Twilight Sparkle broke time when she got her cutie mark. Now Twilight and Sparkle are sisters from another time. Twilight is hailed as the potentially greatest light magician of all time, and already has a reputation as a hero by the time she goes to Ponyville. This isn't her story, not primarily.
Sparkle is an orphan - her dark magic killed her parents. She lives with her brother in Canterlot's industrial sector because they can't afford anything better. She can't leave either. She's a natural dark mage; while Sparkle won't go mad like Sombra, her reputation is hardly any better. Worse, the law doesn't see her as a good pony.
The fact that the dead don't stay dead around her, or that Thorn - Spike's double - is an undead, soul-eating abomination, are other matters altogether.
(Also has some Slice-of-Life, but fimfiction tags won't let me put it with Adventure.)
Has an ask blog to go with it: Ask Sparkle and Thorn.
Also has a TvTropes page: Split Second Tropes.
Cover art by Swirling Line.
51 Chapters:
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Prologue (Revised) [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 21st, 2015
1,076
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Déjà Vu [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 24th, 2015
1,999
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Seeing Double [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
3,512
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Reiteration [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 6th, 2016
2,586
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Devil of a Time [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 8th, 2015
2,445
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Interlude - Class Scheduling [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 8th, 2015
3,134
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Time Ticket [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 12th, 2016
1,826
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Stunt Doubles [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
1,957
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Recounting [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
1,647
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Dark Ages [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 20th, 2016
1,771
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Reflection [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 29th, 2015
2,772
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Procrastination [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 23rd, 2015
4,116
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Reduplication [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
2,201
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Secondary [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 13th, 2015
2,413
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Interlude 2 - Mare and Reaper [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 9th, 2016
3,390
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Revision [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
3,023
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Encore [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
4,467
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Crunch Time [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
2,243
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Changing of the Seasons [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 21st, 2015
4,930
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Mares and Chaos, part 1 [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 13th, 2016
3,651
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Mares and Chaos, part 2 [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
3,150
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Mares and Chaos, part 3 [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
4,328
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A Mare and the Sunny Hospital [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
5,208
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A Dragon and the Comic Book Shop [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 15th, 2015
3,027
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Mother, Son, and the Paladin [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
6,434
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The Necromancer and the (K)Night [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 1st, 2015
3,623
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The Red Platoon and the Black Mage [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 9th, 2015
4,822
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Sparkle and Twilight [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 9th, 2015
2,523
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A Cat and the Ace of Roaches [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 1st, 2015
3,168
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A Dame and The Lies She Tells [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2015
3,186
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Interlude 3: Moments in the Past [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 9th, 2015
4,372
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Luna and the Calm [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 10th, 2015
3,801
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Dusk and the Days Before [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 18th, 2015
3,313
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Canterlot and the Storm, part 1 [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 25th, 2015
3,292
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Death and the Eye of the Storm [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 25th, 2015
3,244
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Canterlot and the Storm, part 2; or Sparkle and Her Inner Demon [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 15th, 2015
3,646
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Through the Looking Glass (+ mini chapter) [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 23rd, 2015
3,235
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And What Sparkle Found There [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 29th, 2015
3,991
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Power Ponies and Soulless Constructs [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 24th, 2015
3,491
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Return and Resume [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 30th, 2015
4,470
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Love is in the Air [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 18th, 2015
2,693
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A Timely Problem [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 19th, 2015
2,321
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To Recover the Lost [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 20th, 2015
1,779
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Planning, and Good Health by Murder [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 24th, 2015
3,124
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Recovering the Stolen Jewels [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 22nd, 2015
4,343
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A Lich Among Dragons [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 24th, 2015
2,557
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Like Glass [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 24th, 2015
1,786
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Epilogue One: Shining Armor [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 3rd, 2015
1,337
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Epilogue Two: Cobalt [History Overwritten] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 26th, 2015
1,324
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Epilogue Three: Thorn and the Pregnant Mare [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 24th, 2015
452
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[BONUS] [SEQUEL SPOILER WARNING] The Timelines [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 24th, 2015
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