History Fanfic / ADream

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] that one ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' [[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} speedrunner]].

* AllJustADream: True to the story title, Valiant holds this opinion of what's happening for roughly one season. Once he realizes its all real is around the same time things start to get, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs weird]].

* AnythingThatMoves: Pinkie Pie has shown shades of this. Though she's mostly focused on [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]].

-->'''Valiant:''' Wow, for God's sake Braeburn, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] is harder to kidnap than you.

* AnyoneCanDie: Played with. While this series does have a very high bodycount, it mostly consists of characters with only one appearance in the show. The two key exceptions to this are [[spoiler: Twilight and Valiant,]] and even they came back eventually.
-->'''Discord:''' She's the main character, she can't die!
** The build up to the Season 7 finale had a lot more characters killed off, though since the season ended with the universe rebooting, most of these were undone.

* AsHimself: A number of celebrities have appeared in the story, with about half of these appearances [[DeathByCameo resulting in the death of the celebrity]].
** [[Creator/TheWachowskis Lana Wachowski]] was a regular character throughout season 7.

* BrainInAJar: When building Tin Mare Valiant literally just [[WetwareCPU hooked a robot up to a brain]]. Queue much panic from the Twilight as she tries to get him to say who's brain it was.

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13723/a-dream A Dream]]'' is a former self insert turned crackfic Human in Equestria story written by [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totallynotabrony]]. The story chronicles the adventures of human turned earth pony Plymouth Valiant, a [[PatrioticFervor patriotic]], [[TheEngineer robot building]], [[TheAlcoholic tequila growing]], sociopath. The story is taken on an episodic basis coinciding with episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', with Valiant's effects on the plot steadily increasing over the seasons. While in the earliest chapters the changes where minimal, just a few snarky comments here and there, things slowly escalated to the events of "Magical Mystery Cure" and beyond, where now some episodes only have a single reference to the original plot.

* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Tin Mare rates around 3, being very similar to a normal pony, if said pony spoke in MachineMonotone, could be uploaded into a [[IncrediblyLamePun hella-copter]] and was equipped with [[MoreDakka lots of guns]].

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Deliberately {{Invoked}} as when the protagonist is initially asked for his name, he starts trying to think of something cool. He comes up with Plymouth Valiant and decides he could've picked worse.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Plymouth Valiant. Deliberately {{Invoked}} as when he's first asked his name he starts trying to think of something cool. He decides he could've picked worse.

* OverlyPreparedGag: Refer to the ''Film/ForrestGump'' joke in the ComedicSociopathy entry. There was around three months of setup for that. Also the hella-copter pun below, which was being set up [[UpToEleven nearly half a year]]. Totallynotabrony loves the LongGame.

* UnroboticReveal: Turns out Tin Mare [[WasOnceAMan was once a pony]] named Merry May. Valiant turned her into an advanced {{AI}} using the power of WetwareCPU.

** [[spoiler: Quibble Pants]] tried to turn Coloratura into a cyborg in her sleep.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: As stated repeatedly, Valiant is a jerk, and his family isn't much better. The main reason we continue to root for them is just how CrazyAwesome everything they touch becomes.

-->'''Valiant:''' Wow, for God’s sake Braeburn, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] is harder to kidnap than you.\\

* CityOfWeirdos: Ponyville. Current residents include: a demon, a guy literally made from a Bible, someone who can turn into a dragon at will, someone who can turn into a Draconeques at will, someone who can make meat clones of herself, a couple of people from another world, and that's not even getting into the stuff that was already weird in canon. It's telling that Twilight being an alicorn is on the low-end of unusual around here.

!!A Dream contains examples of

* AGodAmI / AnswersToTheNameOfGod: After coming back from space Valiant claims to be God. And now after his [[spoiler: apparent death]] whenever someone says "Thank God" there is a booming "You're welcome" from the sky in Valiant's voice.

* AlternateUniverse: He travels to a few of these using a literal {{Macguffin}} rock.

* NoodleIncident: We never see exactly what happened in this story's version of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013'', but it left Sunset Shimmer [[BrokenBird broken]] for half of season 4.

** Valiant refers to Sunburst and Thorax as the [[{{Series/Batman}} ambiguously]] [[Series/SaturdayNightLive gay duo]].

** There was briefly a robot named [[{{Film/Terminator}} Twi-Minator]] running around.

** When Trixie, Sunset, Cordoba, and Daring are [[ItMakesSenseInContext surrounded by]] HarryPotter [[ItMakesSenseInContext cosplayers]], Trixie suggests shooting their way out. Cordoba points out that mass-murder of a bunch of unarmed kids would just make them seem like assholes. Instead they trash and loot the place!

* RedHerring: During the fight with [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant Godzilla with Ember inside it]], Twilight is convinced that the arrival of Cracker is foreshadowing something big. It's stated in the next sentence that it isn't. [[TrollingCreator Then again, it could still be important anyway.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Everyone. At multiple points in time. Most notably during the battles against both Tirek and the mindless army of crystal-meth ponies.