My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Idea Megathread

seitora

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Something I realised is that they never gave closure on the Pony of Shadows from Season 4.

Some people THINK it was a Tirek cameo given the eyes and cloak, but nothing was ever made for certain, or given a statement by Word of God.

Soooo...villain with absolutely no story aside from Pinkie Pie's 'old tale' shtick? You could do absolutely ANYTHING with the Pony of Shadows, basically!

A little bit of thinking with this idea...


Applejack: When I was just a filly, Granny Smith told me of an ancient legend. When Nightmare Moon was banished, not every last bit of her dark magic went with her. Granny used to say, when night falls on the castle, that magic takes the form of... the Pony of Shadows!
What if there's an actual kernel of truth to this? More specifically, I find it interesting that this pops up one episode after the Plundervines, which was an actual 'villain' of a sort that inhabited the Everfree and was attacking the Tree of Harmony. Perhaps the dark magic affected one of Discord's Plundervines? I dunno where exactly I'm going with this, honestly, just that we know there was an actual sort-of-villain in the Everfree during the time Nightmare Moon was banished, and perhaps the meeting of dark magic with something created by Discord's chaos gave rise to another villain.
 

akun50

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seitora said:
seitora said:
Something I realised is that they never gave closure on the Pony of Shadows from Season 4.

Some people THINK it was a Tirek cameo given the eyes and cloak, but nothing was ever made for certain, or given a statement by Word of God.

Soooo...villain with absolutely no story aside from Pinkie Pie's 'old tale' shtick? You could do absolutely ANYTHING with the Pony of Shadows, basically!
True.  Though some might be quick to hope for the castoff remnants of  Nightmare Moon coming back in pony form, I personally like the idea of there being a cult dedicated to Nightmare Moon that's continuing well past their leader's defeat, who seek to destroy those vanquished her.

A new villain entirely would also be appreciated. Some people are too eager to try and bring back Chrysalis and while she was the largest and among the most successful threats to Equestria, I think bugbutt's a bit overused in fanfiction.
 

seitora

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Well, speaking of new villains...

Something I've been toying with is Twilight's mental breakdown in Lesson Zero. There's no real indication of how much time passes between Lesson Zero and Magical Mystery Cure (some people assume exactly 1 year between the start of season 1 and season 4 based off what Celestia says about it being the first Summer Sun Celebration she can have with her sister, but then at the end of Season 5 in the Nightmare timeline Nightmare Moon says it's been years with a plural, suggesting far more than just a year and change between season 1 and season 5), but even in Games Ponies Play, a single episode before MMC, Twilight's still shown to have the nerves. It still shows up even in Season 5, like in Party Pooped.

Basically, a simple breathing exercise taught to her by Cadance won't prevent her from having a meltdown if she had a really bad day. However, now that she's an Alicorn, a meltdown won't result in a mind control spell upon a town, but something far worse. The only thing I don't know yet in my idea is if it's events that might cause her to break down, or an artifact that twists her, such as perhaps the return of the Alicorn Amulet.
 

akun50

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seitora said:
Well, speaking of new villains...

Something I've been toying with is Twilight's mental breakdown in Lesson Zero. There's no real indication of how much time passes between Lesson Zero and Magical Mystery Cure (some people assume exactly 1 year between the start of season 1 and season 4 based off what Celestia says about it being the first Summer Sun Celebration she can have with her sister, but then at the end of Season 5 in the Nightmare timeline Nightmare Moon says it's been years with a plural, suggesting far more than just a year and change between season 1 and season 5), but even in Games Ponies Play, a single episode before MMC, Twilight's still shown to have the nerves. It still shows up even in Season 5, like in Party Pooped.
A kneejerk reaction for timelines, for me at least, is to say that a season of MLP is roughly six months to one year, but as we've seen, that's entirely a guess because at the same time, we don't know how age really affects the MLP cast.

We know Granny Smith is older than Ponyville, but I don't think we've ever been given a precise age on Ponyville either.  In fact, we don't really know the ages of any of the cast (other than Fluttershy being one year older than Pinkie), nor do we have any real useful knowledge of their aging process; which is extremely important to gauge anything going on. And before you mention the baby Cakes, time has passed since their birth, and while I think Pinkie mentioned a baby milestone (IIRC, Poundcake got his first tooth), we have no idea when baby ponies are expected to get their baby teeth.

After all, some types of birds in our world are born and considered adults within hours of hatching, knowing all it needs to know and being fully capable of everything it can do.  Others (such as humans) can take ages to mature, and some members of various long-lived fantasy races, like elves and dragons, could still be consider "teenagers" at 130+ years old.

Without an official word from the creators, we can only make guesses.

As for Twilight being a possible villain, I've seen it done, though I feel some writers handle it poorly.

Most do usually do a painfully obvious broadcast by forcing a situation where Twilight has to immediately turn to dark magic to solve some problem, usually resurrecting the dead ( Spike or whoever happens to be Twilight's love), and is thus cast out by Celestia for violating the "sanctity of death". When not handled well, this becomes just a poorly written slogfest where I half expect the writer to fuck up and write something like "Celestia just doesn't understand", but use "mom" or "dad" instead of "Celestia".
 

seitora

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The ages are really weird when you consider that Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are apparently supposed to be about equivalent to grade schoolers, while Applejack and Rarity are likely adults, one of who owns her own business and the other who works a family-owned business with her brother. Talk about a generational gap between siblings. Apple Bloom is the only character in the series to be given an actual age (7), but I disregard that as a one-off. Equestria Girls is where things get really weird with the whole '30 moons' thing, where since Twilight didn't appear to know who Sunset Shimmer was, means that she was apparently Celestia's student for less than that time period. I handwave that as Sunset being in the human realm for a multiple of 30 moons, like 60 or 90 moons instead, or a different passage of time between the two worlds.


Re: Villain Twilight. Most Villain Twilight fics usually have her making a deal with the devil sort of thing, or some sort of self-fulfilling destiny, or just basically turning into a cunt overnight. I want to avoid stuff that's become cliched, which is why I think working off the biggest character flaw she's shown in her character personality instead would be a lot more interesting. Given what the Alicorn Amulet did to Trixie, it's not wholly unfeasible that it or some other Artifact of Doom could do the same to Twilight. Potentially the evil door thingie in The Crystal Empire could work too. Obviously though there would need to be a path to go from 'Twilight is a bundle of nerves' to 'Twilight is now evil'.

I think I would end up writing a diatribe against Celestia, but not because she would be useless in battle or anything or incompetent at seeing the changes in her student or something. There's enough of that. Rather, I think that, given Twilight's complete meltdown in Lesson Zero, possible trauma from being kidnapped in A Canterlot Wedding and Crystal Empire, and fiddling with dark magic in Crystal Empire, it was irresponsible of Celestia to give Twilight Star Swirl's incomplete spell and then make her a Princess without first making sure Twilight was of sound mind with no big character flaws. The show never really gave a detail on whether Celestia had to manually do something to allow Twilight to get wings, but she still likely knew what would happen when sending Twilight the incomplete spell. I've at least never seen any FIMfics that deal with things from this perspective.
 

seitora

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Human in Equestria...but with a twist. He's reborn as a pony, but not during the time of the Mane 6. Hell, he's not even born in the same century as the Mane 6. Try like 500 years before the start of the series.

I suppose he would become immortal somehow and live to the time of the show, but yeah, lots of opportunity for him to go on adventures and do some worldbuilding in the meantime.
 

seitora

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Actually, a little bit of an extension of my thoughts on a potential evil Twilight from before...

The final timeline in the Season 5 finale is a post-apocalyptic timeline commonly referred to as the 'Ashlands Timeline'. Twilight's conceit near the end is saying that each timeline is getting worse than the last, but that's definitely arguable: Chrysalis isn't surefire worse than Sombra, and Nightmare Moon isn't surefire worse than Chrysalis in turn, and from what little we see of Discord's timeline it's apparent that Luna still managed to be cured even without Twilight and co there, and Discord at least seems to be mostly preoccupied with making Luna and Celestia entertain him (during Twilight's flashback during A Canterlot Wedding Part 1 it's shown that Cadance was already an Alicorn before Twilight even had her Cutie Mark, so it's all too possible Discord keeps to a small fiefdom while Cadance keeps the rest of Equestria running). Flim and Flam as mass industrialists can't be that bad of a timeline, but yeah, Tirek is unarguably a dead end. But really, given the broad diversity of timelines from the tiny nudges in Cloudsdale, it's possible Twilight could have eventually found a 'good' timeline and basically stuck it to Starlight by staying in that timeline.

I'm rambling and getting off-topic here though. All those timelines differ from the Ashlands timeline in one vital difference: Starlight Glimmer's presence in the past. There's no real evidence for or against, but it's plausible that in every prior timeline, Starlight stayed in the past and waited it out until the present day when Twilight would return through the time portal. Except, there's no Starlight Glimmer waiting to greet Twilight and one-shot her or anything. Perhaps the reason the timelines are diverse in the monster-of-the-timeline isn't because of the type of abuse dished out to lil' Dashie, but because Starlight Glimmer decided to fight all the villains that would pop up, perhaps to gain influence and power, perhaps out of duty, whatever. Chaos theory can explain intricate differences in timelines, but Starlight defeating most villains but falling to one last villain in each timeline, the precise villain differing between timelines certainly makes more sense than 'oh because Dashie got her momentum slowed down instead of a laser swatting her out of the air Nightmare Moon rules this timeline'.

Except the Ashlands Timeline. In this timeline, Twilight Sparkle dragged Starlight Glimmer along with her, so Starlight wouldn't have been around to affect the timeline any further than the few moments in Cloudsdale. People have lots of ideas for what caused this timeline. Some think it was Starlight Glimmer herself, either through direct actions or through succeeding in her brainwashing cult. Others think it was a Tyrant Celestia. I think it's plausible that it could have been the result of a free-for-all between all the villains, who wiped each other out but left a wasteland behind in the process.

But there's one other possibility that I think is overlooked...say, a pony who we know has significant amounts of power and went bonkers at least once in the present timeline and had her magic go out of control at at least one other point. What if Twilight Sparkle was never discovered by Princess Celestia? With the amount of power Twilight has, I think she could all too easily have gone out of control and destroyed Equestria without training of both the magical and emotional sorts.

Say this was the case, and say that Starlight and Twilight actually discovered this. It would be the height of irony if Starlight turns Twilight's words on her, saying "Yes, your friends are important. Not because they saved Equestria, but because having friends prevented you from becoming a megalomaniac that destroyed everything." And that's what convinces Starlight to finally give up. Potentially there's something with the Cutie Map that prevents Starlight from just killing past Twilight before she becomes a threat, Starlight's weird moral system allowing her to brainwash ponies but not allowing her to kill just because they might turn evil in the future, or Starlight believing Twilight's testimony of the other timelines and realising the odds are against her on defeating every potential villain without getting killed herself.

But then think about the emotional revelation that leaves Twilight with. What a way to end that storyline.
 

seitora

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And I did in fact end up writing that above post into a story form. See here


Anyways. After reading this comic here about Trixie's Cutie Mark origin story, it struck me how lazy the artist was since he appears to be using vectors in place of actually drawing them by hand. The result is you see ponies in weird places, like Cheese Sandwich and Big Mac (wearing a hat!) in Appleoosa (Yes, Cheese was there in his episode but not the same as in this comic), Derpy Hooves and Octavia in Rainbow Falls, and Fancy Pants in Manehatten. More to the point, they all look exactly the same age as they do in the show even though Trixie is a filly.

But then it got me to thinking randomly...what if Trixie actually is a young filly in Boast Busters, and is hiding it? Either an illusion, tons of make-up, or she's using an age spell which she canonically knows in Magic Duel (whether the Alicorn Amulet merely gives her a power boost or gives her knowledge of how to use spells is entirely different).
 

seitora

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There's a whole theory about how the reason Germany is an industrial powerhouse today is because of an odd variation of the economics idea of convergence between nations. Germany, having been bombed and razed drastically during the 2nd World War, didn't have much of centuries of old infrastructure left, and so everything had to be rebuilt. Compared to Britain and France, which still have lots of 19th or 18th century architecture. There are other examples here, but that's kind of the most relevant one that comes to my head at the time. Google is another example, where they weren't the first search engine, but they built on top of previous ones and became the dominant search engine. It's basically the reverse of the first-mover advantage.

...what I'm saying is, after Ponyville rebuilds for the nth time and finally stop having disasters, they should become an economic powerhouse that dashes ahead of the likes of Manehatten and Canterlot.
 

seitora

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A couple more ideas I'm contemplating, one silly, one more dramatic. Tell me what you think and if you have any ideas to add.

Scootasingularity
The Cutie Mark Crusaders are visiting Zecora. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom are teasing Scootaloo with words like 'Are you Scootascared, Scootachicken' to whick Scootaloo promises to give them a 'Scootasmackdown', only for them to accidentally knock over one or another of Zecora's things. In doing so, they trigger a curse which affects everyone in Ponyville: They can't Scootastop adding a certain prefix to their Scootawords. Over Scootatime, they Scootarealise it's getting Scootaworse, until eventually they Scootadd Scootathis Scootato Scootaeverything Scootathey Scootasay.


The Last Question
In life, Star Swirl was able to answer everything his apprentice Clover the Clever ever asked, except for one question: "What happens when all the magic runs out?"
A ponified version of Isaac Asimov's The Last Question. However, since basically throwing ponies in place of humans would be boring, there would be a plot twist to this story.
Namely, Discord would visit Star Swirl over and over until, near the end of existence, it's only Discord and Star Swirl left. Discord tells Star Swirl 'I hope you do better than I did'. Star Swirl ponders this for infinitely many more years as all the magic disappears and the stars disappear, until he realises that Discord was a Star Swirl from the end of the last universe. Ascending into his powers he becomes the new Chaos God and reverses trillions of years of entropy. It would be clear that this isn't time repeating itself over and over again, but an altogether new timeline where Star Swirl!Discord would be nicer than Discord was.
 

seitora

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I just had the most 'holy shit' moment for a potential villain

Discord: [chuckling] Did you miss me, Celestia? I missed you. It's quite lonely being encased in stone, but you wouldn't know that, would you, because I don't turn ponies into stone[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/font]
Then in this pan-out shot there's 7 statues shown right on-screen in the Canterlot Garden

Imagine a villain walking into Canterlot, going to the garden, and casting some anti-petrification magic which brings all the statues back to life, and they're all big bad antagonists of Equestria in the past who have a personal beef with Celestia who turned them to stone
 

seitora

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The big bad of Season 6 will be Twist, biding her time for years after Apple Bloom betrayed her and left her for those other two blank flanks just because she finally got her Cutie Mark.


And then, after Twist is defeated by the full powers of four Alicorn Princesses, the Elements of Harmony of both Equestria and the Human Realm, Rainbow Power, time travel manipulation, the Crystal Heart, and a quartet of bad guys teaming up with the good guys to save the world from an even greater evil all combined in one single attack, Twist will manage to escape, albeit terribly wounded and on the verge of death. Arriving in a dark hideout somewhere, she'll apologise and grovel to her true master sitting in a chair with the back of the chair turned towards her. In the last few seconds of the last episode of Season 6, the chair will turn around to reveal...


Then Season 7 will be the final season of the show, where it'll be revealed that this person has been the ultimate orchestrator of every big bad in the entire series.
 

seitora

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What if the background Alicorn animation errors aren't actually animation errors, but Alicorns who accidentally let the spell hiding their wings go for a few seconds?

In the future, after another big bad comes around and subdues the Princesses, our band of rag-tag Alicorn misfits (Rarity, Neon Lights, Lemon Heart and Fleur de Lis) journey out to stop it. Or something.
 

Ordo

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All right, I really just need to write this concept down to get it out of my head. Blame Dresden Fillies for making my mind think along these lines.



Fusion: Steven Universe



Steven and the Crystal Gems could show up at some point in this story...but they are not the focus. This came about as I considered the potential in a scene where 'Gems' realize that Spike and other dragons find them delicious. At first it was just a humorous throw away scene...but then I really began to consider the implications. The Gems had to come from somewhere, either a planet whose environment would allow for the rise of sentient Gems....or someone made them Equestria and the world it's on allows for both possibilities. Gems could be a natural result of the magic of this world and thus dragons are their natural predators, or...they were created here for a specific purpose.



I'm going with the idea of Gems being created, the way the Diamonds rule everything, and the specific purposes Gems seemed to be designed for leads me to find them being an engineered race as the most compelling for this story line. The concept is that in the murky past, possible even before the time of Star Swirl the bearded a Unicorn (or Alicorn) committed a terrible crime. Fearing that the pony race was, simply put, not strong or numerous enough to defend itself against the many threats in these ancient lands, this Pony (or a group of them) created 'The Gem Warriors' via magic. Magical Golems that were designed to adjust and adapt to any environment, any situation (While still retaining some specializations) and defend Pony-kind from it's many enemies. The Gem's began life as a Slave-race and they were effective.



The Gems proved so effective that their ancient creators began looking to extend their reach beyond this world. Using teleportation magic and the Gems own hardiness they set up the first 'Warp Pad' on Equestria's moon, intending for the Gems to go out into the galaxy, conquer worlds and remake them in Equestria's image so the Pony's could easily colonize new worlds while barely lifting a hoof to do so. Then it went wrong.



The Diamonds (leaders/liaisons between the Gems and their masters) broke control and turned on their pony masters. Fearing extinction at the hands of their own creations, The Pony Engineers manipulated Dragons, enhancing them, empowering them with the ability to defeat and devour Gems. The Diamonds, fearing the Apex Predator that was designed to end their race completely, fled through the warp with their remaining Gems and vanished into the cold reaches of space.



Celestia and Luna come to power in the wake of this tragedy, and due to shame at what Pony-kind had done...buried all knowledge of these great crimes.



The Diamonds established a home world for themselves, and eventually came to believe that Conquest was their right. Knowledge of Equestria and their true origin was suppressed among st the Gems until only the Diamonds remembered, as a way to ensure all Gems believed in the Diamonds lie, that of a Manifest Destiny to spread throughout the universe.



The diamonds would've attacked Equestria long ago, now that their numbers were great enough....but he Rebellion on earth changed EVERYTHING. If a world like earth could inspire Gems to rebel....what would their own homeland, could their true homeworld cause more rebellion? A rebellion on a world where they are food could end in destruction for he diamonds and so....they stay away.



The story opens with a Gem ship going off course in search of new worlds to 'Terraform'. An Arrogant Jasper and her entourage explores Equestria, running afoul of Rarity and Applejack. A fight breaks out, Rarity's life is placed in danger as Spike returns with their snacks (They were prepping a picnic for everyone and their pets). Spike proves immune to Gem powers though his lack of fighting ability gives the Jasper an upperhand....until she puts her nose in his face (Her Gem) and Spike bites it....unleashing his true HUNGER.



Of the 12 Gems that came with the Jasper, only two survive the Beserker Spike. A Ruby who managed to escape back to their ship...and a Pearl whose fear and the fact she was actually nice to the Captured Ponies (until the Jasper stepped in) punched through the Haze of hunger in Spike and allowed him to wrest control back from the beast within.



Fallout....Spike is HORRIFIED at what he's done. He didn't just stop a threat to his friends, he ATE them...and if he's honest with himself...after that first bite in Self defense...the rest was because 'The Beast Inside' WANTED to devour those Gems. The Ruby heads back to Gem controlled space spreading Knowledge of the Apex predator she's run into, causing mass turmoil among st Gem society. The Pearl correctly Identified Spike as a Juvenile, a baby of his species before the devouring began. So if a Baby Dragon...can devour 11 experienced Gem warriors....what could an adult do?



The Diamonds are facing a revolt, as some Gems want to go to this world enforce and burn it to the ground, while others want to quarantine that entire sector in hopes that what lives their never finds a way out into the galaxy. The Princesses must deal with the Ancient Shame of Ponies as Twilight's research eventually uncovers what really happened. Spike deals with his own issues as he realizes, one again, that inside him is a Predator just waiting for him to slip up...and then that Pearl that seems determined to care for him, even though she's terrified of him, will meet the same fate as her unit.



Thoughts?
 

seitora

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Before Night Light and Twilight Velvet were able to comfortably support themselves, Night Light studded on the side for spare money. Every powerful unicorn in the series is one of his kids and thus Twilight and Shining Armor’s half-sibling.

Yes, even Sombra. Dude travelled back in time and took over an empire.
 

autobot314

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With Pokemon Go out, what 'Mons would the EQG Mane 6 catch? Other than Ponyta and Rapidash, as those would be the Com Mons of the town Canterlot High is in. Because ponies. And when later gens come out, and they do legendary spawns, Keldeo would spawn in that town.
 

seitora

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While locked on the moon and in a statue, Nightmare Moon and Discord are able to communicate with one another. They despise each other but it is better than boring nothingness. Over time, they begin to like each other. As NMM escapes the moon she promises to help Discord out once her reign is secure, but her memories of on the moon are lost after being blasted by the Elements of Harmony.


Holy geez that's a sad idea.
 

akun50

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Ordo said:
All right, I really just need to write this concept down to get it out of my head. Blame Dresden Fillies for making my mind think along these lines.



Fusion: Steven Universe

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Thoughts?
Intriguing.  I like the idea, though personally, I would actually avoid picking most, if not all, of the known gemstones or gemstone types for the mission, just to leave a lot more ambiguity as to whether or not it's in their nature or it's how they personally grew up.  It would also help add some important distinction between the ones you use in the story and the ones that are in the show.

Or alternately, since you're not expressly using the actual core cast in said alternate universe, maybe there are massive variances be due to how they formed, that there are multiple ways to make gems and Homeworld's "Kindergardens" were simply a fast cheap method that made many gems a lot dumb and/or basic in thought until pulled out of said state  (like Amethyst and Ruby) due to stress and/or circumstance; whereas the slower methods provide more powerful but less easily controlled gems.

We already know that the generation of gems can affect their powers and development, as Peridot mentioned in one of the more recent episodes.

Definitely has potential.

Seitora said:
Before Night Light and Twilight Velvet were able to comfortably support themselves, Night Light studded on the side for spare money.
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Lulz-worthy indeed, though you could probably get a story line if it turned out that one of his kids tries to pull an Ultimecia or something stupid just to meet their dad, only to find out he's really not that far away.

Autobot314 said:
With Pokemon Go out, what 'Mons would the EQG Mane 6 catch?
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Keldeo, Ponyta and Rapidash would be their equivalent of the Waifu versions of Gardevoir and Lopunny, I think, each touching on a particular kink. Maybe with Tauros and the other bull-based pokemon being their equivalent of Jynx and Mr. Mime.

Seitora said:
While locked on the moon and in a statue, Nightmare Moon and Discord are able to communicate with one another.
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I had an idea about this, but in my version, NMM was a split personality and didn't forget. She subtly manipulated Luna into allowing tours through the garden, knowing that kids are bratty and chaotic enough that it would eventually free Discord. Note that we never actually see Luna in those episodes.

My version of the idea had Discord freeing Nightmare Moon from Luna and it actually sticking past when said episode. You could easily work a few stories beyond that as well, like having Nightmare Moon fleeing and becoming a more prevalent background villain for a while, maybe forcing escalations of many of the issues the Mane 6 dealt with while also creating new ones; Nightmare Moon and Luna having a serious discussion about what the fuck just happened, as they were essentially co-dependent split personalities and now feel strangely empty (and both feel about half as strong when apart, even if it's just psychologically); Nightmare Moon sticks around solely to argue Discord's right to freedom and perhaps serving as an alternate way for them both to be reformed without getting magically nuked in the face, and Discord finds he's willing to cut down on his epic whimsical parties because it's not fun being stuck in a damn statue without Nightmare Moon to hang out with; etc.
 

seitora

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In 'The Fault in Our Cutie Marks', we see the new griffon character Gabby, who's just so gosh-darn cute and adorable. But Gabby is also good at just about everything she does.

Upon making friends with the CMC, she stays in Ponyville for a while longer, and her natural charisma causes her to become the CMC's true leader.

Several years later, Empress Gabby conquers Equestria, having become the ruler of Griffonstone and revitalising it into a new city on the hill, a cultural heart of the world. At her side are her three most trusted confidantes: Scootaloo, general of all her armies, Apple Bloom, administrator of all the lands under Gabby's reign, and Sweetie Belle, head of the science and logistics division of Gabby's Empire.

The four Princesses all attempt to stop her and they all get one-shotted by Gabby (I'm sure some people still like to hold to the whole 'Celestia was holding back against Chrysalis!' argument, but it holds less muster after Celestia couldn't even stand up to plundervines or a goddamn snowstorm).
 

seitora

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In an allegory to how Merlin aging backwards in time, Sunburst also starts to age back in time, eventually becoming Star Swirl the Bearded.
 

seitora

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Post-Starlight reform, Pinkie gets the most insane idea. When the jars holding the Mane 6's Cutie Marks broke in The Cutie Map, their Marks flew back to their bearers.

Pinkie gets the idea of some sort of extreme sport where a pony tries to run away and dodge their Mark as long as possible.

Inspired by this insane video, where these two Japanese gamers make a game out of triggering a 1-Up in Super Mario 64, then try to run away from the 1-Up and collect all 8 Red Coins (the 1-Up floats toward Mario and can clip through walls).

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYAQSGAp0I[/video]
 

seitora

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Luna disappears from Equestria for 1000 years. However, instead of being banished into the moon as Nightmare Moon, it's because she got trapped with the rest of the Crystal Empire.

(this could also be done with Celestia instead of Luna)

Major implications, some of which depend on headcanon. For example, the castle in the Everfree Forest is never wrecked, so unless the remaining sister still moves out because there's too many painful memories, the capitol of Equestria continues to be centred in the Everfree. There's no 'gotta purify my sister' moment for the Elements of Harmony to get new bearers ala the start of the canon series, so the timeline gets screwed up a lot.
 

seitora

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Idea: Twilight absolutely dun goofs with her spellwork in Magical Mystery Cure, and the marks of the remaining five remains switched.

Fortunately, they hear of a far-off village where a unicorn wields a staff that is capable of removing Cutie Marks. Unfortunately, that unicorn is pre-reformed Starlight Glimmer.
 

seitora

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Twilight discovers she’s Star Swirl’s descendent. She thinks it means she's some sort of special ubermensch horse (uberpferd?)

Then Celestia tells her that pretty much every unicorn alive is a descendant of Star Swirl, who in his day was prolific and promiscuous and took the command 'go forth and and multiply' seriously. One of the very rare exceptions is Trixie, in a role reversal of how a number of stories headcanon her as being of Star Swirl's line.
 

burnerx7

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seitora said:
Idea: Twilight absolutely dun goofs with her spellwork in Magical Mystery Cure, and the marks of the remaining five remains switched.

Fortunately, they hear of a far-off village where a unicorn wields a staff that is capable of removing Cutie Marks. Unfortunately, that unicorn is pre-reformed Starlight Glimmer.
Ok this reslly needs a writer this would be an awesome fic
 
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