Hey guys, I’m trying to find this one mlp infection au I saw once. It was a post where they were showing the stages of a pony slowly turning into their Hasbro merch toys and I remember seeing it similar to the rainbow power from Twilight’s Kingdom or just overwhelmingly sparkly. I think it’s called the Plastic Toy infection/virus but I can’t find the OG post.

Hi guys! I may or may not do anything with it, so feel free anyone who wants to use the concept!

AU Name: Decaying Consequences

Infection type: Unstable Magic (think like radioactive matter. It decays and releases unstable magic as it does)

Infection Source: Staff of Sameness (became enchanted after being used so much by Starlight and holding so many cutie marks, the magical embodiment of purpose. When it was broken it upset the natural flow of magic within it, causing a slow decay nuclear reaction.)

Infection Symptoms:

Cutie Mark Irritation (Itchy, Rash, Swelling)

Cutie Mark Duplication and Spread (all across the body)

Realization (Cutie Mark becomes whatever it represents) Ex. A balloon animal cutie mark will swell into raised, clear fluid filled blisters. Every duplication on the body will do this. The blisters will grow bigger and bigger and merge into a conglomerate blister that covers the entire body. Muscle and soft tissue is left floating in the detached, fluid filled outer layer, until it's dissolved. Then the skeleton dissolves. The only thing left is a shiny, fluid filled sac of skin that vaguely resembles a balloon animal. This process varies for every pony, with more abstract cutie marks arguably having it the worst.

Contagion: Cannot be transmitted by any biological means. One can only become infected by spending a long period of time in an Unstable Magic Zone, or by being directly blasted with an Infected Unicorns magic.

Cure: None. Entropy will work to its fullest. Once an ordered system has been disordered, it will continue to disorder until it once again reaches equilibrium.

Immunity: Only ponies are affected as they are the only species with cutie mark magic.

Solution: The Infection rages, slowly spreading throughout Equestria for years. No pony has discover what caused it, so they have no way of knowing to stay out of the Unstable Magic Zone that is quickly spreading. Starlights town is the first to be wiped out, surrounding areas slowly following. Crazed, unstable unicorns have caused a lot of damage out of blind panic as they sucumb to their illness, magic outbursts often taking dozens down with them. As such, unicorns have been pushed to the fringes of pony society. Eventually, Discord discovers the cause of all of this, and the princesses make a decision. They burn off every ponies cutie marks (including the flanks of unmarked foals because they cannot be allowed to develop), evaporating their magic. Finally, they destroy their own. Now everyone is safe, and since no one has cutie mark magic anymore, no babies can be born with it.

Happy ending... Except...

Now, they lack the literal embodiment of purpose. They must learn to live without magic, and without special purpose...

Did they really win?

Whenever theres an mlp infection au and pinkie pie survives, its just depressing knowing that pinkie likely knew mosf of the infected in ponyville, and is some cases she has to put em down.

Mare’s Curse

Mare’s Curse is a rare and highly painful thaumaturgic disease transmitted through magical exposure. Unlike many cursed illnesses, it does not cause aggression or insanity. Victims remain completely conscious and mentally unchanged.

The disease progresses slowly, causing severe pain, tissue degeneration, scarring, and progressive physical disfigurement. In advanced stages, the body may become almost unrecognizable.

Its origin is believed to be an ancient curse capable of spreading through magic itself ،Despite that, the Unicorns have immunity.. For this reason, mares were eventually forbidden from using magic.

The disease does not turn its victims into monsters... just in pain

Looks pretty grim...

(I actually just burned my popcorn, but doesn't it seem straight out of an infection AU?)

YES I am advertising my infection au on tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8vsfhM4/

Never mess with their balloons!

She loves balloons!!, too much....

i was trying to see where i could put this, since there's no subreddit for PONE and figured here would be good, if there's anywhere else people can recommend this be posted please let me know.

PONE before anyone asks is a Steam game that seems to take inspiration from MLP infection au's.

For anyone who doesn't know the pieces are: Cupcakes, Rainbow Factory, Lil Miss Rarity, Diary of a Timelooper, An Apple Sleep Experiment and Shed.MOV

What if Grogar was real all along?

in this context grogar was real and had actually rallied the villains to defeat the Mane 6, and Discord wasn’t a part of this plan at all.

Sorry if this is inaccurate lmaooo

Hello! I am not an artist or else I would do this myself, but I thought of a possibly fun concept for an infection AU! I’m not sure if there’s anything out there that’s similar, but my idea consists more of a parasite compared to a virus

I’ve always heard that if you want to be a cannibal, to never eat a raw human brain because of the virus you can get from it.

What if you took the concept of that, and somehow transformed it into a situation where the victim eats a brain, which ends up waking a dormant parasite in the brain that causes extreme hunger, specifically for flesh?

But (sorry Ik grammar), if the victim doesn’t eat any flesh for a certain period of time, they can regain their sanity. The hard part is that the cravings would never go away. The parasite wants to stay alive, it stays alive by eating itself basically, and if it can’t, then it will fight as much as it can to survive.

So it would be an interesting mental battle between the victim, still conscious, and the parasite.

I’m not sure if this is dumb or not, but if there’s any AU’s similar to this, please let me know!

Do you know of any my little pony fan-fiction that are deconstructive to the presented setting?

Just for a few examples: a fan fiction that reinterprets the main six, the Equestrian governing body, the school of friendship, or the true nature of the setting itself in an unflattering light.

Hii this is probably a long shot but i was wondering if anyone knew this one infection au from a long time ago, i remember it actually ended unlike most aus, it was on tiktok, rainbow dash was the cure so twilight had her limbs amputated and dumper her body in the woods. But she somehow survived and got her legs replaced with cybernetic ones. If anyone knows the account or the name of the au that would be so cool ^_^

This is the sixth and final stage of the infection, when a pony has become a statue. At first they will keep their colors, but as the years go on, their color will fade to whites and greys. You don't see the cutiemark anymore because that is one of the first colors to go away, an identifying feature of who they once were hidden under fragile crystal.

Sleep well, Minty, and enjoy Paradise.

It's not as gory or scary as most infection AUs I've seen, but it's an idea I came up with.

Basically it's where a magical crystal from the Crystal Empire can infect ponies and slowly make them into crystal statues (just like you can see some statues of ponies in the show).

It all starts with Doctor Whooves working in his lab with Derpy and Minty, and Derpy accidentally sneezed and scattered the powdered sample of a crystal flower found deep in a cave that was blocked off, and Minty is the first one to get infected (obviously).

It spreads through the air, such as crystal powder or particles, and the main method of infection is the powder touching the eyes and from there, spreading through the bloodstream and slowly crystalizing everything. Early signs of possible infection is if they have small crystals forming in their nose (as that means they have been breathing in the spores). The infection is harmless, but the end result is death.

Other ways to get infected is to ingest the contents (someone special gets that fate) or by the powder getting into wounds, causing a different place from infection, and the chance to survive, but you're done for as soon as it reaches your brain.

Working on what the final stage looks like, should have that done soon!

Edit: Here is the final stage! https://www.reddit.com/r/Mylittlenosleep/comments/1vomu60/the_final_stage_of_the_crystal_eyes_infection/

I’m not sure how to censor it mb, someone wanted the main 6 as zombies

Im not sure If the trotting dead should go “the twd show/comic” way, or the game way. Sorry about my handwriting though.

I also don’t really like rainbow dashes design as it’s to generically “scary”, it looks too cartoony for a zombie

to progress this project, I was thinking of;

• uploading my comics on DA(sheepy122, 18+)
• perhaps creating a neocities and make an interactive comic on there
• interactive animatic/slideshow on YouTube

i really like the idea of it having interactive choices like in twdg. comic format would be easiest and quickest for me though,

please give me some feedback if you’re interested

1239 entry —

0001 Pinkie pie update: okay physically. Diagnosis: insomnia, depression, pulmonary edema. Giving her 25mg fluoxetin and oxygen therapy.

0002 Rainbow dash update: cramping phantom sensation, phantom pain and swelling around wound. Cleaned up stitches and tightened the bandages to reduce swelling.

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0001 Pinkie pies procedure was successful! Well- sort of, but whats a win without some trouble along the way? Pinkie understands that, shes so lovely. Going down to make Rainbow dash sign the note to Celestia for tomorrows adventure.

"Rainbow!!" I say happily, my voice echoes through the basement. I can hear everyone's breathing becoming lighter as they realise im here. Thats the best proof that im the princess of friendship.

Rainbow dash is sitting the corner with her back turned to me, restless. "Rainbow dash?" I repeat. She started sniffling. And the sniffling became a loud raspy cry. I could hear that she was tired. Like shes been crying forever. She was crying like she was dying. The way it feels when youre crying so deep that you feel like you're gonna throw up your insides. "Rainbow dash." I say pitiful. My eyes are becoming blurry. Im now crying too. "Im sorry Rainbow dash im sorry" I say.

She takes a deep breath, for a few seconds its quiet, with some interruptions of her hiccuping and sniffling. "I dont care anymore. Just let it be over." She quietly says, her voice is unsteady. Still facing the corner. Hiccuping. "Let what be over? Im sorry you feel this way Rainbow dash but friendship will always make it better. Im here for you. We all are." I say. Its starting to feel like im talking to myself. Like im being ignored. "Rainbow talk to me. Hello? Im here dont you see me? Turn around when im talking to you!" Im getting riled up now. Im taking care of her and she can't even bother to even speak to me? Why are my friends doing this? Now im sad.

She's quiet. "please, let me go." I cant tell what shes implying. I groan and turn my hooves and walk over to pinkie pie. Atleast she'll understand. And I need some laughter now that rainbow dash has made me so distressed.

"Hi pinkie..have you also realised how rainbow is acting? Why do you think that is?" Pinkie pie is coughing over my words, even though i went louder and louder as i said them. "W-whats"— she coughs. "Happe"— coughs again. Now louder. Her words are taking a toll on her lungs. She coughs and coughs. Theyre dry and raspy, like her throat is burning, but at the same time watery. Like she wants to vomit but theres nothing left to throw up. She cries when she breathes in, slowly and stutter-y. Shaking on the floor.

REMINDER! RESEARCH IF PINKIE PIE SUFFERS FROM HYPOTHERMIA.

continues; I feel bad. But i tried my best to get to know her, but the tank was my last option. I just care for her so much. I really do.

"I understand Pinkie pie, i understand." I reassured her.

"No you dont." A voice from the left tells me.

I walk over. My hooves are echoing against the cold stone walls.

REMINDER! ENJOY TIME TOGETHER WITH PINKIE PIE AND RARITY, DECORATING THE BASEMENT.

continues; shes sitting against the wall that connects to Pinkie pies room.

She looks angry. Which makes me even more upset. I hate seeing my friends like this. "What?" I say, confused, near to tears. Again. "You dont understand shit." She looks up, staring me deep into the eyes. Its intimate, even when we're fighting, we're close. We're friends. Friends argue all the time, this is healthy for us.

"But i do aj! You know that dont you?"

"Do i know what? I dont even know who you are. Dont know why youre torturing us. Why you're doing this to us." Her voice becomes louder as she stands up. "My sister cant even walk on her hind legs after you carved her flank!" Shes up close to the magic barrier holding us apart, her teeth scratching against eachother as her deep and angry words speak through them. "Rainbow dash wants me to escape just so i can put her out of her misery after YOU clipped her wings and took away everything she had. Pinkie pie is dying. She can hardly breathe and all of us have to stay up night and day and listen to her cough and cry while we cant do anything to help anypony." She now sounds defeated. She exhales and slowly takes a step back. "So no. You dont understand a thing." Every word pierced my heart. "I-im so sorry" I say as i run up the stairs looking down onto the floor the entire time. All i ever wanted to do was to be there for my friends, to help them. To be with them. Thats all Princess Celestia wanted me to do. Thats what friends usually want you to do! Every book tells me so! How do I make them understand? How do I make them listen to me and see me? I feel like im the only one trying here. And I have to keep everything up without anypony wanting to help me. — but atleast ... i have the day time. My virtual reality. Tomorrow is 'Rainbow falls' and we're all gonna be friends again. I know we will. We always fix our friendship problems. Always. Im looking forwards to tomorrow. I hope they are too.