My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Idea Megathread

[whitewhiskey]

Here's an idea starting out during 'Feeling Pinkie Keen'

That flame effect of Twilight's? That wasn't an effect, she actually changed color and burst into flame, and it worried her, so she went through every test she could think of to find the cause, comparing herself to everything she could think of. And when she happens to compare her blood samples to Spike's, well...Let's just say Mrs. Sparkle has some explaining to do when Twilight finds out she's not only Half-Dragon, but Spike's older half-sister!

All right, let's say that Mrs. Sparkle was had a whirlwind romance with a dashing dragon prince and Twilight was the result. However his enemies would target her and their foal and his family would never accept her or their child so he asked his blood brother (her current husband) to take her as his bride which he was happy to do. Now, her Dragon Lover (she was one of the few people allowed to call him Gildenfire) was forced by politics to marry and produce an heir, Spike. Before the child could be named (Spike son of Vaeros) he was whisked away as Gildenfire realize his enemies were about to strike and his new wife was a plant who would rule the lands through his son once he was out of the way. A plan that falls apart without access to a male heir.

Or something like that.

Well, maybe, depending on who you have their father is.

I kinda think the idea would probably entail a closer relationship between Spike and Twilight (It could also add a reason to why Twilight was able to hatch Spike), possibly a deteriorating relationship between Twilight's parents (As Twilight's Father, at first, tries to bullshit out a reason like Carrot Cake did when neither of the twins was an Earth Pony). I'd imagine Twilight might look to her friends, Rarity and Applejack especially, for advice because she rreally doesn't know anything about being an older sibling.

The effect on episodes like "The Great Dragon Migration" would be interesting because Twilight's own inquisitive nature would definitely set her to join spike on his quest, something he can't really go against since it's her heritage too. The failure to do so in this episode could also spur them to find their father

Ability-wise, Twilight's abilities could be linked to her form, gaining dragon like abilities when she turns all firey-mode, maybe immunity to fire and such, and her quest to learn how to master that power, possibly with help from both Celestia and Spike.

She might also go through some greed or other emotional problem (Maybe linked to the Lesson Zero episode, explained as happening later in life for her because she's Half-dragon, where it happens worse and earlier to Spike because he's full dragon).

Being a little brother, Spike might also spend even more time with Twilight as they try and connect on a sibling level and both try to find what that means, if there would even have to be a change in their current relationship

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

I want to see a fic where post 4th war Kotomine ends up in equestria. He plays the part of humble priest but subtly and slowly breaks down the ponies peaceful and idealic world. So pretty much an unrepentantly evil for evil's sake villain mind raeping ponyland.

 

[Lord of Bones]

I want to see a fic where post 4th war Kotomine ends up in equestria. He plays the part of humble priest but subtly and slowly breaks down the ponies peaceful and idealic world. So pretty much an unrepentantly evil for evil's sake villain mind raeping ponyland.

Oh God yes.

Especially if he introduces Discord to trolling 101.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

For extra evil he becomes friends with the Ponies, the mane 6 in particular, and works his insidious magic to very slowly dissolve their happiness. He'll plant seeds of doubt, suspicion, and resentment among the group and pretend to help. He;ll help in such a way that even if he solves the current conflict subtle rifts and wounds still open on their psyche. When they finally get suspicious enough to confront him he'll tell them that, yes he did thoroughly and unrepentantly break, sully, and utterly violate not only their trust in him but also each other. He'll confront them on the fact that he didn't use any magic to do this, unlike discord, he'll tell them that everything that happened was completely entirely up to themselves and done of their free will because you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. When finally about to be taken down by Celestia, for corrupting the elements of harmony, he'll ask her what she plans to do. Without the elements they can't reform him by force nor turn him to stone and banishing him to the moon would mean death as he is not Luna. Their only choice is to kill him, and he will gleefully point out that Celestia will have no choice but to kill him as if left alive he will continue to do what he does, because it's his very nature. He will die with a smile on his face as he destroyed the innocence of a Goddess.

 

[ragnarok1337]

I doubt Celestia is as innocent as she appears in the show. Still, breaking the Mane Six using nothing but words and frankly admitting he did, using their own insecurities against them, is gleefully evil.

 

[Lord of Bones]

The real reason the Mane Six aren't well known isn't because Ponyville is insular. It's actually because badass adventurers, megalomaniacal supervillains and doomsday plans are a very common thing on Equestria. All those nobles in Canterlot? They became nobles the hard way; they were (and some still are) Badass Epic Adventurers.

Basically, ponies like Fancy Pants and Blueblood do things like hold off the Thousand Forms of Nyarlathotep, pilfer the Bell of Grogar and plunder the Dungeons of Eternity whenever they're not on screen.

Of course, to make things hilariously worse, pony royals like Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, Cadance and Sombra are the unquestionable kings and queens of the bunch.

 

[whitewhiskey]

The real reason the Mane Six aren't well known isn't because Ponyville is insular. It's actually because badass adventurers, megalomaniacal supervillains and doomsday plans are a very common thing on Equestria. All those nobles in Canterlot? They became nobles the hard way; they were (and some still are) Badass Epic Adventurers.

Basically, ponies like Fancy Pants and Blueblood do things like hold off the Thousand Forms of Nyarlathotep, pilfer the Bell of Grogar and plunder the Dungeons of Eternity whenever they're not on screen.

Of course, to make things hilariously worse, pony royals like Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, Cadance and Sombra are the unquestionable kings and queens of the bunch.

My immediate thought is, "Then what the hell does Spike's 'Royal Canterlot Business' consist of?"

Followed by...

"Twilight is then the pony Lara Croft, she just never told the girls because it didn't seem to big a deal."

 

[ragnarok1337]

The real reason the Mane Six aren't well known isn't because Ponyville is insular. It's actually because badass adventurers, megalomaniacal supervillains and doomsday plans are a very common thing on Equestria. All those nobles in Canterlot? They became nobles the hard way; they were (and some still are) Badass Epic Adventurers.

Basically, ponies like Fancy Pants and Blueblood do things like hold off the Thousand Forms of Nyarlathotep, pilfer the Bell of Grogar and plunder the Dungeons of Eternity whenever they're not on screen.

Of course, to make things hilariously worse, pony royals like Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, Cadance and Sombra are the unquestionable kings and queens of the bunch.

My immediate thought is, "Then what the hell does Spike's 'Royal Canterlot Business' consist of?"

Followed by...

"Twilight is then the pony Lara Croft, she just never told the girls because it didn't seem to big a deal."

Well, there is an image from the MLP comics where Spike is holding a trident and wearing an eyepatch while riding Celestia, while the two are fending off an invasion of Cockatrices while the Mane Six are off doing their own thing. Judging from their casual banter, this is nothing new. There's already (semi) canon support for Spike being a total badass.

As for Twilight being the pony Lara Croft, the reason she's such a big fan of the Daring Do books is that she knows Daring Do is a real pony, and like Lara Croft will never be as big a name in adventure archaeology as Indiana Jones, so too will Twilight never quite manage to measure up to Daring. Thus, despite being technically rivals, there is no real rivalry between the two, because Twilight is much too into Daring Do hero-worship, much to the other pegasus' chagrin.

 

[whitewhiskey]

The real reason the Mane Six aren't well known isn't because Ponyville is insular. It's actually because badass adventurers, megalomaniacal supervillains and doomsday plans are a very common thing on Equestria. All those nobles in Canterlot? They became nobles the hard way; they were (and some still are) Badass Epic Adventurers.

Basically, ponies like Fancy Pants and Blueblood do things like hold off the Thousand Forms of Nyarlathotep, pilfer the Bell of Grogar and plunder the Dungeons of Eternity whenever they're not on screen.

Of course, to make things hilariously worse, pony royals like Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, Cadance and Sombra are the unquestionable kings and queens of the bunch.

My immediate thought is, "Then what the hell does Spike's 'Royal Canterlot Business' consist of?"

Followed by...

"Twilight is then the pony Lara Croft, she just never told the girls because it didn't seem to big a deal."

Well, there is an image from the MLP comics where Spike is holding a trident and wearing an eyepatch while riding Celestia, while the two are fending off an invasion of Cockatrices while the Mane Six are off doing their own thing. Judging from their casual banter, this is nothing new. There's already (semi) canon support for Spike being a total badass.

From the POV of someone who just moved to Canterlot...

But, really, it would be awesome to see someone like Fancy Pants showing off some old trophies and scaring the hell out of someone like Jet Set or Upper Crust, who kinda seem like posers who just moved to town.

And the idea of how the Changeling Invasion would really go brings a smile to my face, I see Fancy beating heads in with a flail while Fleur-De-Lis skewers changelings on her horn. You don't want to know what Hoity Toity does to the poor changelings...They had no idea what they were getting into.

As for Twilight being the pony Lara Croft, the reason she's such a big fan of the Daring Do books is that she knows Daring Do is a real pony, and like Lara Croft will never be as big a name in adventure archaeology as Indiana Jones, so too will Twilight never quite manage to measure up to Daring. Thus, despite being technically rivals, there is no real rivalry between the two, because Twilight is much too into Daring Do hero-worship, much to the other pegasus' chagrin.

And Dash shits a brick. This would really change the Daring Don't episode.

 

[Lord of Bones]

Oh, I don't know, Twilight and Daring having a professional rivalry while sniping at each other sounds pretty funny.

EDIT: Also, Cadance and Blueblood, having Epic Adventures.

 

[Ordo]

A line I ran into at Equestria daily. They were discussing the fact that Spike is accident prone around Twilight who seems to make no effort to stop say large piles of books from falling on him.

Spike soaks so many blows helping Twilight out that that's the real reason he thinks like a pony. Staying with her has literally beaten the dragon out of him.

think about it....

 

[whitewhiskey]

A line I ran into at Equestria daily. They were discussing the fact that Spike is accident prone around Twilight who seems to make no effort to stop say large piles of books from falling on him.

Spike soaks so many blows helping Twilight out that that's the real reason he thinks like a pony. Staying with her has literally beaten the dragon out of him.

think about it....

Add into the fact that a couple of hits Spike takes (Like in the first episode) are directly Twilight's fault.

 

[Lord of Bones]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

 

[byakuryuu]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

I like this idea. I'd like to add in Cadance, Rarity and... dun!dun!dun! Celestia being on the naughty list and trying to convince him to reconsider.

 

[Lord of Bones]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

I like this idea. I'd like to add in Cadance, Rarity and... dun!dun!dun! Celestia being on the naughty list and trying to convince him to reconsider.

In retrospect, Cadance really shouldn't have neglected Spike's invite to the Games.

 

[byakuryuu]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

I like this idea. I'd like to add in Cadance, Rarity and... dun!dun!dun! Celestia being on the naughty list and trying to convince him to reconsider.

In retrospect, Cadance really shouldn't have neglected Spike's invite to the Games.

It wasn't the games that she did not invite him to; it was the inspection by the Games Commish. Still, he did feel a little bit upset, but if you want to make this fic decent, I'd take personal vendettas out of it and look at it from an objective POV.

 

[whitewhiskey]

Seriously, no ideas from the Power Ponies episode?

Fine, I got a few...

-Comic-Ception: Upon their return from Maretropolis, Twilight notices things start to seem...Off. She starts to feel uncomfortable and out of place in the world around her, receiving strange visions. It turns out, her trip into Spike's comic destabilized something-

Another comic, one Twilight had been trapped in, unknowingly, since the day she was meant to take her entrance exam to Celestia's school. With the comic unstable, those who had been trying to free her are finally able to, leaving a now adult Twilight in a world nothing like the one she had spent years living in. She'd not Celestia's student, Spike doesn't exist, the ones she knew as her friends have never even heard of her, if they even exist, and she is left trying to piece together a life without those she had come to depend upon, and the lessons they taught her.

-Reading Ahead: It's actually Pinkie who is stuck in a comic, only aware subconsciously of the fact, which manifests as her "Pinkie Sense", while Pinkamena tried to free herself/other self from their prison.

-Along for the ride: Pinkie was able to bring cup-cakes from Maretropolis, so what else could have come through? Lashing out in anger at her defeat, the Mane-iac accidentally wraps a hair around Spike's ankle, getting pulled along with him and the girls into the real world.

 

[Lord of Bones]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

I like this idea. I'd like to add in Cadance, Rarity and... dun!dun!dun! Celestia being on the naughty list and trying to convince him to reconsider.

In retrospect, Cadance really shouldn't have neglected Spike's invite to the Games.

It wasn't the games that she did not invite him to; it was the inspection by the Games Commish. Still, he did feel a little bit upset, but if you want to make this fic decent, I'd take personal vendettas out of it and look at it from an objective POV.

Well...there's always the whole Game thing. The Crystal Empire, in addition to recovering from Sombra's rule, is technologically and socially behind times, not to mention it most probably has severe financial issues, a lack of trading partners, no standing military force, most of its population has PTSD, the political upheaval of having foreign ponies take the throne and so on.

I guess the Games are there to boost tourism or something, but realistically the Crystal Empire shouldn't be stable enough to host a baking contest.

Maybe that's why Cady's in the Naughty list; she's there out of naivety, not malice.

Or maybe it could be something as simple as a few little white lies ("No Auntie, the dress does not make your plot look fat.")

 

[byakuryuu]

Unknown even to Celestia herself, Spike has a second, top-secret job: he's Santa's agent for Canterlot and Ponyville, responsible for updating Santa on all the naughty and nice foals and ponies of the two cities.

Then someone finds out...

I like this idea. I'd like to add in Cadance, Rarity and... dun!dun!dun! Celestia being on the naughty list and trying to convince him to reconsider.

In retrospect, Cadance really shouldn't have neglected Spike's invite to the Games.

It wasn't the games that she did not invite him to; it was the inspection by the Games Commish. Still, he did feel a little bit upset, but if you want to make this fic decent, I'd take personal vendettas out of it and look at it from an objective POV.

Well...there's always the whole Game thing. The Crystal Empire, in addition to recovering from Sombra's rule, is technologically and socially behind times, not to mention it most probably has severe financial issues, a lack of trading partners, no standing military force, most of its population has PTSD, the political upheaval of having foreign ponies take the throne and so on.

I guess the Games are there to boost tourism or something, but realistically the Crystal Empire shouldn't be stable enough to host a baking contest.

Maybe that's why Cady's in the Naughty list; she's there out of naivety, not malice.

Or maybe it could be something as simple as a few little white lies ("No Auntie, the dress does not make your plot look fat.")

I'm more inclined to Cadance being on the list because she started treating her old high school friends like dirt unknowingly, being so caught up in love with Shining Armor and all that. Rarity's a no-brainer: she probably broke her mother's heart a few times when Momma wanted to spend quality time with her. Celestia... well... could be a more severe case of Cadance's issue.

 

[Lord of Bones]

Man, Spike really takes his job seriously.

I'm really interested in how those three are going to get Spike to change his mind. Twilight won't help; to mess with a List is heresy in her mind...although I could see Celestia drag Luna and Blueblood in her zany antics to get back on the Nice List.

 

[ragnarok1337]

To nearly everyone's surprise, Blueblood's actually on the Nice list.

 

[byakuryuu]

Idea for the new year as I begin finishing up the last details of my novella.

Twilight Sparkle sees Spike playing chess with Owlowiscious and happily declaring himself the winner. Twilight, amused by this, plays Spike next - because, well, Owlowiscious is her pet and he'd probably like a better loss - I mean, game - against somepony who's known the ropes since she could trot... and own several Junior Inter-City Chess Championships and two Master titles. After all, Spike could use the lessons she...

...She stares in horror at checkmate. From him. Twilight doesn't take it so well.

Two out of three. Loss. Three out of five. Loss. Four out of seven. A win! Then a loss.

Twilight continued to hound Spike through the week, demanding rematch after rematch, refusing to admit that her assistant had actually one-upped her. Amused by this, the upper Canterlot crustiness invites Spike to a match themselves - Shining Armor in tow... and lose. And thus, it begins. Can Spike handle being good at a game that he finds... SO BORING? Can Princess Celestia handle losing even ONCE? Find out, next time... on Dragon Ball Z!

 

[ragnarok1337]

Idea for the new year as I begin finishing up the last details of my novella.

Twilight Sparkle sees Spike playing chess with Owlowiscious and happily declaring himself the winner. Twilight, amused by this, plays Spike next - because, well, Owlowiscious is her pet and he'd probably like a better loss - I mean, game - against somepony who's known the ropes since she could trot... and own several Junior Inter-City Chess Championships and two Master titles. After all, Spike could use the lessons she...

...She stares in horror at checkmate. From him. Twilight doesn't take it so well.

Two out of three. Loss. Three out of five. Loss. Four out of seven. A win! Then a loss.

Twilight continued to hound Spike through the week, demanding rematch after rematch, refusing to admit that her assistant had actually one-upped her. Amused by this, the upper Canterlot crustiness invites Spike to a match themselves - Shining Armor in tow... and lose. And thus, it begins. Can Spike handle being good at a game that he finds... SO BORING? Can Princess Celestia handle losing even ONCE? Find out, next time... on Dragon Ball Z!

*insert electric guitar*

More seriously, it woud be a good parody of those fics which have Celestia be a chessmaster, both with an actual chessboard and IPL. She thinks it will just an easy win for her...when Spike soundly trumps her.

For more delicious cracky goodness, have Owliscious beat Twilight, mostly because she's so frazzled at her losses to Spike she can't think straight.

 

[byakuryuu]

Idea for the new year as I begin finishing up the last details of my novella.

Twilight Sparkle sees Spike playing chess with Owlowiscious and happily declaring himself the winner. Twilight, amused by this, plays Spike next - because, well, Owlowiscious is her pet and he'd probably like a better loss - I mean, game - against somepony who's known the ropes since she could trot... and own several Junior Inter-City Chess Championships and two Master titles. After all, Spike could use the lessons she...

...She stares in horror at checkmate. From him. Twilight doesn't take it so well.

Two out of three. Loss. Three out of five. Loss. Four out of seven. A win! Then a loss.

Twilight continued to hound Spike through the week, demanding rematch after rematch, refusing to admit that her assistant had actually one-upped her. Amused by this, the upper Canterlot crustiness invites Spike to a match themselves - Shining Armor in tow... and lose. And thus, it begins. Can Spike handle being good at a game that he finds... SO BORING? Can Princess Celestia handle losing even ONCE? Find out, next time... on Dragon Ball Z!

*insert electric guitar*

More seriously, it woud be a good parody of those fics which have Celestia be a chessmaster, both with an actual chessboard and IPL. She thinks it will just an easy win for her...when Spike soundly trumps her.

For more delicious cracky goodness, have Owliscious beat Twilight, mostly because she's so frazzled at her losses to Spike she can't think straight.

Actually inspired by this pic. I don't know if the artist intended it, but Twilight's expression is so... so much in disbelief and refusal of acceptance.

 

[Ordo]

Idea for the new year as I begin finishing up the last details of my novella.

Twilight Sparkle sees Spike playing chess with Owlowiscious and happily declaring himself the winner. Twilight, amused by this, plays Spike next - because, well, Owlowiscious is her pet and he'd probably like a better loss - I mean, game - against somepony who's known the ropes since she could trot... and own several Junior Inter-City Chess Championships and two Master titles. After all, Spike could use the lessons she...

...She stares in horror at checkmate. From him. Twilight doesn't take it so well.

Two out of three. Loss. Three out of five. Loss. Four out of seven. A win! Then a loss.

Twilight continued to hound Spike through the week, demanding rematch after rematch, refusing to admit that her assistant had actually one-upped her. Amused by this, the upper Canterlot crustiness invites Spike to a match themselves - Shining Armor in tow... and lose. And thus, it begins. Can Spike handle being good at a game that he finds... SO BORING? Can Princess Celestia handle losing even ONCE? Find out, next time... on Dragon Ball Z!

Spike: (moving piece) "Check."

Princess Celestia: "What?!....NO!!...I...you can't do that!!"

Twlight: "It was a fair move."

Princess Luna: (Chuckling as Celestia's face turns red) "Spike, just let her have it. It's not wise to upset Princess."

Spike: "But...no one cared when I beat Twilight...?"

Princess Luna: (smirking) "That's because Twilight won't prank you mercilessly when she loses....Celestia is know to do that."

Twiligh: (looking nervously at a smirking Celestia) "I see your point. Now strategy Spike. Let the Princess win."