History Characters / DividedRainbow

* VoluntaryShapeshifter: While he doesn't has the power to shapeshift himself, Lero willingly allows himself to be shifted into pony form by Twilight.

* ShopKeeper: For her day job, Honeydew sells melons at a stand in Ponyville's marketplace.

* NiceHat: Oddly enough, Applejack kept hers on, instead of leaving it behind for Pinkie to wear.

* NiceHat: [[spoiler:His jingles.]]

* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: In-universe; it's also known as Camp Mountain Peaks, which Spike has already attended twice before. He cooperates agreeably when the grownups arrange for him to go camping there a third time in Chapter 26.

* BespectacledBastardBoyfriend: Gender-inverted example for [[spoiler:Honeydew, although 'marefriend' sounds way too 'clean' a way to characterize the relationship Exit Wound and Honeydew share.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: After Rainbow Dash establishes dominance over her animals, all of them hate Angel.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: In replacing Rainbow Dash, Swapped!Rarity believes she’s always been Lero’s oldest, brightest flame.

!! Glufferflork

[[folder: Herd Bellerophon]]

!! Bellerophon ‘Lero’ Michaelides

!! Twilight Sparkle

The second mare to join Lero's herd, Twilight was initially very shy when it came to romance, but got much better as her relationship with Lero developed. When her attempt at casting Star Swirl's last spell goes horribly wrong, she works relentlessly to fix her mistake, and deal with the crippling guilt at seeing the trouble she's caused.

* TheAtoner: To a crippling fault.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: All she wanted to do was test and see what Starswirl’s incomplete spell DID.

!! Spike

* [[NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp Get-The-Youngsters-Out-Of-Ponyville-Before-The-Heat-Hits Camp]]: Also known as Camp Mountain Peaks, which Spike has already attended twice before. He cooperates agreeably when the grownups arrange for him to go camping there a third time in Chapter 26.

* WhatTheHellHero: Receives one from Lero when he shows little concern for Rainbow Dash's well being.

!! Lyra Heartstrings

* [[spoiler: BlatantLies]][[spoiler:: Feeds Rainbow Dash a HUGE bald-faced whopper about how she psychically inserted martial arts skills directly into her head. But it was done with the intention of preventing Rainbow from going insane.]]

!! Rainbow Dash

!! Rarity

[Listed under the Swapped Five]

[[folder: Other Exempted Individuals]]

!! Discord

-->''"It’s not JUST Ponyville. It’s EVERYWHERE. I've altered the perceptions of almost every living thing on this planet, sapient or not, so that they’ll fall in perfect lockstep with what those five believe about themselves! Ask any pony you care to! From the Crystal Ponies of the Crystal Empire, from Chrysalis and her changeling brood to the sands of Saddle Arabia... ''no one’s gonna believe your version of things!'' Because I specifically zapped them not to!"''

* [[BigBrotherIsWatching Discord Is Watching]]: Always. The other characters are never ''really'' alone.

* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Chaos God]]: Discord takes quite a shine to Lero after first meeting him, and he ends up dropping in on him often. He's already good friends with Fluttershy... and it's later shown that he extends the friendship to Swapped!Rainbow Dash.

* TheDreaded: Mortal ponies all remember the 'Day Of Chaos,' and fear a relapse into his old habits. [[spoiler: Even the Sicklefins.]]

!! Star Sparkle

* [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Aw, Look! She Really Does Love Her Daughter!]]: She might now show it much, but she does still care about Twilight, as shown when she warns Rarity not to hurt her.
* [[spoiler: [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Immortal Sun Princess Out]]]][[spoiler:: Boy, does she ever.]]

* [[ObnoxiousInLaws Obnoxious De-Facto Mother-In-Law]]: Rude and snarky as ever, none of Herd Bellerophon are particularly sorry when she leaves.
* TheBusCameBack: Many chapters pass between her first appearance and her second.

!! Princess Celestia

* [[spoiler: EndlessDaytime: One of the reasons Starswirl needed to cast Soul Synthesis on her.]]

* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]]

* [[HotGod Hot Goddess]]: Lyra finds it a fair statement that, over the course of her long reign, every stallion and mare has crushed on Celestia at ''some'' point in their lives.
* [[spoiler: {{Lunacy}}: Two words: Solar Phases.]]

* [[spoiler: SwappedRoles: She and her sister were the first victims of the Swap, when Starswirl had first created it.]]
* [[spoiler: ThePowerOfTheSun: The whole reason Celestia ''is'' the Princess of the Sun is because she was swapped into that role. Originally, ''she'' was the Moon Princess!]]

!! Princess Luna

* [[spoiler: DreamWalker]]
* [[spoiler: DreamWeaver]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]]
* [[spoiler: {{Lunacy}}: When she was initially swapped into the role of Moon Princess, she caused the moon to grow brighter and brighter, week after week, until it shone with the sun's former retina-blistering level of brilliance. Then she outright set the whole thing on fire.]]

* [[spoiler: SwappedRoles: She and Celestia were the first victims of the Swap, when Starswirl had first created it.]]
* [[spoiler: [[ThatManIsDead That Mare Is No More]]: Princess Lumina.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Princess Luna''': Celestia of the Night Sky, Lumina of the Sunny Day... that's who we used to be. But after this… Well, I am Luna of the Moon, now and forevermore.]]
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Sought this as Nightmare Moon.
* [[spoiler: ThePowerOfTheSun: She, not Celestia, was originally the Sun Princess, until Starswirl's unfinished spell changed her.]]

* TheRoyalWe / YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Feels more comfortable speaking this way.

[[folder: Swapped Five]]

!! Rarity

* [[GoodParents Good Lead Mare]]/HappilyMarried: It really didn't take long for Swapped!Rarity to seize control as the lead mare of Herd Bellerophon... but since she genuinely loves each and every member of the family, they've all grown to be perfectly happy having her as the family matriarch.

* [[HumansNeedAliens Humans Need Ponies]]: As much as Rarity loves Lero, well... there's a ''reason'' she always feels the need to 'white knight' him the way she does.

* KnightInShiningArmor: In keeping with the matriarchic nature of the Xenoverse, it’s the princesses who’re expected to act as the knightly defenders for their princes. Inspired by these fairytales, Rarity always chivalrously seeks to shield her own ‘sweet prince’ from any harm. Thus, whenever someone’s antagonizing Lero, Rarity will be first to step between Lero and the aggressor. Should something endanger Lero’s life, Rarity will battle that thing to the death.
* NewOldFlame / ReplacementLoveInterest: In replacing Rainbow Dash, Swapped!Rarity believes she’s always been Lero’s oldest, brightest flame.

!! Rainbow Dash

* {{Chickification}}: The Swap does to Rainbow Dash; robbing her of all her brash, brave badassery.

* DomesticAbuse: Dash suffers this at the paws of ALL her animals.

* [[spoiler: [[ProdigalHero Prodigal Herdmate]]]][[spoiler:: Rainbow Dash grows to be so impressed by how lovingly everyone in Herd Bellerophon always treats her, that she ultimately decides to join the herd as well, and is accepted in with great enthusiasm. Being Swapped, though, Dash is ironically oblivious to just how 'prodigal' she is.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Decided enough was enough when she saw that ALL her friends regarded her as a hapless damsel in distress. Speeded the process by listening to an audiobook of Iron Will's.
* TheWoobie: Arguably the biggest one out of the Mane 6. While the other swapped ponies are not finding their lives easy, Rainbow's attempts to care for her animals are like something out of a nightmare.
* [[spoiler: UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Dash and Lero suffer from a brief spell of this at one point.]]

!! Pinkie Pie

* [[CoolBigSis Cool Little Sis]]: Becomes this to Apple Bloom upon reaching her equilibrium.

* {{Workaholic}}: All of Applejack's work-yourself-down-to-the-bone doggedness, with zero actual farming skill. [[spoiler: until Apple Bloom 'reteaches' her how to farm properly.]]

!! Applejack

* TheMuse: Characterizes her new dressmaking compulsion as a 'muse...' but she's first to admit that it's gone completely deranged and out-of-control.

!! Fluttershy

* [[ParentalNeglect Familial Neglect]]: In Swapped!Fluttershy's memories of her fillyhood, it didn't bother any of the Pie family to wake up and find her missing from the house. (At least until it was time to farm rocks.)
* [[FriendToAllChildren Friend To All Foals]]: Apparently, all of Swapped!Fluttershy's old caretaker instincts have been redirected towards babysitting Pumpkin and Pound Cake.

* TheApprentice: At a certain point, she begins studying comedy with Lero as her mentor.
* [[spoiler: WhatTheHellHero: Gets asked this by Pinkie Pie, for selfishly trying to force Lero to teach her jokes right there in the hospital.]]

[[folder: Vicious Villains and Brutal Beasts]]

!! Mr. 7

* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Spider...tarian]]: Mr. 7 is a spider that eats other spiders. In RealLife, this is quite a common practice among arachnids.

!! Angel Bunny and the Cottage Critters

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sorry, couldn't resist!

* [[spoiler:TheVillainSucksSong: 'Animals Were All Made To Serve.']]

!! Exit Wound

* [[BespectacledBastardBoyfriend Bespectacled Bastard Marefriend:]] [[spoiler:To Honeydew, although 'marefriend' sounds way too 'clean' a way to characterize the relationship Exit Wound and Honeydew share.]]

* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: Didn't yeh fecking read the bit about her fecking f-bombs just above? Of course, Exit knows a lot more profanity than f-bombs.
* [[spoiler: SwappedRoles: with Honeydew.]]

[[folder: More Equestrians]]

!! Starswirl The Bearded

* [[spoiler: [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Stallion:]] Carried this attitude for the majority of his extremely long life, even when he'd transformed himself into a physically younger stallion!]]
* [[spoiler: NiceHat: His jingles.]]
* [[spoiler: ImmortalitySeeker]]
* [[spoiler: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prickly as his attitude was, he genuinely was their alicorn sisters' friend in all things.]]
* [[spoiler: [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks:]] At least, at first.]]

* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: Odds are, he got to be even older before he finally died!]]
* TheArchmage: The role Starswirl fulfilled in life.
* [[spoiler: TheMentor: To the alicorn sisters.]]

* [[spoiler: UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Just as much as Twilight Sparkle.]]

!! Honeydew

* BoldlyComing / [[MarsNeedsWomen Mares Need Males]]: One of the things she can't stand about Herd Bellerophon.

* [[ManiacMonkeys Everything's Worse With Monkeys]]: To Honeydew, Lero's just a disgusting simian.
* FantasticRacism: Thy name is Honeydew.
* {{Foil}}: She's the polar opposite of Rarity.
* HarmlessVillain: Martial artist though she is, Honeydew's skills were [[Fanfic/{{Xenophilia}} too mediocre to face a black belt like the Unswapped Rainbow Dash in the first place.]] Nor does an Earth pony like her pose much threat against such magical powerhouses as [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, and Lyra Heartstrings.]]
* [[HumansAreUgly Humans Are Ugly]], [[HumansAreSmelly Smelly]], [[HumansAreFlawed Flawed]], [[HumansAreMorons Moronic]] [[HumansAreBastards Bastards]] [[HumansNeedAliens Who'd Never Survive In Equestria Without Ponies Protecting Them]]: In many ways, Honeydew is pretty much the Anti-Rarity: hating humans just as strongly as the Swapped white unicorn loves them.

* [[spoiler:SwappedRoles: With Exit Wound]]
* TheNicknamer: Honeydew never, ever calls Lero by his name. The kindest way she'll ever refer to him is 'the human.' Otherwise, she'll call him things like monkey, gorilla, ape, bonobo, and worse.

!! Big Macintosh

* [[FirstGirlWins First Boy Wins]]: Unfortunately, Mac's the ''second'' boy with Rainbow Dash, thanks to his injury.
--> It had struck her as odd: Mac apologizing to ''her'' for being hurt… And the following night, when she’d accepted Pinkie’s offer to share some hard cider (though it took the Apple siblings a bit of convincing to get her to drink), Big Macintosh had even gotten a bit snuggly with Rainbow afterwards, (but then again, [[LesYay so had Pinkie.]] That cider was strong stuff!) and it made her feel… safe. Comfortable. Relaxed. In retrospect, she realized that she could have easily settled for that once, maybe even let it grow into more given the right circumstances...

!! Apple Bloom

* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: Ends up teaching Pinkie Pie the proper way to farm.

* {{Forgiveness}}: Finds it within herself to forgive Pinkie for treating her so meanly.

!! Scootaloo

* {{HeroWorshipper}}: Seeing Rarity take down the glufferflork convinced Scootaloo that Rarity was the epitome of cool.

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* WhiteKnighting: In keeping with the matriarchic nature of the Xenoverse, it’s the princesses who’re expected to act as the knightly defenders for their princes. Inspired by these fairytales, Rarity always chivalrously seeks to shield her own ‘sweet prince’ from any harm. Thus, whenever someone’s antagonizing Lero, Rarity will be first to step between Lero and the aggressor. Should something endanger Lero’s life, Rarity will battle that thing to the death.