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Growing Pains is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic made by bluecatcinema

Mist, now a teenager, finds herself falling for not one, but two colts.


This fanfic contains examples of:

  • An Aesop: When faced with two decisions, it shouldn't matter which one you choose as both will make you equally happy.
  • Call-Back: In the third chapter, Blue Blazes and Spitfire mention the episode Rainbow Falls where Spitfire tried to sideline Soarin' to get Rainbow Dash to fly with them in the Equestria Games during their spat.
  • Damsel in Distress: Mist is captured by Char the rogue changeling to use her as a pawn of reigniting the Pony-Changeling enmity.
  • A Day in the Limelight: This fanfic is one for Mist, Shine's sister.
  • Foil: Mist's potential suitors, Luxury and Blue Blazes. While they do have some similarities like both being humble about their background and act all gallant when Mist is put into a distressing situation, they do have some differences like how Luxury has a decent relationship with his parents, Fancypants and Fleur-De-Lis and he keeps his want to be a lawyer a secret to them while Blue Blazes relationship with his parents, Spitfire and Soarin', is more split as he doesn't like it when his mother keeps pushing him to become a Wonderbolt when he would rather open a bar, which he is open about (and Soarin' supports him.) They also have contrasting personalities, like how Luxury is a more refined while Blue Blazes is more brash. Their lifestyles are also different, Luxury came form a wealthy, privileged life while Blue Blazes came from a working-class background.
  • First Kiss: In chapter 4 Mist has her first kisses with both Luxury and Blue Blazes.
  • Hypocritical Humor: In the first chapter, Twilight complains about Mist's obsession with her studies, not once realizing that she was also like that at the start of the show.
  • I Kiss Your Hand: Luxury kisses Mist on the hoof while flirting with her several times. Blue Blazes also does it at least once.
  • Like Father, Like Son: A daughter variant: Caboose's daughter Hurricane is every bit of a Cloudcuckoolander as he is.
  • Love Triangle: Basically the whole plot. Mist ends up falling in love with both Luxury and Blue Blazes, and tries to decide between the two of them. She ends up making her decision when she is attacked by Char and both call out to her to come to them for protection, and she ends up running to one of them rather than the other.
  • Polar Opposite Twins, Vito and Pureblood, the twin offspring of Blueblood and Dusty (his wife), are given this when showing some development as Vito is a snobbish Earth Pony while Pureblood is a more easygoing Unicorn.
  • Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Char has no involvement with the love-triangle plot involving Mist and her two love interests, unless the climax can count.
  • Romantic Runner-Up: Mist ultimately ends up choosing Blue Blazes, making Luxury this. Though Luxury quickly ends up in a relationship with Constell.
  • Shout-Out: To Frozen (2013) when the foal characters compare Mist's suitors to Kristoff and Hans.
  • Two Guys and a Girl: Luxury, Blue Blazes and Mist, which operate the fanfic's love triangle.
  • Unknown Rival: Both Luxury and Blue Blazes are this for each other at first. They both fall in love with Mist and believe they are dating her, while being unaware of the other entirely. This is then subverted when Mist has them all meet together so she can explain everything.

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