It’s Hearths Warming, and Starlight is visiting her dad for the holidays! However, an earthquake soon attacks Sires Hollow, and, well, the rest is sad.

[WARNING: CONTAINS DEATH]

Sunburst got the ring, he's got the girl, all he needs is her father's blessing.

But Firelight, the overprotective, overbearing parent that he is, won't give it up without a (metaphorical) fight.

_{Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there! Don't be like the Firelight in this story and support your kids.}

What if Starlight Glimmer had a more valid reason for hating on Cutie Marks? What if, instead of her childhood bestie, the Cutie Marks took somepony else from her?

And by “took”, I mean “killed dead”. And if the cover art and title didn't give it away, you probably know where this is going.

It's a huge step they're taking, and it's going to be hard, and long, and exhausting. But it's going to be worth it in the end, to form a family with him, to be a mother—is like all the pieces of her life are finally falling into place and she's exactly where she needs to be.

Or, Sunburst and Starlight take the plunge and decide to start a family, through adoption.

Edit: added a bit more context into the story to make a certain aspect more obvious.

**THIS IS NOT A JINGLEMAS STORY**

Starlight is about to become the Headmare of the School of Friendship, .She's worried she won't be able to do a good job.

Fortunately for her, Twilight is there to help.

This story is a sequel to Legends of Equestria: the Sorceror's Apprentice

Tom has a busy life, coordinating several clubs, doing university work in the midst of a global health crisis, researching strange artefacts, and turning into a pony every now and then trying to unravel a strange curse.

However, he soon finds himself thrust onto the frontlines of a struggle for the fate of the world, and not as somebody he's especially fond of...

Another side story in the Legends of Equestria timeline, which occurs concurrently with Legends of Equestria: the Sorceror's Apprentice, and marking five years since The Cutie Map first aired.

It's been a week since anyone in Sire's Hollow has seen Firelight, something that's incredibly worrisome considering recent events. Being the good neighbor that she is, Stellar Flare decides that he's been cooped up long enough, and stops by to make sure he's been caring for his daughter.

Turns out it's not the little filly she should be worried about.

Entry for Secret Moon's Self Isolation contest.

Starlight's wedding Day comes, and she is nervous about it.

Part of the Luster Dawn Successor Verse.

With her first semester as principal finally done, Starlight is ready for a well-deserved holiday break. Wanting to balance out her best-friend Trixie’s clinginess and her father…well, being her father, Starlight decides to have Trixie spend the Hearth’s Warming holidays with them. Jealousy soon erupts, however, when her father begins treating Trixie like a second daughter. By the end of the holidays, everyone will have learned an important lesson about what it means to be family.

This story is a sequel to Truth Hurts

A slightly different take on my story “Truth Hurts”, in which Starlight and Sunburst go after their parents and overhear their conversation, learning some painful truths themselves.