FYI: This is a rewrite of Buttercup Rose: the Breaking
Season seven canon for the sake of chapter three (See the original)
TW: implied/referenced past self-harm, suicide attempt

Buttercup Rose lives a normal life, in a normal town in the middle of Equestria. She has a normal job, a normal family, and normal friends.
Or, well. That's what she shows on the outside to everypony she meets. On the inside, she's fractured. She goes to work with threats hanging over her head, omits the truth from friends she spends time with, and battles a parasitic alternate personality for control of her body.
This personality, this other her, would like to be set free if Buttercup doesn't mind at all.
Buttercup wouldn't be opposed to fulfilling this request under normal circumstances.
But Scarlet Knife is anything but normal. In fact, she is a murderer.
And Buttercup wants her to stop.

In Equestria, there are four princesses: Princess Celestia the Wise, Bringer of the Day and Protector of the Light; Princess Luna the Brave, Bringer of the Night and Protector of Dreams; Princess Cadence the Just, Bringer of Love and Protecter of the Crystal Heart; and Princess Chrysalis the Resourceful, Bringer of Peace and Protector of the Library of Wisdom. All four of them have proven time and time again their worthiness of the titles of Wise, Brave, Just, and Resourceful.

But rumors exist of a fifth princess: Princess Twilight the Kind, Bringer of Friendship and Protector of Magic itself. The rumors tell that Princess Twilight had five loyal friends, who together represented the fabled Elements of Harmony, using them to heal Luna the Brave, Chrysalis the Resourceful, and fabled mage Starlight the Powerful, along with many others.

But one day, Princess Twilight’s five friends and Princess Twilight herself disappeared, never to be seen again.

Now, the only clue as to her whereabouts lay in The Frozen Empire and it’s empress, the mysterious Winter Goddess, who communicates only by messenger even in times of dire need. The four Princesses have tried time and time again to talk to the Winter Goddess directly, but have made no progress.

And then, the Winter Goddess herself appears in the Throne Room, intent to call a Council of Royalty to discuss a new movement called the Eastern Ring.

Edit 2/27/20: This story's been featured. :)

Dear Journal,
Today I got a new book about negative impulses from Princess Celestia! I'm really excited to read it! it looks really good, even though everypony else gets a bad feeling when they look at it. I'm going to read it tomorrow.

Even those with the best intentions can fall to Tartarus, and Twilight Sparkle is no different.

Twilight Sparkle, after seeing fear in Pinkie's grin, asks the one question no pony should ask: Why does Pinkie Pie smile so much?

no, Pinkie is not taking drugs.

This story is a sequel to Starless Sunlight

Starlight Glimmer could not let herself die. She could not let herself disappear from the world. She could not give up when she still had so much to do. So instead of burning, she writhed. She writhed to keep herself alive, she writhed to escape one day from this fiery hell Twilight had banished her to.
And she waited for the day when Twilight would realize she was still alive.

Starlight never accepted Twilight's offer of help. Many iterations of worlds and pasts have passed since. So Twilight gives up on mercy and tries something else. Something that she'll regret for the rest of her life.
Edit 6/27/23: This fic was mentioned by Rainbott on Youtube (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

a mare living Ponyville named Buttercup Rose has a horrible secret; something she has never told anypony, not even her own sister; that secret calls herself Scarlet Knife.
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Suicide tag for the last two chapters.
I'll try to get a new chapter out every week, but for now, have the first two chapters on me!
oh, and warnings below for anyone who doesn't want to read about a psychotic killer.
warnings: torture scenes, suicide
inspired by the Killerrarityverse, Cupcakes, and some of my own ideas.
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Congratulations! If you're here, then that means you found one of my really old fics from when I was still just starting out as a writer! This is a good story (for my skill level at the time that I wrote this), but was written a whole three years ago, and I've since made a much better rewrite of it.
Go read it below!
Fractured Mind
Go on. Go read it!

Sweetie Belle gets a diary for her birthday. At first, it seems like it's a perfectly normal diary. As the days go on, however, she begins to realize that the Diary is anything but normal...

"Dear Princess Celestia,
It's been a long time since i last saw you. Perhaps you could tell me why you locked me up?"

and then, Celestia visits.
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now with a reading by Sockless/TheBenBlast: Trapped Reading
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