wrestling, but I guess I won't find out now. I miss the farm... I miss bucking the trees, and then having Pa tell me I did a good job and letting me wear his hat for the day. I still wake up early with the sunrise, and then I can't sleep. I keep waiting to hear the rooster crowing, but there aren't any roosters here. Just the other day I leaned out of my window and tried to crow like a rooster, but it just wasn't the same.

I hope you're feeling better Ma. In your last letter you said you were sick. I'm going to ask Aunt and Uncle Orange if I can go home for a visit soon.

Love, Applejack.