A brother and a sister come to Ponyville to sell weapons, the two arrive and set up shop just behind Sweet Apple Acres, and the ponies go to them to buy their things and get to know them better.

The Reclusive Lord of the Profaned Capital.
The Grand Betrayer.
The Last Giant.
Yhorm...
Yhorm The Giant has been treated as a menace ever since he first stood for the people that once called him monster. He took the mantle of Lord for wanting peace and prosperity for the Capital, but it only caused ruin. So much ruin, that it destroyed the Capital and charred all but stone. But that was a long, long time ago. Now Yhorm is dead. Slayed by the True Lord, Yhorm's Soul will be on a journey that no one expected.

This takes place in the Displaced-Verse! I saw that the trend of human + game costume + the merchant giving an item them = adventure has been... HIGHLY saturated. So I figured I would take this a step in another direction, with the character themselves going to Equestria. So Prepare for the long haul...

After the Canterlot Invasion. a changeling becomes lost in the Everfree Forest. When he’s finally discovered, it will take Twilight, her friends, and even Celestia and Luna to show him that there is life beyond the changeling hive. Follow Shade on his journey through light and darkness as he learns to embrace his inner strength and become more than he ever thought possible.

Enjoy the follow-up:

Faded Memory: The Rise and Fall of Sombra

When Nightmare Moon’s rebellion tore across Equestria, leaving a trail of blood and horror in its wake, Princess Celestia knew that merely banishing her sister wouldn’t be enough. Her army was too powerful, and too bloodthirsty, to be left behind without a leader. When she finally turned the Elements of Harmony against her, she didn’t just banish Nightmare Moon. She banished thousands.

Now they’re in a race against time, to find a way to survive in an environment so alien that every aspect of it is trying to kill them. They face suffocation, freezing, boiling, starvation, radiation, meteorite impacts, low gravity… the list goes on.

Nightmare Moon thought she should be the ruler of all Equestria. Now, in a world nopony was ever meant to survive, her abilities will be put to the ultimate test.

This story now has a hardcover! If you'd like one of your own, you can grab it here: https://starscribe.net/

Editing by the indulgent and patient Two Bit and Sparktail. Coverart by Zutcha.

Note: I intend this story to be as faithful to our current scientific understanding of the moon, and I’ve consulted for help with the aspects outside my technical purview. That said, I fully expect to make decisions that some may see as mistakes, based on their own independent interpretations.

I am a storyteller first, and I realize it’s likely I’ll eventually make a mistake, or an arbitrary decision to simplify the storytelling over accuracy. I’m doing my best here, but this isn’t a NASA white paper. Set your expectations accordingly.

This story was commissioned by Canary in the Coal Mine on my Patreon, feel free to contact me if you’d like one of your own!

Discord feels like he doesn't have any truly chaotic friends, so Fluttershy encourages him to go find some. Only problem: Equestria is annoyingly low on chaotic individuals who are in the mood for fun.

So he turns his gaze to other universes, to see who he can find. His efforts go horribly, terribly right.

Contains the following chaotic individuals from other franchises: The Mask, Beetlejuice, The Joker, Chara, Bill Cipher, and Tzeentch.

Commissioned by TheDriderPony

-GM, master of CHAOS.

William and Michael Afton are given a second chance at life, only this time in a world full of colorful talking ponies. For Michael, this is as close as a vacation from all the crazy he had to deal with. For William, he'd rather go back to that torture room Cassidy had set for him. The two meet new faces and explore this new world, but can this new world and its inhabitants change William's cruel behavior?

Every year, I write to the princess. I think she's amazing. I want to be just like her.

I wonder if she'll ever reply.

Some sacrifice their lives for their craft, maybe without even knowing.

Home
Hive
Love
Mother
Hate
Moon
Emerald
Fire
So tell me, with everything in the world. What is it you desire? Power, revenge, pleasure?
I just want to go home.
Midnight Fade is thrown into a whole new world. One without magic and his changeling powers are useless. Now he just has the unrelenting desires to go home. However that's easier said than done. Because there's no way back. So for now Midnight Fade must learn to live inside this world, but a certain farm may just be the key in order to rediscover the love that he lost.

Idol Hooves holds a special place in Equestria. He's probably the only exiled changeling to serve in the Royal Guard, or at least, that's what he expects, as exiles don't really broadcast that fact. However, it's well known that Princess Celestia loves all of her little ponies, and her guards perhaps more so, and that makes it one of the best ways for a changeling to discreetly feed.

But how does a changeling even get there, let alone get exiled in the first place? For that matter, why would it ever go to Canterlot? Set a number of years before the series proper, before Luna’s redemption, Idol details how he was exiled, the ponies he’s met, and the series of misadventures that led him to joining the Royal Guard, and should continue a good ways into the series, as something of an alternate perspective.

Soon, he’ll have to deal with a boisterous new princess to serve and a royal wedding in the works bringing a third to power. Will his old instincts bring this new life crashing down around him? What precipitates Chrysalis’s ill-fated assault on Canterlot? Is it really so wrong for a changeling to enjoy good craftsmanship to an obsessive degree?

New cover art provided by the fantastic Carnifex

And a TVTropes page here.

And an Ask Blog of questionable canonity!
Out of Idol Curiosity

Fanart by Norad2! Major thanks! Short For a Royal Guard

Art by Egophiliac of Idol and his Daring Duckie Please don't tell him what that brush is meant for.

Rating updated to (T), it's a bit darker than (E)
Comedy Tag added as well
And changed the character tags a bit.