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It's time for more Shining Armor and Cadance fanfics! If you missed last year, it was completely different so check those here.
Go read below, and thanks to Whisper Key for digging them up as always.
Slice of Life
Cadance's Lovely Misadventure by Chengar Qordath [13k words]
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It's Cadance's first Hearts and Hooves Day since she's come into her own as the Princess of Love, and she has high hopes for it. However, the day starts with a visit to Twilight's classroom that doesn't go at all the way she planned, and from there things only spiral further into chaos. By the time it's all over, Cadance will realize just how much she has to learn about love.
PhilÃa by Ice Star [2k words]
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At the Grand Galloping Gala, Cadance finds something unexpected: somepony who looks like they don't want to be there at all.
Comedy
Flurry Heart Dates a... by SockPuppet [1k words]
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Princess Flurry's dates are not up to Imperial standards.
A Joke Too Far by Carapace [2k words]
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Cadance didn't know what to expect when her formerly banished Aunt Luna returned from her thousand year banishment. But, she's quite entertained by the hilarity. Especially if it means a chance to play a little joke.
Cry For Love by Miller Minus [2k words]
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Princess Cadance is rudely awakened by a crying child.
It's not who you think it is.
Good Girls Are Bad Girls That Haven’t Been Taught by Dubs Rewatcher [2k words]
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In order to save Shining Armor and Princess Cadance's sex life, Sunset Shimmer teaches Cadance how to be a bad girl.
Secret Admirer by Hotel_Chicken [1k words]
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If there's one thing Cadence prides herself above love magic and matchmaking, it's her hobby of practicing calligraphy.
Now, if only the little filly in front of her actually liked any of it.
Sunny with a Chance of Shipping by The 24th Pegasus [4k words]
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Do you know who really loves Hearts and Hooves Day? Cadance.
Do you know who really doesn’t? Everypony Cadance meets.
Do you think they have a choice when she’s around? Hell no.
Target Praxis by The Cloptimist [1k words]
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Cadance thinks it's important a Crystal Princess lives up to her heritage. Shining Armor isn't so sure.
I Ran Out Of Time So I Wrote This by HapHazred [1k words]
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Princess Cadance writes about her job and what it means to be a princess and a mother in a letter to Flurry's school.
Immortality by An Intricate Disguise [3k words]
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Shining and Cadance aren't sure if Flurry Heart is immortal. They decide to test it.
Sad/Dark
When The Bough Breaks by anonpencil [10k words]
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Losing someone can be hard. But it can sometimes be even harder when you never really got to know that person in the first place.
As everyone around her mourns this tragedy , Princess Cadance upholds her role as ruler of the Crystal Empire in the only way she knows how: with dignity and grace. In carrying out her royal duties, she knows she has to put aside her own feelings of grief, and act as any princess would.
No one would ever know that, deep inside, she's completely falling apart...
Love the One You're With by CinnamonSwirltheBreaded [3k words]
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Love is certainly a funny, wonderful thing. Cadance never expected it to grow into something so painful for her.
Try as she might, she can't hide it forever, not from herself, and certainly she can't hide it from her husband...
Cadance the Unbroken by Graymane Shadow [3k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Celestia, the Lightbringer.
Luna, Mistress of the Night.
Twilight Sparkle, Master of Magic.
Cadance, Princess of Love.
Of the Four Princesses, Cadance is the one that ponies think they understand the most. After all, what could be so hard about being Princess of Love?
A lot of things, actually.
Shipping
Royal Peanut Butter by Darkstarling [9k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
During her engagement to Shining Armor Princess Cadance makes a new friend, the pegasus businessmare Chrysanthemum Crown. Beautiful, confident, and full of surprises, the two strike up a rapport that brings light to both their lives.
During the preparation for the Invasion of Canterlot, Queen Chrysalis finds herself deep in the good graces of the pony Princess she will replace. And the more she gets to know her, the more she understands why Cadance is the Princess of Love.
A Simple Question by garatheauthor [5k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunburst has a secret.
He is deeply and utterly in love with Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.
Though, honestly it's probably best that this stays a secret. Shining is a stud and Princess Cadance the most beautiful mare in Equestria. They're way out of his league and happily married.
It's just a bunch of dumb day dreaming and childish fantasies. They couldn't possibly like him like that.
Right?
Drama
Sorry (Seems To Be The Hardest Word) by Impossible Numbers [15k words]
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Ever since Dean Cadence became Principal Cadence, she's learned the hard way that running a school as prestigious as Crystal Prep Academy is a bureaucratic knife-edge. Among other things, she has to deal with spiky students, a terrifying janitor, and constant comparisons between her and Cinch – which are somehow always in Cinch's favour.
Hardest of all might be getting one of her students – Sour Sweet – to apologize for years and years of bullying. Not least because she must convince the girl it's for her own good too…
Ladybugs Awake by Uz Naimat [3k words]
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"Hey, Twilight. You’re up late.
"Yeah, I couldn’t sleep."
"Same."
It’s two in the morning and everypony in Canterlot Castle is asleep. Everypony, that is, except for Twilight and Cadence.
Plagued by nightmares about recent events, the two soon-to-be sisters join together for a cup of hot cocoa, tears and deep conversations. Brace yourself; it’s going to be a rough night.
Till Death Do Us Party by Impossible Numbers [15k words]
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As if dying of embarrassment in the middle of a Crystal Empire celebratory dinner wasn’t bad enough, now Shining Armor has to entertain the worst guest imaginable. No, not Lemon Hearts. The one with the inexplicable agricultural tool. No, not Crazy Lace Agate. The one with the ominous powers and the unstoppable determination to – No, not Cadence. Look, Death, all right? It’s Death. Death’s the worst guest imaginable.
And when the spectre at the feast wants you dead and can’t die in turn, not even love and friendship are strong enough to stand in the way of grim destiny.
Not that this will stop them. Love and friendship are funny like that.
Crystal Legacy by Cerulean Voice [8k words]
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The Crystal Empire has been at peace ever since Princess Cadance and Shining Armor took over its ruling. No more loving couple has ever reigned before, and the Crystal Heart has never generated such power in all of history. But there is a secret that Cadance has kept for many, many, years: a terrible secret with the potential to bring it all crashing down.
This Hearts-and-Hooves Day, Cadance and Shining Armor's love will be put through its toughest trial yet.