History Fanfic / PinkieSenseAndSensibility

* [[AdvancedAncientHumans Advanced Ancient Ponies]]: The Ponies of the Age of Wonders, who developed a global high-technology civilization and then mastered sorcery as well as science to craft the Great Wish.
* [[AndManGrewProud And Pony Grew Proud]]: The downfall of the Age of Wonders came when the Ponies attempted to cast the Great Wish, nearly crashed the continuum, and instead attracted the attention of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts,]] who destroyed both the alternate timeline of Paradise and then the Engines of the Wish to prevent Paradise from occurring: The result was The Cataclysm that wiped out most of Ponykind, and cast the few survivors back into the Dark Ages.

* [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Equinomorphic Personifications]]: The Alicorn and Draconequus Immortal Avatars of the Cosmic Concepts. Examples include Celestia, Luna, Discord [[spoiler: and Thalia.]] They are much less powerful than their Cosmic Selves, but also much more concerned in mortal affairs.

* [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]]: Half of the reason for the transition from the Age of Wonders to that of the present day. The other reason was [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm.]] This nearly finished off the Pony species, as not only did the emotionally-shocked survivors have to try to rebuild their civilization with most of their physical plant destroyed, but they found themselves coming under attack from monstrous races whose very existence they had once thought merely mythical.

* [[AndManGrewProud And Pony Grew Proud]]: The downfall of the Age of Wonders came when the Ponies attempted to cast the Great Wish, nearly crashed the continuum, and instead attracted the attention of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts,]] who destroyed both the alternate timeline of Paradise and then the Engines of the Wish to prevent Paradise from occurring: the result was The Cataclysm that wiped out most of Ponykind, and cast the few survivors back into the Dark Ages.

* DeusEstMachina: Paradise evolved from the artificial intelligence the Ponies of the Age of Wonders built to control the Great Wish. To save equinity when the Wish began to crash the continuum, Paradise was forced to become a god.

* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Claire and Pinkie are only named after their birth. {{Justified|Trope}} in that even normal Ponies are usually given {{Meaningful Name}}s, and Claire and Pinkie are two of three of {{The Chosen One}}s.]]

Available [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/187249/pinkie-sense-and-sensibility here]].

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* [[AndManGrewProud And Pony Grew Proud]]: The downfall of the Age of Wonders came when the Ponies attempted to cast the Great Wish, nearly crashed the continuum, and instead attracted the attention of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts]], who destroyed both the alternate timeline of Paradise and then the Engines of the Wish to prevent Paradise from occurring: the result was The Cataclysm that wiped out most of Ponykind, and cast the few survivors back into the Dark Ages.
* ApocalypseHow: ''Four'' examples in-story, in a fan fic about the happiest member of a race of cheerful technicolor sapient ponies. MoodDissonance, anyone?
** The [[TimeCrash Crash of the Continuum]], had it occurred, would have been of Universal Scope and led to Metaphysical Annihilation. The [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts]] prevented this from occurring by an essentially firebreak strategy,

** Pinkie Pie herself is the Herald of Paradise,destined to spread the message of joy and kindness which will awaken Ponies to the possibility of Paradise

* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Cleaner and prettier than normal, anyway. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Claire ''teleports'' into the birthing pan when she finds her way difficult, and Pinkie warps reality several times to surmount birth complications.

* [[CosmicEntity Cosmic Entities]]: The Cosmic Concepts, such as Fusion, Gravity, Discord [[spoiler:and Laughter]]. They are awesomely powerful, since their roles are to co-ordinate their respective Cosmic principles, but they care little for mortal affairs. [[spoiler:However, Fusion has gone native, and the New Concepts such as Laughter are primarily loyal to Equestria's Earth]].

* [[ElementalEmbodiment Elemental Embodiments]]: The true nature of the Cosmic Concepts, both of Chaos and of Law. Celestia is an Avatar of Fusion, Luna an Avatar of Gravity, and Discord is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. [[spoiler:And Pinkie Pie is Thalia, an Avatar of the Cosmic Laughter]].
* [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Equinomorphic Personifications]]: The Alicorn and Draconequus Immortal Avatars of the Cosmic Concepts. Examples include Celestia, Luna, Discord [[spoiler:and Thalia]]. They are much less powerful than their Cosmic Selves, but also much more concerned in mortal affairs.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The Paracosmic Paradise is the last surviving representative of its whole world, and Pinkie Pie bears the spirit of a Pony of the World That Was Lost. The purpose of Paradise is to [[spoiler:make a new world of Paradise restore its billions of Ponies from its compressed backup files to live there, creating The World That Was Restored]]. In order to achieve this end, of course, it must both [[spoiler:reconcile with the Cosmic Concepts, convincing them that it is no threat to the continuum]] and [[spoiler:defeat the voracious Shadows, who most definitely are a threat to our whole Universe]].
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: One of the major destructive elements of [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm]]. In addition to ordinary super-tsunamis ...
-->... seas slopped out of their basins and innundated subcontinental areas ...

* IntergenerationalFriendship: How the relationship between Igneous Rock and Claire Quartz begins: he's in his twenties, she's still a young filly, the friend of his little sister Sedimentary.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Claire and Pinkie are only named after their birth. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that even normal Ponies are usually given [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]], and Claire and Pinkie are two of three [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]].
* [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]]: Half of the reason for the transition from the Age of Wonders to that of the present day. The other reason was [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm]]. This nearly finished off the Pony species, as not only did the emotionally-shocked survivors have to try to rebuild their civilization with most of their physical plant destroyed, but they found themselves coming under attack from monstrous races whose very existence they had once thought merely mythical.
* MessianicArchetype: The three oldest Pie Sisters are conceived by MysticalPregnancy and born to a virgin, and they are explicitly the [[ChosenOne Chosen Ones]] destined to fulfill a divine promise to the followers of the deity.
* MysticalPregnancy: How all of the Daughters of Paradise, including the three eldest Pie Sisters, are conceived. This does not surprise Cloudy Quartz Pie, their mother; nor Goldie Pie, who is Cloudy's mother and the leader of the cult, because such preganancies were exactly what they were expecting. The immense importance of the three foals who are born, however, ''does'' surprise them.
* [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Scientists]]: Sundreamer and Moondreamer, who are Cosmic Celestia's and Cosmic Luna's first two Avatars in the new timeline.
-->Sundreamer and Moondreamer, who as mere mortal avatars did not remember their Cosmic Selves, became great scientists among the Ponies of their Age, and had many adventures in that exciting era. Unfortunately for that Age, when the Magic came back, they applied their formidable intellects to the problem of improving the power systems of the Great Wish. They improved them so much that when the Cosmic Destruction came to prevent the causality crash by exploding the reactors powering the Wish, the resulatant explosions would have been orders of magnitude greater than anything intended -- powerful enough to scour the Earth clean of all macroscopic life, ending the story of Ponykind for ever.
* RagingStiffie: Igneous Rock is terribly afraid of getting one of these right in front of his then-innocent teenaged fillyfriend, Cloudy Quartz, the evening he first declares his love for her. He is even ''more'' worried that her family will come out and observe him with it. Since the Ponies don't wear pants, this would mean that he was "unsheathed" right in plain sight, which is a very embarrassing situation for a stallion to be in before somepony with whom he is ''not'' yet sexually intimate. What makes matters worse is that Cloudy is at this point something of an InnocentFanserviceGirl, being extremely flirtatious but not fully-understanding the implications of her actions.
* RealityBreakingParadox: The ultimate and most dangerous power of the Great Wish -- and the ultimate and most dangerous weapon of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts]]. The Cosmic version of this produces a controlled RetGone. When the Great Wish accidentally starts to crash the continuum, the Cosmic Concepts must destroy Paradise so that it is not and never was, making it The World That Was Lost. Goldie Pie knows that Pinkie Pie bears within her a fragment of the Great Wish, and fears the possibilities of her uncontrolled use of this power as a newborn foal. Paradise assures her that Pinkie's greatest powers are locked for the sake of safety until she is mature enough to wisely use them.

* TimeyWimeyBall: The timeline leading to the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic world is at least the second iteration of an open time loop, with the first one having led to three thousand years of Paradise followed by annihilation by the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts]], followed by Cosmic Celestia, Cosmic Luna and Cosmic Discord deciding to incarnate themselves in the second version to manipulate Pony history.