History FanFic / SongsOfTheSpheres

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: [[videogame/halflife The Combine]] are StrawNihilist conquerors who own a large chunk of the E-Sphere.

''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/382944/songs-of-the-spheres Songs Of The Spheres]]'' is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover between more than 20 different franchises written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/275276/GMBlackjack GMBlackjack]]

* AuthorPowers: Powerful prophets such as creator/StephanKing, creator/AndrewHussie and GMBlackjack himself are some of the most powerful beings in the multiverse.

The multiverse exists and contains 10 quintillion universes. Some containing and inhabited by [[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit Type V civilizations]], others inhabited by denizens much, much lower on the scale than that. The story focuses on a particular group of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies led by Twilight Sparkle]], who after finding a black sphere with the power to travel to other universes discovers the multiverse and all the good (and bad) that comes with it. She had no idea what would happen over the coming years

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!!Accessing the Directory... Central Access granted:
* TheAlliance: Well, the Alliance is this for the protagonists

* AnyoneCanDie: Oh yes. Over the course of the story, several characters with screentime bite the dust, including most notably [[spoiler:Twilight in Chapter 34]] but also [[spoiler:Sparky, Princess Celestia, Aang, Queen Luna of Lai and Joseph Joestar.]]

* ApocalypseHow: Class X-3 happens to several of the original worlds, [[spoiler:including Equis Vitis, courtesy of the University of Doors.]] [[spoiler:It gets reversed later]].

* ArcVillain: Ba'al serves as one for Arc 1. Then Majora takes over for Arc 2 and [[spoiler:the University of Doors for arc 3]]. [[spoiler:Brutalight and Sirion becomes this in duo for Arc 4]]

* AudienceParticipation: Sombra's Clipshow (057) is a chapter that is mostly written by the readers and editors, rather than the author
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:For a crossover that involves Avatar: The Last Airbender, it is a given. When Aang falls at the Bloodbath in 052, Corea is born with the avatar spirit. It symbolizes the birth of the Merodi, even if the Bloodbath hit it hard]]

* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Flutterfree]] dies in 055. [[spoiler:She returns just fine. Subverted when someone ComesBackWrong though]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: Set to become one, as it is already at over 500,000 words and planned to be much longer.

* {{Eagleland}}: The United States of the Multiverse is a dead ringer for a type 2

** Chapter 47, which covers [[spoiler: the temporary capture of the protagonists by the Wiki/SCPFoundation]], consists entirely of [[spoiler: a Foundation article.]]

* ReferenceOverdosed: Oh god yes. There's references to WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft, VideoGame/{{Frostpunk}}, and many, many more

* ShowWithinAShow: In a meta-sense, Sombra’s Clipshow. In a more story-sense, the various copies of Star Trek, My Little Pony and other shows that exist within the multiverse

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pinkie gives a particularly brutal one to [[spoiler: the Wiki/SCPFoundation]] at the end of Chapter 47.

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But we’ve left, and I don’t think we’ll be coming back. Why? [[TakeThat Because you were horrible. You treated us like objects, as little things for your hands to play with, to see what it did. Some of you genuinely thought we needed to be contained, but the rest? You just had to scratch that itch in your mind.]] Had we stayed much longer, you would have traumatized us. As it is, you merely angered us. Angered some of us to the point of wanting to kill you.]]\\
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* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: This is basically what ''ka'' runs on...People with the abilities of a Prophet can manipulate this. Some better than others
* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: [[spoiler:050, The trial of the Gem Vein. Justified, as it is a special court convened solely for the purpose of that trial]]

* TimeSkip: Happens between arcs and also in arcs. By this point, more than a decade has passed since the first chapter.]]

* YourMagicIsNoGoodHere: Universes without magic (or spirit for that matter) do exist.

** Chapter 47, which covers [[the temporary capture of the protagonists by the Wiki/SCPFoundation]], consists entirely of [[spoiler: a Foundation article.]]

* MeaningfulRename: In order to distinguish themselves from other versions of themselves, parts of the main cast take other names. eg. Starlight Glimmer -> [[spoiler:Nova]] and [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer -> Corona]]. It is also used when something very impactful happens, like in [[spoiler:034]].

* TheFederation: [[spoilerAfter 052 and the Bloodbath the Alliance becomes this in the form of the Merodi Universalis]]

* PhyrricVictory: [[spoiler:While Sirion and Brutalight are beaten back at the Bloodbath it comes at a ‘'very heavy’’ cost: Celestia, Queen Luna, Aang and many, many other fall in the Hub. Cosmo is reduced to a crystal skeleton too.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Oh yes. Over the course of the story, several characters with screentime bite the dust, including most notably [[spoiler:Twilight in Chapter 34]].

* PortalCrossroadWorld: Several of these exist, the Dark Tower beign the largest and the main one for the Alliance being the Hub.

* TimeSkip: Happens between arcs and also in arcs. By this point, more than a decade has passed since the first chapter.

* ThereisNoHigherCourt: [[spoiler:050, The trial of the Gem Vein. Justified, as it is a special court convened solely for the purpose of that trial]]

* PortalCrossroadWorld: Several of these exist, the main one for the Alliance being the Hub.

* ArcVillain: Ba'al serves as one for Arc 1. Then Majora takes over for Arc 2 and [[spoiler:the University of Doors for arc 3]].

Spoilers before the beginning of Arc 3 is unmarked. Proceed at your own risk

** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/369593/the-influence The Influence]] counts too, serving as the backstory for Vriska and [[spoiler:Twilence]]

* ExactWords: [[spoiler: ''Twilight'' will not outlive her friends]]
* FirstPersonPerspective: Shows up whenever [[spoiler:Twilence]] appears

* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: This is what kicks off the plot. The Black Sphere is what first enables the ponies to travel to other worlds

* MeaningfulRename: In order to distinguish themselves from other versions of themselves, parts of the main cast take other names. eg. Starlight Glimmer -> [[spoiler:Nova]] and [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer -> Corona]]. It is also used when something very impactful happens, like in [[spoiler:034]]

* MindOverMatter: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' unicorns have telekinesis.

* {{Teleportation}}: One of the spells ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' unicorns can do.

* Doppelganger: All too common with the more common universes like Equis and Earths.

* AlliterativeName: '''Pi'''nkie '''Pi'''e

* AnyoneCanDie: Oh yes. Over the course of the story, several characters with screentime bite the dust, including most notably [[spoiler:Twilight in Chapter 34]] .
* ApocalypseHow: Class X-3 happens to several of the original worlds, [[spoiler: including Equis Vitis, courtesy of the University of Doors.]] [[spoiler: It gets reversed later]].
** A major Class X-4 befalls a [[spoiler: mirror universe of Equis Vitis in Chapter 34, taking with it Twilight and the population of that universe, leaving Twilight-X to carry on as Evening Sparkle]].

* ArcVillain: Ba'al serves as one for Arc 1. Then Majora takes over for Arc 2 and [[spoiler: the University of Doors for arc 3]].

* Doppelganger: All too common with the more common universes like Equis and Earths

* MeaningfulRename: In order to distinguish themselves from other versions of themselves, parts of the main cast take other names. eg. Starlight Glimmer -> [[spoiler:Nova]] and [[spoiler: Sunset Shimmer -> Corona]]. It is also used when something very impactful happens, like in [[spoiler: 034]]

* ReferenceOverdosed: Oh god yes. There's references to [[{{WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft}} Friendship is Witchcraft]], [[{{VideoGame/FrostPunk}} Frostpunk]], and many, many more

* TheMultiverse
* WhamEpisode: Chapter [[spoiler: 034. Twilence shows up, the Multiverse is even more bendable than first thought and to top it all off, Twilight dies and a new Twilight, Eve, takes her place]].

* Doppelganger: All too common with the more common universes like Equis and Earth's

* MeaningfulRename: In order to distinguish themselves from other versions of themselves, parts of the main cast take other names. eg. Starlight Glimmer -> [[spoiler:Nova]] and [[spoiler: Sunset Shimmer -> Corona]].

* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Majora seeks to either exterminate or corrupt life in the universe and eventually in the multiverse]].

Spoilers before Arc 2 is unmarked. Proceed at your own risk