History Fanfic / TheRockFarmersDaughters

* CallingTheOldManOut: Pinkamena calls out Igneous for being an OverprotectiveDad after [[spoiler:he fires Cheese]].

* OverprotectiveDad: Igneous Rock. While his daughters can handle themselves in a fight, he's very wary of stallions seducing them. He only hires Cheese after he determines that the younger stallion is harmless and uninterested in pursuing a relationship with any of the girls, and even then Igneous still worries about a possible romance. This gets deconstructed when [[spoiler:he fires Cheese -- he caught Cheese kissing Pinkamena, and the suggestiveness and criminal smell of the letter from "Tomato" (actually a forged letter from a gang member Cortland hired) made him even more wary of both Sandwich brothers]]. Pinkamena [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out]] for overreacting. Igneous later comes to the conclusion that his daughter is right and makes amends with Cheese.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Cheese and Pinkamena get married at the end]].

!!This Fan Fiction contains examples of:

* ActionGirl: All the Pie mares.
** ActionMom: Cloudy Quartz really shined in the fight against the Diamond Dogs.

** PapaWolf: He outright threatened Cortland when the latter took his harassment of Pinkamena too far.
* AlternateUniverseFic

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Inverted, then played straight. Pinkamena scares off stallions catcalling Maud, followed by Maud shooing an unwelcome Cortland away from Pinkamena by raising her voice.

-->"Leave... my brother... out of this."

-->'''Igneous:''' A rock farmer's strength comes in handy for those situations.
-->'''Haralson:''' (jokingly) And for threatenin' any suitors of yer daughters?
-->'''Igneous:''' (dead serious) Yep.
* BrokenBird: The Pies have always had more subtle use of their emotions--but after [[spoiler:both Granny Pie and Nana Pinkie died suddenly in the same night]], they just became gloomy and reclusive. It's especially notable with Pinkamena, who had been a [[CheerfulChild little ball of sunshine]] before the tragedy. And since she missed the Rainboom, they never completely moved on until Cheese came along.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Pinkamena calls out Igneous for being overprotective after [[spoiler:he fires Cheese]].

* CoolOldLady: Though she doesn't have much focus on her, Purple Prose is shown to be reasonable when her nephew Bluejinx tells her that [[spoiler:Cortland humiliated Pinkamena]].

* CrazyJealousGuy: Cortland.

* DeadpanSnarker: Pinkamena, which is a huge contrast to main 'verse Pinkie Pie.

** Cloudy Quartz

* DistressedDude: How Pinkamena meets Cheese, who was being bullied by gang members.

** BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Igneous Rock is kidnapped and held in a barn after losing a fight against those same gang members, thanks to a muscle tearing at the worst time]].
* DogsAreDumb: Well, Diamond Dogs, anyway. The biggest one ribbits [[spoiler:and was tricked by Cheese into running headfirst into a boulder]].

* DroppedGlasses: Cheese, a few times. The worst time so far was when Diamond Dogs popped in on the farm.
** [[spoiler:He drops his glasses into a fire as he and Igneous save Pinkamena from falling into it. He has to latch onto Pinkamena's tail in order to get out of the burning house]].

* FarmersDaughter: Four of them.

* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Cheese and Pinkamena have theirs at the carnival. Igneous catches them in the act]].
* ForWantOfANail: Pinkamena simply went inside before the Rainboom happened. Results in neither she nor Cheese Sandwich becoming party ponies.

* GenkiGirl: Sugar Glider.
* TheGhost: Granny Pie and Nana Pinkie. They died before the story began.

* HappilyMarried: Igneous and Cloudy, though their serious demeanor had left some doubt in Cheese's mind.

* HeldGaze: Happens a couple of times with Pinkamena and Cheese.
** The most prominent one is after [[spoiler:their FirstKiss]]. Naturally, the moment is ruined seconds later.
* HeroicBSOD: PlayedForLaughs with Marble when [[spoiler:the house is overrun with mice]].

* IfICantHaveYou / MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Motivations for the above trope]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:Tomato Sandwich, Cheese's younger brother. It was a factor in Cheese leaving]].

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Bluejinx recognizes Cheese as his friend Tomato's brother.]]
** Igneous has a sister that he hasn't seen for years [[spoiler:because she ran away because she was humiliated by a stallion she liked. It's part of the reason why Igneous is so protective of his daughters. Pinkamena and Cheese meet her in her cabin in the woods later on]].

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:After being defeated in a fight, Cortland sets the connected farm on fire... with Cheese, Pinkamena, and Igneous inside]].

* NiceGuy: Cheese. He remains very sweet and polite when interacting with most ponies. The times he doesn't act very nice tend to be a bit startling.

-->'''Cheese:''' Squid hat is going to the hardware store...
-->'''Pinkamena:''' No, you're not.
-->'''Cheese:''' But I don't know what I'm singing!

* NotGoodWithRejection: We're looking at you, Cortland.

* OverprotectiveDad: Igneous Rock. While his daughters can handle themselves in a fight, he's very wary of stallions seducing them. He only hires Cheese after he determines that the younger stallion is harmless and uninterested in pursuing a relationship with any of the girls, and even then Igneous still worries about a possible romance.
** [[spoiler:He fires Cheese after catching him kissing Pinkamena, and the suggestiveness and criminal smell of the letter from "Tomato" (actually a forged letter from a gang member Cortland hired) made him even more wary of both Sandwich brothers]]. Pinkamena [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out]] for overreacting.

* ProducePelting: Cheese is a victim of this late in the fic, due to misconceptions about his character since [[spoiler:he went with the Pie sisters (sans Maud) without permission from their parents, and he ends up getting fired]]. The townsfolk end up switching to dirt clods and pebbles after a few minutes.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Cheese gives one to Cortland in the climax, especially the part where he points out that the latter's setting an awful example for his younger siblings.
** Haralson gives one to the townsfolk after he overhears [[spoiler:somepony pinning the blame for starting the fire on the Pies and/or Cheese--never mind that Igneous, Pinkamena, and Cheese nearly ''died'' in it and had to be hospitalized]]. Purple Prose joins him by asking [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what they did for the Pies besides gossip about them]].
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Cheese holds resentment over being overlooked by nearly everypony in favor of his younger brother]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Cortland is ''terrifyingly'' possessive of Pinkamena, and is willing to get rid of Cheese over it]].

* TheRunaway: Cheese, [[spoiler:due to feeling like the nopony of his family]].

-->They broke the kiss and hugged. Cheese sighed and looked up at the sky, thankful for the day his life had changed.
-->The day when he met '''the rock farmer's daughters'''.

* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler:Cheese has referred to himself as the "nopony" of his family. Considering how his younger brother had surpassed him both socially and academically, it's not hard to see why he's so down about it]].
* UnresolvedSexualTension
** Until Chapter [[spoiler:30]].

* WhenSheSmiles: [[spoiler:Cheese is in awe when he sees Pinkamena smile for the first time.]]

** [[spoiler:Tomato Sandwich--at least in this AU. He's actually quite TheComicallySerious GrumpyBear and DeadpanSnarker in the Main 'verse]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Cheese.

** The character of Cortland is suspiciously like [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], if only in the pursuit of the female lead.

* WeddingDay: [[spoiler:The epilogue is about Cheese and Pinkamena's wedding.]]

* GiveAwayTheBride: [[spoiler:The wedding is in the point of view of Igneous, who is so amazed at the entire thing he's lost in thought as he walks Pinkamena down the aisle and pretty much misses the vows. He talks with Pinkamena later on to tell her [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming how much he loves her and that he's proud to have her as a daughter]]]].

** Given that Cheese Sandwich is voiced by WeirdAlYankovic in the show, there were bound to be a few references in the fic. Most notably is when Cheese sits out in the rain and sings about living in a "Rock Farm Paradise."