Some people think that when they end up in another world as a pony, or in some cases an alicorn, they are in for a great adventure in Equestria. This ain't Equestria, and while I ended up in the body of an alicorn, so did five others, and they didn't come from the same world as I did. These ponies worship us, saying we are here to lead them to a golden age, but something is off with all this, and they're hiding something from us. Just why were we brought here, and why do they need six of us? And why is there someone whispering to me?

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But yeah it probably is. This is going to be my take in the Generic Anon in Equestria trope, freestyled from the beginning of Bridle Gossip at the request of the purchaser. Shennanigans shall most likely ensue. Contains excessive philosophical discussion, pseudoscientific worldbuilding mumbo jumbo, and a light dash of casual humor.

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Mal has led a difficult life as a sorcerer on an Earth where magic is feared by many. After being forced to use an untested spell in an emergency, he has found himself in Equestria. Though his situation isn't ideal, he could find the love, acceptance, and family he'd always wanted.

If he could stop being such a bastard about accepting help for five minutes.

Join Mal on his misadventures of learning how to love himself, and how to put some faith in others.

A slow-paced Human in Equestria story focusing on family both found and born and healing from past traumas. All major plot points up to and through the ending are planned out, the only question is how long will it take to get there and how much will I be sidetracked on the way.

Also filled with excess worldbuilding elements because I literally cannot help myself from overexplaining anything I find mildly interesting. Plenty of such ideas are concepts possibly (probably) already explored in other fics- the fandom is over a decade old at this point after all. Much of this ground has already been tread.

This fic is for me to stretch my sorely underused writing muscles. Please read and enjoy.

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What is one to do when they wake up in an unfamiliar body in an alien world. Understand your surroundings. Ignore the voice in your head. Learn your new body. Continue to ignore the voice in your head. Know why you're important. You can ignore that annoying voice in your head like you ignore your younger sibling.

Just do the paperwork!

Okay, it's only one voice in my head.

Destiny or chaos—I couldn't tell you which brought me here. But somehow, my life was given a clean slate.

Now, I am Wizbell Star, a little colt with a burning desire to explore magic and this strange, wonderful world full of Ponies.

Here, magic is real—not a delusion, not a trick of the eyes, but something I can touch. I can wield it, study it, understand it. That small, childish dream I once buried has returned… and with it, a reason to live.

I'm no longer just another cog in a machine, grinding through life just to make it to tomorrow. No longer surviving without direction, without hope.

For the first time... I'm truly alive.

I will add the tags during the course of the story because I'm not sure whether to add some of them or not, so I will only add them when I have some content that supports having them.

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Thanks to Luckyfanisaac for helping me find errors in my grammar.

Twilight Sparkle took her entrance exam. Then there was a rainbow light, and everything went to Tartarus. The next thing she knows, she wakes up inside a mortuary.

Thus begins her new destiny as the daughter of Death.

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Filly Twilich story.

This is a story that I will work on when I'm not focused on HoH:UME and Tales From The Omniverse, so new chapters probably won't come as often.

December 4th 2024: the story is already featured! Yay! Thank you, everyone!

There's a saying among the Royal Guard: "The higher you climb, the harder you fall."

Lieutenant Gilded Light is experiencing this lesson firsthoof as his newest reassignment landed him right back in the one place he spent years meticulously avoiding - Ponyville. Trading Canterlot's gleaming spires for quaint thatched roofs wasn't exactly in his five-year career plan. Much less becoming Ponyville's newest Guard Commander.

A promotion, they called it. He calls it cosmic irony.

After all, he didn't spend years adapting to Canterlot just to end up back where he started, dealing with a family that he had long since left behind and townsfolk who might recognize him as "Rarity's brother who ran off to the big city."

Between avoiding family reunions, maintaining Ponyville's security amid weekly magical disasters, and fending off a particularly nosy mint-green Unicorn, Gilded Light is finding that his extensive magical training prepared him for everything except coming home.

Sometimes he wonders if his second chance at life was really meant to be this… complicated.

[The beginning is set during the Season 3 premiere.]

A politically sharp young man dies in a sabotage he never saw coming. When he wakes, it’s not in any afterlife—it's in an unfamiliar, frozen wasteland, sealed in armor not his own, breathing like a machine, and carrying a red blade he doesn't remember. The world is strange, colorful, and wrong. Talking horses. Black crystals. A tyrant king. And no way home.

In a world where there are magical ponies and dangerous beings, a human who died will be the one who forces everything to kneel... nah, in fact, he just has bad luck and will live his life to the fullest because he no longer has the bad luck of his old life.

On a dark and stormy night, an alicorn colt is found. The very first of his kind.

Not knowing what else to do, the village that found him sends for the princesses, who hurries to investigate. The strange colt declares his name is Zeus, and he is a king! But other than that, he really has no idea. He does not know where he came from, what he is king of, or how exactly he ended up in Equestria.

Sensing the immense power hiding within the colt, Celestia and Luna decides to take him in. If nothing else, they can keep an eye on him. But it isn't easy to raise a colt with immense power.

Hopefully Zeus is the only strange entity that has arrived in Equestria...

This story takes place a few years after the series. But in this story, Celestia and Luna did not retire, they are still ruling Equestria.

This is also NOT connected to the God of War series.