(Silly Filly Studios Theme Plays)
(Gentle Piano Melody)
(Celestia) (Voice-Over) THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD QUITE SO AMAZING AS THE FIRST WINTER'S SNOW.
The first few flakes falling from the sky, signifying great change.
The time for the land to rest,
the animals to dream,
and the ponies of Equestria to relax and play, knowing another year has successfully aged to its eve.
Holiday celebrations, peaceful nights of rest, brisk laughter in the day,
all brought forth by a single powdery fragment.
Some might scoff at the idea that something so small could hold such power,
but they are the ones who have forgotten how the snowflake came to be.
[MRS. WINDITH] ...following the Spring Sunrise, the rain pegasi will bring forth the snow-melting showers from the South.
Can anypony tell me the southern nation that allows Equestria to collect their warm-front cloud system?
Cirrus?
[CIRRUS] (Hesitant) Uh... Ande... uhhhhh.... Zebr...!
[MRS. WINDITH] (Dully) Camelu.
[CIRRUS] Oh. Yeah.
[CUMULONIMBUS] (Tersely) Whoever it is, they need to hurry up and go get the front. It's. Freezing.
[MRS. WINDITH] They couldn't produce the rain yet, even if they were back with the weather system.
The land still needs time to rest.
That's the only reason we create winter: to help rejuvenate the soil for the Earth Ponies below.
[CUMULONIMBUS] Well, I'm sick of waiting.
[MRS. WINDITH] You won't have to wait much longer. The Spring Sunrise is only two days away.
Then you won't have to see a speck of snow for a whole year!
On that note, how is everyone coming along with their Spring Sunrise presentations?
Is everypony and their partner ready to present their seasonal gifts to the princesses?
Snowdrop?
*Snowdrop gasps lightly*
[MRS. WINDITH] How is your project coming?
[SNOWDROP] (Hesitant) My... uh... my project?
[MRS. WINDITH] Yes... are you and your partner ready to present?
[SNOWDROP] (Anxious) My partner? Um...
[MRS. WINDITH] Do you not have a partner still?
Snowdrop, this isn't just a small school project!
This is the 100th Spring Sunrise under the princesses' rule.
They've honored us with the opportunity to show what Cloudsdale's future can create to invigorate the seasons.
Have you even begun your work?
[SNOWDROP] Um... Well... I...
[CLASSMATE 1] Mrs. Windith is going to make someone work with her again, isn't she?
[CLASSMATE 2] It's not like she can make anything when she can't see in front of her own hooves.
[CLASSMATE 3] We worked with her last time! You do it!
[SNOWDROP] I-I... Of course I've started!
I've actually been working on something for a while now.
By myself! Because it's, uh... a surprise!
[CUMULONIMBUS] *scoff* A surprise?
[SNOWDROP] (Anxiously) Um... uh-huh! A surprise!
That's why I wanted to work alone, I-
*bell chimes*
[MRS. WINDITH] Alright, everypony. Be careful going home.
Remember to bring in your projects tomorrow for a final work day.
The princesses arrive in TWO DAYS!
(Concerned) Are you sure you'll be ready? Working by yourself can't be easy.
I can still place you in another group, you'll get credit.
[SNOWDROP] Oh, no! I have something really good planned, Mrs. Windith. You'll see!
But, um, i-it has to be a surprise!
It has to!
[MRS. WINDITH] Well... alright, then.
Be careful going home.
I know you know your way, but the last blizzard of the year is always the worst.
[SNOWDROP] I will!
*sighs to self* Really good surprise... sure.
*wind howling*
[SNOWDROP] *sniffles* I can't go to the Spring Sunrise. I just can't.
A useless foal like me could never make anything for spring.
(voice breaking) The princesses would just... just laugh at me, and...
*soft clarinet tune*
[FILLY SNOWDROP] You can wish on them?
[PRIMROSE] Yes. Once, there was a time when you couldn't, when stars were rare.
But when the princesses came, the stars began to come out every night.
*"twinkling" sounds* I bet if you listened, you could hear them twinkle.
[FILLY SNOWDROP] No, I couldn't.
[PRIMROSE] You listen better than any pony I know!
[FILLY SNOWDROP] All I hear is quiet. I'd rather see them.
Do you think if I wished hard enough, they would let me see them?
[PRIMROSE] It's better to save your wishes, Snowdrop, for something you really need.
[FILLY SNOWDROP] Don't I really need my eyes?
[PRIMROSE] *chuckles* No, not you. You're too special for that.
[FILLY SNOWDROP] I am?
[PRIMROSE] Who else could discover an entire cloud's shape without denting the surface?
*Snowdrop giggles* Only one little filly's wings and hooves are careful enough to do that!
And I bet if you tried again, you WOULD be able to hear the stars twinkling at night.
You're a special filly, my Snowdrop. Don't worry.
You won't need your eyes to find your place in the world.
[FILLY SNOWDROP] I think I hear the twinkles!
[SNOWDROP] (morosely) Twinkles. What good are twinkles? You can't wish on twinkles.
I don't know if one of you is out there tonight in all this snow -
- I don't think you are -
- But please, if you are, I... I...
I wish, I hope, I dream, I pray. By the princesses' rule, light my way.
Please, I... *sniffles, voice breaks* I just want to show I can do something for once.
Everyone else says I can't do anything, but... but I just...
*twinkle, Snowdrop gasps*
That wasn't snow...
*twinkles repeating*
*twinkles continue throughout, wind blows* Snow... snow...
[PRIMROSE] (Voice-Over) You listen better than any pony I know.
*Snowdrop gasps*
[FILLY SNOWDROP] (Voice-Over) Tell me more about the stars.
[PRIMROSE] (Voice-Over) Well, there are all sorts of stars. All different shapes and sizes...
*Snowdrop grunts* ...but they all have little points at their edges.
When they sparkle, their shapes shift.
They leave little glowing spaces, only for a moment.
*wind blows* And the few that streak across the sky and fall down to the earth, the shooting stars?
Those are the ones you make your strongest wishes on,
because they can carry them through.
*twinkle*
[PRIMROSE] (calling out anxiously) SNOWDROP!
What are you doing?! It's freezing! Come inside.
[SNOWDROP] Mother! Mother, look!
[CELESTIA] Thank you all very much for your hard work.
After a long winter, it is wonderful to see so many young fillies and colts
bringing such beautiful ideas to make the season shine.
Now, we can only choose one as the Centennial symbol, but -
[SNOWDROP] Wait! *ponies grumbling and complaining*
[CLASSMATE 1] She's here?!
[CLASSMATE 2] She didn't show up to class at all yesterday.
[CLASSMATE 3] I thought Mrs. Windith excused her.
[MRS. WINDITH] Snowdrop?
[PRIMROSE] Forgive us the interruption, Your Highnesses, it's just -
[SNOWDROP] I've been working so hard, please! I have a gift for the seasons too, and -
[CUMULONIMBUS] Doubt that.
[CELESTIA] May we see it?
*bright, uplifting music*
[CIRRUS] You brought snow?!
[CUMULONIMBUS] And just one little dot of it!
[CLASSMATE 2] Maybe she just grabbed the wrong thing on her way here?
[CLASSMATE 1] Why would you bring snow to the Spring Sunrise?
[SNOWDROP] It's not snow! I made a star!
[CIRRUS] *laughs derisively* A star?! You can't make stars! It doesn't even look like one!
[SNOWDROP] (Indignant) Maybe it doesn't look like one, but it's still a star!
It's a star for winter.
I can't see what the stars look like up there,
just like I can't see what spring looks like.
But I can hear it all, and I heard the snow twinkling just like the stars do every night.
So they should be able to grant wishes too, shouldn't they?
Winter's been giving us a gift all this time, and-and we've just been ignoring it.
Celebrating spring is good, but winter can't be all bad if it gives us these.
It may be cold and dark, but that doesn't mean there isn't any good to it.
Maybe... maybe winter is sad that everypony doesn't like it.
So maybe we need to make wishes on the winter snow,
just like how we wish on the night's stars.
Maybe then we can have a happy winter instead.
We already have a happy spring, and summer, and fall,
can't winter be happy, too?
Because... winter... it's important.
Even if it seems useless, it can give us wonderful things.
So...
[LUNA] May we see your wishing snow?
[CELESTIA] Could you make us some more?
[SNOWDROP] *gasp* Uh-huh!
*uplifting choir and chimes*
[CELESTIA] (Voice-Over) The following year's snowfall was one of the most celebrated events in Equestrian history.
Winter's blessings had at last been discovered.
From then on, snows were gentle, behaving the weather team's wishes.
Foals could play, ponies could see beyond the icy chill.
And a new sort of starfall could bring everypony sweet dreams.
[LUNA] Is it really the last one we have?
[CELESTIA] It has been over a thousand years, sister,
and she only made so many.
[LUNA] Can we not save it?
[CELESTIA] You know she wouldn't have wanted that.
[LUNA] (voice breaking) But she... I... I never got to -
[CELESTIA] I am sorry for that. I know she was a dear friend to you.
[LUNA] The only one who ever truly knew my night.
[CELESTIA] She still knows it, Luna. You know that.
[GUARD] Princess. The weather captains are waiting for your signal.
[LUNA] (Voice-Over) Thank you, my friend,
for everything you gave,
and every wish you never knew came true.
(tearfully) Goodbye.
*somber piano music and chimes*
*clear, beautiful "twinkle"*