Fanfic / Friendship is Failure

A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic series from the same mind that brought you The End of Ends and Starfleet Magic. It's a series of fics that are meant to be a deconstruction of FiM that tries to prove that The Power of Friendship can't solve everything. It has a deconstruction itself, Friendship Prevails.

Not to be confused with Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure.

The series:

• Friendship is Failure #1: Writer's Blockade - Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer try to mend a friendship problem in Canterlot, but only end up making things worse.
• Friendship is Failure #2: Fallout Fashions - Rarity tries to reconcile with an old friend she wronged.
• Friendship is Failure #3: Beast Boy in Equestria - An evil pony switches places with Beast Boy landing both Beast Boy and the human world in great danger.
• Friendship is Failure #4: Love Doesn't Work That Way - Twilight and Starlight try to help a Mare with the affections of a music artist pony.
• Friendship is Failure #5: Pride and Punishment - Twilight and friends try to convince a stubborn yet talented pony to look past his potential.
• Friendship is Failure #6: Write a Wrong - Twilight and Co try to help a failing writer get on the right path.
• Friendship is Failure #7: All Work and No Play - Twilight and friends try to convince a grouchy, downhearted, work-a-holic pony to reconcile with his family and give friendship a chance.
• Friendship is Failure #8: Teen Titans HSM V: Ways of Life - Human Twilight Sparkle dreams of many students comings to Canterlot High, but they all have different views of life.
• Friendship is Failure #9: Inherit The Sun - Celestia reveals to Twilight and friends a shocking secret about her that once nearly destroyed the balance of Equestrians.
• Friendship is Failure #10- (Teen Titans) THE END OF ENDS! - My Little Pony, and heroes of the human world team up to face a great evil that threatens to obliterate all existence. A retelling of The End of Ends that crosses over with the MLP cast. (Warning: lots and lots of gore.)
• Friendship is Failure #11- The Meanie of Hearth's Warming - Rarity learns a lesson when is forced to share the spotlight with an old rival of hers during the Hearth's Warming Pageant.
• Friendship is Failure #12- Amending Hearth's Warming - Twilight's father wishes to reconcile with an old friend whom seems to have a bitter resentment towards him and his family.
• Friendship is Failure #13: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS - Many men are being killed and sent to a Dark Realm to spend all time in despair and near-solitude due the actions of others, which soon leads to a great and deadly war that expands all across dimensions. A crossover with Teen Titans, Digimon Adventure 02 and Inuyasha.
• Friendship is Failure #14: A Hearths Warming Carol - A stingy, grouchy banker is invited by Twilight to the Hearths Warming gathering, but things go horribly wrong resulting in a ruined Hearths Warming for many. That night, it is TWILIGHT, not the banker who is visited by three spirits to teach her something about other ponies, and how Hearths Warming isn't all that it's cracked up to be!
• Friendship is Failure #15: Love and Disparage - While visiting Twilight on Hearts and Hooves Day, Shining Armor and Cadance are surprisingly called by the Friendship map to try and settle a serious problem in Ponyville— a problem that seems to be connected with a mysterious prowler who seems to be interfering with ponies' love lives.^{Click here to see spoilers}No... he is not jealous of Princess Cadance, or her marriage to Shining Armor or any of that stuff this time.... Except he kind of is but not to the usual degree.
• Friendship is Failure #16: Write of Way - Twilight becomes fascinated by a well-written novel, and she and her friends wish to meet the author in person, only to discover his distaste for his own novel, and his disinterest in the fame and fortune that comes with it. Now Twilight and her friends are desperate to try to convince the pony that things are worthwhile, and friendship is a key to unlocking not only good stories, but a better life.
• Friendship is Failure #17- Nine & Eleven - No, there's no terrorist attack.^{Spoiler alert}Except there is, just not the kind associated with September 11. Twilight hears word of a business pony who resents work, play, and even her own rich business, and seems to be causing quite a bit of misery for others, which leads her to try to set her on the right track, resulting in a frightening and horrific tragedy!
• Friendship is Failure #18: If I Can't Love Her... - In this would-be hour-long special, Twilight and Co visit the Crystal Empire to help with Hearts and Hooves Day, and Twilight sees trouble in paradise when a well-renowned singer reveals he plans to leave the kingdom and give up his career. Naturally, she plans to sort him out. Meanwhile, Rarity sets up an auction with herself as a Hearts and Hooves date, only things go a little awry due to her not thinking things through enough.
• Friendship is Failure #19: Write in the Head (Hour long special) - In this Nightmare Night Special, Stone Heart is a struggling writer, as usual, and still being constantly harassed and picked on by bigoted ponies, but this time he has a little trick to get back at them all, and he strikes where they cannot possibly defend themselves... ...In Their Dreams!
• Friendship is Failure #20: Hearth's Warming I'll Never Forget - In the future, Pinkie Pie's son, Li'l Cheese is told of what happened many Hearth's Warming ago during Twilight's first year as ruler. Moondancer's mother had a very strong and bitter resentment towards Twilight, and even disowned Moondancer too. Twilight attempted to reconcile the two ponies, only for things to take one horrible turn after another!
• Friendship is Failure #21: Is it Love? - During Hearts and Hooves preparations, Princess Cadance and Spike are accidentally slipped a Love Potion, by a waitress who intended to give it to some-pony else, causing Spike to become infatuated with Twilight, and Cadance falls for the waitresses Dream Beau.
• Friendship is Failure #22: Pride and Punishment #2 (Family Unties) - A divorced father angrily restrains himself from his wife and child, and takes out his emotions on all others. Twilight rises up to help the son of the family by getting his parents to reconcile, but she soon learns that pride is a big pill to swallow, especially when she hears what happened and why the family separated.
• Friendship is Failure #23: Let's just NOT be friends - When you break up with someone, or you have your feelings rejected, sometimes it's "Can we just be friends?" Well, Twilight and Princess Cadance try to sort out a pony who is not willing to just be friends with a pony that let him down.
• Friendship is Failure #24: Twilight in Therapy - Twilight's paranoia, OCD, and obsession with Friendship is going way over the line— She can't think straight, she can't understand her surrounding, and she ends up making things worse for others instead of better. She is then persuaded to see a doctor to help her deal with her problems, (In relations to past Friendship is Failure stories) and reflect on different perspectives and aspects of how life does not truly revolve around Friendship alone.
• Friendship is Failure #25: Death to Twilight - Twilight messed up big time, and as a result she is paying the price when vengeful ponies trap her and Spike in a situation where they are doomed to perish if help does not arrive on time.
• "Friendship is Failure #26: A Hearths Warming Battle" - A pony who feels he has nothing left to live for confides with Twilight to do him a favor she absolutely refuses, which results in the desperate pony taking things to the extreme!
• "Friendship is Failure #27: Love is a Danger Zone" - Strings, a very talented singer, is struggling with an incurable case of deep depression from heartbreak. When Twilight and Princess Cadance try to help him resolve his issues, they accidently turn him into an evil creature that intends to wipe out all Love in Equestria.

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Friendship is Failure contains examples of:

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• Aborted Arc: In Beast Boy in Equestria, Beast Boy starts to fall in love with Fluttershy to the point he even fantazises about settling down and having a family with her but at the climax, he goes right back to pining after Terra when Terra admits she loves him, seemingly forgetting all about his crush on Fluttershy. And when he dies, his last words are for Terra, not Fluttershy.
• Abusive Parents: Bill Dollar and his sister Goldie Stocks had them. They were workaholics and pushed the two to focus on "All Work and No Play" to the point where they threw their toys away. Goldie ended up falling in line, but Bill ended up distancing himself (And ended up a lot like them as a result).
• Adaptation Name Change: Count Logan's minions in The End of Ends all get name changes, with the exception of Kamica (who already had her name changed from the original version's Jacqueline Hyde). Medeva becomes Pyrus, Sir Vile becomes Sir Elik, and Dr. Beljar is now Dr. Nekard.
• All Just a Dream: The events of Teen Titans HSM V: Ways of Life are a dream that Twilight Sparkle is having.
• All Periods Are PMS: In Darkness of Dimensions, Raven being on her period causes her to fly into an Unstoppable Rage that causes her powers to go haywire.
• All There in the Manual: According to this, Ath-Lita was arrested and banned from sports ever again for "abusing" Talon Ted. The ending chapter was later rewritten to reflect this.
• Appeal to Worse Problems: In Ways of Life, Garfield uses the fact that his parents were killed, he was sent to an abusive orphanage, and generally having to constantly strain himself just to survive to excuse his Jerkass behavior and dismissing the problems of others because he had it worse.
• Artistic License – Biology: In Darkness of Dimensions, Terra shows signs of getting pregnant one day after having sex with Beast Boy. In real life, it takes at least a few weeks before showing signs of pregnancy.
• Artistic License – Economics:
  • Talon Ted is given one million pounds of gold (or 18 billion American dollars) in a welfare fund for breaking his hind legs. Normally, a welfare fund would only be around 200 to 300 dollars per month. Additionally, Equestria uses bits, not pounds. The chapter even uses bits later. With the exception of the first mention of the settlement money, these has since been fixed.
  • Apparently, Stone Heart's writing was so bad, it caused a bunch of publishing companies to collapse and fail. One author's books selling badly isn't gonna destroy an entire company who likely have a bunch of other clients and writers. Also, Stone Heart's books were proofread poorly yet publishing companies published them anyway when in reality, a publishing company isn't going to publish a book if they don't think it's gonna sell.
• Artistic License – Law:
  • In the real world, Stone Heart would have gotten arrested for the destruction of private and public property after he rams a cart into a pile of books, destroying them in the process. In this story, he only receives a lecture and some community service and instead, it is Twilight, who tried to help him, that draws Celestia's ire.
  • Beast Boy's trial in Darkness of Dimensions is a multi-car pile-up of legal inaccuracies, being a criminal trial with no jury, the Teen Titans being Beast Boy's legal counsel despite having no known legal credentials and taking place the day of Beast Boy's arrest.
• Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: Garfield digs up uranium in Ways of Life without getting any radiation sickness. In fact, there is no uranium at a reasonable depth in California.
• Ascended Extra: Amari Nobunaga, a One-Shot Character from Inuyasha, is one of the Dark Angels in DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS. Especially notable next to Beast Boy, Davis, and Spike, all three of whom are main characters in their home series.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Helper Soul can be considered one. When Twilight's family offers to make up with him, he chooses to throw it back in their faces rather than let go of his selfish, envy-driven grudge; this leads directly to him dropping dead because of his own hatred.
  • Silver Nickle is a Bad Boss who would fire her employees just for being happy, for minor mistakes or for situations out of their control. At the end of the story, she activates a self-destruct sequence in her headquarters, putting hundreds of lives in danger, just so she can spite Twilight. Everypony manages to evacuate and she's the only casualty.
  • Luna Light dies when the fight she has with her daughter causes them to get hit by a large fireworks display. Considering how horribly she treated both Moondancer and Twilight, it's hard to feel bad for her. Even in-story, whilst everypony is justifiably horrified by what happened, they're more upset about Moondancer's death than Luna's.
• Author Appeal: Stone Heart's writing is an In-Universe example, as he writes solely based on his own preferences. Unfortunately for him, his preferences don't exactly appeal to the general public.
• Author Avatar: Generally speaking, the ponies that the friendship problem du jour revolve around are going to be mouthpieces for the author.
  • Talon Ted in Pride and Punishment. Here is an author's note confirming it.
  It's also based on how I would behave in real life if things were like this.
  • Beast Boy/Garfield Logan in Beast Boy in Equestria and Teen Titans HSM V: Ways of Life.
  • Stone Heart in Writer's Blockade and Write a Wrong. More evident in the latter, where his books all carry the titles of Mykan's fanfics and Stone himself expresses opinions very similar to those voiced by Mykan. Also confirmed via author's note.
  • Luna Light is one for voicing Mykan's hatred of Twilight Sparkle. Her "Reason You Suck" Speech to her is nearly identical to one Mykan himself wrote about her in a blog post. Her rejection of Moondancer for forgiving Twilight and being her friend again also reflects Mykan's own feelings towards Moondancer, initially liking her character but then hating her once she made amends with Twilight.
  • While there is no official confirmation, Erebus from Darkness of Dimensions acts like an Author Avatar. He is the leader of the Dark Angels and his men are people who had their hearts broken (Beast Boy, Davis Montomiya and Spike are in his forces). His actions can be extreme, but are seen as necessary, so he is not like the typical Mykan villain. He enables Spike, Davis and Beast Boy to get revenge against all the people who wronged them, which is something the author loves seeing. He also doesn't lose in battle and his final defeat is absolutely destructive for the heroes, showing that he was supposedly neccessary. Finally, Twilight is portrayed as in the wrong for trying to save Spike from his ranks.
• Author Tract: A good chunk of these stories can devolve into preachy rants expressing Dakari-King Mykan's viewpoints. Stories featuring Talon Ted and Stone Heart are the most blatant examples as they are pretty much mouthpieces for the author to espouse his beliefs.
  • The most literal example of this is "Nine and Eleven", which was started and completed on September 11thinvoked, 2019. The Author's Note, which just talks about how evil the world is and how positivity can blind people, makes it very clear that he wanted to have his stance on the tragedy known on its anniversary.
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • Even though he dies, in the end, Beast Boy/Count Logan arguably got exactly what he wanted all along: Terra falling in love with him and the other Teen Titans feeling sorry for him. He would've been perfectly fine helping Nekard destroy all life if that's what he truly wanted.
  • At the end of "Write in the Head", Stone Heart erases everyone's memories of the nightmares he had given them, allowing him to escape any punishment he would have faced. He keeps the magic typewriter so he can use it if anyone gets suspicious of him and he's also able to use it to supply himself with an endless amount of money. Also, his bully gets humiliated and sentenced to community service and his parents lose all their money in Las Pegasus, forcing them to move into a poor house.
  • Whilst the Star Sisters don't succeed in their plan of killing Twilight and Spike, both of them escape and Starlight notes they can't be prosecuted for their crimes as they were committed outside of Equestria's borders. Meanwhile, both Twilight and Spike have been traumatized by their actions and now live in constant fear that the two will return for them.
• Best Served Cold: In DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS, there was a girl in Davis's class who made fun of him for being a "geek" in first grade. When they are older and he's "cool" now, she asks him out. Davis proceeds to agree only to stand her up on the date as revenge.
• Big "NO!": In the introduction to Fallout Fashions, Rarity shouts "NO!!" when one of her magazines gets blown away from her.
• Bloodier and Gorier: (Teen Titans) THE END OF ENDS! is far more graphic than the original The End of Ends and certainly bloodier than most of Mykan's other work, with scenes of destruction wrought by villains bordering on Gorn territory.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Changeling tries to crush Starfire, Robin and Cyborg with a slowly descending ceiling, giving Robin enough time to blow up a hole big enough to fit them in said ceiling to prevent them from getting killed.
• Book Burning: At the end of Write a Wrong, Celestia decrees that all of Stone Heart's revised books are to be burned.
• Bowdlerize: Surprisingly yes. The DeviantArt version of Darkness of Dimensions contains a full-on sex scene in the 4th chapter that was cut from the Fimfiction version to avoid violating their guidelines.
• Broken Aesop: Has its own page.
• The Cameo: Lightning Dawn appears in Amending Hearth's Warming as a member of an all-stallion band performing *NSYNC's "I Guess It's Christmas Time".
• Canon Discontinuity: Though Stone Heart is the central character of Writer's Blockade, Write a Wrong, Write of Way and Write in the Head, the four stories aren't set in the same continuity.
• Career-Ending Injury: Sorta. Helper Soul got his leg crippled saving Twilight's dad (or, in the revised version, getting buried under a pile of snow) which cost him his royal guard aspirations.
• Character Filibuster: Luna Light's gives a long "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Twilight Sparkle at the Hearth's Warming Gala in front of her friends and dozens of other ponies. None of them interrupt Luna or try to make any kind of rebuttal to her claims about Twilight.
• Character Shilling: Every single character whom the friendship problem revolves around is treated as always in the right.
• The Chew Toy:
  • Twilight is pretty much destined to fail in every single story (it's right there in the title) even when she has the moral high ground (which she usually does).
  • Just like in Starfleet Magic, Cadance ends up here. The narrative treats her as the cause of the bad ending in Love Doesn't Work That Way for no good reason and has to suffer through the death of her child in End of Ends despite the fact she did nothing to deserve it.
  • In certain stories, Equestria as a whole can qualify as this. With the author himself admitting that he believes if it's not Starfleet, they don't deserve a happy ending.
• Christmas Episode: The Meanie of Hearth's Warming Eve is one, and so is Amending Hearth's Warming. Note how they were both released one after the other.
• Clueless Aesop:
  • Given what Beast Boy does in the story, the message of END OF ENDS!! seems to be "If the girl you like rejected you, emotionally manipulate and abuse her until she changes her mind".
  • In Beast Boy in Equestria, a point is made that the Titans are wrong to try and get Beast Boy to move on from Terra. However, it's shown that Beast Boy had become depressed becasue of his obsession with Terra and the story doesn't explain how the Titans should have handled the situation. The message comes off as "Trying to help a friend move on from their obsession makes you a bad friend and you should instead allow them to continue their self-destructive lifestyle". Let's just NOT be friends has the same problem.
• Commie Land: At the end of Darkness of Dimensions, The Crystal Empire becomes one due to the death of Cadance.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Inverted. All the friendship problem ponies are treated as always right on what they are complaining about even when you'd expect them not to be.
• Composite Character:
  • Helper Soul is basically a rehash of previous characters from the series. He has Writer's Blockade Stone Heart's motivations for breaking up with his friends, he had his cutie mark removed simply because said former friend helped him get it like Manny Collars, and he dies at the last minute just like Bill Dollar.
  • To a lesser extent, there is also Scribbler from "Pride and Punishment 2". He's basically Talon Ted again ^note being a pony who's a {{Jerkass{{ to everypony because a family member made him get something he didn't want which hurt his pride with Stone Heart's trait of being a failing writer who's mocked for his work added in.
• Continuity Snarl: Shining Armor is mentioned a few paragraphs AFTER he dies. The reason for this is because his death scene originally happened at a different point in the chapter and when the author revised the chapter, he must have forgotten to remove this reference to him.
• Cosmic Retcon: Darkness of Dimensions ends with the characters pulling one in order to stop the Dark Angels.
• Crossover:
  • Beast Boy in Equestria is one between Teen Titans (2003) and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Teen Titans HSM V: Ways of Life is one between Teen Titans (2003) and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.
  • (Teen Titans) THE END OF ENDS! is this between MLP and... well, take a wild guess.
  • Darkness of Dimensions is a Crisis Crossover with Teen Titans (2003) (again), Inuyasha, and Digimon Adventure 02.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Zigzagged in Darkness of Dimensions. Initially, the trope is played straight, with the Dark Angels ultimately being a force for good by absorbing bad luck from their old dimensions. However, when one too many people accidentally visit the Dark Zone, they turn evil and unleash an attack on the entire multiverse.
• Death Glare: A crowd of ponies shoots daggers at Ath-lita during the pony's Humiliation Conga.
• Death of a Child:
  • Count Logan outright murders Flurry Heart himself because she tried to stand up to him.
  • Darkness of Dimensions has a child death count of three. Starfire fails to save a baby from a burning building, Flurry Heart gets killed again, this time by Spike, and even Garfield Logan Jr. gets disintegrated, Thanos-style by his own father.
• Diabolus ex Machina: In The Meanie of Hearth's Warming Eve, Rarity has a huge rivalry with another pony. Surprisingly for a Friendship is Failure story, Rarity is the instigator with Glitter Glitz seemingly just wanting to be friends with Rarity. During the story, Rarity hurts Glitter's feelings and, after having her Jerkass Realization, decides to make up with her...only for Glitter to refuse point blank despite having no reason to (It's especially egregious because Glitter had been the one who was trying to make the rivalry friendly and Rarity is the one who was making a big deal out of it.).
  • As mentioned in Dropped a Bridge on Him and Shoot the Shaggy Dog, Bill Dollar dies from a heart attack out of nowhere to ensure the story ends on a downer note. Same with Helper Soul.
  • Many of the Cosmic Retcon endings in Darkness of Dimensions end this way, with Kari never finding love, Terra accidentally killing herself in a landslide and Cadance dying of a broken heart, leading to a Communist takeover of the Crystal Empire.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Ath-Lita has lots of contempt for her older brother, Talon Ted, due to him refusing to become an actor after she forced him to get a degree.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Discussed. According to one pony, in grade school, Ath-Lita pushed them in the mud for not passing her a basketball once although their team won.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!:
  • Helper Soul says this in the rudest way possible to Nightlight when Helper reveals his mom died.
  • How Garfield Logan reacts to any act of kindness that the Titans or Equestria Girls show him.
• Downer Ending: All Work and No Play ends with Bill Dollar dying of a heart attack before he's able to learn his lesson and never getting the chance to reconcile with his family.
  • All of these stories have downer endings, as they revolve around Twilight failing a friendship mission. The exception is ironically #10, the darkest and edgiest of the lot.
• Double Standard: In DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS, we're meant to side against Kari for not wanting to give Davis a chance because she doesn't feel that way towards him but earlier in Love Doesn't Work That Way we're meant to see Strings as having a good point when he rejects Sun Rae because he doesn't WANT to love her.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: A notable aversion. While the author (rather intentionally or not) has written double standards, Ath-Lita's physical abuse towards her brother isn't intended to come off as amusing or ok. Additionally, when he publicly calls her out for it, the other ponies take it just as (or at least about as) seriously as they would if the genders were reversed.
• Drama Queen: An entire series based around them. For just a few examples, we have Talon Ted endlessly complaining about how he didn't get what he wanted in exactly the way he wanted to, Needle Stitch/Manny Collars making it his mission in life to spite Rarity, Stone Heart complaining about people not appreciating his writing, Davis angsting about not getting together with Kari... Yeah, the amount of drama stirred up by the OCs in this series makes Rarity at her worst look reasonable.
• Driven by Envy:
  • This is part of Helper Soul's reason for hating Night Light, who basically got everything Helper ever wanted.
  • This is also why Rarity doesn't like Glitter Glitz.
  • Stone Heart's reasons for hating Twilight is that friendship led her to have a much happier and more fufilling life than it ever did for him.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Bill Dollar dies of a heart attack from almost LITERALLY nowhere as his heart issues were established exactly one paragraph before he died.
  • The same exact thing happens to Helper Soul with even LESS foreshadowing.
  • Courier decides to commit suicide out of the blue right at the very end of Love and Disparage by grabbing Cadance and letting her magic set off his curse.
• Early Instalment Weirdness: The first fanfic, Writer's Blockade, has a few minor differences to later Friendship is Failure stories.
  • Whilst Stone Heart is still an unpopular writer, the story is centred around his mending his friendship his friends, Sandy Beam and Shining Hope. In all later fics with Stone Heart, his writing is the main focus of the story whilst Sandy Beam is given a much more reduced role (and Stone no longer has a crush on her) and Shining Hope isn't featured.
  • Princess Celestia is also a lot more sympathetic to Twilight being unable to change Stone Heart's attitude, with her letter reassuring Twilight that she doesn't blame her and knows she tried her best. In later stories, Celestia is much quicker to instead scold Twilight for "forcing her views onto others" whilst taking the side of the problem pony.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite the fact Beast Boy murdered trillions, some of which he did right in the characters' faces, emotionally abused Terra, refused to give up even when he was feeling remorseful for what he did, and only turned good in the end because he got exactly what he wanted, Beast Boy is forgiven for his crimes as Count Logan incredibly easily.
  • Celestia frequently lets the jerkass characters of the week get away with their asshole behavior even after they insult her and Twilight directly. Usually justifying it with "They were right to be upset".
• Entitled Bastard:
  • Stone Heart expects that his books should be praised simply because they're what he likes to write, despite the numurous problems that other ponies have with them. When his books get rejected or mocked, he accusses his critics of being selfish for doing so.
  • Talon Ted's original method of becoming an actor amounted to expecting to be given roles automatically despite the fact that he had no qualifications or evidence of previous acting experience, only his own word that he was a good actor.
• Entitled to Have You:
  • Just like in the original The End of Ends and every other Teen Titans (2003) fanfic Mykan has written, Beast Boy has this attitude towards Terra.
  • Stone Heart acts like this toward Sandy Beam in his first appearance.
  • Strings also acts this way toward Cadance in Love Doesn't Work That Way.
  • Helper Soul towards Velvet Light.
  • Davis has this attitude towards Kari in DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS.
  • Snapshot feels this way about Pirouette.
• Epic Fail: It takes a special kind of talent to suck at writing as much as Write a Wrong!Stone Heart does, to the point where his books destroy entire publishing companies just by being associated with them. Heck, he has a Cutie Mark in bad writing.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: More like Jerkass cannot comprehend Nice People but same idea. A lot of the Author Avatar characters don't seem to understand why Twilight is trying to help them and assume she's forcing her opinions on them only for them to force their opinions on her.
  • Write of Way's Stone Heart doubles down on this by considering traits like altruism, selflessness, and being able to let go of the past to be "pathetic" and dismissing stories involving these things as "ridiculous". Case in point, he actually wrote two versions of his best-seller about a pony that loses everything. The version that sold has him getting back on his hooves, building a new life, and earning a happy ending, while the version that was rejected had the same pony lashing out in revenge against his former friends, who all inexplicably became jerks, becoming a bona-fide super-villain, and refusing to reconcile even when defeated and convinced to let go of his evil ways. Stone Heart genuinely prefers the second version and dismisses the first version as being weak.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Well more like "Jerkassery is Petty", but a bunch of the friendship problem ponies tend to be like this. The stand out is Needle Stitch who not only went out of his way to have his whole identity changed into Manny Collars, but got his cutie mark removed simply because Rarity helped him get it and he wants nothing more to do with her. Helper Soul did the same thing (minus the identity change part).
  • Count Logan/Beast Boy kills countless innocents because Terra didn't want to get back together with him and because he thinks everyone else abuses him.
• Extreme Doormat: Twilight and her friends often become this in the various stories allowing the resident Jerkass of the week to get away with their jerkass behavior.
• Failure Is the Only Option: For Twilight and company, obviously. It's right there in the title.
• False Rape Accusation: In Darkness of Dimensions, Terra and Beast Boy have sex but a random passerby ends up mistaking it for Beast Boy raping Terra. Terra ends up lying and committing perjury, afraid that revealing her connection with Beast Boy would take her away from her normal life.
• Fan Haterinvoked: In Write of Way, Stone Heart writes books that become very succesful but because he hates the stories, he refuses to attend events for the books and insults anypony who enjoys them, including telling Princess Celestia to "go to the devil". He acts this way again in Write in the Head and even starts targetting fans of the stories with nightmares just for liking them.
• First-World Problems: Nearly all of Mykan's Author Avatars suffer from this. Specifically, complaining about the fact that their lives are not going exactly the way they want them to.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Bill Dollar is mentioned to have heart problems. One paragraph later, he suffers a fatal heart attack.
• Four Lines, All Waiting: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS has been criticized for this. Four separate universes each with their own stories plus a large cast equals a really slow and boring narrative.
• Freudian Excuse: Most of the more extreme problem characters have some form of misfortune in the past that sparks their Jerkass behavior.
  • Count Logan, once again, became an Omnicidal Maniac because Terra dumped him and because he feels the world is crap.
  • Helper Soul became a Hearth's Warming-hating jerk because he lost his leg saving Twilight's father, who went on to live the life he felt he deserved (in the original) or because Night Light chose to save Twilight Velvet over him in an accident (in the rewrite).
  • Stone Heart became antisocial because his books, written to conform to his preferences, were lambasted and he Can't Take Criticism and is unwilling to write books with broader appeal (or that one time in Writer's Blockade where his love interest went with his other friend and doesn't want him writing about her).
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • After Garfield Logan's past is revealed, the Equestria Girls and Teen Titans feel upset until Rainbow Dash yells that it doesn't justify or give him the right to behave the way he had been acting towards them.
  • In both Beast Boy in Equestria and The End of Ends, when Terra tells Beast Boy that the reason she wants a normal life is because of all the harm she caused in the past, Beast Boy retorts that whilst he understood her pain, it was no excuse for how she acted.
  • Subverted in A Hearths Warming Carol. Twilight tries to argue that Miser Stash doesn't need to make other ponies feel miserable, but the Ghost of Hearths Warming Current disagrees and says that Miser can't heal and be happy after all the hardship he faced during his life.
• Friendship-Hating Antagonist: One of the antagonists, Stone Heart, is a thin-skinned writer who verbally attacks anyone who dislikes his writing, and has a creepy obsession with Sandy Beam; he writes Sandy as a love interest in his stories despite her being creeped out by this. When he gets his hands on a magical typewriter, he uses it to take petty revenge by attacking people in their dreams and even targets Twilight Sparkle and Spike. One of his main reasons for hating Twilight is that her acceptance of friendship lead to a life far more fulfilling than his.
  Stone Heart: Friendship has done nothing but cause me pain and suffering for as long as I can remember. No matter how hard I tried, it never worked, but I see ponies like you making it look so easy? It breaks me to the core! Now! You're going to pay for it!
• Gasp!: Many ponies gasp in shock several times during the events in one of the later chapters in Pride and Punishment.
• Genre Shift: Individual stories in the series flip between FiM-style slice-of-life stories and Darker and Edgier action stories (usually crossing over with Teen Titans for good measure).
• George Jetson Job Security: All of Silver Nickle's employees. It doesn't get much worse than a boss who will fire you just for being happy.
• Great Offscreen War: In END OF ENDS, the conflict between two factions that resulted in Star Swirl the Bearded creating the Dark Prognosticus and the Light Prognosticus is this.
• The Grinch: Miser Stash despises the very concept of Hearth's Warming, and he accepts Twilight's invitation to a Hearth's Warming party just so he can insult everyone there for celebrating it.
• Groin Attack: Beast Boy delivers one to Robin that dislocates his penis. Thanks to Raven, he gets better.
• Hard Truth Aesop: The overall message presented by the series is the rather cynical "Friendship can't solve everything."
• Hate Fic: The second one based on Friendship is Magic. Even the title spells it out.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Terra empties several tubs of ice cream after learning of Beast Boy's death.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Helper Soul lost the use of his leg saving Twilight's father. Unfortunately, Helper himself doesn't see it as "heroic". Averted in the revised version where the circumstances are changed so that Helper was the one buried under snow.
• "The Hero Sucks" Song: Stone Heart sings one of these to Twilight in Twilight in Therapy called "You're a Disgrace", based of the song "Failure Face" from A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Bill Dollar clutches his chest and screams when he goes through one.
• Honor Before Reason: Talon Ted refuses to make something of his life because he got a degree in acting and that hurt his "pride".
• How We Got Here:
  • Nine and Eleven begins with many characters clearing up the rubble of a collapsed building before Spike decides to tell the readers what had happened.
  • Death to Twilight opens with Twilight and Spike having been buried up to their necks in the desert in front of a dam that will soon open by two pegasus ponies. Whilst Starlight tracks her down by projecting a hologram to her, Twilight tells Starlight the story of how she and Spike ended up there to keep herself awake so that Starlight's spell will remain active.
• Humiliation Conga: Several chapters put Ath-lita through the wringer. Her plan to get Talon Ted into the acting business backfires. He publicly calls her out for her abuse towards him and he insults her several times. Siding with Talon Ted, a couple ponies call her out for an instance she mistreated each of them^note granted, one of them was back in grade school. A crowd even gives her Death Glares and starts viewing her shittily. She also gets charged for several crimes^note blackmail, conspiracy, assault, and battery. While she didn't get arrested, she instead gets sentenced to several years of probations and told to get help. Furthermore, her sports team kicked her out. Additionally, official leagues and other sports teams ban her after they learn about her awful reputation. According to the narration, it would be a "miracle" if she managed to accomplish her goal of being a professional athlete now. Her brother also gives her zero sympathy (or at least none that's genuine), tells her she deserved what happened to her, and claims they should no longer see each other.
• Idle Rich: Talon Ted received a large quantity of bits after getting into an accident, but does absolutely nothing of substance with it. While he does make an anonymous 1000-bit donation, he later threatens to withdraw it just to spite Ath-Lita.
• Ignoring by Singing: At one point, Talon Ted covered his ears and hummed loudly so that he couldn't hear his sister berate him.
• I'll Kill You!: After being publically insulted, Ath-lita yells, "I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!".
• Informed Ability: Talon Ted is supposedly a great actor because he learned how to copy the performances of other actors. However, being a good impressionist is not the same thing as being a good actor as he would not be able to bring his own nuance for the roles he plays.
• Informed Attribute: Talon Ted's dream was to supposedly be a famous actor, but since he refuses to be an actor simply because he didn't get there the way he wanted to, it makes you wonder how much the "dream" meant to him.
• Informed Flaw:
  • In both Write a Wrong and Pride and Punishment, it's said that Twilight is forcing Talon and Stone to accept her way when all she's doing is trying to help them with their problems.
  • Like with the original END OF ENDS, it's stated that the Titans' neglect and abuse drove Beast Boy to become evil except this is never shown to us; in fact, what is shown just contradicts this idea.
  • Ath-Lita is supposedly being selfish because she doesn't want Talon to "waste potential" and forced him to go to college when he didn't want to become an actor that way except you can't be selfish over something you don't benefit from. And your brother getting a better life and his dream job doesn't count.
    • Additionally, Mykan's bio for her states that she is psychopathic but she only gets a grand total of three out of forty points on the PCL-R: two points for poor behavioural control, one for a lack of remorse for knocking Stagerlight out. Speaking of knocking folks out, the bio also says that she often resorts to beating people with a baseball bat but we see her do that to only one person in the entire story.
• Informed Kindness:
  • Talon Ted takes offense to being called selfish because he made a large donation to a charity. However, considering he mainly did this to spite his sister (something he even admits in the rewrite), it's hard to not see him as such.
  • Garfield Logan from HSM V Ways of Life is said by Vic Stone to "Not be a bully just a 'You leave him alone he leaves you alone' kinda guy". Except for the fact that Garfield actively pushed Rainbow into playing soccer against him, taunts her with petty insults and jabs during the game, and when she loses, he mocks her and kicks her while she's down, calling her pathetic. He also insults Shining Armour and Cadance for being grown-ups who are married and live with their parents, even though he had only just met the two and neither of them had even said anything to him.
  • Before Terra and Count Logan's fight, Terra insists that there is still good in Count Logan because he chose to have her kept alive as a prisoner instead of killing her. This falls flat once you remember Logan didn't do this out of kindness, but rather so he could force Terra to watch the universe get destroyed and so he could reveal his identity to her causing her to feel personally responsible for it. If anything, this act makes Logan look even more villainous.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • Helper Soul saved Night Light from being crushed by a roof, but lost the use of his right leg in the process... and apparently it's Night Light's fault for ruining Helper's dreams. Downplayed in the revised version where Helper was the one buried by the roof but Night was too busy helping Velvet.
    • Made even worse is his assumption that Night Light "stole chance at having a family with Velvet". Ignoring the fact that it's never established in-story that Velvet had any feelings for him, he also voices his envy over their children being successful and implies that her being with him would have resulted in the exact same success... ignoring the fact that them being together would have resulted in them having completely different children who might have had different preferences depending on their upbringing.
  • In Beast Boy in Equestria, Terra approaches Beast Boy, apologizing for rejecting him and saying she wants to make up with him...and Beast Boy's response is to reject Terra back in spite even though he wanted to be with her.
  • According to Garfield, it's the Equestria Girls' fault his house got destroyed because it was their magic that turned him into a dragon and caused him to destroy it. When the girls point out how their magic was stolen from them by the villains, Garfield says that they "let their guards down when they should have known better".
• Instant Sedation: When the Humane Seven get struck by tranquilizers in Ways of Life, they're all knocked out in a heartbeat.
• It's All About Me: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to care only about themselves and not give a damn about the feelings about those they hurt just so they can get their way.
  • Stone Heart's approach to writing is to put in what he likes, ignoring the fact that books are sold to entertain the reader. Naturally, his books don't sell very well. Additionally, when Twilight edits his stories to make them appeal better to most readers in Write a Wrong, he chews her out for it, and he basically throws away his paychecks from the one book he wrote that actually sells in Write of Way despite the fact that said books are actually making money for him, simply because they don't conform to his preferences.
    • He also has this attitude in regards to his friends in Writer's Blockade. He doesn't care for Sandy Beam and Shining Hope's happiness, only that Sandy isn't in love with him instead. Also, when Sandy and Shining told Stone to stop writing Sandy in his stories as a Love Interest because it creeped her out, he became upset that he didn't have inspiration for stories anymore.
  • Talon Ted refuses to pursue an acting career all because he got a degree when he wanted to prove you could be a successful actor without one and only eventually does so because he has Spotlight take his place so he could prove his own point. And as an added slap in the face, he accuses Ath-Lita, who only wanted him to succeed and follow his dreams, as being selfish solely because she wasn't going about it the way he wanted.
  • The only thing Strings seems to care about is his crush on Cadance and doesn't care at all about his friend Sun Rae who has an obvious crush on him that he refuses to even TRY to reciprocate simply because he doesn't wanna let go of his crush on Cadance. He doesn't even seem to regard Cadance's feelings in the situation despite her being the one he has a crush on.
  • Despite the fact he's his best friend, Helper Soul doesn't seem to care about Night Light's success in life. He only cares about the fact that Night's success is what HE wanted.
  • Whilst Scribbler claims that he's angry his wife made him get a job because it meant he couldn't spend time with their child, he then goes on to disown said child, showing that he only cares about himself and his pride.
  • Snapshot only wants to be with Pirouette in a romantic way and spends the story deliberately avoiding her becasue she's in a relationship with another stallion, despite her still wanting to be Snap's friend. He also refuses to associate with his other friends becasue they also hang out with Pirouette, not caring about how upset they are that he's avoiding them.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: In "The End of Ends", Discord identifies the black hole that appears in Equestria's sky as a void, prompting Pinkie Pie to say, “A void…! Of course a void! …What’s a void?”.
• I Want My Mommy!: Said verbatim by Pinkie Pie when she skydives in "Beast Boy in Equestria".
• Jerkass: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to be unpleasant to everyone around them.
  • Talon Ted. He's completely ungrateful and unresponsive towards the attempts of the Mane Six and his sister to help him, is willing to both throw away future prospects and rescind charitable donations out of sheer spite, and is ultimately just bitter about not having things go his way.
  • When Twilight edits his stories so they can appeal more to people, Stone Heart gets mad and destroys the revised books over this even though Twilight was only trying to help him. Admittedly, she did do it behind his back but still... It's a really jerk move to do to someone who was willing to help you out of the kindness of their heart.
    • Stone Heart manages to become even more jerkish in Write of Way, where he not only callously dismisses Twilight's offer to become a teacher at the School of Friendship, but turns down an offer from Princess Celestia to visit a book club because he's not interested and tells her to "go to the devil". His exact words, not ours.
  • Strings comes off as a more passive-aggressive version of this towards his crush with Cadance and brushing off everyone's attempts to let him get over it. He was also planning on moving and telling his best friend via a letter only after he did so, and choosing to retire right after being invited to a big charity event, not even bothering to come.
  • Needle Stitch/Manny Collars refuses to forgive Rarity for when she stole designs from him despite the fact that A) He gave the design to Rarity to do with as she pleased and B) Rarity apologized multiple times. His hate for Rarity and his desire to have nothing to do with her is so great that he not only changed his identity, but he also got his cutie mark removed simply because Rarity helped him get it.
  • Helper Soul used to be close friends with Twilight's dad, Night Light, but due to Night Light and Twilight Velvet hooking up when Helper was in love with Velvet (making him yet another Mykan character who refuses to let go of the fact that he Did Not Get the Girl), and him saving Night Light from a falling roof (or, in the revised version, being crushed by the roof and Night prioritized saving Velvet over him), losing his leg in the process and ruining his dream of joining the Royal Guard, Helper blamed Night Light for the loss of his leg and blames him for all of his problems despite the fact that anyone could see it wasn't his fault.
  • Surprisingly (or not surprisingly considering this author, given that he's very vocal about his dislike of the character), Rarity becomes this in The Meanie of Hearth's Warming Eve, although she does have a Jerkass Realization at the end. In Fallout Fashions, she is also worse than canon as she plagiarizes, though she tries to fix her mistake.
  • Scribbler acts like this to everypony he encounters. Whilst it's partly justified in the case of his wife (who threatened to take their child away if he didn't get a job), he also takes his anger out on other ponies, as well as his son by disowning him, despite none of them doing anything to make his life worse.
• Jerk Justifications: Each story spends its first half setting up the resident Jerkass and the last half giving excuses for their behavior. Appeal to Inherent Nature with a side of Moral Myopia is in play for almost all of them, with Stone Heart and Count Logan also throwing in Virtue Is Weakness.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bill Dollar is rude, antisocial, and has no sense of tact, but he's also incredibly generous with his money and Nice to the Waiter, with his jerkish tendencies coming off as him having No Social Skills due to his upbringing.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
  • This defines Stone Heart pretty well. The guy has no redeeming qualities and comes off as an arrogant jerk who thinks he's perfect, doesn't take criticism well and is only satisfied if he makes himself happy. Even more so in Write of Way, which shows him donating paychecks to charity not out of goodwill, but rather to just get rid of them out of spite towards the publishing company that finally accepted one of his stories - namely, one he isn't proud of and would much rather have never seen the light of day; he'd evidently be just as fine with chucking them in the trash if he didn't care about the semblance of a moral high ground.
  • Talon Ted. He's hopelessly arrogant, refuses any attempts to help him, and just isn't very nice overall. He does get in a few acts of kindness to make himself come off as a nice guy deep down, but they're done out of spite rather than any genuine goodwill on his part, as shown when he makes a donation and then threatens to retract it just to flip off his own sister.
  • Helper Soul put his own life and limb on the line to save Twilight's father. It seems like a Heroic Sacrifice done out of selflessness, except Helper proceeded to resent Night Light for going on to live the life he couldn't have due to his injury, which makes him look a lot less selfless to say the least. Downplayed in the revised version which gives a different version of events that led to Helper getting crippled.
• Just Friends: Defied in 'Let's just NOT be friends'. Whilst Pirouette doesn't love Snap Shot like he loves her, she still wants to remain friends with him. Snap however, isn't satisfied with just being friends so he starts avoiding her and everyone associated with her, since he'd rather never see her than be anything less than lovers.
• Kangaroo Court: Beast Boy is subjected to this in Darkness of Dimensions with no jury and a heavily biased prosecutor.
• Kick the Dog: Talon Ted humiliates and abandons his sister who was only trying to help him. And we're meant to think he's in the right for doing this.
• Killed Off for Real: Terra, Raven, TK, Flurry Heart and Beast Boy's son all die in Darkness of Dimensions and even though they're brought back to life via the Cosmic Retcon they all die in the new universe killing them off for good. In fact, the only killed character in the original timeline that doesn't die in the new universe is Gennai.
• Laborious Laziness: Talon Ted. He makes a cunning plan to not get the job of his dreams so he can satisfy his ego and spite his sister.
• Lack of Empathy: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to be apathetic towards the feelings of everyone else.
  • Stone Heart only writes to make himself happy, completely ignoring the responses of his readers and anyone that tries to help him. He also doesn't see anything wrong with continually writing Sandy Beam into his works as a love interest, even though she's greatly creeped out by it.
  • Needle Stitch/Manny Collars refuses to forgive Rarity for the time she took credit for a design he made even though she did everything she could to make it right and is clearly repentant. Even after Rarity helps Manny's newly opened shop get more business, he still refuses to forgive her despite her act of charity towards him.
  • Talon Ted completely dismisses his sister despite her attempts to help him earn a better life. In fact, he ultimately abandons her completely, leaving her to cry by herself, and sees nothing wrong with it.
  • Beast Boy refuses to take "no" for an answer from Terra and blows off the other Titans' attempts to help him, and then turns around and blames all of them for treating him like crap.
  • Strings is so caught up in his own self-pity that he's completely oblivious to Sun Rae and is fine with tactlessly blowing her off, even though she's basically in the same situation as him.
  • Even Princess Celestia, of all people, has shades of this, given her tendency to punish Twilight for just trying to help, overlooking the fact that she did it out of goodwill.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Stone Heart gives this to everyone at the end of Write in the Head so he won't have to face consequences for giving ponies nightmares.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A lot of Stone Heart's comments can be applied to Mykan himself.
• Loving a Shadow: Strings's love for Cadance can be interpreted this way.
• Manchild: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to throw fits over not getting what they want.
  • Talon Ted is pretty much throwing a gigantic temper tantrum over not getting his way. Ditto for Stone Heart.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Miser Stash's father blamed him for his mother's death in childbirth.
• Meaningful Name: Stone Heart has a heart made of stone.
• Misery Poker: In his diary, Garfield Logan acknowledges the hardships that the Titans faced (including some losing their parents just like him) but immediately dismisses them because their lives eventually improved whilst his is still miserable.
• Misplaced Retribution: In both Pride and Punishment and Write a Wrong, Celestia gets mad at Twilight for "trying to force her opinions onto others" rather than getting mad at Talon Ted for essentially throwing a temper tantrum in public and possibly committing fraud and Stone Heart for committing property damage because he didn't like the edits Twilight made to his books.
• Mythology Gag: Stone Heart's books in Write A Wrong all share titles with other fanfics that Mykan has written.

N-Z

• Never My Fault: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to refuse any amount of responsibility for their actions.
  • A notable example is Helper Soul. After rescuing Night Light from a collapsing roof and losing the use of his leg in the process, he blames Night for the loss of his leg and his chance to serve as a royal guard despite the fact Helper was the one who CHOSE to help save Night (the revised version averts this, however).
  • As per the norm, Beast Boy chooses to lay blame on his fellow Titans for being lousy friends that never try to listen to him or be there for him, conveniently neglecting to mention the part where they actually did, only for him to snap at them and drive them away.
  • As far as all four versions of Stone Heart are concerned, he's not doing anything wrong as a writer, and his stories are only leaving a bad taste in ponies' mouths because everyone except him has terrible taste in writing.
  • Talon Ted insists that his sister is a control freak for making him get a degree so that he can get into the acting industry when he wanted to get in without one. He adamantly believes that he's good enough to get into acting on his own merits and that no one would appreciate his talent unless he went to school, even though the fact that he was turned away without a degree implies that he just isn't up to scratch and that Ath-Lita was right to get him some acting lessons.
• Never Trust a Trailer: The summary of Nine & Eleven claims there's no terrorist attack in the story, which happened to be published on September 11. However, Silver Nickle blowing her own company to kingdom come just to spite the very concepts of friendship and fun sounds very much like the mentality of a terrorist. The summary also states that a frightening and horrific tragedy occurs. The complete destruction of a building and one death does not a tragedy make, especially since that one death is of the perpetrator. Averted in the revised version, wherein many ponies are killed and injured by the explosion.
• No Endor Holocaust: Silver Nickle bringing down her own headquarters, a tall building situated in the middle of a populated city, somehow caused no fatalities whatsoever aside from herself. The revised version averts this.
• Non-Indicative Name:
  • Talon Ted has the word "Talon" in his name despite the fact he's a pony, a creature that lacks talons.
  • Despite the fact normally ponies usually have names related to their special talent, Stone Heart's name isn't connected to his job as a garbage man or his writing hobby.
  • Changeling from Beast Boy in Equestria is probably the most baffling example of this. For starters, he's said to be Beast Boy's Equestrian counterpart, even though, as established in the Equestria Girls series, the counterparts are supposed to share names, his special talent isn't related to shapeshifting like Beast Boy's is and why would a pony have the name of a completely different species?
• No OSHA Compliance: The Canterlot Foundry in Write of Way. They're lucky Twilight didn't have them shut down on the spot when a vat of molten metal tips over and nearly incinerates a pony.
• No Romantic Resolution: As pointed out in Aborted Arc above, Beast Boy in Equestria sets up a romance between Fluttershy and Beast Boy with Beast Boy even at one point fantasizing about marrying her and kissing Fluttershy in order to calm her down before jumping out of a plane but at the very end, when Terra admits she loves him, he goes right back to crushing on her, seemingly forgetting about his crush on Fluttershy.
• No Sympathy: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to ignore everyone else's problems.
• Not as You Know Them:
  • Beast Boy/Garfield Logan is about as in character in installments #3 and #8 as he was in The End of Ends. In fact, that's just what ends up happening in the tenth story.
  • Twilight and friends are just as big of victims of Flanderization as they ever have been in Mykan's works. More significantly, Princess Celestia is usually entirely OOC, often being more prone to chastising Twilight for helping sort out friendship problems (which, y'know, is kind of her job) rather than being wholeheartedly supportive like she is in canon.
  • Davis Motomiya in DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS is just as out-of-character as he's ever been in every single other Digimon fanfic Mykan has written of him.
• Not What It Looks Like: In DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS, Beast Boy and Terra have sex and a random passerby mistakes it for rape and takes pictures. Beast Boy ends up being charged for rape as a result.
• No, You: One of the things Talon Ted says in response to Ath-lita calling him a "selfish loser"? "No, Ath-lita, you're just proving that it's YOU who's the selfish loser, not me.".
• Offing the Offspring: Despite being her mother, Luna Light tries to kill Moondancer.
• Once an Episode: Twilight failing a friendship mission.
• Plagiarism in Fiction: In Fallout Fashions, it turns out Rarity had taken credit for a dress design from a pony named Needle Stitch years ago.
• Playing Against Type: In-Universe example. Fluttershy is playing Commander Hurricane in The Meanie of Hearths Warming Eve even though she doesn't fit the part at all (The odd thing is, Rainbow Dash is right there and there's no stated reason why she can't play Hurricane again).
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Mykan's Author Avatars are all viewed as in the right, even when they willingly act like horrible people to those around them, commit property damage, and even kill people in some instances, all without any form of regret. The story will always bend over backwards to make the supposed "antagonists" (the ponies) out to be in the wrong just for trying to help improve their lives.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Like many of the other focus characters in these fics, Count Logan is effectively just throwing a massive temper tantrum over things not going his way. However, his is far more destructive than most.
• Psycho Serum: Used as an explanation for Silver Nickle's extreme misanthropy. After being heavily wounded by her Abusive Parents, she had to survive on a healing potion that also has the minor side effect of causing batshit craziness.
• Pun-Based Title:
  • Writer's Blockade is one to the term "writer's block".
  • Write a Wrong is one to the phrase "right a wrong".
  • Write of Way is one to "right of way".
• Rage Breaking Point: After Garfield once again rejects their friendship, despite saving his life, Kori gets so fed up with his attitude that she slaps him and screams at him what his problem is.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • In the penultimate chapter of Pride and Punishment, Talon Ted tries giving one to Ath-lita. He tells her she's self-centered several times, calls her out for being abusive towards him, and tells her she's merely a "low-down blackmailing bully". Also, Talon indirectly calls her bossy and claims she abuses other ponies. He additionally says she's uncaring, mentally unwell, power-hungry, and an "overbearing bully". After comparing Ath-lita to a "war dictating [sic] sadist", Rainbow Dash tells him off. This, however, causes him to call her and indirectly Ath-lita "bigoted and stupid". Later, when Ath-lita calls him a "selfish loser", he soon fires back with... No, You.
  • The entirety of Act 4 of Hearth's Warming I'll Never Forget is Luna Light giving one of these to Twilight, wherein she accuses Twilight of being a Control Freak who forces her views on friendship on everyone whilst ignorantly believing it can solve all problems and of being a hypocrite who acts like a model citizen, even when her actions cause problems.
  • Act 3 of Pride and Punishment 2 involves both Twilight and Applejack each giving one to Scribbler and Ruby respectively.
• Rescue Romance: Terra has a crush on Garfield in Ways of Life due to him having saved her from robbers when they were pre-teens, even though it's clear he only beat up the would-be thieves so he could rob them.
• Ret-Gone: As a result of the cosmic retcon Beast Boy, Nobunaga, Davis, Spike, Fluttershy, Matt, TK, Izzy, Baby Garth and Flurry Heart are never born.
• Revenge Fic: In a similar vein to Starfleet Magic, it's meant to humiliate the Mane Six and show that friendship can't solve everything.
• Sand Necktie: Twilight and Spike are buried in these in Death to Twilight in front of a dam that will drown the two when it opens.
• Sarcastic Clapping: Changeling does this when Terra figures out he's not Beast Boy.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: Silver Nickle blows up her own building near the end of Nine and Eleven.
• Series Continuity Error: Right at the very end as the heroes are about to pull the cosmic retcon to stop the Dark Angels, it's said that because they stop the Dark Angels from ever existing, Beast Boy, Nobunaga, Davis and Spike will never exist. Even though it's established early on that Dark Angels are chosen at random and it's not something you're born into. Furthermore, Matt and TK are erased in the new universe because their mother was born into the darkness, even though it is established that only men can become Dark Angels. It was revised into their father being born into it, but parts of the original draft still use female-specific pronouns.
• Shamed by a Mob: Downplayed Trope. In one chapter, a crowd of ponies give Ath-lita Death Glares and side with Talon Ted instead.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Right when it looks like Bill Dollar might learn something, he dies of a heart attack thanks to a surprise party just for the sake of making sure the story has a Downer Ending.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Beast Boy in Equestria, when Terra and the Titans are about to learn Beast Boy's backstory, Terra is visited by a Guardian Angel named Jerome who is trying to earn his wings, in a clear reference to It's a Wonderful Life. Meanwhile, the Titans' computers come to life and scold them for causing Beast Boy to run away in reference to the episode In Marge We Trust from The Simpsons, right down to having lines lifted directly from the episode.
  • The scene of Twilight Velvet telling Helper Soul that Night Light proposed to her, and Helper falsely stating that he's happy for them, is copied word for word from a scene involving Dr. Adler/Master Org and Cole's parents in Power Rangers Wild Force. Even though Master Org's reaction to the same situation was... less than graceful.
  • The name and basic concept of Darkness of Dimensions's infamous Dark Zone is based on the English dub of Futari wa Pretty Cure.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech that Luna Light gives to Twilight is based on Quagmire's speech to Brian from Family Guy. Both speeches are given whilst the recipient of the speech is trying to befriend the one who hates them and (on a less deliberate level) both characters giving the speech are not only guilty of much worse offences, but also of things they criticize the other for doing. Although, unlike in the original, wherein Quagmire knows he is a nasty piece of work, and doesn't ever pretend to have the moral high ground, Luna Light is completely unaware of her own flaws.
  • A female earth pony's reaction to being prevented from committing suicide in Twilight in Therapy closely copies a scene from The Incredibles.
  • The ending of Death to Twilight Sparkle is based off The Batman Animated Series episode If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Rich. Twilight is shown doing everything she can to keep the castle secure from intruders and both her and Spike are too paranoid to sleep in fear that the Star Sisters will return for them, just like Mockridge was in regards to The Riddler.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Despite having not met them, Helper Soul instinctively hates Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armour because they're Night Light's children. He also hates Flurry Heart by extension, despite her being an infant.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: In chapter 4 of 'Darkness of Dimensions', after a heated argument between Terra and Beast Boy, the two start fighting each other. Terra manages to pin Beast Boy to the ground, whereupon they start making out and then have sex.
• Social Services Does Not Exist: In Ways of Life, Garfield and other children were abused in a Dickensian orphanage with no authorities finding out from those that were adopted out until he ran away. Afterwards, no homeless shelter or other orphanage would take him due to him being dishevelled and, despite being nine years old, he was given a job at a restaurant. Garfield also never goes to a food bank or a soup kitchen or gets food stamps.
• Sound Effects Bleep: Occurs multiple times throughout End of Ends and Darkness of Dimensions, which is particularly odd considering both fics have an M-Rating.
• Strictly Formula: A member(s) of the Mane Six tries to solve a friendship problem involving the Author Avatar of the week. They fail to do so because said Author Avatar refuses to make their life any better. Either that or the pony with the friendship problem will die just when it seems like they'll learn something.
  • This adherence to formula reaches absurd lengths in The Meanie of Hearth's Warming Eve where Glitter refuses to make up with Rarity despite having no reason to.
• Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: In a scene that's ripped off from an episode of The Simpsons, this is pretty much the computers' reponses to the Titans stating that they told Beast Boy to move on and that there's always a bright side to look forward to in Beast Boy in Equestria (and they don't even tell the Titans what they were supposed to do instead).
• Suddenly Shouting: The Author Avatar characters have a tendency TO DO THIS!!!!
• Suicide by Cop: Logger Jack is a suicidal pony but has been unable to kill himself due to his previous attempts either failing or his fears getting the best of him. Because of this, he asks Twilight Sparkle to kill him. When she refuses this request, Jack uses a magic orb to trap both himself and Twilight in a forcefield and attacks her so that she'll have no choice but to kill him.
• Take That!: Mykan has stated that Strings's characterization and story arc are intended as a jab at "Things Change", stating that if Terra is meant to be sided with for not wishing to be with Beast Boy, then the same should be said for Strings and vice versa, completely ignoring their entirely different circumstances. Strings is actually closer to Beast Boy here.
• Take That, Audience!:
  • Mykan has stated this is what Flurry Heart's death was meant to be.
  • In the end of Write in the Head, Stone Heart sticks his tongue out at the reader, after he got away with giving ponies nightmares by using his magic typewriter to wipe everyone's memories of the story's events.
• Take That, Critics!:
  • Ath-Lita is supposedly based on Cherry-Lei despite the fact she looks and acts nothing like Cherry. Of course that could always be part of the Take That!.
  • This is also one of the reasons he had Count Logan kill Flurry Heart. He included the scene as a way of angering them, and is proud to have done it because of that. It can be assumed that Flurry Heart's death in Darkness of Dimensions was done for similar reasons.
  • The basic premise of Write of Way is Mykan using Stone Heart as a mouthpiece to go "This is who I am, this is how I write, and nothing anyone says can change that." Stone Heart, naturally, suffers no retribution for being an insufferable Jerkass and threatening to hurt Twilight, and the story ends with everyone accepting that his way is the right way.
• Tautological Templar: Mykan's Author Avatars tend to think of themselves as always in the right, and, as such, they are free to do whatever they please, even if that means being an asshole to everyone around them.
• That Reminds Me of a Song: As to be expected from Mykan, almost every story has a song shoehorned in there even when it makes no sense to do so.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: In-Universe, part of the reason why Stone Heart's books sell so poorly is because his stories all tend to have the main character become evil and/or a Jerkass who refuses to let go of the past and end on sour notes, while Character Development is implied to be kept to a minimum. When Twilight edits his stories to rectify this in Write a Wrong, they sell much better.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: All of the MLP characters go through this, but it happens to Twilight and Rarity the most.
• To the Pain: End of Ends and Darkness of Dimensions describe in great detail the suffering of certain characters because they're both meant to be Revenge Fics.
• The Unapologetic: A running trend in the stories is that, while they go out of their way to try and justify the rude behavior of the friendship problem ponies, said ponies are never seen actually apologizing for it or showing any sign of being sorry in the slightest. The closest we get is Stone Heart in Write of Way giving a half-assed apology ordered by Celestia.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Let's just say that any attempts to help in these fics tend to go unappreciated.
  • Talon Ted. Despite the fact that his sister is trying to help him achieve his dream job, Talon refuses to cooperate because he wouldn't be getting it the way HE wants to. He eventually goes as far as to abandon her entirely.
  • Manny Collars. Even after Rarity makes up for stealing his designs from him by giving his store more business while he unbans her from his store, he still refuses to reconcile with her despite claiming he's grateful for her help.
  • Stone Heart. When Twilight tries to help him by editing his stories to be more palatable to the masses, he effectively spits in her face for it simply because it goes against his own preferences.
  • Despite them saving his life, Garfield still rejects the Equestria Girls and Titans' offer of freiendship and instead blames them for what happened to him.
• Unwanted Assistance: Twilight often tries to help the problem ponies of the stories to improve their unhappy lives, despite them insisting that they don't want her to. In every instance, the attempt to help ends up backfiring in some way and the pony refuses to change their ways.
• Useless Protagonist: The ponies, particularly Cadance, are arguably this in END OF ENDS despite being one of the three teams chosen to destroy Count Logan. All the important stuff is handled by the Titans characters.
• Viewers Are Geniuses: All the stories that are crossovers with other shows fully expect you to be familiar with those shows going in.
• Viewers Are Morons: Facts are repeated ad nausea and most things are overexplained. It's clearly done in an attempt to not confuse readers but all it does is make the story drag on and make things boring to read.
• Villain Decay: Compared to the original The End of Ends where Count Logan's minions at least had unique personalities (and in Kamica's case, a more interesting design), here they're just generic murderers who simply kill others For the Evulz and nothing else. Kind of odd to see Mykan doing this to his own characters, to be honest.
• Voodoo Shark: Zig-Zagged. In the original version of End of Ends, Beast Boy turns into his beast form and uncontrollably mauls Terra's friends, leading the Titans to call Beast Boy out on it. It's meant to make them come off as unfair to Beast Boy because he couldn't control himself even though he had gained control over his beast form in the original cartoon. An attempt was made to fix this in the newest version by having Beast Boy be in his T-Rex form, which he does have control over, and beating up some random thugs hired by Terra's friends. On the one hand, this makes the Titans being unjustified in telling off Beast Boy more valid, but on the other hand, it turns them into complete idiots because Beast Boy had just been defending himself, and superheroes beat up thugs all the time. Heck, Robin did the same thing in "Go".
• Watch Where You're Going!: As a dog, Spike causes two guards to chase him then run into each other, knocking themselves both out in Beast Boy in Equestria.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • Rarity used to be close friends with Needle Stitch, but after she took credit for a dress design he made, he not only severed their friendship, but he also changed his identity and got his cutie mark removed because she helped him get it.
  • Night Light and Helper Soul. Helper ended up breaking up their friendship because he blamed Night for the loss of his leg (despite the fact that he only lost said leg due to saving Night from dying, which was nobody's fault) and because he hated the fact that Night got everything he ever wanted.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In END of END, Starlight completely vanishes right before the chapter Nightmare comes true. What makes her absence incredibly conspicuous is the author went out of his way to describe the death of pretty much every supporting MLP character EXCEPT Starlight. The chapter was eventually rewritten so that Starlight dies alongside Spike.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • When Twilight and company try to talk Stone Heart out of his anti-friendship attitude in Write of Way, he eventually snaps and threatens bodily harm on her.
  • Count Logan decapitates Flurry Heart with no remorse.
  • In Darkness of Dimensions, Beast Boy fights and beats down Raven.
• Would Hurt a Child: Count Logan's minion Kamica is shown killing a mother and her baby simply For the Evulz.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: A Hearths Warming Carol is a take-off of A Christmas Carol, only with the ghosts visiting Twilight instead of the Scrooge stand-in.
• "You!" Exclamation: After he screws up her life, Ath-lita angrily exclaims "YOU!!!" at Talon Ted.