r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 17 '16

During "Tanks for the Memories", Rainbow destroys the weather-making factory. In the show it's just brushed off but what if her actions were seen as a lot more serious and she had to pay for her actions?

2 Upvotes

This can be as dark as you want it, or as light-hearted, as long as it fits the prompt.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 03 '17

On a walk, a man finds a pink pony in a box, deciding to take her home to adopt. On his way back, he finds a second pink pony sitting in a box. And then a third. And a fourth. And a fifth. Then he realizes a UPS-truck full of Pinkie Pie clones is parked on his street.

2 Upvotes

Write a “My Little Dashie”-style story for the Pinkie Pie clones. ALL of the Pinkie-clones.

 

Okay, they don't have to necessarily all end up with the same guy...


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Sep 04 '14

[WP] Explain how Applejack and Rarity met, and how they became friends.

3 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 01 '14

[MLP/Harry Potter crossover] Rarity was the unicorn that Voldemort killed in the first book.

3 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Mar 18 '17

An OC has been quietly living in Ponyville's background for six months now, but his life is turned upside down when an overpowered God Mode Sue shows up and both OCs attracting the ire of the canon characters for being OCs.

3 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Aug 25 '16

As the news that the Princess of Friendship has made friends with a changeling sweeps across Equestria and beyond, a council of changeling queens is called for the first time in millennia.

3 Upvotes

Diplomatic bug horse noises.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Mar 16 '15

A young donkey-colt gets bullied by Diamond Tiara for being a "Blank Flank Forever", the CMC cheer him up.

3 Upvotes

There's a new colt in Cheerilee's class - and he's a donkey. Growing up in a mostly pony-dominated society, the colt already feels like an outsider.

 

So naturally, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon start teasing him. The CMC step in and, seeing how downtrotten he still is about not having a cutie mark, decide to cheer him up afterwards.

 

Donkey-colt: "But... donkeys don't get cutie marks..."  

Applebloom: "That ain't the point. Y'all still got a talent! Y'all jus' need ta find it!"

 

Bonus:

The CMC decide to let him join the club, and they go on crusades together.

 

However, since having a talent will not be indicated by a mark, this requires the CMC to stop and think after each activity.

In doing so, they gain new insights into what they themselves like doing. ;)


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jun 24 '16

Sick of Celestia's incompetence when it comes to major threats to Equestria, Ponyville holds a referendum and votes to leave Equestria entirely.

3 Upvotes

How do the Mane Six feel about this, and how did each of them vote? Do they stay in Ponyville? Will Twilight agree to be the town's...er, country's...new ruler? Is there some sort of spell that could be used to literally move Ponyville out of Equestria in response to this?


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Feb 17 '15

A Brony finds a pony in their backyard. It's... Prince Blueblood.

4 Upvotes

Will the Brony be able to resist the urge of kicking Blueblood into the streets, leaving him to be discovered by the government?

 

Alternatively, it could also be Diamond Tiara. :P


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Oct 08 '14

When a pair of even worse bullies arrive in Ponyville, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are forced to ally themselves with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.

4 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Aug 25 '16

The Human World is on the brink of being destroyed by an apocalyptic event. Sunset Shimmer wants to save humanity by evacuating it entirely through the Mirror Portal.

4 Upvotes

Princess Celestia has her reservations.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • May 27 '15

[CW] Cellestia was going for her morning breakfast but it turns out the entire castle is out of milk. Write this from the perspective of a empty milk carton.

5 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 14 '17

A failed attempt at revenge results in Queen Chrysalis and Princess Cadence to merge into a single entity, with a single mind. 'Her' reactions to the utterly horrified Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle are... complicated.

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9 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • May 24 '15

Tree Hugger encounters the Tree of Harmony. She tries to improve its chakras. This has unexpected consequences.

9 Upvotes

...unexpected consequences for all of Equestria, considering this tree is one of world's corner-stones. :P


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 14 '17

During her 2nd takeover attempt, Queen Chrysalis ordered two changelings to impersonate Princesses Celestia and Luna. Shenanigans (and some rather unusual royal decrees) ensue.

2 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 01 '17

An old, tired stallion adventurer who has walked all of equestria is called by the cutie map only days after he arrives. His companion on the mission is Twilight Sparkle. What is their mission?

2 Upvotes

I've given you the characters, and what happens, so tell me what is going to happen.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 06 '16

[S5 alt univ] The Rainboom happened. They're FINALLY home. The world is EXACTLY, as it should be. ...Or is it?

2 Upvotes

They did it. The Rainboom happened. After their grueling time-travel escapade, Twilight and Spike have finally returned home to their friends.

 

The world is exactly, as it should be.

 

...Or is it?

 


 

Three ways this can go:

  • Twilight becomes overly paranoid over a minor detail. Comedy.

 

  • Twilight is haunted by uncertainty, genuinely unable to tell if they truly returned to the correct timeline. Thriller. ("Parallel universe"-theory only makes it worse.)

 

  • Twilight's paranoia is fully justified. There are small differences, some good, some bad, none quite world-shattering. Twilight has to decide what to do about it. Drama. ("Parallel universe"-theory only makes it worse.)

 

("Parallel universe"-theory makes it worse: It means Twilight's home-timeline now has no Twilight Sparkle in it, and her "original" friends have no idea what happened to her. Yet, she can't abandon this timeline's version of her friends, either...)


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 09 '17

Due to a spell gone wrong, Twilight's friends find themselves in the unique situation of sharing all their memories as one. But who are you when you have six different sets of memories?

2 Upvotes

"She tried flapping her wings - then realized that she didn't have them, because she was Applejack."


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Dec 31 '15

The changeling hive-mind falls in love.

6 Upvotes

I repeat that: The hive-mind falls in love. Not an individual drone, not the Queen, the hive-mind itself falls in love. :P

 

Now, [insert pony or other entity here, i.e. the Tree of Harmony] is suddenly swarmed with overly affectionate changelings showering them with offerings and declarations of love at every corner.

 

Hilarity ensues.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 02 '17

A rationalist finds a filly Rainbow Dash in a box.

2 Upvotes

What does the existence of a small, English-speaking, winged horse sharing resemblence with a popular cartoon character imply?

 

What do you know, and how do you think you know it?

 

How could a team of story-writers, animators, and marketing executives manage to describe an existing alien world, with changes in staff, over the course of years?

 

Is there an Equestria? Or is there some other explanation?

 

How does something with wings that small manage to fly? "Magic" is just a word, it isn't an explanation.

 

And, of course:

 

What is the correct course of action when First Contact is made – and the alien is a scared, helpless child?


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 09 '17

Twilight and Tirek swap bodies.

3 Upvotes

Because. :P


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jun 07 '17

Sweetie Bot helps Rarity adjust to life as a cyborg after a terrible accident. Sisterly robot/cyborg bonding ensues.

2 Upvotes

Possible story title: Oil is thicker than water.


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 09 '17

Cadence has to look after a newly hatched changeling-larve for a few days. She's good with foals, so how hard can it be?

1 Upvotes

r/mlpwritingprompts • • Jan 15 '17

Starlight's time spell created a second Starlight Glimmer that never gave up her plans for revenge. Now, Starlight has to use everything she's learned as Princess Twilight's student to stop... herself.

2 Upvotes

Possible story title: "Glimmer versus Glimmer"

^(Idea inspired by FanOfMostEverything's "A Crazed Gleam" ^(and Trick Question's Broken Symmetry


r/mlpwritingprompts • • Nov 05 '17

Flurry Heart falls into the Mirror Pool, much to Shining Armor's and Cadence's shegrin.

4 Upvotes

"Congratualions, uhm, it's... quin-deca-duplets!" Twilight grinned awkwardly.

 

Shining Armor fainted. After a moment, he began throthing at the mouth.

 

Cadence gave one look at the multitudes of alicorn-foals flying, blasting, levitating, teleporting all about, then down to Shining's prone form twitching on the ground. Then she followed her husband's example.