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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/353584/intriguing Intriguing]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic by Purple Patch and in Fanfic/TheRejuvenationverse.
After the events of ''You Shall Go To The Gala'', Countess Glass has been forced to leave Derpy alone, but that doesn't mean she and Cascadius can't plan and prepare for their next move. Meanwhile, Fancy Pants and Fleur have fallen in love, a dangerous occupation when one of you is a powerful politician, and the other has made an enemy of Nitpick Glass.
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!!This story contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Several of them develop from the models and photography crew, including Fleur.
* ALadyOnEachArm: How Blueblood enters the story.
* AmazonBrigade: [[spoiler:Photo Finish's fashion crew, after Fleur and Fancy Pants are attacked]].
* {{Ambadassador}}: Apparently Fancy was one in his youth.
* AssShove: Cumbersome gets a red-hot poker, courtesy of [[spoiler: Tinny, and an [[BrickJoke earlier conversation]] about how they 'Do not like it up em']]
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: A major component of the plot for the second act, as the Glasses attempt to smear Fancy Pants.
* AttemptedRape: Nitpick attempted to sexually assault Fleur in the theatre where she worked. [[spoiler:After she becomes Fancy Pant's marefriend (and thus in the same social circles as Nitpick), he tries again. Fortunately, Fancy Pants is able to intervene)]].
* BadassCrew: [[spoiler:The staff of Briefly Manor repel an attack lead by Sir Cumbersome]].
* BadassInANiceSuit: Fancy Pants. Master duelist, impeccably dressed.
* BadassInDistress: Fancy Pants for most of the last act.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times by several characters. First by Fancy Pants when [[spoiler:Nitpick attempts to rape Fleur again]]. Later [[spoiler: Carcassonne rescues Fleur, using her shields]] to give them time to OutrunTheFireball, and after they're cornered again [[spoiler:Cadence and the 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon perform a GunshipRescue]]. Celestia and Sunset Shimmer to the residents of Bittsburgh. [[spoiler: Photo Finish also pulls this off, rescuing Hoity and Blueblood with a cadre of flash-bulb wielding supermodels.]] BewareTheSillyOnes indeed. Finally, [[spoiler: Fleur rescues Fancy Pants from Cascadius]]
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Nitpick is not ''blackmailing'' Fancy Pants, merely 'encouraging him to retire'.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Like Derpy before, [[spoiler:Fancy Pants attempts this to protect Fleur]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Photo Finish and her crew are strange, but effective in their field. [[spoiler:And when they get threatened, they become quite scary.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: Both Fleur and Fancy struggle to reveal their true feelings for each other. [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade They get better]]]].
* CardboardPrison: {{Averted}}. Countess Glass' house arrest is very strictly enforced.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: The 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon resues several heroes, including Fleur, Carcassone, Photo Finish and several others. The 2nd Platoon also wraps up the attack on Briefly Manor, although Aunt Bloomers and the staff had already done most of the work.]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Cascadius finds this distasteful, but engages in it at the request of his employers.
* ConsummateProfessional: Cascadius being this leads to friction between him and Countess Glass, [[spoiler:culminating in him taking control of the operation at the end of the story]].
* CoveredInKisses: How Shining ends the story, panicking about how he can't show up for drills like this and asking Cadance how to remove the lipstick.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: How Photo Finish gets the assistance of Cringeworth.
* DestinationDefenestration: The fate of the Emir in the prologue.
* DirtyOldMan: Nitpick Glass.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Cascadius, inflicted by Fleur. He survives]].
* TheDitz: Prince Blueblood.
* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] Photo Finish and her crew are motivated by art. This causes friction with the more profit-oriented sectors of the industry, but despite their quirkiness, [[BunnyEarsLawyer they've stayed in business, if only just]].
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:How Cascadius ends the story, sick of the Countess' meddling screwing up his plans to do what she hired him for]].
* DynamicEntry: When Fancy Pants interrupts [[spoiler: Nitpick's AttemptedRape of Fleur]]. Later on, Photo Finish [[spoiler: drives a carriage through a wall to rescue Hoity Toity]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Blueblood may be a LazyBum, DirtyCoward and an idiot, but when Fleur launches her distress signal he realises he has to fix his betrayal. Of course, he's still a coward, so he goes to get Fancy Pants rather than acting himself.
* EvilGloating: Nitpick's desire to indulge in this [[spoiler:ruins his plans to smear Fancy Pants, as he gives enough warning that Fleur is able to counter his plans]].
* ExactWords: If a mercenary is paying you for passage with an ancient dagger, don't tell him to 'Throw it over'.
* {{Foil}}: Aunt Bustle Bloomers to Countess Magnifying Glass, both are fearsome matriarchs of noble families who care about the reputation of their houses, but while Countess Glass is abusive and self-centered, Aunt Bloomers genuinely cares about Fancy and is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure that knows when to stop pushing.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Fancy Pants.
* GoldDigger: Blueblood thinks that Fleur is this and offers a friendly (for him) warning to jump ship before Fancy's reputation is ruined.
* TheGoodChancellor: [[spoiler: Fancy Pants ]]is promoted to this, in practice if not in title, gaining the position of First Minister, a role last held by [[TheArchmage Star Swirl the Bearded]]
* HeroicBSOD: Fancy Pants after [[spoiler:Nitpick blackmails him to dump Fleur and abandon his political ambitions]].
* HeroicRROD: Fleur, after she casts through a [[PowerNullifier containment ring]] to help Fancy, suffers from severe magic exhaustion that would have killed her had he not been able to provide immediate medical help.
* HotBlooded: [[FieryRedhead Carcassonne]]. It hurts her political campaign sufficiently that she resigns her candidacy just before the story begins.
* InVinoVeritas: {{Exploited}} by Hoity Toity to discover Nitpick's plans.
* LoudOfWar: Courtesy of Vinyl Scratch, and able to disable large groups of mooks via SensoryOverload.
* MamaBear: Fleur's mother.
* MrFanservice: According to WordOfGod, the 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon is made up of semi-canon love interests for Twilight, and commanded by [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Shining Armor]], so many of them fit this.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Hilariously done when a {{Mook}} gets [[KilledMidSentence Knocked Out Mid-Sentence]], Fancy Pants chooses to believe he was saying 'Oh Dearie Me'.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Cascadius, after being thrown off a building]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: Grand Duchess Bustle Bloomers is cornered by some {{Mooks}}. Next thing we know, the only one still conscious is busy trying to escape from [[MrMuffykins Horatio]].
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Cascadius is believed dead by the heroes after his multi-storey fall]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: It's a plot point, Fleur looks like she could be ([[JailBait just]]) underage, but is actually 26, but an attempt to discredit her relationship with Fancy Pants is made on this basis.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Photo Finish is able to tell that there is something wrong with [[spoiler:Fancy Pants' break-up letter to Fleur]], and [[TranquilFury expresses her displeasure]].
* PaedoHunt: The Glasses attempt to exploit this against Fancy Pants using (completely real, and [[NotWhatItLooksLike innocent in context]]) photographs of him and [[OlderThanTheyLook Fleur]]. [[spoiler: Ultimately ruined when Fleur gets herself published in a fashion magazine, along with her real age (26). Thanks to Equestria's strict anti-defamation laws, it would then be illegal to even imply something untoward was happening.]]
* PapaWolf: Fleur's father.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: WELCOME TO PONYVILLE!
* RelationshipUpgrade: It takes most of the story, but eventually Fancy Pants and Fleur get there.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tombola disobeys Fancy Pants to save his relationship with Fleur.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Bloodhound's response to [[PhysicalGod Cadence]] becoming involved]].
* ShipperOnDeck: All of Fancy's staff and most of Fleur co-workers.[[spoiler: Becomes a plot point when Fancy Pants is forced to dump Fleur, and the modelling crew come up with a [[ThePlan Plan]] to fix it]].
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Aunt Bustle Bloomers towards Fancy, in the end]].
* SwordCane: Part of Fancy Pants' outfit for the fundraiser.
* SympatheticMagic: Cadence is able to use this and ThePowerOfLove to turn Fancy Pants' [[TragicKeepsake monocle]] into a TrackingDevice.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nitpick is the recipient of several, including one by ''[[PrinceCharmless Prince Blueblood]]''.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: [[spoiler:Ponyville takes care of its own]].
* TragicKeepsake: Fancy Pants' monocle.
* UndyingLoyalty: Fancy Pants has a very loyal staff, mostly hired after they resigned from Invitro Hall in protest.
* UpperClassTwit: Nitpick and his cronies, as well as Prince Blueblood.
* ViolentGlaswegian: [=MacTrowel=]. Handy for dealing with the paparazzi.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Cascadius quite happily murders a former employer in order to force a region into civil war he can profit off.
* WeNeedADistraction: Cascadius [[spoiler: sets the city of Bittsburgh ablaze to force Celestia to leave Canterlot for a while]].
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Timber Spruce, and, due to him successfully convincing Flash Sentry it's crucial to the plan, Flash Sentry briefly as well.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Fancy Pants looks older than his actual age (30).
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After the events of ''You Shall Go To The Gala'', Countess Glass has been forced to leave Derpy alone, but that doesn't mean she and Cascadius can't plan and prepare for their next move. Meanwhile, Fancy Pants and Fleur have fallen in love, a dangerous occupation when one of you is a powerful politician, and the other has made an enemy of Nitpick Glass.
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!!This story contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Several of them develop from the models and photography crew, including Fleur.
* ALadyOnEachArm: How Blueblood enters the story.
* AmazonBrigade: [[spoiler:Photo Finish's fashion crew, after Fleur and Fancy Pants are attacked]].
* {{Ambadassador}}: Apparently Fancy was one in his youth.
* AssShove: Cumbersome gets a red-hot poker, courtesy of [[spoiler: Tinny, and an [[BrickJoke earlier conversation]] about how they 'Do not like it up em']]
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: A major component of the plot for the second act, as the Glasses attempt to smear Fancy Pants.
* AttemptedRape: Nitpick attempted to sexually assault Fleur in the theatre where she worked. [[spoiler:After she becomes Fancy Pant's marefriend (and thus in the same social circles as Nitpick), he tries again. Fortunately, Fancy Pants is able to intervene)]].
* BadassCrew: [[spoiler:The staff of Briefly Manor repel an attack lead by Sir Cumbersome]].
* BadassInANiceSuit: Fancy Pants. Master duelist, impeccably dressed.
* BadassInDistress: Fancy Pants for most of the last act.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times by several characters. First by Fancy Pants when [[spoiler:Nitpick attempts to rape Fleur again]]. Later [[spoiler: Carcassonne rescues Fleur, using her shields]] to give them time to OutrunTheFireball, and after they're cornered again [[spoiler:Cadence and the 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon perform a GunshipRescue]]. Celestia and Sunset Shimmer to the residents of Bittsburgh. [[spoiler: Photo Finish also pulls this off, rescuing Hoity and Blueblood with a cadre of flash-bulb wielding supermodels.]] BewareTheSillyOnes indeed. Finally, [[spoiler: Fleur rescues Fancy Pants from Cascadius]]
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Nitpick is not ''blackmailing'' Fancy Pants, merely 'encouraging him to retire'.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Like Derpy before, [[spoiler:Fancy Pants attempts this to protect Fleur]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Photo Finish and her crew are strange, but effective in their field. [[spoiler:And when they get threatened, they become quite scary.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: Both Fleur and Fancy struggle to reveal their true feelings for each other. [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade They get better]]]].
* CardboardPrison: {{Averted}}. Countess Glass' house arrest is very strictly enforced.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: The 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon resues several heroes, including Fleur, Carcassone, Photo Finish and several others. The 2nd Platoon also wraps up the attack on Briefly Manor, although Aunt Bloomers and the staff had already done most of the work.]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Cascadius finds this distasteful, but engages in it at the request of his employers.
* ConsummateProfessional: Cascadius being this leads to friction between him and Countess Glass, [[spoiler:culminating in him taking control of the operation at the end of the story]].
* CoveredInKisses: How Shining ends the story, panicking about how he can't show up for drills like this and asking Cadance how to remove the lipstick.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: How Photo Finish gets the assistance of Cringeworth.
* DestinationDefenestration: The fate of the Emir in the prologue.
* DirtyOldMan: Nitpick Glass.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Cascadius, inflicted by Fleur. He survives]].
* TheDitz: Prince Blueblood.
* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] Photo Finish and her crew are motivated by art. This causes friction with the more profit-oriented sectors of the industry, but despite their quirkiness, [[BunnyEarsLawyer they've stayed in business, if only just]].
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:How Cascadius ends the story, sick of the Countess' meddling screwing up his plans to do what she hired him for]].
* DynamicEntry: When Fancy Pants interrupts [[spoiler: Nitpick's AttemptedRape of Fleur]]. Later on, Photo Finish [[spoiler: drives a carriage through a wall to rescue Hoity Toity]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Blueblood may be a LazyBum, DirtyCoward and an idiot, but when Fleur launches her distress signal he realises he has to fix his betrayal. Of course, he's still a coward, so he goes to get Fancy Pants rather than acting himself.
* EvilGloating: Nitpick's desire to indulge in this [[spoiler:ruins his plans to smear Fancy Pants, as he gives enough warning that Fleur is able to counter his plans]].
* ExactWords: If a mercenary is paying you for passage with an ancient dagger, don't tell him to 'Throw it over'.
* {{Foil}}: Aunt Bustle Bloomers to Countess Magnifying Glass, both are fearsome matriarchs of noble families who care about the reputation of their houses, but while Countess Glass is abusive and self-centered, Aunt Bloomers genuinely cares about Fancy and is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure that knows when to stop pushing.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Fancy Pants.
* GoldDigger: Blueblood thinks that Fleur is this and offers a friendly (for him) warning to jump ship before Fancy's reputation is ruined.
* TheGoodChancellor: [[spoiler: Fancy Pants ]]is promoted to this, in practice if not in title, gaining the position of First Minister, a role last held by [[TheArchmage Star Swirl the Bearded]]
* HeroicBSOD: Fancy Pants after [[spoiler:Nitpick blackmails him to dump Fleur and abandon his political ambitions]].
* HeroicRROD: Fleur, after she casts through a [[PowerNullifier containment ring]] to help Fancy, suffers from severe magic exhaustion that would have killed her had he not been able to provide immediate medical help.
* HotBlooded: [[FieryRedhead Carcassonne]]. It hurts her political campaign sufficiently that she resigns her candidacy just before the story begins.
* InVinoVeritas: {{Exploited}} by Hoity Toity to discover Nitpick's plans.
* LoudOfWar: Courtesy of Vinyl Scratch, and able to disable large groups of mooks via SensoryOverload.
* MamaBear: Fleur's mother.
* MrFanservice: According to WordOfGod, the 3rd Palace Grounds Platoon is made up of semi-canon love interests for Twilight, and commanded by [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Shining Armor]], so many of them fit this.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Hilariously done when a {{Mook}} gets [[KilledMidSentence Knocked Out Mid-Sentence]], Fancy Pants chooses to believe he was saying 'Oh Dearie Me'.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Cascadius, after being thrown off a building]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: Grand Duchess Bustle Bloomers is cornered by some {{Mooks}}. Next thing we know, the only one still conscious is busy trying to escape from [[MrMuffykins Horatio]].
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Cascadius is believed dead by the heroes after his multi-storey fall]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: It's a plot point, Fleur looks like she could be ([[JailBait just]]) underage, but is actually 26, but an attempt to discredit her relationship with Fancy Pants is made on this basis.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Photo Finish is able to tell that there is something wrong with [[spoiler:Fancy Pants' break-up letter to Fleur]], and [[TranquilFury expresses her displeasure]].
* PaedoHunt: The Glasses attempt to exploit this against Fancy Pants using (completely real, and [[NotWhatItLooksLike innocent in context]]) photographs of him and [[OlderThanTheyLook Fleur]]. [[spoiler: Ultimately ruined when Fleur gets herself published in a fashion magazine, along with her real age (26). Thanks to Equestria's strict anti-defamation laws, it would then be illegal to even imply something untoward was happening.]]
* PapaWolf: Fleur's father.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: WELCOME TO PONYVILLE!
* RelationshipUpgrade: It takes most of the story, but eventually Fancy Pants and Fleur get there.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tombola disobeys Fancy Pants to save his relationship with Fleur.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Bloodhound's response to [[PhysicalGod Cadence]] becoming involved]].
* ShipperOnDeck: All of Fancy's staff and most of Fleur co-workers.[[spoiler: Becomes a plot point when Fancy Pants is forced to dump Fleur, and the modelling crew come up with a [[ThePlan Plan]] to fix it]].
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Aunt Bustle Bloomers towards Fancy, in the end]].
* SwordCane: Part of Fancy Pants' outfit for the fundraiser.
* SympatheticMagic: Cadence is able to use this and ThePowerOfLove to turn Fancy Pants' [[TragicKeepsake monocle]] into a TrackingDevice.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nitpick is the recipient of several, including one by ''[[PrinceCharmless Prince Blueblood]]''.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: [[spoiler:Ponyville takes care of its own]].
* TragicKeepsake: Fancy Pants' monocle.
* UndyingLoyalty: Fancy Pants has a very loyal staff, mostly hired after they resigned from Invitro Hall in protest.
* UpperClassTwit: Nitpick and his cronies, as well as Prince Blueblood.
* ViolentGlaswegian: [=MacTrowel=]. Handy for dealing with the paparazzi.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Cascadius quite happily murders a former employer in order to force a region into civil war he can profit off.
* WeNeedADistraction: Cascadius [[spoiler: sets the city of Bittsburgh ablaze to force Celestia to leave Canterlot for a while]].
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Timber Spruce, and, due to him successfully convincing Flash Sentry it's crucial to the plan, Flash Sentry briefly as well.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Fancy Pants looks older than his actual age (30).
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