GoldenDelicious

"Why hold on there Golden Delicious!" complained her mother Peach Cobbler, "What in sam hill you think your doin'?" This question was warranted seeing as how the filly was taking to tearing the kitchen apart for no discernable reason. She stood by the stove and scowled at the little filly who just then emerged from a storage closet with a pail on her head. "But Mah! I'm..." she eyes up at the pail and flicks it back into the closet. She wandered closer to the spectacled mare, "Mah! I'm makin' friends! There's a boy 'n two girls and they want to goin' make some kites! They fixin' for supplies though and I thought I'd rummage through the cubbards!" she responds by looking under the sink. This lasts until there’s a tickle in her nose as she backs away and lets out an exasperated cough, "Eww, them mothballs smell nasty!" Peach Cobbler’s expressions changed from annoyance to care for her little filly. "Well, now. Good to see your makin' friends. So, kites you say? Well, we still got a bunch of sacks you can use. Might need to use somethin’ to close up the holes..." as the mare talks Golden Delicious has vanished and returned with notepad and pencil as she jots down these notes with the pencil in her teeth. "I suppose you can use whatever you need from the supply closet. Just tell me all your gonna take, you here missy?" Cobbler's tone was firm but still loving and Delicious lifts her head and smiles brightly, "Yes mam!" Now given free reign of the supply closet Golden Delicious vanishes inside. Hmm... kite supplies. Well, plenty of old burlap sacks still smelling of apples. She can take as many of those as she can fit on her back. String... what could they use? Well, there’s some bailing wire. Maybe not the best for string but could be good for keepin’ all the sticks together! Ah, and there we go! Some twine cord for when Pa needs to knot up somethin’ round the house. That'll be plenty of string. She goes through the checklist. Oh shoot! The frame! She banged around in the closet trying to find anything that would work. No, nothing that would be a decent frame. Oh! Food coloring though! Those will make the kites look real pretty and not all nasty and brown. Golden Delicious looked over her collection. About 9 or 10 large burlap sacks, various half empty food coloring bottles (with green mostly full), bailing wire, and some string. Piling this all together into one of the sacks and placing it on her back, she trots out of the room and makes her way to the door. "E-hem!" comes the voice behind the filly as Golden Delicious's head turns with a sheepish smile. Okay, so maybe she was a little concerned she couldn't get away with all that stuff. But after a quick inspection the mare gives a nod and smiles, "You go on and have fun with your friends, sweetpea." GD smiles and gives her mom a warm hug in reply, "Thank yah Ma! I'll be back soon!" "And in one piece! Don’t you all get in trouble or I'll right sick the Sheriff on you!" Cobbler teased to her daughter. "I ain't!" she calls back as she opens the door and trots back outside. She finds her newfound friends not far from where they were. Ohh! And some more feathers too! This is going to be a great day for flying a kite!

Golden was still none the wiser of her newfound friends’ schemes. As far as she was concerned it was going to be a nice day of kite making. She smiles back to Jonagold, “I shor’ can. Iff’in you need any supplies I’m sure between Ma’s bakery and Pa’s tools I right find us a heap of stuff for makin’ kites. Lookin’ forward to it all.†As she turning to head back to the bakery to tell Ma and nose around for a few kite worthy supplies, she catches Arrows barbed comment. And once again, the orange haired earth pony doesn’t even register the bark. She giggles and gives a salute with her right hoof, “Yes mam, mam! I’ll hurry to - on the double – with an extra little giddy-up ta spare! Yeeee-hooo!†she says before trotting her way from the group and back to the bakery. She even catches up past Sheriff Silverstar as she hurriedly reaches the door of the bakery and pounds on the door. “Maaaaa! Come on Ma! I ain’t gonna sit on my tookus no more! I got me some genuine friends who are goin out for kite makin! I’m gonna help!†as the door opens from the over end Golden gives a little wave back to her collected new pals, “I’ll see you all on over in the drop of Pa’s beaten ‘ol hat!†And she vanishes looking for building supplies.

“Oh!†she exclaims as she is finally brought into the plan, “A kite is it? Well, I reckon we can fashion up a dandy! And with the breeze and all we can sure get ‘er goin easy!†As yes, she was already starting to work out the plans. Her mind wandered for a moment as she started to replace her usual kite making bits with what she could find around. Hmm... tumbleweeds ain’t gonna make straight enough sticks. Suppose she could sneak back in the bakery and get a few old burlap sacks. Oh! She was so excited and she was already makin’ friends! She perks back up right as Sheriff Silverstar finishes that story of his with an ‘ok?’ as she pops back to attention. “Aww yes sir, sir. I’m sure we’ll be doin’, er... whatever you said we were to be doin.†okay, so she was caught up thinkin’ about how to make kites and didn’t catch some most any of it.

The filly was still nervously smiling like that one time she snuck into the Salt Lick without permission. Good to see the crowd didn't find her rambling introduction too off-putting. She grasped that extended hoof and gave it a firm shake just like her Pa taught. "Well greetin's there Gala, Arpy, and Jona. Fam'lies moved into the bakery. Ma does the pies and Pa does all the hard laborin'. So, yeah, all new and sorts." She turns her gaze to catch the slackjawed male as she gives him a sideways glance. She was going to make some hushed comment to Gala but is interrupted by his question, "Oh, well see... well, I ain't the best versed in speekin'. Kinda had to give myself a little peppin' up!" she says with a smirk. Her attention focuses now on the yellow unicorn and her "blanks" comment. She blinks a little and the comment goes right over her head. She instead smiles back to her and gives back a friendly smile. "Hey Arpy. Nice to meetcha. Umm... nice hat." she says, likely unaware of the unis difficulty and the resulting hole she added to it a moment before. The golden earth pony was feeling far more relaxed now that all the introductions had finally wrapped up and they all seemed nice enough. All in all, one right good introductions without any apparent slip-ups. She watches as the sheriff makes his way towards the group and gives him a big old smile, "Afternoon sir! I ain't got no clue myself. What were you guys fixin' to do? What's them buzzard feathers for?" she says with a point of her hoof. Sure enough, those same two rouge feathers are sticking out conspicuously from the pack. And it likely didn't help their cause that the authority may be clued in on the youngin's plans.

'B..But Ma!' was all Golden Delicious could get out before the bakery door was shut and she was forced outside. Okay, so she had gotten a little tired of thumbing through the cookbooks. And had started to reorganize all of Ma's spices by stinkiest to nicest. And then there was all that flour she tipped into today's batch of sarsaparilla. Yeah - that may have been it. Problem is she didn't have any clue what to do now that she was banished out of the frontdoor of the bakery and into the town square. After being migrants for much of their life, Golden Delicious was having quite a trying time learning how to stay put. It was weird having her own room with her own stuff. And Ma and Pa were always so insistent that she go out and make some friends. Not like she plum well knew how to. 'Dag nabbit! What the hay needles am I'm gonna do now.? Hmm... Oh! I'll help Pa!' she says with a grin in a moment of inspiration... which is quickly dashed as her mind wandered over to her Pa's task for the day - clearing out a potentially usable field of cactus. She hissed to herself in mock pain at the idea of spending a day under the sun dealing with all them prickly plants. 'Err...then again I recon' he got his hooves full. Consarn it...' she mumbles to herself as she wanders away from the bakery door. It was proving to be a dusty if not bustling day around the center of town. She scans for any sign of life that could hold her attention for more than a flicker. Ma and Pa were out of the question. Could harass the ponies working on the horse drawn horsedrawn carriages but they were no fun last time. She didn't have much in the way of bits so doing shopping was right out. Great, she was going to have to make her own fun. And then! *GAAAAAASP* Other ponies! Her age! Nearby! Maybe this was her day to actually make friends in the new town. She checked her ponytail. No bugs in it today. She lifted her hoof to check her breath - egh, could be worse. And now the approach. Slow and steady... that's right. Her eyes roll back as she starts to recount what her Pa told her as she moves closer,'Golden Delicious, buck on up, yah hear? You're a smart filly. Make yourself some friend and don't go on thinkin' your gonna do somethin' silly!' Seems she didn't account for how close she was the the crew because she was pretty much within earshot of the crew for the whole monologue. As her eyes reconnect with the crew, the blankflank lets out a little nervous giggle. 'Ugh, ha..a..howdy?'

So checking in on any result. Will I need to change? If so, I'll likely want to have a user change my forum name as well if possible.

Skye: I didn't realize it until after I made the character that the relation had been made. The GD in the first episode was male as I recall. We could somewhat sidestep the issue and have them both share the name leading to 'why does everypony think that's me' kind of situations. Then again, I could see where that could be confusing. Flutterscotch: I'd probably be pretty interested. I have a feeling she is going to be the Sweetie Belle of the bunch and keep the team a little safer. That and I think he'll likely be pretty helpful with construction. Once I'm accepted I'll see if I can wander towards the chat.

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