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The Changelings have been defeated and Shining Armor and Princess Cadence have said their vows, but that still leaves the Mane Six and others with the issue of the strain on their friendships. And among all the guests present at the reception, a few of them are going to be suprised with what new relationships are formed.
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You have an interesting idea here.
You might want to have someone with a fine tooth comb check your grammar, though 
Sorry, couldn't help it. I'm actually curious how this will play out.
Nicely done... I enjoy these kinds of episode-expanding stories. Twilight really is an awesome pony, and my favorite of the group. Of course, she's no Saint... She was guilty of doing exactly the same thing in regards to Pinkie and Gilda that her friends were guilty of here, assuming that Pinkie's concerns were all selfishly motivated rather than legitimate. So they're all capable of making that mistake.
ohhhh Luna aren't you just an adorable and clever jedi
I swear though everyone gives Discord such a sinister mindset. I mean sure he fucked with the Mane 6 but would you just quietly sit there as the greatest threat to your freedom, after over 1000 year imprisoned in stone, attempted to imprison you again; I should think not. He didn't kill um and sure its a kids show so that wouldn't happen but realistically he has near limitless power, fangs, claws, and talons he could of easily just killed them after having his fun but he didn't. Even all the changes he made once he escaped were relatively harmless chocolate rain, cotton candy clouds, long legged bunnies, screwing with the sun and moon, and all the rest of his antics were relatively harmless. He could of burned everything to the ground, sent tornadoes, famine, and other dangerous forms of chaos but he was just having a few laughs at others expense almost entirely extremely elaborate pranks; I mean hell the only people he Discorded were the mane 6 and that was necessary to his freedom its not like he went around fucking with everyone minds and personalities.
I started ranting, hmmmm, to bad. Good read though can't wait to see how the rest of the mane 6 and Spike spend the night although i do have a few hopes in the matter 
“Dear sister, she is a member of the Royal Family,” Luna calmed her. “Not blood-related, of course, none of your so-called nieces and nephews truly are, but it is understandable you would not wish to think ill of them.”
You're assuming they had no brothers, sisters, parents, aunts, uncles or cousins prior to their ascension to the throne..... They're not older than Equestria (Hearthwarming Day), which means they had to have been born at some point, so they obviously DID have parents, so nieces and nephews of their bloodline are HARDLY out of the question.
>>539988 I'm not quite saying that.
My personal headcannon with the Alicorns is a bit complicated, especially where Celesia and Luna are concerned. But there's a reason why they have no blood relatives left, which I'm going to reveal later.
For right now, all that I'm saying is that Alicorns are very rare and there's a reason that Celestia and Luna have no blood relatives left.
Well, I'm glad you thought it was cute. That was the main point of it after all.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cause I'm sure someone will ask and i can save the writer the explanation)
So yea I really liked this chapter I think Soarin and Dash make a good pair and you wrote both of um pretty fantastically and believable. Really loved how you made Rainbow so self conscious and Scootaloo so fan girl crazy.
My only prayer here is that you don't try to make Fancy Pants cheat on his wife and Rarity be a man stealer. (well its not my only one but its the only one I'm gonna voice... for now)
>>537169 I did interpret this chapter that way, but I blame that completely on my heavily-tinted Twilestia shipping goggles. If I look at it without them (very difficult), it seems quite familial. But there's a little voice inside my head that says, "They are in luuuuuuuurve." 
Don't worry, Rarity's chapter is next, and I assure you Fancypants (is it one word or two?) will not be a cheater, nor Rarity a manstealer. Either of those two acting that way would be way to OOC.
I'm glad people think I wrote RD well. I'd guess she'd be the one (besides Spike) angsting over not believing Twilight the most, since she feels like she betrayed her Element.
Well, at least you admit it. I have nothing against people who ship Twilestia, I just don't personally do it, and I wanted to be clear Celestia's love is strictly maternal here. I'm glad you liked what I wrote.
>>578531 
and i agree mostly cause Fancy Pants (I have no idea; you go with 1 i'll go with 2 one of us has to be right) is the one Canterlot pony who wasn't a complete ass (who knows on Fluer trophy wife didn't talk). Plus I have a rather well known preference with who Rarity should be with
Onward my good man, onward! Release more awesomeness on to the unsuspecting fan base 
(Okay maybe we suspect it a little)
I like it and you met my Fancypants not a cheating bastard quota. In fact I like him quite a bit more after this so well done. The implication of messages by fire being a bit more widespread is interesting and a nice hat tip to Spike. It wasn't a legit Sparity moment obviously but I still like that he was brought up. I also felt you might be trying to make some contrast between Fancypants and Fluer's relationship and Spike and Rarity's with his story. That's probably just me looking through my fav ships spyglass though.
Well, that's one thing I love about this fandom: from what I've seen, people at least admit to wearing shipping goggles.
I'm going to be upfront: there's probably not going to be much Sparity in this fic. Spike's main focus will be on his relationship with Twilight (familiar, not romantic, I assure you). I really doubt there's going to be much romance outside of Dash/Soarin. I hope you'll continue to read regardless.
Well, in The Griffon Brush-Off we see a letter arrive to Celestia from something near the fireplace, so I figure it works something like that. I think I read the theory on TVTropes too.
You know, it's funny. The last two chapters, I was worrying I didn't do the character building right, and was thinking I'd be getting this story its first dislike, but no, people love it.
Damn, this is really good.
Also:
I'm really liking this. The basic concept reminds me of Stainless Steel Fox's Best Night Ever Extended, though in my opinion your execution is significantly better. Eagerly looking forward to more.
Awesome chapter, I hope there is more Soarin' Dash in future chapters.
>>539748 Same thing can be said about NNM and Chrysalis. All the villains were taken down by their own hubris.
NNM played games instead of just killing the Elements or at least sending the elements to the moon/sun.
Chrysalis should have paid more attention to her prisoners. Sure she took care of Celestia (and not Luna) but should have take out Cadance and the elements and keep SA hypnotized for energy.
Discord should have eliminated the one thing that can defeat him immediately instead of playing with them to torture Celestia.
Sincerely they are terrible at the whole villain thing. I mean, Chrysalis announced her attack on Canterlot!
>>614111 Discord did take care of his threat though that was the whole point in discording the mane 6 it was the first thing he did. He didn't want to kill anyone. NMM did try to kill them the avalanche and the manticore were attempts at ending them. Chrysalis was planing on feeding off of everyone she only didn't bother killing um cause they provided a food source as long as they were alive. She was feeding her entire race every little bit mattered
First off, I appreciate your criticism. It was actually one of my worries that I was making it seem that Twilight was completely right and the others were completely wrong.
You got to remember, everyone praising Twilight is going through the emotional wringer. Whether or not they were justified in not believing Twilight, it's objective that listening to her could have prevented the invasion. They're all feeling guilty, and in their guilt they're dumping on themselves and putting Twilight on a pedestal. Both Twilight and Luna call them out on this.
I want to assure you, the point of this fic isn't to go "Ooh, Twi's awesome!" It's to examine everyone's feelings on the dismissal in Part 1. Right now, we're seeing it from the POV of the other characters, so there's a bit of that. We will get more of Twilight blaming herself for this, I assure you.
I wrote this simply because I felt that everyone making up deserved more than two lines of dialogue. I hope you'll keep reading.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
-Interesting that we seem to be jumping back in time a good amount compared to the last chapter... might want to put an author's note at the start of this chapter about that so it doesn't feel so jarring?
As a result, nopony noticed the two Pegasus Ponies making complete foals of themselves.
-Consider removing capitalization from "Pegasus Ponies".
which seemed to fit with anything the pink Earth Pony sang.
-Similarly here... I am very tempted to capitalize such things myself, so I am not saying it is wrong.
The fact that someone so powerful was being so friendly with her was beginning to sink in.
-Dash is already friends with the most powerful mortal mage currently living, writes reports about her daily life to an immortal goddess, has just served as a bridesmaid to a DIFFERENT Princess when she married the captain of the royal guard (granted we never see Dash interact much with Shining Armor)... and she is surprised that someone as powerful as Soarin is being friendly to her?...PERFECT! The Mane Six never do seem to catch on to how much clout the fact that they have saved the country more than once as the hoof-picked elite strike-force of the more well-known of the two leaders of the country probably gives them.
She knew her “help” had amounted to ignoring a warning until it was too late, then of getting caught by an army just a few feet away from their goal.
-She forgot the part in the middle where she took out her fair share of them.
“Most ponies in the Canterlot upper class don’t worry about anything beyond social standings. They barely noticed anything about either of those guys, even though we were right near Equestria falling.”
-Good hand-wave...
but the credit to those goes to my friends Fluttershy and Rarity.
-credit for those
“And you say that like you doubt her,”
-CONSIDER changing "her" to "me" because while this shows that Dash is being aware of Scootaloo, it is still pretty convoluted phrasing, especially for a jock like Dash.
Apparently Scootaloo noticed the look on her idol’s face. “Uh, well, thanks for the drink,” she said quickly, getting up, “but I think I’ll go see what Apple Bloom and Sweetie are up to.”
-Interesting... thinking that teaching her would lead Dash into more information about her (lack of?) parents than Scootaloo would prefer Dash to have?
I like what I've read of this fic so far, but I noticed one rather glaring error: there's one line that starts "Soarin shook her head". Either he's just become a sudden victim of rule 63, or he's doing something like what Pinkie did to Fluttershy in "May the Best Pet Win" (that head-bobbing scene). Either way, the image is just weird.
Wow, actual constructive criticism, nice.
I'm taking your suggestions into consideration, but for now I'm only fixing that grammer mistake you caught.
That whole spiel about Rainbow being import...yeah, when you put it that way, it is pretty ridiculous. Still, despite all that important stuff you mentioned life just seems to go on for everypony. Plus, the Wonderbolts are a big deal to Rainbow Dash, so it's natural she'd be intimidated.
-She forgot the part in the middle where she took out her fair share of them.
Yes, she did. Remember: she's still dumping on herself for not listening to Twilight, so she's underplaying her own accomplishments.
-Interesting... thinking that teaching her would lead Dash into more information about her (lack of?) parents than Scootaloo would prefer Dash to have?
Not quite. Scootaloo does have parents here. As for why she turned down the flying lessons...well, you'll have to wait and see!
And thank you for catching that.
>>608057>>612961 Well, we did get "Secret of My Excess" in season 2, which has to count for something. I agree that "Dragon Quest" was basically one big wasted opportunity. Save the comedy episodes for characters that have had some actual development, guys, please?
Truth be told, considering what this fic seems to be mostly based on, I wasn't expecting Sparity to feature too prominently. Though I do have to wonder whether that third photo from the post-wedding sequence will come into play.
Okay, only just started on this, but this jumps out at me: consider rewording that second paragraph, with more names (or, if that gets too repetitive, descriptive terms like "the earth pony") and fewer pronouns. The way it's written, half the time, I can't tell who "she" refers to, particularly as it seems to switch mid-sentence at least once. This is a general problem with passages describing someone thinking about a person of the same gender, and it frustrates me as well when I try my hand at writing.
The one thing I don't like is how the Flimflam Brothers were sentenced to prison for scamming and fraud. They never ever did, they just pioneered a new method of industrialised production. They're not evil, just pragmatic, slippery businessmen. Just seems like Celestia's abusing her power to punish ponies her friends don't like.
Good advice, thanks.
Given their personalities, I wouldn't put it past them that they did some double-dealing offscreen, but I could have made that clearer, yes. Besides, breaking up the elements would mean trouble the next time someone like Nightmare Moon or Discord came along, so I think Celestia would have some incintive to be hard on them. I'll probably re-edit the chapter later to account for your criticisms, because I think they are valid.
The FlimFlam brothers quoted an unreasonable price for the use of their machine, baited and goaded the Apple family into a 'all-or-nothing' competition (they could have just prove that their machine is worth the price, instead of asking for the whole farm) and from their plans, have no intention of taking care of the farm once all the apples have been harvested. The brothers are not pragmatic. They're just plain unscrupulous.
Edit to head off potential comment section derailment: Nevertheless, we're here for the fic, not to debate about the brothers. If you disagree with me about the brothers, Okay. I'll agree that we disagree about them. And we'll leave it at that. I'd rather just enjoy the story.
Okay, I edited in a line or two to better justify the Princess arresting them. Really, I did forget they technically did nothing illegal during the episode. 
Still, with names like Flim and Flam, it's really not that much of a steach that they participated in some Offscreen Villainry.
I was looking forward to this chapter, as AJ was in full-on "main support" mode for these episodes, repeatedly being the one to approach Twilight, ultimately leading the others to walk out on her, and then being the only one to offer any kind of in-episode apology to her.
When the chips are down in adventure episodes, AJ and Twilight look out for each other... AJ often saving Twilight from physical dangers, Twilight choosing to first go to Applejack when she was winning her friends back from Discord, the two of them fighting back-to-back (though Twi was a changeling) and Twilight rescuing AJ from the dog pile of her doppelgängers. When one of them is in trouble, the other is usually the first that they turn to. If Twilight is the leader of the Mane Six, then Applejack is her second-in-command... So loosing her support had to hurt.
You have me looking forward to the morning after conversation as much as the characters are.
I think AJ's accent was fine. Personally, I write it much more heavily, but that's more about how I've always pictured it. Just watch your consistency--if Fritter is going to use "fer" instead of "for," make sure you write it that way each time unless there's an obvious reason to do otherwise, like if she's putting on a fake accent or certain words have different sounds depending on the words surrounding them (like "a" versus "an").
This totally was Twilight/Celestia shipping.Any relationship can be called shipping. It can be friendshipping or the mother/daughter relationship shipping. Or any other shipping. Some people just automatically assign the soon to be sex shipping tag without caring about any others. Awesome chapter.
>>638210 While it's technically true that any relationship can be called "shipping", the term is usually used more narrowly among fanfic writers and readers, and would very likely lead to confusion if used according to the wider definition. "Shipping" implies a romantic relationship; anything else is usually qualified, as seen in the EqD term "friendshipping".
Well, I hope the chapter lived up to your expectations. And yeah, AJ really is close to Twilight. That's why I had her do most of the talking in chapter one. The morning after will be chapter ten, following Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Spike, and Shining Armour.
Thanks for the advice...I'll go over her accent this weekend.
If Soarin actually did that to Rainbow Dash now, when she's deep in guilt like she is, I would call his worth into question. Even if she was consenting, in her state I think Soarin would decline.
As long as people know I'm not shipping them romantically, they can call it whatever they want. And if you call it that, then yes, I am a mother/daughter reslationship Twilestia shipper.
Let me just say these are awesome, I cannot wait for me (even if none of my ships are getting any support) but this isn't really a shipfic so I could never use such a petty reason to hate such a great story, also will Shining Armor and Cadence get chapters cause that would be SOOOOO BOSS!
Also WOOT fellow southern Brony/Pegasisters /)
That's exactly the way I've always seen it, Twilight may be the leader but Applejack is her LT., the one that always has her back and their relationship is really one of the strongest within the Mane 6, glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that
Shining Armour is currently scheduled for Chapter 9. Cadance...I don't know, I really have no ideas. She didn't turn her back on Twilight, so she really has no reason to angst. She has her happy ending, case closed.
And yeah, not much shipping...maybe another fic.
So much D'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
I think I'm already addicted.
Pinkie Pie: 
No!
I cannot believe it took me that long to find that image again!
>>537034 This man... he is good.
I will reward his awesome with something fitting.
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In other news... this chapter left me wanting to hug Celestia so much... but then she'd probably buck me to the moon.
You.
Author.
Yes you.
In case you didn't know...
You are awesome.
Shipping here and there, and I'm enjoying it. I am a rather hard antishipper, and I liked this. You have done well.
Moreso, you have done well not just with the shipping, but with everything else. How did you do it?!
This story... each and every one of these chapters... they... they are... they're so...
This thing you've created...
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