History Fanfic / TheAvatarOfAlbion

* AFatherToHisMen: Fancy Pants could be an arguable example: [[spoiler: he refuses to keep sending Converted militia in a suicide attack against Albion during the battle of London.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: A good contender for 'darkest [[FanFic/TheConversionBureau Conversion Bureau]] WarFic'. Considering some of its contemporaries, that's an impressive accomplishment.
** Chapter Forty Four has [[spoiler: the reanimated corpse of Spike chained to a wall in a cell! implying he's been tortured. Darker and Edgier? Just maybe.]]

* FantasticRacism: The disdain held for "convies" by certain natural-born ponies, seen in Chapter Thirty Two.
** As well as the usual TCB pony racism against humans.

** Chapter 35 has references to Equestria Divided, [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum ''The Other Side of the Spectrum'']] (which is only fair given how many AOA references to author put into his Spectrum work), [[Game/MassEffect Mass Effect]] and various other slightly insane things.

* AscendedExtra: True Grit starts his life as a glorified extra in Chapter Three, and ends up being both a Mauve Shirt (in TCB True Grit's case) and a big player (in canonverse True Grit's case).

*** Brave Heart begins her life as the star of an Interlude, but ends up in the main story.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: David Elliot/the Avatar of Albion: commander of the last army,[[spoiler: killer of Elements]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: the Converted. Nowhere near as bad as [[FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum the Newfoals of ''The Other Side of the Spectrum'']] and similar examples, but they're still perfectly cheery, almost polite folks... who are perfectly willing to murder you on command.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Astra Solamina Maxima, the evil Empress TCB version of Celestia.
** Sol Invictus, one of her Converted subjects.
* BadassBoast: Basically most of the Avatar's dialogue, one way or another.

** UnexpectedCharacter: Seriously, who saw that coming?
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pinkie Pie. Ninety percent of her dialogue is random wackiness. Ten percent of it is pure heartwarming awesome (see top quote).

* TheCynic: Hell Blazer.

* DeadpanSnarker: Hell Blazer by a country mile.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Depending on the story, the number of supporting cast can be anything from a half dozen to a dozen to two dozen.

''The Morningstar Dawns'' is the story of an alternative fate for Hell Blazer, where Lucifer himself comes to demand John Constantine's soul from Solamina. The result is a literal [[CrazyAwesome war between the Solaminan Empire and hell]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted in the story ''To Err Is Human'': [[spoiler: a lone PER agent ponified a group of thirty children... who are then executed by their own parents]].

* InfantImmortality: played straight in "Last Light". The author is on record as saying he wanted one happy ending.

->''“I was David Elliot... But now I am more. I am the spirit of Arthur, returned in Britain's hour of need. I am the spirit of the sword Excalibur, defender of justice and honour. I am the vengeance of a nation, the battle cry of a world that has been raped and mutilated beyond all endurance by thine and thy mistress' evil. I am a power thou cannot halt, Element of Order. I am the Avatar of Albion.”''\\

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Averted: the “main characters” of AOA barely figure in most of these stories.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Upsilon Squadron includes the overly dramatic Storm Cloak, the war-weary Cloud Ranger, the former Night Guard Thestral Fell Spear and the… downright odd Pony Dave.

** The canonverse Mane Six in “Home: Part 1” are all seen to do this.
** Commander Sparkle in “The Woes of Commander Sparkle”.

* AffectionateNickname: Well Met and Dr Fenwick call each other “Walmart” and “Wick” respectively.
* ArtifactTitle: Both played straight ''and'' averted: this is one of the few AOA stories to ''not'' have “The Avatar of Albion” in the title, instead using “The Conversion Bureau”.

* TakeThat: Dr Well Met delivers one against the name “Newfoal” that was originally used in “straight” Conversion Bureau stories.
--> “Just because some of those idiots want to talk about this potion business in religious terms doesn't mean they're literally being 'born again', they're just genetically and magically altering their existing lives and bodies. If I have to hear one more person referring to a forty year old Convie as a 'Newfoal' I'll buck something so hard I'll probably crack my hooves, to say nothing of the state of whatever I bucking kick. Even the HLF agree with us - we're not making them children.”

* AssimilationPlot: Lyrium’s plans seem to have shades of this.

--> “Greetings. How is everypony?”

* HonorBeforeReason: An arguable example: Solamina refuses to release the soul of Hell Blazer to Lucifer… despite our brief (thus far) glimpse of the war with hell being… unpleasant. Of course, this could be TooDumbToLive instead…
* {{Satan}}: Goes by “Lucifer” in this, not that it really makes a difference - he's still pretty bad for your health/country/sanity.

The main story follows David Elliot, a man imbued with the power of Excalibur, Arthur and the Light itself as the Avatar of Albion, as he is transported to canon Equestria. That is when, as the saying goes, "s*** gets real", leading eventually to the canon Mane Six, plus canon Lyra, Derpy and an OC, arriving in a war torn version of Britain at the height of a hopeless war of genocide led by a crazed version of Celestia, now calling herself Solamina. There's swords, sorcery, brutal, bloody warfare and a lot of other crazy stuff before the end...

A special crossover between ''Avatar of Albion'' and ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' called ''Convergence'', written by Doctor Fluffy of Spectrum fame, can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/259763/convergence here]], and a side-story to this, ''Downtime'', can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/312667/convergence-side-story-downtime here]].

There are also a number of official AU's in progress. The first, ''When We Needed Him Most'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/227336/the-avatar-of-albion-when-we-needed-him-most here]]. The second, ''Cold Regret'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248949/the-avatar-of-albion-cold-regret here]]. The third, ''The Morningstar Dawns'', can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/251419/the-avatar-of-albion-the-morningstar-dawns here]]. The fourth, ''The Avatar's Odyssey'', can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/259758/the-avatar-of-albion-the-avatars-odyssey here]]. The fifth, ''Starlight's Strife'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/261213/the-avatar-of-albion-starlights-strife here]]. The sixth, ''The Impossible'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/285419/the-avatar-of-albion-the-impossible here]].

[[folder: The Impossible]]

''The Impossible'', by Jed R, follows a version of Lightning Dust in an unfamiliar Equestria...

* BadFuture: Or arguably, Bad Present.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname / EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Albino is literally only ever referred to by that title.

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[[folder: Convergence]]

A crossover between ''The Avatar of Albion'' and ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum The Other Side of the Spectrum]]'', in which David Elliot is dropped in Boston [[spoiler: about two and-a-bit hours before the arrival of the clone of Queen Celestia]].

* AlternateUniverse: This story is an AU of the original ''Avatar of Albion,'' again.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Elliot's entire reaction to the sheer crazy shit Spectrum has is… well, this.
** Inverted slightly by the Spectrum reaction to Elliot [[spoiler: using his power to take on a hundred or more Newfoals single handedly]]:
--> "That was impressive. Kind of stupid for going it alone, but still impressive."
* {{Crossover}}: Obviously.
** Also, the usual crossovers apply.
* EvilVsEvil: AOA's Empress Astra Solamina Maxima and Spectrum's Queen Celestia have a chat. [[spoiler: It goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Likely a case of FishOutOfTemporalWater, in Elliot's case.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Lampshaded when Kellman points out that the landing of portal island should have obliterated landmasses and raised sea levels. Elliot then explains why no one cared.
--> "Do I look like a geography student or a bloody climatologist? We always assumed it was just magic. Because, you know, magic. Pastel ponies were a bigger deal than an island smaller than diddly squit appearing, and that was before the Barrier started expanding."

* OnlySaneMan: Aegis, and ''Kraber''. The latter is pretty bizarre, considering [[ShellShockedVeteran his characterization]] [[AxCrazy in the source material]], but they're the only ones that easily accept Elliot's from another world.
* OriginalCharacter: We're introduced to some new characters from the Spectrumverse, in the form of First Lieutenant Winston and his team.

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[[folder: Convergence: Downtime.]]

A side-story to Convergence, set in "Downtime" Equus as characters from the Spectrumverse, aided by the AOA version of Discord - or rather, [=DisQord=] - and the War Doctor Hooves.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: Pinkie knows that ''moles'' will be involved. The AOA Equestria's history has moles exist, having appeared in ''Bittersweet Victory''.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: [=DisQord=] makes a point of informing the Downtime Mane Six [[spoiler: that their counterparts from Solamina's Equus are dead.]]
* {{InJoke}}: Lyra references Twilight's track record on things not existing - this is both a reference to the show, where Twilight doesn't believe the Pinkie sense exists, and a reference to Spectrum, where Twilight didn't believe humans existed.
** Twilight also references [[spoiler: Jorogumo. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/597498/jed-on-aoa-freeverse-equus Word of God]] says they're real.]]

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* TheCameo: Doctor Bowman (the author's OC [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] - who appears in some of his ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum Other Side of the Spectrum]]'' work - appears in two chapters.

It also has an [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/204085/the-avatar-of-albion-the-first-anthology Expanded Universe Anthology]] in progress, featuring various different stories and characters from the background and history of the main story. A sequel can be [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/227781/the-avatar-of-albion-bittersweet-victory read here]], and there are also a number of official AU's in progress. The first, ''When We Needed Him Most'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/227336/the-avatar-of-albion-when-we-needed-him-most here]]. The second, ''Cold Regret'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248949/the-avatar-of-albion-cold-regret here]]. The third, ''The Morningstar Dawns'', can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/251419/the-avatar-of-albion-the-morningstar-dawns here]]. The fourth, ''The Avatar’s Odyssey'', can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/259758/the-avatar-of-albion-the-avatars-odyssey here]]. The fifth, ''Starlight’s Strife'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/261213/the-avatar-of-albion-starlights-strife here]]. The sixth, ''The Impossible'', can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/285419/the-avatar-of-albion-the-impossible here]].

* TheRemnant: A Solaminan Remnant is mentioned.

[[folder: The Avatar’s Odyssey]]

[[folder: Starlight’s Strife]]

''Starlight’s Strife'' is another story by [=TheIdiot=], following a mare called Shining Starlight as she deals with the possibility that there is more to her than meets the eye...

* FishOutOfWater: Likely a case of FishOutOfTemporalWater, in Elliot’s case.

In the AU ''When We Needed Him Most'', we follow a version of AOA's history in which David telling died in London and the human race was exterminated. This story follows the attempts of the remaining Equestrian Resistance factions and other groups to defeat the Solaminan Empire.

A side-story to Convergence, set in "Downtime" Equus as characters from the Spectrumverse, aided by DisQord and the War Doctor Hooves.