When the only other alicorn in Equestria is its ruler, a lot of questions don't have answers. There will be times of trial and error, there will be times when nothing makes sense, and there will be times when it's lonely. Was the crown given to you or forced on your head? It's heavy either way.

Edited by GoldenVision and NightChronicle

This story is a sequel to Fluttershy Is Free

February 1503: Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy have loved one another since they were fillies, and in the last few years, they have consummated their love. They want to remain together forever.

Yet incompatibilities are starting to appear between them. And Fluttershy has a major secret she has never quite managed to tell Rainbow Dash. After years she hopes that she may never have to tell her.

Unknown to Fluttershy, a dark Queen is rising in the south, and massing her forces against Equestria. And the time in which Fluttershy may still voluntarily reveal her secret is fast running out ...

YOH 1409 (91 years Before Luna's Return): Third-year Cadet Guidestar Flight is on sentry duty at the West Hoof asenal when he encounters an intruder! But the identity of this intruder will surprise him -- and change his life.

YOH 1269 (231 years before Luna's Return): Keen Trader was all set to make a tidy profit and secure his family fortunes when vicious bandits wrecked his venture. Now he wants revenge. And, with the aid of somepony who is older than she looks, he's going to get it!

This story is a sequel to At the Gorge

July, YOH 1500 (one month After Luna's Return): With Big Mac hurt, Applejack exhausted, and Granny Smith napping, what's a ten-year-old filly who wants adventure and excitement to do? Play outside, of course! In the never-boring Everfree ...

This story is a sequel to Jackie

I'd hoped it was over.

After weeks of torture, Sweetie Belle had been freed from the grasp of the entity known only as Jackie. I thought it would be the end of it, but it was not to be. Now it's latched onto Dinky. It's time to fight it again, hopefully defeating it for good this time.

Late Season 4: November 1504 (almost 4 1/2 years after Luna's Return, after "Equestria Games" but before Twilight's Kingdom).

Discord comes to visit Fluttershy and discovers that she is not alone. The furious God of Chaos considers what to do next. The traditional solution suggests itself, but maybe this would be unwise?

Perhaps he should consult someone wise? Someone he always keeps very close to him? Someone who always gives him good counsel, even if she's just a little bit miffed about that whole silly annihilation of her homeland and murder of her whole family and usurpation of her physical form thing, even though that was over twenty-five hundred years ago?

He fears she still has a grudge against him for all of this. Ponies so often take minor matters of this sort way too seriously ...

There's no other way! He must consult his inner Voice of Reason ...

Hope she's not still too mad at him ...

S1E01 of Kindness Is Magic

June 21st, YOH 1500: When Fluttershy accepted the commission to provide birdsong for Princess Celestia at the Ponyville Equestriad Summer Sun Celebration, she thought she was being pretty brave. Little did she know that soon she would be treading the Everfree Forest in endless night, searching for the lost Elements of Harmony, contending against NIghtmare Moon!

She should have been terrified. And she was frightened. But why did it feel as if she was fulfilling her destiny?

(image by the talented NemoSpecific)

Y.O.H. 1515

As the Great Changeling War approaches its end, and the High Queen Nightmare Hunger is reduced to an ever-shrinking territory and number of Hives, the disgraced Theoretical Infiltrator Compound, already demoted to Logistical Aide, is no longer needed. The resource flow between Hives has ceased, and all she is now is a warm body noling particularly likes.

She is reassigned to to Hive Hunger's Provisional Hive Defense Swarm, a last-ditch unit of Warrior cadets and confused Workers having weapons shoved into their claws and being flung in the path of the Equestrian advance. She has read enough of the reports to know what this means.

Her life is over.

But now, after three long lonely years, among members of a Caste she would normally consider far beneath her, can the impossible happen? On the brink of her death, can Compound rediscover the sense of belonging that alone gives meaning to the life of a Changeling?

Can a pariah finally find friends?

ADDENDUM: AU after S6 finale.

1438 Years After The Cataclysm, 991 Anno Urbis Conditae, 2500 years before the start of the series - Young Celly and Dissy have discovered their love, but there is another who is jealous of their joy, and dark dreams are rising. Will they know happiness, or will cruel destiny tear them apart?

Very much inspired by Alex Warlorn's Pony POV Series Season Four: Generation Transitions & Origins, especially Episode 54.