This story is a sequel to The Princess's Gift

Twilight takes her duties as Princess Rarity's bodyguard seriously. She will follow her into battle, into long and tiresome meetings, and into the occasional ball.

Unfortunately for her, it's difficult to protect a princess in a sea of costumed ponies when you have no idea which one of them is the princess.

Part of the Bodyguard!AU Series, based on Earthsong9405's AU where Twilight is the bodyguard to a "Princess/Queen Rarity". Prior knowledge of the AU is not necessary to read the story.

Rainbow Dash is known to be a spunky pegasus mare with a great need for speed, and retains a hard-headed, determined attitude with endless sass, coolness, and awesomeness - all wonderful ingredients to make a brash tomboy. If it weren't for her big brothers, Dash probably wouldn't be half of the great, tough mare she is now.

Wait - you didn't know Dash had brothers? Well, of course, she did! What? Did you think she developed her personality by genetics or something? Nopony can be as awesome as her without a little guidance!

Meet Heat Wave, the twins, Sun Strike and Lightning Strike, and the triplets, Forest Mist, Cold Flurry, and Rolling Thunder - Rainbow Dash's six older brothers who have influenced her so much and taught her more things about life and herself than anypony else. Take a look at her life growing up from birth to marehood as her brothers play their part in raising her, teaching her how to handle herself and watching her grow up into a strong, loyal, empowering mare as she plays as one of the guys.

Adventures will rise, mistakes will be made, and shenanigans are inevitable. But through all the trials and tribulations, these seven siblings will always come together, creating a bond that will last for the rest of their lives.

A story about family. Family is forever, and so are the things that come with it. The love you receive from your family will be with you, and help to shape you no matter what you do or where you go.

Rated T for future chapters

EDIT (11/6/18): Surprise, surprise! The newly edited chapters are being published! You'll notice that some concepts have changed a bit, but most things have stayed the same.Thank you for being so patient with me, and I hope that the wait was worth it.

Twilight is packing up her tiny, closet lab at Crystal Prep to leave for her new friends at Canterlot High School. Before she leaves, Sugarcoat pokes in to say something.

As the centuries pass, cutie marks come and go. Some are common: the healing cross, the basic compass rose, the courier bag. Others are extinct: no more mercenary companies, no more mercenary marks. A few are incredibly scarce, coming along once a generation or less: the mark for luck falls into that category. A number only manifest when the call for them arrives: train tracks didn't appear until it was railroading time. But for the most part, ponies take their mark with its associated talent and magic as a blessing in their lives -- no matter what that mark turns out to be. And they accept it as they accept themselves.

Luna, in her first truly open palace session dealing with the public, is about to meet the exception: Joyous Release, a pony who wants nothing more than to be rid of her mark forever -- and every bit of the talent which comes with it.

But marks are permanent...

(This story takes place shortly after A Total Eclipse Of The Fun.)

Cover art by Harwick.

Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.

Now with author Patreon and Ko-Fi pages.

This story is a sequel to Triggered

Sunburst might be a grown stallion, but that doesn't keep an overprotective sister like Sunset Shimmer from smacking a filly.

Cover art by Cover Designer Novel-Idea

This story is a sequel to Sunsplit

"...okay, ow. My head hurts. I wonder how long I've been--oh, who are you?"

While studying, Starlight notices weird changes in Twilight when around Sunburst. She tells her to knock it off in the nicest way possible.

Spoilers for the Season 6 Premiere.

Cover art by Cover Designer Novel-Idea

"Hey, you used to be Celestia's student, right? Did you know Sunset Shimmer?"

It's the first annual Carousal Congregation, a semi-formal meeting where all of Rarity's business partners meet up and, theoretically, discuss the business of fashion. After all, keeping up with trends from across Equestria is always important. And it couldn't hurt to meet the boss's other employees. It's not like they're from entirely different social spheres with no similarity at all, right?

Celestia invites Twilight over for tea and chess. Things don't quite go as planned.

"...Present Perfect unironically uses the term Chineighse here and I don't actually know if I can forgive him for that." -Obselescence!

"-- oh, no..." -Estee