History Fanfic / FaithAndDoubt

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: The original Doubt revealing that she is no longer an abstract, because she's the reason all of the chaos hasn't awoken Discord: she stole his power to become the new spirit of chaos.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth.]]

* AlternateEnding: From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]].

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/61489/the-abundance The Abundance]]'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', has been released, and deals with the hidden origins of Equestria and the idea that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Faith and Doubt is followed by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/61489/the-abundance ''The Abundance'']], which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is finally set to be released July 26th, 2017 and deals with the hidden origins of Equestria and the idea "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is finally set to be released July 26th, 2017 and deals with the hidden origins of Equestria and the idea "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

** In ''The Abundance'': [[spoiler:Three years after the war, Equestria is entering a new age of prosperity. However, Celestia and Luna's father returns, bringing news the an apparent precursor race that used to rule Equestria is returning.]]

* TheScrappy: Invoked: the author openly stated in the beginning that she considers Shining Armor getting away with his OutOfCharacter behavior in part 1 of the season finale, even with the brainwashing, was an "injustice", and openly criticized [=DarkLink22=] for "going easy" on him in ''Post Nuptials''. She has since mellowed out, but its still evident Shining has a ''long'' way to go in her eyes.

* WhatAnIdiot: After Twilight escapes from the hospital, Luna specifically warns the others not to approach her when they find her, lest they make things worse. Two chapters later and not only does Rainbow Dash do exactly that, she goes out of her way to provoke her and start a fight. She finds out very quickly that this was a big mistake.

* CainAndAbel: Twilight in Chapter 2 attacks her brother, Shining Armor, at the wedding, because he leaves her at the rehearsal.

** [[spoiler: Faith, in ''The Abundance'', is even more of a chessmaster, manipulating characters to get his way. WordOfGod has stated the story is a massive chess came pitting Twilight and Faith against the first Doubt]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: Twilight becomes one for [[spoiler:Faith]]. She takes it badly when he runs off without telling her and returns with Trixie acting at his beck and call, and their decision to [[spoiler:destroy Cloudsdale together with Loyalty]] without consulting her only makes things worse between them. It takes [[WhatTheHellHero a harsh wake-up call]] from Shining Armor to snap her out of it.

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Subverted. Doubt does attach himself to ponies and nudge them to be angrier and less faithful, but he is actively repulsed by the idea of actually controlling them and considers himself a second-in-command.]]

* EnemyWithin: The voice that speaks to Twilight. It's a familiar one to Luna, too.

* Epigraph: Every chapter begins with a famous quote from another work, save for the final chapter of The Abundance which quote's Faith from the first volume.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Chapter 2 is one for New!Twilight.

* EtTuBrute: Twilight at the beginning sees herself as the victim of this when all her friends walk out on her for accusing Cadence as evil. Hammered home when she decides to embrace her dark powers and proves her friends how right she was.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Chysalis' poor performance as Cadance was due to Cadance intentionally acting that way when caught, in hopes that her poor performance would clue somepony in. The fact that Celestia misses this is a sure sign as to how much of a blind spot she has for her family's bad behavior.

* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: When Celestia, Luna and the rest of the Mane 6 burst in to stop Twilight after she transforms into a [[spoiler: dark alicorn]], Twilight pleads with them to not to hurt her and her friends, quite violently, slam her into a wall.
** This causes [[spoiler: Doubt]], who was pulling all the strings, to appear. He proceeds to LIVE by this trope, treating the heroes with respect even as they accuse him of being the Antichrist.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Doubt]] gives a lot of these.
-->"You know...normally I'd enjoy dissecting your emotions like a frog and rebuilding you into a more polite pony but even immortals have time limits."
** [[spoiler:Doubt turns Twilight into an alicorn.]] Luna, [[spoiler:who realizes Doubt is the same voice that she heard when she was Nightmare Moon]], calls him out and declares him a liar and a monster. With utter calmness, [[spoiler:Doubt]] rips her apart.

* TheScrappy: Invoked. The author openly stated in the beginning that she considers Shining Armor getting away with his OutOfCharacter behavior in part 1 of the season finale, even with the brainwashing, was an "injustice", and openly criticized [=DarkLink22=] for "going easy" on him in ''Post Nuptials''. She has since mellowed out, but its still evident Shining has a ''long'' way to go in her eyes.

* ShoutOut: "[[Film/IronMan2 Put on a good beat for me to kick my friend's ass to.]]"
** By the way, said beat was "[[Music/MichaelJackson Beat It]]".

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Doubt, and he's attracted to Twilight because of this.

* Main/Epigraph: Every chapter begins with a famous quote from another work, save for the final chapter of The Abundance which quote's Faith from the first volume.

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is finally set to be released July 26th, 2017.

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is in the works with a 'teaser trailer' released in June 2013 stating it is coming 'Later this Year'. Three years later, and the fic is "on hold".

Faith and Doubt is followed by ''The Abundance'', which deals with the aftermath of the first story and shows the dark side to harmony. A third volume in the series, ''The Should-Have-Been King'', is in the works with a 'teaser trailer' released in June stating it is coming 'Later this Year'

** Twilight gives one to [[spoiler: Rainbow Dash]] in Chapter 8, [[spoiler:and again to her Abstract-Possessed self in ''The Abundance'', which leads to a HeelFaceTurn on Rainbow's part.]]

* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: Faith and Trixie at the end of ''The Abundance.'']]

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:The Original Doubt]] in ''The Abundance.''

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Amicae?]]: Twilight at the beginning sees herself as the victim of this when all her friends walk out on her for accusing Cadence as evil. Hammered home when she decides to embrace her dark powers and proves her friends how right she was.

* [[GodInHumanForm God in Pony Form]]: In ''The Abundance'', [[spoiler:Scootaloo, Trixie, and Pinkie become the new Abstracts of Loyalty, Doubt, and Generosity, respectfully. Discord also become the new Abstract of Laughter, which is actually a step up from his former self in his eyes.]]

* HannibalHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Doubt]] tends to give reasonable advice and points out the flaws in the other characters that they themselves admit they have.

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Generosity at the end of ''The Abundance.'']]

* [[spoiler: NoAntagonist: In the first story. The closest thing we have it Doubt, and he has barely any villainous traits and legitimate reason to be pissed at Celestia.]]

* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: By Abundance Spike has Full Control over his growth.]]

* VillainBall: Chrysalis doesn't carry this, and leaves Twilight to her own devices. This ends up including black magic, which is used when Twilight confronts the queen. Let's say that perhaps the canon ending was a better one for the changelings.

* CryForTheDevil: [[invoked]]Everypony at the wedding does this when [[spoiler: Twilight pumps "hate poison" into Queen Chrysalis.]]

* CryForTheDevil: Everyone at the wedding, when [[spoiler: Twilight pumps "hate poison" into Queen Chrysalis.]]

[[spoiler: Deconstructed with Queen!Fluttershy. Queen Fluttershy, being Kindness, she is naturally polite and kind, and doesn't purposefully cause harm to ponies. However, as Trixie points out, she can only be this way since the other Elements of Harmony are committing their atrocities in the name of Harmony, which to Trixie makes her the worst of all, since she is aware of the horrors her friends are committing, but chooses to let it happen.]]

* {{Jossed}}: It was assumed by 99% of the fans that Pinkie would become the new Element of Laughter after Laughter's death. [[spoiler: Pinkie ended up the new Element of Generosity and Discord become the Element of Laughter, fulfilling his desire to become an abstract]]