History Fanfic / Shorn

* AnAesop: Resisting peer pressure to do the right thing is one of the main morals of the story. The second is the importance of protecting one's dignity against those that would take it from you for pointless reasons.

* ShoutOut: By way of PunnyName with [[Film/AbbottAndCostello Abbot Costello]].

* AppealToTradition: Abbot Costello and his peers exploit this to try and force the Princesses and the Elements of Harmony to go through a humiliating supplication process. Celestia eventually turns this around on them, pointing out that the monastery was originally run by ''castrara''

* {{Determinator}}: Rarity '''''refuses to budge''''' with her reasoning as to why she didn't want to have her mane and tail sheared. ''Even if she has to endure a TranquilFury from Celestia and an outwardly angry Luna.''.

* AppealToTradition: Abbot Constelo and his peers exploit this to try and force the Princesses and the Elements of Harmony to go through a humiliating supplication process. Celestia eventually turns this around on them, pointing out that the monastery was originally run by ''castrara''
* BullyingADragon: Abbot Constelo continues to denounce the Elements of Harmony and the two Princesses as disappointments.... even when said Princesses are ''right in front of his face.'' Obviously, it didn't go so well for him.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: For the Mane Six and the two alicorn princesses. It involves a lot of anguish from both sides (Rarity for fearing she had forsaken her friends with her stubbornness, and the rest for not being able to convince Rarity to change her mind), and a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal smackdown]] from Celestia to Abbot Constelo. However, the Mane Six and the Princesses obtain the tomes with the knowledge of the Elements in the end, and celebrate by letting each other do up their manes and tails.

* NeckLift: Princess Celestia does this to Abbot Constelo when he ''way'' oversteps his authority and starts treating the Princesses with nasty disrespect (as well as the Element bearers).
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Abbot Constelo's furious reaction makes clear to the princesses that he's [[AppealToTradition hiding behind tradition]] in order to force them and the Element bearers to humble themselves before his authority, and it's all an ego trip on his end.

* TranquilFury: Celestia goes into one upon hearing Abbot Constelo's ''highly insulting'' rant towards her, her sister, and the Element bearers.

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5467184 Shorn]]'' is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction by Creator/RalphHayesJr.

* ChekhovsGun: Rarity tells Celestia that the monks likely saved her and Luna's hair and hung it up as some obscene trophy to mark their 'superiority' over their rulers. Sure enough, they later spot their old hair hung up in the monastery marked with a plaque that states "HUMILITY BEFORE THE POWERS."

[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5467184 Shorn]] is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction by Creator/RalphHayesJr.

* TraumaticHaircut: [[DefiedTrope Defied]], as that is the point of the fic after all.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Many readers completely missed the main Aesop of the story, criticizing the story simply because the main antagonistic force of the story were Monastery Monks, ignoring both their actions against their own princesses, and the backstory reveal that they were never a holy order, but an order of archivists who became convinced of their own holiness because they held knowledge about a great cosmic power, and how in forcing Celestia and Luna to be supplicants, they allowed Discord more time to torment the ponies of Equestria because the monks considered forcing the Princesses through every pointless ritual they had adopted throughout the centuries more important than giving the Royal Sisters the tools they needed to save Equestria from Discord.

Naturally, [[ProudBeauty Rarity]] objects, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped and goes on at length as to why she does so.]]

* AnAesop: [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Resisting peer pressure to do the right thing is one of the main morals of the story. The second is the importance of protecting one's dignity against those that would take it from you for pointless reasons.]]

** Luna's primary motivation for forcing Rarity to undergo the ritual shearing has less to do with her considering it proper, but because she'd resent Rarity if she didn't have to go through what she did when she was last there.
** Rarity's grandmother was treated like a sex slave during the last Gryphon Empire invasion, not unlike the real life Jewish women during the Holocaust. Her mane getting sheared is also something that is a parallel to what happened to them as well.
* DeconstructionFic: Of Last Evening Together by Penstroke Pony, writer of Past Sins. Penstroke, who wrote the story as a silly tale of Rarity spending some time in contemplation about having to shear her mane and tail hairs to go to the monastery, [[InnocentlyInsensitive wasn't aware of the negative historical connotations of hair shearing a woman]]. R.H. Junior wrote Shorn to set the record straight regarding the practice, making historical parallels to real life events and anecdotes in his version.
* {{Determinator}}: Rarity '''''refuses to budge''''' with her reasoning as to why she didn't want to have her mane and tail sheared. ''Even if she has to endure a TranquilFury from Celestia and an outwardly angry Luna''.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: For the Mane Six and the two alicorn princesses. It involves a lot of anguish from both sides (Rarity for believing she had forsaken her friends with her stubbornness, and the rest for not being able to convince Rarity to change her mind), and a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal smackdown]] from Celestia. However, the Mane Six and the Princesses obtain the tomes with the knowledge of the Elements in the end, and celebrate by letting each other do up their manes and tails.

* NeckLift: Princess Celestia does this to Abbot when he ''way'' oversteps his authority and starts treating the Princesses with disrespect (as well as calling out the Element bearers).

** Rarity's grandmother was treated like a sex slave during the last Gryphon Empire invasion, not unlike the real life jewish women during the Holocaust. Her mane getting sheared is also something that is a parallel to what happened to them as well.

* TraumaticHaircut: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] '''hard''', as that is the point of the fic after all.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Many readers completely missed the main Aesop of the story, criticizing the story simply because the main antagonistic force of the story were Monastery Monks, ignoring both their actions against their own princesses, and the backstory reveal that they were never a holy order, but an order of archivists who got convinced of their own holiness because they held knowledge about a great cosmic power, and how in forcing Celestia and Luna to be supplicants, they allowed Discord more time to torment the ponies of Equestria because the monks considered forcing the Princesses to every pointless ritual they had adopted throughout the centuries more important than giving the Royal Sisters the tools they needed to save Equestria from Discord.

* ForWantOfANail: This fic wouldn't happen if Rarity had not refused to go as a supplicant to the monastery.
* NeckLift: Princess Celestia does this to Abbot when he ''way'' oversteps his authority and start treating the Princesses with disrespect (as well as calling out the Element bearers).
* ProperlyParanoid: The monks in the monastery ''very wisely'' start backtracking when their head abbot fails to shut up in time. Given what happens afterwards to him, it was a ''very good'' decision.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Yes, shaming/torturing (psychologically) someone by haircut ''did'' happen in reality. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a RealLife section in TraumaticHaircut.

Naturally, [[ProudBeauty Rarity]] objects, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped and goes at length why she does so.]]
!!Tropes:

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Yes, shaming/torturing (psychologically) someone by haircut ''did'' happen in RealLife (mostly for women as a female's hair is commonly believed to be a jewel crown of her beauty). Otherwise, there wouldn't be a RealLife section in TraumaticHaircut.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Yes, shaming/torturing (psychologically) someone by haircut ''did'' happen in RealLife (mostly for women as a female's hair is commonly believed to be a jewel crown of her beauty). Otherwise, there wouldn't be the mention on the real life section of TraumaticHaircut.

** Celestia and Luna had to go through the humiliation that the monastery forced all supplicants to go through, in spite of being powerful ascended equines. The trauma was so bad that Celestia suppressed the memories after 2000. Luna's primary motivation has less to do with the action of shearing their manes and tails as being proper, but because she'd resent Rarity if she didn't have to go through what she did when she was last there.

Naturally, [[ProudBeauty Rarity]] objects, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped and goes at length ''why'' she does so.]]

* AnAesop: Resisting peer pressure to do the right thing is one of the main morals of the story. The second is the importance of protecting one's dignity against those that would take it from you for pointless reasons.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Many readers completely missed the main Aesop of the story, criticizing the story simply because the main antagonistic force of the story were Monastery Monks, ignoring both their actions against their own princesses, and the backstory reveal that they were never a holy order, but an order of archivists who got convinced of their own holiness because they held knowledge about a great cosmic power, and how in forcing Celestia and Luna to be supplicants, they allowed Discord more time to torment the ponies of Equestria because the monks considered forcing the Princesses to every pointless ritual they had adopted throughout the centuries instead of giving the Royal Sisters the info they needed to save Equestria from Discord.
* DeconstructionFic: Of Last Evening Together by Penstroke Pony, writer of Past Sins. Penstroke, who wrote the story as a silly tale of Rarity spending some time in contemplation about having to shear her mane and tail hairs to go to the monastery, [[InnocentlyInsensitive wasn't aware of the negative historical connotations of hair shearing a woman]]. R.H. Junior wrote Shorn to set the record straight regarding the practice, making historical parallels to real life events and anecdotes in his version.

* DeconstructionFic: Of Last Night Together by Penstroke Pony, writer of Past Sins. Penstroke, who wrote the story as a silly tale of Rarity spending some time in contemplation about having to shear her mane and tail hairs to go to the monastery, [[InnocentlyInsensitive wasn't aware of the negative historical connotations of hair shearing a woman]]. R.H. Junior wrote Shorn to set the record straight regarding the practice, making historical parallels to real life events and anecdotes in his version.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Resisting peer pressure to do the right thing is one of the main morals of the story. The second is the importance of protecting one's dignity against those that would take it from you for pointless reasons.

Naturally, [[ProudBeauty Rarity]] objects and goes at length ''why'' she does so.

** Rarity's grandmother was treated like a sex slave during the last Gryphon Empire invasion, not unlike the real life jewish women during the Holocaust.