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!!!Twilight Sparkle
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: Mentioned having had them after a cook off her friends had. She thinks she got Rainbow Dash's.
* {{Adorkable}}: A lot.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Of course.
* AscendedFanboy: She is a big fan of Celestia.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: She does try to prepare herself as much as possible for the encounter in [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] and in the end she is able to save Trixie.
* AntiMagic: Her Failsafe Spell.
* TheAtoner: Subverted, her attempt to make up for the spell she casted on the Cutie Mark Crusaders backfires.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She is able to understand and learn magic in an incredible rate. This is linked to her Element of Magic.
* BadassBookworm
* BadassBureaucrat: Her skills are legendary and she practically runs Ponyville when everybody else has to recover from Discord.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: She ends up fighting on in Trixie's mind.
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: To [[SixthRanger Trixie]].
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards [[SixthRanger Trixie]] and Spike.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Queen Chrysalis.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
** Happens during the Wedding. [[spoiler:It's even worse than in canon because Spike and Applejack are brainwashed by Chrysalis and actively make it ''worse''.]]
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Is forced to do this to Trixie by Queen Chrysalis due to being brainwashed.]]
* CantHoldHerLiquor: [[NoodleIncident Apparently]], she's quite a lightweight when it comes to drinking.
* CannotKeepASecret: Subverted, she takes her promise to Trixie to not reveal anything about her mind very seriously.
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' the fusion of G1 Twilight and G3 Minty.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She was able to do that to Nightmare Moon and Trixie.
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits this in her battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] and only once she snaps out of it can she think and fight effective again.
* {{Determinator}}: Twilight did never go down as easy as her opponents thought. It also backfires on Discord big time [[spoiler: and in the Dark World it eventually leads her to become a Nightmare and to overpower Discord herself.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: She has these moments.
* FreudianSlip: Very rarely she calls Celestia "momjesty."
* FutureBadass: Pretty much every future version of her we've seen.
* GoodWithNumbers: She can be extremely precise with her magic and organisation skills.
* {{The Hero}}ine
* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one during the battle against Nightmare Whisper, because she cannot bear to see how much Fluttershy is suffering. She breaks out of it by the end, though.]]
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter: Is implied to be descended from the G1 Twilight, whose family line also helped Celestia and Luna during Discord's reign.]]
* GenreSavvy: This is how she is able to defeat [[spoiler:Loneliness]]. She realises that just like with Discord she can't win by fighting how [[spoiler:Loneliness]] wants her to.
* TheHero: Is the one responsible for the defeats of Nightmare Moon, Discord, [[spoiler:Loneliness]] and [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper.]]
* IndyPloy: Twilight makes up much of what she has to do in [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] on the fly but she did try to prepare herself as much as possible before it happened.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Princess Celestia.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Into [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] to save her from Discord's taint and her own [[spoiler:Loneliness.]]
* LudicrousPrecision: Twilight is able to time events to the ''point'' second in her head. She explains that some of the more complicated spells require that kind of mental precision in order to cast.
* MrExposition: She LOVES giving detailed explanations to others.
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: She was created by the fusion of the G1 Twilight's shadow of existence and G3 Minty's soul. She's also implied to be biologically descended from the G1 Twilight, so she's descended from one of the beings she's a CompositeCharacter of.]]
* PalsWithJesus: Is a good friend to Celestia, Luna and Cadence.
* ParentalIssues: She is worried that her parents fear her power after she turned them into plants once.
* PowerCopying: A specific power of her Element Of Magic, which allows her to copy spells with a great deal of ease.
* PowerIncontinence: She normally has no problem with this…except if she gets drunk. [[NoodleIncident Last time she did]], she lost control of her powers and Ponyville had to be reassured that Discord hadn't returned.
* SanitySlippage: All the stress caused her a delayed mental breakdown after Discord was defeated.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: She has her moments. What does she do after learn about Equestria's sad and dark past? Help Spike reclaim Smarty Pants by acting as the horse for his act. Pinkie Pie would be proud.
* ShutUpHannibal: To [[spoiler:Loneliness]]
* TheStrategist: She is usually the one who comes up with the plans of the group.
* SuperOCD: [[spoiler:It's revealed to be due to being G3 Minty's {{Reincarnation}}.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperPoweredEvilSide: In an alternate Dark World, she becomes Nightmare Purgatory.]]
** [[spoiler: In the current Dark World, we find out that this is actually a GroundhogDayLoop caused by Nightmare Eclipse (though the cast refers to her as Nightmare Paradox). Unlike the others, she is a potential ''future'' Twilight who wants Twilight to be like her to continue the loop.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: She became a much more capable leader over time.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Nightmare Moon, Discord, [[spoiler:Loneliness and Nightmare Whisper]] did end up underestimating her big time.
* VisionQuest: Is determined to help [[SixthRanger Trixie]] with her recovery and in turn develops herself. [[spoiler:Trixie later returns the favour when Twilight has a breakdown out of guilt of what she had done to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.]]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler:Delivers one to Nightmare Whisper upon coming to a realization of the nature of friendship. This realization then allows her to summon the Element of Magic.]]
!!!Applejack
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* AloneInACrowd: [[spoiler:When the cast is brainwashed by Princess Gaia, she's the only one that can see through it.]]
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: She sure is one.
* [[spoiler:AndIMustScream: Implied by Applejack's response to the Interviewer wanting to know more about her time as Chrysalis' slave. Her response is to refuse to talk about it, implying it was traumatic. After being freed, she describes the experience as if she'd been constantly drowning for three days.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Queen Chrysalis, but is eventually freed by Applebloom.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: She's literally the fusion of G1 and G3 Applejack!]]
* TheConfidant: Learns a lot of ponies problems inflicted on them by Discord's MindRape [[spoiler:by looking into the Truth]], but can be trusted to only use them to help them. [[spoiler:This is especially true when it comes to Rainbow Dash having ''faked'' being Discorded.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Learned to control her truth vision completely after defeating Nightmare Mirror.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:While she doesn't broken free or outright defied her, she's so far resisted Chrysalis' attempts to break her spirit and is FightingFromTheInside. Chrysalis' words imply she's doing this out of pure stubbornness and willpower. She holds on long enough to be freed by Applebloom (''three days'' later), ''all'' due to sheer force of will.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: There is much more to her truth vision then it seems at the beginning and it has the danger of turning her into a Nightmare.]]
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter: Is the descendant of the G1 Applejack, and is apparently the "fifth of the fifth line", presumably meaning she's the fifth Applejack of the fifth family line descended from the original Applejack.]]
* [[spoiler:LifeIsntFair: Applejack learns that this is one of the most fundamental, yet painful Truths. It's her realization of this, and her decision not to be afraid of it anymore, that allows Applejack to overcome Discord's taint.]]
* LivingLieDetector:
** After looking into [[spoiler:the Truth]], she gains the ability to see the truth, or through lies, in a person's eyes. If they're lying, this causes them discomfort. [[spoiler:While she can see through Princess Gaia's LotusEaterMachine, she was fooled by Gaia herself until she saw that there wasn't any ''truth'' in her eyes either.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out that, had action not been taking, if the Pony POV universe split off from the main timeline (due to something happening in the show that CAN'T work with the fic's canon), she'd have been driven mad and become her SuperpoweredEvilSide. So she had to go on a journey, team up with five of her alternate reality selves to kick Nightmare Mirror's flank. This act not only stopped her from going insane, but gave her full control over this ability.]]
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: She's descended from G1 Applejack, whose Shadow of Existence fused with G3 Applejack to create her.]]
* MindRape: Her Truth vision ''can'' do this just like [[spoiler:her potential SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Mirror]] but Applejack outright refuses to use it as such [[spoiler:due to the fact that refusing to do it is what separates her from Mirror]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Rainbow Dash, she didn't have much choice in the matter under Chrysalis' control, and Applejack states this is one of the things she'll never forgive Chrysalis for, which is a ''serious'' thing for a pony to say.]]
** [[spoiler:Chrysalis and Evil!Sweetie have tried to do this to her and break her spirit, but she managed to hold on via HeroicWillpower until Applebloom can save her.]]
** [[spoiler:After being freed by Applebloom, the two end up using the PowerOfLove the Apple Family possesses to supercharge her truth vision and [[LaserGuidedKarma do this to Chrysalis in self defense]]. How severe is it? It ''destroys'' her ability to ''think'' the self deception 'my past is dead' and leaves her screaming on the floor for several minutes.]]
* NiceGirl
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:She decides to turn down her truth vision while in Canterlot due to how much of high society relies on the information you keep secret. This causes her to not see through Queen Chrysalis' disguise and allows her to brainwash her.]]
* NoSell: She is able to resist mind control thanks to her LivingLieDetector powers. This works even against [[spoiler:Princess Luna/Moonlight. However, due to letting Chrysalis in, she ended up being brainwashed by her. However, Chrysalis implies even then she had difficulty forcing Applejack to lie.]]
* OnlySaneMan: She is the only one able to resist Princess [[Gaia's]] mind control in Everfree and the only one able to see what the Princess really is.
* TheOtherDarrin: Robotbutterfly had to unfortunately leave the project, so had to be replaced by Lindsey Lloyd.
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Of the G1 and G3 Applejacks. G3 Applejack was also a reformated G2 Sweetheart, meaning she's also her reincarnation as well.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Her LivingLieDetector powers came with this. [[spoiler:It would've drove her insane and turned her into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Mirror]] had measures not been taken.]]
* [[spoiler:ServileSnarker]]: [[spoiler:While brainwashed into being Chrysalis' slave, she manages to resist enough to be this to Chrysalis and jab her every chance she gets.]]
* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:After spending three days as Chrysalis' BrainwashedAndCrazy victim and being subjected to MindRape, she's finally freed by Applebloom and proceeds to supercharge her Truth Vision with the PowerOfLove between the Apple Family to give Chrysalis a taste of her own medicine, leaving the Changeling Queen laying on the ground and screaming in agony.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: Nightmare Mirror, but this Applejack never became her at all. The entire point of the sidestory was to ''stop'' her from becoming Nightmare Mirror. In fact, Applejack is noteworthy in that she actually ''fought'' her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* TeamMom
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Feels this way towards [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis for making her MindRape Rainbow Dash and hurt Applebloom by betraying her.]] It's mentioned that for an Equestrian Pony to say this, they ''really'' mean it.
* TookALevelInBadass: She sure did.
* VisionQuest: [[spoiler: Has to enter Truth to learn how to control her turth vision and ends up defeating Nightmare Mirror together with five alternate versions of herself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Rainbow Dash in response to the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well incident.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Gives one to [[spoiler: Nightmare Mirror.]]
!!! Pinkamena "Pinkie" Diane Pie
-->Voiced by Wollffeey
* AbusiveParents: Subverted, they do love her and that was NOT the reason Pinkie ran away.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: No doubt.
* [[spoiler:TheAgeless: Used to be this in the G3 timeline, as all ponies were effectively immortal. Its safe to assume that she's lost it since then, however.]]
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: [[spoiler: Begins to recover more and more from her past after her SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* [[spoiler:TheAssimilator: Pinkie's Angry Pie personality wanted to devour the other parts of Pinkie's consciousness. Inverted when Surprise!Pinkie absorbs Angry Pie during the SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* BadassAdorable
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie: Finding out she was Clover's ImaginaryFriend brought to life by the world changing spell resulted in this. Thankfully Twilight, Zecora, and Luna are there to help her through it.]]
* BerserkButton: Mentioning [[Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}} a certain fanfic]] tends to be this for her.
* [[spoiler: BetterThanNew: After her SplitPersonalityMerge, Pinkie is able to think more clearly, argue points more intelligently, use her gifts to solve specific problems, utilize her medium awareness more effectively and recall her own past with more clarity.]]
* CassandraTruth: Most of her fourth-wall-breaking asides end up like this to the characters in the story, but they become less frequent as everyone begins to catch on.
* TheCameo: She keeps showing up as a FunnyBackgroundEvent at parties in Shining Armor's arc. She outright says she's doing it to invoke this trope.
* CloudCuckoolander: Even ''after'' her [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge. Justified as she ''is'' from another world, the G3 one to be exact.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' a fusion of her G3 self, G1 Surprise, and a ''touch'' of G3 Rarity.]]
* DeepSleep: Goes into one after finally falling asleep after her discording.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Discovering the fact she was Clover's ImaginaryFriend given life results in her deciding to just wait in the fake G3 Ponyville in Everfree to die or let the Shadows of her friends drag her to Oblivion. Thankfully Twilight, Zecora, and Luna help her through it and get her back to from the brink.]]
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: She gets better.
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithin: Angry Pie.]]
* FadeOutFakeOut: More less does this at the end of [[spoiler:Clover's chapter.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: She built her party cannon by herself and she creative enough to make other machines as well. In fact her party cannon patent did earn her a lot of money.
* HiddenDepths: Well for starters [[spoiler:she's ''literally'' the G3 Pinkie Pie and everything she's capable of doing is due to the fact she's from a timeline that was erased from existence. Oh and she's only alive because one of her friends performed a HeroicSacrifice to preserve her right to ''exist''.]]
* [[spoiler: ImaginaryFriend]]: [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie was born out of Clover's loneliness and imagination as originally just an imaginary friend to keep her happy. She was given life when Clover wished that her special someone would always be there for her as the wish spell took effect. Pinkie's present day reaction was [[HeroicBSOD sad]] to say the least.]]
* InfiniteSupplies: Never seems to run out of party supplies or the various things she produces from {{Hammerspace}}. Justified because, as explained in Shining Armor's Arc Part 11, she patented her Party Cannon and they're apparently extremely profitable (airships worldwide seemed to be packed with them) on top of her cartoon powers.
* [[spoiler: LastOfHerKind: According to a ''very'' LooseCanon story, she is the last of the G3.5 ponies left unchanged after a CosmicRetcon needed to save the universe. This is why she's more cartoony than the rest of the universe. Anarchy even refers to her as the last of her specific type of pony, which was his justification for leaving her (mostly) the same (in truth, he just screwed up and did a {{Retgone}} to the wrong pony.]]
** [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother: Princess Celestia eventually reveals she's G3 Star Catcher, or her reincarnation, giving Pinkie at least one other pony who shares her past.]]
* LetMeTellYouAStory: Makes use of this quite often.
* [[spoiler: LivingRelic: Is the only (mortal) pony to have lived in and remember the G3 universe. She has no FishOutOfTemporalWater issues because she still has memories of ''this'' world as well, but still has quite a few interesting traits because of this.]]
* LookWhatICanDoNow: Namely, weaponized MediumAwareness after [[spoiler:her SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* MediumAwareness: Is well aware she's a fictional character, to the point of being able to ''weaponize'' it. [[spoiler:Revealed to be a side effect of the fact she's ''literally'' not supposed to exist and she discovered it shortly after Anarchy spared her life.]]
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler: Revealed to have played one at least two stages deep, first by sealing most of her memories into alternate personalities, and even after that was undone, she still kept her the memories of her battle with Luna & Minty's death and rebirth sealed until Celestia undid it.]]
* MeaningfulRename: While she still goes by Pinkie Pie, she starts going more by her full name or just Pinkie Diane after [[spoiler:her SplitPersonalityMerge to symbolize she's now ALL of her.]]
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: G1 Surprise merged with her during the end of the G3 timeline, but it's also implied Surprise is also her ancestor.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: Now one of the weapons in Pinkie's arsenal.
* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: A mental version at least. During Pinkie's BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Pinkie Pie and Pinkamena merge to become Surprise, a being far more powerful than Angry Pie.]]
* [[spoiler:PleaseWakeUp: When Minty died in the G3 timeline. Honestly one of the most crushing scenes in the fic, and that's saying ''a lot!'']]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: In Clover's Gaiden Story, she ends up yelling at the author for skipping "Its About Time".
* [[spoiler:ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's been around since gen 3.5. Even older considering its explained the ponies in the universe were immortal and so old they didn't remember how old they were.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Has this [[spoiler:thanks to the fact she's not supposed to exist.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Gets hit with this when she realizes the Pony POV Verse has broken its connection with the heart world. In her mind, she felt it'd be the end of the world all over again and it drives her nearly insane. Princess Celestia helps with that.]]
* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie is pretty much walking proof of this. She's not supposed to even ''exist'', but one of her friends in the G3 universe performed a HeroicSacrifice and got erased instead. Pinkie then defied what amounts to ''a goddess'' to save Minty from the same fate, and ''succeeds''. Sure, Minty dies, but that's better than "erased from existence". Oh, and it's implied her fight with Luna is why ponies can still spontaneously burst into song, as Luna pretty much says that was supposed to be erased but Pinkie and Minty proved it's value to her..]]
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Angry Pie gives one, but its made her default expression in the audio adaptation. Sweet Celestia is it terrifying.]]
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: She brings some much needed humor to the darker moments but she can be serious if it is the time for that.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Manages to be this to ''every villain in the entire show/fic!'' Back in the G3 universe during its end, she merges the spirit of her dead friend Minty with the spirit of the G1 Twilight, having no idea what would happen. The result? ''Twilight Sparkle!'' This may have something to do with the fact she's literally not supposed to even ''exist'' in the G4 timeline, making it rather impossible to effectively plan for her.]]
* SpiderSense: [[spoiler:After Pinkie's SplitPersonalityMerge, her Pinkie Sense has manifested less often, but she seems to be able to control it and uses it to help guide Twilight during the battle against Nightmare Whisper.]]
* SplitPersonality: Had five of them. [[spoiler:Then performed a SplitPersonalityMerge and recombined them all into one.]]
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge]]
* [[spoiler:SuperPoweredEvilSide: Nightmare [[MonsterClown Granfalloon]]. She never becomes this in the POV timeline, but in an alternate timeline and is ultimately given a MercyKill by an alternate Rainbow Dash.]] [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=nightmare+granfalloon#/d5s0w9f Do you dare look upon her?]]
** [[spoiler: [[http://itsfrompeople.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d54gagf One piece]] of RecursiveFanfiction has an alternate take on the battle with Angry Pie that shows how Pinkie becomes Nightmare Granfalloon and even gives her a VillainSong (a psychotic version of Pinkie's "Smile, Smile, Smile")…but as it turns out, it's a ''different'' AlternateUniverse, and Pinkamena manages to beat and talk her down.]]
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler: Her primary personality, "Pinkie", is one of these.]]
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: Having been wracked with guilt after her friend [=StarSong=] sacrificed every trace of her own past and future existence in her defense, this becomes her key motivation throughout the series, causing her to protect anyone else from being erased at all costs.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: From time to time after restoring her sanity completely. For example she is able to answer Rainbow Dash's question that has NO answer with a story.
!!!Rainbow Dash
-->Voiced by Robotbutterfly/[[TheOtherDarrin Lindsey Lloyd]].
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: As always.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: She is able to realise that she is trapped within an illusion of Princess Gaia.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: See MercyKill
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* BrokenBird: Spends the first half the fic pretty much as this thanks to Discord's SadisticChoice.
* BrokenPedestal: Is ''terrified'' of this happening if Cloudsdale finds out how she dealt with Discord's SadisticChoice.
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' a fusion of the G1 Firefly and the G3 Rainbow Dash, at least according to LooseCanon.]]
* CoolBigSis: Towards Scootaloo, even if they're not related.
* DeadpanSnarker: From time to time.
* {{Determinator}}: Is willing to go very far for her friends. This is very obvious in the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper.]]
* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:Discord forced her to watch as he [[DrivenToMadness drove everypony in Cloudsdale insane]] right in front of her.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Spends the first half of the Reharmonized series in one over [[spoiler:how she handled Discord's SadisticChoice, as well as how she put on a show of being completely brainwashed as an excuse.]]
* HiddenDepths: She is not only a lot smarter then most believe but able to flawlessly deceive if she has to. Rainbow is not proud on that ability but uses it to reveal Fluttercruel's real personality at their party so that they could really befriend her.
* LetsGetDangerous: In the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] she is not only risking her own life but is also willing to [[spoiler:kill Nightmare Whisper]] if she has to.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She is A LOT smarter then she seems at first, but she is still very hotblooded.
* MercyKill: Was ready to do this to [[spoiler: Fluttershy to stop her from torturing herself further.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Robotbutterfly had to unfortunately leave the project, so had to be replaced by Lindsey Lloyd.
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: ''Narrowly'' subverted. Her friends manage to calm her down before she can.]]
** [[spoiler:In an alternate timeline, she has completed her transformation. Meet [[ControlFreak Nightmare Manacle]].]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, she is one of the few ponies who will apply lethal force as a first resort.
!!!Rarity Belle
-->Voiced by Robotbutterfly/[[TheOtherDarrin Lindsey Lloyd]]
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Especially if Sweetie is in danger.
* [[spoiler: AmnesiaMissedASpot]]: A faint recognition that Pinkie was singing her own song to back to her.
* BadassNormal: Lacks any superpowers the other mane six have other than a HealingFactor that kicks in whenever she uses the Element of Generosity, but she has little to no control over it. Despite this, she's still more than capable of keeping up with the others due to her martial arts skill and precision with the magic she does have.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT hurt Fluttershy or Sweetie Belle.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: See MercyKill
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: In the process of preparing Diamond's commission, she gradually becomes this for her.
* BlatantLies: Covers for Diamond Tiara this way. Even brings shades to block direct eye contact with Applejack, which is completely out of the blue.
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* CoolBigSis: To Sweetie Belle and Diamond Tiara, even if the latter isn't actually her sister.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite often.
* GaggingOnYourWords: Until she conquers her MindRape induced fear of gems, she has great difficulty saying the word diamond or other such words.
* {{Greed}}: Revealed to be one of her inner demons, as even in this new universe, [[ContinuityNod she still tries to sneak a piece of cake from Pinkie's cake.]]
* HealingFactor: Seems to be an ability of her Element Of Generosity when it's activated. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she still can't use this on anypony else.]]
* [[IAmNotLeftHanded I Am Not Left Hoofed]]: She is shockingly effective in battle. [[spoiler:And unlike the others she is much more willing to kill if she has to.]]
* MamaBear: Do ''not'' threaten Sweetie Belle, she will ''end you!''
* TheMedic: Subverted, so far her Element of Generosity only healed herself.
* MercyKill: Was ready to do this to [[spoiler: Fluttershy to stop her from torturing herself further.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction after coming ''dangerously'' close to killing Sweetie Belle in a fit of rage.
* [[spoiler: [[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: Is both the reincarnation of G2 Melody, and descended from her through her mother.]]
* NonPOVProtagonist: Is out of focus for much of the story and only once Mind Games! start does she get more attention again.
* ParentalSubstitute: For two foals: both Sweetie Belle (because her parents keep dumping her on Rarity), and Diamond Tiara (which even becomes a VERY important plot point in the fic).
** PromotionToParent: With Sweetie Belle.
* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}: Of Princess Rarity of G3 and by extension Melody of G2. She doesn't actually know it, but it is the state of things.]]
* [[PeoplePuppets Pony Puppets]]: Used this on HERSELF to keep moving in the battle against [[spoiler: Nightmare Whisper.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, she is one of the few ponies who will instinctively resort to lethal force.
* TranquilFury: It is very noticeable in her encounters with [[spoiler: Cheerilee]] and [[spoiler: Nightmare Whisper.]]
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Gems?]]: Thanks to Discord's MindRape, she spent a few weeks with a phobia of gems that prevented her from working on her dresses. But she gets over this.
* UnskilledButStrong: Her grasp of advanced magic might be lacking in comparison to Twilight, but her telekinesis is top-notch.
!!!Fluttershy[[spoiler:[=/=]Princess Gaia]]
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* [[spoiler:AnthropomorphicPersonification: According to WordOfGod, her Alicorn self represents Organic Life and Mercy.]]
* [[spoiler:AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In the Dark World, she winds up becoming [[{{Physical God}} The Queen of Cups]]]]
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: After reverting from Nightmare Whisper. She even outright says there are things she'll never forgive herself for.]]
** [[spoiler:Deconstructed as well, as she gets ''so'' depressed, she nearly allows herself to be [[RapeAsDrama raped by some ponies her actions harmed]] as repentance, only being saved by Coffee Swirl. He manages to convince her she's taking it too far and it won't settle anything. Though this is LooseCanon, the events have been mentioned vaguely.]]
* [[spoiler:BeAllMySinsRemembered: After her stint as a BigBad, she outright says she'll let everypony judge her for the right and wrong she did, she knows she deserves it either way. And they have been, some ponies adore her, some ''hate'' her, and she's willing to live with it.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As always [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn and even more so.]]]]
* BreakTheCutie: She is the only one Discord fails to do this so but later Fluttercruel accidently succeeds where her father failed.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Due to rarely drinking, just a sip of anything with salt in it is enough to get her buzzed. [[spoiler:Getting completely ''drunk'' thanks to Fluttercruel has a hoof in her going insane and turning into Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper.]]
* [[ClonesArePeopleToo Clones Are Ponies Too]]: Feels this way about Fluttercruel. [[spoiler:She eventually convinces her to feel the same.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: She's the fusion of Posey (G1) and Zipzee (G3).]]
* DeathGlare: The Stare.
* [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deity Of Pony Origin]]: The Elements of Harmony didn't reverse her transformation in a Nightmare so much as ''complete'' her Alicornification, which becoming a Nightmare is an 'incomplete' version of. This makes her the first known Alicorn (though she's not assumed her true Alicorn form yet and seems ''afraid'' of the power) to have been ''born'' a mortal (instead of going through a period as an AmnesiacGod after being one) but became an Alicorn.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She adopts Fluttercruel after being able to overpower her.
* FragileFlower: Not nearly as much as others think.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
* [[spoiler:{{Fallen Hero}}ine: As Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. She gets better.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: When she becomes Princess Gaia. She gets better.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: She is a lot smarter and tougher then Fluttercruel thinks at the beginning.
* {{Good Parent|s}}: Tries her hardest to be this to Fluttercruel.
* GrewASpine: This is what she learns from Fluttercruel and her responsibilities towards her daughter.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After reverting from Nightmare Whisper, she refuses to defend herself ''at all'' against ponies attacking her for revenge for her actions to the point she almost allowed herself to be [[RapeAsDrama raped by several ponies]] before Coffee Swirl saved her. He manages to break her out of it with a WhatTheHellHero]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: As both Nightmare Whisper and herself afterwards, Fluttershy was willing to shoulder all the pain and suffering in Equestria so that nopony else had to feel it. Nightmare Whisper admitted that the burden had killed her twice already. Ultimately subverted, as her friends were able to convince Fluttershy that it was better to release suffering back into the world, rather than numbing everypony to it.]]
* MamaBear: As usual, but especially towards her "daughter" Fluttercruel. [[spoiler:Subverted later when she becomes so caught up in her "New Fluttershy" persona that she gives her a HannibalLecture as well, which she's extremely guilty for afterwards.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Well more like My God, What Did I Nearly Do? but she has this reaction to realizing that her actions as Nightmare Whisper nearly killed ''forty-two million'' unborn foals. Even after she's told she did't, she needs a bit more consoling to recover from it.]]
* NonPOVProtagonist: Doesn't get any first-person sections until [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn she becomes Nightmare Whisper]]]].
* OutOfFocus: In a way, as she's about the only character to not really get a first person chapter, but on the other hoof, that makes sense considering [[ShrinkingViolet personality]], and she has gotten tons of focus otherwise.
** [[spoiler: And massive character growth during the Princess Gaia arc…along with an interview in that form]]
* [[spoiler:{{Physical God}}dess: Became one when she turned into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Whisper]]. It's been implied she may somehow still have access to the power even after her defeat, but is afraid to use it. It's later confirmed that the Elements don't revert a Nightmare to pony form, but ''complete'' the Alicornification, Fluttershy just instinctively reverts to her normal form as opposed to her Alicorn one.]]
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: [[spoiler:Gets both a good and bad version for being Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. Some remember her for healing them of their Discord-inflicted mental damage, while others hate her for trying to take over the world and brainwashing them.]]
* [[spoiler:ShapeshifterDefaultForm: The Interviewers reveal that the Elements essentially completed her Alicorn transformation, but she instinctively reverted to her mortal form after being defeated.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Fluttershy definitely starts out like this but slowly becomes more assertive over time.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge: No, not with Fluttercruel. Flutterage is a separate personality who Shy kept alienated from her main one since she was a filly. In her section of "Butterflies" she learns to accept she needs anger and they fuse back together.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. At present, the only one to transform into this in the main Pony POV Series timeline.]]
* SharingABody: With Fluttercruel.
* TarotMotifs: [[spoiler:Queen of Cups, making her the only Alicorn thus far based on the Minor Arcana instead of the Major Arcana.]]
!!!Spike
-->Voiced by Lightning
* AdaptationalBadass: Manages to burn a part of the Smooze after the journey through time with the CMC. Being able to survive alongside them likely qualifies as well.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Only on the outside; his mind is much further developed then his appearance shows.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Twilight or Rarity.
* BigBrotherMentor: He may be a baby dragon, but he acts like this towards the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is brainwashed by Queen Chrysalis during the Wedding Arc.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Finally got some after realizing his status as a satellite character and building a friendship with the CMC and Silver Spoon.
* DeadpanSnarker: He must have gotten it from Twilight.
* GenreSavvy: It comes with the territory if you are raised by Twilight Sparkle.
* {{Greed}}: One of his flaws, according to him Rarity was acting as a memory spell that brought him back to his senses.
* {{Jerkass}}: Is a bit mean towards Trixie when she's staying with Twilight at first. But he gets better.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: And the jerk part is vanishing further and further.
* LargeHam: Acts like this from time to time for example when he tried to return Smartypants to Twilight like a KnightInShiningArmor.
* LegacyCharacter: According to WordOfGod, he's the descendant of the G1 Spike. [[spoiler:And it's also revealed that the {{Reincarnation}} of the G3 one is his ancestor as well. Not only that, every member of his family has essentially been partners with the world's heroes' of that age. Spike the Fifth even fight Discord one on one and managed to outmatch him in physical combat. Twilight telling him about this linage averts the events of "Dragon Quest" by giving him a family line he's proud of (the interviewers plan to give him Peewee anyway).]]
** SecretLegacy: Which he was unaware of [[spoiler:until Twilight told him.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Has a mild one in reaction to making Silver Spoon breakdown crying with his WhatTheHellHero.]]
* OutOfFocus: The focus of his POV tale is correcting it. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]]
* PrecociousCrush: On Rarity but technically he is around her own age anyway. The problem is just that as a dragon he ages much slower and Truth showed that Rarity would die from old age while he could still live on for hundreds of years.
* PuppyDogEyes: Has learned to do this from Apple Bloom. He complains that it makes his eyes hurt.
* StraightMan
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Dark World finally revealed one: Nightmare Banneret, The Beautiful Fury Of the Generous Green Flames.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Twilight and Rarity but he is still willing to stand up to Twilight if he thinks that it is for her own good.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to [[spoiler:Silver Spoon]] for being too hard on Twilight. [[spoiler:Apple Bloom then calls him out for being too hard on ''her'', pointing out two wrongs don't make a right.]]
!!!Trixie Mid-summernight (The One And Only Trixie)/[[spoiler:Cobweb]]
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* AbusiveParents: Subverted, they clearly love her.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Was there ever any doubt?
* {{Adorkable}}: She has her moments.
* AloneInACrowd: [[spoiler:How Discord broke her. He made it so, from her perspective, it seemed nopony could even tell she ''existed''. Of note, he did this to "warm up" for breaking Twilight.]]
* AntiHero
* BerserkButton: Saying bad things about her family.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Comes to Cadence's aid during a fight with a BrainwashedAndCrazy Twilight, foiling Chrysalis' attempt to get either Twilight or Cadence to be forced to kill the other.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
** Happens again during the Wedding [[spoiler:thanks to Chrysalis via a brainwashed Twilight. She snapped out of it when she realized how out of character Twilight acted.]]
* CombatPragmatist: She is not above fighting dirty against her enemies, even after her HeelFaceTurn.
* [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deity Of Pony Origin]] In one of the DarkWorld timelines, Cadance manages to turn her into an Alicorn. She represents [[TarotMotifs the Knight of Wands.]] In a similar timeline, Alicorn!Trixie even manages to permanently wound Nightmare!Twilight!]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Even more then some of her friends.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She slowly opened up to Twilight and her friends and shows her kinder side.
* GenreSavvy
* GuileHeroine: Her showpony skills come in handy for this.
** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:she realized somepony was trying to get rid of her during the Wedding Arc and assumed a disguise named Cobweb so she could hide while still helping the others until she finally revealed herself to save Twilight.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: This trope describes her role in the story better than SixthRanger, since she drops off the radar immediately after the Gaia arc.
** However, TheBusCameBack for the Wedding Arc, with her returning to take part, even being on the cover.
* HeelFaceTurn
* [[spoiler:HiddenInPlainSight: During the Wedding. She figures out that Twilight's BreakingLecture was out of character and the only logical explanation was either Twilight was trying to BreakHerHeartToSaveHer or was being forced to hurt her. She disguises herself as a unicorn named Cobweb and joins up with the others until she had the opening to reveal herself and save Twilight.]]
* IHaveYourWife: She uses this tactic against [[spoiler:Knight Cheerilee.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Her primary reason for putting up a JerkassFacade. She wanted to be special, but couldn't excel at ''anything''. Having a lot of [[MiddleChildSyndrome siblings didn't help matters.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Her response to finding out [[spoiler:she's doing a magic show for Princess Gaia's celebration]] is to grab some sake with salt mixed into it and get ''very'' drunk.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She eventually outgrew that phase.
* LargeHam: She wouldn't be Trixie if she wasn't one of these.
* MasterOfNone: Her FreudianExcuse, and related to her issue of IJustWantToBeSpecial. Her teacher tries to encourage her that [[JackOfAllTrades she has a lot of potential]], and that [[CripplingOverspecialization most unicorns tend to fail in all else if they excelled in anything else]], but she's most upset about being ''average''.
* MeaningfulRename: Going from the "Great and Powerful" Trixie to the "One And Only" Trixie.
* [[spoiler:MegaManning: As an Element Of Magic, she has this just like Twilight does.]]
* MilesGloriosus: The Great and Powerful Trixie but later on she becomes a very useful ally against Princess [[spoiler: Gaia.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her reaction to realizing her plan to split up and free Celestia and Chrysalis' brainwashed slaves at the same time only served to lead the group into ''both'' of Chrysalis' traps.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Turns out she and Twilight have a lot more in common than one would expect. [[spoiler:She even had a major accident with a Want It, Need It Spell when in magic school, casting it on ''herself''.]]
* [[spoiler: PutOnTheBus: Leaves the story shortly after the Gaia Festival.]]
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: Briefly in 'Retcon-Struction Blues', when Twilight visits her. She later reappears in 'Under the Stars' and takes part in the Wedding Arc.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: Is a lot stronger and more effective as a heroine than a villain. [[spoiler:She's also revealed to be an Element Of Magic.]]
** [[spoiler:During the Wedding, she manages to ''fight Twilight to a standstill'' and actually restrain her long enough for her and Cadence can free her.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Of G1 Magic Star and G3 Abra-ca-dabra (who was herself a reincarnation of an unknown G2 era foal). Interestingly enough, she ''also'' seems to have the Shadow of the Alicorn Amulet's consciousness in the mix that Magic Star's shadow was wearing at the time.]]
* RobeAndWizardHat: It is all she wears. [[spoiler:It's implied her love of these stemmed from Abra-ca-dabra's witch Halloweeen Costume.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Is partial to electrical attacks in combat.
* SixthRanger
!!!Fluttercruel
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Thanks to self defense books and having less restraints then Fluttershy, she is one.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Apparently why she developed a crush on Iron Will, though even after finding out he has a nice side she's still attracted to her. It doesn't go anywhere (he leaves before she can ask him on a date). Could also count as PrecociousCrush, considering she's still mentally a foal, even if she's fairly intelligent.
* [[AmbiguouslyHuman Ambiguously Pony]]: While the body she [[SharingABody shares with Fluttershy]] is pure pony, it's unclear whether Fluttercruel herself is this or a [[HalfHumanHybrid Pony/Draconequus Hybrid]]. While she earned a Cutie Mark and looks like a Pony for the most part, she has slightly HellishPupils and CuteLittleFangs. Her Dark World self also implies she's technically a [[DivineParentage Demi Draconequus]] and possibly inherated some traits from her father.
* AntiHero
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: [[LikeABadassOutOfHell Fights her way back from the afterlife]] and nearly performs a HeroicSacrifice out of guilt for causing Fluttershy's FaceHeelTurn in the first place.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Is the one who changes the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] in favour of the heroes.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Well, for one, that she likes hamburgers, which most of Ponyville considers extremely strange. In addition, she loves extremely bitter foods, which includes having Coffee Swirl make her as bitter coffee as he can.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:The Princess Gaia Arc pretty much did this.]]
** BreakTheCutie: In "New Game Plus" when [[spoiler:New Fluttershy lets her have a HannibalLecture, along with her own guilt over the incident.]]
* BrickJoke: She still wants that hamburger. [[spoiler:Too bad she ate a veggieburger and Fluttershy ate the hamburger instead.]]
* CainAndAbel: She is the Cain to Fluttershy's Abel. [[spoiler:Though it became the other way around when Fluttershy makes her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Not directly but she doesn't have any higher opinion about her father compared to anybody else. In short: She thinks Discord is a monster.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Due to SharingABody with Fluttershy, she can't drink much without getting drunk.
* ChildByRape: Discord's MindRape is described ''extremely'' close to actual rape, and that's how Fluttercruel was "born"...
** Several chapters imply she's at least partially aware of this, and not very happy about it.
* CloningBlues: While not a "clone" so to speak, it still causes her a bit of pain that she's a "copy" of Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Fluttershy eventually convinces her that ClonesArePeopleToo.]]
* [[spoiler:ClonesArePeopleToo: Eventually comes to believe this, thanks to Fluttershy. Of note, when Luna brings up the possibility Fluttercruel may simply be a [[MindRape Mind Raped]] Fluttershy and "Fluttershy" is the clone, created by Twilight's Memory Spell, Fluttercruel [[ShutUpHannibal responds by saying that it doesn't matter]], they're ''both'' real. Celestia also later confirms that she has her own soul, separate from Fluttershy's, as well.]]
* CombatPragmatist: During a fight with the Changelings, she has no qualms about nailing one with a GroinAttack.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: InUniverse, this is her reason for finding her various GrimDark fanfic [[NightmareFetishist inspired dreams funny]]; they're ''so'' outlandish and ridiculous that they become funny...to her. Twilight and Fluttershy both find them disgusting.
* CruelToBeKind: Starts becoming this after her HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler:Is ultimately revealed to pretty much be this ''incarnate''.]]
* CuteBruiser: Despite SharingABody with Fluttershy, she's noted as being physically stronger than her (likely because she's less reserved than Fluttershy), and studied self defense books. She also broke one of the interviewers' nose for asking a question she found offensive.
** Case in point, Roid Rage made Fluttershy, and Fluttercruel, angry with some insensitive comments [[spoiler:about the mental patients at the asylum and Fluttershy for being Princess Gaia]]. Fluttershy held Fluttercruel back to protect ''him'' from her!
** We finally see her fight in the Wedding Arc, and she proves a good fighter.
* CuteLittleFangs: The illustrations for the audio adaptation depict her with these.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Fluttershy realized that despite being Discord's "daughter" and spawned from his evil magic, that didn't make her evil. [[spoiler:She proves this by eventually becoming an Element of ''Kindness!'']]
* DeathGlare: Same as Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Even in ghost form.]] However, she states in "New Game Plus" that she can't do it on demand either.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Started out as a HarmlessVillain who Fluttershy defeated and decided to raise as her child.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She slowly begins to care for Fluttershy and her opinions about Fluttershy's friends improve over time as well.
* DivineParentage: Her father is Discord.
* DrinkOrder: In the RecursiveFanfiction surrounding Coffee Swirl (though WordOfGod has declared it LooseCanon, which is why it's here), Fluttercruel always orders as bitter coffee as Coffee Swirl can make. Coffee Swirl comments how strange this is.
* [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Fluttershy?]]: Her reaction to Fluttershy transforming into Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even before her HeelFaceTurn she is a lot less nightmarish then her Dark World counterpart.
* TheFashionista: While she's not shown to care much about shopping, she loves modeling for Rarity and considers it her hobby, and wouldn't mind being in a fashion show.
* {{Foil}}: To ''herself''. The [[BadFuture Epilogue]] version of her is a monster of the highest order, which serves to show just how much of one the real Fluttercruel ''isn't''.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: In the audio adaptation, the reflected version of Fluttershy's room shown in the mirror with her has a [[AnAxeToGrind battle ax]] and she goes to sleep hugging a sheathed sword like a teddy bear. This does not change the fact she looks like Fluttershy and her hugging said sword is strangely adorable.
* GenreSavvy
* GoodFeelsGood: She has fun being around her friends and no intentions to ever turn out like her counterpart of the Dark World.
* GuiltComplex: Begins blaming herself for not only the entire [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] incident, but other problems Fluttershy gets herself into. It isn't until the rest of the mane six help her face her guilt that she gets over it.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Pony Hybrid]]: [[HellishPupils Some of]] [[CuteLittleFangs her traits]] and developments in Dark World imply she's half Draconequus.
* HarmlessVillain: Before her HeelFaceTurn.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HellishPupils: {{Downplayed|Trope}} example. The artist for the audio adaptation gave Fluttercruel ''slightly'' more snake-like pupils than Fluttershy to make her look more dangerous. They're not that noticeable, however.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: She nearly does this to save Fluttershy, then Nightmare Whisper, knowing full well that using the Elements Of Harmony would destroy a being created from Disharmony like her. Fluttershy thankfully saves her.]]
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: She's the only one who gets to hit Fluttershy where it hurts!
* [[spoiler:ItsAllMyFault: Blames herself for everything Fluttershy did. Celestia outright says that this is the reason she told ''only'' Fluttershy about what Nightmare Whisper's plan nearly caused in regards to all of Equestria's unborn foals, she blames herself for enough already. It isn't until "New Game Plus" that she's convinced to finally let go of this.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: She loves getting attention and hates it whenever somepony else is stealing her spotlight.
* JekyllAndHyde: The Hyde to Fluttershy's Jekyll.
* {{Jerkass}}: At first, before becoming a...
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She acts like a jerk, but after a little reconditioning, she becomes quite kindhearted.
* [[spoiler:LikeABadassOutOfHell: Fights her way back from oblivion to take part in the final battle with Nightmare Whisper. She's got the scars to prove it too.]]
* LoveRedeems: Well, a variation. It's in a large part thanks to Fluttershy's parental love and attention that Fluttercruel undergoes her HeelFaceTurn.
* ManChild: Justified, as she is quite literally a newborn with the body of an adult.
* MeaningfulName
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her reaction to Fluttershy to realizing she's triggered Fluttershy's SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her attempt to show Fluttershy the crueler parts of nature results in the Princess Gaia arc.]]
** Later, she [[spoiler:ends up causing this dimension's version of the New Fluttershy incident.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Her ''dreams'' are pretty much GrimDark fanfics.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Well, for one, {{Cupcakes}} and several other GrimDark stories were her ''dreams'' if that's any indication. Yes, ''dreams'', not nightmares, ''dreams'' (though she doesn't really want them to happen or think they would, she just seems to genuinely enjoy stories like that). Taken UpToEleven in the audio adaptation, where her "world", apparently inside their head, is depicted as something you'd expect to find in a dungeon. She falls asleep hugging a ''sword'' (sheathed of course) like it's a doll!
* ObliviouslyEvil: Before her HeelFaceTurn. It's pointed out that, while it doesn't ''excuse'' her actions (since she had Fluttershy's memories), she genuinely didn't know any better since Discord ''made'' her to be cruel. Thankfully, Fluttershy took the time to recondition her.
* [[HumanMomNonHumanDad Pony Mom, Non Pony Dad]]: Discord is her "father" and Fluttershy her "mother", at least she and Fluttershy consider it that way.
* [[RealWomenDontWearDresses Real Mares Don't Wear Dresses]]: Subverted. She's a CuteBruiser who reads self-defense books and is anything but a girly girl, but her hobby is modeling for Rarity.
* ScarsAreForever: She bares scars from [[spoiler:[[LikeABadassOutOfHell fighting her way out of limbo]] to save Fluttershy]], which appear both in her mental form and when she's in control of their body.
* SharingABody: With Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Princess Celestia]] eventually allows them to switch at will and change how their body looks to match Fluttercruel.
* SirSwearsALot: While most of them are {{Unusual Euphemism}}s, she cusses quite a bit, though Fluttershy does her best to curb this habit, especially if children are present.
* SixthRanger: A unique case, as only Fluttershy knew she existed before "Pearl Necklace".
* TheDogBitesBack: Manages to fight back against Flutterrage in the final confrontation.
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!!!Twilight Sparkle
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* AcidRefluxNightmare: Mentioned having had them after a cook off her friends had. She thinks she got Rainbow Dash's.
* {{Adorkable}}: A lot.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Of course.
* AscendedFanboy: She is a big fan of Celestia.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: She does try to prepare herself as much as possible for the encounter in [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] and in the end she is able to save Trixie.
* AntiMagic: Her Failsafe Spell.
* TheAtoner: Subverted, her attempt to make up for the spell she casted on the Cutie Mark Crusaders backfires.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She is able to understand and learn magic in an incredible rate. This is linked to her Element of Magic.
* BadassBookworm
* BadassBureaucrat: Her skills are legendary and she practically runs Ponyville when everybody else has to recover from Discord.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: She ends up fighting on in Trixie's mind.
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: To [[SixthRanger Trixie]].
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards [[SixthRanger Trixie]] and Spike.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Queen Chrysalis.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
** Happens during the Wedding. [[spoiler:It's even worse than in canon because Spike and Applejack are brainwashed by Chrysalis and actively make it ''worse''.]]
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Is forced to do this to Trixie by Queen Chrysalis due to being brainwashed.]]
* CantHoldHerLiquor: [[NoodleIncident Apparently]], she's quite a lightweight when it comes to drinking.
* CannotKeepASecret: Subverted, she takes her promise to Trixie to not reveal anything about her mind very seriously.
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' the fusion of G1 Twilight and G3 Minty.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She was able to do that to Nightmare Moon and Trixie.
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits this in her battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] and only once she snaps out of it can she think and fight effective again.
* {{Determinator}}: Twilight did never go down as easy as her opponents thought. It also backfires on Discord big time [[spoiler: and in the Dark World it eventually leads her to become a Nightmare and to overpower Discord herself.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: She has these moments.
* FreudianSlip: Very rarely she calls Celestia "momjesty."
* FutureBadass: Pretty much every future version of her we've seen.
* GoodWithNumbers: She can be extremely precise with her magic and organisation skills.
* {{The Hero}}ine
* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one during the battle against Nightmare Whisper, because she cannot bear to see how much Fluttershy is suffering. She breaks out of it by the end, though.]]
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter: Is implied to be descended from the G1 Twilight, whose family line also helped Celestia and Luna during Discord's reign.]]
* GenreSavvy: This is how she is able to defeat [[spoiler:Loneliness]]. She realises that just like with Discord she can't win by fighting how [[spoiler:Loneliness]] wants her to.
* TheHero: Is the one responsible for the defeats of Nightmare Moon, Discord, [[spoiler:Loneliness]] and [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper.]]
* IndyPloy: Twilight makes up much of what she has to do in [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] on the fly but she did try to prepare herself as much as possible before it happened.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Princess Celestia.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Into [[spoiler:Trixie's mind]] to save her from Discord's taint and her own [[spoiler:Loneliness.]]
* LudicrousPrecision: Twilight is able to time events to the ''point'' second in her head. She explains that some of the more complicated spells require that kind of mental precision in order to cast.
* MrExposition: She LOVES giving detailed explanations to others.
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: She was created by the fusion of the G1 Twilight's shadow of existence and G3 Minty's soul. She's also implied to be biologically descended from the G1 Twilight, so she's descended from one of the beings she's a CompositeCharacter of.]]
* PalsWithJesus: Is a good friend to Celestia, Luna and Cadence.
* ParentalIssues: She is worried that her parents fear her power after she turned them into plants once.
* PowerCopying: A specific power of her Element Of Magic, which allows her to copy spells with a great deal of ease.
* PowerIncontinence: She normally has no problem with this…except if she gets drunk. [[NoodleIncident Last time she did]], she lost control of her powers and Ponyville had to be reassured that Discord hadn't returned.
* SanitySlippage: All the stress caused her a delayed mental breakdown after Discord was defeated.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: She has her moments. What does she do after learn about Equestria's sad and dark past? Help Spike reclaim Smarty Pants by acting as the horse for his act. Pinkie Pie would be proud.
* ShutUpHannibal: To [[spoiler:Loneliness]]
* TheStrategist: She is usually the one who comes up with the plans of the group.
* SuperOCD: [[spoiler:It's revealed to be due to being G3 Minty's {{Reincarnation}}.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperPoweredEvilSide: In an alternate Dark World, she becomes Nightmare Purgatory.]]
** [[spoiler: In the current Dark World, we find out that this is actually a GroundhogDayLoop caused by Nightmare Eclipse (though the cast refers to her as Nightmare Paradox). Unlike the others, she is a potential ''future'' Twilight who wants Twilight to be like her to continue the loop.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: She became a much more capable leader over time.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Nightmare Moon, Discord, [[spoiler:Loneliness and Nightmare Whisper]] did end up underestimating her big time.
* VisionQuest: Is determined to help [[SixthRanger Trixie]] with her recovery and in turn develops herself. [[spoiler:Trixie later returns the favour when Twilight has a breakdown out of guilt of what she had done to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.]]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler:Delivers one to Nightmare Whisper upon coming to a realization of the nature of friendship. This realization then allows her to summon the Element of Magic.]]
!!!Applejack
-->Voiced by Robotbutterfly/[[TheOtherDarrin Lindsey Lloyd]]
* AloneInACrowd: [[spoiler:When the cast is brainwashed by Princess Gaia, she's the only one that can see through it.]]
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: She sure is one.
* [[spoiler:AndIMustScream: Implied by Applejack's response to the Interviewer wanting to know more about her time as Chrysalis' slave. Her response is to refuse to talk about it, implying it was traumatic. After being freed, she describes the experience as if she'd been constantly drowning for three days.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Queen Chrysalis, but is eventually freed by Applebloom.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: She's literally the fusion of G1 and G3 Applejack!]]
* TheConfidant: Learns a lot of ponies problems inflicted on them by Discord's MindRape [[spoiler:by looking into the Truth]], but can be trusted to only use them to help them. [[spoiler:This is especially true when it comes to Rainbow Dash having ''faked'' being Discorded.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Learned to control her truth vision completely after defeating Nightmare Mirror.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:While she doesn't broken free or outright defied her, she's so far resisted Chrysalis' attempts to break her spirit and is FightingFromTheInside. Chrysalis' words imply she's doing this out of pure stubbornness and willpower. She holds on long enough to be freed by Applebloom (''three days'' later), ''all'' due to sheer force of will.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: There is much more to her truth vision then it seems at the beginning and it has the danger of turning her into a Nightmare.]]
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter: Is the descendant of the G1 Applejack, and is apparently the "fifth of the fifth line", presumably meaning she's the fifth Applejack of the fifth family line descended from the original Applejack.]]
* [[spoiler:LifeIsntFair: Applejack learns that this is one of the most fundamental, yet painful Truths. It's her realization of this, and her decision not to be afraid of it anymore, that allows Applejack to overcome Discord's taint.]]
* LivingLieDetector:
** After looking into [[spoiler:the Truth]], she gains the ability to see the truth, or through lies, in a person's eyes. If they're lying, this causes them discomfort. [[spoiler:While she can see through Princess Gaia's LotusEaterMachine, she was fooled by Gaia herself until she saw that there wasn't any ''truth'' in her eyes either.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out that, had action not been taking, if the Pony POV universe split off from the main timeline (due to something happening in the show that CAN'T work with the fic's canon), she'd have been driven mad and become her SuperpoweredEvilSide. So she had to go on a journey, team up with five of her alternate reality selves to kick Nightmare Mirror's flank. This act not only stopped her from going insane, but gave her full control over this ability.]]
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: She's descended from G1 Applejack, whose Shadow of Existence fused with G3 Applejack to create her.]]
* MindRape: Her Truth vision ''can'' do this just like [[spoiler:her potential SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Mirror]] but Applejack outright refuses to use it as such [[spoiler:due to the fact that refusing to do it is what separates her from Mirror]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Rainbow Dash, she didn't have much choice in the matter under Chrysalis' control, and Applejack states this is one of the things she'll never forgive Chrysalis for, which is a ''serious'' thing for a pony to say.]]
** [[spoiler:Chrysalis and Evil!Sweetie have tried to do this to her and break her spirit, but she managed to hold on via HeroicWillpower until Applebloom can save her.]]
** [[spoiler:After being freed by Applebloom, the two end up using the PowerOfLove the Apple Family possesses to supercharge her truth vision and [[LaserGuidedKarma do this to Chrysalis in self defense]]. How severe is it? It ''destroys'' her ability to ''think'' the self deception 'my past is dead' and leaves her screaming on the floor for several minutes.]]
* NiceGirl
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:She decides to turn down her truth vision while in Canterlot due to how much of high society relies on the information you keep secret. This causes her to not see through Queen Chrysalis' disguise and allows her to brainwash her.]]
* NoSell: She is able to resist mind control thanks to her LivingLieDetector powers. This works even against [[spoiler:Princess Luna/Moonlight. However, due to letting Chrysalis in, she ended up being brainwashed by her. However, Chrysalis implies even then she had difficulty forcing Applejack to lie.]]
* OnlySaneMan: She is the only one able to resist Princess [[Gaia's]] mind control in Everfree and the only one able to see what the Princess really is.
* TheOtherDarrin: Robotbutterfly had to unfortunately leave the project, so had to be replaced by Lindsey Lloyd.
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Of the G1 and G3 Applejacks. G3 Applejack was also a reformated G2 Sweetheart, meaning she's also her reincarnation as well.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Her LivingLieDetector powers came with this. [[spoiler:It would've drove her insane and turned her into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Mirror]] had measures not been taken.]]
* [[spoiler:ServileSnarker]]: [[spoiler:While brainwashed into being Chrysalis' slave, she manages to resist enough to be this to Chrysalis and jab her every chance she gets.]]
* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:After spending three days as Chrysalis' BrainwashedAndCrazy victim and being subjected to MindRape, she's finally freed by Applebloom and proceeds to supercharge her Truth Vision with the PowerOfLove between the Apple Family to give Chrysalis a taste of her own medicine, leaving the Changeling Queen laying on the ground and screaming in agony.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: Nightmare Mirror, but this Applejack never became her at all. The entire point of the sidestory was to ''stop'' her from becoming Nightmare Mirror. In fact, Applejack is noteworthy in that she actually ''fought'' her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* TeamMom
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Feels this way towards [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis for making her MindRape Rainbow Dash and hurt Applebloom by betraying her.]] It's mentioned that for an Equestrian Pony to say this, they ''really'' mean it.
* TookALevelInBadass: She sure did.
* VisionQuest: [[spoiler: Has to enter Truth to learn how to control her turth vision and ends up defeating Nightmare Mirror together with five alternate versions of herself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Rainbow Dash in response to the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well incident.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Gives one to [[spoiler: Nightmare Mirror.]]
!!! Pinkamena "Pinkie" Diane Pie
-->Voiced by Wollffeey
* AbusiveParents: Subverted, they do love her and that was NOT the reason Pinkie ran away.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: No doubt.
* [[spoiler:TheAgeless: Used to be this in the G3 timeline, as all ponies were effectively immortal. Its safe to assume that she's lost it since then, however.]]
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: [[spoiler: Begins to recover more and more from her past after her SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* [[spoiler:TheAssimilator: Pinkie's Angry Pie personality wanted to devour the other parts of Pinkie's consciousness. Inverted when Surprise!Pinkie absorbs Angry Pie during the SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* BadassAdorable
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie: Finding out she was Clover's ImaginaryFriend brought to life by the world changing spell resulted in this. Thankfully Twilight, Zecora, and Luna are there to help her through it.]]
* BerserkButton: Mentioning [[Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}} a certain fanfic]] tends to be this for her.
* [[spoiler: BetterThanNew: After her SplitPersonalityMerge, Pinkie is able to think more clearly, argue points more intelligently, use her gifts to solve specific problems, utilize her medium awareness more effectively and recall her own past with more clarity.]]
* CassandraTruth: Most of her fourth-wall-breaking asides end up like this to the characters in the story, but they become less frequent as everyone begins to catch on.
* TheCameo: She keeps showing up as a FunnyBackgroundEvent at parties in Shining Armor's arc. She outright says she's doing it to invoke this trope.
* CloudCuckoolander: Even ''after'' her [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge. Justified as she ''is'' from another world, the G3 one to be exact.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' a fusion of her G3 self, G1 Surprise, and a ''touch'' of G3 Rarity.]]
* DeepSleep: Goes into one after finally falling asleep after her discording.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Discovering the fact she was Clover's ImaginaryFriend given life results in her deciding to just wait in the fake G3 Ponyville in Everfree to die or let the Shadows of her friends drag her to Oblivion. Thankfully Twilight, Zecora, and Luna help her through it and get her back to from the brink.]]
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: She gets better.
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithin: Angry Pie.]]
* FadeOutFakeOut: More less does this at the end of [[spoiler:Clover's chapter.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: She built her party cannon by herself and she creative enough to make other machines as well. In fact her party cannon patent did earn her a lot of money.
* HiddenDepths: Well for starters [[spoiler:she's ''literally'' the G3 Pinkie Pie and everything she's capable of doing is due to the fact she's from a timeline that was erased from existence. Oh and she's only alive because one of her friends performed a HeroicSacrifice to preserve her right to ''exist''.]]
* [[spoiler: ImaginaryFriend]]: [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie was born out of Clover's loneliness and imagination as originally just an imaginary friend to keep her happy. She was given life when Clover wished that her special someone would always be there for her as the wish spell took effect. Pinkie's present day reaction was [[HeroicBSOD sad]] to say the least.]]
* InfiniteSupplies: Never seems to run out of party supplies or the various things she produces from {{Hammerspace}}. Justified because, as explained in Shining Armor's Arc Part 11, she patented her Party Cannon and they're apparently extremely profitable (airships worldwide seemed to be packed with them) on top of her cartoon powers.
* [[spoiler: LastOfHerKind: According to a ''very'' LooseCanon story, she is the last of the G3.5 ponies left unchanged after a CosmicRetcon needed to save the universe. This is why she's more cartoony than the rest of the universe. Anarchy even refers to her as the last of her specific type of pony, which was his justification for leaving her (mostly) the same (in truth, he just screwed up and did a {{Retgone}} to the wrong pony.]]
** [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother: Princess Celestia eventually reveals she's G3 Star Catcher, or her reincarnation, giving Pinkie at least one other pony who shares her past.]]
* LetMeTellYouAStory: Makes use of this quite often.
* [[spoiler: LivingRelic: Is the only (mortal) pony to have lived in and remember the G3 universe. She has no FishOutOfTemporalWater issues because she still has memories of ''this'' world as well, but still has quite a few interesting traits because of this.]]
* LookWhatICanDoNow: Namely, weaponized MediumAwareness after [[spoiler:her SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
* MediumAwareness: Is well aware she's a fictional character, to the point of being able to ''weaponize'' it. [[spoiler:Revealed to be a side effect of the fact she's ''literally'' not supposed to exist and she discovered it shortly after Anarchy spared her life.]]
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler: Revealed to have played one at least two stages deep, first by sealing most of her memories into alternate personalities, and even after that was undone, she still kept her the memories of her battle with Luna & Minty's death and rebirth sealed until Celestia undid it.]]
* MeaningfulRename: While she still goes by Pinkie Pie, she starts going more by her full name or just Pinkie Diane after [[spoiler:her SplitPersonalityMerge to symbolize she's now ALL of her.]]
* [[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: G1 Surprise merged with her during the end of the G3 timeline, but it's also implied Surprise is also her ancestor.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: Now one of the weapons in Pinkie's arsenal.
* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: A mental version at least. During Pinkie's BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Pinkie Pie and Pinkamena merge to become Surprise, a being far more powerful than Angry Pie.]]
* [[spoiler:PleaseWakeUp: When Minty died in the G3 timeline. Honestly one of the most crushing scenes in the fic, and that's saying ''a lot!'']]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: In Clover's Gaiden Story, she ends up yelling at the author for skipping "Its About Time".
* [[spoiler:ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's been around since gen 3.5. Even older considering its explained the ponies in the universe were immortal and so old they didn't remember how old they were.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Has this [[spoiler:thanks to the fact she's not supposed to exist.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Gets hit with this when she realizes the Pony POV Verse has broken its connection with the heart world. In her mind, she felt it'd be the end of the world all over again and it drives her nearly insane. Princess Celestia helps with that.]]
* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie is pretty much walking proof of this. She's not supposed to even ''exist'', but one of her friends in the G3 universe performed a HeroicSacrifice and got erased instead. Pinkie then defied what amounts to ''a goddess'' to save Minty from the same fate, and ''succeeds''. Sure, Minty dies, but that's better than "erased from existence". Oh, and it's implied her fight with Luna is why ponies can still spontaneously burst into song, as Luna pretty much says that was supposed to be erased but Pinkie and Minty proved it's value to her..]]
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Angry Pie gives one, but its made her default expression in the audio adaptation. Sweet Celestia is it terrifying.]]
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: She brings some much needed humor to the darker moments but she can be serious if it is the time for that.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Manages to be this to ''every villain in the entire show/fic!'' Back in the G3 universe during its end, she merges the spirit of her dead friend Minty with the spirit of the G1 Twilight, having no idea what would happen. The result? ''Twilight Sparkle!'' This may have something to do with the fact she's literally not supposed to even ''exist'' in the G4 timeline, making it rather impossible to effectively plan for her.]]
* SpiderSense: [[spoiler:After Pinkie's SplitPersonalityMerge, her Pinkie Sense has manifested less often, but she seems to be able to control it and uses it to help guide Twilight during the battle against Nightmare Whisper.]]
* SplitPersonality: Had five of them. [[spoiler:Then performed a SplitPersonalityMerge and recombined them all into one.]]
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge]]
* [[spoiler:SuperPoweredEvilSide: Nightmare [[MonsterClown Granfalloon]]. She never becomes this in the POV timeline, but in an alternate timeline and is ultimately given a MercyKill by an alternate Rainbow Dash.]] [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=nightmare+granfalloon#/d5s0w9f Do you dare look upon her?]]
** [[spoiler: [[http://itsfrompeople.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d54gagf One piece]] of RecursiveFanfiction has an alternate take on the battle with Angry Pie that shows how Pinkie becomes Nightmare Granfalloon and even gives her a VillainSong (a psychotic version of Pinkie's "Smile, Smile, Smile")…but as it turns out, it's a ''different'' AlternateUniverse, and Pinkamena manages to beat and talk her down.]]
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler: Her primary personality, "Pinkie", is one of these.]]
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: Having been wracked with guilt after her friend [=StarSong=] sacrificed every trace of her own past and future existence in her defense, this becomes her key motivation throughout the series, causing her to protect anyone else from being erased at all costs.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: From time to time after restoring her sanity completely. For example she is able to answer Rainbow Dash's question that has NO answer with a story.
!!!Rainbow Dash
-->Voiced by Robotbutterfly/[[TheOtherDarrin Lindsey Lloyd]].
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: As always.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: She is able to realise that she is trapped within an illusion of Princess Gaia.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: See MercyKill
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* BrokenBird: Spends the first half the fic pretty much as this thanks to Discord's SadisticChoice.
* BrokenPedestal: Is ''terrified'' of this happening if Cloudsdale finds out how she dealt with Discord's SadisticChoice.
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: Is ''literally'' a fusion of the G1 Firefly and the G3 Rainbow Dash, at least according to LooseCanon.]]
* CoolBigSis: Towards Scootaloo, even if they're not related.
* DeadpanSnarker: From time to time.
* {{Determinator}}: Is willing to go very far for her friends. This is very obvious in the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper.]]
* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:Discord forced her to watch as he [[DrivenToMadness drove everypony in Cloudsdale insane]] right in front of her.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Spends the first half of the Reharmonized series in one over [[spoiler:how she handled Discord's SadisticChoice, as well as how she put on a show of being completely brainwashed as an excuse.]]
* HiddenDepths: She is not only a lot smarter then most believe but able to flawlessly deceive if she has to. Rainbow is not proud on that ability but uses it to reveal Fluttercruel's real personality at their party so that they could really befriend her.
* LetsGetDangerous: In the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] she is not only risking her own life but is also willing to [[spoiler:kill Nightmare Whisper]] if she has to.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She is A LOT smarter then she seems at first, but she is still very hotblooded.
* MercyKill: Was ready to do this to [[spoiler: Fluttershy to stop her from torturing herself further.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Robotbutterfly had to unfortunately leave the project, so had to be replaced by Lindsey Lloyd.
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: ''Narrowly'' subverted. Her friends manage to calm her down before she can.]]
** [[spoiler:In an alternate timeline, she has completed her transformation. Meet [[ControlFreak Nightmare Manacle]].]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, she is one of the few ponies who will apply lethal force as a first resort.
!!!Rarity Belle
-->Voiced by Robotbutterfly/[[TheOtherDarrin Lindsey Lloyd]]
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Especially if Sweetie is in danger.
* [[spoiler: AmnesiaMissedASpot]]: A faint recognition that Pinkie was singing her own song to back to her.
* BadassNormal: Lacks any superpowers the other mane six have other than a HealingFactor that kicks in whenever she uses the Element of Generosity, but she has little to no control over it. Despite this, she's still more than capable of keeping up with the others due to her martial arts skill and precision with the magic she does have.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT hurt Fluttershy or Sweetie Belle.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: See MercyKill
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: In the process of preparing Diamond's commission, she gradually becomes this for her.
* BlatantLies: Covers for Diamond Tiara this way. Even brings shades to block direct eye contact with Applejack, which is completely out of the blue.
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
* CoolBigSis: To Sweetie Belle and Diamond Tiara, even if the latter isn't actually her sister.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite often.
* GaggingOnYourWords: Until she conquers her MindRape induced fear of gems, she has great difficulty saying the word diamond or other such words.
* {{Greed}}: Revealed to be one of her inner demons, as even in this new universe, [[ContinuityNod she still tries to sneak a piece of cake from Pinkie's cake.]]
* HealingFactor: Seems to be an ability of her Element Of Generosity when it's activated. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she still can't use this on anypony else.]]
* [[IAmNotLeftHanded I Am Not Left Hoofed]]: She is shockingly effective in battle. [[spoiler:And unlike the others she is much more willing to kill if she has to.]]
* MamaBear: Do ''not'' threaten Sweetie Belle, she will ''end you!''
* TheMedic: Subverted, so far her Element of Generosity only healed herself.
* MercyKill: Was ready to do this to [[spoiler: Fluttershy to stop her from torturing herself further.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction after coming ''dangerously'' close to killing Sweetie Belle in a fit of rage.
* [[spoiler: [[MyOwnGrandpa My Own Grandma]]: Is both the reincarnation of G2 Melody, and descended from her through her mother.]]
* NonPOVProtagonist: Is out of focus for much of the story and only once Mind Games! start does she get more attention again.
* ParentalSubstitute: For two foals: both Sweetie Belle (because her parents keep dumping her on Rarity), and Diamond Tiara (which even becomes a VERY important plot point in the fic).
** PromotionToParent: With Sweetie Belle.
* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}: Of Princess Rarity of G3 and by extension Melody of G2. She doesn't actually know it, but it is the state of things.]]
* [[PeoplePuppets Pony Puppets]]: Used this on HERSELF to keep moving in the battle against [[spoiler: Nightmare Whisper.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, she is one of the few ponies who will instinctively resort to lethal force.
* TranquilFury: It is very noticeable in her encounters with [[spoiler: Cheerilee]] and [[spoiler: Nightmare Whisper.]]
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Gems?]]: Thanks to Discord's MindRape, she spent a few weeks with a phobia of gems that prevented her from working on her dresses. But she gets over this.
* UnskilledButStrong: Her grasp of advanced magic might be lacking in comparison to Twilight, but her telekinesis is top-notch.
!!!Fluttershy[[spoiler:[=/=]Princess Gaia]]
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* [[spoiler:AnthropomorphicPersonification: According to WordOfGod, her Alicorn self represents Organic Life and Mercy.]]
* [[spoiler:AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In the Dark World, she winds up becoming [[{{Physical God}} The Queen of Cups]]]]
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: After reverting from Nightmare Whisper. She even outright says there are things she'll never forgive herself for.]]
** [[spoiler:Deconstructed as well, as she gets ''so'' depressed, she nearly allows herself to be [[RapeAsDrama raped by some ponies her actions harmed]] as repentance, only being saved by Coffee Swirl. He manages to convince her she's taking it too far and it won't settle anything. Though this is LooseCanon, the events have been mentioned vaguely.]]
* [[spoiler:BeAllMySinsRemembered: After her stint as a BigBad, she outright says she'll let everypony judge her for the right and wrong she did, she knows she deserves it either way. And they have been, some ponies adore her, some ''hate'' her, and she's willing to live with it.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As always [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn and even more so.]]]]
* BreakTheCutie: She is the only one Discord fails to do this so but later Fluttercruel accidently succeeds where her father failed.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Due to rarely drinking, just a sip of anything with salt in it is enough to get her buzzed. [[spoiler:Getting completely ''drunk'' thanks to Fluttercruel has a hoof in her going insane and turning into Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper.]]
* [[ClonesArePeopleToo Clones Are Ponies Too]]: Feels this way about Fluttercruel. [[spoiler:She eventually convinces her to feel the same.]]
* [[spoiler:CompositeCharacter: She's the fusion of Posey (G1) and Zipzee (G3).]]
* DeathGlare: The Stare.
* [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deity Of Pony Origin]]: The Elements of Harmony didn't reverse her transformation in a Nightmare so much as ''complete'' her Alicornification, which becoming a Nightmare is an 'incomplete' version of. This makes her the first known Alicorn (though she's not assumed her true Alicorn form yet and seems ''afraid'' of the power) to have been ''born'' a mortal (instead of going through a period as an AmnesiacGod after being one) but became an Alicorn.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She adopts Fluttercruel after being able to overpower her.
* FragileFlower: Not nearly as much as others think.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
* [[spoiler:{{Fallen Hero}}ine: As Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. She gets better.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: When she becomes Princess Gaia. She gets better.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: She is a lot smarter and tougher then Fluttercruel thinks at the beginning.
* {{Good Parent|s}}: Tries her hardest to be this to Fluttercruel.
* GrewASpine: This is what she learns from Fluttercruel and her responsibilities towards her daughter.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After reverting from Nightmare Whisper, she refuses to defend herself ''at all'' against ponies attacking her for revenge for her actions to the point she almost allowed herself to be [[RapeAsDrama raped by several ponies]] before Coffee Swirl saved her. He manages to break her out of it with a WhatTheHellHero]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: As both Nightmare Whisper and herself afterwards, Fluttershy was willing to shoulder all the pain and suffering in Equestria so that nopony else had to feel it. Nightmare Whisper admitted that the burden had killed her twice already. Ultimately subverted, as her friends were able to convince Fluttershy that it was better to release suffering back into the world, rather than numbing everypony to it.]]
* MamaBear: As usual, but especially towards her "daughter" Fluttercruel. [[spoiler:Subverted later when she becomes so caught up in her "New Fluttershy" persona that she gives her a HannibalLecture as well, which she's extremely guilty for afterwards.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Well more like My God, What Did I Nearly Do? but she has this reaction to realizing that her actions as Nightmare Whisper nearly killed ''forty-two million'' unborn foals. Even after she's told she did't, she needs a bit more consoling to recover from it.]]
* NonPOVProtagonist: Doesn't get any first-person sections until [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn she becomes Nightmare Whisper]]]].
* OutOfFocus: In a way, as she's about the only character to not really get a first person chapter, but on the other hoof, that makes sense considering [[ShrinkingViolet personality]], and she has gotten tons of focus otherwise.
** [[spoiler: And massive character growth during the Princess Gaia arc…along with an interview in that form]]
* [[spoiler:{{Physical God}}dess: Became one when she turned into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Whisper]]. It's been implied she may somehow still have access to the power even after her defeat, but is afraid to use it. It's later confirmed that the Elements don't revert a Nightmare to pony form, but ''complete'' the Alicornification, Fluttershy just instinctively reverts to her normal form as opposed to her Alicorn one.]]
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: [[spoiler:Gets both a good and bad version for being Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. Some remember her for healing them of their Discord-inflicted mental damage, while others hate her for trying to take over the world and brainwashing them.]]
* [[spoiler:ShapeshifterDefaultForm: The Interviewers reveal that the Elements essentially completed her Alicorn transformation, but she instinctively reverted to her mortal form after being defeated.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Fluttershy definitely starts out like this but slowly becomes more assertive over time.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge: No, not with Fluttercruel. Flutterage is a separate personality who Shy kept alienated from her main one since she was a filly. In her section of "Butterflies" she learns to accept she needs anger and they fuse back together.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper. At present, the only one to transform into this in the main Pony POV Series timeline.]]
* SharingABody: With Fluttercruel.
* TarotMotifs: [[spoiler:Queen of Cups, making her the only Alicorn thus far based on the Minor Arcana instead of the Major Arcana.]]
!!!Spike
-->Voiced by Lightning
* AdaptationalBadass: Manages to burn a part of the Smooze after the journey through time with the CMC. Being able to survive alongside them likely qualifies as well.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Only on the outside; his mind is much further developed then his appearance shows.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Twilight or Rarity.
* BigBrotherMentor: He may be a baby dragon, but he acts like this towards the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is brainwashed by Queen Chrysalis during the Wedding Arc.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Finally got some after realizing his status as a satellite character and building a friendship with the CMC and Silver Spoon.
* DeadpanSnarker: He must have gotten it from Twilight.
* GenreSavvy: It comes with the territory if you are raised by Twilight Sparkle.
* {{Greed}}: One of his flaws, according to him Rarity was acting as a memory spell that brought him back to his senses.
* {{Jerkass}}: Is a bit mean towards Trixie when she's staying with Twilight at first. But he gets better.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: And the jerk part is vanishing further and further.
* LargeHam: Acts like this from time to time for example when he tried to return Smartypants to Twilight like a KnightInShiningArmor.
* LegacyCharacter: According to WordOfGod, he's the descendant of the G1 Spike. [[spoiler:And it's also revealed that the {{Reincarnation}} of the G3 one is his ancestor as well. Not only that, every member of his family has essentially been partners with the world's heroes' of that age. Spike the Fifth even fight Discord one on one and managed to outmatch him in physical combat. Twilight telling him about this linage averts the events of "Dragon Quest" by giving him a family line he's proud of (the interviewers plan to give him Peewee anyway).]]
** SecretLegacy: Which he was unaware of [[spoiler:until Twilight told him.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Has a mild one in reaction to making Silver Spoon breakdown crying with his WhatTheHellHero.]]
* OutOfFocus: The focus of his POV tale is correcting it. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]]
* PrecociousCrush: On Rarity but technically he is around her own age anyway. The problem is just that as a dragon he ages much slower and Truth showed that Rarity would die from old age while he could still live on for hundreds of years.
* PuppyDogEyes: Has learned to do this from Apple Bloom. He complains that it makes his eyes hurt.
* StraightMan
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Dark World finally revealed one: Nightmare Banneret, The Beautiful Fury Of the Generous Green Flames.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Twilight and Rarity but he is still willing to stand up to Twilight if he thinks that it is for her own good.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to [[spoiler:Silver Spoon]] for being too hard on Twilight. [[spoiler:Apple Bloom then calls him out for being too hard on ''her'', pointing out two wrongs don't make a right.]]
!!!Trixie Mid-summernight (The One And Only Trixie)/[[spoiler:Cobweb]]
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* AbusiveParents: Subverted, they clearly love her.
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Was there ever any doubt?
* {{Adorkable}}: She has her moments.
* AloneInACrowd: [[spoiler:How Discord broke her. He made it so, from her perspective, it seemed nopony could even tell she ''existed''. Of note, he did this to "warm up" for breaking Twilight.]]
* AntiHero
* BerserkButton: Saying bad things about her family.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Comes to Cadence's aid during a fight with a BrainwashedAndCrazy Twilight, foiling Chrysalis' attempt to get either Twilight or Cadence to be forced to kill the other.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Because of Discord.
** Happens again during the Wedding [[spoiler:thanks to Chrysalis via a brainwashed Twilight. She snapped out of it when she realized how out of character Twilight acted.]]
* CombatPragmatist: She is not above fighting dirty against her enemies, even after her HeelFaceTurn.
* [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deity Of Pony Origin]] In one of the DarkWorld timelines, Cadance manages to turn her into an Alicorn. She represents [[TarotMotifs the Knight of Wands.]] In a similar timeline, Alicorn!Trixie even manages to permanently wound Nightmare!Twilight!]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Even more then some of her friends.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She slowly opened up to Twilight and her friends and shows her kinder side.
* GenreSavvy
* GuileHeroine: Her showpony skills come in handy for this.
** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:she realized somepony was trying to get rid of her during the Wedding Arc and assumed a disguise named Cobweb so she could hide while still helping the others until she finally revealed herself to save Twilight.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: This trope describes her role in the story better than SixthRanger, since she drops off the radar immediately after the Gaia arc.
** However, TheBusCameBack for the Wedding Arc, with her returning to take part, even being on the cover.
* HeelFaceTurn
* [[spoiler:HiddenInPlainSight: During the Wedding. She figures out that Twilight's BreakingLecture was out of character and the only logical explanation was either Twilight was trying to BreakHerHeartToSaveHer or was being forced to hurt her. She disguises herself as a unicorn named Cobweb and joins up with the others until she had the opening to reveal herself and save Twilight.]]
* IHaveYourWife: She uses this tactic against [[spoiler:Knight Cheerilee.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Her primary reason for putting up a JerkassFacade. She wanted to be special, but couldn't excel at ''anything''. Having a lot of [[MiddleChildSyndrome siblings didn't help matters.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Her response to finding out [[spoiler:she's doing a magic show for Princess Gaia's celebration]] is to grab some sake with salt mixed into it and get ''very'' drunk.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She eventually outgrew that phase.
* LargeHam: She wouldn't be Trixie if she wasn't one of these.
* MasterOfNone: Her FreudianExcuse, and related to her issue of IJustWantToBeSpecial. Her teacher tries to encourage her that [[JackOfAllTrades she has a lot of potential]], and that [[CripplingOverspecialization most unicorns tend to fail in all else if they excelled in anything else]], but she's most upset about being ''average''.
* MeaningfulRename: Going from the "Great and Powerful" Trixie to the "One And Only" Trixie.
* [[spoiler:MegaManning: As an Element Of Magic, she has this just like Twilight does.]]
* MilesGloriosus: The Great and Powerful Trixie but later on she becomes a very useful ally against Princess [[spoiler: Gaia.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her reaction to realizing her plan to split up and free Celestia and Chrysalis' brainwashed slaves at the same time only served to lead the group into ''both'' of Chrysalis' traps.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Turns out she and Twilight have a lot more in common than one would expect. [[spoiler:She even had a major accident with a Want It, Need It Spell when in magic school, casting it on ''herself''.]]
* [[spoiler: PutOnTheBus: Leaves the story shortly after the Gaia Festival.]]
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: Briefly in 'Retcon-Struction Blues', when Twilight visits her. She later reappears in 'Under the Stars' and takes part in the Wedding Arc.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: Is a lot stronger and more effective as a heroine than a villain. [[spoiler:She's also revealed to be an Element Of Magic.]]
** [[spoiler:During the Wedding, she manages to ''fight Twilight to a standstill'' and actually restrain her long enough for her and Cadence can free her.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Of G1 Magic Star and G3 Abra-ca-dabra (who was herself a reincarnation of an unknown G2 era foal). Interestingly enough, she ''also'' seems to have the Shadow of the Alicorn Amulet's consciousness in the mix that Magic Star's shadow was wearing at the time.]]
* RobeAndWizardHat: It is all she wears. [[spoiler:It's implied her love of these stemmed from Abra-ca-dabra's witch Halloweeen Costume.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Is partial to electrical attacks in combat.
* SixthRanger
!!!Fluttercruel
-->Voiced by Mewsel
* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Thanks to self defense books and having less restraints then Fluttershy, she is one.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Apparently why she developed a crush on Iron Will, though even after finding out he has a nice side she's still attracted to her. It doesn't go anywhere (he leaves before she can ask him on a date). Could also count as PrecociousCrush, considering she's still mentally a foal, even if she's fairly intelligent.
* [[AmbiguouslyHuman Ambiguously Pony]]: While the body she [[SharingABody shares with Fluttershy]] is pure pony, it's unclear whether Fluttercruel herself is this or a [[HalfHumanHybrid Pony/Draconequus Hybrid]]. While she earned a Cutie Mark and looks like a Pony for the most part, she has slightly HellishPupils and CuteLittleFangs. Her Dark World self also implies she's technically a [[DivineParentage Demi Draconequus]] and possibly inherated some traits from her father.
* AntiHero
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: [[LikeABadassOutOfHell Fights her way back from the afterlife]] and nearly performs a HeroicSacrifice out of guilt for causing Fluttershy's FaceHeelTurn in the first place.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Is the one who changes the battle against [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] in favour of the heroes.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Well, for one, that she likes hamburgers, which most of Ponyville considers extremely strange. In addition, she loves extremely bitter foods, which includes having Coffee Swirl make her as bitter coffee as he can.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:The Princess Gaia Arc pretty much did this.]]
** BreakTheCutie: In "New Game Plus" when [[spoiler:New Fluttershy lets her have a HannibalLecture, along with her own guilt over the incident.]]
* BrickJoke: She still wants that hamburger. [[spoiler:Too bad she ate a veggieburger and Fluttershy ate the hamburger instead.]]
* CainAndAbel: She is the Cain to Fluttershy's Abel. [[spoiler:Though it became the other way around when Fluttershy makes her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Not directly but she doesn't have any higher opinion about her father compared to anybody else. In short: She thinks Discord is a monster.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Due to SharingABody with Fluttershy, she can't drink much without getting drunk.
* ChildByRape: Discord's MindRape is described ''extremely'' close to actual rape, and that's how Fluttercruel was "born"...
** Several chapters imply she's at least partially aware of this, and not very happy about it.
* CloningBlues: While not a "clone" so to speak, it still causes her a bit of pain that she's a "copy" of Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Fluttershy eventually convinces her that ClonesArePeopleToo.]]
* [[spoiler:ClonesArePeopleToo: Eventually comes to believe this, thanks to Fluttershy. Of note, when Luna brings up the possibility Fluttercruel may simply be a [[MindRape Mind Raped]] Fluttershy and "Fluttershy" is the clone, created by Twilight's Memory Spell, Fluttercruel [[ShutUpHannibal responds by saying that it doesn't matter]], they're ''both'' real. Celestia also later confirms that she has her own soul, separate from Fluttershy's, as well.]]
* CombatPragmatist: During a fight with the Changelings, she has no qualms about nailing one with a GroinAttack.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: InUniverse, this is her reason for finding her various GrimDark fanfic [[NightmareFetishist inspired dreams funny]]; they're ''so'' outlandish and ridiculous that they become funny...to her. Twilight and Fluttershy both find them disgusting.
* CruelToBeKind: Starts becoming this after her HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler:Is ultimately revealed to pretty much be this ''incarnate''.]]
* CuteBruiser: Despite SharingABody with Fluttershy, she's noted as being physically stronger than her (likely because she's less reserved than Fluttershy), and studied self defense books. She also broke one of the interviewers' nose for asking a question she found offensive.
** Case in point, Roid Rage made Fluttershy, and Fluttercruel, angry with some insensitive comments [[spoiler:about the mental patients at the asylum and Fluttershy for being Princess Gaia]]. Fluttershy held Fluttercruel back to protect ''him'' from her!
** We finally see her fight in the Wedding Arc, and she proves a good fighter.
* CuteLittleFangs: The illustrations for the audio adaptation depict her with these.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Fluttershy realized that despite being Discord's "daughter" and spawned from his evil magic, that didn't make her evil. [[spoiler:She proves this by eventually becoming an Element of ''Kindness!'']]
* DeathGlare: Same as Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Even in ghost form.]] However, she states in "New Game Plus" that she can't do it on demand either.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Started out as a HarmlessVillain who Fluttershy defeated and decided to raise as her child.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She slowly begins to care for Fluttershy and her opinions about Fluttershy's friends improve over time as well.
* DivineParentage: Her father is Discord.
* DrinkOrder: In the RecursiveFanfiction surrounding Coffee Swirl (though WordOfGod has declared it LooseCanon, which is why it's here), Fluttercruel always orders as bitter coffee as Coffee Swirl can make. Coffee Swirl comments how strange this is.
* [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Fluttershy?]]: Her reaction to Fluttershy transforming into Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even before her HeelFaceTurn she is a lot less nightmarish then her Dark World counterpart.
* TheFashionista: While she's not shown to care much about shopping, she loves modeling for Rarity and considers it her hobby, and wouldn't mind being in a fashion show.
* {{Foil}}: To ''herself''. The [[BadFuture Epilogue]] version of her is a monster of the highest order, which serves to show just how much of one the real Fluttercruel ''isn't''.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: In the audio adaptation, the reflected version of Fluttershy's room shown in the mirror with her has a [[AnAxeToGrind battle ax]] and she goes to sleep hugging a sheathed sword like a teddy bear. This does not change the fact she looks like Fluttershy and her hugging said sword is strangely adorable.
* GenreSavvy
* GoodFeelsGood: She has fun being around her friends and no intentions to ever turn out like her counterpart of the Dark World.
* GuiltComplex: Begins blaming herself for not only the entire [[spoiler:Nightmare Whisper]] incident, but other problems Fluttershy gets herself into. It isn't until the rest of the mane six help her face her guilt that she gets over it.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Pony Hybrid]]: [[HellishPupils Some of]] [[CuteLittleFangs her traits]] and developments in Dark World imply she's half Draconequus.
* HarmlessVillain: Before her HeelFaceTurn.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HellishPupils: {{Downplayed|Trope}} example. The artist for the audio adaptation gave Fluttercruel ''slightly'' more snake-like pupils than Fluttershy to make her look more dangerous. They're not that noticeable, however.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: She nearly does this to save Fluttershy, then Nightmare Whisper, knowing full well that using the Elements Of Harmony would destroy a being created from Disharmony like her. Fluttershy thankfully saves her.]]
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: She's the only one who gets to hit Fluttershy where it hurts!
* [[spoiler:ItsAllMyFault: Blames herself for everything Fluttershy did. Celestia outright says that this is the reason she told ''only'' Fluttershy about what Nightmare Whisper's plan nearly caused in regards to all of Equestria's unborn foals, she blames herself for enough already. It isn't until "New Game Plus" that she's convinced to finally let go of this.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: She loves getting attention and hates it whenever somepony else is stealing her spotlight.
* JekyllAndHyde: The Hyde to Fluttershy's Jekyll.
* {{Jerkass}}: At first, before becoming a...
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She acts like a jerk, but after a little reconditioning, she becomes quite kindhearted.
* [[spoiler:LikeABadassOutOfHell: Fights her way back from oblivion to take part in the final battle with Nightmare Whisper. She's got the scars to prove it too.]]
* LoveRedeems: Well, a variation. It's in a large part thanks to Fluttershy's parental love and attention that Fluttercruel undergoes her HeelFaceTurn.
* ManChild: Justified, as she is quite literally a newborn with the body of an adult.
* MeaningfulName
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her reaction to Fluttershy to realizing she's triggered Fluttershy's SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her attempt to show Fluttershy the crueler parts of nature results in the Princess Gaia arc.]]
** Later, she [[spoiler:ends up causing this dimension's version of the New Fluttershy incident.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Her ''dreams'' are pretty much GrimDark fanfics.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Well, for one, {{Cupcakes}} and several other GrimDark stories were her ''dreams'' if that's any indication. Yes, ''dreams'', not nightmares, ''dreams'' (though she doesn't really want them to happen or think they would, she just seems to genuinely enjoy stories like that). Taken UpToEleven in the audio adaptation, where her "world", apparently inside their head, is depicted as something you'd expect to find in a dungeon. She falls asleep hugging a ''sword'' (sheathed of course) like it's a doll!
* ObliviouslyEvil: Before her HeelFaceTurn. It's pointed out that, while it doesn't ''excuse'' her actions (since she had Fluttershy's memories), she genuinely didn't know any better since Discord ''made'' her to be cruel. Thankfully, Fluttershy took the time to recondition her.
* [[HumanMomNonHumanDad Pony Mom, Non Pony Dad]]: Discord is her "father" and Fluttershy her "mother", at least she and Fluttershy consider it that way.
* [[RealWomenDontWearDresses Real Mares Don't Wear Dresses]]: Subverted. She's a CuteBruiser who reads self-defense books and is anything but a girly girl, but her hobby is modeling for Rarity.
* ScarsAreForever: She bares scars from [[spoiler:[[LikeABadassOutOfHell fighting her way out of limbo]] to save Fluttershy]], which appear both in her mental form and when she's in control of their body.
* SharingABody: With Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Princess Celestia]] eventually allows them to switch at will and change how their body looks to match Fluttercruel.
* SirSwearsALot: While most of them are {{Unusual Euphemism}}s, she cusses quite a bit, though Fluttershy does her best to curb this habit, especially if children are present.
* SixthRanger: A unique case, as only Fluttershy knew she existed before "Pearl Necklace".
* TheDogBitesBack: Manages to fight back against Flutterrage in the final confrontation.
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