Epic hunts!

As anyone who's recently seen the hunting journal would know, I've been fighting a good number of Gold Rathians recently, which I also did this for a while yesterday, before deciding I would try "Moonlit Tryst," just because. I feel somewhat of a sense of respect toward this quest, as strange as this may sound to some, but it is a quest to cause even some of the better hunters to become weary, cautious, unsure of the idea of soloing it.
Without smoke bombs, I was surprised that I was successful in the end, and without carting once, along with even getting the small gold crown for Silver Los in the end... While the quest was still loading, I was reminding myself that this was possibly the worst decision I've made in a long time, to take on such a quest without smoke bombs, solo, and so I was bound to lose. I mean, this is, after all, Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos at the same time in this small, one-area map (not counting base camp, of course, though that spot barely even counts for that much). However, for some reason, my mind suddenly went to the last time I tried to solo the Silver Los quest... I had failed due to time, to how much health it had, and suddenly my mind was made up; he was going first. I wasn't thinking anymore about losing, but about showing him who's boss now.
Luckily, when I entered the area, sure enough, the Gold Rathian was a good distance away still while Los was almost right next to me, to my right. I was quick to begin attacking, ignoring his roars with the Miralis set's earplugs and dodging his fireballs. It was only a matter of possibly one, two minutes before Kayamba or Cha-Cha thought they would be cute and get the Ian's attention... So it was on.
This was when I recalled my brother's tactic he had picked up off YouTube, using the lance's shielding capability while standing in a corner and having these two basically beat one another until one defeated the other. I made sure to keep fighting the Los while trying to stay on the opposite side of him from his partner, something I also do with other multi-monster quests, causing her to mostly hit him, unless she was targeting one of the Shakalakas. I knew from facing her in "Ring of the Golden Lune" that I can defeat her in less than twenty minutes, so I wasn't worried about whether or not she took heavy damage before the Los fell (apparently she did), just so long as I could take him down fast enough to then handle what health she had left. To my joy, while he was mid-flight and nearly defeated, the Gold Rathian took him down, causing him to plummet to the merciless ground below, the way they all do when defeated that way. I could tell she was pretty weak by this point; both of them had hit the drooling point at the same time a while back, and she had taken moments to roar since then. I went at her without mercy, my blade taking her down with ease.
When this was all over, I had no more healing items, having even used my Ancient Potion, my cart recover item, the last item I would ever use to simply heal, even though I hadn't carted. Not only did I feel great, having now proved to myself that I truly can solo any non-event mission (besides G rank Jhen or its subspecies), but I was even further rewarded with the Silver Rathalos small crown.

I switched back to Gold Ian for a while after my first successful soloing of "Moonlit Tryst" before deciding I should try to use the Rathian from "Pretty and Pink" to get the small crown for Gold Ian. A long shot, yes, but it appealed to me, for some unknown reason... Perhaps because this was the very last small crown I needed?
I actually got really lucky here; the Rathian was a small gold (during the mission, I even poked some fun at her in my thoughts that she looked puny) and the huge Pink Rathian was, in fact, a large gold crown... It was a perfect setup for my small gold Gold Ian and large gold Silver Los I still needed, so I returned to the tower for another round of "Moonlit Tryst." Sure enough, the Gold Ian turned out to be a small crown while the huge Silver Los was a large gold crown; it worked.
I went in feeling pretty hopeful; I had the last crowns I needed for both of them standing before me as I entered the area to fight them. What I wasn't expecting, however, was just how intense of a battle I was in for this time... Kayamba, to my dismay, ran almost immediately at the Gold Rathian, and so I had both of them after me almost straight from the start. I struggled, rolling and swinging my way out of desperate, deadly situations, from being cornered by both of them to being wedged under one while the other was relentlessly trying to snap at me from behind.
I carted, twice, before the Silver Rathalos finally drew his last breath and fell to the unwelcoming dirt beneath him. My healing items were low, and the Gold Rathian made sure to handle that... I ran out and was left feeling shaky, nervous, unsure of victory now as I dodged around her attacks like a scared rabbit. I was far from wanting to be poisoned, yet she was using so many moves that threatened to do just that to me...
It was a moment of the Shakalaka both being down... Throughout the round, I had been using and making Farcasters, and this moment had me considering using another... No. I had to fight. I dodged around threateningly now, swinging at every open opportunity and dancing around her swinging tail, her spinning body. When she fell, it was a moment of celebration for me... Along with being around twelve thirty-something in the morning, also known as about half past midnight. I still had no regrets.
That quest made it official: I now have all small crowns and have both gold crowns for Gold Ian and Silver Los