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This is the characters page for the fan-fic Waking Nightmares, written by Jonathan "KnightMysterio" Spires. It is mainly a Crossover of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Team Fortress 2, but also contains hints of Doctor Who and Slenderman.

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Mane 9 (and Spike)

     Twilight Sparkle 
  • Brought Down to Normal: During Discord's relapse, Twilight fought him as an alicorn and indirectly nearly caused Fluttershy's death. She then depowered herself afterward out of guilt and due to viewing herself as unworthy of such power.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Twilight Tragedy knows a spell that can cause enough despair in their victims that their bodies actually shut down.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Twilight, once she's no longer Brainwashed and Crazy but remembers that she tried to murder everyone in Ponyville.
  • Power Copying: Twilight is able to figure out how to cast spells by seeing them performed.
  • Power Limiter: Twilight had her alicorn powers sealed and princesshood abdicated after a moment of recklessness harmed Fluttershy, thus explaining why she's still a unicorn. She reclaims it during her fight with Nightmare Brutality.

     Pinkie Pie 
  • Crazy-Prepared: According to the Mann Co robots. Their analysis is that Pinkie is either capable of breaking the laws of physics, or she's prepared for any scenario, up to and including dueling with a magical knife-wielding psychopath. Canonically, she could be either, or both.
  • Official Couple: With BLU Scout.
  • World-Healing Wave: When Pinkie Pie is ubercharged, she unleashes a wave of laughter that turns everyone's worst nightmares into harmless, silly versions of themselves.

     Rainbow Dash 
  • Eye Scream: She gets hit in the eyes by the Smooze and is blinded for several chapters.
  • Handicapped Badass: After Rainbow Dash is temporarily blinded, Sniper trains her to use her other senses to see. She is able to detect Twilight from the sheer feeling of her magic, whereas she identifies Rarity by her perfume overuse.
  • Oh, No... Not Again!: Rainbow Dash has apparently ended up in one of Hugh Jelly's "personal use" vats of jelly before.

     Applejack 

     Rarity 
  • An Arm and a Leg: She loses one of her legs when she rescues Gem Sentry from Nightmare Clockwork.
  • And I Must Scream: When she is brainwashed by Nightmare Cuddles, he leaves enough of her intact that she knows what she's doing and can't stop it.
  • Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife: Rarity's artificial leg also functions as a hand, a gem cutter, a flashlight, a drill, pickaxe, shovel, wrench, lightning gun, and diamond - tipped chainsaw.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Rarity is a mild version. As she puts it, her mother's horrible cooking is the reason why she has a greater poison resistance than that of a dragon.
  • Mad Oracle: Because they both bear elements of Generosity, when Engineer is turned into a Nightmare, Rarity knows what's happening to him. She's not able to convey the news very coherently, though, as she's seeing what he's gone through.
  • Scars are Forever: Because the wound was caused by a Smooze creature, Medic can't regrow Rarity's leg. Engineer and the Doctor construct a replacement, though.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Like Trixie, Rarity has also seen the need to improve, learning to teleport among other things.

     Fluttershy 

     Trixie Lulamoon 
  • Ascended Extra: Although she was never truly an extra in the traditional sense, she has her role greatly extended from the TV Show as the Element of Hope.
  • Big Damn Heroes: She shows up just in time to interrupt a possessed Twilight.
  • Bully Hunter: Trixie makes a habit of ruining the Flim Flam brothers' scams whenever she can, almost solely for her own amusement.
  • Loophole Abuse: Trixie pulls this on Flim and Flam to render their victory over the Apples moot. They really want the Zap Apple grove, but since the grove is technically part of the Everfree Forest and not the Acres, it's under custody of Ponyville and the Mayor, and she's perfectly willing to lease it to the Apples. When they think they can at least make money off the farm proper, they are informed in no uncertain terms that nopony will do business with them, all the other Apple families in Equestria will boycott them, and Rainbow Dash is within her rights to deny them the rain they'd need to grow anything in the first place.
  • Metaphorgotten:
    Trixie: "You literally cannot swing a cat anywhere in Equestria without an Apple catching the cat and telling you to stop hurting the poor thing."
  • Mundane Made Awesome: Trixie has a spell that can respawn destroyed hats. The BLU team is very impressed.
  • Power Copying: Trixie is able to figure out how to cast spells by seeing them performed.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Trixie took the opportunity to beef up her magic skills (without evil amulets this time) before returning to Ponyville for the third time so she could live up to her title.

     Zecora 
  • Ascended Extra: Although she was never truly an extra in the traditional sense, she has her role greatly extended from the TV Show as the Element of Trust.
  • Batman Gambit: Zecora, as Spycora pulls off one of these against Nightmare Clockwork. In order to get past a corridor filled with death traps, she uses some magic dust (a Zecora trait) to create a smokescreen to hide, knowing that Clockwork would most likely panic and fire off all the traps. True enough, Clockwork does indeed fire off all the traps, only to find that Spycora didn't move at all, and simply walks past all the traps as they reset. And then, just to rub it in, she lights a cigarette off of some smoldering flames left by a laser beam trap.

     Derpy Hooves 
  • Ascended Extra: She has her role greatly extended from the TV Show as the Element of Love.
  • Confusion Fu: Derpy fights like this, using her "destructive clumsiness" to her advantage.

Royalty

     Princess Luna 
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Curbstomps a mind-controlled Barricade for picking a fight with her, and makes Spike (who was also mind-controlled and turned into a huge dragon) learn the hard way why dragons don't attack Equestria anymore.
  • Fake Memories: Luna does this to everyone in Ponyville but the BL Us and the bearers of the Elements in the aftermath of Nightmare Grave's attack on Ponyville so they don't remember all the Nightmare Fuel they experienced. They instead remember a Lighter and Softer version of events.
  • Living Lie Detector: Spy tries a hastily made cover story against Celestia and Luna. As she once bore the Element of Honesty in the Waking Nightmares timeline, Luna retains some of its power, and thus is not fooled.
  • The Resenter: Towards Celestia in the past, just like in the show. This led to her corruption by the Smooze

     Princess Celestia 
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Celestia goes completely apeshit when she discovers Grey Hoof turned everypony in Ponyville into zombies, and curses him to an And I Must Scream fate.
    • And prior to that, she curses Sunnytown to live as zombies after she learns of what the ponies there were doing.
  • Burning with Anger: Her mane and tail turn into flaming coronas when she learns Grey Hoof turned everypony into zombies.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Celestia spent fifty years drunk out of guilt for what she did to Luna, and because of that she approved of laws she shouldn't have. She is currently trying to get rid of said laws.
  • Hurl It into the Sun: Celestia inverts this trope by summoning a small sun in the midst of the Daleks.
  • Knight Templar: Post-Sanity Slippage, Celestia becomes willing to kill someone on suspicion of them being Slendermane.
  • My Greatest Failure: Celestia views banishing Luna to the moon as this, since it showed how inattentive she was to her little sister's resentment and envy of her popularity with their subjects, which ultimately led to Luna's corruption into Nightmare Moon in the canon show.
  • Omniglot: Princess Celestia learned every language a long time ago. Justified in that she's certainly had time.
  • Teleport Spam: Celestia's not fast enough to catch Brickhouse, so she teleports after him. She still can't stop him, though, so what ensues is mistaken for a light show by onlookers.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Celestia ADORES cake.
  • You Need to Get Laid: Suggested this to Twilight after she sent a friendship report summarizing all her previous friendship reports.
    Spike: "The Princess's response was to send you some videos from her 'private collection' as well as a sternly worded letter encouraging you to go out and get..."
    Twilight: "OKAY!"

     Shining Armor 
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: According to Word of God's tumblr, Shining Armor did this to Flash Sentry because he is a sexual predator who wanted bragging rights for having slept with an alicorn. When this came to light, Shining had a "long, civilized talk" with Flash before reassigning him to the farthest military outpost in the Frozen North.

     Princess Cadance 
  • Mind Rape: As Queen Sombra, Cadence makes BLU Scout, BLU Heavy, BLU Demoman, and BLU Engineer relive their worst moments while in their fused forms.

     Prince Blueblood 
  • Break the Haughty: Pretty much the core concept behind turning Blueblood into BLU's Cadet; it's hoped that their Training from Hell will either cure him or kill him.
  • Butt-Monkey: Oh so very much. Especially after being stripped of his titles, lands, and fortune and given to BLU as their new recruit.
  • Groin Attack: Has his balls set on fire by Pyro.

Other Equestrians

     Cheerilee 
  • Asshole Victim: Nightmare Gardener. Sure she helped a Child Eater kidnap foals, but damn her fate was pretty gruesome.
  • Eaten Alive: The grisly fate of Nightmare Gardener. Having her body consisting of a mass of extremely poisonous flowers was a good idea - less so when changelings are immune to it and consider it to be delicious candy.
  • Green Thumb: As Nightmare Gardener.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: After talking with BLU Soldier.
  • Mama Bear: She fights against the Smooze Corruption and the hold Nightmare Gardener has on her to prevent her from harming her students.
  • Plant Person: Nightmare Gardener has vine and petaled wings.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After being the host of a Nightmare, Cheerilee has her Earth Pony magic significantly enhanced, being capable of making entire trees grow in an instant.

     Queen Chrysalis 
  • Berserk Button: Don't ever hurt the changelings. Nightmare Gardener found this out the hard way.
  • Enemy Mine: Helps the ponies and the BLU team defeat Nightmare Gardener.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Chrysalis switches sides after learning Slendermane strung her around For the Evulz. That and she and the changelings were given an artificial self-renewing source of love by Derpy, Soldier, and Cadance, removing the need to hunt for food.
  • Leave Him to Me!: Queen Chrysalis does this when facing Nightmare Gardener. The brutality with which she kills Chrysalis's changelings is more than Chrysalis can stand.
  • Mama Bear: Queen Chrysalis, after her Heel–Face Turn, would rather engage a Nightmare on her own than let her children get killed. Having a psychic bond that lets her experience their deaths may be a strong motivator.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Morrigan flowers. While extremely deadly to ponies, it is edible to changelings and seen as delicious candy.
  • Villainous Rescue: Queen Chrysalis shows up in time to defeat Sergeant Crits and Major Bomber. She's partially reformed at this point, but the truce is still uneasy enough to count as this.
    Queen Chrysalis: "This town is under my protection. So swears QUEEN CHRYSALIS, mistress of the Changeling Swarm!"

     Discord 
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Discord, the embodiment of chaos and discord, would rather become a Bastion of Order than let Slenderman/Slendermane have his way.
  • No-Sell: Being the embodiment of chaos allows Discord to shrug off Slendermane's powers and illusions, since he's already mad to begin with.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: About a year after 'Keep Calm and Flutter On', Discord relapsed and tried to take out Celestia, hurting Fluttershy in the process. Once he realized what he had done, he surrendered and willingly went back into his can.

Team Fortress 2

BLU

     Scout 
  • Berserk Button: "Rainbows make me cry!" jokes and Spies flirting with his mom. Justified because the man who almost raped his mom wore a rainbow shirt and looked just like Spy.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall:
    Scout: "I'm not sure I wanna see where this fanfic goes next..."
  • Dark and Troubled Past: When Scout was younger, a French-Canadian wearing a rainbow shirt broke into his home and tried to rape his mother before his eyes, even threatening to kill him as a bonus. To save her, Scout beat the man to death with a baseball bat. The incident traumatized him ever since.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Scout can fly now due to Involuntary Shapeshifting.

     Soldier 
  • Offscreen Teleportation: As Painis Cupcake.
  • Parting-Words Regret: Soldier/Solomon got into a fight with his brother, Lucas, who wanted to enlist in WWII. The fight makes his newborn daughters cry and he leaves on an errand, only for the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor to begin. His brother and entire family were killed when a shot-down plane crashes into his house.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The deaths of his family drove him insane and thirsty for revenge, and he wanted to kill those responsible. This led to his Nazi-killing rampage in Europe in Team Fortress 2.

     Pyro 
  • Abusive Parents: Pyro's mother. In Chapter 30, it's revealed she made her own daughter work as a Sex Slave, and was responsible for most of Pyro's burns. Pyro eventually burned her to death in retaliation.
  • Berserk Button: Insulting Engineer around Pyro is a very bad idea. Hurting Engineer and having her find out about it is pretty much asking for an instantaneous incineration. She's not all that fond of abusive mothers, either.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: We never see exactly what happens to the Diamond Dogs Pyro catches.
    Scout: "Oh my God..."
    Soldier: "Oh geez... That ain't right. Even for HER that ain't right."
    Engineer: "Pyro... darlin'... yer scarin' the locals..."
  • Groin Attack: Does this to Prince Blueblood by setting his balls on fire.
    Pyro: "He said he'd like it."
  • Harmful to Minors: Pyro used to work as a Sex Slave before being hired by BLU.
  • Her Name Really Is Barkeep: Identifies by her title. Her real name is Mariko Tsukiyomi.
  • Hidden Depths: Pyro surprises Trixie and Twilight as to why Celestia is so informal with her subjects.
  • I Can Still Fight!: Claims this despite being badly poisoned. No one believes her.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Is turned into a Unicorn upon entering Equestria.
  • Split-Personality Takeover: Her original personality, due to the abuse she suffered as a child, has been completely overwhelmed by the Pyro persona. It's implied that this was done willingly.
  • The Smurfette Principle: The only female mercenary in her team.
  • True Beauty Is on the Inside: In her original human form, Pyro is a pudgy mess of scars and burns due to her pyromania and abusive childhood, but Engineer says that she's an angel on the inside - in contrast to his ex-wife Irene, a monstrous harpy of a bitch with the body of a superstar photo model. The scars were omitted when she crossed over into Equestria, though - as a pony, Pyro is very pretty.

     Demoman 
  • Supreme Chef: He makes a rum cake, which becomes extremely popular among the locals.

     Heavy 
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Heavy is in love with BLU Medic and really wants to be loved back. Medic is aware of this, but is simply afraid to love somebody, thus doesn't return his feelings, but given his past it may be for the best.
  • All of Them:
    Heavy: "SOLDIER! SNIPER! Go retrieve bacon!"
    Soldier: "Sir, yes sir! How much bacon, sir?"
    Heavy: " ALL OF THE BACON!"
  • Didn't Think This Through: As Nightmare Cuddles leaves Rainbow Dash and Sniper after using his hypno eyes on them, he realizes that he forgot that Rainbow was currently blind, thus protecting her from the hypnosis.
  • Foe-Tossing Charge: Heavy barrels through several corrupted Diamond Dogs to get to Fluttershy.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Is turned into an Earth pony upon entering Equestria.
  • Mind Rape: Heavy's ability as Nightmare Cuddles. His repertoire ranges from just making you happy and lazy, to removing your memories and adding subconscious orders, to trapping you in a delusion while a small part of you is unaffected and forced to watch.
  • Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: In Heavy's backstory, he was beaten by his old commander for showing compassion to a dead sparrow. When he killed him years later out of revenge, the man approved of his actions, leaving Heavy without any satisfaction in doing the deed.

     Engineer 
  • The Atoner: Engineer really feels bad about the things he did as Nightmare Clockwork, including Rarity losing one of her legs.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Due to Involuntary Shapeshifting, Engineer can now construct Sentries far more advanced than the ones he built in the human world as well as create full-bodied A.I.s using gems.
  • Flat "What": When finding out that Gem Sentry has joined the Cutie Mark Crusaders, whose latest misadventure has reached the usual "covered in pine sap and no cutiemarks" ending.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Is turned into a Unicorn upon entering Equestria.
  • No-Sell: As Nightmare Clockwork, Engineer takes down Twilight's shield (that's withstood multiple powerful explosions) with a single blow.

     Sniper 
  • A Darker Me: Christian Brutal Sniper, the physical embodiment of Sniper's darker fantasies and self-loathing.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Sniper desperately wants his father to accept his choice of career, but his father only sees him as a crazed animal.

     Medic 
  • Break the Cutie: According to Medic, something caused him to break inside years before the start of the story.
  • Death Seeker: Really wouldn't be too displeased if something killed him. The villians even call him "The Dead One".
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Due to Involuntary Shapeshifting, Medic can heal using magic instead of relying on the Medigun.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While a self-proclaimed sadist, even he wouldn't give something that was cooked by Marsha to his enemies.
  • Gratuitous German: Medic tends to swear in German.
  • Indy Ploy: Medic figures out Twilight's capable of mimicking his spells, so they Ubercharge Celestia and Luna without knowing if they can survive an ubercharge. As it turns out, they survive.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Is turned into a Unicorn upon entering Equestria.
  • Oblivious to Love: Does not know about BLU Heavy's attraction to him. Given Medic's past, it may be for the best.
  • Papa Wolf: Do anything to his friends and he'll think up various ways to ensure a painful death. And he has a vivid imagination.
  • Super Mode: Medic's Übercharge in regards to the Elements of Harmony. Using it on them temporarily turns them into an alicorn.

     Spy 
  • The Atoner: He collaborated with the Nazis as their spy in return for the survival of his village, but they later betrayed him by occupying his village and raping his mother to death. He killed every Nazi there and considered committing suicide, but then he heard of Soldier's rampage in Europe and secretly fed him information in an attempt to redeem himself.
  • Blessed with Suck: Spy can disguise without his disguise kit now. It turns out that's because he's a changeling, and part of the changeling hive mind, meaning that Chrysalis can control him.
  • The Casanova: Spy seduces the ladies with astounding ease. Even the pony ladies. Medic warns Spike not to mess with Spy over the fact that he's living with Rarity, as he may decide to woo her out of sheer spite. On the other hand, he claims to have had genuine feelings for many past conquests, including Scout's mother.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Spy used to tease Scout all the time about his fear of rainbows and dating his mom, never knowing that Scout's Berserk Button originated from his mom nearly getting raped. When he does hear the truth, Spy immediately regrets picking on him.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Is turned into a Pegasus upon entering Equestria.
  • Irony: The Spy, A.K.A. the guy who disguises himself as your friend to stab you in the back, is the Element of Trust.

RED

     Scout 
  • Summon Bigger Fish: During Pony Versus Machine, RED Scout realizes they only have one option to deal with the Freaks — bring out their own. Painis Cupcake nearly kills Scout before he sets his target on the bigger and tastier opponents.

     Soldier 

     Pyro 
  • Big "NO!": When she learns RED Engineer had temporarily gained see Pyroland without the Pyrovision goggles.
  • The Dreaded: To the BLU team, ever since she caught them without their weapons and brutally killed them all. This incident is what happened in Meet the Pyro.

     Demoman 
  • We Used to Be Friends: RED Demoman and BLU Soldier apparently were best friends until the Administrator screwed things up between them.

     Heavy 

     Medic 
  • Determinator: Despite facing an unstoppable Eldritch Abomination with no chance of survival, RED Medic absolutely refuses to let Slenderman take RED Heavy, desperately firing Heavy's minigun, Sasha, at the foe. His conviction is so great that he manifests the Dark Crown of Magic and empowers Sasha with Harmony, which is one of the few things capable of actually injuring Slenderman.
  • Papa Wolf: In Chapter 15, he protects a comatose RED Heavy from an avatar of Slenderman by [[spoiler: tapping into the Elements of Magic and Kindness through Sasha.

     Spy 
  • Twin Threesome Fantasy: Suggests this option after crossing over to Zecora, who against her better judgement actually entertains the possibility. They actually do it by the time of "Running of the Leaves".

Other

     Helen (The Administrator) 
  • Manipulative Bitch: Chapter 15 reveals that years ago, she tricked Merasmus into giving her a spell that splits a person's soul into two halves. This is how RED and BLU were created from the original mercenaries. Sometime after that, she made RED Demoman and BLU Soldier, who were close friends, hate each other by making them believe the other one betrayed him, solely on the basis that people from enemy teams can't be friends.

     Gray Mann 
  • Power Nullifier: Gray Mann's Disharmony Device is capable of negating the fusions.
  • Smug Snake: Accentuated here because he's Slendermane's flunky.
    Gray Mann: "Oh, and because I'm feeling like being an especially large dick today..."
  • Would Hurt a Child: Is willing to use Olivia, his own daughter, as a key to open up a portal to Equestria for the real world's Slenderman.

Doctor Who

     The Doctor (aka Doctor "Time Turner" Whooves) 
  • Mind Rape: Nightmare Doctor's specialty is to leave you reliving the deaths of every version of yourself from an alternate universe.
  • Paint It Black: After becoming a Nightmare, Doctor Whooves's coat turns into a dark black.

Characters From Other Fan-Works

Story of the Blanks

An 8-Bit game based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Created by Donitz.

     Mitta 
  • All Your Powers Combined: As Mare-Do-Well, Mitta has all the powers and traits of the Mane Six. She does turn into an alicorn.
  • Come with Me If You Want to Live:
    Mitta: "If either want (sic) to protect every pony in Ponyville from suffering a Fate Worse than Death, then you have to come with me at once."
  • It's All My Fault: She feels VERY MUCH responsible for the death of her younger sister Ruby.
  • My Greatest Failure: Mitta failed to save Ruby from being killed by Sunnytown's residents for possessing a Cutie Mark.
  • No-Sell: Mare-Do-Well's mask shields Mitta from Smooze spit, allowing her to simply shrug it off.
  • Redemption Equals Life: Celestia turns her into a living, breathing pony again, both as a reward for her role in defeating Grey Hoof, and as an apology for turning her into a zombie despite her innocence.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Inverted. When Mitta, Demoman, and Applejack are reliving a traumatic event in Mitta's past, she needs to proceed through the memory as it really happened, letting her sister die to snap the others out of it.

     Grey Hoof (aka Nightmare Grave) 
  • And I Must Scream: His ultimate punishment: Celestia imprisons him in the ruins of Sunnytown, and places a geass on the village to turn away forms of life from Sunnytown's former location, as Sunnytown has also shifted dimensions so that he can't be seen by anyone else. And to add insult to injury, Celesita's spell also prevents Grey Hoof from going insane. Proof that you should never piss Celestia off.
  • Anti-Villain: Grey Hoof is the only one of his team who's really malicious, and even he has some sympathetic moments. Until his Villainous Breakdown, anyway.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: He only wanted for him and his friends to be free of their curse. After his defeat, he is returned to being a normal pony...but Celestia also isolates him in the ruins of Sunnytown, unable to be seen, heard, or felt by anybody and unable to go insane from the loneliness.
  • Body Horror: Grey Hoof's very disturbing Transformation Sequence. his skeleton, and only his skeleton, grow to the size of an alicorn. He also grows bone wings and a horn. As expected, this tears his flesh apart.
  • Bored with Insanity: Grey Hoof and his buddies were insane for part of the time they spent as cursed zombies in Sunnytown. Eventually, they got better.
  • Deal with the Devil: Grey Hoof does this with Masky Pegasus to gain freedom for him and his friends after Celestia cursed Sunnytown to live as zombies as punishment for their actions. However, once his friends learn the price for their freedom, they immediately Heel–Face Turn and abandon Grey Hoof out of disgust.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Celestia imprisons him in the ruins of Sunnytown and puts it under a spell so that it not only turns away all forms of life but also leaves Gray Hoof unable to be seen, heard, or felt by anybody. And worse, the spell also prevents him from going insane, leaving him to scream for help and run around the ruins of Sunnytown, desperately calling for help that will never come.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: Horribly HORRIBLY Averted. While he is forever isolated in the ruins of Sunnytown with nobody to see, hear, or feel him, Celestia also placed a spell to prevent him from going insane, meaning he can't even escape into madness from the loneliness.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He tried to shift the Zompony Curse onto all of Ponyville in exchange for his and his friends' freedom. Not only do his friends betray him out of disgust, but he also gets his flank handed to him by Apple Demo and then gets the curse returned to him, followed by Celestia sending him to live out all of eternity in isolation with no hope of escape or even the mercy of going insane.
  • Laughing Mad: As part of his Villainous Breakdown.
  • One-Winged Angel: Nightmare Grave.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Grey Hoof does not take the desertion of his friends well.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: After a thousand years of living in the dark as zombies, Gray Hoof will take whatever he can to earn freedom for himself and his friends.
    Grey Hoof: "So what if it cost Ponyville their souls? After so long, didn't their freedom matter? Wasn't it the ONLY thing that mattered?"

Original Characters

     Captain Barricade 
  • Always a Bigger Fish: A mind-controlled Barricade picks a fight with Princess Luna, hoping that an alicorn might provide a decent challenge. She does.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: A dutiful soldier and the biggest non-Nightmare pony in the story, but she's also fairly fun-loving and easy to get along with.
  • Death Glare: She wields a Stare so strong that people who aren't even the targets can feel it.
  • Defiant to the End: Barricade's last actions before being Mind Raped are to spit in her attacker's face and yell "Celestia Regina!" It's an expression of loyalty to the throne.
  • Mama Bear: Go on. Hurt Fluttershy in her presence. I dare you. But let me call the hospital first, because you're gonna need it....
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Masculine to her husband Dr. TL Care's Feminine.
  • Meaningful Name: Barricade's pretty large, surpassing Big Macintosh and Heavy in size. And she is sent to Ponyville to act as defense against the Maskies.
  • My Greatest Failure: She was unable to save her seven-pony squadron from Jeff the Killer. The incident resulted in quite a bit of self-loathing, as well as animosity toward the Doctor.
  • The Worf Effect: The biggest and physically strongest of the Captains. She goes out of her way to avoid this (and even lampshades it at one point), but it can't be helped at times due to the power level of the villains everypony's been facing.

     Captain Harbinger 
  • Meaningful Name: "Harbringer" means a messenger of bad news.
  • Super-Speed: Can outrun most vehicles due to an internal well of magic that allows him to run at high velocity.

     Gem Sentry 
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: Has a sonic attack installed by Engineer.
  • Robot Girl: A fully sentient AI made out of crystals.
  • The Unintelligible: Gem Sentry speaks in electronic beeps and warbles like a regular sentry, but Engineer and a few others can understand her.

     Dr. TL Care 
  • Berserk Button: Having his loved ones injured in battle. Justified because he's a doctor, and given the Crapsack World setting of this story, even his job has its limits. Oh, and Harbringer.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine to his wife Barricade's Masculine. After meeting the anxious little fellow, Engineer finally figured out why Fluttershy is the way she is.
  • Meaningful Name: His name is an abbreviation of Tender Loving Care.
  • Shrinking Violet: He's a nervous, easily frightened thing, just like his daughter Fluttershy. When someone's hurt, however, he becomes completely fearless in treating his patients. Plus, he absolutely detests Harbinger.

Maskies

     Masky Earth Pony 

     Masky Pegasus 
  • Big "WHAT?!": He corrupts BLU Heavy into a Nightmare form, but unlike previous Nightmares, BLU Heavy turns into an alicorn-sized plush toy named "Nightmare Cuddles". It's not something it or anypony else expects.
  • Flat "What": During his jail break, Masky Pegasus corrupts Heavy, turning him into Nightmare Cuddles. Masky Unicorn is utterly baffled by this.
  • I Can Explain: Masky Pegasus says this when attempting to justify losing to the protagonists with two Nightmares.

     Masky Unicorn 
  • Oh, Crap!: Masky Unicorn's eyes widen when Medic's ÜberCharge turns Applejack into an alicorn and uses the power of truth to cure Spy and the princess's guards from their corruption. Then it gets a good look at the princesses, and decides to run.

Other

     Slenderman/Slendermane 
  • No-Sell: Slenderman's avatar is completely unaffected by normal and magical attacks, including MONOCULUS! That is, until he is killed by RED Medic tapping into the Elements of Harmony.
  • Perception Filter: Slendermane can cause people to simply not notice him unless he wants to be seen.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: One of Slendermane's ways to mess with someone is to appear, possibly with other, more disturbing illusions, and then vanish as soon as they look away.

Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks

The Rainbooms

    Pinkie Pie A.K.A Pinkamena 
  • One-Steve Limit: Goes by her real name to avoid confusion with her pony self.
    Rainbow Dash A.K.A Dashie 
  • One-Steve Limit: Given the nickname Dashie to avoid confusion with her pony self.
    Applejack A.K.A AJ 
  • One-Steve Limit: Given the nickname AJ to avoid confusion with her pony self.
    Rarity A.K.A Rare 
  • One-Steve Limit: Given the nickname Rare to avoid confusion with her pony self.
    Fluttershy A.K.A Flutters 
  • One-Steve Limit: Given the nickname Flutters to avoid confusion with her pony self.


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