History YMMV / CRISISEquestria

* EvilIsSexy: It's said several times how physically attractive Curaçao is.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The divergence timeline feels like the author's attempt to address certain complaints about the original timeline's characters, at least so far. The Mane Six actually feel like close-knit friends this time around, for example, which was a complaint of the original story's Mane Six, who bickered and argued over all sorts of issues during their journey together.
** A common complaint about the original story was a complete lack of Spike. He makes a minor appearance in the sequel story's first chapter, and in a chapter in the divergence timeline where we see that he's been keeping watch over the Ponyville library in Twilight's stead.

* FridgeBrilliance: Red Velvet is a type of cupcake. [[Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}} Guess what inspired her personality?]]

* MagnificentBastard: Silvertongue, full stop. He plans for everything and always has a backup plan, and is almost never caught off-guard, and has committed some of the most evil acts in the story to date, especially in the original timeline [[spoiler:when he attempts to rewrite reality]].

** A common complaint about the original story was a complete lack of Spike. He makes a minor appearance in the sequel story's first chapter, and in a chapter in the divergence timeline where we see that he's been keeping watch over the Ponyville library in Twilight as stead.

** A common complaint about the original story was a complete lack of Spike. He makes a minor appearance in the sequel story's first chapter, and in a chapter in the divergence timeline where we see that he's been keeping watch over the Postville library in Twilight as stead.

** Due to the circumstances of the story, this doesn't show up from Twilight Sparkle quite as much as usual, but it's still there. When she [[ComicallyMissingThePoint misinterpreted the "fun" that Briarthorn was intending to show her,]] it wasn't just hilarious, but classic Twilight Adorkable as well.
** Havocwing ever since Chapter 25, ''oh-so-much''. Being genuinely humbled by getting appointed as a temporary leader, awkward group hugs, consoling her sisters through their [[HeroicBsod Heroic BSODs]], that ''smile'' at the end of Chapter 27... the list goes on and on.

* CryForTheDevil: It's hard to not feel sorry for the Mean Six after their "father" Silvertongue abandons them once he sees that they no longer serve a purpose to him.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Shroud. Silvertongue's secretary who mostly only showed up on the other side of an intercom. To the point where the author gave her a big farewell because of her popularity.

** In this story, [[HumbleHero Twilight]] [[WeakButSkilled Sparkle]] gets a {{Foil}} and EvilCounterpart in the form of [[PowerOfTheVoid Starlight]] [[SmugSnake Shadow]]. In the series proper, Twilight would get {{Foil}}s and {{Evil Counterpart}}s in the form of '''[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight]]''' Glimmer and Tempest '''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Shadow]]'''.
** Someone creating clones of The Mane Six and the group is named [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 "The Mean Six"]].

** In Chapter 12, when the party is stuck in a cramped space and Lockwood has apparently been rubbing Flathoof's flank, thinking it one of the mares in the bubble. When Flathoof tells him off, Lockwood doesn't outright show disgust, but actually ''compliments'' Flathoof on his toned flank. Rainbow doesn't miss the opportunity to call attention to it.

** in Chapter 27, the party gets new outfits to replace their tattered old ones. Flathoof's first outfit, chosen by Rarity, makes him look rather of a certain persuasion, and Briarthorn and Tick Tock, who are the only two at first that know what it represents in their world, relentlessly tease Flathoof about it. Tick Tock is the one that brings up the possibility of Lockwood and Flathoof being a couple first.

** Curaçao and Insipid don't count, as their budding relationship is fairly out in the open.
** Applejack fears that this will be assumed of why she likes Flathoof, and starts to distance herself from him. She isn't fooling anypony, and the real reason she seems to not want to talk to him is because she thought he was being dishonest about sharing a relationship with Tick Tock. Both of these thoughts are put into her head by "Rarity," who was actually Curaçao in disguise.

** Red Velvet's techniques for frightening ponies may or may not actually be frightening to the reader. Chapter 24 so far is the pinnacle of her power, and she becomes so strong as to [[BreakingTheFourthWall actually corrupt the text.]]

** [[spoiler: Lockwood's nightmare from Chapter 22, as the whole nightmare itself is written without any indication that it's a dream, and involves Lockwood violently murdering Flathoof, Rarity, and Fluttershy before Tick Tock destroys him and he wakes up. That doesn't end it though. When he wakes up and is frantically begging to be let go to get away from them, Rainbow Dash and Applejack point out that Lockwood's eye has become warped and red, just like the zombies of the Blood Mire.]]

* FoeYay: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tick Tock, who taunts Starlight Shadow's attempts to frighten Twilight's group into submission by a display of power, as her basically showing off in an attempt to flirt with her. Starlight Shadow never specifically denies any sort of attraction to Tick Tock, and the 'Chronomancer' title she calls her by, eschewing her real name, can be taken as a bit of a pet name for her. Shadowstep is the only other character that knows Tick Tock's name yet still calls her Chronomancer to her face, hinting that perhaps he too falls under this trope. Silvertongue is excluded, as he only refers to her title when referring to her and talking to others, and the two have never interacted personally.

* DracoInLeatherPants: The readers hold a lot of affection for Silvertongue and the Mean Six, despite the former being almost ''entirely responsible'' for the sorry state that the world is in as of the start of the plot and the latter being a group of antagonistic mares who have no real qualms against killing unless expressly forbidden from doing so. Despite this, more attention is payed to them being [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily a family]] and less to their being murderous and evil. That's even discounting the fact that Silvertongue all but spells out that he does not care about his "daughters" and discards the Mean Six like broken toys after they [[spoiler:help him achieve Alicorn status since after that he sees no more use of them]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Forza Soundfire's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2Zzmn6wdw&feature=c4-overview&list=UU8VdtDAbiTXyN3SVz3FA71w "The Journey Begins"]] for the aborted audioplay.

* EvilIsCool: CRISIS Equestria has an absolute smorgasbord of badass villains. Whether it's {{Magnificent Bastard}}s like Silvertongue, or CreepyAwesome {{Serial Killer}}s like Shadowstep. But by far the best example has to be [[PsychoRangers The Mean Six Themselves]].

* MagnificentBastard:
** Silvertongue, to unbelievable levels. [[spoiler: He's apparently been manipulating Nihila, the Goddess of Disparity, into believing he was loyal to her for hundreds of years, just so that he could destroy her when given the right opportunity. Yes, [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu he deceived an omnipotent goddess]].]]
** Curacao', the HyperCompetentSidekick to Starlight Shadow[[note]]Though Starlight can ''hardly'' be considered incompetent[[/note]] and the Element of Deception, is ''easily'' the most intelligent of the Mean Six. Her strategies are nearly flawless, only faltering thanks to elements [[DidntSeeThatComing she has no way of predicting]]. She is incredibly skilled at manipulation and can even deceive her own sisters while having the sheer '''ovaries''' to calmly maintain the disguise under threat of MindRape. She has a superb understanding of her sisters powers and knows how to coordinate them to best effect, even going so far as to make herself a target for Insipid's obsession to prevent the latter's greed from running amuck. She also quickly manages to see through the lies of her own father who as established above, is a fantastic MagnificentBastard in his own right. Plus she's proven herself to be [[GeniusBruiser deceptively]] effective in a fight. While her plans may not have the same... ''scale'' as Silvertongue's, she is brilliantly effective at carrying them out.
** '''''Blackburn!''''' The CrazyPrepared Chessmaster who rules over Hope's Point and can SherlockScan just about anyone.

** Someone creating clones of The Mane Six and the group is named [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 "The Mean Six"]].

* HilariousInHindsight: In this story, [[HumbleHero Twilight]] [[WeakButSkilled Sparkle]] gets a {{Foil}} and EvilCounterpart in the form of [[SmugSnake Starlight]] [[UnskilledButStrong Shadow]]. In the series proper, Twilight would get {{Foil}}s and {{Evil Counterpart}}s in the form of '''[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight]]''' Glimmer and Tempest '''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Shadow]]'''.

* MagnificentBastard: Silvertongue, to unbelievable levels. [[spoiler: He's apparently been manipulating Nihila, the Goddess of Disparity, into believing he was loyal to her for hundreds of years, just so that he could destroy her when given the right opportunity. Yes, [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu he deceived an omnipotent goddess]].]]
** MagnificentBitch: Curacao', the HyperCompetentSidekick to Starlight Shadow[[note]]Though Starlight can ''hardly'' be considered incompetent[[/note]] and the Element of Deception, is ''easily'' the most intelligent of the Mean Six. Her strategies are nearly flawless, only faltering thanks to elements [[DidntSeeThatComing she has no way of predicting]]. She is incredibly skilled at manipulation and can even deceive her own sisters while having the sheer '''ovaries''' to calmly maintain the disguise under threat of MindRape. She has a superb understanding of her sisters powers and knows how to coordinate them to best effect, even going so far as to make herself a target for Insipid's obsession to prevent the latter's greed from running amuck. She also quickly manages to see through the lies of her own father who as established above, is a fantastic MagnificentBastard in his own right. Plus she's proven herself to be [[GeniusBruiser deceptively]] effective in a fight. While her plans may not have the same... ''scale'' as Silvertongue's, she is brilliantly effective at carrying them out.

* DracoInLeatherPants: The readers hold a lot of affection for Silvertongue and the Mean Six, despite the former being almost ''entirely responsible'' for the sorry state that the world is in as of the start of the plot and the latter being a group of antagonistic mares who have no real qualms against killing unless expressly forbidden from doing so. Despite this, more attention is payed to them being [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily a family]] and less to their being murderous and evil.

** Applejack fears that this will be assumed of why she likes Flathoof, and starts to distance herself from him. She isn't fooling anypony, and the real reason she seems to not want to talk to him is because she thought he was being dishonest about sharing a relationship with Tick Tock. Both of these thoughts are put into her head by "Rarity", who was actually Curaçao in disguise.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Okay, so far we've only had one small preview track released for the upcoming audioproject. But if Forza Soundfire's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2Zzmn6wdw&feature=c4-overview&list=UU8VdtDAbiTXyN3SVz3FA71w "The Journey Begins"]] is any indication, then this soundtrack is going to be '''EPIC!!'''