When Twilight awakes one morning to a furious pounding on the doors of Castle Friendship, she assumes someone has a very dire friendship problem.

When she opens the door to find an abandoned newborn colt, not a guardian in sight, her whole world turns upside down.

At the prospect of the little foal going to an orphanage, Twilight puts her hoof down, and adopts the colt.

Investigations turn up a terrible orphanage, and a mistreated mare.

Follow along on Twilight's journey of finding love, sleepless nights, sick foals, and the trials and tribulations of motherhood, with a newfound love by her side.

Mild Parental Abuse mentions and descriptions later on, chapters discussing it in any detail will have a warning in the authors notes at the top.

Taking suggestions for adorable Star Chaser shenanigans here!

Cover art made with pony bases by roserooibos and bootiqueenx

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The mane six have defeated many villains, most recently having help from the Pillars of Equestria. Leading them to wonder, just why in the hell is Equestria so prone to disaster and mayhem? Why didn't the ponies of the past clean up their messes? And why in the bucking hell doesn't anyone ever just execute someone?

And most importantly, why do they even have princesses if a group of six young adults are going to have to handle everything?

[Heavily inspired by Never Too Late by Three Days Grace.]
When Luna dreamwalks and discovers just how much hurt and anger Twilight is hiding, along with a few dark secrets, she feels she must intervene, before Twilight heads down the same path she herself did.

WARNING: First chapter has a suicide attempt, the following chapters are dealing with the aftermath of said suicide attempt.