History Fanfic / FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons

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-->'''Mini:''' You're a good pony, Miss Blackjack.]]

* ApocalypticLog: All over the place, naturally.
* ArcWords: "Ante up"'. Also, to an extent, "Hoofington Rises".
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering:
-->'''P-21:''' Hey, Scotch. Are you pondering what I'm pondering?\\
'''Scotch:''' I think so, P-21, but where are we going to find a dozen rockets out here?

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The author refers to male ponies as bucks. 'Buck' is the term for a male deer or goat, but serves as a neater 'man' analogue than 'stallion'.
** Admittedly, this usage is inherited from the [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestria original fic]].

* TheBeastmaster: Brass, who commands a flock of manticores.
* BestialityIsDepraved: [[{{Squick}} Brass and her 'pets']].

* ItsAllMyFault: Various characters, particularly [[SamaritanSyndrome Blackjack]], have moments of this.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Blackjack uses this on [[spoiler: Minty Fresh.]]
** MutilationInterrogation: Via caged cannibal.
* JizzedInMyPants: Blackjack, thanks to an unexpectedly saucy memory orb.
-->'''Scotch Tape:''' Blackjack's been naughty!
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind:
** Blackjack performs one of these to [[spoiler: heal Lacunae.]]
** In Chapter 43, Blackjack [[spoiler: faces down her own self-destructive subconscious.]]
* KarmaHoudini: {{Invoked}} with Director Mephitis, the pony in charge of the Yellow River Internment Camp. He overloaded the camp with zebra [=POWs=] in order to request additional supplies from the Ministry of Peace, fenced said supplies for his own profit, and refused to set the prisoners free when the bombs fell, backstabbing a subordinate in the process. He then took his ill-gotten profits with him and fled to Thunderhead, and apparently never answered for his crimes.

-->'''Blackjack:'''[[spoiler: You mother fucker! You got away with it! You actually fucking got away with it!]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Trottenheimer's ''Folly''. The gun's ammunition contains concentrated taint, which contaminates the user whenever Folly is fired.]]

** Chapter 76: In the closest a written book can get to a full-on musical number (you know, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic like in that one show]] ), [[spoiler: Stygius proposes to Psychoshy in the middle of battle, and she's so happy she bursts out in song to bolster the resistance. "No one's happier than I", indeed]]. The author's notes even provide a WebSite/YouTube link to the song.
*** Then, after [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash the Legate shows up,]] she sings again to the whole valley with [[ThePowerOfRock "Rise,]] [[NearVictoryFanfare Hoofington,]] [[ThemeMusicPowerUp Rise".]]]]

* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler: Rampage performs one on Thorn. Blackjack disapproves.

* ImmuneToDrugs: Rampage, thanks to her healing factor, is blasé about addictions and side effects. She eats Mint-als like candy, and in one memorable incident encounters a drug selling robot and orders a dose of "everything". Barpony's HideousHangoverCure, however, promptly causes her to throw up.

* AtomicFBomb Deus' {{Catchphrase}}. To be precise, [[CountryMatters Atomic C-Bomb]].
--> '''Deus:''' Cuuuuuunnnnntttt!

* CatchPhrase: Blackjack has a few phrases she uses regularly.
--> "Security saves ponies."
--> "I'm not an executioner."
--> "I am not a clever pony."
--> "Ante up!"
** Sekashi: "That reminds me of a funny story..."

* NamedWeapons: [[HandCannon Trottenheimer's]] [[WaveMotionGun Folly]], [[GrenadeLauncher Persuasion]], [[AncestralWeapon Vigilance]], [[CoolGun Duty]] [[GunsAkimbo and]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter Sacrifice]].

** Rampage is strongly implied to be [[spoiler: a [[MindHive conglomeration]] of the souls of (at least) Twist, Officer Softheart, the 'Angel of Death', a nameless foal, a drug dealer named Razorwire, Shujaa, and Doctor Octopus [[Franchise/SpiderMan (No, not that one)]]]].

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Then [[OnlyMostlyDead gets]] [[WeCanRebuildHim better]].]]

*** TheLeader: Blackjack.
*** TheLancer: P-21.
*** TheSmartGuy: Lacunae serves this role with her wisdom and magical skill rather than technical expertise, since the stoic, intellectual P-21 is playing foil to Blackjack's IdiotHero.
*** TheBigGuy: Rampage.
*** TheChick[=/=]TheMedic: Glory.

* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Morning Glory frequently, most notably when [[spoiler: she is betrayed by the Enclave and branded a Dashite.]] Again later, when [[spoiler: she loses a wing.]]
** Yet again when [[spoiler: the killing joke turns her into Rainbow Dash—possibly even including a bit of her ''personality''—the one thing the Enclave hates more than a Dashite]].
** And ''again'' when [[spoiler: her mother is revealed to be the leader of a violent cult and a monstrous cyborg besides, revealing this by brutally wounding Sky Striker]].

** At the end of Chapter 9, Blackjack and co. have [[spoiler: killed Gorgon]] and freed an entire mine full of pony and zebra slaves. [[spoiler: Then Lancer appears, [[InTheBack shoots Blackjack in the spine]], and [[KillEmAll guns down every other zebra present.]]]]

* AttractiveBentGender: Doctor Morningstar, an Enclave scientist, is accidentally exposed to a sample of Killing Joke during the flight from Shadowbolt Towers, and goes from an elderly stallion to a young and [[DistractedByTheSexy incredibly distractingly attractive]] mare. Come his -- ''her'' -- settling with the Collegiate, and she has no interest in getting cured; she was bisexual in her previous incarnation anyway, and being young again is worth flipping genders. She even notes in chapter 63 that, having experienced fatherhood and grandfatherhood, she's actually excited by the idea of becoming a mom and seeing it from the other side.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: Blackjack is traumatised by being raped on the boat, but later has consensual sex with Stygius to reaffirm that sex can be good and enjoyable]].

* MainliningTheMonster: The ponies in the fireworks factory in Chapter 15 are [[spoiler:feeding unfortunate wastelanders to a mutated hydra to make the regenerative drug known as -- you guessed it -- Hydra]].

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: [[CrapsackWorld This is standard for the FO:E setting,]] but Hoofington takes it UpToEleven. The Core's [[DeathRay defenses]] will vaporise anypony who gets too close, and the ambient Enervation - unique to the Hoof - saps life, ruins healing potions and can outright ''liquefy'' injured flesh.

** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Psychoshy]] - essentially Discorded!Fluttershy taken UpToEleven.

** Taken UpToEleven by Vanity of the Marauders; he simultaneously wields dual assault rifles on a battle saddle and a pair of levitated [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]]. On one occasion, he levitates enough weapons to single-handedly hold a hallway against an attacking mob.

The Character sheet for [[Characters/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons is here]]. Due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters , it needs a lot of love.

* BackForTheFinale: For the final battle of Hoofington, literally every surviving character returns or at least cameos. And we mean all of them. With [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters easily 300 named participants]], that's no small feat. It even manages to dwarf [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Tarmon Gai'don]] in sheer scope.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There's an estimated 500 named characters in the story, with at least 150 background characters getting at least some form of depth and backstory. Among the major supporting cast, there's a shuffling rotation of about 50, all with character arcs and plot-important actions. [[spoiler:And every survivor the story can scrape together shows up for the final battle]].