Sometimes, the most important words a pony utters are their last.

Entries for the Famous Last Words write-off competition, winning 3rd, 6th, and 13th place, as well as best new writer, out of 51 entries.

Pinkie's parents are missing, presumed dead.

Applejack is there to pick up the pieces.

Please heed the content warnings! This is a story very explicitly about grief, loss, and depression. Suicide is also an important recurring theme, and cannot be avoided!

Amazing coverart by my sibling, cereal (fimfic | twitter)

Preread by Otter and Sleps

For Bike's Applepie contest (folder | info)!! I love this ship and it's so so so rare, so I'm super happy to be contributing!

A dancer becomes more lithe. Legs toned and steps light. A boxer might become a solid wall. Some professions change us in some way, some more obvious than others.

When they do, you can feel like you've lost control of yourself, your future, and the expectations of those around you.

Twilight's a powerful unicorn. Her practice and study in spell and the magic arts has molded her body into one more capable in that art. She never expected following her passion would have some obvious consequences.

She does not handle it well.

Story contains implied self harm.

Friends aware of her problem help with her immediate needs, but they find themselves feeling helpless for something more long term. Rarity and Fluttershy contemplate Twilight's more invisible needs in this story.

Author's Note: I wrote this years ago.
But I never published it until today. Many reasons for that, many of them related to poor mental health and low self worth. The only way I could publish this now is by just submitting it without a final reading. Please keep in mind this is myself from a time five years or more ago.

I commissioned artwork for it from a friend, but they ended up dropping off the map before they finished it. I contemplated not sharing it in it's unfinished state. I decided that, much like the story, it's better to be seen than to be squirreled away into obscurity.

I hope this story finds you well. I hope above all things that it does no harm. Thank you for your time.

You didn't really think it would come to this.

Starlight Glimmer confronts you one evening after she catches you in the act. It's not an easy thing to swallow, considering that you two had just begun your relationship with each other. But like any good partner should, Starlight tries her best to connect with you in a way that would enable her to better understand your position on the matter.

Trigger Warning: Themes of suicide and self-harm, mentions of blood

Cover art by maren on Derpibooru.

EDIT: Featured on 20/1/2023!

Twilight Sparkle is the master of her own mind. She is the Princess of Friendship. She is the fourth piece of the Alicorn Tetrarchy. She has incredible power, and she has always asserted it in a necessary and compassionate way. She has a charmed life—a wonderful set of friends, a beautiful castle in a lovely little town, and is constantly busy with her life, stretching her wings upward and outward to new horizons as often as possible.

There can be nothing wrong with her.

Pre-read by Majin Syeekoh.

Lyra loves doing things for her friends over the holidays. It takes a toll, though. But she'll get by.

Written for Franso for Jinglemas 2021. CW: This fic contains a very minor amount of indirect self-harm/body horror and some fairly minor bits of gore.

Preread by Lost and Aurora! Thanks!

A short while after Starlight moved in with Twi and Spike. Spike started cleaning and heard noises from Starlight's room and decided to investigate.

This was it, the day Twilight became a full grown mare, and after a wild day of partying, she receives a note from the Princess, requesting that she comes to Canterlot to learn about an almost unheard of type of magic. But this type of magic feels...off to her, and she will come to find out what it really is, and why this magic has stayed a secret for so long.

Trixie is a stage magician. Skilled in acts of slight of hoof and stage magic, and even more gifted in magic than your average unicorn. She loved the joy she could bring to others, and of course, she also loved the adoration of those who beheld her performance. But....how could she not? Ever since she was born she has felt this feeling, this voice whispering to her that she is meant for Greatness, and destined for Great Power. And no matter how many times life has spat in her face. Even after her parents died when she was little, even after she was mugged in that alleyway in Manehattan, even after two humiliating defeats by Twilight Sparkle, even after seeing her greatest rival become an Alicorn Princess, and seeing her rival best her at almost everything and being so much Greater and more Powerful than her....the voice still persists. The feeling never faltering.

But why? What hope is there for Trixie Lulamoon? How could she ever be as Great and Powerful as Princess Twilight Sparkle?

However, on one fateful night, she is about to discover something about herself and her family that will change everything....

(Art of thumbnail is made by PonyKillerX on Deviant Art)

To many ponies, Twilight is a bookworm, friend, and master mage. In light of recent events, now princess, too. But princess of what? Celestia says it's the stars, but when Celestia's statement is tested, will it hold true? Maybe, just maybe, Twilight has a different meaning after all...