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* DarkestHour: Starting in Chapter 22 and cemented in Chapter 23. [[spoiler: Cetus defeats Celestia, seals her essence in the sun, and takes her body, while Nightmare Moon is extracted from Luna and placed into Rarity. Between the two of them, they kill Elo, Grovi, and Strauss, while curbstomping the other Echoes and Mane Six. Then Luna has to scatter them and their few other allies across the world to keep them safe until the time is right.]]

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* DarkestHour: Starting in Chapter 22 and cemented in Chapter 23. [[spoiler: Cetus defeats Celestia, seals her essence in the sun, and takes her body, while Nightmare Moon Moon/Eclipse is extracted from Luna and placed into Rarity. Between the two of them, they kill Elo, Grovi, and Strauss, while curbstomping the other Echoes and Mane Six. Then Luna has to scatter them and their few other allies across the world to keep them safe until the time is right.]]


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* DualWielding: Cancer and Ace are proficient with up to ''four'' blades with their telekinesis.


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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: After Eclipse irreversibly poisons Strauss, condemning him to a slow death, he requests Granny Smith put him out of his misery. She complies.]]


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* RedBaron: Cancer was known as "Tendoncutter" due to his particular fighting style. [[spoiler: Ace has inherited it by extension.]]
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* BigWhat: There's a joint one from the other girls when Twilight tells them about the Guards being assigned. All together, it's loud enough to knock her back into a wall.



* CulturedBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. [[spoiler: Or their predecessors were, anyway.]] Both are top notch fighters.

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* CulturedBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. [[spoiler: Or their predecessors were, anyway.]] Both are top notch fighters.



* KnightOfCerebus: There was always been hints at a darker plot, but for a time it's hidden under the fairly light events of the story. Then, just as we find out the Guards' backstory and true purpose, Cetus shows up and things go to Hell.

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* KnightOfCerebus: There was always been hints at a darker plot, right from the beginning, but for a time it's hidden under the fairly light events of the story. Then, just as we find out the Guards' backstory and true purpose, Cetus shows up and things go to Hell.
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* BadMoonRising: Nightmare Moon's goal during the War of the Sun and Moon. [[spoiler: Also the goal of Cetus.]]


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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Nightmare Moon's goal during the War of the Sun and Moon. [[spoiler: Also the goal of Cetus.]]
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* ResetButton: One of the abilities of the Element of Honesty is "Rejection of Truth", which means that if you don't accept something as having happened, it didn't. [[spoiler: Applejack uses this to save Granny Smith from Eclipse.]]

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* ResetButton: One of the abilities of the Element of Honesty is "Rejection of Truth", Fate", which means that if you don't accept something as having happened, it didn't. [[spoiler: Applejack uses this to save Granny Smith from Eclipse.]]
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** Generosity: Sliver

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* DeadpanSnarker: Piro, Piro, Piro.

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up its own world and timeline. For example, the group has already met and befriended Zecora, but Applebuck Season hasn't happened yet.

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges The story diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up its own world and timeline. For example, the group has already met and befriended Zecora, but Applebuck Season hasn't happened yet.



* DieOrFly: Invoked when Blair, on [[spoiler: Horizon]]'s advice, forces Twilight to get over the mental block on using her powers by [[spoiler: tossing her over Neighagra Falls]]. To say that she's [[TranquilFury not happy]] afterwards is an understatement.
* TheDragon: Eclipse [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon's essence transplanted into Rarity's body.]]

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* DieOrFly: Invoked when Blair, on [[spoiler: Horizon]]'s advice, insistence, forces Twilight to get over the mental block on using her powers by [[spoiler: tossing her over Neighagra Falls]]. To say that she's [[TranquilFury not happy]] afterwards is an understatement.
* TheDragon: Eclipse Eclipse, [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon's essence transplanted into Rarity's body.]]



* ElementalPowers: Each Element of Harmony has been attributed an element:

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* ElementalPowers: Each Element of Harmony has been attributed to an element:



* TheEmpath: Inverted with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy -- some of the abilities granted by their Elements bring out emotions in others. That said, they can't force out what's already there.

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* TheEmpath: Inverted with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy -- some of the abilities granted by their Elements bring out emotions in others. That said, they can't force out what's what isn't already there.



* KnightOfCerebus: There was always been hints at a darker plot, but for a time it's hidden under the fairly light events of the story. Then, just as we find out the Guards' backstory and true purpose, Cetus shows up, and things go to Hell.

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* KnightOfCerebus: There was always been hints at a darker plot, but for a time it's hidden under the fairly light events of the story. Then, just as we find out the Guards' backstory and true purpose, Cetus shows up, up and things go to Hell.



** It also seems the founding of Ponyville was quite as easy and clean as Granny Smith has made it sound -- apparently, the founders actually hunted down all the timberwolves in order to eliminate the threat.

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** It also seems the founding of Ponyville was wasn't quite as easy and clean as Granny Smith has made it sound -- apparently, the founders actually hunted down almost all of the timberwolves in order to eliminate the threat.



** [[spoiler: The Echoes slip into this occasionally, due to their predecessors being from that period.]]

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** [[spoiler: The Echoes slip into this occasionally, due to their predecessors being from that period.]]]]
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* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rainbow Dash's Guards Ersa and Tsartar first meet Fluttershy, they can't stop staring at her wings.
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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/24125/The-Powers-of-Harmony The Powers of Harmony]] is a My Little Pony fan-fiction written by CyborgSamurai. The story explores the potential of the Mane Six if the Elements of Harmony bestowed them with superpowers, as well as expanding on the world beyond Equestria and events of the timeline as shown in the canon.

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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/24125/The-Powers-of-Harmony The Powers of Harmony]] is a My Little Pony fan-fiction written by CyborgSamurai.[=CyborgSamurai=]. The story explores the potential of the Mane Six if the Elements of Harmony bestowed them with superpowers, as well as expanding on the world beyond Equestria and events of the timeline as shown in the canon.
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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up its own world.

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up its own world.world and timeline. For example, the group has already met and befriended Zecora, but Applebuck Season hasn't happened yet.



* BadMoonRising: Nightmare Moon's goal during the War of the Sun and Moon [[spoiler: Also the goal of Cetus.]]

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* BadMoonRising: Nightmare Moon's goal during the War of the Sun and Moon Moon. [[spoiler: Also the goal of Cetus.]]



* BigCreepyCrawlies: Rust Beetles, insects a head bigger than Applejack who eat metal. They're treated as an annoyance more than anything else.



* DieOrFly: Invoked when Blair, on [[spoiler: Horizon]]'s advice, forces Twilight to get over the mental block on using her powers by [[spoiler: tossing her over Neighagra Falls]]. To say that she's [[TranquilFury not happy]] afterwards is an understatement.



* NighInvulnerability: Celestia, Luna, and Nightmare Moon have this [[spoiler: And, by extension, Cetus, Eclipse, and the Army of Tartarus.]]

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* NighInvulnerability: Celestia, Luna, and Nightmare Moon have this this. [[spoiler: And, by extension, Cetus, Eclipse, and the Army of Tartarus.]]



* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Pony of Mass Destruction]]: More than any of the others, Twilight has the potential to become one when her Element powers fully manifest. Hell, she was a borderline example already -- it's offhandedly commented early on that if she ever lost control of her font she'd level a third of Ponyville.



* ShutUpHannibal: Applejack cuts off Eclipse in the middle of a speech [[spoiler: By bucking her so hard she literally makes her head explode.]]
* SignificantAnagram: The full names of each of the Guards is one for [[spoiler: their Knight of the Zodiac predecessors.]]

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* ShutUpHannibal: Applejack cuts off Eclipse in the middle of a speech [[spoiler: By by bucking her so hard she literally makes her head explode.]]
* SignificantAnagram: The full names of each of the Guards is one for [[spoiler: their Knight Order of the Zodiac predecessors.]]



* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Twilight gives one of these in Chapter 20 [[spoiler: After Blair throws her off the edge of Neighagra Falls in an attempt to make her use her powers.]]

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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Twilight gives one of these in Chapter 20 [[spoiler: After after Blair throws her off the edge of Neighagra Falls in an attempt to make her use her powers.]]
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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/24125/The-Powers-of-Harmony The Powers of Harmony]] is a My Little Pony fan-fiction written by CyborgSamurai.

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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/24125/The-Powers-of-Harmony The Powers of Harmony]] is a My Little Pony fan-fiction written by CyborgSamurai. The story explores the potential of the Mane Six if the Elements of Harmony bestowed them with superpowers, as well as expanding on the world beyond Equestria and events of the timeline as shown in the canon.
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* NighInvunerability: Celestia, Luna, and Nightmare Moon have this [[spoiler: And, by extension, Cetus, Eclipse, and the Army of Tartarus.]]

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* NighInvunerability: NighInvulnerability: Celestia, Luna, and Nightmare Moon have this [[spoiler: And, by extension, Cetus, Eclipse, and the Army of Tartarus.]]



* WorldofCardboardSpeech: Twilight gives one of these in Chapter 20 [[spoiler: After Blair throws her off the edge of Neighagra Falls in an attempt to make her use her powers.]]

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* WorldofCardboardSpeech: WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Twilight gives one of these in Chapter 20 [[spoiler: After Blair throws her off the edge of Neighagra Falls in an attempt to make her use her powers.]]
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* ShutUpHannibal: Applejack cuts off Eclipse in the middle of a speech [[spoiler: By bucking her so hard she literally makes her head explode.]]


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* WorldofCardboardSpeech: Twilight gives one of these in Chapter 20 [[spoiler: After Blair throws her off the edge of Neighagra Falls in an attempt to make her use her powers.]]
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* BadMoonRising: Nightmare Moon's goal during the War of the Sun and Moon [[spoiler: Also the goal of Cetus.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Libra and Blair.


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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Libra and Blair's justification for breaking the Lifeforce taboo. [[spoiler: It was the only way to immobilize Nightmare Moon's army during the War of the Sun and Moon.]]
* JustifiedCriminal: Aquarius and Ras. [[spoiler: Aquarius' father had a gambling problem, going to the point where he couldn't even buy food for his family. Aquarius was forced to learn how to steal in order to survive.]]


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*NighInvunerability: Celestia, Luna, and Nightmare Moon have this [[spoiler: And, by extension, Cetus, Eclipse, and the Army of Tartarus.]]


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* TheMedic: Scorpio and Piro.


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* VisionaryVillain: Cetus.
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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up it's own world.

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* [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Pony]]: Echoes are magical copies of living beings with all their memories up until the moment of creation. [[spoiler: The Guards are Echoes of the Knights of the Zodiac, while Cetus is one of Nightmare Moon.]]
* TheAtoner: Libra, grandmaster of the Knights of the Zodiac, became one after the War of the Sun and Moon for his use of Lifeforce magic. [[spoiler: Blair is still carrying that burden.]]

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* [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Pony]]: Echoes are magical copies of living beings with all their memories up until the moment of creation. [[spoiler: The Guards are Echoes of the Knights Order of the Zodiac, while Cetus is one of Nightmare Moon.]]
* TheAtoner: Libra, grandmaster of the Knights Order of the Zodiac, became one after the War of the Sun and Moon for his use of Lifeforce magic. [[spoiler: Blair is still carrying that burden.]]



* DarkestHour: Starting in chapter 22 and cemented in chapter 23. [[spoiler: Cetus defeats Celestia, seals her essence in the sun, and takes her body, while Eclipse possesses Luna. Between the two of them, they kill Elo, Grovi, and Strauss, while curbstomping the other Echoes and Mane Six. Then Luna has to scatter them and their few other allies across the world to keep them safe until the time is right.]]

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* DarkestHour: Starting in chapter Chapter 22 and cemented in chapter Chapter 23. [[spoiler: Cetus defeats Celestia, seals her essence in the sun, and takes her body, while Eclipse possesses Luna.Nightmare Moon is extracted from Luna and placed into Rarity. Between the two of them, they kill Elo, Grovi, and Strauss, while curbstomping the other Echoes and Mane Six. Then Luna has to scatter them and their few other allies across the world to keep them safe until the time is right.]]



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Zemblaini was willing to [[spoiler: kill a foal]] for her goals, but even she finds Blair's Lifeforce-stealing abhorrent.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Zemblaini Zemblani was willing to [[spoiler: kill a foal]] for her goals, but even she finds Blair's Lifeforce-stealing abhorrent.



* {{Kaiju}}: Master, the island-sized Dragon Turtle who lives in the aptly-named Dragon Turtle Lake.

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* {{Kaiju}}: Master, the an island-sized Dragon Turtle who lives in the aptly-named Dragon Turtle Lake.



* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: Zemblaini sacrificed Horizon -- just a two-year-old foal -- to try and use his Lifeforce to force open the Gates of Tartarus. The Echoes were attached to his Lifeforce to keep him alive, now trapped at the center of the barrier in the Gates. And it turns out, part of him is still conscious...]]

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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: Zemblaini Zemblani sacrificed Horizon -- just a two-year-old foal -- to try and use his Lifeforce to force open the Gates of Tartarus. The Echoes were attached to his Lifeforce to keep him alive, now trapped at the center of the barrier in the Gates. And it turns out, part of him is still conscious...]]



* PrecursorHeroes: The Knights of the Zodiac, an order of knights who served Celestia during the War of the Sun and Moon. [[spoiler: Blair's company of Guards are their Echoes.]]
* PredecessorVillain: Zemblaini, a mage who tried to [[spoiler: unleash Nightmare Moon's army]] twenty years prior to the story. In actuality, she was serving Cetus.

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* PrecursorHeroes: The Knights Order of the Zodiac, an order group of knights who served Celestia during the War of the Sun and Moon. [[spoiler: Blair's company of Guards are their Echoes.]]
* PredecessorVillain: Zemblaini, Zemblani, a mage who tried to [[spoiler: unleash Nightmare Moon's army]] twenty years prior to the story. In actuality, she was serving Cetus.



* SixthRanger: Virgil, another Royal Guard, is assigned to Blair's company to give them enough members to monitor all the Mane Six equally. As such, he has no connection to the others' secret.

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* SixthRanger: Virgil, Vigil, another Royal Guard, is assigned to Blair's company to give them enough members to monitor all the Mane Six equally. As such, he has no connection to the others' secret.equally.



* UndyingLoyalty: The actual name of one of the Element of Loyalty's abilities. The user can temporarily bind their Lifeforce with someone else's, which includes being able to revive them from fatal wounds. [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon corrupted this to permanently bind her army to her, rendering them immortal at the cost of turning them into mindless beasts.]]

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* UndyingLoyalty: The actual name of one of the Element of Loyalty's abilities. The user can temporarily bind their Lifeforce with someone else's, which includes being able to revive them from fatal wounds. [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon corrupted this to permanently bind her army to her, rendering them immortal at the cost of turning them into mindless demonic beasts.]]
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** It also seems the founding of Ponyville was quite as easy and clean as Granny Smith has made it sound -- apparently, the founders actually hunted down all the timberwolves in order to eliminate the threat.


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* RaceAgainstTheClock: It's stated right at the beginning of the story that the Guards only have roughly three months to guide the Mane Six in gaining their new powers before ''something'' bad happens. It turns out to be how much time is left until [[spoiler: Horizon dies (taking the Echoes with him), at which point the seal on Tartarus will fail, releasing Nightmare Moon's army]]. The full power of the Elements of Harmony will be needed to prevent that from happening.
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* CulturedBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. Both are top notch fighters.

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* CulturedBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. [[spoiler: Or their predecessors were, anyway.]] Both are top notch fighters.
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* CulteredBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. Both are top notch fighters.

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* CulteredBadass: CulturedBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. Both are top notch fighters.
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* CulteredBadass: Elo and Grovi. One's a noble who gave up and the decadent lifestyle, while the other was trained to be able to pass as a noble. Both are top notch fighters.
* DarkestHour: Starting in chapter 22 and cemented in chapter 23. [[spoiler: Cetus defeats Celestia, seals her essence in the sun, and takes her body, while Eclipse possesses Luna. Between the two of them, they kill Elo, Grovi, and Strauss, while curbstomping the other Echoes and Mane Six. Then Luna has to scatter them and their few other allies across the world to keep them safe until the time is right.]]


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* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rainbow Dash's Guards Ersa and Tsartar first meet Fluttershy, they can't stop staring at her wings.


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* {{Kaiju}}: Master, the island-sized Dragon Turtle who lives in the aptly-named Dragon Turtle Lake.


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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: According to Harmony, this happened to her and Discord when they stopped working in unison. Being sealed has temporarily cured them, but unless they're freed simultaneously, they'll relapse.]]


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* SixthRanger: Virgil, another Royal Guard, is assigned to Blair's company to give them enough members to monitor all the Mane Six equally. As such, he has no connection to the others' secret.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Fluttershy, of course. Then Master gives the ability to Spesci and Megnii as well.


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* {{Telepath}}: One of the abilities granted by the Element of Kindness. Fluttershy is naturally initially scared of it.

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up it's own world.

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it AndIMustScream: Played with. [[spoiler: Horizon's conscious mind was destroyed when he was sacrificed. His subconscious, however, is still takes elements from canon, but has set very much aware, forced to experience life only through the eyes of the Echoes. It's basically a separate entity by now.]]
* [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Pony]]: Echoes are magical copies of living beings with all their memories
up it's own world.until the moment of creation. [[spoiler: The Guards are Echoes of the Knights of the Zodiac, while Cetus is one of Nightmare Moon.]]
* TheAtoner: Libra, grandmaster of the Knights of the Zodiac, became one after the War of the Sun and Moon for his use of Lifeforce magic. [[spoiler: Blair is still carrying that burden.]]



* BlessedWithSuck: Rarity's insomnia inspires some of her best work, but leaves her very weak. [[spoiler: Turns out, Harmony engineered this as part of her master plan.]]



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The Foresight ability of the Element of Generosity.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Zemblaini was willing to [[spoiler: kill a foal]] for her goals, but even she finds Blair's Lifeforce-stealing abhorrent.



* GodzillaThreshold: The use of Lifeforce magic, due to it inherently rendering the user a nigh-uncontrollable addict.



* [[HealingHands Healing Hooves]]: One of the abilities of the Element of Laughter is the ability to heal any wound on anyone.



* MasterSwordsman: Ace and Elo [[spoiler: as were their predecessors.]]
* MillionToOneChance: One of the Element of Laughter powers is the ability to manipulate luck to your advantage or that of your allies. Inversely, you can also cause your enemies bad luck.



* OrwellianRetcon: Seems Celestia has altered details of the War of the Sun and Moon in order to make it sound less brutal than it was. [[spoiler: She also erased all references to the Lunar army being sealed in Tartarus.]]



* SignificantAnagram: The full names of each of the Guards is one for [[spoiler: their Knight of the Zodiac predecessors.]]



* UndyingLoyalty: The actual name of one of the Element of Loyalty's abilities. The user can temporarily bind their Lifeforce with someone else's, which includes being able to revive them from fatal wounds. [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon corrupted this to permanently bind her army to her, rendering them immortal at the cost of turning them into mindless beasts.]]



* WorldBuilding: There's a lot of discussion about other parts of Equestria and the world they live in. Turns out to be important when [[spoiler: Luna scatters the Mane Six and their Guards in order to keep them safe from Cetus.]]

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* WorldBuilding: There's a lot of discussion about other parts of Equestria and the world they live in. Turns out to be important when [[spoiler: Luna scatters the Mane Six and their Guards in order to keep them safe from Cetus.]]
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Luna still speaks like this at the beginning of the story, though she's caught up later on. That said, she's apparently petitioned to have language changed back to the way it was a thousand years ago.
** [[spoiler: The Echoes slip into this occasionally, due to their predecessors being from that period.
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* AnIcePerson: Blair specializes in water magic, and uses ice as a weapon.


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* TheEmpath: Inverted with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy -- some of the abilities granted by their Elements bring out emotions in others. That said, they can't force out what's already there.
* ExactWords: Technically, everything the Guards say about their lives is true. [[spoiler: They just leave out that it happened a thousand years ago to their predecessors.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: The War of the Sun and Moon, the conflict between Celestia and Luna a thousand years ago. We see glimpses of it in flashbacks, but for the most part it's this.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: When Cetus is first mentioned, neither the audience or the characters know what she wants. It's only later that we find out [[spoiler: that she's Nightmare Moon's Echo and wants to complete her plot to bring about eternal night.]]


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* LivingLieDetector: One of the abilities of the Element of Honesty.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Granny Smith is pretty damn good in a fight [[spoiler: especially once Pinkie heals her.]]
* PhysicalGod: What the Mane Six have the potential to become once they fully manifest the powers granted by the Elements of Harmony. [[spoiler: Which includes becoming alicorns.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: Zemblaini sacrificed Horizon -- just a two-year-old foal -- to try and use his Lifeforce to force open the Gates of Tartarus. The Echoes were attached to his Lifeforce to keep him alive, now trapped at the center of the barrier in the Gates. And it turns out, part of him is still conscious...]]
* PowerCopying: One of the Element of Magic's abilities is to instantly learn how to do any spell just by seeing it done.
* PrecursorHeroes: The Knights of the Zodiac, an order of knights who served Celestia during the War of the Sun and Moon. [[spoiler: Blair's company of Guards are their Echoes.]]
* PredecessorVillain: Zemblaini, a mage who tried to [[spoiler: unleash Nightmare Moon's army]] twenty years prior to the story. In actuality, she was serving Cetus.
* ResetButton: One of the abilities of the Element of Honesty is "Rejection of Truth", which means that if you don't accept something as having happened, it didn't. [[spoiler: Applejack uses this to save Granny Smith from Eclipse.]]


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* SuperStrength: One of the abilities of the Element of Honesty.


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Cetus and Eclipse, after Cetus [[spoiler: steals Celestia's body]] and implants Eclipse in [[spoiler: Rarity's body]].

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Element has a specific color to go with it

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* AlternateContinuity: Diverges from canon events fairly early on; it still takes elements from canon, but has set up it's own world.
* BigBad: Cetus [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon's Echo.]]
* TheChessmaster: Celestia, of course. Piro resents her for it.
** [[spoiler: And even she's just another piece to Harmony, who's been manipulating literally ''every living thing'' since she was sealed away to try and ensure her and Discord's freedom and purifications.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Element has a specific color to go with itit:



* ElementalPowers: Each Element of Harmony has been attributed an element
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Applejack's parents, and her grandfather, died in an accident the day Apple Bloom was born.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Cetus has been hiding in Rarity's magic font ever since the Elements of Harmony were used against Nightmare Moon.]]
** [[spoiler: She later upgrades to GrandTheftMe by sealing Celestia's essence in the sun and taking her body. Meanwhile, Eclipse takes her place in Rarity.]]
* TheDragon: Eclipse [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon's essence transplanted into Rarity's body.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Celestia tried to kill herself after banishing Nightmare Moon. Harmony engineered it in order to communicate with her in Limbo.]]
* ElementalPowers: Each Element of Harmony has been attributed an element
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** Generosity: [[MakingaSplash [[MakingASplash Water]]



** Loyalty: [[PlayingwithFire Fire]]
** Kindness: [[ThePowerofLove Love]]
** Honesty: [[DishingOutDirt Earth]]

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** Loyalty: [[PlayingwithFire [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
** Kindness: [[ThePowerofLove [[ThePowerOfLove Love]]
** Honesty: [[DishingOutDirt Earth]]Earth]]
* KnightOfCerebus: There was always been hints at a darker plot, but for a time it's hidden under the fairly light events of the story. Then, just as we find out the Guards' backstory and true purpose, Cetus shows up, and things go to Hell.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon's corrupted army, which was sealed in Tartarus. Keeping them sealed, and then preventing Cetus from releasing them, is a driving part of the plot.]]
** Discord is also mentioned several times. [[spoiler: Turns out, Harmony is trying to arrange his release simultaneously to her own, in order to purify them both.]]
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler: Harmony, Discord's counterpart, who was sealed inside the planet when he nearly killed her. She's been trying to engineer her escape ever since.]]
** [[spoiler: Celestia's essence is sealed inside the sun by Cetus, who takes her body.]]
* TheStarscream: Eclipse again, as she chafes under Cetus' command and seeks to supplant her. [[spoiler: Harmony tells Rarity to take advantage of this.]]
* TopGod: [[spoiler: Harmony and Discord once shared the spot before they turned on each other.]]
* WorldBuilding: There's a lot of discussion about other parts of Equestria and the world they live in. Turns out to be important when [[spoiler: Luna scatters the Mane Six and their Guards in order to keep them safe from Cetus.]]

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** Laughter: Blue
** Magic: White
** Loyalty: Red
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** Honesty: Green



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** Magic: [[PureEnergy Magic]]
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** Loyalty: [[ PlayingwithFire Fire]]
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Half the power of the Elements of Harmony is transferred to the Bearers during the battle against Nightmare Moon. Celestia discovers this, but withholds the information. The Mane Six continue their lives, unawares. Two months later, Celestia sends thirteen members of the Royal Guard to monitor the Bearers as they manifest and develop their new abilities. However, the members of the Guard aren't what they seem, for they carry a secret of their own.

The Powers of Harmony is a My Little Pony fan-fiction written by CyborgSamurai.

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