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* ColdIron: Bon Bon tries not to let it in the house and can't wear [[FurryReminder iron shoes]].
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* ColdIron: The touch of iron is agonizing to the Fae. Bon Bon tries not to let it in the house and can't wear [[FurryReminder iron shoes]].shoes]]. The reason they're so vulnerable to such a common metal is because Discord thinks that he's very funny.
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* MageHuntingMonster: Bugganes are Fae creatures resembling enormous blind moles. Like all Fae, they need magic to live, but cannot produce any of their own and get instead by hunting down and eating other magical beings. Spells are effectively useless against them, and other Fae fear them immensely.
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''Mendacity'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic by Dromicosuchus. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26192/Mendacity here]]. It retells the story of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" from the point of view of [[EnsembleDarkhorse beloved background characters]] Lyra and Bon Bon.
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''Mendacity'' is a 2012 ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic by Dromicosuchus. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26192/Mendacity here]]. It retells the story of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" from the point of view of [[EnsembleDarkhorse beloved background characters]] Lyra and Bon Bon.
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* BindleStick: Bon Bon uses one of these, despite the logistical problems.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Bugul Noz explains that Discord created the Fae this way, as a joke.
* ChekhovsGun: Bugganes, Bon Bon's iron poker, and Lyra's Fing-er, to name a few so far.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Bugul Noz explains that Discord created the Fae this way, as a joke.
* ChekhovsGun: Bugganes, Bon Bon's iron poker, and Lyra's Fing-er, to name a few so far.
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* TheAgeless: It is a major point of pride for the Fae that they never age and can expect to live forever, unlike mortals who are born with timers counting down to their deaths. [[spoiler:However, it turns out to be quite wrong -- they age and die just like anybody else, and appear ageless only due to spending so much of their lives in the timelessness of Tír na nÓg. Under the right conditions, they experience the same slide into decrepitude that mortals do; it's just that their belief in their immortality is so strong that the aged Fae that do turn up are considered to be entire secondary species that try to mimic true Fae with outrageous lies.]]
* BindleStick: Bon Bon uses one of these, despite the logisticalproblems.
problems of using one when you're a quadruped -- to hold one, a pony needs to hobble along in a very awkward three-legged gait.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Bugul Noz explains that Discord created the Fae this way, as ajoke.
cruel joke, by giving them immense power while making them fatally vulnerable to the most common metal in the world and subject to various weaknesses and bans from a variety of arbitrary and common animals, plants, objects.
* ChekhovsGun: Bugganes, Bon Bon's iron poker, and Lyra'sFing-er, Fing-er are all introduced offhand early in the story and come to name a few so far.play important roles in the climax.
* BindleStick: Bon Bon uses one of these, despite the logistical
* BlessedWithSuck: The Bugul Noz explains that Discord created the Fae this way, as a
* ChekhovsGun: Bugganes, Bon Bon's iron poker, and Lyra's
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Not tea, but a reasonably polite conversation with an entity who refers to Discord as its nephew.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bon Bon and Aldrovanda spend much of their time together trying to out-snark each other.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bon Bon and Aldrovanda spend much of their time together trying to out-snark each other.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Not tea, but Bon Bon and Aldrovanda have a reasonably polite conversation with an entity who refers to Discord as its nephew.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bon Bon and Aldrovanda spend much of their time together trying to out-snark eachother.other, with Bon Bon preferring understated acidity and Aldrovanda going for a constant stream of abstruse insults.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bon Bon and Aldrovanda spend much of their time together trying to out-snark each
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** The homeland of the Fae, Tir na Nog, is an extradimensional space made of stolen time.
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** The homeland of the Fae, Tir Tír na Nog, nÓg, is an extradimensional space made of stolen time.
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* TheFairFolk: Changelings, kelpies, and the rest of the Fae.
* GentleGiant: The Bugul Noz.
* GentleGiant: The Bugul Noz.
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* TheFairFolk: Changelings, kelpies, The Fae are alien, cruel, and wicked beings, who delight in tormenting ponies and each other and seek to one day rule the rest of the Fae.
world as they did in days long gone.
* GentleGiant: The BugulNoz.Noz is a towering, monstrously powerful being, but is also very restrained in how he uses his powers and personable towards strangers.
* GentleGiant: The Bugul
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Bon Bon.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Bon Bon.Bon wants nothing more in life that to leave her past among the Fae behind, never have to think about Tír na nÓg again, and live the quiet, happy, boring life of a confectioner.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Lyra and Bon Bon, although Lyra doesn't seem to realize it.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Bon Bon's voice, as part of a MythologyGag.
* JerkAss: Almost all of the Fae, and Aldrovanda in particular.
* LargeHam: Aldrovanda.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Bon Bon's voice, as part of a MythologyGag.
* JerkAss: Almost all of the Fae, and Aldrovanda in particular.
* LargeHam: Aldrovanda.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Lyra and Bon Bon, although Lyra doesn't seem to realize it.
it. Lyra is a unicorn, while Bon Bon is a changeling pretending to be a pony.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Bon Bon's voice, as part of aMythologyGag.
MythologyGag, varies randomly between tones, pitches, and accents because she has trouble keeping her vocal cords in a stable shape.
* JerkAss: Almost all of the Fae, and Aldrovanda inparticular.
particular, are spiteful, backstabbing, and cruel as a matter of course.
* LargeHam: Aldrovanda. She has a particularly inflated opinion of herself and enjoys hearing herself talk, and tends to fill both conversations and her constant idle talk with complicated insults, grandiose self-compliments, and long off-topic rambling.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Bon Bon's voice, as part of a
* JerkAss: Almost all of the Fae, and Aldrovanda in
* LargeHam: Aldrovanda. She has a particularly inflated opinion of herself and enjoys hearing herself talk, and tends to fill both conversations and her constant idle talk with complicated insults, grandiose self-compliments, and long off-topic rambling.
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* MindControlEyes: Changeling mind-control produces these.
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken up to eleven.
* MythologyGag: Lyra's "Fing-er" is this, as well as a ChekhovsGun. Similarly, Bon Bon's inability to control her voice.
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken up to eleven.
* MythologyGag: Lyra's "Fing-er" is this, as well as a ChekhovsGun. Similarly, Bon Bon's inability to control her voice.
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* MeaningfulName:
** Bon Bon's birth name, Mendax, means "liar" in Latin.
** Aldrovanda the kelpie is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrovanda a type of carnivorous aquatic plant]].
* MindControlEyes: Changeling mind-controlproduces these.
tints its victims' eyes green.
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken up toeleven.
eleven. His skin is a patchwork of hair, feathers, scales, slick skin and chitin from hundreds of animal species, his head and neck are crowned with dozens of horns and antlers, and two of his wings are chimeric mixes of bird, bat and insect limbs while the third appears to be a whale fin.
* MythologyGag:Lyra's "Fing-er" is this, as well as a ChekhovsGun. Similarly, Bon Bon's inability to control her voice.voice is a nod to how her appearances in the show each tended to have a different voice actor.
* OurKelpiesAreDifferent: Kelpies are a type of fae resembling aquatic horses with manes made out of water-weeds. They're ambush predators that wait in lochs and swamps for ponies to pass by and then use glamors to tempt them into touching them, at which point their prey sticks fast to them and is dragged underwater to drown. Their skin will adhere permanently to any dry object; usually this is just their prey, whose remains will rot away in time, but as Aldrovanda spends more time on dry land she begins to accrete a steadily growing coat of pebbles, branches, and assorted junk. [[spoiler:There are also shellycoats, which claim to be old kelpies covered in their own coats of detritus -- normal kelpies hate them, because the idea that Fae can age and die like mortals is considered an insulting heresy, but it turns out in the end that Fae can in fact age, and that the kelpies' insistence that the shellycoats are deluded liars is, itself, only a willful delusion.]]
** Bon Bon's birth name, Mendax, means "liar" in Latin.
** Aldrovanda the kelpie is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrovanda a type of carnivorous aquatic plant]].
* MindControlEyes: Changeling mind-control
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken up to
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* OurKelpiesAreDifferent: Kelpies are a type of fae resembling aquatic horses with manes made out of water-weeds. They're ambush predators that wait in lochs and swamps for ponies to pass by and then use glamors to tempt them into touching them, at which point their prey sticks fast to them and is dragged underwater to drown. Their skin will adhere permanently to any dry object; usually this is just their prey, whose remains will rot away in time, but as Aldrovanda spends more time on dry land she begins to accrete a steadily growing coat of pebbles, branches, and assorted junk. [[spoiler:There are also shellycoats, which claim to be old kelpies covered in their own coats of detritus -- normal kelpies hate them, because the idea that Fae can age and die like mortals is considered an insulting heresy, but it turns out in the end that Fae can in fact age, and that the kelpies' insistence that the shellycoats are deluded liars is, itself, only a willful delusion.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Bon Bon is very aware that her refusal to tell Lyra the truth puts her in danger.
* ThePowerOfLove: How Bon Bon [[spoiler: helps Lyra to resist Chrysalis' Glamour]], and what the reader knows will eventually defeat Chrysalis.
* RealityWarper: The Fae are this, and the Bugul Noz is the exact opposite.
* ThePowerOfLove: How Bon Bon [[spoiler: helps Lyra to resist Chrysalis' Glamour]], and what the reader knows will eventually defeat Chrysalis.
* RealityWarper: The Fae are this, and the Bugul Noz is the exact opposite.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Bon Bon is very aware that her refusal to tell Lyra the truth puts her in danger.
danger, but has difficulty working past her fear of rejection to bite the bullet and own up to what's going on.
* ThePowerOfLove:How Bon Bon [[spoiler: helps [[spoiler:helps Lyra to resist Chrysalis' Glamour]], and Glamour by reminding her of their love]]. Off-screen, this is also what the reader knows will eventually defeat defeats Chrysalis.
* RealityWarper: The Fae's magic works by twisting and altering reality, [[spoiler:and, as it turns out, reality tends to fight back when the Faeare this, and the do this too often]]. The Bugul Noz is the exact opposite.opposite -- he removes strangeness and alterations to make reality more real to an uncanny degree.
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* RealityWarper: The Fae's magic works by twisting and altering reality, [[spoiler:and, as it turns out, reality tends to fight back when the Fae
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* SlasherSmile: In Chapter 4.
--> '''Aldrovanda:''' Far be it from me to criticize your face, by the by, but honestly I think I prefer it when you scowl at me. That smile is positively unnerving. I’m willing to take your impeccable dental care on faith, you know. You don’t have to show me every last incisor.
* SummonBiggerFish: Bon Bon's solution to Chrysalis? [[spoiler: A buggane.]]
* TemptingFate: Happens to Bon Bon often enough that she is utterly unsurprised to find out that the universe literally ''does'' have it out for her.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Many of the Fae are able to do this. Bon Bon has never been much good at it.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Fae are vulnerable to "the most common metal in the world" and to "randomly chosen plants, creatures, and objects".
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Bon Bon's attitude toward her Fae heritage.
--> '''Aldrovanda:''' Far be it from me to criticize your face, by the by, but honestly I think I prefer it when you scowl at me. That smile is positively unnerving. I’m willing to take your impeccable dental care on faith, you know. You don’t have to show me every last incisor.
* SummonBiggerFish: Bon Bon's solution to Chrysalis? [[spoiler: A buggane.]]
* TemptingFate: Happens to Bon Bon often enough that she is utterly unsurprised to find out that the universe literally ''does'' have it out for her.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Many of the Fae are able to do this. Bon Bon has never been much good at it.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Fae are vulnerable to "the most common metal in the world" and to "randomly chosen plants, creatures, and objects".
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Bon Bon's attitude toward her Fae heritage.
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* SummonBiggerFish: Bon Bon's solution to
* TemptingFate:
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Many of the Fae
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* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken UpToEleven.
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* MixAndMatchCritter: The Bugul Noz looks like Discord taken UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/73785 "The Wind and the Wanderer,"]] an in-universe folk song written for the fic and performed by the author's mother, a professional folk singer.
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* EldritchLocation: The homeland of the Fae, Tir na Nog, is an extradimensional space made of stolen time.
** Also, the swamp around the Canterhorn is unnaturally natural, thanks to the Bugul Noz's influence.
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** The homeland of the Fae, Tir na Nog, is an extradimensional space made of stolen time.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Aldrovanda usually calls Bon Bon by her Fae name Mendax. She only calls her Bon Bon when she's really desperate to get her attention.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Aldrovanda usually calls Bon Bon by her Fae name Mendax. She only calls her Bon Bon when she's really desperate to get her attention.attention.
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* ShoutOut: One of the... things... that Bon Bon sees when she almost passes into Faerie appears to be a ponyfied [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].
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* ShoutOut: One of the... things... that Bon Bon sees when she almost passes into Faerie appears to be a ponyfied [[TheSlenderManMythos [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].
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'''''Mendacity''''' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic by Dromicosuchus. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26192/Mendacity here]]. It retells the story of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" from the point of view of [[EnsembleDarkhorse beloved background characters]] Lyra and Bon Bon.
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'''''Mendacity''''' is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FanFic by Dromicosuchus. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26192/Mendacity here]]. It retells the story of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]] from the point of view of [[EnsembleDarkhorse beloved background characters]] Lyra and Bon Bon.
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'''''Mendacity''''' is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic by Dromicosuchus. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/26192/Mendacity here]]. It retells the story of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]] Wedding]]" from the point of view of [[EnsembleDarkhorse beloved background characters]] Lyra and Bon Bon.
