History FanFic / AKingdomDivided

* HeroicBSOD: Rainbow Dash gets one after [[spoiler: Lightning Dust and her created a tornado to destroy a damaged airship]], complete with BadDreams.

'''A Kingdom Divided''' is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Samey90 Samey90]]. It tells the story of the civil war between Princess Celestia and Princess Luna who, seeing that her sister doesn't care about the poorest of her subjects and becomes increasingly dependent of nobility, decides to lead the rebel against her.

Also has a side-story called [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/188136/the-nest The Nest]].

* ActualPacifist: Firefly:

* [[TheAllegedCar Alleged Airship]]: Vinyl Scratch's first airship. Justified, since the whole crew are volunteers with little to no training.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In second chapter, Vinyl Scratch has her bloodtype tested with "human" AB0 kit. Real life horses have over 30 different bloodtypes, which would require completely different set of antibodies.
** WordOfGod states that the author actually ''did'' want to use equine blood types, but that it would have made the equipment too large and impractical.
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Lyra Heartstrings]] in chapter 11.

* BadassCrew: Rainbow Dash's squadron.
** Practically everyone in ''The Nest'' – justified, since they're all volunteers who fight changelings.
* BadassFamily: Cloudchaser, Flitter (sisters) and their cousin, Cloud Kicker.
** ''The Nest'' shows that Flitter and Cloudchaser's father was pretty badass too.

* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 12. The only dark stuff happens in flashbacks.

-->''"I’ve… never… like… told her… stuff… you know, that stuff I should’ve told her…"''
* [[GondorCallsForAid Canterlot Calls for Aid]]: Celestia sends a letter to Shining Armor when she learns that [[spoiler: Manehattan, Fillydelphia, and Detrot rebelled against her, and Luna has an army of bat ponies.]]

-->''"No matter what Twilight and Princess Celestia say, [[SnipingTheCockpit aim at the crew]] – if they come back to Manehattan with the dead gunners, and pilots spitting their guts out, they’ll think twice before sending [[WeHaveReserves another batch]] here."''
** WhatTheHellHero: Lightning Dust, of all the ponies, refers to the line above, calling her "Rainbow 'aim at the crew' Dash".

* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 11 for Big Macintosh; chapter 12 for Cloudchaser
** In case of [[spoiler: Lyra Heartstrings]], chapter 11 is [[spoiler: ADeathInTheLimelight]]

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Lightning Dust]] in chapter 8.
* DemBones: [[spoiler: Fluttershy]] in Rainbow Dash's mandrake booze-induced hallucinations.

* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] – the soldier who points out that showing family photos to each other brings bad luck gets killed soon afterwards.
** In ''The Nest'', it's averted in case of Hard Mint. Played straight with [[spoiler: Storm Chaser]].

** Scrap Yard, a character introduced in chapter 7 occasionally lapses into [[Literature/AClockworkOrange nadsat.]]
* SteelEarDrums: Averted in case of [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]], played straight with [[spoiler: Silver Spoon]].
* SugarApocalypse: As soon as the war starts.
* SwearJar: Cloudchaser has one.

* TheBigGuy: Snowflake. To the point that he needs a custom armour.
* TheWatson: Spike in chapter 1, when he asks Twilight to explain him the causes of the crisis.

* WarFic
* WarIsHell: From chapter 3 onwards.

--> ''If you trust me, we can always change the future together…''

* WrenchWench: Wicked Wrench.
* VomitDiscretionShot: In chapter 6, when Cloudchaser is said to help Rainbow Dash "''remove the undigested alcohol from her system''".
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens to Vinyl after [[spoiler: Black Cat dies]].

* YourHeadAsplode: How [[spoiler: Black Cat]] dies.

** [[TheVinylScratchTapes Vinyl's middle name is Agatha]].

->''[[AsTheGoodBookSays Matthew, 12:25]]''

!!This WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FanFic contains examples of the following tropes:

-->''“Nice shot, my ass,”'' Vinyl muttered to herself, trying to figure out what was worse: her aiming skills or the crosshair of her gun.

* [[AteHisGun Ate Her Gun]]: [[spoiler: Lyra Heartstrings]] in chapter 11.

* DeadpanSnarker: Twilight, when Rainbow Dash asks her for a hangover cure:
-->'''Twilight:''' ''"There’s one potion. It’s called ‘water,’ and you should drink it ''instead'' of alcohol"''.

--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' ''"It's okay, we were just talking."''
--> '''Cloudchaser:''' ''"Quite loudly."''

--> '''Rarity:''' ''"Can’t you cooperate? Say something optimistic…"''
--> '''Nurse Redheart:''' ''"What? ‘Thanks to our efforts, only one pegasus will probably be disabled for life, and only half of the crew take sleeping pills, antidepressants or stimulants’?"''

-->''“This is entropy,”'' he said, poking [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle]], ''“Harmony of a living thing slowly turning into a chaos… Maybe I should left it that way… During my long life I learned many things about loss. You should also get used to it…”''

-->'''Apple Bloom:''' ''"With yer fancy logic, Ah’m gonna starve to death halfway through…"''
-->[[spoiler: '''Sweetie Belle:''']] ''"Impossible. An average pony can survive up to two weeks without eating if there’s a fresh water source"''.

-->''“Much better than my old radio… After the war, I’m gonna go to the Crystal Empire and thank the guy who made it…”''

-->''“Are you crazy?”'' Cloudchaser exclaimed. ''“That’s genocide!”''
-->''“I’d rather call it ‘carefulness’...”'' Stormfeather replied.

** [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Let’s not go to Canterlot, ‘tis a silly place.]]

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Rotary engines losing cylinders in mid-air was a real issue of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne WWI]] aircrafts.

* SchizoTech: The level of military technology resembles [[UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar first]] and [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo second]] world war, but there [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense was]] also a TV in Vinyl's room. The DJ's equipment is also mentioned.

* YourHeadAsplode: How [[spoiler: Black Cat]] dies.

* {{Hypocryte}}: Luna yelling treason when she found out that Twilight had the elements just in case she was corrupted again. Right, [[SarcasmMode the princess that betrayed her sister and was going to start a war that would undoubtly kill thousands has every right to call Twilight a traitor.]]

'''A Kingdom Divided''' is an ongoing WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Samey90 Samey90]]. It tells the story of the civil war between Princess Celestia and Princess Luna who, seeing that her sister doesn't care about the poorest of her subjects and becomes increasingly dependent of nobility, decides to lead the rebel against her.

-->“Nice shot, my ass,” Vinyl muttered to herself, trying to figure out what was worse: her aiming skills or the crosshair of her gun.

-->We believe that by using violence to end the war, we’d end up being like the princesses. Violence is not a solution, Rarity, you know about it well.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Vinyl Scratch[[spoiler: enlists to Moon Army and becomes a gunner while drunk]].

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Scootaloo names dangerous things in the forests, she lists "bears, wild boars and drunk lumberjacks".

-->She [Vinyl] was just thinking about some things, which were important in her current state, like; who’d win the war, when they’d release her from the hotel, which wall would be the best to paint a picture of Octavia on it, and [[ADateWithRosiePalms if it was safe to use a chair’s leg to pleasure herself]].

-->I’ve… never… like… told her… stuff… you know, that stuff I should’ve told her…

* ClusterFBomb: dropped by Rainbow Dash in chapter 1 and Lightning Dust in chapter 8.

-->No matter what Twilight and Princess Celestia say, [[SnipingTheCockpit aim at the crew]] – if they come back to Manehattan with the dead gunners, and pilots spitting their guts out, they’ll think twice before sending [[WeHaveReserves another batch]] here.

-->'''Twilight:''' There’s one potion. "It’s called ‘water,’ and you should drink it ''instead'' of alcohol.

--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' It's okay, we were just talking.
--> '''Cloudchaser:''' Quite loudly.

* DeathFromAbove: several instances, most notably in chapter 4, [[spoiler: when field hospital is bombed with napalm]] and in chapter 5 when [[spoiler: Lightning Dust accidentally drops the bombs on Scootaloo's class.]]

* FantasticDrug: Mandrake booze in chapter 6. Rainbow Dash downs the first glass saying "Goodbye, brain cells."

* FantasticSlurs: "mud ponies" and "featherbrain". Both actually used by [[WhatTheHellHero Scootaloo]].

--> '''Rarity:''' Can’t you cooperate? Say something optimistic…
--> [[DeadpanSnarker '''Nurse Redheart:''']] What? ‘Thanks to our efforts, only one pegasus will probably be disabled for life, and only half of the crew take sleeping pills, antidepressants or stimulants’?

* GoryDiscretionShot: Vinyl can't see [[spoiler: Black Cat's body]], because it's obscured by steam. Yet, she realises quickly that[[spoiler: she has his brain in her mane]].

-->“This is entropy,” he said, poking [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle]], “Harmony of a living thing slowly turning into a chaos… Maybe I should left it that way… During my long life I learned many things about loss. You should also get used to it…”

-->TREASON!

-->'''Apple Bloom:''' With yer fancy logic, Ah’m gonna starve to death halfway through…
-->[[spoiler: '''Sweetie Belle:''']] Impossible. An average pony can survive up to two weeks without eating if there’s a fresh water source.

* MadeofIndestructium: Radios from Crystal Empire, which can stop the bullet and still work. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lyra:
-->“Much better than my old radio… After the war, I’m gonna go to the Crystal Empire and thank the guy who made it…”

** Also, the riots in Cloudsdale are referenced several times, but it is unknown what exactly happened there. [[spoiler: it is explained in chapter 12]].

--> If you trust me, we can always change the future together…

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: from chapter 12:
-->“Are you crazy?” Cloudchaser exclaimed. “That’s genocide!”
-->“I’d rather call it ‘carefulness’...” Stormfeather replied.

* VomitDiscretionShot: In chapter 6, when Cloudchaser is said to help Rainbow Dash "remove the undigested alcohol from her system".
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens to Vinyl after[[spoiler: Black Cat dies]].

* YourHeadAsplode: How[[spoiler: Black Cat]] dies.

** During the bar scene in chapter 6, a pony resembling TomWaits appears.

** Also, the riots in Cloudsdale are referenced several times, but it is unknown what exactly happened there.

->No matter what Twilight and Princess Celestia say, [[SnipingTheCockpit aim at the crew]] – if they come back to Manehattan with the dead gunners, and pilots spitting their guts out, they’ll think twice before sending [[WeHaveReserves another batch]] here.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Rotary engines losing cylinders in mid-air was a real issue of [[WorldWarOne WWI]] aircrafts.

* SchizoTech: The level of military technology resembles [[FirstWorldWar first]] and [[WorldWarTwo second]] world war, but there [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense was]] also a TV in Vinyl's room. The DJ's equipment is also mentioned.

* AscendedFanon: Purely coincidental, but the way celestial bodies appear together on the sky by the end of the chapter 1 is very similar to the [[Recap/PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 opening of Season 4]] which premiered after publication of the fanfic.

** Scrap Yard, a character introduced in chapter 7 occasionally lapses into [[AClockworkOrange nadsat.]]

** During the bar scene in chapter scene, a pony resembling TomWaits appears.

** WhatTheHellHero Lightning Dust, of all the ponies, refers to the line above, calling her "Rainbow 'aim at the crew' Dash".

** Also,[[spoiler: wounded]] Lightning Dust explaining that [[spoiler: she armed her bomb to not leave the duds some kid could find. Guess where her bombs land...]]

* TheBigGuy: Snowflake. To the point that he needed a custom armour.

->She [Vinyl] was just thinking about some things, which were important in her current state, like; who’d win the war, when they’d release her from the hotel, which wall would be the best to paint a picture of Octavia on it, and [[ADateWithRosiePalms if it was safe to use a chair’s leg to pleasure herself]].

->'''Twilight:''' There’s one potion. "It’s called ‘water,’ and you should drink it ''instead'' of alcohol.

* HarsherInHindsight: Rainbow Dash's dreams in [[spoiler: chapter 3]] after [[spoiler: we learn Lightning Dust accidentally drops the bombs on a group of foals in chapter 5]].

* TearJerker: several:
** [[spoiler: Heavily wounded Sweetie Belle calling her parents and sister, before her legs are amputated.]]
** [[spoiler: Fatally shot Fluttershy singing "The Scottish Lullaby".]]
** [[spoiler: Although Diamond Tiara is an AssholeVictim, the scene of Scootaloo and Twist dragging Silver Spoon away from her body is fairly tearjerking.]]

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Rotary engines losing cylinders in mid-air was a real issue of [[WWI]] aircrafts.

* Gorn: The view of [[spoiler: Scootaloo's class after being hit by a bomb]], especially [[spoiler: Diamond Tiara's]] death.

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