Smart Cookie

Smart Cookie was the assistant to Chancellor Puddinghead.

Life
Born in the Pre-Equestrian era, Smart Cookie was likely born in the Earth Pony state and was the assistant to Chancellor Puddinghead. Realistic, practical, and intelligent, Smart Cookie was far more qualified than her superior, but stuck by her side nonetheless, despite having sassy remarks for much of Puddinghead's faults.

After a failed attempt at diplomacy at the Three Tribes Summit to figure out what to do about the deplenishing food during the Long Winter, Puddinghead took Smart Cookie to explore the countryside of their land to found a new settlement. They came across the land described as "paradise", roughly in the Canterlot Valley, near the Great Valley River region, where they set up their settlement of "Earth", formally Dirtville.

However, they founded the land near other settlements by the two other rulers of the Three Tribes and in-fighting broke up, causing the pristine land of paradise to freeze over once again. Smart Cookie and the others took refuge in the cold and desolate cave where the rulers began to draw up borders.

As the fighting waged on, the rulers themselves froze over, but Smart Cookie and the other assistants, Private Pansy and Clover the Clever became quick friends, bonding over the incompetencies of their higher ups while also hitting it off. Together, they told stories for hours about themselves, and though they began to freeze over, they did so knowing it was with their fellow ponies. Soon, the warmth of their love helped melt away the icy of their rulers, and the ice that covered paradise itself. Together, the six ponies founded the land of Equestria.

Legacy
Smart Cookie was a character featured in productions of The Founding of Equestria. In the Era of Harmony production in Canterlot, she was portrayed by.

Personality
Smart Cookie was sassy in the presence of her boss, but kind in the presence of other ponies. She was far more down-to-earth than her ruler and easy-going in general. While not academic like Clover, she was highly intelligent in her own way, seeming to known the intricacies of farming down pat and having a large body of general and helpful knowledge that her superior apparently lacked - such as basic knowledge of geography and astronomy which helped in her exploration of the countryside.

Appearances

 * "Hearth's Warming Eve"