You'd think having a job as a princess would be great, I mean that's what every little filly wants to do when they get older, and if you look at how good the job looks at a quick glance it seems really simple. To be a good princess in the storybooks all you need is to have grace, charm, and beauty and you'd have a kingdom that would prosper for a thousand years.
It doesn't help that Aunty Celestia makes it look so easy. All she needs is a kind smile and a few wise words to solve any situation. Or so it seems. If I knew anypony knew about all of the behind-the-scenes stuff that aunty needs to do just to get up, just getting up in the morning, then no pony would want to be a princess, heck, if somepony offered them the job they would run away screaming.
I know all of the hoops that her and Aunty Luna have to hop through, heck I even need to jump through the same hoops now! I mean, wouldn't it be easier for everypony if we made just a tiny change and executed all of the nobles? I-
Oh, where are my manners, here I am dropping all of this onto your lap and I haven't even told you my name. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but you can just call me Cadence.
Pleasepleaseplease just call me Cadence, my name usually makes ponies so intimidated and I just really don't like it. I love my mom and dad and all but you should've tried to spell Mi Amore Cadenza when you were a filly, it wasn't easy, I'll tell you.
It also wasn't easy growing up as an alicorn either. When most fillies and colts were outside playing I had to deal with nobles that tried to control me, an overprotective aunt that used every little opportunity to groom me for the throne, and the seemingly endless tide of teachers that taught me everything from magic to history to how to correctly use a salad fork.
You might not think it, but a salad fork is surprisingly hard to use properly.... But I'm getting off topic, you're not here to hear me talk about salad forks, you're here for something important I'm sure and we will get to it as soon as possible... As soon as I finish venting, you don't know how nice it is to have somepony to just talk to for a change!
Now I can't go saying that my life was bad, I had the best food, housing, and education that money could buy, it was just a little too.... Much.
You should have seen Aunty's face when I asked her if I could get a job so I could pay for my own things! I really wish she would have let me apply for that job at Big Buck, but my babysitting job couldn't have gone better! I got my knight and shining armor and a country to call my own and everything!
Yay me...
It isn't like Shiny and I are practically losing our minds trying to run the Crystal Empire, which is completely different economically, traditionally, and culturally than Equestria is. I mean these crystal ponies think leaching is the most advanced form of medicine!
But I still can't help but admire my little ponies. The crystal ponies, even after the rule of Sombra, are still a strong, hard-working group. You wouldn't believe how quickly they've started to adapt to our modern way of life, and how they've embraced me as their ruler. I've never seen a harder working, or a more loving, group of ponies in my life. It makes me proud to call myself their princess.
So proud that I'm sitting here in my office going through mountains of paperwork that may or may not improve their lives.
"I wonder if I can get one of those stamp thingy's with my signature on it," I muttered as I did a little spin in my wheelie chair. With as much flourish as I could muster after ten hours of bucking doing this I signed the next paper.
"And that's all I'm doing for the day!" I muttered, reading the papers title. "'The proclamation of the silicide overuse of ice cream and the consumption of such by the nobles'? What the buck did I just sign?" Reading down the paper a little bit I couldn't help but feel my eye twitch. "...Did I just sign a law that controls the use of ice cream? What and th-"
