History Fanfic / ALongNightAtTheHippodrome

* MixedAncestry: Piercing is half-onager, though he looks mostly unicorn.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Piercing is half-Onager, though he looks mostly Unicorn.

* {{Adorkable}}: Fleeter Hooves, the office assistant.
* [[MorningRoutine Afternoon Routine]]: Piercing wakes up in the afternoon, not the morning, because he does most of his work evenings and nights. The story starts when he wakes up the afternoon before the Summer Sun Celebration.

* RealityEnsues: Piercing doesn't look it, but he is a mule, both in the sense of ancestry and ''infertility''.

A ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' novella by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] about Piercing Gaze, a friend of Trixie's mentioned in Fanfic/AnExtendedPerformance, and taking place at the same time as that earlier tale. Piercing Gaze is the owner of the Baltimare Hippodrome, and expects to make a lot of money during the Summer Sun Celebration, the biggest party of the whole year. But when the Sun refuses to rise at dawn, Piercing Gaze may be the one pony who can keep the peace in the tension-torn port town.

** The Yehvist Onagers, to the Jews.
** The Onagers, to Semites in general.

** Baltimare, to Baltimore. There ''really is'' a theatre called "The Hippodrome" in Baltimore, and it was built by two impresarios, Pierce and Scheck, corresponding to Piercing Gaze and Russe Tinter in-story.

* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Piercing's opinion of Trixie, who was a virgin before (as he sees it) he seduced her. This signally did ''not'' double his fun, as her post-coital reaction is to [[spoiler:glare at him with loathing and run away. He hasn't seen her since]].

* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Piercing likes mares who are "willing and experienced enough to know what they want." Trixie was moderately willing (she was drunk at the time) but completely virginal. And now he's carrying a torch for her. Go figure.

* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Pony Hybrid]]: A non-monstrous example: Piercing is half-Onager, though he looks mostly Unicorn.

* [[MyGirlIsNotASlut My Mare Is Not A Slut]]: Piercing's opinion of Trixie, who was a virgin before (as he sees it) he seduced her. This signally did ''not'' double his fun, as her post-coital reaction is to [[spoiler:glare at him with loathing and run away. He hasn't seen her since]].

Begun in 2014.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Numerous ones in-story, many of them named as horse-themed puns, as is common in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.

A MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic novella by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] about Piercing Gaze, a friend of Trixie's mentioned in Fanfic/AnExtendedPerformance, and taking place at the same time as that earlier tale. Piercing Gaze is the owner of the Baltimare Hippodrome, and expects to make a lot of money during the Summer Sun Celebration, the biggest party of the whole year. But when the Sun refuses to rise at dawn, Piercing Gaze may be the one pony who can keep the peace in the tension-torn port town.

* [[MyGirlIsNotASlut My Mare Is Not A Slut]]: Piercing's opinion of Trixie, who was a virgin before he seduced her: he assumes that she hated him for taking her virginity before making any declaration of love. Mildly [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: one learns from Fanfic/AnExtendedPerformance that [[spoiler:''reason'' Trixie ran away afterward is that she's either almost [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] or is [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality afraid of her own sexuality]]. This is linked to her [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex inflated self-image]], and what she wound up ''really'' being upset about anyway was losing ''Piercing's friendship'' rather than her own virginity]]. The statement is however literally true, in that promiscuity is definitely ''not'' on the long list of Trixie's character flaws.

* [[Adorkable]]: Fleeter Hooves, the office assistant.

* ChivalrousPervert: Piercing Gaze is definitely lecherous, but he is only interested in mares who are "willing and experienced enough to know what they want." When he broke this rule, once, [[spoiler:he wrecked his growing and deep friendship with Trixie]].

* SassySecretary: Golden Quill, who is smart, indispensable to Piercing, and knows it.