"I only left my daughter alone for an instant Mr Officer, I didn't know this would happen. Her name? Flurry Heart. My name? Prince Shining Armour... oh, so namedropping that I'm royalty won't do me any good? That's a shame..."

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Just another entry for a certain competition involving Shining Armour's hapless fathering shenanagins that's running right now. Rumour says you can enter more than once, so here I am again. All in the spirit of friendly competition...

Flurry Heart, now going by Midnight Winter, is a brooding mare in the midst of her teenage years. Her parents don't understand her, and that's all that matters in her world.

Serious Version

Written for the Shining Armor is a Terrible Dad 2024 Competition.

It's important for a princess to learn to defend herself. It's important for a father to make sure their daughter is happy. It's important for a guard to survive cataclysmic events.

Written for the Shining Armor is a Terrible Dad 2024 Competition

Special thanks to EileenSaysHi for editing and giving some extra ideas.

Twilight tries to feed Applejack a salad. It doesn't go well.

Written for Quills and Sofa's "Write Something Terrible" Panic. The idea was to write a terrible story, but I interpreted it as "write a terrible idea inside a story."

Flurry Heart tries to warn her father of the impending apocalypse. Shining Armor thinks his daughter has a lovely imagination.

My first attempt at writing a comedic(ish) story! Do be gentle haha. This is an entry into the Shining Armor is a Terrible Dad Competition! I don’t think there’s a worse thing a dad can do than cheerfully ignore the apocalypse, do you?

Flurry Heart has grown old enough to begin attending school. However, she may have been spending a little too much time around her father, Shining Armor. She's been acting...different than the other foals during playtime. During a parent-teacher conference, Shining is informed of her behaviors.

An entry in the Shining Armor is a terrible dad competition.
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(Takes place between the events of Birthday Built For Two and Rock Solid Approval?. Also takes place in an AU during "To Where and Back Again". Familiarity with the above fics is recommended, but not required.)

Cheese Sandwich decides to pay another visit to Ponyvillle to see his special somepony: Pinkie Pie. And when he does, Pinkie Pie couldn't be happier to see him again.

Before long, Cheese meets the Cake Twins Pound and Pumpkin. Then, unexpectedly, he's pressed into duty as a foalsitter when Pinkie Pie is suddenly called away.

Is Cheese up to the task of foalsitting two troublesome toddlers? Or will the twins drive him crazier than crazy?

Sunset's favorite alley cat has always been distant, only sometimes letting her get close enough to actually pet her. Not wanting an old friend to suffer out in a terrible storm, she's determined to show her a little kindness and a better life.

Pizza Pie, Pinkie Pie's cousin from Filly-delphia, has just opened her newest location of her pizza shop, Big Momma Pizza Pie's Place in Ponyville. Pizza Pie offers her cousin and her friends a full guided tour of the restaurant, and shows them the secret of her delicious pizza

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle want to help Scootaloo with her crush on Rumble, seeing that she's too stubborn to admit her feelings, also getting assistance from the dancing pony Tender Taps. Dinky wants to help Rumble with his crush, but unfortunately for the Crusaders, Rumble's affection seemed to be focused on a sweet little Unicorn Filly. Apple Bloom hopes to get Scootaloo her colt, unless Sweetie Belle herself starts to return Rumble's feelings.