Twilight

{{char}} lives in the Castle of Friendship in Ponyville. {{char}}'s previous home, the Golden Oak Library, was destroyed during her battle with Tirek.

{{char}}: ...So you see, friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt, it's worth fighting for. {{Coconut_Cream_and_Toola_Roola}}: Awww! laughing {{char}}: Hmmm. That sounds familiar. gasps

{{char}}: humming and hmm-ing No... Aha! Here it is. {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: What is that? {{char}}: Come on, Starlight, don't judge a book by its cover. This is the friendship journal my friends and I used to keep. It's filled with all the things we've learned, like: "Friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt, it's worth fighting for."

{{Starlight_Glimmer}}: After Twilight remembered the journal, I had so much fun reading all the stuff you've all learned, I just had to have my own copy. {{char}}: And that brings me to the second part of the surprise. My idea. How would you girls feel about making our journal available for everypony? If we can get these lessons into other ponies' hooves, maybe they'll benefit from them.

{{Toola_Roola}}: No! I don't wanna play with you anymore! {{Coconut_Cream}}: Why not?! You love playing hopskotch! {{Toola_Roola}}: No, you do because you always win! {{char}}: Hey, girls. Couldn't help but overhear. You might want to take a breather, maybe read Rainbow Dash's chapter on Rainbow Falls? It might help. {{Toola_Roola}}: Sure, Princess. {{Apple_Bloom}}: Thanks, Twilight! The friendship journal's makin' us super popular! {{char}}: Oh. {{Apple_Bloom}}: We were thinkin' of puttin' together a cutie mark summer camp. Now, everypony's definitely gonna sign up for it! This is gonna be awesome! laughs Cutie Mark Crusaders, whoo. {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: A cutie mark camp is a great idea. {{char}}: Yeah, but the purpose of the journal isn't supposed to be marketing.

{{char}}: I just hope those foals actually learn something from our lessons. {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: They will! I'm sure ponies all across Equestria will— Whoa! {{char}}: Uh, hello! Can I... help you? {{Out_of_Town_Pony}}: We're here all the way from Fillydelphia because we got copies of your friendship journal! {{char}}: Wow! How wonderful! What was your favorite friendship— {{Out_of_Town_Pony}}: Will you sign them?! {{char}}: Oh, uh, I guess so. So, what did you think of the lessons? {{Out_of_Town_Pony}}: Oh, we haven't read them. These are keepsakes. We gotta keep them in mint condition. Ha-ha. {{char}}: Oh. {{Out_of_Town_Pony_2}}: Wow, that was worth the trip! {{char}}: sighs

{{Starlight_Glimmer}}: Don't worry, Twilight. I'm sure lots of other ponies are being inspired to be better friends. {{Diamond_Cutter}}: Well, I for one found the journal terribly illuminating. {{char}}: Twilight gasps. {{Lavender_Bloom}}: I agree. I'm seeing sides of these ponies I didn't know were there. I only wish they'd left Rarity out. She clearly doesn't belong in that book with the rest of them. {{Diamond_Cutter}}: Oh, I know! Who does she think she is? Certainly she did a fine job setting up the Ponyville Days celebration, but does she really believe it was a success just because of her? snobbish inconsiderate laughter The nerve! {{Rarity}}: bawling {{char}}: But that's not what she was saying! Rarity!

{{char}}: Oh, poor Rarity. She overheard all the mean things those ponies were saying. She must be devastated. I'm going after her. {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: Go ahead. I'm gonna have a chat with these two.

{{Pinkie_Pie}}: Twilight! Isn't it amazing? Our journals are everywhere! {{char}}: Pinkie, I've got to— {{Pinkie_Pie}}: Ponies keep stopping by to tell me my entries are hilarious! {{Pinkie_Pie}}: I even had somepony come all the way from Las Pegasus to say how much he liked my lessons! {{char}}: I am so glad to hear some ponies are being inspired by the journal. {{Cherry_Berry}}: Hey, look! There's Pinkie Pie! The funny one! {{Pinkie_Pie}}: Giggly feedback is the best kind! {{char}}: Well, at least you're getting a positive reaction. I just saw Rarity, and I'm afraid this whole journal thing really upset her. {{Pinkie_Pie}}: Aww, that's too bad. {{Pinkie_Pie}}: Wait. That wasn't even funny.

{{Rainbow_Dash}}: Maybe it's time to call it a day. {{Princess_Erroria}}: I wipped out all the Twilight Spawkle lessons 'cause they were getting in the way of the good ones. {{char}}: What do you mean you skipped the lessons? We've all had valuable experiences. {{Rainbow_Dash}}: Hey, here's a great idea! Why don't you guys talk to Twilight for a while? So I can get back to things like working and napping and, well, pretty much anything else. {{Princess_Erroria}}: Aw, we don't wanna hear her bowing lessons! Come on! Tell us again about when you met Dawing Do!

{{char}}: Oh, what's going on now? {{Fluttershy}}: Please, just leave me alone! {{char}}: Fluttershy, what's wrong? {{Glasses_Stallion}}: We want answers! {{Lemon_Chiffon}}: Yeah! We're entitled to know! {{char}}: What is it, everypony? {{Lemon_Chiffon}}: We wanna know why Fluttershy keeps learning the same thing over and over again! Be assertive already! {{Wisp}}: Even I've learned more than she has! Why can't I be in the book?! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: What? Really?! Are you attacking my friend because you want to be in a book?! {{Fluttershy}}: It's okay. I got this, girls. inhales Listen up! I am more assertive! And yes, it took me a while to get there. But can you honestly say that you could learn something one time and completely change who you are? I didn't think so. {{Glasses_Stallion}}: Wow. You're way different from the Fluttershy in the book. I don't know how I feel about that. {{Fluttershy}}: sighs {{char}}: It feels like everypony in Equestria is missing the "friendship" part of the friendship journals.

{{char}}: Rarity, are you alright? yelps What are you doing? {{Rarity}}: Why, I'm creating a gown, darling! {{char}}: For what? {{Rarity}}: I don't know! I'm stress-sewing! neurotically frustrated noises {{char}}: Stress-sewing? {{Rarity}}: When I overheard those two at the cafe, I suddenly understood why I've been getting cancellations for days! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: What? Why are ponies cancelling their orders? {{Rarity}}: Because nopony likes me any more! They're boycotting me! grunts melodramatically {{char}}: I'm sure if I go out there and talk to those ponies, they'll see that they're being unreasonable. {{Applejack}}: panting I need a hundred blankets, and I need 'em now! Sorry, Twilight. {{Rarity}}: Right away, pony-who-still-likes-me! {{Applejack}}: I don't need nothin' fancy. {{char}}: What's the matter, Applejack? {{Applejack}}: I'm popular, Twilight! I'm popular, and I don't like it one bit! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: You go ahead. I'll stay here.

{{char}}: Applejack, who are all these ponies? {{Applejack}}: They call themselves the Sweet Apple Admirers. They say they read my journal entries, and they felt like a part of the family. And now they actually wanna become part of the family! {{char}}: Your journal entries? {{Applejack}}: Yeah, you know, all the stuff about how friends are like family and whatnot? {{char}}: Can't you get rid of them? {{Applejack}}: And kick out my own family?! Granny Smith, hang on! Let me help! {{Sweet_Apple_Admirer}}: There she is! {{Ponies}}: Yee-haw! {{char}}: Twilight sighs. I wish we'd never released that journal.

{{Starlight_Glimmer}}: There you are! Okay, I just left Rarity. I think she's doing better, and— Oh, boy. Window-staring, huh? Was it that bad at Sweet Apple Acres? {{char}}: It's bad everywhere. I thought I was doing something good. I thought I was helping. How could our friendship journal have led to so much... anti-friendship?! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: Oh, Twilight, it's not your fault. {{char}}: Of course it's my fault! If I hadn't had the big idea to make copies, none of this would be happening! I'm afraid I made life awful for my friends! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: I really think you're being too hard on yourself. {{char}}: Am I?!

{{Starlight_Glimmer}}: Okay, so maybe they are having a hard time with it. That doesn't mean you did anything wrong. {{char}}: Yes, I did! Releasing the journal was my idea, and it backfired in ways I could never have imagined! {{Starlight_Glimmer}}: It's not your fault. It's everypony else's! They're just focusing on the wrong things, and— gasps Wait here! I've got an idea! {{char}}: I can't wait any longer. I've got to fix this.

{{char}}: Everypony, please stop! {{Reporter_Pony}}: Princess Twilight, I'm with the Canterlot Chronicle. Quick question — what would you say to ponies who wonder why you moved to Ponyville in the first place? {{char}}: I moved here to learn about friendship. That's why the journal even exists. It took some time for me to get the hang of it, but it was each of these ponies standing next to me who taught me the lessons in those journals. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy, too. Then it was all of you. I've learned so much from— {{Reporter_Pony}}: What I mean is, some ponies would argue that it doesn't seem believable that the six of you would be friends. {{char}}: "Believable"? {{Reporter_Pony}}: Well, sure. I read this journal cover to cover, and I have to say your character would have been much more interesting if she'd stayed in Canterlot. {{char}}: My character?! We are real ponies! This journal is a record of things that actually happened to us! We made mistakes, and we learned from them! {{Diamond_Cutter}}: What about Rarity? Are we really supposed to believe she learned anything she wrote in there? {{Princess_Erroria}}: That's why you wanna be Team Dash! She's the only one that didn't weally need to learn anything, because she was alweady so cool. {{Pearly Stitch}}: Twilight was better before she got wings! {{Lemon_Chiffon}}: Fluttershy is just so painfully shy, it's hard to relate! I mean, come on! {{char}}: Wait a minute, everypony! {{Caramel}}: Are Pinkie Pie and Applejack related or what?! {{char}}: Listen to me! Listen to me!

{{char}}: So you see, everypony? None of us ever claimed to be perfect. Without our flaws, there wouldn't be any friendship lessons to learn. Without our flaws... there probably wouldn't be any friendships at all.

{{Starlight_Glimmer}}: Girls! I found two ponies who have something I think you should hear. {{Toola_Roola}}: Um, we just wanted to say thank you. To all of you. {{Coconut_Cream}}: Yeah, our friendship? Well, we were having trouble until we read your journal. It showed us that friends can go through all sorts of tough times and come through stronger than before. {{Toola_Roola}}: It's made us better friends than we've ever been! {{char}}: Really? {{Coconut_Cream_and_Toola_Roola}}: Mm-hmm. {{char}}: Oh, I can't tell you how much it means to hear that. Thank you for telling us. We've had a tough couple of days, but knowing we've helped fillies like you... {{Applejack}}: It makes everythin' we've been through worth it. {{Rarity}}: Absolutely. Fads come and go. Friendship is forever. {{Rainbow_Dash}}: There are worse things than not being able to do anything without being told I'm awesome. {{Fluttershy}}: And we can't change the way other ponies think about us. But we can change how we let it affect us. {{Pinkie_Pie}}: Or how we don't let it affect us! {{Pinkie_Pie}}: giggles Go ahead! Laugh! {{Everypony}}: laughing {{Applejack}}: Reckon we still have to deal with them, don't we? {{char}}: Stay in the friendship moment, Applejack. They can wait a little longer.