History FanFic / Xenophilia

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/27874 Xenophilia]]'', written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/AnonAuthor AnonAuthor]] and published on Website/FimfictionDotNet by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/AnonponyDASHIE AnonponyDASHIE]], opens several months after [[MeaningfulName Bellerophon]] "Lero" Michaelides' unexplained arrival in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]]. Despite missing his home and family, Lero has adjusted well -- he has multiple paying jobs, a nice house, and a close friendship with Rainbow Dash. Said friendship gradually grows into love, but Lero fails to pick up on it until Rainbow impulsively kisses him in the opening chapter. The relationship soon escalates into explicit human on pony sex scenes.

* [[HeroesWantRedheads Heroines Want Redheads]]: Lero is redheaded, and has managed to attract three [[CuteWitch heroic]] [[IKnowKungFu mares]].

* UncannyValley: In-universe, regular horses tend to fall into this for most ponies due to the facial expressions.

* [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Good Ponies Have Good Sex]]: And very frequently too, it seems.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Lero is quite the oddity in Equestria, and seemingly everypony has an opinion on him one way or another... Except for Applejack, who [[NoBigDeal never really seems to care.]]

* AuthorAppeal: A chestnut soup recipe appears in ''The Xenophile's Guide to Equestria'' for seemingly little reason other than because the author... [[CaptainObvious likes chestnuts]].

-->'''Lero''': Wow. I had no idea. She’s always been really friendly to me.\\

* FantasticArousal: Wings and flight muscles for pegasi. Unicorn horns as well, but only under certain circumstances.
** And only for some unicorns: Rarity says it never did a thing for her.

This story has since spawned a large amount of RecursiveFanfiction, (though some have partially involved the original author): a ScrapbookStory [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/57315/The-Xenophile%27s-Guide-to-Equestria sequel]] -- written in-universe by Twilight Sparkle -- [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/103616/xenophilia-shotglass-oneshots numerous]] [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62265/Xenophilia%3A-Side-Stories collections]] of [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/67231/xenophilia-further-tales side stories]], and a [[FanFic/DividedRainbow spinoff saga,]] all in progress and set at various points in the timeline, and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/78569/xenophilia-what-came-before several]] [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62374/xenophilia-side-story-cultural-norms one-shots]]. The series has had a large influence on Friendship is Magic fan fiction due to its popularity, with elements from the story increasingly being [[ShoutOut referenced]] or [[FollowTheLeader borrowed]] in other works.

* ''FanFic/DividedRainbow''
* ''FanFic/IntoTheHedge''
* ''FanFic/{{Xenophoolia}}''

-->'''Lero''': Wow. I had no idea. She’s always been really friendly to me.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Yeah, I've heard that about her. ''Total'' sweetheart, you'd never guess that she could kill you in half a second from like three hundred bodylengths away.

* [[StayInTheKitchen Stay In The Bedroom]]: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Lero mentions having once been asked by an unidentified mare why he was out on the street instead of in the bedroom or in the fields. Applejack, Twilight and especially Rainbow Dash are ''livid'' when they hear it, more so than Lero himself.

* ThreeWaySex: Fairly common within herds. Due to polygamy being usual behaviour in Equestria, this doesn't have the same connotations as in [[ValuesDissonance human culture]].

-->Why did she always end up eating fish? She didn’t even like fish and it had certainly never agreed with her. And why could she not talk to Daisy Jo the cow for more than five minutes without salivating these days? And why were the pigs over at Sweet Apple Acres looking so... '''tempting'''?

* [[WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Hit A Stallion]]: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Due to the reversed gender roles, hitting a stallion is something most mares would never do. The behaviour is so ingrained that when Lero is threatened by Shimmer, Rainbow Dash after the event is very skeptical that she would have actually gone ahead and done it.

* SexSlave: As a result of the matriarchal culture, stallions usually ended up being used as little more than this in the past, until the princesses put a stop to the behaviour. Apparently FetishFuel in-universe for some, to Twilight's disgust.

* {{Badass}}: Rainbow is already this in canon, but is also one of the few pegasi strong enough to learn earth pony martial arts.

* [[HeroesWantRedheads Heroines Want Redheads]]: Lero is redheaded, and has managed to attract [[{{Badass}} three]] [[CuteWitch heroic]] [[IKnowKungFu mares]].

* TooDumbToLive: Honeydew, who ends up threatening [[{{Badass}} Rainbow Dash]], [[BadassBookworm Twilight]], and [[AdaptationalBadass Lyra]]. The last one [[CurbstompBattle doesn't end well for her]].