What makes a victim and what makes a villain?

After their defeat at the Battle of the Bands, the Dazzlings retreat into self-confinement to lick their wounds whilst they reassess their entire strange and fated lives from their beginnings in Equestria, up to the present. However, learning how to cope with the world and each other—living an immortal life in a powerless body—might just be more than any of them can bear.

Lines are blurred in this dark, historical, novelesque sirens origin story of innocence lost, heartache, betrayal, hope, and of course, beautiful music.
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(Featured on Equestria Daily: 7/11/15)
(Featured on FIMFiction front page: 9/23/16)

She is the Element of Magic. She is the Keystone of Harmony. She is Celestia's Personal Student. She... is Applejack.

Story image by laurenmagpie

"But seriously, Tavi. Haven't you ever dated anyone? You can still fall in love, can't you?" Lyra asked, unwrapping one of the basket sweets Octavia insisted on sharing with them.
"In theory, yes." She said. "But..."
"Ponies always go too fast for you, don't they?" Octavia agreed with Bon Bon.
"Every time I explained that I'm demiromantic, that I would only feel prepared for deeper intimacy after knowing them, they would never listen. They would try to kiss me on our first date..." Octavia explained, unwrapping her Heart Caramel. "I've tried several times, but that was the outcome of all. I presume I don't have to explain I had to dump them right after that. And they all thought I would love the kiss; that this time, with them, it would be different."

Queen Chrysalis had won. After years of scheming and hiding in the shadows, feeding off scraps of love scavenged from innocent, oblivious passers by, she had finally succeeded in infiltrating Canterlot Castle and the city itself for her own.

Struck down by an unforseen attack, Celestia finds herself catapulted across dimensions and into a bizarre new world of magic and power. A world where she, herself, is the student.

Welcome to Twilight Sparkle's Equestria; a land where magic is might and nopony can escape the clutches of her strict and absolute rule.

Many thanks, as always, to Word Worthy for his unending support and editing skills. Coverart commissioned from Mr-Tech.

After the Battle of the Bands, Sunset Shimmer and the Rainbooms prepare for the upcoming Friendship games! ...Or so, she thinks. In reality, the heartbreak along with an assault has somehow broken Sunset's mind. Now, it's up to Flash Sentry, Twilight Sparkle, and others to help bring her back.

That is, if the imaginary Rainbooms want her to go back.

Mac has dedicated his life to the farm, to his sisters, and Applejack feels bad for it, she feels it's time for her brother to star having fun again to have a life beyond his work, friends and even more, but she isn't going to let him go just with any other mare, no, she need something good and harmless.
Then there's Rarity, ever since the coronation she's been work on multiple designs for multiple clients, and she hasn't seen much of her friends ever since either, or done any other thing that isn't working.

For Applejack it was a matter of putting one and one together. A flawless harmless plan.

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Rainbow Dash: one of the finest athletes in Canterlot High, and blessed with boundless potential; those who know her best are in no doubt that, in whichever sport she finally decides to pursue, she will go all the way to the top. But if the vagaries of fate are to rob her of her abilities, what's left for her?

Aria Blaze is history's most prolific composer. Writing music constantly for upwards of a thousand years will earn you that title. Now, after a defeat which robbed the three sirens of a magic they've known their entire lives, she relies more than ever on her passion to carry her through an uncertain time. Whatever form fate thrusts upon her, she will never stop making music, and that's all that matters...or it would be, if she could get one roommate to stop pestering her, and the other to stop a downward spiral of self-destruction.

Ever since their trip to camp Everfree, Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry has rekindled their friendship. All seems well and good but when the two begin to realize something about themselves. The two will work on the issues from their past and also in the present. You know what they say, there's always room for second chances.

This takes place after the Equestria Girls: Legend of Camp Everfree.

Takes place right before Newbie Dash, though may contain a few references from future episodes.

Special thanks to Berry Delight for proofreading this! Go on and leave a follow!

After a rather peculiar dream, Dash is forced to think about somepony who she had loved dearly betraying her.

On the other hoof, Twilight has asked of her a request which both excited her and formed a sense of dread in the pit of her stomach…

Cover Art By Me