History Fanfic / Antipodes

* SadisticChoice: Rubidium offers Jigsaw a choice. Become the next Attenuator and save the city, or refuse and the city is destroyed. Tantalus [[BigDamnVillains interrupts his choice]].

* LoveConfession: Twice by Incendia. First to Tiptoe, and the to Jigsaw about her feelings for Tiptoe.
* LoveEpiphany: Jigsaw progressively develops feeling for Tiptoe, but holds anything off until he realizes for certain that he truly is in love with Tiptoe.
* LoveTriangle: Between Jigsaw, Tiptoe, and Incendia. Jigsaw and Tiptoe being together, but Incendia having feelings for Tiptoe, which are also reciprocated. But because Tiptoe and Jigsaw are happily together, Incendia [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy steps back.]] Surprisingly, very few of the typical romantic comedy/drama tropes appear.
* {{Magitek}}: All of the advanced technology is based on arcane principles and powered by magical crystals.
* MundaneUtility: Incendia often uses her powerful pyromancy for a variety of mundane uses, such as cooking, lighting up dark rooms, and creating fuel-less campfires.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Tantalus, for lack of a better term, is Spike's, [[SplitPersonalityTakeover though he's long since become the dominant side.]]]]

''Antipodes'' was firs published in March 2011 and was completed in October 2012. It has a sequel, ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/70738/lodestone Lodestone]]'', which hasn't been updated since 2014.

* TimeAbyss: Tantalus, Celestia and Luna began life as the living embodiments of order, chaos and the void between them and predate the formation of the world. Rubidium was also alive during the fall of civilization, making him over ten thousand years old and the oldest living non-divine entity in the story.

* RagnarokProofing: Even 10,000 years later, Canterlot Castle is still intact, along with lots of LostTechnology.

* OutGambitted: Rubidium, who kills the Attenuator for Stalliongrad banking that Jigsaw will give himself up to save the city before Tantalus realizes Stalliongrad is defenseless. But Tantalus sent Jigsaw and Tiptoe to him in the first place, banking that they would lower the shield somehow, and was ready to attack at a moments notice.

* WierdMoon: The moon, in addition to being permanently frozen in one spot above the world, was badly damaged in the cataclysm ten thousand years in the past, leaving it a dull grey color and visibly shattered and broken.

* SeaSerpent: A large sea serpent lives in the lake from which Jigsaw and Tiptoe's home bunker draws its water from, and attacks them when they head to the lake to repair the bunker's pumps.