''Pattycakes'' is a DarkFic based on ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' by Pegacorn Ondacob.

Plot synopsis: Fluttershy invites Rainbow Dash to her home under the pretense of having some important news to tell her. When Dash arrives, the shy pegasus reveals her desire to become a mother and have a little foal to take care of. Fluttershy then offers her friend a drink that Dash discovers too late was drugged. She wakes up some time later strapped to a table in a darkened room decorated up like a nursery. Fluttershy reappears and explains that Dash is going to be her baby today, [[AndIMustScream whether she likes it or not]].
Thus, Dash is made to endure an entire day of being treated like a baby and putting up with Fluttershy's disturbing mixture of care and psychopathy. Eventually, the [[MindRape psychological torture]] becomes too much and Dash internalizes the notion that she really is Fluttershy's baby. So ends part one.

''Part two'' begins with Fluttershy perfecting a [[{{Retcon}} drug]] called [[IncrediblyLamePun foalmula]] which is the drug she actually used to temporarily revert Dash's mind back into that of an infant. Meanwhile, Scootaloo begins a search for her idol and eventually runs afoul of Fluttershy and is subjected to a series of demeaning tasks and tests ripped straight from the {{Saw}} series. [[spoiler: She ends up ''permanently'' reverting Dash to the mindset of an infant in order to save herself from the same fate]]. [[spoiler: For the final test, Scootaloo is given a choice of two drinks to chose from, a glass of water and a baby bottle filled with milk. The reader may then follow one of two links to determine which drink Scootaloo takes and how the story ends, one drink being laden with powerful foalmula and the other harmless.]].

WordOfGod states that these were supposed to be parodies of {{Fanfic/Cupcakes}}, but see PoesLaw. The fic has already become the subject of {{MST}} fics and [[DramaticReading dramatic readings]]. You can too watch such readings [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTslJZbIylE here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwConrQBq_U here]] and a reading by [=MicTheMicrophoneZero=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwIz_RseJA&feature=plcp here]].

You can read Part 1 [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tYd5iFkwn1nscOqC4e9BYIyWqLK1QhHxQMYHmGMDYXY/edit?hl=en_US here]] and Part 2 [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yudxzSY_ojD2XYI32KPlfoMIxPw_IIuERyEx-W2ZGAw/edit?hl=en_US here]]. You may also read the prequel [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/49394/Pattycakes-0 here]]. There is also a ChooseYourOwnAdventure style story [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/88797/choose-your-own-pattycakes here]]. The author has confirmed that a third part will be out soon.

Now it has a tumblr, [[http://ask-fluttermama.tumblr.com/ Hello my little babies]].


!!''Pattycakes'' contains examples of:

* AbusiveParents: Fluttershy, herself. No surprise. At one point Regressed Dash is left alone and panicked in a small room by herself and just allowed to go into a terrified crying fit while 'Shy has [[SarcasmMode other, more important things]] to do. ''So Dash can just wait for mommy to come make it all better.'' So Yeah...
* AffablyEvil: Fluttershy still acts '''just''' like her canon self through everything in these fics.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Taken to psychotic levels.
* AloneWithThePsycho: And no back up!
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Foalmula. A chemical that somehow unravels the adult mind and sends you back to infancy.
** Crosses into ArtisticLicenseChemistry and ChemistryCanDoAnything.
* BabyTalk: Dash, after Fluttershy has [[MindRape broken]] her.
** Dash's BabyTalk includes YouNoTakeCandle and ElmuhFuddSyndwome.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Fluttershy sure seems to think so.
* TheBadGuyWins: ''Twice''. Fluttershy succeeds in mind washing Dash and ''keeps'' her.
* BandWagonTechnique: Fluttershy shows Dash a picture album with photos of her Age Play fetish, including Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, [[BrainBleach The Mayor]], [[{{Squick}} Big Mac]], Lyra, Bonbon, Derpy, and more. Dash, understandably, doesn't take this well.
* BecauseISaidSo: This is used as Fluttershy's defense when Dash asks why her of all ponies. Yes. ''Really.''
* BeigeProse: The fic has a lot of very straightforward descriptions and [[ShowDontTell tell-y narration]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the author's own words: ''Never underestimate Fluttershy.''
* BrainBleach: How Dash reacts to Fluttershy's photo album of "baby pictures" going as far as being a contributing factor in the MindRape. How Scootaloo later reacts to fully broken Dash. And how the reader reacts to the stories as a whole from to start to finish.
** Actually, the ''foalmula'', itself, could be considered a form of this, as one of the functions it serves to induce infantile tendencies is temporarily bleaching the adult mind of inhibitions and more complex, adult, thought processes.
* BrainWashed: pretty much everyone after an encounter with Fluttershy.
* BreakTheCutie or BreakTheHaughty: Dash is both of these things, and either way, she ends up broken.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: In order for the third test to work out in Fluttershy's favor and get Scootaloo to turn Rainbow Dash into "Wittue Wain-boo" forever, she has to destroy the pedestal Scoot's spent years building up. Which, to be fair, isn't really all that hard]]
* BrownNote: Fluttershy's photo album of her other "babies" acts this way to Dash.
* ConvenientlyCommonKink: Everypony in town, and we do mean ''every. Pony. In. Town.'' is into Fluttershy's Age Play kink and more than happy to be drugged into incontinent [[ManChild man children]].
** The sole exception is Dash, who has to have it ''forced'' onto her, adding new levels to the term MindRape.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Well, Mamashy and Ponyville seem to think so. The audience has another take on the matter.
* CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler:Scootaloo in the "good" ending.]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Ponyville, at least, though we never are told how far Lady Fluttermama's influence stretches.
* CreepyBasement: Of the ''basement turned frikkin dungeon'' variety.
** ElaborateUndergroundBase: Scootaloo specifically wonders how she got this huge dungeon.
*** [[AWizardDidIt A unicorn did it]]. Quite probably Twilight Sparkle, considering how powerful she is.
* CreepyChild: Dash, sort of.
** [[spoiler:Scootaloo, by the end of ''Part Two'', no matter which ending you get.]]
** [[spoiler:Rarity.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Despite [[MindRape mind raping]] countless ponies back into infancy, Fluttershy is just as sweet and motherly as ever. God help you if she decides she wants to adopt you.
* '''DarkerAndEdgier'''
* DarkFic: Very much.
** How bad is it? Remember {{Cupcakes}}? [[UpToEleven Yeah, this is considered to be even worse]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Dash was resisting the baby treatment for the bulk of ''Part One'', staying herself the entire time, then she messed herself just like a baby would. This shook all the determination not to succumb she had.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Okay, fine, [[spoiler: what Rainbow did to Scoot was harsh, but did it really warrant the permanent destruction of her mind, personality, everything? Well given that [[SadisticChoice Scootaloos sanity was also on the line.]] ]]
* DownerEnding
* DysfunctionalFamily: No matter which ending, yes. When your family is comprised of you playing mother to a bunch of not-babies you've made think are babies, then that much should go without saying.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Initially, but that danged PowerPerversionPotential kicked in hard. ''Real hard.''
* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:What Fluttershy becomes to Scootaloo in the "good" ending.]]
* EvilVirtues: In this case, the rarely used '''Love'''. Fluttershy just ''loves'' her little babies, and would do absolutely ''anything'' to keep them.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Its freaking ''Fluttershy''...as an evil mastermind that turns both willing and unwilling adults into [[ManChild man children]].
* '''AFateWorseThanDeath''': Some readers have commented they'd rather be [[{{Cupcakes}} cupcaked]].
** To elaborate on that, this means that readers would rather be slowly and sadistically dismembered than have this happen to them!
** This is a very horrific example that goes far above ''Damnatio Memoriae'' which is to destroy someone's name and remove them from history.
* {{Fetish}}: Age Play, to be precise, and not played for sexy or laughs. 'Tis played for {{Horror}}.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Fluttershy. She goes from the harmless, sweet, shy, caring, and compassionate mare we all know and love to an Age Play-obsessed maniac who has taken up raising adult babies and MindRape as hobbies.
* FreakOut: Dash at the end of ''Part One'', after she starts to succumb to the treatment and realizes it. She absolutely breaks down, and well..freaks out.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Dash, upon seeing the photo album. It serves as a BrownNote to her and leads to the literal OhCrap moment.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Even the Mayor is in on it.
* HappilyAdopted: Albeit illegally in every step of the process in Dash's case.
* HeroicBSOD: Dash suffers this in the final stretch of ''Part One'' when she voluntarily uses her diaper for the first time.
* IdiotBall: handed to Scootaloo, who decided to confront Fluttershy alone once she found out that she was lying about Rainbow Dash's whereabouts. It didn't end well.
** Fluttershy, despite everything, is handed this briefly. She leaves her front door wide open at one point. For one thing, that is a big parenting no-no, as children are curious creatures that will wander out such things as open doors at the earliest opportunity. Also, that was just asking for Dash to escape and expose the whole fiasco right then and there. Lastly, it allows Scootaloo to sneak in without trouble and uncover the truth behind Dash's disappearance for herself.
** Dash abandoning a perfect opportunity to get the hell out of Dodge rather than risk people seeing her in a nappy.
** Also, everyone in Ponyville received either this or the VillainBall, possibly both, in order to help Fluttershy accumulate the pieces of her master plan.
* InferredHolocaust: Discord's going to have a ''real'' easy time taking over once he's freed thanks to Fluttershy.
* IllegalGuardian: ''Where to even '''begin?!'''''
* [[IndecisiveDeconstruction Indecisive]] DeconstructionFic: Despite being meant for shock value more than anything else, this fic still gives a disturbing deconstruction of infantilism.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Fluttershy's entire reason for doing any of this. She wants a baby, but is too lazy to go through the red tape to adopt and doesn't want to go through the pains of child-birth. Her solution is to force an adult into the playing the role. The defense of her position on this can be bored down to "because I say so and you don't get a choice in the matter".
** There's also some contrived nonsense about social expectations, retribution, and penance at the end of ''Part Two'', but the core issue is that Fluttershy wanted a baby, and ''anyone'' will do.
** Summarised:
--->'''Fluttershy''': Well … I wanted a filly of my own, and it seemed the obvious choice to turn my friend into one.\\
'''Everyone on Earth''': That's not obvious at all!
* ItsAllAboutMe: Fluttershy falls ''hard'' into this. Dash doesn't want to be a baby? Well, who gives a buck what she wants?
* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: Oh yes. There was no slow descent into madness. Fluttershy jumped right into it and perfected the arts of chemically induced Age Play rather quickly.
* KickTheDog: That should go without saying at this point. However, it is worth noting because you will be hard pressed to find a better example of a dog being so casually kicked repeatly than what Fluttershy does to Dash over the duration of both parts.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Anyone put under the effects of foalmula remembers nothing of it later. Probably the only way she was able to get Rarity to participate more than once.
** GeniusBonus: The formula regresses the mind to that of a baby. A baby's mind works fundamentally different from that of an older pony, among other things, memories are stored differently. When growing up, the way memories are stored changes, and those earliest memories are no longer consciously accessible. That's why you don't remember anything about being a baby.
* LastNoteNightmare: [[spoiler: At the end of the DramaticReading of Part 1 by Mic the Microphone, there's a 4 second pause...then he SCREAMS three times in absolute terror and disgust! Even with the warning to take out/off your earbuds/headphones before it happens, it's still quite a JumpScare if you're only listening to the audio.]]
* LeftForDead: Dash from a psychological standpoint. First by Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Zecora. [[spoiler:Later by Scootaloo, who actually set off the gas in her chamber]].
* LockedInTheDungeon: Scootaloo in ''Part Two''.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy and LoveMakesYouEvil: It certainly had this effect on the shy one.
* LuredIntoATrap: Well, yeah.
* LyricalDissonance: The IronicNurseryRhyme sang at the end of ''Part Two''. Plays just like a regular rhyme, but put to lyrics like: ''you'll never hurt anyone else now that your mind is gone little Dashie.'' Brr...
* MadScientist: Fluttershy, of all ponies. Using a chemistry set loaned to by Twilight and ingredients she got from Zecora, Fluttershy experimented and created the foalmula.
** MadScientistLaboratory: Eeyup.
* TheMasquerade: Ponyville ''only'' appears to be a perfectly normal town of friendly pastel-colored ponies. In truth, they're a borderline cult that frequently go to their ringleader, Fluttershy, who will BrainWash them into thinking they're babies so that she can take care of them. They also condone and actively help her keep one specific pony under her wing and permanently under her control as her "baby". God only knows what will happen if you cause it to become a BrokenMasquerade.
* MaternallyChallenged: For all her talk about wanting babies, 'Shy isn't actually very good at raising them. Heaven only knows how she gets the willing participants to come back.
* MindRape: Fluttershy kidnaps and imprisons Rainbow Dash and then subjects her to the full baby treatment, including wearing a diaper, wearing baby clothes, eating soft foods that are fed to her, sucking on bottles, and playing well...pattcakes. After an afternoon of this, she succumbs.
* MoodWhiplash: ''Part Two'' begins with Fluttershy plotting her latest nefarious scheme and then promptly cuts to the Cutie Mark Crusaders up to their usual antics and then back again just as quickly.
* MultipleEndings: ''Part Two'' has two. Both are horrifying, Gumpy Cat would approve if he were capable of such things.
* MyBelovedSmother: Control maintained with an extra helping of [[FantasticDrug foalmula]].
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Somehow, staring down a Cockatrice got this started. Different strokes, I guess.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: It crosses right into DisproportionateRetribution. [[spoiler:Alright, Dash was very mean to Scootaloo when she told the latter to StopHelpingMe, but that did not warrant [[MindRape destroying Dash's mind]]]].
* NiceIsNotGood: '''Yes.''' So, ''so'' much.
* NightmareFetishist: Guess. Go ahead.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As if you didn't know.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Dash could have avoided this whole mess on account of one thing. She was happily napping on a cloud beforehand and only woke herself to go see Fluttershy, ''because she's a good friend''.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: A rare In Universe example, exacted on a ''pharmaceutical'' level.
* NotHimself: anyone under the effects of foalmula.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Fluttershy doesn't seem to get why anything she does could be considered wrong.
* ObsessionSong: ''Aggressive'' Form in the "good" ending of ''Part Two''. In nursery rhyme form sang by Fluttershy to Dash, no less.
* OhCrap: An almost literal moment, after an entire day of putting up with 'Shy's baby treatment, Dash has finally had enough and decides to accost her about it. In the midst of her rightfully indignant tirade, she messes her diaper. This terrifies her so much that she breaks out, crying.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]: First Dash, then Scootaloo.
* ParentalAbandonment: Implied, but never explained in any detail in the case of Scootaloo.
* ParentalNeglect: Also implied of Scootaloo's situation.
** Also, the forementioned instance of abusive parenting of Dash by Fluttershy's hooves.
* ParentalSubstitute: Whether or not Dash wants ''or needs'' it.
** [[spoiler:Also to Scootaloo in ''Part Two''. In one ending, thanks to the foalmula. In the other, thanks to psychological manipulation.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police ''are in on it.''
* PottyFailure: The final straw that breaks Rainbow Dash.
** Scootaloo, too, only the impact is much lesser on her.
* PromotionToParent: With the help of drugs, to an unwilling recipient!
** [[spoiler:In the "bad" ending, to a second unwilling receiver. In the "good" ending, again to Scootaloo, but this time very willing.]]
* PowerPerversionPotential: Fluttershy established two rules for using the foalmula. 1) Never force it on someone. 2) Never use it on an actual foal. Guess how may of these rules she breaks.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Fluttershy enacts the [[MindRape mental variety]] of this on poor Dash strictly for personal gain and the pleasure of her "mother."
* TheReveal: First, with Crazyshy's intentions in ''Part One'', [[spoiler:later with the two drinks in the final stretch of ''Part Two'']].
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Does having an adult-scale nursery count?
* RogueAnglesOfSatin: There's a noticeable number of spelling errors.
* RuleOfScary: Neither fic makes a lick of sense, but the core concept is frightening enough that it doesn't matter and they both just roll with it.
* SadisticChoice: Forced on Scootaloo and Dash [[spoiler:The former chooses to let the latter get regressed to save herself, out of {{Revenge}}]].
* SanitySlippage: First and foremost, Fluttershy. The experience with the Cockatrice must have been more damaging than originally thought if the night ''that'' all happened is what started this whole mess.
** Also, Rainbow Dash, throughout the entire baby treatment of ''Part One''.
* SecretDiary: Dash's, in fact. [[spoiler:Presented to Scootaloo in order to [[BrokenPedestal break the pedestal]] that she's built for Dash. Whether or not the diary really was written by Dash is another matter altogether...]]
* ShoutOut: The beginning of ''Part One'' is one of ''FanFic/{{Cupcakes}}'', which also began with Dash having a good day.
** Dash falls under the effects of Instant Sedation and wakes up tied to a table.
** Fluttershy calls for Pinkie to bring cupcakes in one ending of ''Part Two''.
** The song Fluttershy sings is based directly off [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Want You Gone]].
** The foalmula is described as [[PrincessBride odorless, colorless, and tasteless]].
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Despite being a parody, it is ''firmly'' Horror Dominant.
* SlippingAMickey: How Dash is taken captive to begin with.
* StartOfDarkness: the events of the episode, ''Stare Master''. How? Why? We frankly have no idea...
* StockholmSyndrome: If there's a better explanation of Scootaloo's behavior in the "good" ending, we don't want to hear it.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Well, to a changing table, but still.
* TapOnTheHead: How Scootaloo is kidnapped in ''Part Two''. Yeah, 'Shy's a bit more severe by then.
* TeamKiller: Not in a physical sense, but Dash is rendered absolutely incapable of functioning as the Element of Loyalty anymore. So here's hoping Equestria never needs those girls again.
* ThreeMonthOldNewBorn. Invoked In Universe, and terrifyingly so.
* TortureCellar: Done {{Saw}}-style, too!
* TrollFic: the author has admitted that ''Pattycakes'' is this, and is quite pleased with the horrified reactions it has gotten.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Ponyville, of all places. Everypony is into Fluttershy's fetishes and even ''participate in keeping Dash held prisoner both physically and psychologically''. They even bring the baby supplies Fluttershy needs. [[spoiler: Heck, in ''Part 2'', they even participate in the gauntlet Crazyshy has Scootaloo run]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Crosses straight into No Good Deed Goes Unpunished for poor Dash.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A whole ''land'' of happy little babies for Fluttershy to mother!
* VasquezAlwaysDies: It just wouldn't a {{Cupcakes}}-style FanFic without this trope in play. In a manner of speaking, Dash ''does'' die. Her mind is permanently destroyed by the end of ''Part Two'', meaning that the Dash that was is no more and never will be again.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: ''with'' the entire town in the know, no less!
* WakingUpElsewhere: Dash, who passes out in 'Shy's living room, and wakes up strapped to a changing table.
** [[spoiler:Scootaloo, who is clobbered over the head, and wakes up in a box. On top of a row of shelves. In the basement/dungeon. Yeah.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Implied in both ends of ''Part Two'', that Fluttershy has somehow gotten it into her head that her "children" are better off permanently regressed.
* WhamLine: A lot of them, but the first and most important:
--> '''Fluttershy''' (to Rainbow Dash): "That’s when I realized that you would be a perfect baby for me.”
* WhatTheHellHero: Attempted by both Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* WhenItAllBegan: ''The Stare Master''.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: If you can actually believe this, the scarring power of this fic is much, MUCH worse than ''Cupcakes''.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: It's revealed that Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Zecora are all in on it and even play an active role in keeping Dash imprisoned by delivering baby supplies to Fluttershy. [[SarcasmMode Thanks, guys.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Blunt instrument + Scootaloo's head = Yep
** She also builds a crate around Scootaloo and sets it on top of a high shelf with the intention of forcing Scootaloo to make it fall to break it open, despite the risk of severe injury.
* XMeetsY: ''Part Two'' is basically ''Pattycakes Part One'' Meets {{Saw}}.
* {{Yandere}}: Fluttershy, but not in the traditional sense which involves butcher knives and romantic rivals. No she'll MurderTheHypotenuse by [[MindRape shattering their mind]].
* YoureInsane: Said of Fluttershy by Rainbow Dash. She's not wrong.

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