Two idea's for a story.
A human fan of the show appears at the beginning of the reign of Celestia and Luna, the human doesn't have any powers but what they do have is knowledge they gained from the internet. The knowledge they have is something they read and memorize for fun, like the poster of "Let's say you've gone back in time", survival guide to the apocalypse, and other stuff like that. Of course they never believed that they would need to use any of that knowledge, so despite knowing what they do they never put it into practice and having no experience with applying their knowledge they also have to contend with that they might not remember the information correctly.
Some basics about the equestria of the past:
1. Celestia and Luna were born Alicorns, they were born from the three tribes being united.
2. For the first 9 years of their life, Starswirl the bearded help raise them.
3. Starswirl is centuries old, he will eventually have a descendant named after him. (That would be the one who befriends Scorpan and who made the spell in Magical Mystery Cure)
4. He is banish by both the steward and the nobles for teaching the Sisters radical ideas, like the commoners should be give the same protection under the law as the nobles, stuff like that.
5. The nobles are only partially successful in the next decade of trying to convert the sisters from Starswirls ideas.
6. During the story the sisters are 19 years old and have only just ascended to the throne about two years ago.
Some basics about the human, they come from a modern democratic country, so a medieval fiefdoms and all that it entails will keep on shocking them throughout the story, couple with the knowledge of the show of how Equestria will turn out with currently how it is. All of this pushes the human to try and help the peasantry, the more the human tries to help the more they see how awful a lot of the nobles are, with their knowledge they are able to greatly help the commoners and with how they talk about their country they inspire the commoners to start looking towards them for leadership.The human eventually gathers enough supplies and sets out to the capital in hopes of getting an audience with the two sisters, so that they can have them help deal with the rampart corruption of the nobles.
What the human has done eventually causes the nobles to worry and makes the human their enemy, the sisters being young, inexperience in ruling, and eager to protect equestria listen to the nobles about the human being evil and how the human is using some sort of magic to bewitch the commoners so that they may lead a revolt and take over equestria. One noble gives a book of spells to the sisters as a gift to combat the human, the spells in the book would in the future be label dark magic but here in the past they are consider the norm. After learning that the human is coming to the capital to seek a audience with them, the sisters believing that the human seeks to bewitch or to assassinate them prepare a trap and invite the human to meet them at their castle when they get to the capital. They spring their trap resulting in the human being trap in a circle or something similar, the sisters despite the urging of their guards and the present nobles to execute the human their, plead with the human to release their hold on their subjects and to leave equestria afterwards. The human not knowing what the sisters are talking about asks them repeatedly about what they mean, during this time unknown to anyone the trap that is keeping the human contain starts to fail as it was only made for beings of this world. When the trap breaks apart the sisters react each using a different spell they recently learned on the human, couple with the left over magic of the trap and the human being from another world the spells react with a different effect than the sisters intended. The human is painfully turn to stone, the human is eventually release from their stone prison in the future not long after Discords reformation, but they remain cursed with their body in constant pain, also the human was not aware of the passage of time so to them it has been only a few seconds. This incident will be one of Celestia's and Luna's biggest regrets after they find out what the human was really their for.
Some stuff that should be included in this are:
1. The rapid use of the elements of harmony in a short amount of time is what free the human.
2. The first three seasons of the show take somewhere between two and half to three years.
3. The became a martyr for a revolution that takes place not long after they are turned to stone.(This could be a story itself) The sisters and nobles win, but it was a bloody win.
4. At the end of the revolt is when the sisters learn they were tricked by the nobles.
5. The revolt is still felt in modern Equestria
6. The effects of both the human and the revolt has changed how equestria is from the original timeline.(The mane six are still the bearers) A lot of stuff from the show still happens, but they play out differently or they never happened(like Trixie coming to Ponyville).
This is how far I got with this idea.
The second idea involves the premise of the witch of the everfree, I think it has a lot of potential. Basically for those who never read it, it has Sunset Shimmer has the main character where instead of going into the mirror she is kicked out of the castle without in hassle involve and being her she decides to leave Canterlot, but Celestia in the story was only teaching her a lesson by having her try and survive by herself for a few days before having her brought back. So Celestia had some of her agents spy on Sunset to keep her safe, so when Sunset leaves the agents try to stop her (making her scared of Celestia, as she recognize that they were sent by Celestia), after escaping onto the train and escaping the agents by jump off said train into a river she basically decides to live in the everfree forest.
Now my idea is the same up to the part were Sunset jumps from the train, instead she and a agent fall from the train into the river and wind up just inside everfree forest. Now Sunset has a broken leg like in the story but the agent is their with her, before the agent can try to convince Sunset to come with them they are attacked by a manticore, during the battle Sunset tries to help the agent with the manticore she succeeds with killing it but also accidentally kills the agent in the process. This results in Sunset fleeing deeper into the everfree and to develop both a mental block in using her magic and a true fear of what Celestia might do to her for killing another pony. The other agents eventually make it to the area but they are forced to attack and scare away a pack of timberwolves, what they find makes them report to Celestia that both Sunset and the agent are dead.
Parts of the story are:
1. Sunset is basically a teenager who accidentally kill someone who was trying to help her (killing is completely different from being a queen bitch). The trauma that alone would cause her is huge, but she did it with her magic which is her talent.
2. Sunset grows into a adult in the everfree, but has never gotten over her trauma.
3. The trauma causes her not to use her full abilities in magic, resulting in her only using telekinesis.
4. Any tracing spells that Celestia might have put on Sunset don't work in the everfree and they eventually wear off with how long Sunset is in their before even attempting to enter any towns close to the everfree.
5. Believing Sunset to be dead causes Celestia to be more protective of Twilight Sparkle when she takes her on as a student.
6. Sunset starts trying to make potions from the plants in the everfree forest and selling them in towns close to the forest.
7. It is some years before she leaves the forest to go into any towns for supplies.
8. Their are several other towns that boarder the Everfree forest than Ponyville.
9. She eventually learns how to navigate the forest better than any other pony.
10. She eventually becomes friends with Zecora after helping her out several times when she moves into the everfree forest, which is about a year before the show starts.
11. The story begins a decade before the show begins.
12. She becomes famous across Equestria as the friendly witch of the Everfree forest, who helps and protects anyone who is lost in their.
13. Her reason for protecting and helping anyone who is in the everfree is repentance for killing the agent.
14. She has a limp from her leg healing improperly and her entire body is scarred from surviving in the everfree forest(and is the reason she never takes off her cloak she eventually buys in a town).
15. Eventually she gets good at killing the many monsters in the Everfree forest(this is her only using telekinesis), which enforces in her mind that she is a monster and belongs in the everfree forest.
16. The story should encompass her decade in the forest and all the way to just after Tirek where she leaves the forest to face Celestia judgement.
17. When Nightmare Moon returns, Sunset is deep in the everforest well past the castle of the two sisters. The reason being is that she found out that Celestia would be in Ponyville during the sun celebration, so she decide to hide deep in the everfree making her miss the mane six becoming the element bearers, shocking her when she visits Ponyville a week later looking for the reason why the moon was out for so long.
This is what I have for this idea currently.
