During a sleepover at Twilight’s, Rarity takes the opportunity to talk about boys. The girls press Applejack into opening up a little more around them.

But a good girl never talks about that kind of thing…

Primary Cast: Applejack
Secondary Cast: Mane Six

Edited by Level Dasher

For almost a thousand years, the immortal Nightmare Moon has reigned over Equestria as Empress. To the average pony, Nightmare Moon is an overarching enigma whose rule is absolute and whose wrath is terrible. But to Twilight Sparkle, who as an orphan has never known her parents, the Empress is something else entirely. When the young unicorn is brought under the royal wing as an apprentice, she learns a great deal more about the supposed tyrant than she ever knew. But as Twilight is introduced to life with her new mentor, she is thrust into a world of political intrigue, conspiracies and secrets. Secrets that were never meant to be revealed. As allies and enemies plot against the very peace of the nation, will Twilight fall prey to the perils of her new position? Or will she prosper and find in Nightmare Moon the mother she never had?

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My eternal gratitude to my editor, LordOfTheWrongs, without whom Night's Favoured Child would not be the story it is today.

Now with added TVtropes!

Twilight Sparkle is sure that Rarity and Rainbow Dash are having relationship issues, primarily because they keep inviting her to join them on all their romantic dates.

Commission for the ever-lovely Kits. Artwork by Maxima.

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Cover art by Sinrar, go give them some love!

A thousand years ago, Celestia had to battle against Nightmare Moon: a possessed form of her sister Luna. The princess wept the years away and tried to bring Luna back, but nothing ever worked, so instead she made sure that history did not forget her younger sister.

Her faithful student Twilight Sparkle is convinced she will come back as she's sent to Ponyville to supervise the preparations for the thousandth Summer Sun Celebration since Luna's banishment. She'll make sure that her impending return goes off without a hitch.

This is my own take on MLP:FiM's pilot episodes, Friendship Is Magic Part 1 & 2, and the start of my own Alternate Universe where I rewrite some plotlines for the fun of it and to have more chronological consistency between episodes and shamelessly shove my OC down your throats (Not here yet, though).

Content Warnings:
- Minor mentions of blood and injuries (marked with the gore tag just to be safe)
- Light Violence (not far beyond what the show itself would dare to show)
- Family drama (2 bits if you can guess between whom)
- An Overabundance of Thee-s and Thou-s in the prologue
- Sad Alicorns

Rated ‹T› just to be safe, but probably more along the lines of ‹E+10›

Any comments are appreciated, as well as constructive criticism, be it about grammar, orthography, awkwardly written phrases, pacing, or any other things!

Magical surges happen at the worst possible times.

Like, say, when you're carrying a box full of holiday ornaments and you suddenly become super-strong and crush it.

Applejack is currently very familiar with that.

Fortunately she also has Rarity on speed dial, and a friend's skill with fine detail work is just the tool Applejack needs right now.

Written for EileenSaysHi for Jinglemas 2022

Featured 12/29/2022 - 1/1/2023!

Featured on Equestria Daily as part of their 25 More of the Best Rarity Fanfics to Read for Rarity Day on 9/8/2023 and 25 More Amazing Fanfics to Read For Applejack Day! on 10/20/2023!

Rarity and Fluttershy have been friends for years, and every week they go to the spa. But after every trip, Rarity finds herself growing greener with envy over Fluttershy's beauty and grace, if not something more than just envy— and what might happen if she finds out Fluttershy feels the same way about her?
Rated Teen for moments of sensuality, foreplay, and sexual themes. Reader discretion is advised.
Assistance by Karrakaz, Blue_Paladin42, TheGreatEater, Setokaiva, Squinty Mudmane, Aurora, Starfall, and Ariamaki.
Cover Image by Megasweet, used with permission.
Image colored by Explosivegent.
Additional graphical design by Novel-Idea.
TV Tropes page can be found here, credited to Winter Lily.

Twilight ventures out into the mountains to see a once-in-a-lifetime event. Disappointed by her friends not coming with her, Twilight crosses paths with a kindred spirit.

Twilight Sparkle has had a crush on Princess Celestia for a very long time. When Celestia's own advice prompts her to confess her attraction, Twilight discovers a secret that Celestia has hidden for hundreds of years. With the fires of the sun itself separating them, can Twilight find a way for them to come together?

Cover art by NadnerbD

Huge amounts of editing by Jordanis

Rarity had always known she would have an arranged marriage—such was the life of a princess, after all. She just hadn't expected her wife to be a sphinx or that she would actively avoid her, and not just because she loves books.

Commission for the lovely Earthsong9405 set in one of her AUs where Rarity is in an arranged marriage to Princess Twilight Sparkle, a sphinx Princess from Saddle Arabia.

This story is a sequel to Off The Edge Of The Map

When Twilight is sent with Luna on a diplomatic mission to Draconia, they quickly find themselves somewhere that doesn't appear on any map, and Luna is lost in more than one way...

Thanks to RBDash47 of Pony Fiction Archive for formatting it for submission.
Title image by Valcron

Tremendous thanks to Illya Leonov and Scribbler for the Audiobook version.
Now with a Spanssh translation by SPANIARD KIWI: https://www.deviantart.com/spaniard-kiwi/art/Apoteosis-2-3-857110089