Original thread :https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/5315365/ original author is Anon. --- [Lyra] > Not gay > Not even slightly > Live with Bon Bon anyway > Know she's gay > Know she's waiting for soemthing to happen > Know she's giving it time > Giving ME time > I drag it out > I just like living with her, being taken care of financially > If we weren't living like a couple, I'd have to get a real job > She pays the bills while I pursue my musical career > It's... not working out > I even play along with the gay thing > Give her cuddles, naughty looks, let "sexy" moments happen > Keep her thinking something is *this close* to happening > It never will > Feel terrible > Just scared she'll leave me and have to provide for myself or move back in with parents > Fuck my life --- [Big Mac] 1: > Work on farm > Get scholership to University > Complete degree in civil engineering > No jobs in Canterlot > No jobs anywhere without connections > Come home to Ponyville > Family supportive > Their "you tried your best" pats onthe back sting > No jobs in Ponyville > Small town industry/economy > People rely on "magic". > End up doing the same farm work I did as a kid > Get hurt > have to share duties with "dumb but good-hearted" little sister > No one to talk to > Can feel all my skills/knowledge fading away > Am *this* close to just accepting my fate > I'm staying here > On the farm > eeyup 2: >no mom >no dad >mom died giving birth to Applejack >dad hung himself that night >my girlfriend told everyone in town I was a philly fooler before electrocuting herself >all the mares think I'm creepy >always wanted a kid of my own >Applejack came home one night drunk and passed out in the kitchen >I did the deed and got her pregnant >she doesn't remember the night >thinks it was some town colt but can't figure out who >I only wanted a child of my own to love and take care of 3: >Just turned 18 >Took the scholarship test in secret at town hall while running errands >Pa found the letter in the mail anyway >He was real upset, for a whole bunch of reasons >Needed the help on the farm, needed another stallion around >Didn't want me going to Canterlot, hanging out with prissy unicorn colts >Didn't think figurin' was anything but mare's work >What made him the maddest though, was the letter saying l was accepted >We got into a huge row >I'll never forget what l said when l left >"I hate you, Pa." >I meant it too, even if it made little Applejack cry, not that l wanted to hurt her >So, l left >Walked to Manehatten, took the train to Canterlot >They did dorm me up with a unicorn, just like Pa would have hated >Tall, strong, snow white, electric blue mane >Watching him do magic, changing the world with just his mind, it was amazing >Then we'd pull out our books and he'd be flabbergasted at my calculus warmups >He was Captain of the hornball team, and he even condoned to playing hoofball with me and a few of the pegasus kids too >I'll admit, tackled him every chance l got >Hurt pretty bad when l saw that pretty pink princess leap into his arms >I'll admit though, she was good enough for him >What hurt a whole world worse though, was when l got the letter about the accident >I dropped everything, didn't even pack, just galloped to the station fast as l could >They were already in the ground by the time l got back >Didn't even get to see them one last time, never got to apologize >It was a lot of hard work from then on >Lots of bucking, had to squeeze the budget to death to get everyone through the first few winters >Granny always talked up my 'fancy mathematics', at least it had always made her proud >Never finished my degree >Never had the chance >I was so happy when l got my cutie mark, the very first time mom showed me the farm budget and l organized her ledger better than she had it >I thought it meant l could go far >But the Apple never falls far 4: >Parents good, hardworking farm ponies >Worked too hard. Worked into their grave to care for us. >I swore on their deathbeds to see no one else would suffer this again >I work day and night, just like my family. I work so no one else will have to work so hard again. >Sisters don't understand me >My grandmother doesn't understand me >But I have learned to bend steel >I have learned to make metal move >I have made constructs that withstood all the hell ponies go through >And with their hooves of iron, there's not a task we couldn't do >They've waited so long for this day >Someone to take the death away >No son would ever have to say: >"My father worked into his grave" --- [Berry Punch] >I hate alcohol >I really hate alcohol >I used to drink it as a filly to make my classmates think i was cool >I drank it in finishing school because it was expected >I didn't have even a single friend who did want to drink or have me drink >I don't know how to have fun without alcohol >I don't feel like I'm myself when I'm sober. >I can't pay my student debts and am three months behind on rent. >But I always can afford the punch. >So come on over, it's Wednesday night, and have some punch with me. >I hear I'm much more interesting when I'm drunk. >Because it doesn't hurt anymore. --- [Rainbow Dash] 1: >Be in the closet >Have to constantly attended high fundamental religious school >Get made fun of constantly >Suppress homosexuality from therein >Find a nice bunch of girls >None of them are gay >Get the shy one to say I was really cool in school >Get so close to wanting to get her on the bed...so damn close >She calls the police for sexual harrassment, I beg her to drop charges >She does...surprisingly >Cry because of lack of marefriends >Never find love >And they say love is blind.. 2: >Dear Celestia, >I used to be able to fly faster than an eagle and a falcon put together >I was vice captain of the Junior Speedsters >I even got to blow the whistle sometimes >My name is engraved on a two hundred year old wall >I'm the only pegasus to crack the rainboom barrier in thirty years. >I single handedly pulled off the water funnel to Cloudsdale >I know, I KNOW I was pulling 30 WP while my friend was only doing 5. >After that prereq, I passed the Wonderbolts exam. >Head of the line, first try, 2000m in 20 seconds flat. >I was so excited >i pulled a Rainboom all the way back to ponyville. >But I was too cocky >I was too happy >I lost control >And now Nurse Redheart changes the bag beneath my chair twice a day >I eat pudding with Ditzy "fucking Derp" Doo every morning. >Except she can fly, and does her retard day job like a champ >And here I am shitting myself. >What am I supposed to learn from this, Princess? 3: >Be the fastest flier in Equestria >The fastest thing alive >From my standpoint, everyone else is standing still >They talk so damn slow >They all practically live in a separate world from me >They live in a single, beautiful, perfect moment >Every time I try to stop to join them, the moment's gone >All this because that lightning cloud got loose in the rainbow lab somehow >A freak accident now defines everything about my life >I am Dash --- [Fluttershy] 1: >My friends and I have been in some really rough situations >Dragons, cockatrices, changelings, you name it >Yet somehow, we always come out >Or rather, they always come out on top >I've had my moments, but I know they were just flukes >Deep down, I know I'm nothing but a coward >I want nothing more than to see my friends safe and happy >But one day, I know, my friends will be in trouble >And the only pony that can save them will be me >But the only thing getting in the way >Is myself 2: >My parents were loud >My Dad shouted every word he spoke >And my Mom, her voice cut through the clouds and walls like a knife >He shouted and she shrieked every day >All night too >I never wanted anything more than silence >I tried to whisper to bring their volume down >They just talked over me >Soon I started skipping meals >I couldn't stand to hear them argue >I felt sick all the time >But my mother liked how thin I was >She thought I was cute and beautiful >She had never said that before >When I left Cloudsdale I never looked back >A long time after that I met a man named "Iron Will" >He taught me I was just like my father after all --- [Applejack] 1: >I woke up early yesterday morning >My hips hurt a little, and my lower back was sore. >I hadn't even done any heavy work the day before. >I asked Big Mac, but I already knew everything he had to say >But sometime you just wanna hear your big brother talk >Specially when you reckon his voice must sound a lot like what Dad's would have >He tells me his hips started to hurt four years ago >He never told me >He even handled the halfa the Applebuck season while I went to the Gala last year >Say I should switch to drafting carts for awhile and let him buck for a few weeks >Realize he's been rotating labor my whole working life for a reason. >I'm only 22 >I have at least fourty more years of hard work ahead of me >They already hurt, and soon they'll be ground to dust like Granny's >And I can't reckon if there's going to be anypony to take care of me when I'm that old. >Mac and I work too hard as is >We just can't afford to take care of another mouth right now, even if Applebloom starts bucking >But I don't want her to have to start so soon, like Mac and I did >But if I wait too long maybe I can't bear any fruit of my own >I just don't know what to do. 2: > Be a farmer > Live with a big brother and little sister > Sister is grown up and moves out > Brother has been seeing Cherilee for a while now > Cherilee confronts me about the house and Sweet Apple Acres > Tell that it's my property too > Her arguement is that she's pregnant, the baby will be born soon and she wants to have family in the house without their aunt. > Can't imagine me, a single mare living with them too > Still refuse > Brother talks to me, convinces me to move out > Can't deny him, wishes him all the luck > Move into town, start selling the apples he brings from Sweet Apple Acres > Go less and less to the old farm > Go home to empty appartment > Sigh 3: >Work on farm >Have the best family ever >Lots of fantastic friends, too >Go on adventures with them regularly >Always have a blast with them >Life is amazing >It's not easy being such a great pone --- [Rarity] 1: >Be young >Be in high school >Go to party >See drugs...alcohol...colts... >I never asked for this.png >It's my friend's birthday >have never really done this stuff before, dad being a cop and all... >Start partying, getting dizzy >A nice colt grabs me...says he'll help me refresh out back >He doesn't >He grabs me forcefully behind a bush, starts inserting himself inside of me >I beg him to stop >He never did >Kept pounding until he came >I cry as he starts beating me until I black out >Wake up in a hospital >Leave ASAP >Later find out I'm pregnant >Mom and dad won't let me get an abortion >A few months later, a filly arrives >A few years later, Sweetie Belle asks for me to help make a "Happy Mother's Day" card for my mom >I cry and run away. 2: >Ran away from home, parents were too buys with little sister to notice >Moved into abandoned house, lived there until I could claim it from squatter's rights. >Start to furnish the place. Make it livable. >Hunt up gems, sell them on the dragon black market. Barely making ends meet. >Finally manage to purchase enough silk to make a dress for the next open fashion night. >piece by piece, stich together my business empire. >pay back the old owner of the house, I'm finally free from debt. >get home, parents there. >"lost all our money to the loan sharks. On gambling. Look after your sister. Bye!" >allofmywat >take her out, get her to make some friends. >oh god, she's actually retarded. >bring home one of my 'special friends' for 'special cuddle time'. >she's lying on the table, rolling in her own shit >Go up the stairs >to the first floor >open the door >everybody walk the dinosaur --- [Twilight Sparkle] 1: >Be pretty smart...or at least I tell myself >Everything I now is from books >Books others wrote >I one day...reading "An Egghead's guide to Communism" have an epiphany >I have never came up with a single thing >Never >Not once >I sit back and think, of all the meaningless facts and figures I have organized >How much of a worthless piece of shit I am >How even Applejack, who figures out practical problems, could be considered more intelligent then me >I am the dumbest mare in the town >And the loneliest >My friends may not even like me for who I am, just merely who I know >I realize that my personality is all built on the face that I am a nerd >More shallow then Rarity >Dumber then Applejack >More of a shutin then Fluttershy >Worthless >Completely worthless 2: >How many stars are in Orion's belt? >3 >How many primary forms of magic are there? >12 >How many primary Equestrian cities are there? >13 >How many petals are on a Celestial Rose? >17 >How many books are published in the "Daring Do" series? >25, minus appendixes and artbooks >How many times can a filly have her heart broken? >Once >Just once. 3: >I've passed the entrance exam >It's the first day of school for the gifted unicorns like myself >I'm so nervous I can hardly eat >Spend so long trying to eat my oats I'm almost late >Run like a little retard through the streets >7:59 >I slam, and I mean SLAM into the front door of the academy >It won't open! >Fuck it won't open! >I'm pushing and slamming this bitch for all I'm worth >I can't fail now >This is the direction of my entire life right here >Everyone is looking at me through the window >Celestia is right there >39 classmates are staring at me. >I gesture wildly to unlock the door for my. >Press my face up against the glass, scream about how I'm sorry I was tardy please don't expel me >Celestia gently trots over to the door >What grace, beauty, and generosity. >She gently pushes the unlatched door open, towards me. >I read a book about tying a noose that afternoon, alone in the library. >And that's why you're all my very first friends! --- [Pinkie] 1: >be lonely >made fun of all throughout fillyschool >depression, no life direction >mareschool arrives >things start to get better >learns how to laugh at the insults >everyone thinks I'm the cool one >hides behind a mask of confidence >no one cares about me and assumes I can take on the world >I still don't have a direction for life >I still laugh at the insults >they kill me on the inside >I'm alone >so very alone behind my facade, >my mask, that is my prison. >you can't have your cake...and eat it too. 2: >Why can't I be normal? >Pinned against a cop car, yelled at, asked questions >I didn't mean to touch the foal like that! >Well...to be honest, I kind of did... >I always feel like a filly....and so, I should date fillies and colts! >It's only natural right... >RIGHT! >My friends look at me weird, I try to make them laugh >They just look at me >I now have to wear a big metal bracelet on my right hindleg >I really want to go and have another party! >They won't let me. >Noone will 3: >A day doesn't go by when I don't think of her >My best friend from high school >We did everything together and shared lots of laughs >One day, she told me a secret >I promised not to tell anyone >She told me she was attracted to mares and didn't know what to do >I told her everything would be OK, I would love her no matter what >A couple days later I was at a party with her >I was being myself, jumping around, being the silly clown >Talking a million miles an hour, not thinking >Accidentally blurted out that my friend likes girls >Practically the whole town finds out >She gets bullied and beat up at school >Her parents disown her >Try to make her happy but she tells me I've ruined her life >I didn't mean to, I'm so sorry >No matter what I do to help it doesn't get better >A couple days later I find out she hanged herself >I wish I could go back to change her mind but it's too late now >Ever since then I''ve taken secrets seriously >Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend >Forever. --- [Celestia] >I'm the reigning princess of Equestria, the shining >Sun Goddess they all know and love. They >respect me. They adore me. They literally >worship me. They love and want and need my >rule. But I'm alone. For a thousand and a >thousand years and more I've been alone. >I sent my sister to the moon for an entire >millennium. I had no other choice. >My subjects knew I found it regrettable, but they >didn't know the true extent of the heartbreak. I >loved her with all my heart, so all of my heart >broke while I mourned her departure. >But I had to keep on ruling. I had to keep >on making pretty speeches. I had to be beautiful, >my tone of voice just right, my posture picture >perfect, my alicorn horn and wings presented just >so to remind them that their benevolent god >was there and would always be perfect. >They couldn't know I was broken inside. >Far be it from me to say that Luna's exile was all >that made me lonely. My best friends through the >ages of my rule, the rare few ponies who weren't >intimidated by my stature as an alicorn, I have >known to be like transient dust caught up in the >wind. I am immortal. They are not. They die in >waves like the leaves in autumn. >Even Starswirl's magic couldn't fend off time. >I taught him myself to bend time so he could one >day hopefully survive. So he >could be my friend and know my heart when I >had no one else but foppish, Grand Galloping >supplicants who were too intimidated to be my >friends but too needy not to throw themselves at >my hooves in worship. But there are some things >even a goddess can't control. >Yes, time is my enemy, and it is one of the >cruelest ironies of my life that I worshiped for >governing the cycles of the day that mark its >inexorable progression. >Is it any surprise, then, that I so much look >forward to your letters, Twilight? You are my only >window to a world I'll never know - the world of a >normal pony with normal friends and a normal >lifespan. I live vicariously through you the same >way my worshipers live vicariously through me. >That's why I forgave you so easily for that want it, >need it incident. You were afraid of being tardy. >You were afraid of an infinitesimal gap in >time making you anything less than perfect to >me. If only you could see time the way I do. >You would have laughed the same sad laugh I >did. >Part of my heart dies every time I think, >against my better judgment, that maybe you >could become what Starswirl couldn't: >an eternal friend. Because I would so love that. I >would so love another friend. >But you don't deserve the curse. >I forgive you. I forgive you for everything, >Twilight. You're my perfect autumn leaf. >And you'll never get this letter. This is my life's >lesson about friendship. This is how it feels to be >truly alone... --- [Scootaloo] 1: >There she goes again >A streak of rainbow against the sky >For that one moment, I forget >I hop off the ground, struggling to flap my wings >Only to fall back to the ground >I moan, realization washing over me again >Rainbow Dash is out of sight at this point >I loo back at my wings. The tiny, scrawny, horrible little things that the doctors said would never get me off the ground >I turn back to see my idol's trail dissapating. Words can't express how I long to rise into the air, follow that trail, and strive be on even footing with the world's fastest pegasus >But deep down, I know I'm just lying to myself 2: >Be innaorphanage >Have friends with very nice families >Sweetie Belle has her mom and dad >At least Apple Bloom has a sister. >I....have nobody >I hate being alone >I sit in my bed and cry...cry for someone to pick me up >They never do >I constantly hear their side comments about me >"OH, she looks gay! I don't want a gay child!" >I scream at them that I'm not >Although I'm not so sure at times >I admire Sweetie and Apple Bloom from afar...just wanting to have some company >They reject my advances >I try to get Rainbow Dash to like me...I feed her ego constantly... >But still nothing >Here I am...alone...forever >Destined without love >Destined without anything >Destined to die alone 3: >Grew up alone >Lived in a foals home >Always bullied >Fuck my pathetic wings >Fuck you for leaving me! >Only wanted to fit in >Only wanted to be loved... >Not sleep under bridges >But it's ok >I forgive you >You never meant for the fire to happen >You did your best to protect me >Better deformed than dead, right? >I love you Mom >Love you Dad >I miss you... --- [Bon Bon] >Be gay >Invite one of my best friends from High School into my house >I get money >She doesn't do anything >I think she moves in for...other purposes >She plays along with me...constantly letting me play catch and mouse >She sucks away my money >Sucks away my time >I know I can't get anyone else >Dear god my life sucks --- [Zecora] >Listen closely, and I'll give you a hint >How I came to be an Equestria immigrant >I was playing a game, ring and a ball >Unaware my fortunes were about to fall >I was resting enjoying the view of the plains >While some foolish youth made fun of my refrains >We fought with brevity and I was victorious >Although I did not anticipate growing notorious >I was forced in a hot-air balloon, and I was quite scared >Forced to live with my auntie and uncle in Bel-Air --- [Discord] 1: >Lived a long life of monotony. >Eons pass without change. >Suddenly life appears. >I watch it grow. >I watch it spread. >Fell asleep outside small village. >Wake up to.filly standing over me. >She stares at me. >I give her a glass of milk....it's chocolate. >She smiles. >I decide. >I'll make them smile. >1000 years pass. >They've stopped smiling so long ago... >The filly I saw so long ago stands before me. >Older and beautiful. >An alicorn. >She has a sister with her. >Magic pours from them in the hues of the rainbow. >It burns. >But. >But. >She smiles. 2: > Create oder and equality through balance of the elements > Have one world revolt with their "magic" > Get overpowered and enclosed in stone > Wait thousands of years to awaken > Try to restore the natural state of things again > Get enclosed in stone once again by six "elements of harmony" > That feel when you are the only one that realizes that, if things go unbalanced for too long, everything goes to shit > That feel when you are only trying to save these poor ponies --- [Spike] 1: >Hello Applebloom >Boy, have I sure heard a lot about you >I was with your sister when we were captured by the diamond dogs >We were in that pit of hell for over five years >When two women are in a situation like this >You take on certain responsibilities of the other >Take this necklace, for instance >It's your sisters element of harmony >It's your birthright. >And when your sister went into those pits and lost her way >She knew those bastard dogs were going to try and get their greasy paws on it >So she hid it in the one place those paws would never reach >Her ass >And after five years drafting and digging in that hellhole she died >And I, as generous as I was, hid that uncomfortable ruby apple up my ass for two years >After seven long years, I escaped and found my way home to my family >And now, Applebloom, I give this necklace to you. 2: >I was magically hatched, far away from the nest my egg was snatched from >All i've ever known is the endless task of doing chores and assisting Twilight with whatever she needs done >I realized long ago that i wasn't like those around me, a curiosity...a beast.. >Twilight tries to cheer me up, but it feels so empty...so patronizing. >While out on an errand, i see some foals playing in a park. They run to their mothers, who smother them with love. >I suddenly feel so desperately alone and unloved. I hide my tears and go back to my task. >The same night when i've gone to bed and Twilight says "Goodnight, Spike!" >I say "Goodnight mommy.." >She pretends she didn't hear it and walk away. >This time, i can't stop the tears 3: >I'm so hungry >The only time i get any real nutrients is on the rare occasion i can gain some gems >ponys are vegetarian but dragons... have fangs for a reason >I realized a long time ago how shallow Rarity was but i still pretend to love her, i still fawn and work for her >She has gem and shes generous with them >I have a fake ego, as in my personality isn't the real me >It's just a front to fit in to pony society and some times i just lose control and real dragon comes out >Friends only seen it once when i started to hoard but other time when I'm too hungry my mind just gos away >Snap back with a full stomach and some ripped apart wood land animal >It'll start to happen more as I grow larger and need more food 4: >Non biological mother >Never found real parents >Dragon’s not welcome in Ponyville >Slave >Endless hours of chores for no paper >Early starts, finish super late >Get moaned at for oversleeping >Only mare I have feels for is strung for douchey colts >Not even dragon by dragon standards >Never listened to though always right >Outwitted by an owl, an owl that turk murr jurb >Ponies fucking crazy >Outlive friends >Friends >Under-appreciated >Learnt to read and write to send Tai letters for Twilight, sort her shit and read her shit >Still considered a baby --- [Trixie] >Hocus Pocus >My eyes cannot focus >As I look inside my crystal ball >The Great Trixie is not great at all >I look at myself in this puddle >Everything I see is incorrect >I'm a colt not a mare >I want someone to pay attention for once >I thought people liked confidence >I thought people liked magic >I thought people were accepting >They aren't >So here I am...noose around my neck. >Good bye world >I will make the Great and Powerful Trixie....disappear. --- [Gilda] >hatchling of Griffon kingdom ambassador to equestria >raised in the Celestial kingdom, growing up with pegasi >never really fit in with the ponies >most of them think I barely count as a person >fall in with outcasts and fuckups, only ever really feel a connectionn with one mare >she's almost as much of a freak as me >Hanng out, cut class, commit petty vandalism, and just fly with her >we push ourselves to the limits to go as fast and as high as we can >feel...happy >but nothing lasts forever >the mare flunks out of flight school, and you head back to the griffon kingdoms >just as much as an outcast there as you were in equesteria >people think growing up with ponies has made you soft >time passes, wandering over the continent, never fitting in anywhere, never welcomed >manage to find friend from flight academy again >she's got a job now...and regular pony friends >one of them goes out of her way to show me that there's no room for me in their little group >I can take a hint...don't need to be laughed at by my best friend to see I'm not wanted >leave in a huff, the only person who I ever really liked choosing to stick with her kind rather then me >ancestors....why am I such a screw up --- [Octavia] >be just a young filly when it happened >the abuse was never stopped >my mothers passing made it harder on my father to cope >he always took it out on me >eventually I find a release, my music >due to my emotion that I poured into my music, it became famous >no-one knew of the depressing truth behind it >eventually get enough money to go to Canterlot music university >leave the past behind me >met another pony her name is vinyl >start talking to her a lot we would share secrets, we became very close >love bloomed between us >we became even closer, we moved in together >the memories of the past keep coming back every time I dream >I always wake screaming in pain >but when I see vinyl beside me holding me I feel safe >she will always be mine and I will always be hers --- [Dinky] >It's 9:00 at night >This is the moment of the day I hate the most >This is the wrong part. >My mom stumbles into the room >She's above my bed >I pretend to be asleep, but it doesn't matter >She gently and carefully pushes my shoulder so I'm on my back >She carefully lays on top of me, full contact over my entire body >She's supporting her own weight but still firmly pressed against me >I can't struggle >Her hooves hold my head in place >Her tongue is in my mouth >Stop it mom >I lay there while she brushes my gums and tongue >She sort of squeezes me with her thighs >This is wrong >And with a wet pop she breaks the seal and drool drips on my face >"Goodnight muffin! Mommy loves you so much." >She goes to her own bed >I've never told anyone else about this until long after I grew up >Turns out mom was molested the entire time she was a child because she was "special" >She honestly thought that's how a parent showed their child that they loved them very much >I wasted ten years of not speaking to my mother --- [Shining Armor] 1: >Had a crush on my sister's foalsitter >Figured it was just hormones, she was kinda boring to talk to >Years later >Get assigned to guard her room >She's strong, authoritative, smart >Seductive >She's a woman now >Can't stop thinking about her >Finally admit it to her >She smiles >I'll never forget that smile >We make love for days >I propose by the end of the week >She accepts >Big day >Shit happens >Find out Cadence was some kinda bug...thing >Marry the real one >She's just as boring as I remember her >Drones on about nothing, doesn't order me around or pin me to the wall like her fake did >Sex is horrible >Want to leave, want to find my real love >Work up the courage to finally tell her >Before I can speak, she hugs me and cheers that she's pregnant >She's crying >I start crying too.... 2: >Captain of Royal Guard >All of my dreams have been fulfilled >Beautiful wife >Beautiful daughter >Parents couldn't be more proud >Of my sister >She's the perfect child >She's the perfect student >She's the perfect Element of Magic >She's my little sister >More people know her name than mine >My wife has been distant >Always asking what I did with the Changeling Queen >Says she won't get mad >She can't lie very well >Find out that Celestia only had me as Captain of Royal Guard as a favor to my sister >My little sister >My surprisingly big little sister >Still Captain of Royal Guard >Wife spends more and more time with her >So does daughter >Daughter says she wants to be like aunt when she grows up >Sister saves Equestria again >and again >and again >It was true; Princess Celestia WAS training a successor all along >Attend ceremony >Whole of Equestria celebrates >for days >She makes peace with the Gryphon kingdom >She invents computers and discovers DNA >Statues in her glory; whole tomes detailing her life and accomplishments >Equestria is utopic; guards and military useless >Still Captain of the Royal Guard >Must always refer to Her as Her Majesty >And she enjoys it >I know it >Why does she need a guard anyway? >...Why should she ANYPONY ever needed me anyway? >Life has become all too like a nightmare --- [Luna] 1: >The night belonged to me. >I painted the sky in brilliant pinpoints of light. >Sailed the moon across the firmament and silvered the land in its light. >But they loved my sister more. >No matter what I did, my sister was always better. >No matter how hard I tried, none looked my way. >I was never good enough. >I could never be good enough. >She would smile and try to cheer me up. >She doesn't get it. >She's never been second best. >I saw them all looking at me with contempt and disgust. >Looks that festered in my soul. >I hid. I cried. >Then I got mad. >I hurt them. Hurting them hurt her. So I liked it. >Then I started killing them. >I liked that too. >So she had to do something. You know about that. >A thousand years in the moon, feeding on my hatred. >Until there was nothing left. >She wanted to forgive me. >Because she's so perfect. >I have a second chance now. >I can do better this time. >I can be better this time. >I really try. >I really do. >But they all still look at me with contempt and disgust. >And this time, with fear too. >Looks that fester in my soul. 2: >Equestria was not always beautiful. >My mother and father sent my sister and I to a lifeless, ignorant land. >The world was searing in the day. The night brought terrible cold, and hideous monsters that feasted upon them, or violently amused themselves with their corpses. >We kept the only intelligent forms alive. The ones that looked like us. >We maintained their world. We kept them alive from the monstrosities, against the cold and heat and violence. >We were goddesses. >The armies rose for us. To protect themselves, and to protect us. >But the night was unforgiving. >My armies dwindled. Yet I persevered. >The monsters became only storie. >And so I took to work, beautifying the world they once huddled from. >Dots of light, innumerable and encompassing. >moon of platinum, to light their way in the dark. >To show them they need not fear that night. >Yet they stole away to their homes. >Built upon the graves of my army, the ones that allowed them their rest. >Beneath a sky of twinkling light, to show them they no longer needed fear. >I tried so hard. >My followers tried so hard. >But I am the one that named the stars. >Glittering dots, an epitaph to every dead soldier. >The night was not always beautiful, after all. 3: >You know me. I am War. >Taught my sister a lesson. It got out of hand. >I've taken down dragons for sport. >Brought the Griffon Wars to an end-- >Stained the field of battle so red the peace treaty has lasted for over twelve hundred years. >Tore apart a battalion of changelings the day of Cadence's wedding. >Busted my sister out of Discord's imprisonment. >(First thing she did then was start mailing letters, WTF?) >Thought I'd take on an apprentice, maybe pitch her against my sister's protege. >(Turns out my candidate hanged herself a few days before I summoned her. >Weak sauce!) >Showed up in Ponyville for my holiday. >Act all autistic to mess with the Elements of Harmony. >Head back to Canterlot to yuk it up with my sister. >She ate the cake I'd been saving. >FUCKING CELESTIA!! 4: >seems like an age ago that we brought the ponies together through blood and faith >we rule as queens and goddesses >other kingdoms have long since stopped waging wars with us, their children now work our crystal mines, miles beneath the city >they'll never see our sun or our moon again, they won't be remembered for financing the golden age of Equestria >the griphons still hold out across the sea but they'll never dare to return to this continent >We led the army against them ourselves >hundreds of their dried out corpses hang from the towers of canterlot >I've done all I could be asked to do for my country >I've kept the peace >Equestria is rich now thanks to our bloody work >a brave new world >the 'Elements of Harmony' work as expected >the new statues in the royal gardens stand testament to that >I like to look into their horrified eyes, I know that they still see and hear everything in the alabaster prison of their new bodies >I wonder what they think now, are they angry or depressed? Have their thought long since been taken by madness? >as well they should, with all the ponies sacrificed to forge them >I still hear their screams from the foundries below the city, makes me feel even colder inside >I look down upon the ants that wander the streets below >pathetic inbred nobles, living off of our teet >merchants trying to peddle their overpriced goods >they all fear me now >I'm not stupid, the spymasters have told me everything >my own sister, the mare with which I purged the world of mankind, the one whom I ruled with for so long... >she spreads rumors, tries to cleanse her hooves of our work >she spreads word that it was I, that I am the demon and that it was all my fault >they whisper of my bloodthirst now as though they do not see that all we did- we did for them >I hear hoofsteps outside my room now >I already know it's her >she pushes open the doors >the souls bound by the Elements scream towards me >it is done, she's the good sister now >the kind one who defeated my evil >history will remember her as the great hero and tales of my cruelty will be used to scare young foals >I hope you burn, dear sister >the work goes well, the kingdom prospers >we are strong now, we are dominant as we should be >still, I can't help but see that something is missing >when I stand upon this balcony and look down into the streets, I see hard faces and harder lives >my subjects are as cold as I am, they must be such to survive >it is my greatest dream to make them kind and innocent once more, like they were before the great crusades >I find myself thinking that I will do anything to see this happen >for them to be kind, their leader must be benevolent as well >we can't be those leaders when the blood of the innocent drips from our hooves >I made my choice long ago, my sister must fall so that a true age of peace may rise >her sacrifice will absolve me >now I stand here, before her doors with the Elements in hoof >it is time >my stomach churns, I'll never forget your screams >all our sins are yours to bear now, perhaps the moon is far enough away to let me forget them, at least >I really am sorry sister, but you must see that this is for the greater good! >they may not yet believe the tales of your evil and my stoic purity >it'll take a few generations and changes in the history books >oh, but I do have all of eternity to wait for them to come around... --- [Sweetie Belle] >My sister never really liked me >She yelled at me >Called me a retard >Said I wouldn't do anything >I wanted to ask her if we could go out sometime, but she yelled at me >I want to be a good sister! >I try so hard for her, but she just calls me these big words I don't understand >One day, Ms. Cheerilee gave me this really hard test because she was concerned >It was really really hard >I don't think I did so well on it >Then I got moved to this class with really smart ponies, and these other ponies like me! >Rarity heard about it and got angry... >She made me kiss the pillow for a long time last night... >I couldn't breath...as usual... >I passed out and Rarity left a note with all these words and phrases I couldn't understand >I went out to my new school, they said I had something with my head they need to fix, I told them what Rarity did to me >They put on these really surprised faces >These big ponies came and talked to Rarity >She got really nice all of a sudden >She even took me out to eat ice cream! >Apple Bloom and Scootaloo don't hang out with me much anymore...but that's okay! I have friends at my new special school! >My life is really happy! --- [Cutie mark crusaders] >We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders >Mentally damaged and sexually abused >And we will never stop the journey >Until we are loved and no longer confused --- [Fleur-di-lis] >Late 30s >Not quite as fast and skilled as I used to be >Resign from the royal guard with multiple honors and accolades >Take some time to myself >Civilian life boring, go into bodyguarding > Small gigs for awhile, then some rich snob offers to hire me full time >At first thing he just likes a pretty face, but take the job >Not very exciting but a lot of travel >Get to know the client >A lot more to him than just some overindulging unicorn >Start making myself look nicer >When he notices, stumble and tell him its to blend in better >He buys it >Always at his side >Never let any harm come to him >Would give my life in an instant >Is this what love is like? >What my life of service never let me know? >Watch him with his new friend >Not sure if she's genuine or a gold digger >Stand in silence >Duty comes first >It always come first --- [Minuette] >Its past midnight >She's still not home >Third night this week >Consider going to look >Don't want to leave Ruby alone >It's getting worse and worse >Try to talk to her about it, get a mouthful and she leaves earlier >Talk to my friends, they're supportive up to when I ask them to help >Then they switch gears and tell me I'm overreacting >Sigh, get ready to head to bed >Door opens >Sound of stumbling hoofsteps >I approach slowly >She sees me and smiles sloppily >Stumbles over and grabs me in a tender hug >She stinks of the stuff >Hug back >She says something unintelligible but I know what she was trying to say > All my anger and anxiety melts away >Nopony's life is perfect, why should I complain? >She always comes home eventually >"I love you too, Berry" --- [Twist] >Sometimeth it'th not easy being a foal. >Friendth at school make fun of me for how I look. For how I talk. >Can't really blame them. >Sometimes I make candies for them. They're still my friendth. >I don't really like it at school, but I stay there ath long ath I can. >Try to get detention. >Join clubth I don't like. >When it getth dark I always end up at home though. >Don't know why Mom hateth me so much. >She callth me names too. That she never wanted me. She sayth she wath raped. I don't know what that meanth. >Sometimeth she hits me. >No one finds out 'cause the glasseth cover the marks usually. >I tried making her a batch of extra spethial candy dropth last week to apologize for not being a good foal. >They were in the garbage a day later. >Must have not been very good. >It'th alright though. >I'm working on my lisp. I think I thound a lot better now! >And I really like curling my mane. >I'll sit and primp it for hourth trying to get it as poofy as pothible. >Tonight it'th extra curly, so tomorrow will be extra good! >I know if I keep my mane really pretty that one day people will see I'm a pretty pony too. >Don't you think I'm a pretty pony? >Please... --- [Derpy] 1: >I had a small roll in a TV show, be part of a crowd >I couldn't uncross my eyes, director yelled at me >I went home, expecting to be fired >Week passed, then another, then the phone rang >They wanted me back >People liked me for my silly eyes and my smile >So I came back and did silly things in the background >Ponies laughed, people laughed >I laughed too, it was fun being an actress, even if only in gags >One day I got curious and went on the internet >There was some mean stuff about me, I was ready for that >I mean, I'm a walking gag reel, right? >But what really took me by surprise was the other stuff... >People loved me, they drew pictures of me getting flowers, love letters, muffins... >I don't get the muffins thing but it was cute >Even crazier, people seemed to think the small filly I shared a scene with was mine >They wrote stories about me and her, me being a good mommy >How I was the super clumsy mailmare with a heart of gold >How I loved my daughter very much and did everything I could for her >I cried for hours, reading story after story >Imagining that life >Even when they made my life miserable and tough, they made me seem so amazing >The best mailmare, the best mommy in the world >Always coming out on top even though I wasn't special... >...if they only knew how alone and unremarkable I really was... 2: >Went to seminar. >Friends wanted to go. >Money is tight, really couldn't afford it. >Well, it was fun. >1 week later. >Knock at the door. >Iron Will wants his money. >30 bits. "I'm sorry, I don't have it right now." >You just don't know what went wrong. >Scared to tell him you were not satisfied. "I'll have the money next week!" >Iron Will scowls. >"Well if I have to wait I'm going to charge some interest." "How much?" >"Not money." >Weeping, you bend over for the monster. >It's the only way. >If he goes to the police you could lose Dinky. >Iron Will rams his monster cock up your plothole. >Oh Celestia it hurts so bad. >It's like he's ripping you open. >At least he's done quick. >"Iron Will will be back next week for his money." "I promise, sir, I'll have it." >"You better, or Iron Will is gonna charge more interest next time!" >You cry in the bath. >The pain is awful. >But doctor visits are expensive. >Gotta clean up before Dinky gets home. >Dinky comes home from school. >You're so happy to see her...the joy of your life. >She hands you a permission slip. >"Miss Cheerilie is taking us to the Canterlot Museum of Art." >"But it's 30 bits for the train, lunch & museum admission." >Your heart feels like bursting. >You can't deny Dinky this class trip. >But it means you won't be able to pay Iron Will on time. >"Momma, if it's too much money" "Don't be silly. Of course you can go." >"Thanks momma, are you okay?" "I'm fine, I have a little cold." >"Momma you shouldn't go to your night job if you're sick." "I'm okay, muffin, I'll be fine." >Dinky gives you a big hug. >You would do anything, suffer any pain for her. >Anything. 3: >been somewhat of a loaner for my whole life >always "that weird pony" no one wants to have anything to do with >lots of trouble finding friends >kind of ditzy, hard times in social interactions >in what I interpret today as a desperate cry for attention... >...one day I come up with this retard persona >derped my eyes, changed my voice to that of a braindead idiot >whenever I fucked something up I went derpy in an attempt to escape ridicule >sometimes they'd laugh with me, sometimes they'd laugh at me >either way, I got noticed >even came to be known, as "Derpy Hooves" the wall eyed idiot >playing stupid was never exactly fun, but I was good at it >maybe the only thing I was ever good at >never got rid of that self imposed stigma till the present day >often times I can't tell if people treat me as retarded for real or in jest >one day, working my bitch of a job at the local moving company >navigating the air mail carriage wagon >in what may possibly have been the biggest fuck up of my life >I drop the entire thing in the middle of Ponyville, completely destroying the town hall in the process >panicked so hard I was physically about to throw up >figured this would be my total social and financial ruin >as it turns out nopony expects me to cover the thousands of bits of damage >because I'm "Derpy", the local mindfucked dumbshit who apparently isn't mentally able to account for when she fucks up >I want to die --- [Blueblood] >Live with aunts because my dad physically abused me >Be antisocial and untrustworthy of other people because of previously mentioned childhood abuse >Aunts are the only people who've ever shown me any real kindness >Aunts encourage me to go outside and socialize >I'm skeptical >They invite me to this big party they hold every year >Reluctantly agree to go >Put on my best bowtie, hoping for the best >Go to party >See this beautiful girl giving me the eye from across the room, I immediately get nervous and go outside to collect myself >Having no real experience with women I don't know what to do >Dad used to tell me the only way to attract a woman was to hold yourself above them >Better than nothing... >Go on through the party with her, trying to enjoy myself but not really feeling right about how I'm treating her >Cake comes literally out of nowhere towards me >Hits the girl in the face >Girl freaks out, screams at me and ruins my best clothes by smothering me with cake >Later see my aunt laughing with that bitch and the rest of her friends >Feel completely crushed and betrayed >Storm back to my room, cry for hours and silently sob in the corner whimpering for my mother >Next day aunts act like nothing happened >I contemplate suicide all the time, just wishing it would end [Mercury and Flowershine] picture related:https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1428/54/1428543805590.png >just barely make the cut for the prestigious wonderbolt academy >feel kind of shy and overwhelmed >very first day jump into laps and find out you're among the slowest of the new recruits >everyone else seems so much more confident and capable than you >there's a cute mare there though who seems just as out of place >next day real training begins >excited to be wearing the uniform, start thinking maybe you belong here >you and the cute mare happen to be next to each other at the end of the exercise trying to catch your breath >she's panting and looks bummed >you suddenly think you should pat her on the back >you get your hoof halfway up, but pause >should you? >what if she thinks that's creepy? maybe you don't know each other that well, but then again maybe this is a good way to get to know her? Oh Celestia, someone's going to notice you with your hoof just hanging there! >trials for the day end and she heads off to the mess hall, leaving you behind without even noticing you're there >damnit - >just barely make the cut for the prestigious wonderbolt academy >feel kind of shy and overwhelmed >very first day jump into laps and find out you're among the slowest of the new recruits >everyone else seems so much more confident and capable than you >there's a cute colt there though who seems just as out of place >next day real training begins >excited to be wearing the uniform, start thinking maybe you belong here >you and the cute colt happen to be next to each other at the end of the exercise trying to catch your breath >that really took the wind out of you >feel more inadequate than ever >the cute colt is looking at you >he lifts his hoof up >you think about how nice it would be to have a little reassurance right now >you wait him to do something nice like pat your back or say something supportive >he doesn't budge, just keeps looking >he must think you're the worst flyer ever >you grab whatever bit of self confidence you still have and walk off to the mess hall >you need a glass of water >make sure to splash some on your face >can't let them see you cry >especially him ///// The entire show has been nothing but stories being read to a child by their mother. The mother turns out to be Twilight who wrote the book based on her own life experiences.[/spoiler:lit] >last scene of the last episode >camera pulls out over a visibly changed Ponyville >denser houses, paved roads, a few four storey buildings >on a lawn outside an old library a purple alicorn is reading to a trio of dusty coloured foals >"Did that all really happen mama?" says one, the youngest. >"Yeah, especially the bit with the dragon! Everypone knows those are extinct!" >"I think that's up to you to decide, children." the venerable matron replies. >camera pulls back further >soundtrack cuts out >"Friendship was Magic" >"Developed for TV by Lauren Faust" >original theme tune remixed into a lullaby begins to play...