History Fanfic / AsylumDaemonOfDecay

* ManInTheMirrorTalksBack: Occurs in chapter 5.

Nothing to do with the [[Film/{{Asylum}} film]] or Music/{{KISS}} [[Music/{{Asylum}} album]] of the same name.

* YouWakeUpInARoom: The way the fic starts. Also, while Twilight retains all memory of her life as Celestia's student, any memory of having been living in an asylum for (presumably) a decade is [[OntologicalMystery completely nonexistent]].

* AdultFear: Pinkie burning her family's home and half her flank as a filly, while trying to bake a cake for her family.

Nothing to do with the [[Film/{{Asylum}} Asylum]] or Music/{{KISS}} [[Music/{{Asylum}} album]] of the same name.

Nothing to do with the [[Film/{{Asylum}} Asylum]] or [[Music/{{Asylum}} KISS album]] of the same name.

* AdaptationalBadass: One of the therapists has flying speed and agility rivaling a Wonderbolt. Who is this therapist? [[spoiler: A young Pegasus mare named [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Scootaloo Scootaloo.]]]]
* AdultFear:
** Pinkie burning her family's home and half her flank as a filly, while trying to bake a cake for her family.

* TeasingCreator: Daemon of Decay manages to keep the audience guessing right the way through as to whether the hospital is real, and she is insane, or there's something more sinister going on.

** Spoken by Rarity as Twilight sees her attending to a catatonic earth pony [[spoiler:or at least hornless]] filly:

A [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]] fan fiction by Daemon of Decay.

* BadBoss: Nurse Ratchet. It says something, that the orderlies are so scared of her, they panic whenever something goes that ''isn't'' their fault.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Nurse Ratchet tries to come off as a kind and caring pony, but it only takes a couple of moments talking to her to realize how coldhearted, cruel, and condescending she actually is.

** Twilight would sometimes get a sense of comfort from elements of the world she woke up in that are more familiar to her world, before it hits her with a cold reminder that she isn't in her world anymore. One example is when she sees Pinkie Pie the first time (since she first woke up in the hospital) and is relieved that she is the same pony (sans her now always straight hair) she knew from Ponyville. [[spoiler:The one difference that killed it was a massive scar covering Pinkie's cutie mark.]]

** Twilight would sometimes get a sense of comfort from elements of the world she woke up in are more familiar to her world before it hits her with a cold reminder that she isn't in her world anymore. One example is when she sees Pinkie Pie the first time (since she first woke up in the hospital) and is relieved that she is the same pony (sans her now always straight hair) she knew from Ponyville. [[spoiler:The one difference that killed it was a massive scar covering Pinkie's cutie mark.]]

* HiddenDepths: Dr. Rose reveals that he served as a medic in Saddle Arabia and implies having to make tough choices regarding the which ponies he operated on, is what lead to his cold the ends justifies the means philosophy. [[UnreliableNarrator Probably...]]

* ControlFreak: Nurse Ratchet scares the living daylight out of Twilight and almost causes Pinkie to have mental breakdown, for the horrible offense of running in the halls.

** Pinkie burning her family's home and half her flank as filly, while trying to bake a cake for her family.