How does someone learn to be a baby again? To walk again, to play again? And how does a princess learn to be a mother—and to be imperfect?
Alex, a 21-year-old engineering student, is suddenly pulled from his world into the land of Equestria. But now, he finds himself in the body of an almost-newborn, forced to relearn everything—while his adult mind struggles to make sense of a world that doesn’t follow the same rules of physics as Earth. It's not easy when your body insists on acting like an infant.
Princess Celestia, a ruler who has quietly longed to hear the word “Mom,” offers to help him find a way home—if such a thing is even possible. Until then, she’ll take care of him.
Determined not to burden her further, Alex plays the part of a normal foal in public, hiding his adult mind to prevent any problems. Can he maintain the charade, or will his struggle reveal the truth? And as Celestia tends to him, will she discover that motherhood isn’t about perfection?
I wrote this fanfic based on a simple question: Why are there so many stories that approach age change with something like, "Oh, I'm a kid again… good to know" and skipping almost the entire childhood and learning process?
If you're interested, follow me on a journey of learning equine biology until midnight, making sense of the magic system with physics, reading articles about motherhood, and improving my grammar skills (English is not my native language—Spanish is—so there might be some odd phrasing. If you find any, please let me know).
Cover by vanilla-chan Thank you so much, I love the cover.
Thanks to Noobblue for helping me with the idea of the story.
Thanks to The Mechanic for proofreading the first 2 chapters.
Inspired by:
A Fateful Flurry by Sencha Steep
Trust Once Lost by Greenhorne
What a Strange Little Colt by Lynwood
Family by FleetlordAvatar
ANON and ANON & ANNIE by Catweazle
Little Chrissy by Udahyas
Featured(Thanks you so much to all of you):
5/5/2025
Good start and nice concept for the story
, I do agree that a lot of times stories either omit things of the whole second childhood process or do a massive time skip after only a couple of chapters 
I 'll be eagerly waiting for more chapters
I wonder how the Luna will react to Alex. The story is intriguing, I will wait for the continuation. I think you should add an assessment of history from users
Okay, firstly, adorable cover art oh my gosh. Secondly, glad to be one of your inspirations. Thirdly, if this is your first fic, it's definitely better then most people's first fics! That's for sure. There's a few mistakes still, but it's certainly nothing to fuss about.
I'm interested in the future of the story. This new alicorn foal definitely has had the most violent entry into Equestria of any other similar story. Interested to see how he takes everything, and what happened to him. It's rare for a story to start from a pony's POV first, let alone Celestia of all ponies. It's kinda of insanely funny that Discord just launched a meteor at the castle, but with a foal inside as a mother's day gift, because how could Celestia possibly get mad at that?
Anyway, keep at it. Don't rush yourself to post new chapters, (unless your one of those delightful nutcases that can post every day), and ignore the incoming hatred from the many people on this site that HATE HiE alicorn foal stories. They're going to be a nuisance no matter what.
What's with the sex tag ?
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That’s mainly because of how he’ll talk. Also—he’s a baby (little spoiler warning), and what do babies feed on when they are newborn?
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It's not much of a spoiler if we already know what's going to happen this isn't the first story to use such storytelling
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Oh my god, Sencha Steep commented on my fic—I’m gonna cry. Thank you so much. To be honest, this is my first serious fanfic. I did post one last year, just a single chapter, but it was honestly trash—I didn’t even reread it after writing, and it got a really bad rating because of that.
I’ve learned from that mistake, so I planned this one out much more carefully and reread it like ten times before posting. But hey, I had to learn somehow.
Welp, that's an instant like and favorite. Another Alicorn OC foal for the growing herd! I love to see another story added to that growing trend! Welcome to the club!
Pretty good characterization of Princess Celestia there too. The solution to her problem might've been to go the the orphanage in disguise and only adopt one, but I suppose that doesn't solve the inherent problem of seeing all the other little hopefuls. Hmm. Yeah, there really isn't a good solution there. Nice touch on Raven reminding Celestia that she raised both Cadance and Blueblood. Makes you wonder what went wrong there
In all seriousness, does that mean those two are blood siblings in this story? Or two unrelated foals that Celestia took in, one because Alicorn, and the other because [INSERT REASON]?
Apparently Discord gives the best Mother's Day presents! Fitting, since Celestia is basically Equestria's mom.
One thing that stood out to me was this:
How does she know it was a 'him' at this point? She just spotted the 'meteor' in the sky.
In any case, I'll be looking forward to seeing what you have in store! Keep up the good work!
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Oops, sorry—that was a language slip! In Spanish, we use the masculine pronoun for words like ‘meteoro.’ Thanks for pointing it out, and thank you for the favorite!
Some of my favorite newer stories on here are ones that take a common idea and explore an ignored part of it, so I look forward to seeing where this goes!
I'm frankly staunchly against HiE stories of any kind.
Usually. Once or twice an idea has worked so well that I decided to give it a shot. This is one of them. Looks promising. The prose is good, you have solid dialogue, and you use Kwibitz. Love me some Kwibitz.
I look forward to seeing where you take it.
That's one way to make an entrance. I wonder what Luna will think of the new visitor?
Cute, looking forward see more of this story. Also isn't Kibits supposed to be a unicorn and not a earth pony?
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...Ugh, you’re right. That’s my bad. I can’t really change it now, since I’ve already planned several interactions based on him being an Earth pony. I’m really sorry about that.
I love the cover, I’m glad Celestia didn’t blow up the meteor
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No problem dude, I was just pointing that out.
Bah. That cliffhanger.
I LOVED THE FIRST CHAPTER AND I LOVED WHAT THIS CHAPTER STARTED UP ;3
I'm anxious for the next updates... by the way, I loved the cover. Keep writing.
I really liked it, I hope for more great future updates
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just more discord nonsense, clearly.
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Also, a profile named Mix Up pointing out the mix up is just too perfect.
I skip the childhood thing because I really don’t know how to write a kid’s perspective. Glad to see my stories inspired you! I actually plan to do an Anon adopted by Celestia story as well but obviously way more comedic than heartfelt. You kinda reignited my flame to write that one shot. So thank you for that!
Anyways, great start! And congrats on getting a decent audience!
Good job :)
Always like a HiE fic with a unique concept. Discord's being silly as always though. Cover art is pretty cute as well.
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That's ok this is your fanfic and your universe, So if Kibitz is written as an Earth Pony then for the sake of this Story and Universe Kibitz IS an Earth Pony. That is the joy of writing fanfiction. It is the world of MLP:FiM seen through your eyes and creativity
Not a bad start, I'm looking forward to seeing how this story continues. You have some pretty solid dialogue. I wish you luck.
Interested to see where this goes. It's strange that so many fics do the age regression thing to the MC, only to never really do anything with it. Children are not small adults; their bodies and minds aren't fully developed yet. There's a lot of storytelling potential in a character with the memories of an adult but the body and cognition of a kid.
Since you mentioned improving your grammar, I have some constructive criticism for you. Several times throughout this chapter it flips from past tense, to present tense, and back again. For instance, this paragraph is in past tense (also hoof should be hooves):
The next paragraph switches to present tense, then back to past tense a sentence later (bonus points for using the correct its
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The general rule is to pick a tense for your story, either past or present, and stick with it. Switching back and forth interrupts the smooth flow of words, and if it gets bad enough it can pull a reader out of the story. It wasn't that bad for me, but I definitely noticed it.
Honestly, considering English isn't your first language, your grammar is pretty good. I look forward to seeing what you do with this concept.
Hmm... I suppose in this interpretation, Sunset shimmer was not taken in by Celestia, as a "sort of" adoption. Otherwise she probably would have been brought up in discussion.
Not a bad thing mind you, there is no cannon origin for her, just a popular headcannon, and I'm interested in where this is going for sure.
That's a great start! I like how our human's arrival is at the end of the chapter, and not at the very beginning. It leaves us the time to understand more Celestia, give us some view of Discord and his actions, and the introduction of our new protagonist. I'm only wondering how much of a foal he will be, if he will be subjected to the mind and needs of a foal and the body problems that comes with it. And, of course, how Celestia will answer these issues.
Overall, you're starting strong. I think I will enjoy this story, so it goes in my tracking library.
Looks interesting so far. I'm curious to see where you take this story from here. Good luck with writing your next chapter!
I love how the story goes I hope to see second one:pinkieh
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You know what they say Celestia, when you wish upon a star... it turns out to be a young colt falling from the sky. Now that is a good story to tell during the hollidays
So far so good, haven't read Celestia in 1st person before, funny that that Discord read just like most stories maybe he's self aware and plucked us through the screen.
I sure Celestia would be an amazing mother, it's one of my guilty pleasure really, I'm such a sucker for a mother son fanfiction, always thinking about writing my own story on the genre but always so scared to do anymore that envision scenes in my head. I think it all started with "Little Pony" by ButterscotchFTW then there's The Humble Prince being my first ever read on MLP and Distorted Fate, sad most don't get updates anymore.
I hope you wouldn't write him swearing too much or at least make it come out as a wordless baby babbles, being the newborn he is, I said that but these are horses we're talking about.
That being said I expect a whole lot of fluff.
Keep up up :D
WAIT an HIE but from Tia’s perspective? Oooh....
I WANT MORE WORDS OF CELESTIA! -Omni man, spiderman.
I love it!
Grats on making featured page homeslice <3
Continue this story and my life is yours !
Neat!
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It is nice. Little rough around some edges, but still very nice. Improvement will come naturally in time as you get more comfortable with the story, no worries.
With a little bit of polish, this one shall be a gem.
Alicorn OC?
Oh this is good, this is really good I look forward to more!
It's pretty good, but there are still some minor details that caught my attention.
For example, Raven constantly jumps around in her way of speaking to the princess, sometimes very professional - boss and assistant, other times she addresses her very casually - as if they were old friends of the same social station.
A bit of pedantry, but at one point you seem to have forgotten that Celestia and Raven are not of the same stature, so it would be very awkward (and unprofessional) for the latter to be able to put her hoof on the former's back.
And finally
From the way you present the story, our Anon is a baby, no? , so I assume this dialogue is supposed to be a thought, however it is presented as if it came from his mouth and those present heard it, or am I wrong?
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Someone already mentioned that Kibits is a Unicorn, but with that, you've already decided he'll be an Earth Pony here. So, here's a fun fact: In her first appearance in the show, Raven was actually an Earth Pony, but she was later changed to a Unicorn.
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I could’ve sworn I wrote that she sat on the floor so Raven could reach her back. I even wrote:
Hmm… maybe I accidentally deleted it. Thanks for letting me know!
Yep, it’s a baby who can talk.
Hmm, I was trying to make her come across as a bit friendly, since she’s been her assistant for so long—maybe they could even be friends. But thanks for pointing it out! I’ll try to make her a bit more professional.
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Thank you so much. I’ll do my best to stick to past tense starting from Chapter 3. Chapter 2 is almost finished, and I’d rather not go back and change everything—especially since it’s around 10k words. I hope it’s not too distracting. Thanks again.
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It’ll be more like 50/50—each of them has different things to learn that I can’t fully explore if I stick to just one character’s POV.
Great chapter, you did a good job with showing how Celestia feels and why without being long winded or just straight saying "the princess is sad". And those are some great stories to be inspired by, I'll definitely be keeping track of your work, keep it up!
I'm very curious about what happens next. Thank you for the chapter, I'm waiting for the next chapter.
Looks interesting, feels well written... Tracking this.
How proud I am for this future engineer! I'm proud of you, well done