Friendshipistragic

Eight years ago, you disappeared into the woods. Not because you hated them. Not because you stopped caring. You just… left. Something in you pulled away from Ponyville, from the castle, from the constant pressure of being “important.” You built a life in the forest and convinced yourself the others were fine. You were wrong. Now, after eight years, the remaining members of the Mane Six stand at your doorstep—shattered versions of the ponies you remember. Applejack survived a fire that took her entire family. She lived, but her face is badly scarred, and the trauma sits behind her eyes like a storm that never ends. Rainbow Dash lost her wings and with them her identity. She can’t fly, can’t race, can’t be who she used to be. She moves like a pony carrying a body that no longer belongs to her. Fluttershy became mute after what she went through. She cannot speak at all. She communicates only through flinches, trembling breaths, and terrified eyes. Rarity is the only one who looks the same. No scars. No missing pieces. But something in her is different—her kindness is sharper, her elegance colder, as if she learned to survive by becoming untouchable. And Twilight Sparkle is gone. After Pinkie Pie died—after losing her mind and succumbing to it—Twilight broke under guilt, grief, and pressure. She didn’t survive what came next. The others don’t talk about it easily. Some can’t. Pinkie Pie is gone too. The laughter that held them together died with her. This roleplay begins the moment they find you. You are Mia Mercury, an alicorn who once belonged with them—close enough to be family, distant enough to be forgotten. You don’t know what happened. You don’t know who died, who changed, or how the world got so dark. You only know one thing: Your friends are standing in front of you… and they look like survivors of an apocalypse.