History Fanfic / ThePowerOfTheEquinox

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Dimmed Star passes through the East Wing hallway in her Ink and Dusty Joy wakes up to witness this, she decides to bolt in the opposite direction of the way the creepy stain is headed towards.
-->'''Dusty Joy''': "…Nope… Nope, nope, no way, nu-huh, not in this lifetime. Somepony else can deal with this, I'm out.

* AxCrazy: Dimmed Star doesn't need much to resort to violence when crossed. However, when the Entity takes control over her mind, she's truly unrepressed.
* BadassTeacher: [[spoiler:As Brutus is about to kill Cheerilee and he mockingly calls her Miss Teacher, her mind drifts to her students. The thought of never seeing them grow up or preventing one of them from becoming like Brutus gives her enough willpower to fight him off and give him a beating of her own until Dimmed Star arrives.]]

* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[AxCrazy Dimmed Star]] has black sclera, and her pupils are both formed out of three glowing, triangularly-shaped teal dots.
* BloodKnight: Dimmed Star gets a kick out of bloodshed. She turns down Fluttershy's offer to get meat from the vendor she knows in exchange for stopping hunting animals at the Everfree Forest because she has grown to enjoy hunting so much.

* CallBack: Dimmed Star kills in the Everfree Forest a manticore which she recognizes as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony the one Fluttershy healed]] from the scar on his paw.

* ForcedSleep: Rarity knows a sleep spell which her mother taught her in case she needed to put Sweetie Belle to sleep, and she uses it on Spike in the eight chapter. However, she explains that instead of forcing the target to sleep, the spell suggests them to sleep, working only on an already tired mind.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When the Cutie Mark Crusaders are preventing Spike from trying to go to Twilight's trial and he yells that he must prove that he's not a bad friend, Apple Bloom strikes him before retorting he's nothing of the sort.
* GoOutWithASmile: As Cadance is about to be killed by Dimmed Star (who doesn't know yet that the Cadance she's been interacting with is an impostor), she decides to spend her last living moment smiling and with her fondest memories in her mind. Luckily, choosing to recite the little song she used to sing with Twilight prevents Dimmed Star from killing her.

** One of the guards Dimmed Star kills gets sliced in half at the barrel. He spends his last seconds crawling his severed body out of the wedding hall, much to Cadance's horror.

* HealingFactor: Dimmed Star can regrow her limbs and eyes. She can even regenerate herself after Celestia blasts her to pieces. However, while testing out this ability, she discovers that her regeneration ability slows down when overloaded, leaving her vulnerable.

* ImMelting: When the Entity enters Twilight's body, her flesh melts, after which her skeleton follows suit. She's too busy [[LaughingMad laughing madly]] to notice this. Her heart remains intact in the buddle, and her new body forms around the heart from the buddle.

* KnightTemplarParent: Dimmed Star is not at all pleased to learn that somepony called Spike a pet. Her furious reaction makes Spike unwilling to tell her about the confrontation he had with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, fearing that she'll kill them for taunting him. Later the Entity manages to make Dimmed Star to attack Pinkie Pie in bestial rage by conjuring in her mind an image of Celestia taking Spike away from her.

** The Elements of Harmony come close to expelling the Entity from Dimmed Star's body, so it gives up on its control over her mind and withdraws into her subconscious to gather strength for another attempt to completely possess Dimmed Star.

* LethalChef: Dimmed Star finds herself to be a terrible cook when she decides not to have Spike cook for them anymore. She manages to get the stove broken.

** Cheerilee says this when Dimmed Star drags the half-dead Brutus with her to his home.

** When Dimmed Star is imprisoned, a magic suppression ring is placed on her horn. After she [[NoSell frees herself of it]], she gets two new ones when she's brought to her trial. She effortlessly removes them as well once she's done with playing prisoner.
** As part of her house arrest, Princess Luna must wear on her horn a silvery ring unless she's performing her nightly duties. The reason she didn't have it during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed the Nightmare Night]] is because Celestia managed to talk the council to ease off just this once.

** Though Princess Luna was welcomed back by her sister right after she stopped being Nightmare Moon, the governing council insisted on having her answer for the crimes she committed after her release from the moon. After much struggle between Celestia and the council, Luna was sentenced to a house arrest of two years, obliged to being accompanied by armed guard at all times and wearing a magic-sealing ring outside performing her nocturnal duties. The last Nightmare Night was the only time Celestia was able to get Luna out of these restrictions.
** Cadance spends an entire night studying laws in order to act as Dimmed Star's defence attorney. She falls asleep and is woken by Luna after Dimmed Star has left the courtroom.

* ThroatSlittingGesture: Cheerilee makes this gesture when she asks Spike if Dimmed Star would kill Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon if she learned that they taunted him.

* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: One of things [[ButtMonkey Dusty Joy]] has already endured on her bad day is having her flank smacked by a stallion. She retaliates by kicking his face, which her boss reprimands her for before having the guards escort the stallion away.

* ButtMonkey: Dusty Joy, a maid working at the castle. She has to work overtime to clean the castle's longest hallway all by herself, gets reprimanded when she kicks in the face a stallion for smacking her flank, almost loses her job when her superior assumes she abandoned her post out of laziness, tries in vain to clean the stains Dimmed Star' Ink left in the hallway, and once she's relieved of that impossible duty, she has to do even more cleaning in the wedding hall that's a total mess from Dimmed Star's rampage.

* ImMelting: When the Entity enters Twilight's body, her flesh melts, after which her skeleton follows suit. Her new body rises from the buddle.

* LaughingMad: As the Entity enters Twilight's body, she starts laughing madly as her thoughts about what she'll do to the false Cadance grow more morbid. She doesn't even notice [[ImMelting her body melting]],

%%* KnightTemplarParent

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Entity seems to have three triangularly-shaped red eyes. When it possesses Dimmed Star for the first time, her black eyes turn red over time, while a third red eye grows beneath her horn.

* KangarooCourt: Following Dimmed Star's rampage in the wedding hall, she's put on trial immediately in the morning. A conventional grace period of three weeks is skipped, though that's explained by the severity of the charges. However, there's no defence arranged, and Hasty Vote even dares to say to the Mane Five (who've been brought in as character witnesses)

%%* Jerkass

* AbusiveParents: Scootaloo is constantly hit by her alcoholic adoptive father Brutus.

* MoralityPet: Spike is one of the few individuals Dimmed Star shows affection towards.

* PetTheDog: Dimmed Star doesn't hold a grudge towards Shining Armor and Spike over the wedding rehearsal because the former was mind-controlled and the latter is a child. Dimmed Star adopts a less-volatile demeanor towards Pinkie Pie in comparison to her other friends, due to her going farther out her way to get on good terms with Dimmed Star.

* PetTheDog: Dimmed Star doesn't hold a grudge towards Shining Armor and Spike over the wedding rehearsal because the former was mind-controlled and the latter is a child.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Prince Blueblood towards Cadance who can't stand his shallow attitude and advances to the point of having once put a restraining order on him.

** As part of her house arrest, Princess Luna must wear on her horn a silvery ring unless she's performing her nightly duties. The reason she didn't have it during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4Luna the Nightmare Night]] is because Celestia managed to talk the council to ease off just this once.

%%* TookALevelInBadass

* CallBack: Dimmed Star kills in the Everfree Forest a manticore which she recognizes as the one FLuttershy healed in scar on his fore paw

* AntiHero: Dimmed Star is so murderous and intimidating that she borders on a VillainProtagonist, but she still cares for her loved ones to varying extend.
* BigBad: The Entity is responsible for Twilight's transformation into Dimmed Star.

* ButtMonkey: Dusty Joy, a maid working at the castle. She has to work overtime to clean the castle's longest hallway all by herself, gets reprimanded when she kicks in the face a stallion for smacking her flank, almost loses her job when her superior assumes she abandoned her post out of laziness, tries in vain to clean the stains Dimmed Star' Ink left in the hallway, and once she's relieved of that duty, she has to do even more cleaning in the wedding hall that's a total mess from Dimmed Star's rampage.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When Dimmed Star is brought to her trial, her good mood dies down when she sees her parents' distress over her new form and current situation.

** Due to Dimmed Star coming close to taking her life, Chrysalis orders her Changelings to retreat before they can break Shining Armor's magic barrier, preventing the invasion from occurring.

** [[spoiler:Dimmed Star kills Brutus by taking his upper half in her mouth and biting it.]]

** After Dimmed Star comes goes to killing her and is saved only by Celestia's interference, Chrysalis decides not to try her changes against the monstrous mare and orders her troops to withdrawal.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: One of the guards whom Dimmed Star kills is Dream Gavel, Business Savvy's only son.

* PlayAlongPrisoner: When the guards find Dimmed Star free of her restraints inside her cell, she allows them to put her in new chains and two magic suppression rings on her horn before she's taken to her trial. However, once she's had enough of Hasty Vote's arrogance, she removes the restraints.
* PowerNullifier:
** When Dimmed Star is imprisoned, a magic suppression ring is placed on her horn. After she frees herself of it, she gets two new ones when she's brought to her trial. She effortlessly removes them as well once she's done with playing prisoner.
** As part of her house arrest, Princess Luna must wear on her horn a silvery ring unless she's performing her nightly duties. The reason she didn't have it during [[the Nightmare Night]] is because Celestia managed to talk the council to ease off just this once.

** Though Princess Luna was welcomed back by her sister after she stopped being Nightmare Moon, the governing council insisted on having her answer for the crimes she committed after her release from the moon. After much struggle between Celestia and the council, Luna was sentenced to a house arrest of two years, obliged to being accompanied by armed guard at all times and wearing a magic-sealing ring outside performing her nocturnal duties. The last Nightmare Night was the only time Celestia was able to get Luna out of these restrictions.

* SlasherSmile: Dimmed Star is apt at this, thanks to her sharp teeth.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Dimmed Star is more ill-tempered and assertive than Twilight Sparkle.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after Dimmed Star kills over a dozen guards and almost kills Shining Armor as well, Cadance spends an entire night studying laws in order to defend Dimmed Star at her trial at the same time as she tries to find clues behind her transformation, determined to return her to Twilight Sparkle.

* NoSell: Dimmed Star can easily corrode ''two'' [[PowerNullifier magic suppression rings]] placed on her horn.

** Though Princess Luna was welcomed back by her sister after she stopped being Nightmare Moon, the governing council insisted on having her answer for the crimes she committed after her release from the moon. After much struggle between Celestia and the council, Luna was sentenced to a house arrest of two years, having to be accompanied by armed guard at all times and wearing a magic-sealing ring outside performing her nocturnal duties. The last Nightmare Night was the only time Celestia was able to get Luna out of these restrictions.
** Cadance stays up awake studying laws in preparation

* HealingFactor: Dimmed Star can regrow her limbs and eyes. She can even regenerate herself after Celestia fully vaporizes her.

** Shining Armor when he's told what he did to Twilight at the rehearsal.

After Queen Chrysalis imprisons Twilight Sparkle in the crystal caverns, she drives her into exhaustion with her taunts before leaving her to suffer alone. In her frustration and desperation, Twilight strikes a pitch black crystal, releasing from it a malevolent and destructive creature known as the Entity. Resonating with the hatred growing within Twilight, the Entity enters her body and transforms her into a monstrous and carnivorous mare with a new variety of powers. No longer considering herself Twilight Sparkle, she renames herself as Dimmed Star before she finds the real Princess Cadance and proceeds to stop Queen Chrysalis' plans.

* EnemyWithin: The Entity takes hold

Being in the constant danger of being completely possessed by the Entity, Dimmed Star tries to come to terms with her new essence and violent tendencies, while her family and friends as well as Princess Celestia try to find a way to return her back to Twilight Sparkle.