Friends Forever
Welcome, friends. This is Jenn's site.
Founded sometime early in Turn of the Millennium, Friends Forever is a fan site for the second My Little Pony TV series, My Little Pony Tales, by Hasbro. It has a decently large fanfiction section which takes place seven years after the original series during the gang's senior year in high school. It follows up on the Slice of Life angle of the original, while keeping out most of the fantasy elements.
However, while the original series focused on mostly the girls, Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Brighteyes, Patch, Clover and Bonbon, Jenn's fanfics split the focus between them and seven boy ponies. Ace, Teddy and Lancer from the original return with four other boy ponies, Chase, Buddy, Dandy and Spinner. Now, the latter aren't Original Characters. They were in My Little Pony Tales, but very minorly.
These stories feature the cast in dealing with problems most teenagers have at that time in their lives: romance, breakups, grades, part-time jobs, getting a driver's license, worrying about college. Two of the fics even touched on the topics of drug abuse and while the other takes place at their high school reunion where they discover just how far apart they've fallen. Well worth a look if you liked My Little Pony Tales. Somewhat darker than the series ever was, but not by too much, usually.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted as far as teenaged Sweetheart and Teddy go. He's grown out of his Jerkass Facade phase.
- Also subverted with Starlight and Ace.
- Played straight with Patch and Buddy. Buddy is a huge party animal who gets drunk at a bar at one point after getting around the fact that he's under-aged.
- An Aesop: The author also keeps true to the original by including one of these at the end of each story.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: Yeeup.
- Big Eater: Still Bonbon. Also Spinner now, too.
- Born Lucky and Born Unlucky: Hello, Clover. Still at it, huh?
- Can't Get Away With Nothing: Well, milage may vary on whether smoking pot is "nothing", but Clover ends up getting herself and her friends arrested when she'd caught with some.
- Feather Fingers and Furry Confusion: Like whoa.
- Gossipy Hens: While they still have some shades of this, the girls have toned it down a lot and are a lot more discreet. Seems the lesson from "Shop Talk" stuck.
- Happily Adopted: Patch, again.
- Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: Often.
- Morality Pet: Sweetheart to Teddy, and in this fanfic series, it's worked to the point where he's become a fairly nice guy even when not around her.
- Relationship Upgrade: Everything.
- Slice of Life: High School Edition!
- Write What You Know