History FanFic / MirrorsImage

* AdultFear: Losing your child.
** Twilight's parents experience another, with some stranger somehow managing to get into their house in the middle of the night.

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26961/mirrors-image Mirror's Image]] is a MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by EvilPresident. It is a AlternateUniverse fic that starts with Twilight telling her friends about her miracle birth while they are on their way to Canterlot for Shining Armor's and Princess Cadence's wedding. However, things go awry when she is revealed to be a Changeling. Will Twilight embrace her Changeling nature, or reject it?

** Twilight's parents experience another, some stranger somehow managing to get into their house in the middle of the night.

* CatapultNightmare: Cadence has one in chapter 11.
* ChangelingTale: Yes.

-->''Almost like we’re in a novel, where the evil overlord is nearly defeated and grasps at the last straws to keep himself alive, while the hero prepares to strike him down.''

* InfantImmortality: Averted by the opening chapter. And to [[TearJerker devastating effect]]. And then again with Chrysalis' previous children.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:Young Queeens need a ''lot'' more love than the average changeling, which is why they are exchanged for stillborn infants and placed in loving families.]]

** At one point Prince Blueblood shouts at Luna to "[[Franchise/StarCraft Construct additional pylons or something!]]"

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Well, not ''evil'' per se, but Chrysalis doesn't understand why [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Princess Celestia]] is so calm and reasonable toward her, even after she invades Canterlot.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:This Great and Powerful Changeling will take you to the hive.]]

* BrainBleach: after Twilight learns about [[spoiler:changeling reproduction. Something about it is so squicky that she uses a mind wipe spell on herself. ''Twice.'']]

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:An insane Blueblood with access to the mirror pool]].

* HowDoIShootWeb: Twilight naturally takes time get adjusted to her new form. Her first attempt at flying doesn't work.

* InfantImmortality: Averted by the opening chapter. And to [[{{Tearjerker}} devastating effect]]. And then again with Chrysalis' previous children.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle actually being a Changeling, she still acts and thinks exactly like the canon Twilight, in every respect.]]

* JawDrop: Rainbow Dash has one when she discovers [[spoiler:Chrysallis is the author of the Daring Do series.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Luna will go to any lengths to prevent Pinkie playing the Pony Polka. Including [[KillItWithFire using fire]]. Examining the evidence is what leads Pinkie to suspect someone ''may not'' like that record.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Princess Celestia, natch. She's hurt when Twilight Sparkle's parents say they thought she'd [[spoiler:banish or imprison Twilight for being a Changeling.]]

* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: Twilight names one of her Changelings Sucker Punch in order to get him to stop being so zealous about his job. The rank and file of the Changeling Horde do not like being named, and Sucker Punch takes it pretty hard.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Twilight's reaction when she accidentally shapeshifts into [[spoiler:Sweetie Belle, when Rarity bursts into the library thinking she's a burglar.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Princess Celestia, after Nightmare Moon was sealed away. She began blaming her pupil Starlight for what happened to her sister, and when she returned as [[spoiler:Chrysalis Celestia forced her to leave, even though she recognised her. She did at least acknowledge that she'd make a mistake, but then Amethyst showed up...]]

** Any pony the Changelings "recruit", like for example [[spoiler:Trixie.]]
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 18, [[spoiler:Blueblood, under the influence of the Alicorn Amulet, fatally wounds Twilight's mother, Velvet. Velvet doesn't make it.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Blueblood

* ChekovsGun: Early on, it's mentioned that Filthy Rich gave Twilight's parents money for no apparent reason. This becomes important later in the story.

* BiggerBad: Since the story doesn't exactly have a BigBad, Discord and Amethyst fill the part, since Discord [[spoiler:made the Changelings what they are]], and Amethyst forced Chrysalis to be what she is.

* [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me Starlight]]: It's Chrysallis now, Celestia.
* EmotionEater: Changelings can eat more than just love. They can eat pretty much any emotion, although love is the most powerful. [[spoiler: Hate, however, hurts them.]]

* FantasticRacism: Prince Blueblood towards Changelings. He sees nothing wrong with the thought of declaring war on them for kidnapping two ponies (though that would potentially be considered an Act of War in the real world).
** Also applied to Celestia a thousand years ago. She banished her [[spoiler:former student]] just for being a changeling, and even outright threatened her. Amethyst even points out that even when Celestia feels bad for what she did, she still ''hates'' changelings.

* HopeSpot: After a nice party in Canterlot, it seems Twilight as a Changeling will be accepted by everpony. [[spoiler: Then Blueblood, empowered and corrupted by the Alicorn Amulet, attacks the group and ends up killing Twilight's mother.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: Luna uses Pinkie Pie's non-stop talking as a way to threaten the Changelings during her trip to the Wastelands.
** Big Mac also wields a broken flagpole to fight off the changelings during the invasion.
* InfantImmortality: Averted by the opening chapter. And to [[{{Tearjerker}} devastating effect]].
** And then again with Chrysalis' previous children.

* JawDrop: Rainbow Dash has one when she discovers [[spoiler: Chrysallis is the author of the Daring Do series.]]
* KnightTemplarParent: Queen Amethyst. [[spoiler: When Celestia rejected Chrysallis, Amethsyt sealed Celestia's memories of Chrysallis' true nature, as a way of getting back at Celestia. This caused Celestia to be unable to find Chrysallis.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Blueblood had a crush on Twilight and feared what happened to her. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his idea of what Twilight should be blinded him to the fact that Twilight had become a changeling. He put on the Alicorn Amulet to attack Changeling Twilight, and was corrupted to the point of releasing a deadly spell that killed Twilight Velvet.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Chrysalis is Twilight's real mother. The real Twilight was stillborn, so Chrysallis used that to switch her with our Twilight.]]

* MythologyGag: A flashback shows one of Celestia's servants a thousand years ago was Surprise.

* ShoutOut: As they prepare to enter the changeling hive, Pinkie Pie claims she was "[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater Born naked and screaming]]".

* SwitchedAtBirth: Twilight was switched at birth when the real Twilight was declared stillborn. The real Twilight lies in a graveyard of the other stillborn children switched this way. [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Chrysalis can't vouch that all of them, including the one she was swapped for, were really stillborn.]] ]]

* ShoutOut: As they prepare to enter the changeling hive, Pinkie Pie claims she was "[[Webcomic/EightBitTheatre Born naked and screaming]]".

* ImprovisedWeapon: Luna uses Pinkie Pie's non-stop talking as a way to threaten the Changelings during her trip to the Wastelands.
** Big Mac also wields a broken flagpole to fight off the changelings during the invasion.

* InfantImmortality: Averted ''hard'' by the opening chapter. And to [[{{Tearjerker}} devastating effect]].

* FantasticRacism: Prince Blueblood towards Changelings. He sees nothing wrong with the thought of declaring war on them for kidnapping two ponies.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter [[spoiler: 18, Blueblood, under the influence of the Alicorn Amulet, fatally wounds Twilight's mother, Velvet. Velvet doesn't make it.]]