Fallout Equestria: Rewritten

In Stable II, the division of labor was sacred. Your cutie mark determined how you would spend the rest of your life keeping the stable alive. As a filly, I was thrilled with the idea of finding my special talent, although the event itself proved to be disappointing. When my cutie mark first appeared, my initial excitement was slowly replaced by confusion, once I had realized that it was a pip-buck; a common stable device typically worn on the right foreleg. A pip-buck is an advanced leg-mounted computer which provides access to various programs, a map, health monitoring, and a large band of radio frequencies available for listening and broadcasting pleasure. Everypony in the stable could be accounted for through their pip-bucks, which constantly gave stable security each pony's current location and status.

Having a pip-buck for a cutie mark was oddly specific, appropriate for my oddly specific assignment: pip-buck maintenance. A pip-buck contained just enough kinds of technology that none of the other technicians in the stable could singlehoofedly maintain or modify one, so there was a special department for them, and them alone. Such advanced and diverse devices may seem like an interesting subject for occupation, but my job was to maintain them, not play with them. In my search for entertainment on the job, I found myself doing more of the latter than the former; I disassembled and reassembled countless pip-bucks out of sheer boredom. I was assigned to stay in and around the pip-buck room just in case, not to perform any constant labor.

I often found myself feeling disappointed in my cutie mark itself. In Stable II, your cutie mark felt sometimes synonymous with your identity, especially when you didn't have many friends. I was Littlepip, the pip-buck technician, to most ponies, and only visited by those unfortunate enough whose pip-bucks needed maintenance. This wasn't helped by the infrequency of my interaction with other ponies. In fact, I only saw three ponies with any regularity, two of which weren't friends.