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* FateWorseThanDeath: It is strongly implied that if [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] had been captured by [[spoiler:the Changelings]], or even listened to [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] for much longer, she would have become [[spoiler:the Queen's]] eternal thrall, serving her as [[spoiler:an [[TheMole Infiltrator]] all the more effective because she her true form ''is'' that of a pegasus mare]].

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* FateWorseThanDeath: It is strongly implied that if [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] had been captured by [[spoiler:the Changelings]], or even listened to [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] for much longer, she would have become [[spoiler:the Queen's]] eternal thrall, serving her as [[spoiler:an [[TheMole Infiltrator]] all the more effective because she her true form ''is'' that of a pegasus mare]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: It is strongly implied that if [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] had been captured by [[spoiler:the Changelings]], or even listened to [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] for much longer, she would have become [[spoiler:the Queen's]] eternal thrall, serving her as [[spoiler:an [[TheMole Infiltrator]] all the more effective because she her true form ''is'' that of a pegasus mare]].
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* SanitySlippage: Happens to two characters in the tale:
** Fluttershy's mother was implied to be crazy before, but she goes madder after [[spoiler:she mates with a Changeling and has Fluttershy, her half-Changeling daughter]]. Eventually, she is institutionalized.
** Fluttershy herself almost goes completely insane when she hears [[spoiler:the inhuman voices of the Changelings in their true forms]] and, what is worse [[spoiler:realizes that she ''understands'' them, because she is ''[[TomatoInTheMirror one of them]] herself'']]
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* HeroicResolve: [[Fluttershy's]] will to live free is strong enough to enable her to overcome the genetic dominance of [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] and make a desperate -- and successful -- flight for freedom.

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* HeroicResolve: [[Fluttershy's]] [[spoiler:Fluttershy's]] will to live free is strong enough to enable her to overcome the genetic dominance of [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] and make a desperate -- and successful -- flight for freedom.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:Chrysalis. Fluttershy]] only ever ''hears'' her, and is nearly enthralled by her voice alone. But then, [[spoiler:Fluttershy's father came from that Hive, and obedience to Chrysalis is embedded in her soul]].
* HeroicResolve: [[Fluttershy's]] will to live free is strong enough to enable her to overcome the genetic dominance of [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] and make a desperate -- and successful -- flight for freedom.
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* TimeAbyss: The ring of menhirs on the hill [[spoiler:just outside Hive Chrysalis]]. It has been there for well over four millennia -- it ''may'' predate the coming of The Megan.
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* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's mother]] goes seeking Flutter-ponies. She ''finds'' [[spoiler:Changelings]].
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* [[MadeFromRealGirlScouts Made From Real Filly Scouts]]: Fluttershy's statement, which she makes twice:
-->'''Fluttershy''': I ''need'' love.
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** [[spoiler: [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Changeling Fluttershy, who has the emotional powers of her father's kind]].

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** [[spoiler: [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Changeling Half-Changeling]] Fluttershy, who has the emotional powers of her father's kind]].
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* [[EmotionEater Emotion Eaters]]: Two related examples.
** The Changelings, as in canon.
** [[spoiler: [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Changeling Fluttershy, who has the emotional powers of her father's kind]].
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* [[RemittanceMan Remittance Mare]]: Fluttershy. She comes of the oldest Pegasus lineage, her family is ashamed of her, she lives apart from them, and she never seems short of money.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis. Though she never actually ''attacks'' Fluttershy. Her threat is more to Fluttershy's identity and personal freedom.]]
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-->The dry earth crunched under her feet. The desert wind whispered lonely through the time-eaten stones. Had they really stood here, been waiting here already when Equestria was founded, when the Pegasi migrated under the leadership of her illustrious ancestor, waited grinning and forlorn here back when the Cataclysm shook the Earth and the Age of Wonders vanished forever? Could they have been many millennia old, even then? Surely, nothing reared by Pony hooves was <i>that</i> old, was it?

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-->The dry earth crunched under her feet. The desert wind whispered lonely through the time-eaten stones. Had they really stood here, been waiting here already when Equestria was founded, when the Pegasi migrated under the leadership of her illustrious ancestor, waited grinning and forlorn here back when the Cataclysm shook the Earth and the Age of Wonders vanished forever? Could they have been many millennia old, even then? Surely, nothing reared by Pony hooves was <i>that</i> ''that'' old, was it?

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* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:Hive Chrysalis]], located in a tunnel-riddled mesa near a menhir-crowned hill deep in the Palomino Desert. The hill is a good place to [[spoiler:contact Changelings]], and it is hinted that they keep watch on the hill for just this reason.

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* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:Hive Chrysalis]], located in a tunnel-riddled mesa near a menhir-crowned hill deep in the Palomino Desert. The hill is a good place to [[spoiler:contact Changelings]], and it is hinted that they keep watch on the hill for just this reason. Here's a description of the place:
-->Surely not the menhir-crowned hill, surely not the cave-riddled mesa, leering out over the landscape like a maggot-eaten corpse. There was a strange sense of unreality in Fluttershy's mind as she landed on the hill, as if she had left the sane normality of Cloudsdale and Ponyville, indeed of all Equestria, behind her, and entered some nightmare realm in which the fantasies of delirium were as one with the realities of the sunlit day.
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-->The dry earth crunched under her feet. The desert wind whispered lonely through the time-eaten stones. Had they really stood here, been waiting here already when Equestria was founded, when the Pegasi migrated under the leadership of her illustrious ancestor, waited grinning and forlorn here back when the Cataclysm shook the Earth and the Age of Wonders vanished forever? Could they have been many millennia old, even then? Surely, nothing reared by Pony hooves was <i>that</i> old, was it?
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* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:Hive Chrysalis]], located in a tunnel-riddled mesa near a menhir-crowned hill deep in the Palomino Desert. The hill is a good place to [[spoiler:contact Changelings]], and it is hinted that they keep watch on the hill for just this reason.
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* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:Fluttershy was sired by a Changeling, and has their [[TheEmpath empathic]] and [[EmotionEater emotivoric]] abilities]].
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Fluttershy makes the mistake of telling her foalhood friend [[BoisterousBruiser Rainbow Dash]] that [[spoiler:Fluttershy herself was sired by a Changeling]] by introducing it as the ravings of her [[UnreliableNarrator paranoid mother]]. Given that Fluttershy does not in any way look like [[spoiler:the mythical flying creature the Pegasi know as "buzzies"]] and generally take about as seriously as we do UFO sightings, Rainbow Dash simply assumes that Fluttershy has gone a bit crazy under the stress of being the [[UnfavoriteSon unfavorite daughter]] in a [[BigScrewedUpFamily dysfunctional family]]. At this point, Fluttershy gives up trying to tell Rainbow Dash the truth. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as in canon Fluttershy is normally a [[ShrinkingViolet ''very'' poor communicator]].

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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Fluttershy makes the mistake of telling her foalhood friend [[BoisterousBruiser Rainbow Dash]] that [[spoiler:Fluttershy herself was sired by a Changeling]] by introducing it as the ravings of her [[UnreliableNarrator paranoid mother]]. Given that Fluttershy does not in any way look like [[spoiler:the mythical flying creature the Pegasi know as "buzzies"]] and generally take about as seriously as we do UFO sightings, Rainbow Dash simply assumes that Fluttershy has gone a bit crazy under the stress of being the [[UnfavoriteSon [[TheUnfavorite unfavorite daughter]] in member]] of a [[BigScrewedUpFamily dysfunctional family]]. At this point, Fluttershy gives up trying to tell Rainbow Dash the truth. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as in canon Fluttershy is normally a [[ShrinkingViolet ''very'' poor communicator]].
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Fluttershy makes the mistake of telling her foalhood friend [[BoisterousBruiser Rainbow Dash]] that [[spoiler:Fluttershy herself was sired by a Changeling]] by introducing it as the ravings of her [[UnreliableNarrator paranoid mother]]. Given that Fluttershy does not in any way look like [[spoiler:the mythical flying creature the Pegasi know as "buzzies"]] and generally take about as seriously as we do UFO sightings, Rainbow Dash simply assumes that Fluttershy has gone a bit crazy under the stress of being the [[UnfavoriteSon unfavorite daughter]] in a [[BigScrewedUpFamily dysfunctional family]]. At this point, Fluttershy gives up trying to tell Rainbow Dash the truth. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as in canon Fluttershy is normally a [[ShrinkingViolet ''very'' poor communicator]].
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rainbow Dash, when she attempts "friendship" psychotherapy to cure Fluttershy of [[spoiler:"delusion" that she is of half-monstrous origin]]. She totally misses that [[spoiler:Fluttershy ''lies'' to her the morning after her revelations.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rainbow Dash, when she attempts "friendship" psychotherapy to cure Fluttershy of [[spoiler:"delusion" that she is of half-monstrous origin]]. She totally misses that [[spoiler:Fluttershy ''lies'' to her the morning after her revelations.revelations, because 'Shy now assumes that RD won't believe anything she says about part-Changeling.]]
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* [[NonHumanLoverReveal Non-Equine Lover Reveal]]: What happens to [[spoiler:Fluttershy's mother]], when she wakes up just a bit too soon and discovers she's lain with a [[spoiler:Changeling]].
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* MeaningfulName: Fluttershy. Because her mother thought she was [[spoiler:half Flutter-pony]].
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* ShrinkingViolet: Fluttershy. The reason she chooses to have her conversation with [[BoisterousBruiser Rainbow Dash]], of all ponies, is that Rainbow Dash is one of the few ponies in the world with whom she's ''not'' that shy (because they're foalhood friends).
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* BoisterousBruiser: Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately for Fluttershy, as she really needed to talk to GuileHero / ScienceHero Twilight Sparkle.

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* BoisterousBruiser: Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately for Fluttershy, as she really needed to talk to GuileHero / ScienceHero a GuileHero, such as Rarity; or ScienceHero, such as Twilight Sparkle.
Sparkle. Alas, Fluttershy ''chose'' to open to her oldest friend, who has all the guile and mystical knowledge of a lightning bolt.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rainbow Dash, when she attempts "friendship" psychotherapy to cure Fluttershy of [[spoiler:"delusion" that she is of half-monstrous origin]]. She totally misses that [[spoiler:Fluttershy ''lies'' to her the morning after her revelations.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately for Fluttershy, as she really needed to talk to GuileHero / ScienceHero Twilight Sparkle.
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[[HumanoidAbomination Equinoid Abominations]]: [[spoiler:The Changelings]].

GothicHorror: Fluttershy comes from a very old and messed-up family, check. [[spoiler:her past hides a DarkSecret, check]]. Smells like Gothic Horror to me ...

[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's real father was a Changeling]].

PunBasedTitle: The chapters are named after the four main stages in the life cycle of a butterfly. The third chapter is "Chrysalis." [[spoiler:Which is also the name of the story's BigBad]].

SliceOfLife: Save in the flashback, the story is this.

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* [[HumanoidAbomination Equinoid Abominations]]: [[spoiler:The Changelings]].

* GothicHorror: Fluttershy comes from a very old and messed-up family, check. [[spoiler:her past hides a DarkSecret, check]]. Smells like Gothic Horror to me ...

* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's real father was a Changeling]].

* PunBasedTitle: The chapters are named after the four main stages in the life cycle of a butterfly. The third chapter is "Chrysalis." [[spoiler:Which is also the name of the story's BigBad]].

* SliceOfLife: Save in the flashback, the story is this.
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[[HumanoidAbomination Equinoid Abominations]]: [[spoiler:The Changelings]].


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[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's real father was a Changeling]].

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GothicHorror: Fluttershy comes from a very old and messed-up family, check. [[spoiler:her past hides a DarkSecret, check]]. Smells like Gothic Horror to me ...

[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's real father was a Changeling]].Changeling]].

SliceOfLife: Save in the flashback, the story is this.
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A WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] in 2014

Set at the same time as "Call of the Cutie," it is about Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, and their camping trip to observe a butterfly migration. In the course of that trip, Fluttershy relates some disturbing things about her heritage.

Available [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/160086/fluttershy-is-free here]].

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[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: [[spoiler:Fluttershy's real father was a Changeling]].

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