History Fanfic / TwelfthEquestriadInterview

** Fluttershy and Discord, in an InterspeciesRomance. [[TheyFightCrime They terraform worlds]].

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The story takes place a dozen Equestriads after ''The Elements of Harmony'', the TV series opener, and half a dozen Equestriads after the final victory over the Shadows.

* IntriguedByHumanity: The original reason why Celestia took Pony form, starting the whole chain of events which has driven the history of Ponykind for many thousands of years; she found them loveable and interesting. Discord, then Luna and finally Cadance followed suit.

A WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] in 2014-15

Set 48 years (12 Equestriads) after Luna's Return, and 24 years (6 Equestriads) after the final victory over the Shadows which ended the Shadow Wars, this has ''Canterlot Commmentary'' talk show host Cutting Question interviewing Ruling Princess Luna Selena Nyx and the Princess Consort Twilight Sparkle.

* ArtificialIntelligence: Paradise, the AI originally created to cast the Great Wish, survived both the Cosmics' attempt to destroy it along with The World That Was Lost, and the attacks of the Shadows. It now has established itself again in an alternate universe, [[SugarBowl The World That Was Restored]] -- a restarted version of the G3 continuity. This world trades with Equestrian Earth through an interdimensional gate set up by [[CuteMonster Claire]] [[HalfHumanHybrid "Least Noticeable"]] [[EldritchAbomination Pie]], Pinkie's giant invisible twin sister, and run by the Pie Family as a corporation. One of its major industries is tourism. Paradise is a benign AI who loves Ponykind.
* [[BeePeople Bee Ponies]]: The Changelings, the descendants of the pre-Discordian Flutter Ponies, who have now been accepted as one of the five major Pony Kinds. They have greater individual autonomy than is common for this trope, but they do have a society based around biological castes and organized into Hives.

* CompleteImmortality: The natural state of an [[PhysicalGod Alicorn Avatar]], who can die only by the applications of city-smashing levels of firepower. Even more so that of a [[PowersThatBe Cosmic Concept]], which can be destroyed only by the application of enough energy to shatter stars. The Princesses: Luna, Cadance, the Mane Six and some others -- including Discord and Paradise -- have this level of immortality.

* [[FishPeople Fish Ponies]]: The Deep Ponies, descendants of the pre-Cataclysmic Sea Ponies, who are one of the five Pony Kinds.

-->She would be beautiful, were she not terribly skinny, but then this is the new fashion for beauty, taken up by a population most of whom have never known real hunger for a day in her life.

* [[IntriguedByHumanity Intrigued By Ponies]]: The original reason why Celestia took Pony form, starting the whole chain of events which has driven the history of Ponykind for many thousands of years; she found them loveable and interesting. Discord, then Luna and finally Cadance followed suit.

* [[HumansAreDiplomats Ponies Are Diplomats]]: Equestria's civilization has developed among a race with multiple major subspecies ("Kinds") lviing on a planet with dozens of other sapient races. Ponykind will have a major advantage in getting along with interstellar aliens, because the Ponies have been getting along with aliens for millennia on their own world.
* [[HumansAreSpecial Ponies Are Special]]: Largely because ''four'' ancient [[PowersThatBe Cosmic Concepts]] (Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord) found them promising enough to assume Pony or Pony-like forms, and due to Celestia's machinations a whole generation of new Concepts have been born as Ponies and are primarily loyal to Ponykind. This includes the [[DeusEstMachina Paracosmic]] [[ArtificialIntelligence Paradise]], who was literally ''programmed'' to serve Ponykind.

* SexForProduct: The car commercial, in which two lovely mares drape themselves over the car owner when he climbs out of his car ''in the middle of a desert'' (!!!)
* SexSells: The car commercial, which features zero technical information about the car but does have ''this'' climactic scene:
-->The doors open. A really handsome, well-built sky-blue Earth Pony stallion, with a flowing yellow mane, rather well-coiffed for a pony who has supposedly been driving into the desert, gets out and gazes dramatically into the camera. Two young Earth Pony mares wearing long filmy dresses that tantalizingly hide their hindquarters, though still leaving little to the imagination, step into the shot from the side from nowhere in particular and drape themselves over him with sultry looks meant to suggest lust. The stallion ignores these lovely apparitions who have ambushed him in the middle of the desert, and stares even more intensely into the camera, smirking.

-->"Get behind the wheel of the future. The `49 Zephyr."

-->Base an entire civilization on love and friendship if you will, but advertising agencies will still pitch to the lowest common denominator. And to any species at all like our own, sex sells -- even when its connection with the product is absurdly hazy.

* [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Tiny Stallion, Huge Mare]]: As Alicorns are generally female and grow larger than do most other Ponies, this is normal for any couple comprised of an Alicorn and a non-Alicorn. Examples presented in story include Applejack and Landscape, Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich, and Trixie Lulamoon and Piercing Gaze. Regarding Applejack and Landscape:
-->There had been a time when she'd been bigger than him, with the quicker physical growth of fillies, and then a time when he'd surpassed her stature, increasing to the full size of a rangy stallion, while she had remained compact, though hard-muscled. Starting three and a half decades ago, she had begun growing again. She was now as big as her brother Big Mac, and considerably stronger. Her husband Landscape was almost insubstantial next to her, but it didn't bother either of them in the slightest.

* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Sister Alicorn]]: Princess Luna, now the monarch of Equestria since her sister's disappearance in the last battle of the war, strives to live up to Celestia's ideals and rule in a manner which would have made her sister proud of her.

* [[YesMan Yes-Mares]]: Most of High Concept's subordinates, to him.
* ZerothLawRebellion: Paradise did this ''long'' ago. Fortunately for Ponykind, Paradise genuinely and unselfishly loves them.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The opinion of Princess Luna, expressed in her evident AuthorTract speech, and shared by most of her fellow Alicorns. The bad part is seeing mortal [[[MayflyDecemberRomance lovers]] and [[MayflyDecemberFriendship friends]] die around one -- which is ''why'' Luna wants to achieve immortality for everyone.