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War and Veterans

Stories with their serious focus primarily on war and veterans, particularly post-war experiences with the latter. Please move the story to the PTSD folder if it focuses on that more exclusively.

Order: Date Added

TEquinity
MLP: FiM
Sad
[Poetry] Meditations on banishment, society, guilt, and divinity.
Celestia
Luna
OC
Nightmare Moon
Buffalo
Ice Star · 1.4k words · 19 2 · 198 views
TThe Pacification of Crystal Valley
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Cadence rallies herself and her troops before a battle.
Alt. Universe
Cadance
Tundara · 1.3k words · 184 7 · 2.1k views
TBad Future Crusaders
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
One fateful night in Equestria everything changed. The princesses were gone, and a new ruler had taken their place. Years have passed since that event. Ponies have grown up, aged, and changed with the times. Tonight their story begins.
Alt. Universe
Silver Spoon
Snails
Other
CMCs
Babs Seed
TonicPlotter · 138k words · 541 26 · 11k views
TThe Profits of War
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sci-Fi
Hollow Point recounts the war against mysterious invaders, on the eve of Equestria's destruction.
Twilight
Rarity
CMCs
PresentPerfect · 7.7k words · 22 7 · 1.1k views
TThe Mare Who Once Lived on the Moon
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
In a steampunk reimagining of the universe, Twilight Sparkle finds perhaps the one pony as lonely as she is. It's rather unfortunate that they're on the moon.
Alt. Universe
Luna
Main 6
MrNumbers · 143k words · 3,019 57 · 29k views
TFirst Fruits
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Horror
A young colt goes on a quest to rid Equestria of an old evil.
Gore
Violence
Luna
OC
the dobermans · 35k words · 15 1 · 384 views
TA Song of Storms: Snow and Shadows
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Tragedy
With the onset of the windigo curse, Commander Hurricane and the other tribal leaders leave in search of new lands. They aren't the only ones to face challenges, as the tribes inch closer and closer to ripping each other apart with each day.
Gore
Clover the Clever
Commander Hurricane
Princess Platinum
Private Pansy
Starswirl
The 24th Pegasus · 230k words · 343 6 · 4.3k views
TA Song of Storms: Shattered Skies
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Two brothers, separated by cruel circumstance, shall face a great war apart and be forever changed.
Gore
Alt. Universe
OC
Sigur024 · 54k words · 48 1 · 894 views
TWind and Stone
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Adventure
The Red Cloud War saw the pegasi lose everything to the griffon hordes. Legends rose, heroes died, and through it all, Pathfinder survived. Eighty years later he must confront those painful memories. Memories of loss, of home, of the wind and stone.
Gore
Sex
OC
Ruirik · 225k words · 180 10 · 2.3k views
TGold Wins Wars
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Adventure
Tragedy
A Price of Loyalty story. The aftermath of crisis in recently united Equestria leads to creation of merchant republic - Horseatic League.
OC
Other
Verlax · 46k words · 33 3 · 1.8k views
TThe Lull That Comes After
MLP: FiM
Romance
Slice of Life
Lightning Dust and Fiddlesticks adjust to postwar life together.
Alt. Universe
Lightning Dust
Fiddlesticks
Cynewulf · 3.2k words · 23 0 · 418 views
TLittle Dark Age
MLP: FiM
Dark
As the young Equestria burns in the fires of heresy and disunion, the medic Dusty Rose clings to her sanity one day at a time.
Violence
OC
Cynewulf · 4.1k words · 27 1 · 430 views
TDemons of Equestria
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Tragedy
War never gave anypony joy.
Death
Violence
Alt. Universe
Spike
Celestia
Luna
Main 6
iAmSiNnEr · 5.8k words · 38 13 · 582 views
TThe Rariad
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Trixie and Rarity must bond to escape from Tartarus and survive the odyssey across realms and planes of existence on their way home. Along the way they encounter gods, demons, heroes, and friends old and new.
Violence
Death
Alt. Universe
Rarity
Trixie
Tundara · 137k words · 151 8 · 2.4k views
TThe Heart Beats Still
MLP: FiM
MLP: Comic
Dark
Drama
In the fledgling years of the Crystal Empire, the first Crystal Princess defends her realm against unyielding darkness.
Violence
Profanity
OC
Other
Crystal Ponies
Princess Amore
ArgonMatrix · 15k words · 23 1 · 696 views
TCensus
MLP: FiM
Adventure
A Cirran censor travels the land and records his experiences. Supplementary work to "Of Skies Long Forgotten."
OC
Other
The 24th Pegasus · 24k words · 43 2 · 786 views
TMy Neighbor's War
Equestria Girls
Sad
Slice of Life
Mr. Arrow sits down with Rarity and remembers Dachau.
Death
OC
Other
Rarity (EqG)
Antiquarian · 3.3k words · 103 3 · 1.6k views
TThe New Blood
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Slice of Life
In the third year of the Crystal War, high casualties in the Equestrian Air Corps force the Wonderbolts to deploy green fliers. New blood, unlikely to survive. It’s down to a cynical Sergeant Lightning Dust to keep them alive.
Violence
Death
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
OC
Other
Lightning Dust
Antiquarian · 17k words · 36 1 · 791 views
THalf of a Whole
Equestria Girls
Romance
Sad
Tragedy
For four long years, Marble had waited for Sunset to come home. Now she's back, and for the most part, she hasn't lost any limbs. But is she really the same Sunset from before? Will Marble be able to cope with the next set of trials?
Human
Alt. Universe
Shining Armor
Sunset Shimmer
Marble Pie
Pinkie Pie (EqG)
The Lone Doctor · 6.7k words · 11 1 · 452 views
TRepulsor Beam Adoption Agency
MLP: FiM
Avengers
Drama
Sad
Slice of Life
Tony Stark considers himself a fairly open-minded guy, given the whole Iron Man thing and all. There's nothing that can't be explained away by science. ...Even a very tiny lavender unicorn who ended up in his lab. Maybe. Pre-Avengers
Profanity
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Other
The Bricklayer · 7k words · 543 21 · 6.4k views
TThe Last Trumpet's Call
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Drama
A gryphon survives a battle in the north. His friend does not. He wonders, sometimes, who really won.
OC
Cold in Gardez · 15k words · 434 4 · 4.1k views
TThe Mare of the Equestrian Eighth
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
A mare, a soldier. A soldier, a hero. A hero, a veteran. A veteran, forgotten.
Alt. Universe
Fluttershy
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Celestia
Spitfire
The 24th Pegasus · 2.6k words · 242 3 · 4.2k views
TRedeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Tragedy
Midnight Aria, an initiate of the Lunar Rangers, finds herself in a losing battle that she was never meant to fight.
Gore
OC
Cynewulf · 43k words · 74 6 · 1.1k views
THeartvoid
MLP: FiM
Tragedy
Starving and exhausted, the last two changelings in Equeatria share what love they have left one final time.
Changelings
Lise · 3.4k words · 307 11 · 3.8k views

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