Fanfic / The Girls Of My Life

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The Girls of My Life is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic written by Wildcard25 on Fimfiction.net here and cross-posted to ChaosMagemon on Fanfiction Dot Net here.

Spike has known his six best friends since they were kids. Now that they're older their friendship will develop into something much more than what he expected.

Has a completed sequel ''The Girls of My Life 2: Old and New Flames on Fimfiction.net that was released on April 21, 2017.

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The Girls of My Life and its sequel provides examples of:

The Girls of My Life

• All Just a Dream: The chapter "Doggone Day."
• Anywhere but Their Lips: After the Valentine's Day Festival, Spike kisses Trixie on the cheek as "payment" for helping in his Batman Gambit. Trixie lampshades this.
• Balanced Harem: Each of the Girls is given separate chapters so that all of them can have equal prominence in their relationship with Spike.
• Balloon Belly: Pinkie gets one after eating multiple cupcakes in "Locked in the Sweets Shop."
• Batman Gambit: The reason that Spike goes out with Trixie at the Valentine's Day Festival was that he knew the Girls would settle their arguments and join forces. Thus, their friendship would be saved.
• Beach Episode: Spike and the Girls spend two days at the beach for sun, surf, and sensual sunscreen lathering.
• Bedmate Reveal: After the Wild Teen Party, Spike wakes up to find the Mane 6 in bed with him. Though it's clarified afterwards that none of them had sex.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't mess with Spike around his girls.
  • Diamond Tiara touches Spike's by suggesting he stands no chance with any of the Girls.
• Big "WHAT?!": This happens often. The Girls regularly have this as a collective reaction to anything that catches them by surprise, whether it is pleasant or unpleasant.
• Book Ends: The story begins with Spike as an eight year old boy spending time with the Mane 6 who are all eleven years old. The story ends with Spike passing by an eight year old boy playing with six eleven year old girls.
• Brats with Slingshots: The Flashback in "Sleepover with Rarity" shows that in Spike's younger days he carried a slingshot. When Spike catches Blueblood attacking Rarity he makes good use of it.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: As the protagonist of a harem fic, Spike finds himself appreciative of the large breast sizes of his Girls.
• Catch a Falling Star: Downplayed. It's not off a building, but Applejack manages to catch Spike when he falls out of the tree in the Identity Amnesia incident.
• Chick Magnet: Spike. Aside from the Mane 6, he instantly attracts other girls without trying. This includes: Fleur De Lis, Trixie, The Dazzlings, Octavia and Vinyl Scratch.
• Christmas Episode: The group and their families gather at Rarity's place for a Christmas Party. Spike and the girls end up staying the night over, while Spike makes sure none of them ever find out about his cat footsie pajamas gift from his aunt.
• Distressed Dude: The very first chapter opens with the eleven year old Main 6 protecting an eight year old Spike from some stray dogs that are harassing him.
• The Dog Bites Back: In the Flashback in "Sleepover with Rarity," Rarity has enough of Blueblood's Domestic Abuse (mentioned below) when he punches Spike and she punches the Jerkass in the face.
• Domestic Abuse: The Flashback in "Sleepover with Rarity" reveals that prior to the events of the story Rarity was in a relationship with Blueblood. He abused her emotionally and physically.
• Double-Meaning Title: The chapter "Friendship Broken" is this. Given how often the Girls argue over Spike and how harsh the argument is getting in this chapter it seems that they will break off their relationship with each other. However, the chapter title actually refers to Spike breaking his friendship with the Girls when he decides he is to blame for this argument, and therefore must break his friendship with them to save the friendship they have with each other.
• Drunk on Milk: Featherweight gets very loopy at the Wild Teen Party. When Spike asks about it Snips and Snails claim that he's had too much soda.
• Fan Convention: The group attends a convention for Spike's favorite all girl superhero team The Power Princesses, and even got to fill in for the actors during the live performance.
• Fanservice: As a Harem Genre fanfiction, this is a given.
• First Kiss: Spike gets his from Twilight, as a birthday present.
• Foodfight!: After Spike helps her with cake baking, Pinkie ends up starting a foodfight where the two of them spray icing at each other.
• Friendly Tickle Torture: In "Locked in the Sweets Shop," Spike does this to Pinkie to take vengeance for the past times she did it to him.
• Green-Eyed Monster: The Girls have a tendency to get jealous of any other girl they see spending time with Spike. The fact that they get this way towards each other almost ruins their friendship.
• Halloween Episode: Principal Celestia and her sister Luna host a Halloween party inviting the students from both the high school and junior high school.
• Harem Genre: Yes.
• The Heart: Spike is this for the Mane 6. They often end up arguing over who Spike should spend time with. This leaves Spike responsible for defusing the situation to preserve the cast's friendship.
• High-School Dance: The Mane 6 have an end-of-semester dance at CHS. Each of them try using the opportunity to ask Spike out which leads to a lot of drama. Spike ends up going with all of them.
• History Repeats:
  • Harrison Adrock, the creator of the Power Princesses comic was also close to six female friends who were in highschool when he was fourteen. But while Adrock never ended up with any of his friends, Spike ends up dating all of his girls.
  • The story ends with Spike witnessing six eleven year old girls playing with an eight year old boy, and he notes their closeness.
• Identity Amnesia: After taking a dare from Rainbow Dash to climb a big tree, Spike ends up falling from it and hits his head resulting in complete memory loss. His parents, the girls, and his friends try every method to help him remember. In the end Spike recovers his memories deep within his psyche.
• Incompatible Orientation: Star Storm is a homosexual with an attraction to Spike. Spike is straight so he turns Star Storm down.
• Internal Reveal: Near the end of "Friendship Broken," the Mane 6 end up in an argument where they all reveal that each of them believe that they were Spike's First Kiss. It's clarified by Spike that his First Kiss was with Twilight.
• It's All My Fault:
  • Rainbow Dash goes through some self-loathing due to feeling responsible for the Identity Amnesia incident that Spike goes through. Fortunately, it doesn't last.
  • After the especially harsh argument between the Girls in "Friendship Broken" Spike blames himself for causing it and breaks off his friendship with the others so that the Girls won't break their friendship..
• Jerkass:
  • Albert "Prince" Blueblood.
  • Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
• Let Me at Him!: As mentioned under Berserk Button, Diamond Tiara taunts Spike by claiming he stands no chance with any of the Girls. This results in Snails, Pipsqueak, and Sweetie Belle restraining Spike so he doesn't attack Diamond Tiara.
• LARP: Spike and his boys take their space explorer genre tabletop game and role-play it in the junkyard with hilarious hijinks.
• Lover Tug of War: After meeting the Dazzlings, Spike ends up in this between them and the Mane 6.
• Marry Them All: Yeah, Spike ends up with all of the Mane 6 Girls.
• Marshmallow Hell: Pinkie does this to Spike before everyone goes to sleep in "Cabin in the Snowy Mountain." And in the next chapter, Rarity is doing this to Spike when everyone wakes up.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Twilight notes that Spike ends up recovering from his cold pretty quickly after being cared for by the Girls and having a dream about how they first met. Applejack suggests that the Apple Soup she bought over probably helped while Spike thinks to himself that his his dream could be what cured him.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Fluttershy admits to having a dream where Spike is a dog.
    • Spike has that dream himself later on.
  • Spike referring to himself as a "noble dragon" while helping out Applejack.
  • Twilight makes a joke about how in another world she would be a pony princess and Spike would be a little dragon.
  • Spike getting bribed by the Mane 6 in "Friendship Broken" closely resembles how Twilight was bribed by the rest of the Mane 6 for the Gala ticket in "The Ticket Master."
• Nosebleed: As a protagonist in a Harem Genre fanfiction, Spike ends up having these in erotic situations.
• Not-So-Forgotten Birthday: The birthday chapter. When Spike sees that the Girls aren't greeting him after school then he begins to believe that they forgot him. But at this point, the reader already knows that they're preparing a Surprise Party.
• Original Character:
  • Jet Stream, Star Storm, Stone Edge, and Nova Blast are a set of original characters introduced in the Comic Con chapter as friends that Spike made online.
  • Opal (no, not Rarity's cat) is an Original Character introduced in the chapter "Comedy Cousin" as an older cousin of Twilight's who works as a Comedian.
• Origins Episode: The Chapter "Sick Day and Memories" has Spike remembering how he met the Girls.
• Romantic Spoonfeeding: It's a harem fic. This happens occassionally.
• Secretly Wealthy: High School Principal Celestia and Junior High School Principal Luna are wealthy enough to afford a private Cabin in the Mountains and a private cruise ship.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: In the second-last chapter Spike has sex with the Girls. And while we are shown them disrobing the actual sex is something we don't see.
• Shout-Out:
  • Spike's Outside Ride moment in "A Dazzling Day" is a reference to the Outside Ride Marty McFly does in the beginning of Back to the Future
  • As mentioned in Christmas Episode, Spike receives cat footsie pajamas from his aunt. The moment he receives them plays out exactly like the scene where Ralph receives the bunny outfit in A Christmas Story.
• Show Within a Show: The Power Princesses comics are a Type 4. The Harem Genre aspect of it fits with Spike's situation. This gets lampshaded at the Comic Con chapter.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Spike stops Twilight's rant by kissing her.
• Snowball Fight: In "Wild and Fun Day and Night," Rainbow starts one with Spike and Applejack. Everyone else ends up joining in.
• Something Only They Would Say: Spike reveals to the Girls that his Identity Amnesia is cured by asking for "the usual."
• Spared by the Adaptation: Applejack's parents are alive in this fic. But they still aren't present since they're constantly overseas to expand the business.
• Spit Take:
  • Pinkie Pie's reaction to seeing Spike and Applejack holding hands in "Day with the Apples" was to spit out her milk.
  • When Spike tells his friends that Fluttershy had been dreaming about him Pip spat out his soda.
• Supporting Harem: Any girls that are also attracted to Spike that aren't part of the Mane 6. These girls don't end up with Spike by the end of the story.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "Dinner and A Show", Pinkie tries to remove Spike's shoes in the truck ride to The Rising Sun. When he asks her not to remove his shoes she denies intending to tickle his feet.
• Tempting Fate:
  • On an outing to an ice rink Spike ends up skating with Lightning Dust. While the Girls are jealous they choose not to intervene with Twilight claiming that "it's not like they're doing anything dangerous." When Rainbow turns Twilight back towards them Lightning Dust is carrying Spike over her head.
  • In "Beach Day 2," Twilight stops her rant while everyone eats dinner. Fluttershy suggests that this means Twilight will calm down. A few minutes later, Twilight is back on her rant.
• Think Unsexy Thoughts: In "Spa Day," Spike becomes aroused when he sees Rarity and Fluttershy in towels and does this to prevent the incoming erection. He ends up giving himself a Brain Bleach situation when he thinks of "Granny Smith naked on a cold day."
• Valentine's Day Episode: The "Valentine's Day Festival" chapter.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: "Night in the Barn" contains a Flashback in which Applejack goes through some Angst regarding this.
• Wild Teen Party: While Spike's parents are out of town, Rainbow and Pinkie quickly declare a party at his place, inviting the entire student body from their school and Spike's. When things get out of hand it leads to drama between Spike, Rainbow, and Pinkie, who eventually reconcile and clean up the house before his parents returned the next day.
• World of Buxom: Wildcard25's fanworks often describe the breast sizes of the female cast with letter grading. More often than not, the breasts are on the larger side of the spectrum.
• You Taste Delicious: This is how Pinkie helps Spike clean his face after the Foodfight!.

The Girls of My Life 2: Old and New Flames

• Always a Child to Parent: Torch's relationship with Ember. Ember claims that on the day she left for college he clung to her leg and begged her not to leave.
• The Atoner: Sunset used to be merciless in teasing Spike. A big part of her interactions with him is trying to make up for it.
• Batman Gambit: Spike's girlfriends from Ponyville and Canterlot staged the harem competition so that Spike would apologize for keeping them secret from each other.
• Beach Episode: Once again, Spike and his girls end up at the beach.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: In the sex scenes there is sometimes (but not always) a comment on Spike's erection being larger than average.
• The Bus Came Back: The Dazzlings, Fleur De Lis, Trixie, Octavia, and Vinyl Scratch return to the story in the Beach Episode. And after having been denied a chance in the last story; they finally get a chance to have sex with Spike by joining his harem in an orgy.
• Chick Magnet: Just like before, Spike manages to attract the attention of more women. Twilight and Rarity lampshades it after Stellar Flare joins in the Beach Party.
• Connected All Along: Spike's harem from Canterlot already knew the girls from Ponyville on a personal level.
• Crystal-Ball Scheduling: The Power Princesses comics once again end up relating to Spike's current situation with the appearance of a second superhero team that is also attracted to Humdrum.
• Death by Adaptation: Sunburst. He was killed in a car accident a few years prior.
• Friend to All Children: Sunshine Smiles claims to love children. She expresses interest in running a daycare and claims to have the know-how to handle them.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Given the Hotter and Sexier nature of this story, there are a couple of lesbian moments in sex scenes that Spike gets excited over seeing.
• Harem Genre: Yes, still.
• Hidden Buxom: Moondancer has the largest breasts out the group in Ponyville. She is noted to hide this by wearing a sweater.
• History Repeats: Once again, Spike learns about a previous ladies' man in a position mirroring his own. In this case it was a guy named Kenbrough Heathspike who amassed a massive harem while he was in high school and had a lot of sex with a lot of people either individually or simultaneously.
• Hotter and Sexier: Unlike the first story, this one ups the Fanservice by including sex scenes.
• Innocently Insensitive: Spike finds out about Sunburst's death by constantly talking to Starlight about Sunburst without realizing she is bothered until she snaps at him.
• It's All My Fault: Starlight feels this way about Sunburst's death believing she could have prevented it. Spike and Stellar Flare assure her that she is not to blame.
• Likes Older Women: Downplayed. Spike isn't attracted to anyone specifically because they are older than him, but he is noted to have had a wet dream about Twilight Velvet. And he has sex with Stellar Flare.
• Loving Bully: Sunset Shimmer was this to Spike in the past. Since then, she's grown out of it.
• Mrs. Robinson: Spike ends up discovering this about Stellar Flare. He has sex with her and she joins his harem.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: Discussed. When Spike is set to meet the girls from Ponyville, Thorax teases him by telling him to "keep [his] eyes above the neckline."
• Posthumous Character: Sunburst
• Really Gets Around: The sex scenes have the Ponyville girls claiming to have slept with others in the past. There's also Spike who has sex with the Ponyville girls, his harem from Canterlot, Stellar Flare, and the Supporting Harem from the previous story.
• Replacement Goldfish: This is what Spike wants to keep the girls in Ponyville and his harem in Canterlot from thinking he's doing with either of them. Hence, why he keeps them secret from each other. Though, he doesn't admit this until after they've found out.
• Secret-Keeper: Spike does not tell the girls in Ponyville about his harem in Canterlot, nor does he tell his harem in Canterlot about the girls in Ponyville. But Spike does tell Thorax about both groups and his decisions on handling them.
  • After Spike and Starlight have sex with Stellar Spike asks all parties to keep it a secret, thus turning Starlight into the Secret-Keeper. Later on, Starlight tells the combined harem about this. And once again, everyone is cool with it.
• Sex God: Spike. And Kenbrough Heathspike (see History Repeats).
• Shower of Love: Spike has one with Sunset Shimmer. He later has a downplayed version before the massive orgy when he showers with Twilight and Fleur De Lis, but they don't have sex until after the shower. He also showered with two more girls after the orgy but the only detail that gets specified is that it wasn't Fleur and Twilight again.
• Stalker Shrine: Starlight Glimmer has one of Spike.
• Stargazing Scene: Moondancer invites Spike out for a night of stargazing and they end up having sex.
• Three-Way Sex: Spike has this a couple of times. Notably between Sunshine Smiles and Moonlight Raven and between Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare.
• Twincest: Sunshine Smiles and Moonlight Raven engage in this with each other. They even do it at Spike's request while having sex with him.
  • Pinkie engages in this with Marble during a webcam chat with Spike.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Spike and Thorax. The two of them are close enough to the point that Spike trusts Thorax as a confidant, yet they still have a tendency to tease one another.
• World of Buxom: This is still the case.