Part of The Weedverse, and introducing Sumac Apple, Trixie Lulamoon and the Horrendous Hypothesis
tells of what happens when Trixie brings her son to Ponyville.
Has a sequel: Princess Twilight Sparkle's School For Fantastic Foals
Trixie Lulamoon and the Horrendous Hypothesis provides examples of:
- The Alleged Car: The wagon is barely holding together after so long on the roads.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Trixie uses the threat of deliberately doing this to get Sumac to cooperate with getting washed.
- Badass Bureaucrat: One of the earliest signs of Twilight Velvet's skills is an off-hand mention of her getting the paperwork in order for Trixie and Sumac.
- Cuteness Proximity: All the adults have this response to Sumac and Pebble's Sleep Cute.
- But Now I Must Go: Trixie intends to leave Sumac in Ponyville, where he can get the education and care he deserves. Fortunately, see I Choose to Stay, below.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Discussed with Trixie's story. Percheron's Heroic Sacrifice inspired the villagers around him to fight harder and win.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Non-violent variant. How Pebble and Sumac end the story, the "fire" in question being getting Sumac through his academic interview.
- Girls Have Cooties: Sumac believes this.
- Hates Baths: Sumac really doesn't like getting washed.
- I Choose to Stay: When Trixie tries to leave, Twilight, Maud, Applejack, Big Mac and Tarnish all gather to encourage her to settle down and get the help she needs as well, as well as to stop her hurting Sumac by abandoning him.
- I Gave My Word: Big Mac can't fix the wagon, so instead rebuilds it from the ground up.
- Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: Non-romantic variant. After a particularly heartbreaking argument and make-up, the other characters leave Sumac and Trixie alone.
- The Magic Goes Away: The eponymous Hypothesis is a variation, Sumac hypothesises that the amount of magic in the world is fixed, and as unicorn populations rise, it's spread increasingly thin, making each individual unicorn weaker, and the statistics back him up.
- The Plan: Most of the story turns out to be one by Applejack, of all ponies. Apples look after their own.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Sumac to Pebble before the interview.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Applejack gives one to Trixie while trying to convince her to stay.
- Sand In My Eyes: While discussing both future and past, both Trixie and Tarnish claim that Twilight should get better cleaners.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Pebble gets chastised for using this to drive off ponies.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Getting Sumac out of Ponyville was a good idea when he was younger, and his parents' crimes were still fresh in the public consciousness. Applejack regrets that she wasn't able to take Sumac in, but knew Trixie would take care of him.
- Sleep Cute: Sumac and Pebble, after she is forced to apologise to him and decides to help out with his project.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Pebble reckons that getting Pinkie to forgive her for breaking a Pinkie Promise is impossible, even compared to earning her mother's forgiveness, something she claims takes an entire geological epoch.
- Training the Peaceful Villagers: Trixie tells Sumac the tale of Percheron and Taureau, who did this to drive off some bandits.
- Volleying Insults: Pebble and Sumac's first meeting does not go well.
