It should have been so simple. I know who I am. I'm Pinkie Pie, harbinger of joy and happiness and smiles. Well, I guess I actually make those more than foretell them, but I can't help that. I just love to see ponies smile. It's what my cutie mark means. Three balloons. See, they're right here on my flank. Standing for my party throwing abilities…or something like that.

Oh, sure, I used to know just exactly what my cutie mark meant. I loved it. I mean, I totally still love it. But it wasn't always my cutie mark. We knew Twily didn't mean to. We knew what she was doing, she had explained it to us. None of us ever thought that would happen. And Twily is totally the smartest of us.

My cutie mark used to be three apples. Bright, shiny, and red. And I had been an Apple, too. I…I don't really remember too much, really. I know I wasn't happy. There were so many things to do, so much responsibility, and it was all mine. I…I just knew I would never find a reason to smile. Like the time just before I got my cutie mark, my other one with the balloons, when Granny Pie had died.

No, no, it wasn't that kinda sad feeling, but it was still sad. Hmm? Oh, yeah, it does make me sad thinking about it. But that's okay. You can't really know how wonderful it is to smile if you've never know what it's like to frown. But only frown in moderation, because frowns aren't the bestest for your heath.

I guess, really, that the happiness I felt when my friends all came to the farm and brought me back to Ponyvilly to cheer me up is when I realized I hadn't had a time to be really frowny for a long time. Oh, well, yeah, Discord totally made me all frowny, but that was different because it wasn't me being all frowny.

It totally does make sense, too. I mean…Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll finish answering your other question. I hadn't really been frowny in a long time. Not since I thought my friends all hated me.

Oh, that? See, they were planning a surprise party, so they were all avoiding me. It made me feel really bad. I didn't understand what I had done to make them hate me. It made me think really bad thoughts.

Like, what if they didn't really like me, like…ever. What if they only kept me around because, you know…element of laughter. What if whenever they said things about me that I thought were because they were my friends were actually because they hated me and wanted me to leave.

That…that wasn't a pretty day. No, I don't want to talk about it. Yes, I'm sure.

After? Oh, well, they were totally throwing me the bestest, surprisingest of surprise parties ever in the whole of party history or future. I think they were scared for me after that, though. Maybe I shouldn't have let Dashie see my other friends.

No…I don't want to talk about them either.

Hmph. That isn't very nice to say. I'm giving you an interview and you have to go and be a meanie beanie bo deanie. Yes, I'm mad at you. You shouldn't have said that. I do not need to share a room with Screw Loose.

Well, if you say you're sorry…

Oh, you have an appointment with Twily now? Really? Can I stay? Oh, okay. I see.

Hi Twilight! Yeah, I'm totally just leaving because it's your turn but he says we can totally do an interview as a group later.

Yeah, I know! Don't let him say mean things to you though.

Oh, nothing. He said he was sorry. Oh! But I gotta go now and get the 'Elements of Harmony First Interview" party ready! I mean, three years in the making.

Okie dokie lokie!

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