History Characters / TriptychContinuum

* MenAreUncultured: Luna is established as being a rare female example of one sub-aspect of this trope; she absolutely '''hates''' opera and regards it as a waste of time, stage space, music, and existence. ''Horsefeathers'' declares that Luna pioneered the "ideal way to be brought into attendance of an opera"... which is to say kicking, screaming and clinging to any handy obstruction to delay the inevitable.

* HandicappedBadass: A capless birth who not only survived, but found a way to fly using a fraction of the wing surface available to everypony else. Snowflake's wings aren't small: they've been ''partially amputated''.

* For characters who exist in the Continuum's own AlternateUniverse, click [[Characters/AnchorFoal here]] for Fanfic/AnchorFoal and click [[Characters/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl here]] for Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl.

* WhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Is absolutely horrified when he accidentally kicks Scootaloo during a brawl with Snowflake in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumADuetForLandAndSky A Duet For Land and Sky]].]]

* AnythingThatMoves: If [[Fanfic/AnchorFoal Anchor Foal: A Romantic Cringe Comedy]] is taken as canon, although Pinkie Pie doesn't see quite the same connection between sex and love as most ponies, she's what Fleur calls a ''trysexual'' -- basically, a pansexual who'll engage in any sexual act or legal coupling which sounds like it'd be fun for all involved.

!!The Lady Applejack Malus of House Rosaceae. Keeper Of The Path. Discovery Of The Unknown and Bloom Of The New Seed. The Truth of Harmony. Our Reassurance of Honesty.

** Somewhere between hypocrisy and {{Irony}} is when she finally [[spoiler: comes clean about the long-hidden secrets of earth pony magic to the other Bearers. Under the one hoof, yes, Twilight was being racist by believing that ''She'' would be harmless in earth pony form... but, under one of the other hooves? That belief was born out of ignorance -- ignorance ''fueled'' and possibly deliberately ''fostered'' by the earth ponies through the traditions that Applejack was so fired up to preserve and maintain.]]
*** It's perhaps telling that, in chapter 26 of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]], when Twilight Sparkle calls her on the FridgeLogic of keeping The Secret, Applejack's first reaction is to passive-aggressively accuse Twilight of blaming other ponies for her own mistakes.

* AGodIAmNot: One of the major sources of anguish in her life is her perpetual inability to convince others of this when the need is truly there, leading to a great amount of StopWorshippingMe, UnwantedFalseFaith, and emotional agony. Not everypony sees the sisters as [[PhysicalGod incarnate deities]] -- but when a crisis hits, far too many look to prayer as their last resort.
** This is especially justified because of something revealed in chapter 9 of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumAMarkOfAppeal A Mark Of Appeal]]: [[spoiler: in this universe, Celestia and Luna ascended to their Alicorn state, just like Cadance and Twilight.]]

* AscendedFanon: [[spoiler: Every sign is suggesting that when the Crusaders do get their marks, it'll be for their fan-developed/early seasons teased skills -- engineering for Apple Bloom, singing for Sweetie Belle, and probably something related to speed or stuntwork for Scootaloo.]]
** [[spoiler: Following the breakup of the Crusade, Apple Bloom has successfully apprenticed herself to Ratchette, ''finally'' putting her on track for her mark.]]

* TheReveal: Two-fold over the course of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTheBounceTest The Bounce Test]]:[[spoiler: His mark can directly communicate with him using ''words'', and the true nature of his talent: ''intercession''.]]
** One comment from Shining about Flash having been born rather late in his parents' marriage has made a few readers believe he's one of Doctor Gentle's deliveries, but this is unconfirmed.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Mildly deconstructed; part of the reason why ponies feel free to skip out on paying Fluttershy for her medical assistance is because they ''know'' she'll never refuse to treat their pets on subsequent visits.
** In [[Recap/TriptychContinuumGoosed Goosed]], Fluttershy is the only pony besides the [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance obliviously out-of-touch paeleo-ornithologist]] who feels some sympathy for the Crystal Geese and their potential ultimate fate, even though she admits that they don't have a place in the world anymore.

* PerpetualPoverty: Property tax. Feed bills. Medical supplies. Texts to study. And the sure and certain knowledge that when somepony skips out on their payment, she has neither the courage nor the time for small claims court. The other Bearers are forever giving her little loans which they pretend to promptly forget about (while Fluttershy never can), and Rarity provides all of her clothing as gifts. Her only financial advantage is outright owning the cottage and surrounding land.
** Apparently Photo Finish used a contract clause to keep pretty much all of the modeling salary, as Fluttershy left before the full term was up. [[Fanfic/AnchorFoal Anchor Foal: A Romantic Cringe Comedy]] reveals that this is actually standard practice for her, so she never has to pay any of her models ''anything''.

* AbusiveParents: Her parents tried to direct her into developing a business-related mark so that she could take up the family trade. When she ended up with a musical mark, the abuse began, ultimately ending with the palace legally divorcing Lyra from her parents.
** It's been speculated that this is why her ''trick'' is a silencing spell: she was that desperate to have a way to make her parents '''shut up'''.

!! Miss Rainbow Dash. The Linchpin Of Harmony.  Our Exemplar of Loyalty.

* HiddenDepths: She's picked up a surprising amount of information from the other Bearers, generally through osmosis. Nopony's more surprised than her when it actually comes out.
** Thanks to summers spent with Gilda at the ranch, she's fairly fluent in Griffonant.

!! Miss Rarity Belle. The Gift of Harmony.  Our Offering of Generosity

* HiddenDepths: Has been back to the local warren enough times to become an authority on Diamond Dog culture: she knows many of their traditions and can read their pictograms. It's part of an unwritten truce between town and warren: she helps them find gems (whilst keeping her best picks for herself), they don't kidnap any ponies, and no angry Princesses appear in the tunnels.
** Her father's legacy means she's also an expert on hoofball: history, strategy, and the best way to dominate a fantasy league -- but she tends to keep that under wraps. Typically, she only identifies her family with ponies she trusts, wishing others to judge her for herself instead of being influenced by her dad's reputation. As a retired long-time player and current coach, he has fans all over the continent -- and several times that number of loyal enemies.

!! Sweetbark

* GlurgeAddict: She's incessantly speaking in the most saccharinely sweet way possible - more like an overblown kindergarten teacher than a vet, and she decorates her clinic with paint in the pastel tones of an overly sweet nursery, pictures of healthy animals, happy ponies with pets, and foal-drawn pictures of pets. Even her cutie mark - the heads of a cat, a dog and a duck - is described as looking more like some foal's animal mobile.
* HateSink: InUniverse, Fluttershy's friends '''despise''' her, and it's even implied that Fluttershy might hate her (as much as Fluttershy can be said to hate anyone). The readers certainly loathe her for forcing Fluttershy to take on all of the "risky" cases in Ponyville, which means that, more often than not, Fluttershy alone has to go through the trauma of euthanizing animals.
* LifeMeter: Her talent is for determining the health of animals, something that could be a real asset to a veterinarian... if she didn't use it to screen out any high risk patients.
** She refuses to see Caramel's ferret Shimmy, because to her senses Shimmy will always be a week away from dying. Shimmy lives a perfectly comfortable, active life on her medicine regimen, but if she misses a dose...

On the surface, "The Great And Powerful Trixie" is the same boastful braggart that we know from canon. But just keep in mind that that is a ''stage persona''. Offstage, there's somepony considerably more interesting to meet...

!! The Fair Princess Twilight Sparkle Of House Twinkle. Our Lady Of The Dusk And Dawn, Incarnate Of The Future, And Most Gracious Blessing Of Hope Upon The Land And Sky.  The Enchantment of Harmony.  Our Incarnation of Magic.

*** [[spoiler: The actual trigger words may be worth noting here: "What are you going to do, ''grow plants at us?'' Oooh, ''that'll'' be scary. Suddenly the grass is four feet high, let's all run, everypony, or the giant dandelions will get us..." Twilight is becoming steadily more embarrassed by this with each repetition of memory.]]

** Is absolutely terrified of loosing her temper and hurting someone she loves.

* FatalFlaw: A one-two punch of Stubbornness and Impatience, as Fluttershy comments on in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumScootalift Scootalift]]. Once she makes her mind up about an overall goal, she sticks to it with a fanatic's zeal, but she's so eager to achieve it that she won't stick with a single method for doing so for very long.

* MinorLivingAlone: [[spoiler: Has been living on her own, supported by the checks her parents send from wherever they happen to be each moon, since before the Crusade started.]] Now lives with Applejack as of Monsoon Season, and views it as a horrible and unjustified punishment given that she had an exemplary record of responsibility.

She tried to tell herself that it had been a choice. The stupid adults had decided that just because she'd been living on her own for -- a while -- she'd been abandoned. And that was a lie. Her parents mailed her a voucher every moon, and Scootaloo was utterly faithful in how she managed them. They'd never missed a mailing and in turn, she'd never been late on any payment. She was willing to wager that she'd been more careful about such things than some of the adults in town, especially since she was vaguely aware that Caramel existed and had occasionally overheard Rainbow's mutters after the weather coordinator had once again kicked the stallion's romantic advances to the curb, usually followed by the stallion. Caramel missed payments all the time and nopony was forcing him to live in the wrong house.

* MinorLivingAlone: [[spoiler: Has been living on her own, supported by the checks her parents send from wherever they happen to be each moon, since before the Crusade started.]]

* SexyWalk: She teaches all her models a very distinctive way of this that involves a distinctive hip-hitch, which allows someone familiar with her to recognize one of her trainees (or, perhaps more accurately, victims) by sight.

* PoisonousFriend: A ''very'' downplayed example used for laughs: although she's Scootaloo's chosen CoolBigSis, unlike Rarity and Applejack, she's more likely to share in Scootaloo's "that was awesome!" reactions and encourage her than chastise her for doing stupid stuff.
** Also, while it's never been discussed in the Continuum proper -- perhaps because nopony's figured it out -- the entire Cutie Mark Crusade is ''her'' fault. As in canon, she was the one who assured Apple Bloom that she could get a mark by just trying random things and seeing what stuck. Given how Scootaloo both idolizes her and is the primary late-stage instigator of the Crusade's disastrous methods, this makes Rainbow ultimately responsible for it all. Especially since, as stated above, Rainbow is more likely to encourage Scootaloo's pursuit of "cool stunts" than scold her for breaking things.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The logical inversion of this - Bad People Have Bad Sex - is invoked when Fleur uses her [[ThePornomancer Talent]] to scan her, and is informed that Sweetbark is extremely sexually inactive and uninventive, making her an awful lover, which Fleur treats as more evidence of what a bad pony she is.
-->It would have been unfair to describe Sweetbark as 'frigid,' and it wasn't because the more enticing term of 'arctic' was just within reach. The mare (currently single, and strictly heterosexual) had ''some'' interest in sex, in that said interest level was higher than zero. It was just that...
-->In a related sense, it was sometimes unfair to describe sex as 'vanilla,' because the actual flavor was a pleasurable one. Fleur wasn't sure what vanilla had done to anypony in order to become associated with plain, boring, unimaginative, ''repetitive'' interaction. But in looking at Sweetbark's puzzle, Fleur was seeing a mare for whom vanilla was a risky proposition. The intensity of Prance vanilla would have put her into full retreat at the mere possibility of such ''scandalous'' activity. This was a mare for whom, if sex could be regarded as baking a cake, felt the act of creation consisted of pouring bleached flour into a mold, leaving it on the counter, and expecting something interesting to happen. Any lack of ''flavor'' was clearly the fault of the other party, because flour was where all cakes came from and so if you couldn't make ''flour'' interesting...

* BastardBoyfriend: Dulcinea gave birth to Dinky because she was one of those unfortunates who mistook the charms of a stallion who only wanted sex as being a sign he sincerely loved her, and was only enlightened when he abandoned her after impregnating her.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: As per WordOfGod, because of the callous way she was seduced, used and abandoned by her BastardBoyfriend, she's been seriously turned off of romance. It's hard for her to even think about dating because once burned, just about forever after shy. If you told her anypony was interested, she'd first assume they were looking to use her, then openly laugh it off while having a few background fantasies of how she could turn it on the user.

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* For characters who exist in the Continuum's own AlternateUniverse, [[Characters/AnchorFoal click here]] for Fanfic/AnchorFoal and [[Characters/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl click here]] for Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl.

** In Recap/ADuetForLandAndSky, Miranda Rights makes it clear that Dulci and Dinky are on Foal Protective Services' radar, and the collision may be imminent.

** In [recap:ADuetForLandAndSky], Miranda Rights makes it clear that Dulci and Dinky are on Foal Protective Services' radar, and the collision may be imminent.