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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Emeris knows coding and is good with numbers, and has come to view magic as a code for the universe, allowing him to make spells more quickly than a classically-trained unicorn would, as well as "load" pre-programmed spells. His perception of magic as coding language is of great importance to his use of runic magic--this way of thinking allows him to work at a higher level than his knowledge of runes would normally allow, making him in practice one of the best runic mages in the world (although he is quick to point out that he "cheats" when somepony tries to praise him for it).
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* EldritchAbomination: Gary Stu. Everyone around him is forced to love him with psychopathic intensity, completely overwhelming their normal behavior and personalities while leaving their original self to, fully aware, experience these unnatural feelings and behavior. Even [[TheScottishTrope talking about him]] invokes this. Even if he had no experience or practice, he ‘’will’’ be superior to other ponies if it comes in any form of comparison or competition. The laws of the nation rewrite themselves to force him into the position of alicorn prince. He is described as a “flaw” in the world, and his mere presence is enough to make monsters appear to commit horrific catastrophes and atrocities for the sole purpose of giving him a reason to defeat them. His magic involves twisting reality itself to do what he wants it to—shattering the earth, creating volcanoes from the ground—not any of the proper methods that is supposed to guide the use of magic. And Gary can even [[spoiler: become real if the name becomes too associated with Eremis in the Aether. Not layering Eremis with the concept of Gary, but actually changing him into the GSE concept of what and who Gary Stu should be.]] And then the creatures from Beyond seep into the world through the cracks made by his flawed existence…
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* EldritchAbomination: Gary Stu. Everyone around him is forced to love him with psychopathic intensity, completely overwhelming their normal behavior and personalities while leaving their original self to, fully aware, experience these unnatural feelings and behavior. Even [[TheScottishTrope talking about him]] invokes this. Even if he had no experience or practice, he ‘’will’’ ''will'' be superior to other ponies if it comes in any form of comparison or competition. The laws of the nation rewrite themselves to force him into the position of alicorn prince. He is described as a “flaw” in the world, and his mere presence is enough to make monsters appear to commit horrific catastrophes and atrocities for the sole purpose of giving him a reason to defeat them. His magic involves twisting reality itself to do what he wants it to—shattering the earth, creating volcanoes from the ground—not any of the proper methods that is supposed to guide the use of magic. And Gary can even [[spoiler: become real if the name becomes too associated with Eremis in the Aether. Not layering Eremis with the concept of Gary, but actually changing him into the GSE concept of what and who Gary Stu should be.]] And then the creatures from Beyond seep into the world through the cracks made by his flawed existence…
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Celestia takes on this role for Emeris to have ‘’somepony’’ who won’t crumple worshipfully under the effects of the curse. He appreciates this and willingly subjects himself to it. It helped keep him sane.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Celestia takes on this role for Emeris to have ‘’somepony’’ ''somepony'' who won’t crumple worshipfully under the effects of the curse. He appreciates this and willingly subjects himself to it. It helped keep him sane.
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* NightmareSequence: Because [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] are ‘’not funny’’.
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* NightmareSequence: Because [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] are ‘’not funny’’.''not funny''.
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** There is a minor one when Rarity calls him out on his extreme ‘’need’’ to accept apologies. From somepony who just cut off his ear after ruining the haircut he paid for, and who had been nothing but vicious to him up to that point. Some things can’t, and shouldn’t, just be forgiven on the spot like that.
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** There is a minor one when Rarity calls him out on his extreme ‘’need’’ ''need'' to accept apologies. From somepony who just cut off his ear after ruining the haircut he paid for, and who had been nothing but vicious to him up to that point. Some things can’t, and shouldn’t, just be forgiven on the spot like that.
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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Human beings are ‘’not’’ supposed to exist in a world with Equestria’s physics.
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* YouShallNotPass: Emeris gets a rather epic one where he holds off ‘’at the very least’’ more than thirty timber wolves to give Apple Bloom time to escape, though it leaves him a hairsbreadth from death by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh show up to help.
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* YouShallNotPass: Emeris gets a rather epic one where he holds off ‘’at ''at the very least’’ least'' more than thirty timber wolves to give Apple Bloom time to escape, though it leaves him a hairsbreadth from death by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh show up to help.
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sequel, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/235781/consequences-of-darkness Consequences of Darkness]]''.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Emeris has a little sister, and as such is entirely understanding of any misgivings about him Big Mac may have. [[spoiler: And surprised when Big Mac doesn't beat him when he finds out about Emeris's interest in Applejack]]
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* InsaneForgiveness: It is discovered that Emeris is this.
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* MamaBear: Celestia is this to Equestria [[spoiler: and to Emeris]]. Although her first action when arriving at the [[spoiler: riot of Ponyville against Emeris]], her first act was to peacefully incapacitate him; when she turned to address the crowd, she burst into angry flames and captured them in magical golden bands to force them to listen to her WhatTheHellHero speech.
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* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Celestia to Emeris]]. He does have an actual living mom, but is effectively unable to ever see or contact her again.
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rarity absolutely rips into True Glamour for her behavior towards Emeris.
* ReformedButRejected: The entire story revolves around this.
* ReformedButRejected: The entire story revolves around this.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While therapists do exist, [[spoiler: and Eremis genuinely needs help, the Mane Six is reluctant to let him go to a therapist because of the very real danger of the therapist sabotaging his recover. So they try to take on the roll themselves, with professional therapy as a back-up plan]].
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** Due to enforced PoorCommunicationKills
* TheAtoner: Emeris is determined to make up for what happened to everypony while he was Gary. It wasn’t his fault, but he feels that it was nonetheless his responsibility. The lengths to which he goes for that, though, are not the signs of a healthy mind.
** When [[spoiler: almost everypony in Ponyville]] ready up to attack Emeris, he tries to leave—but when they try to hurt the Mane Six to get them away from him, he explodes in anger. But, before he railed on them for threatening his friends, one of the first things he says is that he probably deserves whatever they wanted to do to him. But just him.
** When [[spoiler: almost everypony in Ponyville]] ready up to attack Emeris, he tries to leave—but when they try to hurt the Mane Six to get them away from him, he explodes in anger. But, before he railed on them for threatening his friends, one of the first things he says is that he probably deserves whatever they wanted to do to him. But just him.
* BeneathTheMask: Because the slightest hint of affection would be taken as a sign of “yes, let’s have sex” by anypony he talked to, he had to be cold, distant, uncaring, rude, impatient, and generally an asshole. Of course, this only reinforced everypony else’s [[HeroWithBadPublicity real feelings]] about him.
** Rainbow Dash is the only pony under the influence of the GSE to have any real understanding of who ‘Gary’ was as a person. She saw his abhorrence for the attention he received, admired him for the genuinely heroic and awesome deeds he did (even if he was forced into such situations by the GSE, he still controlled his own actions), and was attracted to him for the way he selflessly went to fight unbearable horrors again and again… and for his general awesomeness, of course.
*** She’s also the only pony to not to blame for what how the curse made ponies act, once the GSE curse was removed, and didn’t see why Applejack would. She had difficulties reconciling the real Emeris with ‘Gary’, but the reasons why she was attracted to him were entirely genuine (although her behavior was certainly the work of the curse). Considering how she behaves in canon around other awesome ponies she looks up to, she may not have noticed that every time she tried to talk about him she was forced into complying with the GSE’s “Gary is awesome” directive.
** Celestia, in an unpleasant way. Whenever Celestia is angry or irritated over what ‘Gary’s’ curse does to her citizens, she freely vents (verbally) them out on Emeris. Because in a world where the GSE ensures that nothing he does is a mistake and everything is “perfect” for him, her anger is the closest thing he comes to encountering genuine emotion—and he is grateful for it. Celestia hates it.
** Rainbow Dash is the only pony under the influence of the GSE to have any real understanding of who ‘Gary’ was as a person. She saw his abhorrence for the attention he received, admired him for the genuinely heroic and awesome deeds he did (even if he was forced into such situations by the GSE, he still controlled his own actions), and was attracted to him for the way he selflessly went to fight unbearable horrors again and again… and for his general awesomeness, of course.
*** She’s also the only pony to not to blame for what how the curse made ponies act, once the GSE curse was removed, and didn’t see why Applejack would. She had difficulties reconciling the real Emeris with ‘Gary’, but the reasons why she was attracted to him were entirely genuine (although her behavior was certainly the work of the curse). Considering how she behaves in canon around other awesome ponies she looks up to, she may not have noticed that every time she tried to talk about him she was forced into complying with the GSE’s “Gary is awesome” directive.
** Celestia, in an unpleasant way. Whenever Celestia is angry or irritated over what ‘Gary’s’ curse does to her citizens, she freely vents (verbally) them out on Emeris. Because in a world where the GSE ensures that nothing he does is a mistake and everything is “perfect” for him, her anger is the closest thing he comes to encountering genuine emotion—and he is grateful for it. Celestia hates it.
** Do not try to eat a foal in front of Emeris.
** Do not try to harm his friends in front of Emeris.
* BlackMagic: [[spoiler: Emermis has it as his talent, despite not actually having learned any]].
** Do not try to harm his friends in front of Emeris.
* BlackMagic: [[spoiler: Emermis has it as his talent, despite not actually having learned any]].
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** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] can lead to some very nasty cases of this for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' where a mare gets turned into an EldritchAbomination.
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*** He gets absolutely mangled from [[spoiler: fighting off a pack of 30+ unnaturally determined timber wolves to save Applebloom]].
*** Emeris [[spoiler: gets his ear cut off by a bitchy barber. Ponies have a vein in the ear that could have led to him bleeding to death if it hadn’t been for Rarity holding the wound closed]].
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] can lead to some very nasty cases of this for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' where a mare gets turned into an EldritchAbomination. The nightmares shared by Twiris show that this is fully present in the story proper.
*** Emeris [[spoiler: gets his ear cut off by a bitchy barber. Ponies have a vein in the ear that could have led to him bleeding to death if it hadn’t been for Rarity holding the wound closed]].
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] can lead to some very nasty cases of this for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' where a mare gets turned into an EldritchAbomination. The nightmares shared by Twiris show that this is fully present in the story proper.
* DeathSeeker: Eremis is not one. But if they hadn’t found a way to reduce the constant monster attacks, he would have reached this point.
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* FeeFiFauxPas: Emeris gets several as a result of his lack of knowledge of Equestrian culture. In particular he ends up grooming AJ and bumping cutie marks with her, both flirtatious gestures. AJ is quite understanding however, and well aware that Emeris doesn't know what he's doing, as she points out to Rainbow Dash.
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* EldritchAbomination: Gary Stu. Everyone around him is forced to love him with psychopathic intensity, completely overwhelming their normal behavior and personalities while leaving their original self to, fully aware, experience these unnatural feelings and behavior. Even [[TheScottishTrope talking about him]] invokes this. Even if he had no experience or practice, he ‘’will’’ be superior to other ponies if it comes in any form of comparison or competition. The laws of the nation rewrite themselves to force him into the position of alicorn prince. He is described as a “flaw” in the world, and his mere presence is enough to make monsters appear to commit horrific catastrophes and atrocities for the sole purpose of giving him a reason to defeat them. His magic involves twisting reality itself to do what he wants it to—shattering the earth, creating volcanoes from the ground—not any of the proper methods that is supposed to guide the use of magic. And Gary can even [[spoiler: become real if the name becomes too associated with Eremis in the Aether. Not layering Eremis with the concept of Gary, but actually changing him into the GSE concept of what and who Gary Stu should be.]] And then the creatures from Beyond seep into the world through the cracks made by his flawed existence…
** The creatures from the Beyond. Just knowing about them can be enough for them to spread into the world, and just [[spoiler: seeing Eremis’s memories]] is enough to put Twilight in danger from them. The princesses had to erase her memory of what she saw—but even through that she still suffered nightmares over them.
*** A living, sentient disease that spreads by blood and [[BrownNote laughter]], twisting the forms of the ponies it infects to make their eyes bleed and their mouths rip open into too-wide, too-toothy grins as they laugh and laugh. And Gary, for all his seemingly-limitless power, couldn’t do a single thing to help a single pony who got infected.
*** A fire that ate flesh and couldn’t be put out.
*** A monster that was [[AlienGeometries always behind you no matter what you do]] and that you could only see in mirrors. Until it killed you—then everyone can see it in all its horrible glory.
* EldritchLocation: The Beyond, which Emeris was unfortunate enough to be in before arriving in Equestria. Comparisons to [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] were made.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Emeris gets several as a result of his lack of knowledge of Equestrian culture. In particular he ends up grooming AJ and bumping cutie marks with her, both flirtatious gestures. AJ is quite understandinghowever, however (although not unaffected), and well aware that Emeris doesn't know what he's doing, as she points out to Rainbow Dash.
** The creatures from the Beyond. Just knowing about them can be enough for them to spread into the world, and just [[spoiler: seeing Eremis’s memories]] is enough to put Twilight in danger from them. The princesses had to erase her memory of what she saw—but even through that she still suffered nightmares over them.
*** A living, sentient disease that spreads by blood and [[BrownNote laughter]], twisting the forms of the ponies it infects to make their eyes bleed and their mouths rip open into too-wide, too-toothy grins as they laugh and laugh. And Gary, for all his seemingly-limitless power, couldn’t do a single thing to help a single pony who got infected.
*** A fire that ate flesh and couldn’t be put out.
*** A monster that was [[AlienGeometries always behind you no matter what you do]] and that you could only see in mirrors. Until it killed you—then everyone can see it in all its horrible glory.
* EldritchLocation: The Beyond, which Emeris was unfortunate enough to be in before arriving in Equestria. Comparisons to [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] were made.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Emeris gets several as a result of his lack of knowledge of Equestrian culture. In particular he ends up grooming AJ and bumping cutie marks with her, both flirtatious gestures. AJ is quite understanding
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* GaryStu / ParodySue: Emeris. Deliberately invoked to [[DeconstructionFic deconstruct the idea]].
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* GaryStu / ParodySue: Emeris. Deliberately invoked to [[DeconstructionFic deconstruct the idea]].idea]] as thoroughly and horrifyingly as possible.
* GoodWithNumbers: Emeris was an accountant, which proves to be [[FunctionalMagic incredibly useful in the branch of magic he focuses in.]]
* GuiltComplex: Emeris.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Emeris honestly doesn’t understand why Rainbow Dash likes him, because he doesn’t think he’s awesome or cool at all. This is after proving himself to be a total badass many times over, even after having his Gary Stu overpoweredness and invincibility taken away.
* GuiltComplex: Emeris.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Emeris honestly doesn’t understand why Rainbow Dash likes him, because he doesn’t think he’s awesome or cool at all. This is after proving himself to be a total badass many times over, even after having his Gary Stu overpoweredness and invincibility taken away.
* HorrifyingHero: Gary Stu. That the GSE forces everypony to love him anyways only makes it worse.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Human beings. Emeris’s pony body is a shell of [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower harmony]] that allows him to exist in a universe with fundamentally different laws of physics.]]
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* [[spoiler: HumansAreCthulhu]] See the above.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Human beings. Emeris’s pony body is a shell of [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower harmony]] that allows him to exist in a universe with fundamentally different laws of physics.]]
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* [[spoiler: HumansAreCthulhu]] See the above.
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* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Emeris's ability to make constructs with his magic, which he compares to the GreenLanternRing by name.
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* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Emeris's ability to make constructs with his magic, which he compares to the GreenLanternRing by name. However, it is shown that almost all of his magic is based on him creating coding algorithms and running his power through it (not to imply that math or coding don’t require imagination).
** The Gary-Stu-ness Effect is GSE. More of an In-Series Acronym, though.
** What he put real effort into mastering—notably, his heavy specialization in magic—remained even after removing the GSE.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Celestia takes on this role for Emeris to have ‘’somepony’’ who won’t crumple worshipfully under the effects of the curse. He appreciates this and willingly subjects himself to it. It helped keep him sane.
** Eremis himself, as ‘Gary’. Even a small amount of affection would be taken as a giant flag saying “rape me now”. So he is forced to act distantly and rudely to everypony, including the ones he likes.
*** Subverted in both of the above cases—[[BeneathTheMask neither is actually a jerk]], and if the situation were different they would be wearing their gold hearts on their sleeves.
** Eremis himself, as ‘Gary’. Even a small amount of affection would be taken as a giant flag saying “rape me now”. So he is forced to act distantly and rudely to everypony, including the ones he likes.
*** Subverted in both of the above cases—[[BeneathTheMask neither is actually a jerk]], and if the situation were different they would be wearing their gold hearts on their sleeves.
* NightmareSequence: Because [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] are ‘’not funny’’.
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* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris and Celestia appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'.
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* OneOfUs: Although he hasn’t specifically mentioned Tv Tropes, Emeris has mentioned a number of tropes by name and the author was ecstatic to discover this page existed.
* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris and Celestia appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'. And thus, from talking to each other about anypony else’s experiences with him.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Nopony can talk about Gary, because anytime they try there are compelled by the GSE to gush about his amazingness. So nopony actually knows what Gary did to anypony else—and they have ample cause to assume the worst (although this excuse begins to run thin pretty fast). And because of the huge trauma and shame of how they were influenced, as well as two years of being conditioned not to talk about Gary… even after the curse is removed, misunderstandings just keep building up.
* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris and Celestia appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'. And thus, from talking to each other about anypony else’s experiences with him.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Nopony can talk about Gary, because anytime they try there are compelled by the GSE to gush about his amazingness. So nopony actually knows what Gary did to anypony else—and they have ample cause to assume the worst (although this excuse begins to run thin pretty fast). And because of the huge trauma and shame of how they were influenced, as well as two years of being conditioned not to talk about Gary… even after the curse is removed, misunderstandings just keep building up.
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* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him into sex were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
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* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him into sex were actually the closest anyone had gotten.gotten—although Fluttershy came very close.
** Emeris has had a number of close calls with rape—both on the receiving end, and when under the influence of a combined love potion, lust potion, and enchantment spell (which is still the receiving end, but with the added horror of the mare in question effectively being compelled to use him to rape herself). All are treated as appropriately horrific.
** Emeris has had a number of close calls with rape—both on the receiving end, and when under the influence of a combined love potion, lust potion, and enchantment spell (which is still the receiving end, but with the added horror of the mare in question effectively being compelled to use him to rape herself). All are treated as appropriately horrific.
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** The GSE curse itself works like this, as Celestia and Emeris discover when it spontaneously creates new laws declaring him a prince of Equestria and continually preventing him from abdicating.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
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** The GSE curse itself works like this, as Celestia and Emeris discover when it spontaneously creates new laws declaring him a prince of Equestria and continually preventing him from abdicating.
abdicating. His use of magic as an alicorn mostly consisted of him deciding to do something, then throwing power at it until it happened.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their properorder.order… although it had only a limited effect on the GSE. He becomes so skilled at it that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to cast the spell to remove his curse. She does apologise afterwards however, and comforts him when his fear at possibly having to fight her reduces him to the verge of tears.
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* SafetyInIndifference: Ponies got murdered, tortured, driven insane, and raped, for the sole purpose of creating a story for Gary Stu to play the hero of. This was the effect of him being present in the world, and in the earlier times it would happen a minimum of once a week. It reached the point where he was no longer able to personally care for the victims of it, because no one can stand that much pain. He still wants to protect ponies and does everything he can for them—but he couldn’t invest more of himself into the ponies who were suffering because of him.
** In a mix between this and ConditionedToAcceptHorror, Eremis no longer considers monsters to be frightening or even a cause for true worry. As a Gary Stu, he was invincible, and he learned what true fear is in the form of the [[EldritchAbomination creatures from the Beyond]]. Even knowing that he’s only a normal pony, something like a monster attack doesn’t concern him at all… at least, not directed at him. [[spoiler: [[AdultFear Applebloom, however…]]]]
* TheScottishTrope: Even mentioning Gary forces everypony in the immediate vicinity to start talking about how amazing he is—preventing anypony from saying anything negative about him or describing their experiences about him. Leaving everypony with just the most horrible things their imagination can come up with to think about him.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to cast the spell to remove his curse. She doesapologise apologize afterwards however, and comforts him when his fear at possibly having to fight her reduces him to the verge of tears.
** In a mix between this and ConditionedToAcceptHorror, Eremis no longer considers monsters to be frightening or even a cause for true worry. As a Gary Stu, he was invincible, and he learned what true fear is in the form of the [[EldritchAbomination creatures from the Beyond]]. Even knowing that he’s only a normal pony, something like a monster attack doesn’t concern him at all… at least, not directed at him. [[spoiler: [[AdultFear Applebloom, however…]]]]
* TheScottishTrope: Even mentioning Gary forces everypony in the immediate vicinity to start talking about how amazing he is—preventing anypony from saying anything negative about him or describing their experiences about him. Leaving everypony with just the most horrible things their imagination can come up with to think about him.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to cast the spell to remove his curse. She does
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** He is shown to forgive way, way too easily. Rarity pointed out that [[BodyHorror what had just been done]] couldn’t simply be forgiven like that, but he reacted as though she had told Fluttershy to kick a puppy.
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** When Rainbow is stumbling over Emeris’s name, she comes out with [[MortalKombat Ermac]].
** When he wakes up in the hospital, he mentally comments on the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion unfamiliar ceiling]]. He immediately lampshades this.
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* SlippingAMickey: Twilight ends up doing this to 'Gary' to try and trick him into sex, though thankfully the arrival of Pinkie Pie brings Emeris to his senses and allows him to escape before anything happens. PlayedForDrama later on however, where Twilight doesn't realise she was the closest anyone had gotten to pulling this off, and believed Emeris had been [[RapeAsDrama taking advantage of her friends and other mares in this way]].
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* SlippingAMickey: Twilight ends up doing this to 'Gary' to try and trick him into sex, sex (combining 3 different magical effects into something strong enough to affect even him), though thankfully the arrival of Pinkie Pie brings Emeris to his senses and allows him to escape before anything happens. PlayedForDrama later on however, where Twilight doesn't realise she was the closest anyone had gotten to pulling this off, and believed Emeris had been [[RapeAsDrama taking advantage of her friends and other mares in this way]].way]].
* SpeakOfTheDevil: There are things from the Beyond should not be talked about and never be named.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: There are things from the Beyond should not be talked about and never be named.
** There is a minor one when Rarity calls him out on his extreme ‘’need’’ to accept apologies. From somepony who just cut off his ear after ruining the haircut he paid for, and who had been nothing but vicious to him up to that point. Some things can’t, and shouldn’t, just be forgiven on the spot like that.
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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Human beings are ‘’not’’ supposed to exist in a world with Equestria’s physics.
** When he was trapped in the Beyond, Emeris learned not to try to grasp it at all—that on that route lie madness. Considering what he later fought, this is a very good lesson to have learned.
* YouShallNotPass: Emeris gets a rather epic one where he holds offa large group of ‘’at the very least’’ more than thirty timber wolves to give Apple Bloom time to escape, though it leaves him a hairsbreadth from death by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh show up to help.
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** When he was trapped in the Beyond, Emeris learned not to try to grasp it at all—that on that route lie madness. Considering what he later fought, this is a very good lesson to have learned.
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* EarAche: When Emeris gets a mane cut from a stylist who still holds a grudge against him for the last two years, she gets reckless with her scissors and accidentally takes almost half of his ear off, causing severe bleeding.
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** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]]. Luna and Celestia are no less disappointed when they find out, and punish her by banning her from magic for a month, as well as doing anything (beyond walking and personal hygiene) without help from her friends.
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** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]]. Luna and Celestia are no less disappointed when they find out, and punish her by banning her from magic for a month, as well as doing anything (beyond walking and personal hygiene) without asking for help from her friends.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Despite his attraction to several of those that come on to him - particularly the Mane 6 - Emeris refuses to take advantage of anyone and constantly turns down anyone who asks.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Despite his attraction to several of those that come on to him - particularly the Mane 6 Applejack and Rainbow Dash - Emeris refuses to take advantage of anyone and constantly turns down anyone who asks.
** The intent could also be that he was more of an antisocial asshole as a human before being brought to Equestria and put through two years under the GSE.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Of sorts. While Emeris doesn't show many ill effects after the curse is broken, when Rarity starts fussing over his appearance it gives him a panic attack, and [[spoiler: when Twilight's spell goes wrong and he thinks his curse has returned he becomes hysterical with fear before passing out]].
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Of sorts. While Emeris doesn't show many ill effects after the curse is broken, when Rarity starts fussing over his appearance it gives him a panic attack, and [[spoiler: when [[spoiler:when Twilight's spell goes wrong and he thinks his curse has returned he becomes hysterical with fear before passing out]].out. Twilight diagnoses him with PTSD, in part due to the years he's spent trying to avoid being molested or raped by his GSE-affected fans. She's proven right when Applejack and Rainbow Dash both ask him out and he suffers another panic attack.]]
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** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
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** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]]. Luna and Celestia are no less disappointed when they find out, and punish her by banning her from magic for a month, as well as doing anything (beyond walking and personal hygiene) without help from her friends.
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After over a year of inactivity (due in no small part to RealLife complications), the author has resumed updating the story.
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Unfortunately, a DeadFic.
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Hmmm, \"personal issues\", hasn\'t updated since May \'13...
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* FollowTheLeader: Readers may note several similarities between this version of Equestria and that found in FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}, something which the author readily admits to taking inspiration from.
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** And, as a pack of thirty-plus weirdly determined timberwolves seem to imply, he might not be out of the woods just yet.
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* InformedFlaw: Emeris enthusiastically and repeatedly describes himself as an antisocial asshole, yet is constantly trying to help others and generally be an all around nice guy. The former might have to do with him staying away from town as much as possible as "Gary" to reduce others' exposure to the GSE. The latter just seems to be plain SelfDeprecation.
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* InformedFlaw: Emeris enthusiastically and repeatedly describes himself as an antisocial asshole, yet is constantly trying to help others and generally be an all around nice guy. The former might have to do with him staying away from town as much as possible as "Gary" to reduce others' exposure to the GSE. GSE. The latter just seems to be plain SelfDeprecation.
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* InformedFlaw: Emeris enthusiastically and repeatedly describes himself as an antisocial asshole, yet is constantly trying to help others and generally be an all around nice guy. The former might have to do with him staying away from town as much as possible as "Gary" to reduce others' exposure to the GSE. The latter just seems to be plain SelfDeprecation.
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* BoringInvincibleHero: Emeris under the GSE. [[GenreSavvy He takes full advantage of it]].
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* CutHimSelfShaving: Emeris passes off his and Rainbow Dash's injuries after their fight as the result of him falling out a tree. On to a Manticore. Which Rainbow Dash tried to save him from but ended up being injured as well. Needless to say, this excuse is treated with a fair amount of skepticism.
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* CutHimSelfShaving: CutHimselfShaving: Emeris passes off his and Rainbow Dash's injuries after their fight as the result of him falling out a tree. On to a Manticore. Which Rainbow Dash tried to save him from but ended up being injured as well. Needless to say, this excuse is treated with a fair amount of skepticism.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Between Rainbow Dash and Emeris. Though strictly speaking, it's more like 'fighting each other to a stalemate before collapsing from exhaustion and injury' means friendship.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Between Rainbow Dash and Emeris. Though strictly speaking, it's more like 'fighting "fighting each other to a stalemate before collapsing from exhaustion and injury' injury" means friendship.
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* GenreSavvy: Emeris is well aware he's a BoringInvincibleHero under the GSE and takes full advantage of it.
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* GenreSavvy: Emeris is well aware he's a BoringInvincibleHero an InvincibleHero under the GSE and takes full advantage of it.
* InvincibleHero: Emeris under the GSE. [[GenreSavvy He takes full advantage of it]].
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to use the Elements to remove his curse. She does apologise afterwards however.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to use cast the Elements spell to remove his curse. She does apologise afterwards however.however, and comforts him when his fear at possibly having to fight her reduces him to the verge of tears.
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** Rainbow Dash's [[InSeriesNickname nickname]] for Emeris may seem familiar for anyone who's read FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}, along with several other references.
** Emeris's first thought in response to Pinkie asking for his name is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Sir Lancelot"]].
** Emeris's first thought in response to Pinkie asking for his name is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Sir Lancelot"]].
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** Rainbow Dash's [[InSeriesNickname nickname]] for Emeris may seem familiar for to anyone who's read FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}, along with several other references.
** When Pinkie asks what his name is, Emeris's first thoughtin response to Pinkie asking for his name is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Sir Lancelot"]].
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** At many Human-in-Equestria fics by deconstructing the idea of a GaryStu, and by pointing out the ridiculous characteristics many badly-written SelfInsert characters have, such as the cliché red and black maned alicorn.
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** At many Human-in-Equestria fics by deconstructing the idea of a GaryStu, and by pointing out the ridiculous characteristics many badly-written SelfInsert characters have, such as the cliché red and black clichéd red-and-black maned alicorn.
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* WhatTheHellHero: The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
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* WhatTheHellHero: WhatTheHellHero:
** Celestia admonishes Twilight for attacking and injuring Emeris unprovoked, the day after his curse is broken.
** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
** Celestia admonishes Twilight for attacking and injuring Emeris unprovoked, the day after his curse is broken.
** The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes something of a mother-figure to Emeris.
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* ParentalSubstitute: While it happens in the original to an extent, Celestia becomes something much more of a mother-figure to Emeris.Emeris in this version.
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* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Emeris's ability to make constructs with his magic, which he compares to the GreenLanternRing by name.
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Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an AlternateUniverse story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' [[ForWantOfANail where everybody BUT Celestia hates him]].
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Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an AlternateUniverse story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' [[ForWantOfANail where everybody BUT Celestia [[ForWantOfANail hates him]].
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played With. While everyone publicly espouses the virtues of 'Gary' and how awesome he is, they all secretly dislike him due to the way the curse makes them act. This is DoubleSubverted when ponies actually get to know the real Emeris and find him to be a likeable guy.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Rarity ends up giving one to Emeris when she asks how many ponies know him for his true self.
* BerserkButton: Don't ever imply that only 'Gary' is worthwhile around Emeris.
* BluntYes: Emeris gives one to Rainbow Dash when he refuses to run her obstacle course as part of her "coolness" test.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Are you questioning me?
-->'''Emeris''': Yes.
* BluntYes: Emeris gives one to Rainbow Dash when he refuses to run her obstacle course as part of her "coolness" test.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Are you questioning me?
-->'''Emeris''': Yes.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Emeris under the GSE. [[GenreSavvy He takes full advantage of it]].
* CooldownHug: Emeris ends up receiving several. It would be hard for anyone to deny he needs them.
* CurbStompBattle: The magical equivalent, where Twilight crushes Emeris mentally during a test to determine how strong his magic abilities are now the curse has been broken.
* CutHimSelfShaving: Emeris passes off his and Rainbow Dash's injuries after their fight as the result of him falling out a tree. On to a Manticore. Which Rainbow Dash tried to save him from but ended up being injured as well. Needless to say, this excuse is treated with a fair amount of skepticism.
* CurbStompBattle: The magical equivalent, where Twilight crushes Emeris mentally during a test to determine how strong his magic abilities are now the curse has been broken.
* CutHimSelfShaving: Emeris passes off his and Rainbow Dash's injuries after their fight as the result of him falling out a tree. On to a Manticore. Which Rainbow Dash tried to save him from but ended up being injured as well. Needless to say, this excuse is treated with a fair amount of skepticism.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Between Rainbow Dash and Emeris. Though strictly speaking, it's more like 'fighting each other to a stalemate before collapsing from exhaustion and injury' means friendship.
* Determinator: Emeris when protecting those he cares about.
* Determinator: Emeris when protecting those he cares about.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Emeris gets several as a result of his lack of knowledge of Equestrian culture. In particular he ends up grooming AJ and bumping cutie marks with her, both flirtatious gestures. AJ is quite understanding however, and well aware that Emeris doesn't know what he's doing, as she points out to Rainbow Dash.
* GenreSavvy: Emeris is well aware he's a BoringInvincibleHero under the GSE and takes full advantage of it.
* InSeriesNickname: Rainbow Dash comes to start calling Emeris as [[FanFic/{{Xenophilia}} "big guy"]].
* {{Irony}}: After Emeris has his curse broken, Rainbow Dash admits to Applejack she actually liked 'Gary' and that her attraction to him under the GSE was mostly genuine. The idea that Emeris might not actually be "cool" after all causes her a lot of frustration.
* NoSocialSkills: Given his imposed isolation during his curse, Emeris ends up being completely oblivious to many of the social cues everyone else takes for granted, and inadvertently leads to several FeeFiFauxPas due to his lack of knowledge of Equestrian culture.
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** Rainbow Dash's [[InSeriesNickname nickname]] for Emeris may seem familiar for anyone who's read FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}, along with several other references.
** Emeris's first thought in response to Pinkie asking for his name is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Sir Lancelot"]].
** Emeris channels his inner [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] at several points before [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it.
* [[SlapSlapKiss Slap Slap Nuzzle]]: Not [[BelligerentSexualTension strictly a romantic example]], but after fighting each other to a draw and collapsing in exhaustion, Emeris and Rainbow Dash immediately start nuzzling each other, showing several characteristics of this trope.
** Rainbow Dash's [[InSeriesNickname nickname]] for Emeris may seem familiar for anyone who's read FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}, along with several other references.
** Emeris's first thought in response to Pinkie asking for his name is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Sir Lancelot"]].
** Emeris channels his inner [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] at several points before [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it.
* [[SlapSlapKiss Slap Slap Nuzzle]]: Not [[BelligerentSexualTension strictly a romantic example]], but after fighting each other to a draw and collapsing in exhaustion, Emeris and Rainbow Dash immediately start nuzzling each other, showing several characteristics of this trope.
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* YouShallNotPass: Emeris gets a rather epic one where he holds off a large group of timberwolves to give Apple Bloom time to escape, though it leaves him a hairsbreadth from death by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh show up to help.
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* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure is a Non Pony?]]: Twilight tries to assuage her guilt after bullying Emeris - something she states herself no well brought up mare should do - by reminding herself that he's not actually a stallion, even if he looks like one.
* YouShallNotPass: Emeris gets a rather epic one where he holds off a large group oftimberwolves timber wolves to give Apple Bloom time to escape, though it leaves him a hairsbreadth from death by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh show up to help.
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* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris (and Celestia) appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'.
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* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris (and Celestia) and Celestia appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'.'Gary'.
* ProlongedPrologue: Weighing in at over 10,000 words, the story spends considerable time setting the stage and showing just how bad the curse actually is.
* ProlongedPrologue: Weighing in at over 10,000 words, the story spends considerable time setting the stage and showing just how bad the curse actually is.
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* BloodierAndGorier: Unlike the original story, ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' is not shy about showing just how horrific the MonstersOfTheWeek are, and how bad the collateral damage for the rest of Equestria is.
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Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an AlternateUniverse story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
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Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an AlternateUniverse story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' [[ForWantOfANail where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
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* HeroicWillpower: Emeris when he manages to avoid the temptation offered by the mares who come onto him. He even manages to resist Fluttershy's stare (with difficulty). Also applies when the Elements of Harmony burn away his curse, where he's still able to keep control of himself despite the agonising pain.
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* HeroicWillpower: Emeris when he manages to avoid the temptation offered by the mares who come onto him. He even manages to resist Fluttershy's stare (with difficulty). stare, albeit with great difficulty. Also applies when the Elements of Harmony burn away a spell cures his curse, where he's still able to keep control of himself despite the agonising pain.pain.
* InstantExpert: The GSE turns Emeris into one at almost anything he tries, which causes him much frustration because it cheapens everyone else's legitimate talents, including several of his own skills.
* InstantExpert: The GSE turns Emeris into one at almost anything he tries, which causes him much frustration because it cheapens everyone else's legitimate talents, including several of his own skills.
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** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it, that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
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** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it, it that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
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* SlippingAMickey: Twilight ends up doing this to 'Gary' to try and trick him into sex, though thankfully the arrival of Pinkie Pie brings Emeris to his senses and allows him to escape before anything happens. PlayedForDrama later on however, where Twilight doesn't realise she was the closest anyone had gotten to pulling this off. and believed Emeris had been [[RapeAsDrama taking advantage of her friends and other mares in this way]].
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* SlippingAMickey: Twilight ends up doing this to 'Gary' to try and trick him into sex, though thankfully the arrival of Pinkie Pie brings Emeris to his senses and allows him to escape before anything happens. PlayedForDrama later on however, where Twilight doesn't realise she was the closest anyone had gotten to pulling this off. off, and believed Emeris had been [[RapeAsDrama taking advantage of her friends and other mares in this way]].
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** At many Human-in-Equestria fics by deconstructing the idea of a Gary Stu, and by pointing out the ridiculous and cliché characteristics many badly-written SelfInsert characters have, such as turning into an alicorn with a red and black mane.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Played with. The curse doesn't alter anyone's apperance but does drive both mares and [[HoYay stallions]] into acting like this and a StalkerWithACrush towards Emeris. However, Emeris also points out how unfortunate it is for everyone affected, and it's later made clear that the curse caused others to act against their own wishes [[AndIMustScream while being completely unable to stop themselves]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Played with. The curse doesn't alter anyone's apperance apperance, but does drive both mares and [[HoYay stallions]] into acting like a combination of this and a StalkerWithACrush towards Emeris. However, Emeris also points out how unfortunate it is for everyone affected, and it's later made clear that the curse caused others to act against their own wishes [[AndIMustScream while being completely unable to stop themselves]].
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* TheWoobie: Emeris. Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony whose purpose in life is cheering others up.
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* DeconstructionFic: The whole point of the story is to deconstruct the idea of being a GaryStu.
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* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
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* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While Emeris (and Celestia) appear to be the only ones not caught up in the craziness surrounding the GSE, it's later revealed that everyone else is completely aware of how they're acting, but the curse prevents them from controlling themselves, to the point where they're physically incapable of spouting anything other than mindless adoration for 'Gary'.
* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him into sex were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him into sex were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
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* SlippingAMickey: Twilight ends up doing this to 'Gary' to try and trick him into sex, though thankfully the arrival of Pinkie Pie brings Emeris to his senses and allows him to escape before anything happens. PlayedForDrama later on however, where Twilight doesn't realise she was the closest anyone had gotten to pulling this off. and believed Emeris had been [[RapeAsDrama taking advantage of her friends and other mares in this way]].
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** The GSE curse itself works like this, as Celestia and Emeris discover when it spontaneously creates new 'laws' declaring him a prince of Equestria and continually preventing him from 'abdicating'.
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* RuleOfCool: The GSE invokes this, with most of the monsters being spawned for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
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* RuleOfCool: The GSE invokes this, with most several of the monsters being spawned for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
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** Emeris has his wings vaporized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] lead to some very nasty conditions for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences''.
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] lead to some very nasty conditions for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences''.
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** Emeris has his wings vaporized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken.spell that breaks his curse. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] can lead to some very nastyconditions cases of this for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences''.Consequences'' where a mare gets turned into an EldritchAbomination.
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* DoomMagnet: The curse turns Emeris into this, though it can be partially mitigated through magic and distance.
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* DoomMagnet: The curse turns Emeris into this, this leading to immense collateral damage for anyone unfortunate enough to be caught up in it, though it the effect can be partially mitigated through magic and distance.
* MeaningfulName: While under the GSE, Emeris takes on the name of [[GaryStu Gary]] to everyone except Celestia.
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* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
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* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, this trope is played mostly straight when Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him were actually the closest anyone had gotten.gotten.
* RealityWarper:
** The GSE curse itself works like this, as Celestia and Emeris discover when it spontaneously creates new 'laws' declaring him a prince of Equestria and continually preventing him from 'abdicating'.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it, that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
* RealityWarper:
** The GSE curse itself works like this, as Celestia and Emeris discover when it spontaneously creates new 'laws' declaring him a prince of Equestria and continually preventing him from 'abdicating'.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Emeris, who becomes a master of "Reality Calcification"; the magic of restoring things to their proper order. He becomes so skilled at it, that it's one of the few abilities he keeps after the curse is broken, and his proficiency is on a par with the princesses.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: This version of the GSE turns Emeris into one.
* InfantImmortality: Oh so averted.
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes somewhat of a mother-figure to Emeris.
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this when this version of the GSE causes him to cry tears of blood.
* InfantImmortality: Oh so averted.
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes somewhat of a mother-figure to Emeris.
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this when this version of the GSE causes him to cry tears of blood.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: This version of the GSE turns Emeris into one.
one, where everyone despises him to the point that they'll often attack him, even when he's in the middle of saving somepony's life.
* InfantImmortality: Oh soaverted.
averted. The collateral damage of the GSE does not discriminate.
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomessomewhat something of a mother-figure to Emeris.
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this is, when his transformation in this versionof the GSE causes him to cry tears of blood.
* InfantImmortality: Oh so
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this is, when his transformation in this version
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** Emeris has his wings vapourized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
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** Emeris has his wings vapourized vaporized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when she messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when she messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her herself and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when she messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
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* TheWoobie:
** Emeris.
** Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony whose purpose in life is cheering others up.
** Emeris.
** Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony whose purpose in life is cheering others up.
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* TheWoobie:
** Emeris.
**TheWoobie: Emeris. Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony whose purpose in life is cheering others up.
** Emeris.
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* TheWoobie: Emeris. Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony who's purpose in life is cheering others up.
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* TheWoobie: Emeris. TheWoobie:
** Emeris.
** Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a ponywho's whose purpose in life is cheering others up.
** Emeris.
** Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony
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** [[spoiler: What happens when Twilight's spell goes awry and merges Twilight and Emeris into a single being. Apparently this is what Emeris actually did upon waking up, only to pass out from shock shortly afterwards]].
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** [[spoiler: What happens when Twilight's spell goes awry and merges Twilight and Emeris into a single being. Apparently this is exactly what Emeris actually did upon waking up, only to pass out from shock shortly afterwards]].
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Of sorts. While Emeris doesn't show many ill effects after the curse is broken, when Rarity starts fussing over his appearance it gives him a panic attack, and [[spoiler: when Twilight's spell goes wrong and he thinks his curse has returned he becomes hysterical with fear before passing out]].
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When Emeris Fillson is transported to Equestria, he finds himself turned not just into a pony but into an Alicorn, and a [[MarySue Gary Stu]] at that. Thanks to a curse that Emeris calls the Gary-Stu-ness Effect, or GSE, he is better than anypony at any of their special talents (especially when in direct competition), is loved obsessively by everypony he comes across aside from Celestia and, worst of all, is a DoomMagnet that continually brings devastation to Equestria in the form of monsters that only he can stop, and not without collateral damage.
After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought to Ponyville.
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought to Ponyville.
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
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''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/57206/Consequences-of-Unoriginality Consequences of Unoriginality]]'' is a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]] fan fiction story by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Andoriol Andoriol]].
When Emeris Fillson is transported to Equestria, he finds himself turned not just into a pony but into an Alicorn, and a[[MarySue Gary Stu]] GaryStu at that. Thanks to a curse that Emeris calls the Gary-Stu-ness Effect, or GSE, he is better than anypony at any of their special talents (especially when in direct competition), is loved obsessively by everypony he comes across aside from Celestia and, worst of all, is a DoomMagnet that continually brings devastation to Equestria in the form of monsters that only he can stop, and not without collateral damage.
After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought toPonyville.
Equestria.
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an[[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] AlternateUniverse story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
When Emeris Fillson is transported to Equestria, he finds himself turned not just into a pony but into an Alicorn, and a
After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought to
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Being turned into a pony completely alters what Emeris finds physically attractive, thus making it much harder for him to resist any mare that comes on to him.
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* RuleOfCool: Most of the monsters spawned by the GSE exist for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
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* RuleOfCool: Most The GSE invokes this, with most of the monsters being spawned by the GSE exist for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
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* InfantImmortalityClause: InfantImmortality: Oh so averted.
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When Emeris Fillson is transported to Equestria, he finds himself turned not just into a pony but into an Alicorn, and a [[MarySue Gary Stu]] at that. Thanks to a curse that Emeris calls the Gary-Stu-ness Effect, or GSE, he is better than anypony at any of their special talents (especially when in direct competition), is loved obsessively by everypony he comes across aside from Celestia and, worst of all, is a DoomMagnet that continually brings devastation to Equestria in the form of monsters that only he can stop, and not without collateral damage.
After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought to Ponyville.
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
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!!''Consequences of Unoriginality'' and the canon side-stories contain examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Played with. The curse doesn't alter anyone's apperance but does drive both mares and [[HoYay stallions]] into acting like this and a StalkerWithACrush towards Emeris. However, Emeris also points out how unfortunate it is for everyone affected, and it's later made clear that the curse caused others to act against their own wishes [[AndIMustScream while being completely unable to stop themselves]].
* AboveTheInfluence: Despite his attraction to several of those that come on to him - particularly the Mane 6 - Emeris refuses to take advantage of anyone and constantly turns down anyone who asks.
* AndIMustScream:
** Emeris's initial fate.
** Those affected by the curse, being completely self-aware of their actions but forced to act against their will with no way to stop.
** [[spoiler: What happens when Twilight's spell goes awry and merges Twilight and Emeris into a single being. Apparently this is what Emeris actually did upon waking up, only to pass out from shock shortly afterwards]].
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the delights spawned by the GSE.
* BodyHorror:
** Emeris has his wings vapourized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] lead to some very nasty conditions for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences''.
* ChickMagnet: The GSE turns Emeris into an ''extremely'' unwilling version of this.
* DeconstructionFic: The whole point of the story is to deconstruct the idea of being a GaryStu.
* DoomMagnet: The curse turns Emeris into this, though it can be partially mitigated through magic and distance.
* DoubleEntendre: Celestia and 'Gary' have a conversation entirely comprised of these, when he reports the outcome of a successful mission to her in front of the nobility.
* GaryStu: Deliberately invoked to [[DeconstructionFic deconstruct the idea]].
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
* HeroicWillpower: Emeris when he manages to avoid the temptation offered by the mares who come onto him. He even manages to resist Fluttershy's stare (with difficulty). Also applies when the Elements of Harmony burn away his curse, where he's still able to keep control of himself despite the agonising pain.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Emeris takes on the name of [[MeaningfulName Gary]] while under the GSE, with Celestia being the only one who calls him by his real name when in private.
* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
* RuleOfCool: Most of the monsters spawned by the GSE exist for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to use the Elements to remove his curse. She does apologise afterwards however.
* StalkerWithACrush: The curse tends to turn ponies into this towards Emeris. See AbhorrentAdmirer.
* TakeThat:
** At many Human-in-Equestria fics by deconstructing the idea of a Gary Stu, and by pointing out the ridiculous and cliché characteristics many badly-written SelfInsert characters have, such as turning into an alicorn with a red and black mane.
** At ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', when Emeris compares his predicament to being stuck in the Twilight universe as a self-aware [[MarySue Bella Swan]].
* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler: The result of one of Twilight's spells going badly wrong]].
* WhatTheHellHero: The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
* TheWoobie: Emeris. Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony who's purpose in life is cheering others up.
!!''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' contains examples of:
* DarkerAndEdgier: Considering how dark elements of the original story were, this is saying something. Though according to WordOfGod, the kinds of horrors described in the story also took place in the canon original, albeit off-page.
* ForWantOfANail: What if the curse made Emeris hated instead of universally loved?
* HeroWithBadPublicity: This version of the GSE turns Emeris into one.
* InfantImmortalityClause: Oh so averted.
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes somewhat of a mother-figure to Emeris.
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this when this version of the GSE causes him to cry tears of blood.
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After two years of this nightmare, Emeris and Celestia manage to break the curse and turn him into a Unicorn/Earth pony hybrid - and then [[ProlongedPrologue the story begins]], as Emeris attempts to make up for all the trouble he has unintentionally brought to Ponyville.
Also has a ScrapbookStory spinoff by the same author, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60903/Letters-from-a-Fascinated-but-Frustrated-Scientest Letters From a Fascinated but Frustrated Scientist]]'', as well as an [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] story in the form of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70756/twisted-reflections-of-consequences-the-despair-of-gary-stu Twisted Reflections of Consequences: The Despair of Gary Stu]]'' where everybody BUT Celestia hates him.
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!!''Consequences of Unoriginality'' and the canon side-stories contain examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Played with. The curse doesn't alter anyone's apperance but does drive both mares and [[HoYay stallions]] into acting like this and a StalkerWithACrush towards Emeris. However, Emeris also points out how unfortunate it is for everyone affected, and it's later made clear that the curse caused others to act against their own wishes [[AndIMustScream while being completely unable to stop themselves]].
* AboveTheInfluence: Despite his attraction to several of those that come on to him - particularly the Mane 6 - Emeris refuses to take advantage of anyone and constantly turns down anyone who asks.
* AndIMustScream:
** Emeris's initial fate.
** Those affected by the curse, being completely self-aware of their actions but forced to act against their will with no way to stop.
** [[spoiler: What happens when Twilight's spell goes awry and merges Twilight and Emeris into a single being. Apparently this is what Emeris actually did upon waking up, only to pass out from shock shortly afterwards]].
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the delights spawned by the GSE.
* BodyHorror:
** Emeris has his wings vapourized by the Elements of Harmony when the curse is broken. It's every bit as painful as it sounds.
** The various [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] lead to some very nasty conditions for ponies, as shown in ''Twisted Reflections of Consequences''.
* ChickMagnet: The GSE turns Emeris into an ''extremely'' unwilling version of this.
* DeconstructionFic: The whole point of the story is to deconstruct the idea of being a GaryStu.
* DoomMagnet: The curse turns Emeris into this, though it can be partially mitigated through magic and distance.
* DoubleEntendre: Celestia and 'Gary' have a conversation entirely comprised of these, when he reports the outcome of a successful mission to her in front of the nobility.
* GaryStu: Deliberately invoked to [[DeconstructionFic deconstruct the idea]].
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Twilight, when messes up her spell and accidentally [[TwoBeingsOneBody merges both her and Emeris into a male alicorn]]]].
* HeroicWillpower: Emeris when he manages to avoid the temptation offered by the mares who come onto him. He even manages to resist Fluttershy's stare (with difficulty). Also applies when the Elements of Harmony burn away his curse, where he's still able to keep control of himself despite the agonising pain.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Emeris takes on the name of [[MeaningfulName Gary]] while under the GSE, with Celestia being the only one who calls him by his real name when in private.
* RapeAsDrama: While this doesn't actually occur, Twilight believes that Emeris ended up raping her friends by taking advantage of their behaviour under the GSE, not realising her attempts to trick him were actually the closest anyone had gotten.
* RuleOfCool: Most of the monsters spawned by the GSE exist for the sole purpose of allowing Emeris to defeat them in flashy and spectacular ways.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Celestia threatens to attack Emeris to determine his level of self-control, and thus whether it would be safe to use the Elements to remove his curse. She does apologise afterwards however.
* StalkerWithACrush: The curse tends to turn ponies into this towards Emeris. See AbhorrentAdmirer.
* TakeThat:
** At many Human-in-Equestria fics by deconstructing the idea of a Gary Stu, and by pointing out the ridiculous and cliché characteristics many badly-written SelfInsert characters have, such as turning into an alicorn with a red and black mane.
** At ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', when Emeris compares his predicament to being stuck in the Twilight universe as a self-aware [[MarySue Bella Swan]].
* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler: The result of one of Twilight's spells going badly wrong]].
* WhatTheHellHero: The rest of the Mane 6 deliver one to Twilight [[spoiler: when her spell goes awry and fuses both her and Emeris into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody single being]]]].
* TheWoobie: Emeris. Pinkie to a lesser extent, because she's well aware she's upsetting Emeris by chasing after him under the GSE; particularly horrifying for a pony who's purpose in life is cheering others up.
!!''Twisted Reflections of Consequences'' contains examples of:
* DarkerAndEdgier: Considering how dark elements of the original story were, this is saying something. Though according to WordOfGod, the kinds of horrors described in the story also took place in the canon original, albeit off-page.
* ForWantOfANail: What if the curse made Emeris hated instead of universally loved?
* HeroWithBadPublicity: This version of the GSE turns Emeris into one.
* InfantImmortalityClause: Oh so averted.
* ParentalSubstitute: Celestia becomes somewhat of a mother-figure to Emeris.
* TearsOfBlood: Emeris explicitly points out how stupid and messy this when this version of the GSE causes him to cry tears of blood.
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