History TearJerker / TheNuptialverse

** The first chapter begins after the ceremony, with Twilight readjusting her dress in her suite for the reception. Just as she starts to leave, her guilty friends show up, wanting to apologize for how badly they had broken her heart. They're all expecting Twilight to chew them out for what they did and to make them earn back their forgiveness, but instead, she calmly forgives them and tells them that they don't have to atone for their actions, [[OblviousGuiltSlinging making them feel even ''worse'']] and having a tearful group hug. How tearful? It's Rainbow Dash, of all ponies, who starts it.

* Twilight meets up with Rainbow on Tuesday and Rainbow is initially happy for her progress against Sunset and is surprised to hear she is getting Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie to work together. When Twilight invites her to join them Rainbow seems like [[HopeSpot she'd like having things like old times again,]] but becomes angry the moment Twilight says Fluttershy is also coming. She warns Twilight she can put herself in as much danger as she wants but not to include Fluttershy because she doesn't want her hurt. When Twilight asks her [[ArmorPiercingQuestion why she stopped talking to Fluttershy then,]] Rainbow punches her across the face.

* This fanfic explores the aftermath of the Changeling Invasion, specifically on how Shining Armor, Spike, Princess Celestia, and the Mane 6 ignored Twilight's warnings, shunned her for them, then the major JerkassRealization they go through when it's discovered that she was correct and that Equestria was almost destroyed because of it. The ''MASSIVE'' amount of guilt they go through is really heart-breaking.
* Shining Armor considers cancelling the wedding all together because he felt like he was a total failure as a Captain, brother, and husband for letting Chrysalis brainwash and fool him. Twilight has to talk him out of it.

** The first chapter begins after the ceremony, with Twilight readjusting her dress in her suite for the reception. Just as she starts to leave, her guilty friends show up, wanting to apologize for how badly they had broken her heart. They're all expecting Twilight to chew them out for what they did and to make them earn back their forgiveness, but instead, she calmly forgives them and tells them that they don't have to atone for their actions, making them feel even ''worse'' and having a tearful group hug. How tearful? It's Rainbow Dash, of all ponies, who starts it.
*** What really makes it heart breaking is that Rainbow is tearfully screaming and clutching onto Twilight, asking why she isn't mad with them and why isn't she telling them how much they don't deserve to be her friend. She's practically ''begging'' Twilight to yell at her. And it gets worse when you get into her POV later.
*** The Mane Six are so upset and angry with themselves that they believe they haven't been good friends to Twilight at all during the time that they had known her. They point out every bad thing they ever did to Twilight and don't see all the good stuff that they have done to her at all. They even blame ''THEMSELVES'' for ''DISCORD'' brainwashing and corrupting all of them, despite the fact that he was initially too powerful and managed to get Twilight, too.

* Spike's guilt is only surpassed by Princess Celestia's; as soon as the reception started, she left for her room and let her sister to oversee it. When Luna checks in with her two hours later, she discovers Celestia had spent all that time crying her eyes out on how she had let both the real Cadence and Twilight suffer from how blind she was. Luna keeps trying to reassure her that with how Twilight went about accusing the fake Cadence, she had every right to doubt her, but nothing works. Finally, Celestia angrily snaps with this, which pretty much sums up how bad she's feeling:
-->"Luna, quit trying to justify my actions! I'm a princess! I'm supposed to care for my subjects! To keep them safe and free of harm! I was supposed to be on my guard! Cadence's magic was off, I sensed it. I noticed her cold and distant attitude towards everypony except Shining Armor. And honestly, I taught Twilight personally! I should have known she'd know the difference between a brainwashing spell and one to cure headaches! Even as hysterical as she was, I should have at least checked. But no, I tore her heart out and left her alone, then went off planning a '''WEDDING''' and left her once again with the burden of keeping '''MY''' kingdom safe! (Sighs and puts her head back onto her pillow.) ...I'm unworthy of my crown, or the love of my subjects."
** Her nightmare also counts as this and NightmareFuel; Luna has once again become Nightmare Moon and is now mentoring Sunset Shimmer, Chrysalis has transformed Cadence into a changeling, who is asking Celestia why she couldn't have prevented it from happening. On top of that, Discord shows up with Twilight, who he has turned into his insane Queen of Chaos, and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame sarcastically thanks Celestia]] for putting her beloved student through so many horrors that she transformed into a monster. Celestia's greatest fear is failing her loved ones...and her actions at the wedding made it come true.

** Rainbow's conversation with Soarin; she reveals that after Twilight's outburst, she kept arguing that Twilight really screwed up and that she needed to do a lot to earn their friendship again. So when Twilight and the real Cadence crashed the fake wedding, the tables were turned and she suffered the biggest JerkassRealization out of all of them. Dash also believes that even if they ''were'' able to reach the Elements of Harmony before the Changelings stopped them, they wouldn't have worked because she fears that Twilight had lost so much faith in everybody considering what they did to her. Then the pegasus goes on and on about how much she feels like she had betrayed her Element of Loyalty, then ends up as a sobbing mess in Soarin's forelegs. It's a good thing he made her feel better.

** Applejack becomes a total StepfordSmiler during the reception, trying not to think about the bad stuff. But every single time she sees Twilight laughing with Cadence, or everyone saying what a great friend Twilight is, a huge metaphorical knife goes through her heart. She even decides not to join the gathering of Twilight's family because she feels like Twi had every right to be with them after the Changeling Queen. At the end of her chapter, she inwardly wonders why all of the fancy parties she's ever attended in Canterlot turn out to be so horrible.

* It's revealed that Cadence was orphaned in a house fire accidentally set off by a visiting diplomat from the Griffin Kingdom.

* This fanfic explores the aftermath of the Changeling Invasion, specifically on how Shining Armor, Spike, Princess Celestia, and the Mane 6 ignored Twilight's warnings. shunned her for them, then the major JerkassRealization they go through when it's discovered that she was correct and that Equestria was almost destroyed because of it. The ''MASSIVE'' amount of guilt they go through is really heart-breaking.

* [[spoiler: Near the end, it's revealed that Twilight is actually really bitter at her friends for abandoning her. However, she realizes that she had acted out of control during the rehearsal, and fears that she might've never been forgiven if she had been wrong.]]
** [[spoiler: In the last chapter, she finally confesses her true feelings to her friends with a epic WhatTheHellHero speech, with a couple ''horrifying'' [[{{DeathGlare}} Death Glares]] to boot. What makes it really tearjerking was that her friends were actually ''encouraging'' her to fess up, because Twilight seemingly forgiving them easily at the beginning made them feel a whole lot worse, and they realized that Twilight needed to get it off her chest.]]

* Scootaloo's home situation and emotional abusement. [[spoiler: And it starts getting a lot more physical later on.]]

** What makes it worse is that the rehersal incident made Twilight wary of sharing her true feelings, so she hides her cause of lack of sleep saying that she's just too worried about Spike. Applejack doesn't really buy it for a second.

* Have we mentioned Spike yet? As soon as he gets back to the library, his guilt overwhelms him to the point where he locks himself up in another room in the library and refuses to come out even to eat. It gets to the point [[spoiler: where he finally tries to run away.]] And his guilt makes even more sense when ever since he hatched, Twilight's been defending him from the FantasticRacism from bigoted citizens of Canterlot.
* Pinkie's backstory: [[spoiler: Her parents ''punished'' her for earning her Cutie Mark because they believed it meant she was going to be a lazy good-for-nothing. It got so bad Pinkie ran away.]]
** Pinkie nearly sets the kitchen on fire while baking without supervision. When Mrs. Cake grabs a paddle to discipline her, [[spoiler:[[TraumaButton the very sight of it]] sends her into a hysterical FreakOut, complete with InelegantBlubbering TearsOfFear. Mrs. Cake couldn't go through with it, and settled for ''just'' grounding her]].

* Sweetie Belle getting massively sick, and Rarity being hardly able to do a thing about it. [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse Then it turns out that Trixie, still corrupted from the dark magic the Alicorn Amulet gave her, was making Sweetie Belle into her puppet to get to the Mane Six.]] Just the way Rarity tries to get Sweetie Belle to snap out of it while she is continuously being beaten up by Trixie.]]

* Twilight meets up with Rainbow on Tuesday and Rainbow is initially happy for her progress against Sunset and is surprised to hear she is getting Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie to work together. When Twilight invites her to join them Rainbow seems like [[HopeSpot she'd like having things like old times again,]] but becomes angry the moment Twilight says Fluttershy is also coming. She warns Twilight she can put herself in as much danger as she wants but not to include Fluttershy because she doesn't want her hurt. When Twilight asks her [[ArmorPiercingQuestion why she stopped talking to Fluttershy then,]] [[spoiler:Rainbow punches her across the face.]]

** Her nightmare also counts as this and NightmareFuel; Luna has once again become Nightmare Moon and is now mentoring Sunset Shimmer, Chrysalis has managed to turn Cadence into a changeling, who is asking Celestia why she couldn't have prevented it from happening. On top of that, Discord shows up with Twilight, who he has turned into his insane Queen of Chaos, while the draconequs is sarcastically thanking Celestia for sending her through so many horrors.

** When the CMC try to help him overcome his guilt by assuring that Twilight will forgive him;
--> '''Spike''': “DON'T TELL ME THAT!!! Family’s supposed to stand by each other, aren’t they? But I didn’t! The moment it looked bad for her, I just didn’t bother! After she stood by me for everything, I couldn’t stand by her! You don’t know what it’s like! All three of you have families! You have parents, or older brothers and sisters, or both to go to. I don’t have anything except Twilight, and I threw her aside today! I don’t have a family! And now I never will! ''(Begins to cry)'' I go on a rampage and destroy half of Ponyville…she still stood by me. But…but when she…when she had one outburst…I turned my back on her. Even if she would want to be my mother, I…I don’t think I deserve it.
** Then he rebukes anything Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom say by by [[ArmorPiercingQuestion one question:]]
--> "Have any of your mistakes ever left somepony you care about at the mercy of something like the Changeling Queen? Or nearly gotten Equestria taken over and everypony enslaved?"

--> "Luna, quit trying to justify my actions! I'm a princess! I'm supposed to care for my subjects! To keep them safe and free of harm! I was supposed to be on my guard! Cadence's magic was off, I sensed it. I noticed her cold and distant attitude towards everypony except Shining Armor. And honestly, I taught Twilight personally! I should have known she'd know the difference between a brainwashing spell and one to cure headaches! Even as hysterical as she was, I should have at least checked. But no I tore her heart out and left her alone, then went off planning a '''WEDDING''' and left her once again with the burden of keeping '''MY''' kingdom safe! (Sighs and puts her head back onto her pillow.) ...I'm unworthy of my crown, or the love of my subjects."
** Her nightmare also counts as this and NightmareFuel; Luna has once again become Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis has managed to turn Cadence into a changeling, who is asking Celestia why she couldn't have prevented it from happening. On top of that, Discord shows up with Twilight , who had turned evil and crazy while the draconequs is sarcastically thanking Celestia for sending her through so many horrors.
** This fic goes with the common fan theory that Twilight's breakdown in "Lesson Zero" was caused by the Post Tramatic Stress she recieved from fighting Discord. Celestia reveals to Luna that part of the reason why she pardoned her student for the Smartypants incident was that she felt responsible for it, considering how she had sent the Mane Six after Discord.

* Twilight was certain that revealing that Sunset was the one who first drove a wedge between the Human 5 would heal the rift between all of them. To her shock and dismay, however, they say that while Sunset may have tricked them at first, they all did the rest of the damage on their own, and they can't just get over that.

* Twilight meets up with Rainbow on Tuesday and Rainbow is initially happy for her progress against Sunset and is surprised to hear she is getting Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie to work together. When Twilight invites her to join them Rainbow seems like [[HopeSpot she'd like having things like old times again,]] but becomes angry the moment Twilight says Fluttershy is also coming. She warns Twilight she can put herself in as much danger as she wants but bot to include Fluttershy because she doesn't want her hurt. When Twilight asks her [[ArmorPiercingQuestion why she stopped talking to Fluttershy then,]] [[spoiler:Rainbow punches her.]]

* Twilight was certain that revealing that Sunset was the one who first drove a wedge between the Human 5 would heal the rift between all of them. To her shock and dismay, however, they say that while Sunset may have tricked them at first, they all did the rest of the damage on their own, and they can't just get over that.