History FanFic / FaithAndDoubt

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is in the works and has yet to be released.

** Chapter 19 is a big ShoutOut to ''Series/DoctorWho'', what with being titled "[[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Not Today]]]]", River Song's "Everybody knows that everybody dies" speech being quoted in the beginning [[spoiler: and end]] of said chapter, and Twilight quoting the Doctor's [[spoiler: "This is it! You and me, one last hurdle!"]] line. The author must've liked "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]".

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Friends?]]: Twilight at the beginning sees herself as the victim of this when all her friends walk out on her for accusing Cadence as evil. Hammered home when she decides to embrace her dark powers and proves her friends how right she was.

* [[GodInHumanForm God In Pony Form]]: In ''The Abundance'', [[spoiler:Scootaloo, Trixie, and Pinkie become the new Abstracts of Loyalty, Doubt, and Generosity, respectfully. Discord also become the new Abstract of Laughter, which is actually a step up from his former self in his eyes.]]

* Jossed: It was assumed by 99% of the fans that Pinkie would become the new Element of Laughter after Laughter's death. [[spoiler: Pinkie ended up the new Element of Generosity and Discord become the Element of Laughter, fulfilling his desire to become an abstract]]

* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth ]]

** By the way, said beat was "[[MichaelJackson Beat It]]".

* SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: Chysalis' poor performance as Cadance was due to Cadance intentionally acting that way when caught, in hopes that her poor performance would clue somepony in. The fact that Celestia misses this is a sure sign as to how much of a blind spot she has for her family's bad behavior.

[[ Deconstructed with Queen!Fluttershy. Queen Fluttershy, being Kindness, she is naturally polite and kind, and doesn't purposefully cause harm to ponies. However, as Trixie points out, she can only be this way since the other Elements of Harmony are committing their atrocities in the name of Harmony, which to Trixie makes her the worst of all, since she is aware of the horrors her friends are committing, but chooses to let it happen.]]

* [[spoiler: NoAntagonist: The closest thing we have it Doubt, and he has barely any villainous traits and legitimate reason to be pissed at Celestia.]]

* PayEvilOntoEvil: [[spoiler:What Faith did to Laughter (see FateWordThanDeath) is horrible, but considering what she had already done to him (making him dream he had a son, then waking up so he'll lose him) and the things she carries out while trapped, all for her sadistic amusement, its hard to blame him.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Honesty, if his word (and WordOfGod) is anything to go by.]]

* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:The Elemental Abstracts]] give a ''ton'' of these in ''The Abundance'', most notably [[spoiler:Loyalty]].

* TheScrappy: Invoked. The author openly stated in the beginning that she considers Shining Armor getting away with his OutOfCharacter behavior in part 1 of the season finale, even with the brainwashing, was an "injustice", and openly criticized [=DarkLink22=] for "going easy" on him in ''Post Nupitals''. She has since mellowed out, but its still evident Shining has a ''long'' way to go in her eyes.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Twilight, Faith and Spike leave Ponyville so that Twilight can be properly trained in her new powers. Meanwhile, the other abstracts of the Elements decide to merge with their bearers, because they view Faith as a threat that has to be stopped at any cost.]]

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony

* FateWorseThanDeath: When Laughter decides to pull a 'prank' on Faith ([[spoiler: She trapped him in a dream world where he had a son, then forced him to 'wake up' and thus erase the foal from existence]]), he transforms into Doubt and attacks her. Laughter manages to defeat him and proceeds to torture the rest of the group (merging Applejack with the Super Cider Squeezer, ripping out Twilight's eyes and making her subservient to her, etc). But this is the horrible part. [[spoiler: It turns out that nothing after Faith erasing his son happened. Faith trapped Laughter in an endless dream; every time she wins, she is pulled back to the beginning, taunted, then has to do it all over again, with the knowledge that she will never know what is a dream and what is reality. As Faith explains, not knowing what is real AND being stuck in a cycle is the worst thing he could do to a prankster. Laughter finally kills herself at the 20th time just to escape]]

* AbstractApotheosis: Abstracts are born one of two ways: either the universe wills them to exist or a mortal pony ascends to become an abstract if they show a high level of the needed trait. [[spoiler: Faith did this when he was a baby (an earth pony no less!), as did Honesty and Kindness. Scootaloo has now ascended as well to be the new Element of Honesty]].

* AbstractApotheosis: Abstracts are born one of two ways: either the universe wills them to exist or a mortal pony ascends to become an abstract if they show a high level of the needed trait. [[spoilers: Faith did this when he was a baby (an earth pony no less!), as did Honesty and Kindness. Scootaloo has now ascended as well to be the new Element of Honesty]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Honesty, if his word is anything to go by.]]

* [[Spoiler: OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth ]]

* [[Spoiler: [[ OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth ]] ]]

* [[Spoiler: [[OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth]] ]]

* [[Spoiler: OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth]]

* RedemptionPromotion: [[spoiler:After being freed from Loyalty's control and talking Rainbow Dash out of her HeroicBSOD over Cloudsdale's destruction, Scootaloo becomes the new Loyalty]].

** [[spoiler:Even after confessing how much she hates Rainbow Dash for opening her eyes to what she's done while under Loyalty's control, Scootaloo tells Rainbow that she will ''never'' give up on her. It's at this moment that she transforms into the new abstract of Loyalty.]]