History Characters / FallOfStarfleetMainStoryRebirthOfFriendship

* TheMillstone: Due to most of the other tropes listed here, he's more of a hindrance to United Equestria's war effort than a help. [[spoiler:His death allows the far more competent Celestia and Luna to take over, and promptly make more progress in one chapter than Celestia had the entire story.]]

* GeneralFailure: See TooDumbToLive below for why you do not want this guy commanding your army.

* HumiliationConga: Once the facade he cast on Equestria starts to unravel, everything goes to hell for Celesto. He loses his soldiers, then his control over the masses, then his facade of godhood. [[spoiler:When he decides to unveil Serpentari, his forces get beaten back by the Equestrians and he gets beaten down by Lightning, [[TheDogBitesBack whom he'd subjected to years of neglect and emotional abuse]]. He runs with his tail between his legs to Canterlot, only to find Conquest waiting for him and the Orb of Reality stolen and turned on him by Celestia, who sends Celesto and Conquest to an isolated area to duke it out. He then gets humiliated in full view of all Equestria and killed by Conquest, [[ILoveTheDead who then screws his corpse]] [[DesecratingTheDead for good measure]].]]

* TheMillstone: Due to most of the other tropes listed here, he's more of a hindrance to United Equestria's war effort than a help.

* ThePowerOfHate: Stated by him to be the one thing that gives him strength and attracts him to other worlds. It is for this reason that he comes to United Equestria in search of a new world to add to his list of conquered worlds, noting that United Equestria is dripping in hatred due to the incompetence and xenophobic actions of both the military and the country's ruler. [[spoiler:Notably, things only begin to seriously turn around on him after the Grand Ruler, the source of most of hate powering him is dead, meaning [[NiceJobFixingItVillain killing him off might not have been Conquest's brightest idea.]]]]

* ThePowerOfHate: Stated by him to be the one thing that gives him strength and attracts him to other worlds. It is for this reason that he comes to United Equestria in search of a new world to add to his list of conquered worlds, noting that United Equestria is dripping in hatred due to the incompetence and xenophobic actions of both the military and the country's ruler.

* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Dusk Shine wants to die due to his family and loyalties being in the past but only after Grand Ruler is taken down.

A purple unicorn mare with a mysterious past, who ''also'' bears a strong resemblance to the late Twilight Sparkle. Currently serving under Princess Luna. [[spoiler:In truth, Shining Spark is a pseudonym for the NotQuiteDead Twilight, retaining her identity and memories
while her heart and emotions reside in Belle Amie.]]

A purple unicorn mare with a mysterious past, who ''also'' bears a strong resemblance to the late Twilight Sparkle. Currently serving under Princess Luna.

* IdenticalStranger: She also bears some similarity to Twilight, noticeably having her coat color.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:For Twilight Sparkle, inheriting her logical nature and magical prowess.]]
* MysteriousPast: For all that's known of her backstory in-universe and out, she might as well have materialized on Luna's doorstep. [[spoiler:Apparently, that's exactly the case.]]

[[folder:Twilight Sparkle]]
* AwesomeByAnalysis: [[spoiler:Demonstrates this remarkably well in her fight with Raven.]]
** [[spoiler:She points out all the holes in Raven's story about Celestia being involved in the death of her husband.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, she points out all the holes in Grand Ruler and Starfleet's logic about investigating Raven when she first showed up.]]
** [[spoiler:Lastly, she concludes that Raven is not actually a unicorn because she lacks a unicorn's skill in using magic.]]
* BadassBookworm: When she fights, she analyzes her opponent to find the best way to defeat them.
* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:Twilight dies knowing of Grand Ruler's true nature, and although it takes a while, her friends eventually carry on her work. She even states as much with her FamousLastWords.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Before Raven kills her with the Uniforce, Twilight says goodbye to her friends and apologizes that she won't be able to see them again.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:The energy blast from the Uniforce left a giant hole from Twilight's chest to her backside.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Her eyes are closed and there is a smile on her face after Raven kills her with the Uniforce.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Tells Raven that even if she does kill her, it will "set off a spark that is going to bring out a miracle and save us all".]]

* SquishyWizard: [[spoiler:Her magic is powerful enough to utterly dominate Raven, but when it gets suppressed by Lightning, Raven quickly overwhelms her with brute force.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:The only reason Raven managed to kill her was because of Lightning Dawn disabling Twilight's magic; beforehand, Twilight was on the delivering end of a CurbStompBattle against Raven.]]

* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: With the help of Zecora, Rarity creates a homunculus made of clay and bark so that it can fight instead of her due to her pregnancy. It later becomes sentient, gaining its own personality and will independent of Rarity's.

* CompositeCharacter: He disguises himself as Goldwin, a character in the original story who was a statue given life. In this story, it seems that this is the reason Goldwin supposedly gained sentience. [[spoiler:Distraught, another character in the original series, also turns out to be Discord in disguise.]]

* CompositeCharacter: He disguises himself as Goldwin, a character in the original story who was a statue given life. In this story, it seems that this is the reason Goldwin supposedly gained sentience.

* BackFromTheDead: You may be noticing a trend.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Brings to mind Nazi scientists

%%* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Brings to mind Nazi scientists

* ItsAllAboutMe: If it goes against Starfleet's (read: his) ideals, he won't stand for it. He's so self absorbed he doesn't realize his own wife is cheating on him, or that his children aren't really his.

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Boy howdy. Celestia teleported him to a barren wasteland along with Dark Conquest, who proceeded to brutally beat him to an inch of his life while all of United Equestria watches. Dark Conquest also gleefully reveals that Celesto was actually an ordinary Equestrian unicorn whose godlike power and alicorn-like appearance came from two powerful artifacts he stole a millenia ago from his best friend, one of which was pilfered by Celestia herself right out of his own pocket shortly before in order to leave him completely helpless. After being outed as a complete fake who callously killed, brainwashed, and overall blighted countless lives for his own purely selfish, deluded reasons to his precious Unicornicopians, his broken body is crucified into the ground using his own three horns (two of them fake) and has his head literally kicked off his body. To add insult to well-deserved injury, Dark Conquest decides to spend an hour [[ILoveTheDead fucking Celesto's headless corpse]] while waiting for a meeting with Celestia.]]

* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Dusk Shine want to die due to his family and loyalties being in the past but only after Grand Ruler is taken down.

* Undignified Death: [[spoiler:Boy howdy. Celestia teleported him to a barren wasteland along with Dark Conquest, who proceeded to brutally beat him to an inch of his life while all of United Equestria watches. Dark Conquest also gleefully reveals that Celesto was actually an ordinary Equestrian unicorn whose godlike power and alicorn-like appearance came from two powerful artifacts he stole a millenia ago from his best friend, one of which was pilfered by Celestia herself right out of his own pocket shortly before in order to leave him completely helpless. After being outed as a complete fake who callously killed, brainwashed, and overall blighted countless lives for his own purely selfish, deluded reasons to his precious Unicornicopians, his broken body is crucified into the ground using his own three horns (two of them fake) and has his head literally kicked off his body. To add insult to well-deserved injury, Dark Conquest decides to spend an hour fucking Celesto's headless corpse while waiting for a meeting with Celestia.]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:It is implied that her children (or child) may have actually been fathered by Discord.]]

* BrokenPedestal: As it turns out, [[spoiler:pretty much ''all'' of them (save for perhaps Lightning and Rhymey) have become quite disillusioned with their lot in life, envying the friendship, heroism, and competence of the Elements of Harmony. This reaches a breaking point with Myte's death. Eventually, even Lightning goes through this when he realizes how awful he's been acting and how little Celesto cares about him.]]

* HumiliationConga: Once the facade he cast on Equestria starts to unravel, everything goes to hell for Celesto. He loses his soldiers, then his control over the masses, then his facade of godhood. [[spoiler:When he decides to unveil Serpentari, his forces get beaten back by the Equestrians and he gets beaten down by Lightning, [[TheDogBitesBack whom he'd subjected to years of neglect and emotional abuse]]. He runs with his tail between his legs to Canterlot, only to find Conquest waiting for him and the Orb of Reality turned on him by Celestia, who sends Celesto and Conquest to an isolated area to duke it out. He then gets humiliated in full view of all Equestria and killed by Conquest, [[ILoveTheDead who then screws his corpse]] [[DesecratingTheDead for good measure]].]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: If it goes against Starfleet's (read: his) ideals, he won't stand for it. He's so self absorbed he doesn't realize his own wife is cheating on him.

* GodGuise: It becomes gradually more apparent he's not as god-like as he portrays himself as being, and in fact ''requires'' ponies to believe in him to have power at all. [[spoiler:He's also not a WingedUnicorn as he presents himself, his wings are fakes existing to simulate flight and stroke his ego.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Sure, this as applied to her Element was already established in ''[=FiM=]'' canon, but here it's taken a step further by letting her [[spoiler:NoSell Conquest's attempt to cripple Starfleet and the Elements with a SupernaturalFearInducer ''and'' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu hurt him for the first time in the story]] by singing]].

* BackFromTheDead: Through means currently unknown, he has come back to life. [[spoiler:Although the memory manipulation carried out on the Equestrian population brings up the possibility that he, along with many of those brought back, simply never died in the first place.]]

%%* AssholeVictim:

%%* HumiliationConga:

* [[spoiler:WingedUnicorn: Averted, ''painfully'' so for him. His golden wings are mechanical replicas, designed to simulate flight and stroke his own ego. He is deprived of these in The Fall Ends, Pt. 2.]]

* HappilyMarried: To Starla Shine.

* HappilyMarried: To Lightning Dawn. However, she eventually comes to realize that it's not quite as happy as she initially thought.

* MoralityPet: To Dementia, of all people.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: She eventually becomes attached to Dementia, who is about the only one to show her any kindness during her captivity.

%%* KickTheSonOfABitch:

* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Dementia's protective attitude towards Starla - especially with regards to Dark Conquest - stems from her being Starla's mother. When she regains her memories and realizes that Dark Conquest most likely knew all along, she goes ''ballistic''.]]

%%* GoodAllAlong:

* OutOfFocus: He's gotten very little focus throughout the story, to the point where he's only made a few minor appearances. Even Mysterious, Dementia, and Rep-Stallion, who were formerly his minions, have gotten more focus.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Single-handedly destroys the fairy world Illuminoth in the space of an ''hour''.

** DramaticIrony: Which is especially hilarious, when one considers he himself is [[spoiler:is an Equestrian.]]

** DramaticIrony: Which is especially hilarious, when one considers he himself is [[spoiler: is an Equestrian.]]

** Irony: Which is especially hilarious, when one considers he himself is [[spoiler: is an Equestrian.]]

* [[spoiler: WingedUnicorn: Averted, ''painfully'' so for him. His golden wings are mechanical replicas, designed to simulate flight and stroke his own ego. He is deprived of these in The Fall Ends, Pt. 2.]]