History Fanfic / TheCadanceverse

* AnythingThatMoves: Medley. When drunk, anyway.

* AuthorAppeal: Music.

* BeleagueredAssistant:
** Pageturner, to Octavia.
** Spike, to Trixie.

* HypocriticalHumor: Octavia's comments about the absurdity of Bon Bon's SuperOCD system of storing things in her kitchen is immediately followed by an example of her own obsessive scheduling habits.

* SuperOCD: Octavia, when it comes to setting and following a schedule. Similarly, Bon Bon is very particular about how she stows things in her kitchen.

** Music/{{Survivor}}, with Vinyl singing 'Eye of the Tiger' (er, pony).

** Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast‎, with Prince Blueblood described in the manner of Gaston:

** A discussion over reward money mentions [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Knights who say "Neigh"]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a figure known as "Piebaldicuss" who slew a gorgon]], and [[Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts the Golden Mane-Tail]].

** A discussion over reward money mentions [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Knights who say "Neigh"]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a figure known as "Piebaldicuss" who slew a gorgon]], and [[JasonAndTheArgonauts the Golden Mane-Tail]].

* BritishPoliticalSystem: C!Equestria is set up like this, although Cadence has substantially more power than her RealLife counterpart.

The Cadanceverse is an AlternateUniverse of MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic by prolific [[Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse Lunaverse]] author [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/GrassAndClouds2 GrassAndClouds2]]. In a sentence, it can be summed up as ''My Little Pony: The SongFic Universe''.

In this universe's backstory, ''both'' Celestia and Luna went insane. As their madness grew, they started to clash over the sunrise and sunset, about the precise point where one's rule ended and the other's began. Eventually, Star Swirl The Bearded proposed that they compromise by creating a golem-alicorn to control those two areas: and thus Mi Amore Cadenza was "born". The creation of a third alicorn delayed the inevitable for a hundred and fifty years, but eventually tensions between the two sisters broke out into open war, and on such a scale that Cadance was forced to act. Wielding the Elements of Harmony against her elders, she sealed them away, and began to rule in their place.

It doesn't take long for Octavia to determine what Ponyville is planning for the Equinox. To her dismay, it is (by her standard) utterly mediocre, and she takes it upon herself to ''improve'' it. Trying to shove the square peg of what Ponyville likes into the round hole of what Octavia thinks is good goes about as well as you may think, and she soon finds the town against her, much to her incredulity. When things reach the point where it can't possibly get any worse, they do, in the form of Celestia and Luna breaking free. They promptly resume their old war, and Cadance flies after them to do damage control. Octavia (a nervous breakdown later), learns that several local musicians plan on making a perilous journey into the Everfree Forest. It seems that one of them had once heard a legend of a castle there, where the Elements of Harmony can be found...

* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: All the Musical 6 to some extent, with Medley being the best example.

* AlphaBitch: Silver Spoon is convinced she's better than every other foal in Ponyville, and manages to be insulting to them ''[[InnocentlyInsensitive even when she thinks she's being nice]]''.

* AlternateUniverseFic
* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler: Prince Blueblood]] has a steady coltfriend, but casually suggests letting Rarity and Fluttershy join in on the action.
** When drunk, Medley flirts with both mares and stallions alike. There's no comment on what her preferences are when sober.
* AndroclesLion: The kraken in the Everfree.

* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Trixie and Twilight get into one of these arguments. In fact they even sing a variation of the song about spell casting.
** Silver Spoon considers herself superior at everything to all other foals in Ponyville. The fact that Sweetie Belle is a better singer than her sends her into melt down.
*** It turns out, this is [[FreudianExcuse because]] she's convinced that she has to be perfect to live up to her father's standards. He eventually sets her right about this.

* TheAtoner: Octavia sees helping stop the tyrant alicorns as this for her lifelong selfish attitude.
** Said alicorns also become this after being purified by the Elements.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Pageturner, to Octavia.
** And Spike, to Trixie.

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Medley. Octavia also gets tizzy pretty easily, but she at least has little experience with alcohol.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Vinyl and Lyra both come off as this at times.
** And Pinkie Pie, of course. Much to the supreme annoyance of Octavia.

* FriendlyRival: [[spoiler: Twilight declares herself this to Vinyl Scratch.]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Fluttershy views herself as a horrible pony for spending money that could otherwise go to charity on herself, even if only for a minor luxury like buying a nice dress.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: As stated above, Silver Spoon can sometimes be mean even when she thinks she's being nice.

* NoodleIncident: Fluttershy once let Lyra crash at her place after Ditzy and Raindrops dropped a piano on her house.

* ShoutOut: A few to the Lunaverse.
** The Elements are said to have been used to defeat [[BigRedDevil Tirek]], Grogar and [[BlobMonster The]] [[HatePlague Smooze]], all from the original Franchise/MyLittlePony cartoons.
** A discussion over reward money mentions [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail The Knights who say "Neigh"]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a figure known as "Piebaldicuss" who slew a gorgon]], and [[JasonAndTheArgonauts the Golden Mane-Tail]].

* ShipTease: Snips apparently has a crush on Apple Bloom.

* TheSmartGuy: Vinyl, who acts as the team strategist.

* BiggerBad: Nemesis, the entity/force that corrupted Celestia and Luna.

** A discussion over reward money mentions [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail The Knights who say "Neigh"]], [[ClassicalMythology a figure known as "Piebaldicuss" who slew a gorgon]], and [[JasonAndTheArgonauts the Golden Mane-Tail]].

* CallForward: ''The Race That Ate Friendships'' has an early scene of Octavia going through her morning routine, including meeting several ponies around town. ''The Hoe Down'', written after but taking place several months earlier, has a similar scene Lyra showing Octavia around town to get used to it. This is meant to contrast how awkward Octavia was with the town at first with how comfortable she becomes later on.

* IdenticalStranger: Fiddlesticks' resemblance to Octavia is touched upon, but not directly addressed.

* FriendlyRival: [[spoiler: Twilight declares herself this to Vinyl Scratch]]

** There's a hint of this between Octavia and Macintosh.