History Fanfic / AVoiceAmongTheStrangers

* AffectionateNickname: Ebony dubs Jessica Legend, in honor to some legends of [[spoiler:how some creatures gave emotions (their food) freely to Changelings, just like Jessica was doing since their escape]]. Meanwhile, Rarity dubs her Mystery and later "Luna's Melody" in an attempt to dissuade ponies from calling her the Foal-Hunter.

* AffectionateNickname: Ebony dubs Jessica Legend, in honor to some legends of [[spoiler:how some creatures gave emotions (their food) freely to Changelings, just like Jessica was doing since their escape]].

* BrokenBird: Jessica considers herself one after bing caged like an animal for a week.

** [[spoiler:Jess and Ebony start naming the changelings. For a changeling to have a name given to them is a great honor: Ebony once was named by Queen Chrysalis with… Chrysalis. It should be noted that Jessica is a bit kinder to what she names them. Ebony… not so much.]]

--> '''Jessica, ''thinking''''': Beware my evil bosom. Oh, now that's just wrong on so many levels, Jess.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna will participate in the ongoing Pillow War ever so often.

The story is now complete, with a POVSequel, ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/128177/a-stranger-among-the-voices A Stranger Among the Voices]]'', told from the various Equestrians' points-of-view, now in-progress.

** Jessica and "Flitter"/[[spoiler:Fluttershy]] were able to bond after an incident with a squirrel.

* SpoilerTitle: Chapter 8, ''Homecoming''. [[spoiler: Subverted- it's a homecoming for Starswirl the Bearded, whose spirit had been trapped within the book Jessica found for centuries, as part of a desperate plan to get back home from Earth.]]

--> '''Jessica, ''thinking''''': Beware my evil bosom, oh… now that's just wrong on so many levels, Jess.

--> '''Jessica''', ''thinking'': Beware my evil bosom, oh… now that's just wrong on so many levels, Jess.

* TranslationPunctuation: Equestrian words Jessica learns to understand or speak are wrapped in brackets, as are certain words that the Equestrians pick up from Jessica, such as Ebony.

--> '''Jessica''', ''thinking'': Beware my evil bosom… okay, that is just wrong. %%Check quote

* TranslationPunctuation: Equestrian words she understands or speaks are wrapped in brackets.

* FromBadToWorse: {{Discussed|Trope}} right before Twilight says "[[TemptingFate How can this day get any worse?]]" in the beginning of chapter 4.

* FromBadToWorse: {{Discussed|Trope}} right before Twilight says "[[TemptingFate How can this day get any worse?]]" in a [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/128177/a-stranger-among-the-voices#comment/3392354 chapter preview snippet]].

--> '''Jessica''', ''thinking'': Beware my evil bosom… okay, that is just wrong.

** [[spoiler:Jess and Ebony start naming the changelings. For a changeling to have a name given to them is a great honor: Ebony once was named by Queen Chrysalys with… Chrysalis. It should be noted that Jessica is a bit kinder to what she names them. Ebony… not so much.]]

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Jessica gets hit hard when her time of the month comes while she's in Equestria. This is {{justified|Trope}} by multiple issues going on with her: [[spoiler: she has just learned that the means used to get her to Equestria was left behind, her menstruating brings up the fact that, since she's the only human there, she can't have children and thus fulfill her promise to her mother of handing down her bracelets to a daughter she would have. This causes her to try to literally outrun her problems. She ends up exhausted and punches the first thing that tries to help her: Iron Will.]] She also mentions cramping.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Entirely averted; the language gulf between human and ponies is a main driver of the story. Only after half a dozen chapters does Jessica learn more than a handful of words in the pony language.

* BreakTheCutie: Jessica's first ponies she meets are a couple of unicorn brothers who are running monster horror show. They added her to the monster roster, treating her poorly. This left her with a fear of unicorns and their magic, and a general distrust of ponies.

-->'''Flam''': Flim… an idea occurs to me. What exactly do we know about the beast?
-->'''Flim''': Other than the obvious we already discussed, there were several rumours we heard. Its shoulder was injured when fleeing from the authorities, it stands between ten hooves or thirty seven hooves, it has scales, it has fur, and it has feathers. Then there are the ponies who said it had fangs, or a tail, or wings, or…
-->'''Flam''': You see Flim, no-pony could agree on what it looked like. Who is to say what we have back there is not the Foal-Hunter?
-->'''Flim''': Brother of mine, you always did have the brains of the family. So by the process of elimination, this must be the Foal-Hunter… I am not quite sure why it looks that way or why it wears clothing, but that’s how monsters work.

** [[spoiler:Jess and Ebony start naming the changelings. For a changeling to have a name given to them is a great honor: Ebony once was named by Queen Chrysalys with… Chrysalys.]]

* TrollingCreator: Througout ''A Voice Among The Srangers''' writing, Tystarr would remain on the fence on some things, give out {{red herring}}s, or gave things out of context.

* FromBadToWorse: {{Discussed|Trope}} right before Twilight says "[[TemptingFate How can this day get any worse?]]" in a [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/128177/a-stranger-among-the-voices#comment/3392354 preview chapter snippet]].

* NoodleIncident: Apparently there was an incident with "…Luna, Celestia’s pet phoenix Philomena, and several pairs of newly charred socks…"

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Starswirl's book was left behind, meaning that some other hapless human might end up in Equestria.]]

* TrollingCreator: Througout ''A Voice Among The Srangers''' writing, Tystarr would remain on the fence on some things, give out {{red herring}}s, or give things out of context.

* HeroicBSOD: Jessica when she learns why she arrived in Equestria and [[spoiler:her biggest on only clue to get back to Earth is Star Swirl's book, which is still on Earth]].

** Later it's revealed that was a subversion: they meant it as, since there are no consistent accounts of the Foal-Hunter, nopony is going to challenge Jessica being such creature. Any strange or sapient behavior can be explained as being part of the show.

* {{Calvinball}}: Jessica joins in a ball game with the ponies, and utterly fails to figure out what the rules are, and even loses track of who is on what team.

* ObliviouslyEvil: The Flim Flam brothers were unaware of Jessica's sapience when they captured her, though they later seem to ignore several obvious signs of it.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Unicorns?]]: Jessica's reaction to Doctor Carehoof, an adult male unicorn like the Flim Flam brothers. Dinky doesn't trigger the same reaction from her, though, and she manages to get over it thanks to interaction with Twilight over the course of the chapter.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Unicorns]]: Jessica's reaction to Doctor Carehoof, an adult male unicorn like the Flim Flam brothers. Dinky doesn't trigger the same reaction from her, though, and she manages to get over it thanks to interaction with Twilight over the course of the chapter.

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Jessica gets hit hard when her time of the month comes while she's in Equestria. This is {{justified|Trope}} by multiple issues going on with her: [[spoiler: she has just learned that the means used to get her to Equestria was left behind, her menstruating brings up the fact that, since she's the only human there, she can't have children and thus fulfill her promise to her mother of handing down her bracelets to a daughter she would have. This causes her to try to literally outrun her problems. She ends up exhausted and punches the first thing that tries to help her: Iron Will.]]

* HowDoIUsedTense: As befits someone learning an entirely new language from the ground floor, Jessica runs into this issue while learning the ponies' language.

* AppropriatedAppellation: Ebony comes to prefer Jessica's nickname for her over her Changeling name.

** Ebony as well, who dubs Jessica "Legend" after their escape.