History FanFic / TheBestNightEver

* CourtlyLove: What Rarity expects out of Blueblood. [[spoiler:She eventually gets it after Blueblood's development into TheWisePrince is finally finished. It's implied that it shifts into a [[HappilyMarried different kind of love]] after the fic ends.]]

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have shades of this as they speak with Blueblood about the difficulty of being immortal and trying to be fair with the law.

* BlackMagic: Blueblood dabbles with this during the time loops in a desperate attempt to escape. The spell consumes the user's soul, and covers the entire castle grounds in unquenchable hellfire for eleven straight days. [[spoiler:Blueblood dies thinking he'll finally escape. Nope; he ends up right back where he started.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Blueblood in spades. He transitions from an UpperClassTwit with {{Jerkass}} tendencies to an actually [[TheWisePrince likable pony]].

* CourtlyLove: What Rarity expects out of Blueblood. [[spoiler:She eventually gets it after Blueblood's transition into TheWisePrince is finally finished. It's implied that it shifts into a [[HappilyMarried different kind of love]] after the fic ends.]]
* DancinInTheRuins: In one of Blueblood's suicide attempts, he burns down Canterlot with a magical fire fueled by his death. As the flames surround him, he is clearly [[LaughingMad enjoying the event]]. [[DespairEventHorizon And then the loop hits again…]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Blueblood commits suicide after he can't stand being in the loop anymore. Killing himself only makes the loop start over quicker, though. He eventually mentions that he's tried to kill himself in every way he could think of, including BlackMagic that should leave him DeaderThanDead, but nothing's worked.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Blueblood considers the time loop this for quite a while, and in fact spends a drastic number of loops killing himself by every way he can imagine. It's only when he discovers that even a BlackMagic spell that should leave him DeaderThanDead won't work that he gives up on killing himself, and instead focuses on finding what condition will break the loop.

* DynamicCharacter: Blueblood starts off as a jerk, but takes levels in kindness as the time wears on.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Canterlot politics are implied to be like this.

* EarWorm:
** In-universe, the real-life song Equestria Girls. It's Blueblood's alarm clock tune and signals the start of a new loop. He occasionally hums it.
** Also in-universe, The Mane Six's "At The Gala" musical number. Having to listen to it every loop just about drives Blueblood to madness.

* RoundedCharacter: Blueblood, by the end, goes from a pony with little more than a PrinceCharlmess streak to a pony who has become much wiser and more charming than before.

* BedmateReveal: [[spoiler:Blueblood waking up next to Rarity demonstrates that the time loop is finally over.]]

* BlackMagic: Blueblood dabbles with this during the time loops in a desperate attempt to escape. The spell consumes the user's soul, and covers the entire castle grounds in unquenchable hellfire for eleven straight days. [[spoiler:Blueblood dies thinking he'll finally escape. Nope; he ends up right back where he started. This revelation causes him to briefly go LaughingMad.]]

* CorruptBureaucrat: A surveyor working for Blueblood shifted the borders of the Everfree Forest into Apple family land so that a larger company could deforest some of it to gain property for free. Small wonder that Applejack doesn't like Blueblood.

* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. [[spoiler:After coming so tantalizingly close to success but failing, Blueblood considers releasing Discord from his stone prison just to escape the time loop. However, he's gone through enough positive character changes that he can't bring himself to do it, and vows to soldier on the right way.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: As with the movie, after Blueblood discovers he can't kill himself to get out of the loop, no matter how thorough. [[spoiler:Unlike the movie, he has a second, PlayedForDrama one later on when he makes the Gala perfect for everypony…except himself, meaning the loop repeats. He seriously considers making a [[DealWithTheDevil Deal with Discord]] after that.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: What Prince Blueblood is dealing with, though it's played with a little bit: in each loop, everything is the same to the smallest detail, except for Pinkie Pie's reaction to any given event, which is different every time. Blueblood is very surprised at this; [[ItsWhatIDo Pinkie is not]].]]

* KickTheDog: Blueblood initial treatment of Rarity. He crushed her expectations ForTheLulz.

* NotHimself: Ponies who knew Blueblood before the loop started, such as Princess Celestia, are startled by his sudden (to them) [[CharacterDevelopment change in character]] from a PrinceCharmless to a PrinceCharming.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:During one of the loops, when Blueblood goes crazy and burns down Canterlot, he uses a spell to create fire that burns for eleven days and eleven nights, can't be extinguished by water nor wind nor mortal magic... and all it required as a reagent was the body and soul of a single pony. Still doesn't break the loop, though.]]

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: The most drastic loop of the "Blueblood attempts suicide" phase of the fanfic; [[spoiler: Blueblood uses BlackMagic to cast a spell that consumes the caster's soul, which he hopes will render him DeaderThanDead, and uses the resultant magical fire to burn Canterlot and everypony in it to the ground. It doesn't work]].

* TookALevelInKindness: Blueblood starts off as an arrogant, aloof SpoiledBrat. By the end of thousand

* DrivenToSuicide: Blueblood commits suicide after he can't stand being in the loop anymore. Killing himself only makes the loop start over quicker, though. He eventually mentions that he's tried to kill himself in every way he could think of, but nothing's worked.

* HiddenDepths: Blueblood can be suave and sophisticated when he wants to be.
* TheHighQueen: Princess Luna and Princess Celestia.
* IdleRich: Blueblood at first. He had a job, he just didn't do it.

* MundaneUtility: Blueblood learns how to teleport. He uses it for things like catching a falling vase.

* NotBad: Whitemane, Blueblood's teleportation teacher, is like this.
* NotHimself: Ponies who knew Blueblood before the loop started, such as Princess Celestia, are startled by his sudden (to them) [[CharacterDevelopment change in character]].

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:During one of the loops, when Blueblood goes crazy and burns down Canterlot, he uses a spell to create fire that burns for eleven days and eleven nights, can't be extinguished by water nor wind nor mortal magic... and all it required as a reagent was the body and soul of a single pony.]]
* PrinceCharmless: in the beginning, Prince Blueblood is very firmly in this territory. [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment He improves.]]]]

* RoundedCharacter: Blueblood, by the end.
* RoyalBrat: Blueblood, at first.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Celestia and Luna. [[spoiler: By the end, Blueblood has started actually doing his job as well.]]

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Blueblood learns how to magically teleport himself.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have shades of this.
* TookALevelInBadass: Blueblood learns how to teleport.
* TookALevelInKindness: Blueblood doing this is basically the point of the fanfic.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay eternally youthful within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler: After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does.]]

* BedmateReveal: [[spoiler: Blueblood waking up next to Rarity demonstrates that the time loop is finally over.]]
* BeYourself: Much like the film it draws inspiration from. [[spoiler: In order to finally escape the [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]], Prince Blueblood must arrange for everyone to enjoy themselves at the Gala without violating their central character traits or causing a disaster.]]
* BlackMagic: Blueblood dabbles with this during the time loops in a desperate attempt to escape. The spell consumes the user's soul, and covers the entire castle grounds in unquenchable hellfire. [[spoiler:Blueblood dies thinking he'll finally escape. Nope; he ends up right back where he started. This revelation causes him to briefly go LaughingMad.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Blueblood in spades. He transitions from an UpperClassTwit with {{Jerkass}} tendencies to an actually [[NiceGuy likable pony]].
* CorruptBureaucrat: A surveyor working for Blueblood shifted the borders of the Everfree Forest into Apple family land so that a larger company could deforest some of it to gain property for free.
* CourtlyLove: What Rarity expects [[spoiler: and eventually gets. It is implied that it shifts into a [[HappilyMarried different kind of love]] after the fic ends.]]

** FantasticNuke: The spell he used is described as this.

* DrivenToSuicide: Blueblood. Killing himself only makes the loop start over quicker, though.
* DynamicCharacter: Blueblood.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:After his failed attempt to get everyone to enjoy the Gala, Blueblood is driven to seeing Discord and freeing him to find a way to break free. In the end, he decides not and plods back for another attempt.]]

* BeYourself: [[spoiler: In order to finally escape the [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]], Prince Blueblood must arrange for everyone to enjoy themselves at the Gala without violating their central character traits or causing a disaster.]]
* BlackMagic: Blueblood dabbles with this during the time loops in a desperate attempt to escape. [[spoiler:The spell consumes the user's soul, and covers the entire castle grounds in unquenchable hellfire. Blueblood dies thinking he'll finally escape. Nope.]]

** Also in-universe, The mane six's "At The Gala" musical number. Having to listen to it every loop just about drives Blueblood to madness.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Blueblood considers the time loop this for quite a while, and in fact spends a drastic number of loops killing himself by every way he can imagine. It's only when he discovers that even a BlackMagic spell that should leave him DeaderThanDead won't work that he gives up on killing himself and instead focuses on finding what condition will break the loop.

* GroundhogDayLoop: What Prince Blueblood is dealing with.
** [[spoiler: Played with a little bit: in each loop, everything is the same to the smallest detail, except for Pinkie Pie's reaction to any given event, which is different every time. Blueblood is very surprised at this; [[ItsWhatIDo Pinkie is not]].]]
** WholePlotReference: [[Film/GroundhogDay For good reason]].

* ItAmusedMe: Blueblood's reason for his [[{{Jerkass}} treatment of Rarity]] at the original Gala (and many of the repeats).
** He also wastes several loops just to troll Rarity by doing things like asking Sweetie Belle to the gala or implying that Rarity is her mother.

* [[TheManyDeathsOfYou The Many Deaths Of Me]]: In one later chapter, Blueblood openly admits to having killed himself by every imaginable means he could think of in hopes of escaping the time loop through death.

* PityTheKidnapper: The guard Blueblood assigns to monitor a seemingly random area soon stumbles upon Trixie being harassed by some Diamond Dogs…or was it some Diamond Dogs being harassed by Trixie?
* [[spoiler: PoweredByAForsakenChild: During one of the loops, when Blueblood goes crazy and burns down Canterlot, he uses a spell to create fire that burns for eleven days and eleven nights, can't be extinguished by water nor wind nor mortal magic...and all it required as a reagent was the body and soul of a single pony.]]

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: The most drastic loop of the "Blueblood attempts suicide" phase of the fanfic; [[spoiler: Blueblood uses BlackMagic to cast a spell that consumes the caster's soul, which he hopes will render him DeaderThanDead, and uses the resultant magical fire to burn Canterlot and everypony in it to the ground]].

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/18087/The-Best-Night-Ever "The Best Night Ever"]] is one of Capn_Chryssalid's WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fanfictions. Now with a sequel, ''Fanfic/ThisPlatinumCrown''.

!! This WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FanFiction contains examples of the following tropes:

* FixFic: Fanfic/{{The Best Night Ever}} is essentially this for Prince Blueblood's characterization.

** He also wastes several loops just to troll Rarity by asking Sweetie Belle to the gala, or implying that Rarity is her mother.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay, eternally youthful, within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler: After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does.]]

* KnightInShiningArmor: Rarity expects Blueblood to be one.