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-> ''"Good job, you really are a lot like I was when I was a kid. Keep up the good work. Some day you might be just like me."''

'''Tarnished Diamonds''' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic written by '''Godzillawolf''' and the sequel to ''FanFic/GettingBackOnYourHooves''. It can be read on [[http://kendell2.deviantart.com/gallery/48579111 deviantart]] and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/175657/gboyhverse-tarnished-diamonds FIMfiction]].

Checker Monarch told Diamond Tiara that she was just like her when she was a foal. The spoiled filly was so excited by the prospect...until [[BrokenPedestal Checker's true nature]] [[EngineeredPublicConfession was revealed]]. But that isn't the only thing that Diamond saw revealed that day: she saw her potential future. [[FutureMeScaresMe And she doesn't like what she saw.]]

Can Diamond Tiara change her future? Or are Checker Monarch's crimes destined to be repeated again?

!!This ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic contains examples of the following tropes:

* BadBoss: Diamond Tiara, while not downright abusive on her family's employees, she's quite rude to them and never shows any appreciation on their efforts to keep her well attended; they're so used to this mistreatment that they are visibly surprised and happy when the Cutie Mark Crusaders are nice to them.
* BlindWithoutEm: Silver Spoon. It's shown when she wakes up in chapter 2 that everything is a blur when she isn't wearing hers.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Cheerilee seems to have gotten used to Twilight's episodes, while Trixie is unnerved by the fact that Cheerilee said "one of" when referring to her episode in chapter 3.
* CallForward: The Crusaders note that a Diamond Tiara's great aunt Impossibly Rich [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E20VivaLasPegasus looks an awful lot like Fluttershy.]]
* TheDreaded: Played for laughs with the Cloud Gremlins, when they realize that Rainbow isn't on vacation, they head for the hills.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The reason becoming a second Checker Monarch frightens Diamond so badly: she cares for her own family and Silver Spoon, and is afraid of becoming someone like Checker who tortures their own family.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: While Diamond Tiara wants to change, and avoid becoming a second Checker Monarch, she doesn't yet understand ''why'' bullying the CMC is so bad yet. She also is having trouble understanding her own guilt.
** When trying to find partners for a project so they won't have to work with the CMC, Diamond can't seem to get why her classmates are so upset about her blackmailing them when they tried to quit being Gabby Gums.
* FamilyThemeNaming: The Rich's family members are named after dirt-related stuff. [[spoiler: Even Diamond Tiara, whose birth name is Tarnished Rich.]]
* FlatCharacter: Diamond notes a few times in-universe how much she and Silver Spoon have been devoting their time and energy to bullying the CMC whenever they're together. Heck, she has trouble ''remembering'' what they used to do together before they started.
* FreakOut: Diamond freaks a bit when she briefly mistakes Trixie for Checker. Twilight throwing the library into the air is also mentioned.
* FutureMeScaresMe: The cause of Diamond Tiara's HeelRealization: Checker told her she was just like her as a child, and now Diamond is terrified of becoming another Checker. Shown by Diamond Tiara's nightmare of her adult self at the very beginning of the fic.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Checker Monarch. While she was defeated at the end of the original fic and is currently locked up in an insane asylum, her actions are directly responsible for the events of the story.
* HeelRealization: Played with. Diamond Tiara has had a partial one, now aware that she has the potential to become like Checker Monarch and wanting to change, but not quite comprehending ''why'' bullying the CMC made her like Checker.
* HeroAntagonist: Since Diamond Tiara is the main character, the Crusaders are in this role to a degree, though the 'trouble' they cause her is largely accidental.
* HollywoodGenetics: Silver Spoon is an Earth Pony, but her father is a unicorn and her mother a Pegasus. Essentially an inversion of the Cake twins.
* LegacyCharacter: Diamond Tiara's aunt and great aunt are both named [[spoiler:Spoiled Rich]].
* LighterAndSofter: Golden Tiara compared to her ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' self (who she was based off of). According to WordOfGod, while she did go insane in this universe, she never [[spoiler: tried to kill Diamond]] and was cured at some point before the original fic.
* LookBehindYou: Diamond Tiara does this to the Crusaders in the first episode by yelling "Look! Cloud Gremlins". Not only does it work, the Gremlins are actually there.
* MeaningfulName: The reason the Rich ponies usually have dirt-themed names is because [[spoiler: the family, originally, was quite poor, and, before funding Ponyville along with the Apples, they tried to establish themselves and make fortune with investments on cheap real state, usually in dirty, isolated areas. The 'dirt' names are how the Riches pay tribute to their own family history.]]
* MeaningfulRename: It's revealed that some ponies change their names to fit with their cutie marks, like Diamond Tiara, [[spoiler: her birth name being Tarnished Rich,]] and Silver Spoon, who changed it from Silver Mirror. Diamond's great aunt, Impossibly Rich, has the birth name Musty Rich.
* MirrorScare: As shown in the cover art, Diamond has one of these in the first chapter of seeing Checker Monarch's reflection replace her own due to a combination of her fear of becoming Checker and apparent sleep deprivation due to nightmares.
* MoralityPet: Her family and Silver Spoon for Diamond Tiara. Not only does she genuinely care for them, fear that she'll hurt them is why she's so afraid of becoming another Checker Monarch.
* MythologyGag: The Cloud Gremlins from Rainbow's ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries comic show up briefly in the second chapter.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Diamond beats up an NPC in a video game quite badly (according to Silver Spoon, he was defeated for about a minute before she stopped), the narration even mentioning that it's overkill.
* NonIdleRich: Silver Spoon's family is rich, but her father is a Royal Guard.
* NoodleIncident: We don't actually get to see much of what the CMC and Trixie did together in chapter 3.
* OhNoNotAgain: When the Crusaders show up to class covered in tree sap, this is Cheerilee's reaction.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Confident, SmugSnake Diamond Tiara opens the fic ''absolutely terrified'' and breaking down crying due to night terrors resulting from Checker Monarch's statement she's like herself as a foal.
** The CMC later lampshade this when DT and Silver Spoon ''don't'' jump at the chance to leave the other stuck working with them.
* {{Ojou}}: Silver Spoon is shown to be one in scenes involving her family.
* PetTheDog: Diamond Tiara leaves [[spoiler: Button Mash]] be despite being upset with him because [[spoiler: she sympathizes with his WhenYouComingHomeDad situation.]]
* PlaguedByNightmares: Diamond Tiara is implied to have had them since Checker Monarch's defeat, including the one that starts the fic, due to being terrified of becoming a second Checker. She's showing signs of sleep deprivation at the beginning of the story.
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler: Grandpa Dusty reveals that his family used to be quite poor, traveling all over Equestria and trying to invest on cheap real state without much success until Princess Celestia herself suggested them to establish in the same area as the Apples, that had just started making their famed Zap-Apple Jam, which obviously worked quite well for everypony involved.]] Fittingly enough with this trope, that's the point when the family changed it's surname to 'Rich'.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Twilight's letter to Trixie after saving the Empire and getting Trixie a performing gig there has this at the end (note that Trixie didn't read that part at first and was doing ''exactly that''):
-->'''Twilight''': And Trixie, please don't begin bragging until the girls are fed and at school, otherwise they will probably be late for school. And remember, pack light, we'll be coming back tonight.\\
'''Trixie''': ...[[LampshadeHanging She knows Trixie well]]...
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The Cloud Gremlins flee like their butts are on fire when they realize Rainbow's in town.
* {{Sequel}}: According to WordOfGod, this fic starts chronologically next in line after the original story.
** {{Interquel}}: Set between the original fic and ''Fanfic/PerfectCompanions'' and ''Magic Duel''.
* SimultaneousArcs: Chapter three takes place at the same time the Mane Six and Spike are [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 off saving the]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 Crystal Empire]].
* StepfordSmiler: Unconfirmed at this time, but Silver Spoon's attitude at the beginning of chapter two does seem a little forced (though the chapter title being "The Masks We Wear" supports the idea). Chapter three adds further weight to the idea.
* TemptingFate: Diamond repeatedly assumes quitting bullying the Crusaders will be simple. It's not. ''At all''.
** Scootaloo gets one when she states it's unlikely that the Crusaders will have to partner with Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara...Guess how that turns out.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Diamond Tiara, with Silver tagging along, gives one to [[spoiler: Twist, Truffle, and Shady Daze]] for not being her partner. While it ''was'' a KickTheDog moment and needlessly cruel on her part, WordOfGod has pointed out [[spoiler: only Truffle, who she insulted for being fat]] [[VillainHasAPoint didn't need to hear what was said.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Diamond's grandfather Dusty's twin sister (now named Impossibly Rich) is named Musty.
* VillainousBSOD: Diamond Tiara begins the fic in the middle of one. However, she doesn't seem to understand her feelings of guilt just yet.
* VillainHasAPoint: While [[VillainProtagonist Diamond Tiara's]] [[spoiler: BreakingLecture to Twist]] was harsh and cruel, she actually did have a point that [[spoiler: Twist had no problem attending Diamond Tiara's parties despite Diamond having bullied her and her supposed best friend Apple Bloom ''the day before she got her Cutie Mark''.]] According to WordOfGod this was intentional.
* VillainousFriendship: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, just like in canon.
* VillainProtagonist: Unlike Trixie, who was not openly antagonistic, Diamond Tiara's antagonism towards the CMC remains intact, she's just trying to suppress it without realizing why it's wrong.
* WhamLine: Parodied: when Diamond Tiara proclaims she'll no longer bully the CMC, it cuts to Pinkie Pie as her Pinkie Sense goes off.
--> '''Pinkie Pie''': [[Franchise/StarWars I sense a disturbance in the status quo, as if, if this were an episode, every bronies' jaws would have just dropped in disbelief...]]
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Diamond Tiara has some issues with this. Apparently due both to her father's work and her mother's previous condition. [[spoiler:Button Mash has similar issues with his father, and [[PetTheDog Diamond Tiara actually shows him a little sympathy when she becomes aware of it.]]]]
* WrittenInAbsence: Trixie is watching the CMC while Twilight and co. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 save the]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 Crystal Empire]].
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