Sisterhooves Social

Sisterhooves Social is the fifth episode of the second season of Legends of the Multiverse: Friendship is Universe and the thirty-first episode overall. "Sisterhooves" is a portmanteau of "sisterhood" and "hooves".

In this episode, Nene Amano and Aurora Amano encounter a crisis in their relationship.

Development
Episode writer Cindy Morrow stated that the working title of Sisterhooves Social was Sissy Fit.

Nene makes mistakes
The episode starts off with Nene Amano waking up in terror after smelling smoke coming from the kitchen. After crashing downstairs, Nene finds the cause of the smoke: Aurora Amano trying to make breakfast in bed for her sister and already having burned her parents' breakfast. The parents tell Nene that they are going on their scheduled week-long vacation and they're dropping off Aurora with her for the week, to which Nene reluctantly accepts. Once they depart, Nene cleans up the breakfast without even eating it, and decides to make a "proper" breakfast. Aurora wants to help, but Nene ignores her sister's pleas until the latter urges her kindly. Aurora is finally told to add the garnish to the plates, but Aurora accidentally flips off the table under pressure from Nene to put it on perfectly. Ironically, the parsley sprig does manage to land perfectly on a single plate.

Nene huffily returns to work on her fashion line, while assigning Aurora to put away the dirty towels, to which she obliges cheerfully. Aurora decides to surprise her sister by washing the clothes, including a colorful sweater hung above the rest of the clothes. Much to Nene's dismay the rare, one-of-a-kind wool sweater shrinks in the sun, infuriating Nene. Although angry, Nene bottles up her emotions and continues her work, meanwhile Aurora remains upset of her mistake. Later on, Sweetie Belle gets bored, but finds some paper and crayons and decides to draw a picture, under the premise that drawing had never gotten her into trouble before. She notes that something's missing, and uses all of Nene's extremely rare baby blue sapphires, thinking she had more in her workroom. When a furious Nene discovers this, she flips out again and leaves to fetch more sapphires, while Aurora cleans up the mess she made. When Nene comes home she sees Aurora's third mistake: cleaning Nene's room. Nene finally cracks and yells at her, saying that Aurora has destroyed her inspiration for her new fashion line by cleaning up her "organized chaos". Aurora points out the obvious, that her sister gets upset with her whenever she makes a mistake, only to have Nene proclaim that her own mess is exempted because it was her own. Everything Aurora has done was well-intended, but has only succeeded in making Nene angry.

Sisters parting ways
Disappointed in her inability to do something right for her sister, Aurora then goes for a walk and meets Sheriff Lonnie. Lonnie suggests she and her sister participate in the Sisterhooves Social, an annual competition in which sisters compete against other sisters in an elaborate obstacle course. Aurora invites Nene to the event, but Nene refuses to go on the pretense of the contest being uncouth. Aurora, while being very disappointed and angered, proclaims that she would be better off alone. In the end, the two argue, ending with Aurora telling Rarity that they aren't sisters anymore, and that each of them would be better off sister-less. Aurora heads on over to Fa Family Acres where Sheriff Mulan is doing chores with Lonnie. Seeing their enjoyment as they perform tasks together, Aurora notes that Mulan, unlike Nene, is what a sister should be - kind, patient, active, and fun.

Nene's regret
Later, as Nene restarts her fashion line, she is struck by a new idea due to Aurora's organization and completes her new line, "Full Spectrum Fashions". She begins to forgive Aurora, but quickly stops herself, only to soften again when she finds the sweater Aurora shrank was perfect for Figaro, and not herself. Nene's ultimate realization of her mistake comes up after looking, a second time, at the picture that Aurora made her. While decorating a dress with baby blue sapphires, Nene decides to take a few from her sister's picture. The picture is revealed to be an image of herself and Aurora superimposed into a heart made out of sapphires. This makes Nene realize that what she said and did was wrong.

Nene goes to Fa Family Acres in order to apologize, but finds that Aurora is with Mulan and does not want to be with her anymore. Aurora then claims Mulan as her big sister, much to the dismay of everybody. Aurora continues berating Nene while praising Mulan, going so far as to say that Nene could learn how to be a better sister from Mulan. Nene pleads for Aurora to return, but shows that she hasn't fully learned the true meaning of sisterhood as she continues suggesting activities that appeal to her rather than Aurora, hinting that she still does not understand. Aurora is not impressed and storms off angrier than before. Mulan helps Nene understand what sisterhood means (comparing it to apple pie) and Nene finally realizes that she has not been a good sister to Aurora after all, so she decides she must do whatever it takes to regain her sister.

"Bein' sisters is like... apple pie. You can have amazin' apples, and you can have a wonderfully crispy crust, but only together you can have a perfect apple pie."

- Sheriff Mulan

The Sisterhooves Social
At the day of the event, which takes place at Fa Family Acres, Sheriff Lonnie and Sheriff Mulan agree that Mulan can be Aurora Amano's sister for the day. They enter the race together, but Mulan falls into the mud of the first obstacle. Nene emerges from the mud, wearing Mulan's hat and remaining silent throughout the race, making Aurora believe she's still racing with Mulan. Nene's blue eyes are still visible though, as opposed to Mulan's green, though her eye style is the same as Mulan's. They manage to jump over the haystacks, quickly eat the apple pies, fill a jar with grape juice, and carefully place their egg from a hen house into a basket. While they don't win the race, only coming up short to Rose Lavillant and Petunia Lavillant, Aurora says she doesn't mind because she had so much fun. Mulan's hat falls off, revealing a white horn. Aurora wipes the mud from Nene's flank and, after seeing her three-diamond cutie mark, discovers she'd been racing with her own sister the entire time, while Mulan stayed under the mud the entire race and only now surfaced.

Aurora finds out that Mulan, Nene, and Lonnie were all in on the plan. The sisters make up, and Nene offers to go to the spa as a treat, but the rest of the girls burst out laughing, thinking Nene is just joking, but she insists she wasn't.

Epilogue
The sisters compose a letter to Palutena together, in which they inform her that, while being sisters is wonderful, it often requires teamwork, sometimes is about compromise, sometimes is about accepting each other's differences, but mostly is about having fun. In the end, they disagree again, over whether it's okay to get one's hooves a little dirty or a lot dirty when having fun. Since Olaf and Navi are writing the letter he gives them a happy medium of a medium amount of dirty (not too little, not too much, just right), and they agree on this compromise.

Quotes

 * Nene Amano: [mumbling in sleep] Oh... Are those sweet... carrot... pancakes I smell? [gasp] Mmm, how divine, num num num num. The aroma... spiced warm apple cider. [sniff] Ahh, and the smell of... smmmoke... [wakes up] smoke? Smoke?! SMOOOKE! YAAAAAAAH! Oof!


 * Nene Amano: I didn't know you could burn juice.


 * [Aurora Amano places bowl of burnt liquid on table]
 * Nene Amano: Hmm... let me guess. Applesauce?
 * Aurora Amano: Nope. Toast!


 * Nene Amano: Sweetie Belle, what am I going to do with you?
 * Aurora Amano: Oh, we could paint together, we could ride bikes, play chess, sing a song, catch frogs, have a pillow fight...
 * Nene Amano: That's not what I meant!
 * Aurora Amano: Oh.


 * Nene Amano: My inspiration room! What did you do? What did you do?!
 * Aurora Amano: When I saw the big mess in your room, I thought I'd clean it up for you.
 * Nene Amano: This wasn't a mess! It was organized chaos!


 * Sheriff Lonnie: What's 'uncouth'?
 * Sheriff Mulan: It means 'uncivil'. You know, bad mannered?
 * Sheriff Lonnie: [belches]
 * Sheriff Mulan: Exactly!


 * Nene Amano: Oh, Aurora! My one and only sister! What have I done? All the time I could have spent with you was wasted complaining and wishing you were gone! [crying dramatically] Woe is me! No! I must get her back! I must! As Celestia is my witness, I shall never be sisterless again!


 * Sheriff Mulan: Bein' sisters is like... apple pie! You can have amazin' apples and sushis, and you can have a wonderfully crispy crust, but only together can you have a perfect apple pie and sushi gyros.
 * Nene Amano: [to herself] But apart, all we are is just a pile of mush and some crumbly, dry mess. [gasps out loud] I know what I need to do! I just hope it isn't too late!


 * Fa Grandmother: Is this thing on? [turns megaphone] I don't think this thing is on. Hellooo? [Li Shang whispers in her ear] Whazat? Eh? Uh...Well, you had to say so...confangled modern doohickey.


 * Sheriff Lonnie: ...ONE DAY!


 * Nene Amano: Us. I did it for us. You see? We are apple pie!
 * Aurora Amano: Huh?
 * Nene Amano: I'll explain later...