[[http://dlazerous.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/&offset=48#/d4cz1k7 Luna the Matchmaker]] is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic by dlazerous and is the third in his series focusing on the characters about 5 years after the series. As might be expected lots of SugarWiki/{{WAFF}} but there are more serious elements, particularly with the rewrites that are currently ongoing. The focus is on the future and the joy and trails that brings.

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!!Provides Examples Of:

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Rarity's]] are this. [[spoiler: Her mother, at least.]]
* AffectionateNickname: The [[SpinOffspring next-gen]] characters Honey and Jato have these for each other. He calls her "Honeybee" while she calls him "Baby Bird".
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Averted. With Luna running the show, no one ends up alone.
* AmusingInjuries: Averted. Getting hurt is bad no matter who you are.
* AnArmAndALeg: Dawn loses a leg in a snow storm.
** [[spoiler: Dinky gives up her foreleg for Dawn.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Dinky Doo builds a mechanical leg to replace Dawn's leg.
* BadAssBookworm: Twilight is able to rebuild a spell minutes after having read it.
* BadFuture: [[spoiler: Discord]] hints that the future isn't going to be sunshine and roses, hence why he [[spoiler: gives a roomful of ponies functional immortality]] in hopes of changing the future.
* BeigeProse: The usual style the author uses, though for some parts he can slip into PurpleProse.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT mess with Sweetie Belle's family, especially her [[DaddysGirl daddy]].
** Also, think twice before you decide to be a terrible pony to Luna with Twilight Sparkle anywhere around.
* BigEater: Dawn, who manages to eat a few cakes during the kids-only party.
* BigGood: Celestia and Luna's mother.
* BitterWeddingSpeech: Subverted. When [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]] realizes she's growing increasingly jealous and bitter over everyone's love lives [[spoiler: and cutie marks]], she leaves on a quest to find herself and prevent this very trope. [[spoiler: She leaves behind a letter to Luna detailing her feelings just before the wedding, [[{{Tearjerker}} requesting that they simply forget about her for now]].]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]] due to an encounter with a Blackthorn Creeper.
* BrattyHalfPint: Though as old as his friends, Jato is quite small and can come across as this.
* BreakTheHaughty: Proud Wing.
* BrokenBird: Apple Bloom becomes this.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Luna [[spoiler: for a brief period of time]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Proud Wing. [[spoiler: and Twilight when overpowered in Luna's dream]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Discord was banished to a world without rules instead being turned back to stone.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Proud Wing is forced to admit and take responsibility for his actions before [[spoiler: being made to dig the graves of everyone he caused to die, then banishment]].
** [[spoiler: Blueblood]] dispatches the doctor whose poison for Celestia got discovered because Dawn get a hold of it instead by ForceFeeding him lye and eliminates [[spoiler: [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Charger]]]] via GroinAttack.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirin
* DeclarationOfProtection: Inverted by Celestia [[spoiler: and failed]]
* DisappearedDad: Dinky's and [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle's]] biological dads. We meet the latter's in the most recent arc; he's not a bad pony. He just made some bad decisions.
* EasyAmnesia: Averted. [[spoiler: Kirin]] is stated to be under a massive memory charm to alter his memories and it starts breaking down fairly quickly.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Dusk and Tootsie Flute, with some SheIsNotMyGirlfriend moments until some [[ShipperOnDeck pushing and manipulating by everyone around them]] convinced them to have a RelationshipUpgrade.
* EveryOneHasLotsOfSex: Given that it's a story about the Mane Cast and their children, this is to be expected.
* EvilMatriarch
* FairytaleWeddingDress: [[spoiler: ALL of the mane cast gets one, as well as Ditzy Doo.]]
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Rarity]] is actually [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle's mother]]. No word on who the biological father is, and no one seems to really care.
** The father is eventually revealed in the most recent arc. [[ReformedButRejected He's basically going to be shut out of]] [[spoiler: Rarity and Sweetie Belle's]] [[ReformedButRejected lives indefinitely and neither of them want anything to do with him at the moment]]. [[TheAtoner He is okay with this and is desperate to save everyone to make up for it.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Kirin]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Dinky Doo, who's also a WrenchWench that borders on MadScientist.
* {{Gayngst}}: A light, brief peppering of this occurs when [[spoiler: Luna, Twilight, and Sweetie Belle]] all try to come to terms with their [[ComingOutStory sexual orientation]]. Averted with [[spoiler: Dinky, Scootaloo, and Dawn]].
* GenreBlindness: Rarity's mom suffers from this. [[spoiler: [[EvilGloating Openly admitting EVERYTHING out-loud in the home you share with the man you haven't told the truth when he could possibly walk in on it and listen to some of the most highly respected members of pony society]] is rather foalish.]]
** [[spoiler: Blue Blood in the latest arc. He wants to replace the matriarchal society of Equestria with a patriarchal one because stallions are supposedly being abused and there are ways for two mares to have foals together. Never mind that the current society is nothing if not benevolent and the spells for [[HomosexualReproduction mare-mare pregnancy]] are EXTREMELY difficult to use and/or get right.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Kirin is a cross between dragon and pony.
* HappilyMarried: Most of the Mane Cast
* HappinessInSlavery: [[spoiler:Penelope, a pony introduced in the most recent arc. She comes from an era where griffins kept ponies as slaves (brought forward in time by [[Series/DoctorWho Julian]]) but repeatedly states that she's happy serving her "Mistress". The Mane Cast members who meet her are [[DeliberateValuesDissonance disturbed]] but Fluttershy points out that she does seem happy.]]
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Bonbon and Lyra have a run-in with [[MoralGuardian one]] in 'And Tootsie Flute Makes Three'. Their friends and the rest of the pony-folk beg to differ.
* HomosexualReproduction: Lyra and Bonbon in a prequel story and Luna and Twilight Sparkle in the main canon. Both couples have the excuse of magic though.
** [[spoiler: Eventually Vinyl Scratch and Octavia get in on this]].
* HotConsort: Kirin if the "Who's the stud?" comment from Melody, [[spoiler:[[HomosexualReproduction Vinyl Scratch and Octavia's daughter]]]], is anything to go by.
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Rarity's mother]] sends a letter saying that she and her father are disowning her for her mistakes as well as [[spoiler: dumping Sweetie Belle on her permanently]]. Later subverted in that [[spoiler: Rarity's father had absolutely no clue on what his wife was doing and desperately scrabbled to restore his relationship with his daughter and granddaughter as well as cut off his wife in all ways possible, who was also setting things up to kill him off.]]
* IdolSinger: Sweetie Belle
* InterspeciesRomance: Spike and Rarity, Celestia and [[spoiler: Kirin]] and [[spoiler: Kirin's parents]].
* IntoxicationEnsues: Apple Bloom gets into Big Mac's secret stash to [[HilarityEnsues hilarious and somewhat worrying ends]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Rarity's mother disowning her. Via letter.]]
* KillTheCutie: Kirin
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The conclusion most of the ponies (and dragon) granted it come to after some time to think on it.
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler: Garnet, for Apple Bloom.]]
* MacGuffin: Varies through the story as it's more a collection of numerous short stories with the overarching plot focused on Luna's [[TheMatchmaker matchmaking]] [[TheNamesake efforts]].
** [[spoiler: Luna and Twilight Sparkle's lockets, which will show them the one they're meant to be with.]] This actually makes [[spoiler: Celestia]] the first one to pair a couple up even if she didn't know it [[spoiler: though it's really Luna and Celestia's mother pulling the strings]].
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Discord, all the way up to his self-mindwipe.]]
* TheMatchmaker: Guess.
* MoodSwinger: Dawn, especially after ingesting a few cakes.
* MultigenerationalHousehold: The Apple family
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler:Rarity's mom had this in mind for Rarity's father since he's the one that has the money and being connected to Rarity has, in her eyes, sullied her reputation, requiring a dramatic break. Why a divorce wouldn't do she doesn't really explain too well...]]
* TheNamesake: [[TheMatchmaker Luna]] and her efforts to match all her friends up [[ShipperOnDeck with their perfect mate]].
* NotSoStoic: Big Mac [[spoiler: after Apple Bloom leaves everyone to go find herself.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Sometimes it feels like Tootsie Flute is the only one who stops to consider some things, even among the parents.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Braeburn with [[spoiler: his daughter, Honey, and Jato.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Spike
* PluckyGirl: Dinky Doo
%%* PowerOfLove: It's the PowerOfFriendship up to eleven.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Discord
* PyrrhicVictory: Jato's dive-bombing of [[spoiler: [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Charger]]]] takes the vengeful colt out of commission before he can go after Jato's mate, but the attack leaves Jato in a near-death state with the possibility of being grounded forever.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Why [[spoiler: Braeburn]] has such a hard time letting [[spoiler: his daughter]] find someone to love [[spoiler: what with his friend being a victim]].
* ReformedButRejected: Downplayed with [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle's biological father]]. None of his victims hate him enough to drive him completely away but it's clear all of them will always have some resentment for his actions; he is surprisingly okay with this.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Discord
* TheRunaway: [[spoiler: Apple Bloom.]]
* ShamingTheMob: Scootaloo does this to [[spoiler: Julian, Big Mac, Braeburn, Caramel, and Soarin']] when they try and force their way into the Canterlot castle.
* StealthExpert: Apple Bloom. She has epic hiding skills, considering how she managed to hide from all her friends, family, legions of guards, and Princess Celestia herself for as long as she did!
* StoryArc: How the story is set up. The overarching plot is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Luna pairing everyone up]] with minor/side plots forming various arcs throughout.
* TimeSkip
* TookALevelInBadass: Man, that TimeSkip certainly saw [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]] turn into a kick-butt mare!
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: Apple Bloom's 17 years in Everfree]] count, since she comments that she "want to be somewhere familiar" after the ordeal with the Blackthorn Creeper, indicating that she never stayed in the same area for long.
* WeddingsForEveryone: Probably one of a handful of examples which is NOT an overall ending trope, though it is the ending of one of the arcs.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Apple Bloom has a bit of this, especially seeing as [[CantCatchUp everyone is finding their mates for life and cutie marks]] [[TearJerker while she's still lost and alone.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Twilight suffers from this when directly powered up by the elements and Celestia at once.
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