It helps to watch the "Winter Wrap-Up" episode to get a good idea on the setting of this chapter.

Anyways, this chapter deals with the inedible hardships that comes from being a parent: Dealing with BULLIES.
in which case, said bully is Diamond Tiara (a real evil child, if ever there was one)

I will expand on the Bully Situation in the next chapter,
so, for now, I will detail the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Applejack.


as I have stated before, the CMC were very close to Alex Sr. when he was alive.
mainly because like them, he was a blank flank (and, remained one after he died)

his death hit them hard, so when his son came out looking just like him,
they immediately look at Alex Jr. as the original Alex reborn, and returned to them.


So, their protection of them is understandable.


Applejack's implied tragic past, I based on some fanon concepts.
in which the absence of AJ's parents being that they died when she was Applebloom's age.

for that reason, I had AJ be a sympathetic shoulder for Twilight to cry on.
implying that AJ knows what loss is, and understand's Twilight's feelings.



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