Twilight Sparkle is dying and recounts memories from her past life. Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Twilight Sparkle is the last survivor of the mane six. She is now an extremely old pony and bearer of the element of magic. This is a story about death, life, hope, and grief. It tells the stories of the latter days of the mane six as well as the world around them and how the world continues without them. It can be found here.
This My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fan Fic contains examples of the following tropes:
- An Aesop: No matter what we'll face on the other side, love and friendship are what make life worth going through.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Celestia gives one.
- Broken Pedestal: Celestia for Twilight.
- Cessation of Existence: Twilight initially fears this will happen once she kicks the bucket. Thankfully, it's not the case.
- Cheerful Child: Ruby Gisele.
- Cursed with Awesome: Alicorns and dragons.
- Dark Secret: Celestia had to sacrifice a lot for Equestria.
- Do Not Go Gentle: Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
- Dying Alone: Averted; special pains are taken to make sure that none of the bearers dies alone.
- Eternal Recurrence: On many different levels, too.
- Face Death with Dignity: Each and every one of the mane six.
- Fisher King: Princess Celestia actually can change the climate depending on her mood.
- Flash Forward: The story jumps around a lot.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Pinkie Pie manages to have a fun death and a fun funeral.
- Happily Married: Rarity and Spike were this. Of course, it couldn't last.
- Heroic BSoD: Twilight underwent one after Pinkie Pie died.
- Hope Springs Eternal: There is always hope so long as there is love.
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Celestia and Squall are a gender inverted example.
- Intergenerational Friendship: The bearers of the Elements of Harmony are a case of this as an invoked trope.
- Interspecies Romance: Between Spike and Rarity.
- Knight of Cerebus: Things get darker once Ruby Gisele enters the picture.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Twilight learns who her real parents are - Celestia and Squall.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Played for Drama.
- My Greatest Failure: Celestia considers preventable death to be hers. And she is tormented.
- Nice Guy: Squall Sprescu.
- Odd Couple: Squall and Celestia. A dorky earth pony from the provinces and a divine immortal alicorn princess. It's so obvious!
- The Nothing After Death: Twilight fears this.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Spike to Rarity as she is dying.
- Primal Scene: Brought to you courtesy of mind meld.
- Replacement Goldfish: It is implied that Celestia uses students as these.
- Secret Relationship: Twilight Sparkle is the result of one such relationship between Celestia and a commoner.
- Security Cling: An unspoken version occurs several times.
- Shoutout: Given to The Descendant.
- Stay with Me Until I Die: Princess Celestia does this for everyone.
- Together in Death: Right after drawing her last breath, Twilight finds herself in a green field surrounded by her friends.
- True Companions: All the bearers of the Elements of Harmony.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Brought up in the cases of Spike and Celestia, who are doomed to outlive everyone they know.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Both Twilight and Celestia have tried hard to prevent death, but nothing can delay its inevitability.
