Sunset Shimmer, who is catastrophically out of Wallflower Blush's league, has come back to town for the summer. Sunset is very kind and attentive. She likes hugs. She keeps coming up with cute little inside jokes. She stares, piningly, when she thinks Wallflower isn't looking.

So, it would just be very easy for Wallflower to get the wrong impression.

Which is why she was happy when she stumbled across a way to know the objective truth about how she and Sunset measure up against one another.

A last-second entry in the Sunflower Shipping Contest.

Eight years have passed since Wallflower Blush was rescued from a life on the streets by Sunset Shimmer. Learning to cope with the traumas that put her there—along with navigating a new relationship—wasn't easy. The life Wallflower lives now isn't perfect, but she's proud of how far she's come. With a loving relationship, a fulfilling job, and good friends, Wallflower is content to enjoy the stability offered by clinging endlessly and desperately to the present.

Then, she finds something Sunset has been keeping secret from her, and everything changes.

Now Wallflower is determined to stop Sunset from making the biggest mistake of her life—asking Wallflower to marry her.

Content Warning: This story contains realistic depictions of abuse, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and PTSD/C-PTSD.

Written together with Gay For Gadot ❤️

Cover art by our lovely and wonderfully talented friend Sandy. You're the best, hon ❤️

Special thanks to The Sleepless Beholder and Posh for editing!

Wallflower Blush has hidden a dark secret from the world ever since she started dating Sunset Shimmer. Unfortunately for her, Sunset is hard to fool - and she's intent on uncovering it.

My entry into Scampy's Sunflower Shipping Contest. 🌻

Cover art used by OshitsuKiryuu.

Inspired by Carapace's "She Dap" and keroko's "There are spots on the sun." Be sure to check them out!

A big thank you to AuroraDawn for proofreading before publishing!

This story is a remake of the Equestria Girls Special "Forgotten Friendship"

Sunset Shimmer. We all know her for how hard she has worked to become the girl we all know and love. And more than that, so do her friends. Until they didn't! Everything she had worked so hard on has been erased, gone as if never existed! No one remembers her, except for the once horrible and tyrant girl she once was that made people suffer and afraid when she ruled CHS with an iron fist! But what if not everyone had forgotten her? Would the help of a single person make it different? Would they be able to solve this memory loss mystery, track down who caused all of this, and fix it before it's too late!!!

Cover art by ilaria122

Applejack doesn't "do" dating. Everypony knows that. But after her brother and Sugar Belle get together, she decides it's finally time to give this whole "relationship" business a shot.

Only problem is, she's gonna need a bigger mailbox...

Takes place prior to Season 8.

A thousand years ago in Equestria, Luna's frustration and desperation has been building for years and years as her social and political isolation grows, but just before Luna's jealousy and resentment can turn into murderous hatred against her sister, a new event triggars Luna's mental collapse and pushes her over the edge. When Luna by circumstance finds herself alone in Celestia's room she reads her sister's diary out of curiosity and discovers all of the disparaging criticism that Celestia has leveled at her over the years about how much of a nuisance Luna has been to her, but has been too polite to say directly to Luna's face.

Luna and Celestia had always supported and stuck with each other all their lives. Even when the common-ponies critisism and shunning of her was at its worst, the knowledge that her sister loved her kept Luna going. The realization that nopony, not even her own sister valued her or thought she was fit for the throne completely shattered whatever remained of her fragile psyche.

And so Luna just gave up...

She gave in...

If no one wanted her there...

Then she wouldn't stay there...

She would leave.

Sunset Shimmer has faced many demons, both mental and literal. She’s forgiven herself to the path of friendship and has taught others the same like her teachers Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight Sparkle. Sunset has it all but one question has remained in the back of her head since the Memory Stone incident. A deep and nagging question that she’s never considered before until now.

Is the other me in this world still as bad as I was before I accepted friendship?

As Sunset struggles to find the answers, other events have started to play out as the decade awaited Tournament of Champions has arrived. As the four schools of the Canterlot City School District prepare for the upcoming spectacles, Sunset finds the most unexpected volunteer in the Tournament: herself.

With the help of her human and Equestrian friends, Sunset competes in the Tournament in order to meet her human self but at what cost? Can Sunset and her allies compete against the best of the best in the city?

Alliances will be forged, friendships will be tested, relationships will be changed forever, and magic will be changed forever.

What if Starlight wasn't the only pony to have a friendship lesson in the Crystal Empire? What if this pony didn't go as a pony? It's time for a long overdue reunion between teacher and student

What do you do when your best friend licks your face out of nowhere? You lick back, obviously.

Cover done by IrradiatedPirateBooty.

Thanks to 6-D Pegasus for pre-reading.

Now with a reading done by Lotus Moon.

This story is a sequel to The Gaps in F r i e n d s h i p

For Twilight Sparkle, the world was a very empty place. While her family helped her bear with it, there was only so much they could do for her. Combine that with Crystal Prep's toxic atmosphere, and it was a small miracle that she hadn't done something drastic a long time ago. As the void surrounding the poor girl continued to grow, that possibility became more and more likely. At least, until the day she found a strange black crystal near the remains of Canter Creek Bridge. Twilight's life was now about to make a drastic change, but would it be for the better, or the absolute worst?