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** [[spoiler: The Rose of King Sombra has the carcass of a dead changeling Queen stitched to her in a Frankenstein-like way. One of her arms is now a changeling hoof, and [[ColdBloodedTorture that's not to mention what has been to done her before this point.]]]]

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** [[spoiler: The Rose of King Sombra has the carcass of a dead changeling Queen stitched to her in such a Frankenstein-like way. One horrible manner that one of her arms is now a changeling hoof, and [[ColdBloodedTorture that's not to mention what has been to done her before this point.]]]]hoof.]]
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* BodyHorror:
** [[spoiler: Corner shot is revealed to have changeling chitin grafted to her wings as a result of her dark magic inheritence.]]
** [[spoiler: The Rose of King Sombra has the carcass of a dead changeling Queen stitched to her in a Frankenstein-like way. One of her arms is now a changeling hoof, and [[ColdBloodedTorture that's not to mention what has been to done her before this point.]]]]


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* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Razz's reading about ''The Broken Rose'' from Sombra's recounting reveal all this. The Rose is a human given to Sombra long ago, and their time together never has a moment where he's not trying to break her to serve his own purposes. From outright raping her to using [[MindControlDevice a potion]] to force her to obey his commands while she has some awareness still. And he does all this without batting an eye except for the few times she manages to show resistance.]]


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* MindControlDevice: King Sombra's assistant Mangle-leg creates a potion she calls Compulsion for the sole purpose of controlling both living and dead victims.
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** Somewhat subverted with [[spoiler: Coco Pommel]] when their secret is revealed due to not being able to keep up their disguised form. Subverted **again** when their true form is revealed to be [[spoiler: not particuarly all that different - Coco merely gains holes in her legs and tail, and the wings/saddle carapace of a changeling, but beyond those additions and her tiny fangs, meaning it isn't that much of a shapeshifting to begin with.]]

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** Somewhat subverted with [[spoiler: Coco Pommel]] when their secret is revealed due to not being able to keep up their disguised form. Subverted **again** ''again'' when their true form is revealed to be [[spoiler: not particuarly all that different - Coco merely gains holes in her legs and tail, and the wings/saddle carapace of a changeling, but beyond those additions and her tiny fangs, meaning it isn't that much of a shapeshifting to begin with.]]
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* NinjaMaid: The Hooves, the personal hoofmaidens of Princess Celestia, as revealed back in 7DSJ Book 4 as being trained more like elite bodyguards as opposed to mere housekeeping staff. [[spoiler:It's later revealed in GAOA proper that The Hooves are in fact the seapony-like sirens, the Equestrian version of the more militaristic SIRENs from 7DSJ right down to having the Equus versions of the Dazzlings among their number. However, instead of being evil and violent, they're all generally quite friendly.]]

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* NinjaMaid: The Hooves, the personal hoofmaidens of Princess Celestia, as revealed back in 7DSJ Book 4 as being trained more like elite bodyguards as opposed to mere housekeeping staff. [[spoiler:It's later revealed in GAOA proper that The Hooves are in fact the seapony-like sirens, the Equestrian version of the more militaristic SIRENs [=SIRENs=] from 7DSJ right down to having the Equus versions of the Dazzlings among their number. However, instead of being evil and violent, they're all generally quite friendly.]]
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* BeeAfraid: [[spoiler:Honeycomb]] can control bees, and uses them to horrifying effect.
* [[spoiler: TheBusCameBack: Jade Lily makes a return appearance to the Berylverse and gives Sunset information concerning a new threat.]]

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The story opens with Sunset awakening from one such dream: a NightmareSequence in which she and her friends are all killed in battle with [[GreaterScopeVillain the eyeless man]]. At this point, Sunset has had enough dreams like it to know it's serious.




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* SecretSecretKeeper: Carrot and Cup Cake have long since figured out how Pinkie feels about Sunset, and about any other girl who might have romantic feelings for her. Pinkie is shocked when they admit it.

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* SecretSecretKeeper: Carrot and Cup Cake have long since figured out how Pinkie feels about Sunset, and about any other girl who might have romantic feelings for her. Pinkie is shocked when they admit it.
* [[spoiler: TheBusCameBack: Jade Lily makes a return appearance to the Berylverse and gives Sunset information concerning a new threat.]]

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* SecretSecretKeeper: Carrot and Cup Cake have long since figured out how Pinkie feels about Sunset, and about any other girl who might have romantic feelings for her. Pinkie is shocked when they admit it.
* [[spoiler: TheBusCameBack: Jade Lily makes a return appearance to the Berylverse and gives Sunset information concerning a new threat.]]
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\n* [[spoiler: TheBusCameBack: Jade Lily makes a return appearance to the Berylverse and gives Sunset information concerning a new threat.]]
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Changelings in general, but Versatile in particular uses his shapeshifting powers to take different guises for stage plays, and normally prefers to look like a changeling colored batpony due to his upbringing in a batpony family instead of his true insectile form.
** Somewhat subverted with [[spoiler: Coco Pommel]] when their secret is revealed due to not being able to keep up their disguised form. Subverted **again** when their true form is revealed to be [[spoiler: not particuarly all that different - Coco merely gains holes in her legs and tail, and the wings/saddle carapace of a changeling, but beyond those additions and her tiny fangs, meaning it isn't that much of a shapeshifting to begin with.]]
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* Creepy Child: Darque Eulogy.

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* Creepy Child: CreepyChild: Darque Eulogy.
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* NinjaMaid: The Hooves, the personal hoofmaidens of Princess Celestia, as revealed back in 7DSJ Book 4 as being trained more like elite bodyguards as opposed to mere housekeeping staff. [[spoiler: It's later revealed in GAOA proper that The Hooves are in fact the seapony-like sirens, the Equestrian version of the more militaristic SIRENs from 7DSJ right down to having the Equus versions of the Dazzlings among their number. However, instead of being evil and violent, they're all generally quite friendly.)

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* NinjaMaid: The Hooves, the personal hoofmaidens of Princess Celestia, as revealed back in 7DSJ Book 4 as being trained more like elite bodyguards as opposed to mere housekeeping staff. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's later revealed in GAOA proper that The Hooves are in fact the seapony-like sirens, the Equestrian version of the more militaristic SIRENs from 7DSJ right down to having the Equus versions of the Dazzlings among their number. However, instead of being evil and violent, they're all generally quite friendly.)]]

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* BeePeople: Unlike the more loosely pony structure of canon changelings, in the Berylverse the Changelings are shown to be far more organized like real life insects. Subverted with how there are at least two rogue queens who formed their own splinter hives with the implication there are, or at least were, more.



* NinjaMaid: The Hooves, the personal hoofmaidens of Princess Celestia, as revealed back in 7DSJ Book 4 as being trained more like elite bodyguards as opposed to mere housekeeping staff. [[spoiler: It's later revealed in GAOA proper that The Hooves are in fact the seapony-like sirens, the Equestrian version of the more militaristic SIRENs from 7DSJ right down to having the Equus versions of the Dazzlings among their number. However, instead of being evil and violent, they're all generally quite friendly.)




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* Creepy Child: Darque Eulogy.
* LaxativePrank: When two rowdy customers make bawdy comments about Sunset behind her back, Pinkie gets back at them by putting too much tapioca into their food, causing an immediate and embarrassing incident mere minutes later. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Pinkie forgot about the security cameras which Carrot and Cup Cake reveal is how they know she did it]]


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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/419447/confessions Confessions]]'' - In the week leading up to Sunset's coronation, Pinkie Pie and Applejack both have confessions to make. Meanwhile, dark forces gather in the human world.


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* SecretSecretKeeper: Carrot and Cup Cake have long since figured out how Pinkie feels about Sunset, and about any other girl who might have romantic feelings for her. Pinkie is shocked when they admit it.

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* TheAce: Corner Shot, a superstar pool player [[spoiler:and highly trained assassin for the Covenant of Shadows]]



* BigBadEnsemble: So far we have Neon Lux, [[ReligionOfEvil the leader of a Sombra worshipping cult]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]], [[TheStarscream and a rogue changeling from Chrysalis' hive trying to usurp her]].

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* BigBadEnsemble: So far we have Neon Lux, [[ReligionOfEvil the leader of a Sombra worshipping cult]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]], [[TheStarscream and Mandible, a rogue changeling from Chrysalis' hive trying to usurp her]].her]].
* TheChosenMany: Turns out Raspberry Beryl isn't the only one with King Sombra's bloodline, and they're all a part of some dark prophecy.


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* PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime: The prophecy on Sombra's mirror telling of the coming of his four Scions is written as a poem.


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* TournamentArc: The pool tournament hosted in Ponyville is the framing device for the second major story arc.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Back all the way in ''A Hairier Problem: Rise of the Furball'' there was a passing mention of a pony named Rough Edge who helped Razz during her first days of being on her own. And now five whole books later he makes an appearance.
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* NewTransferStudent: Renaissance Canvas and his sister Juniper Montage move to Canterlot from Seattle. Instantly the latter becomes a friend of Debonair Lace, while the former pals around with Snips and Snails and catches the eye of both Sunset and Trixie.
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* NightmareSequence: Human!Raspberry has frequent nightmares over her father's [[spoiler:raping her and]] attempt to kill her, which manifests as a dream gone ''very'' bad.
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* TheWoobie: Ribby is completely traumatized to the point that she contemplates suicide while her friends are sleeping and thinks she's a burden to her family.

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* OrWasItADream: After one of her horrific nightmares, Ribby is protected from her dream-father's rampages...by what she thinks is an older version of herself. Said older version, however, may actually instead be '''[[AlternateUniverse Raspberry Beryl]]'''.
* ParentalBetrayal: Human!Raspberry's father turns against her after murdering her mother because he thought she would turn out like her mother and leave him.
**[[spoiler: ParentalIncest: Ribby's father also rapes her before trying to murder her.]]




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* TheWoobie: Ribby is completely traumatized to the point that she contemplates suicide while her friends are sleeping and thinks she's a burden to her family.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289909/meanwhile-tales-of-the-berylverse meanwhile....: Tales of the Berylverse]]'' - sidestories explaning the continuation of the human storylines.

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** PocketDimension: This alternate universe above is strongly believed to be from the reality sphere that Sunset left within Pinkie. How the latter was able to access it is unknown.
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* AlternateUniverse: The Pinkie of the BV somehow travels to another reality where she and Sunset are happily married with children. [[spoiler:However, their happiness was paid for in blood: their circle of friends was broken, and Sunset nearly died taking down an insane, murderous Twilight Sparkle, turned into Midnight Sparkle by the Dazzlings]].
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* FictionalDocument: The book ''The Rose with the Broken Neck'' details a StoryWithinAStory regarding the final days of an Italian girl named Crisalide della Lucca and her ultimate suffering at the hooves of King Sombra.



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** CameBackStrong: Due to her time in the human world, Razz has picked up the ability to shapeshift to human form as well as (thanks to Sunset), now able to access human-type magic, which now grants her the ability to be a ''white mage''.

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''The Golden Age of Apocalypse'', a joint project by [=BlueBastard=], Shinzakura and Flynt Coal, is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, and the third phase of [=BlueBastard=]'s ''Berylverse'', set after the events of ''Fanfic/AHairyProblem'', ''Fanfic/AHairierProblemRiseOfTheFurball'', and ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune''.

After the events of ''Seven Days in Sunny June'', Raspberry Beryl returns to an Equestria that has moved a year forward in time. Trying to get a handle on her life, she has to deal with the fact that the world she's returned to is not the same as she left it.

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''The ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/257905/the-golden-age-of-apocalypse The Golden Age of Apocalypse'', Apocalypse]]'', a joint project by [=BlueBastard=], Shinzakura and Flynt Coal, is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, and the third phase of [=BlueBastard=]'s ''Berylverse'', set after the events of ''Fanfic/AHairyProblem'', ''Fanfic/AHairierProblemRiseOfTheFurball'', and ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune''.

After the events of ''Seven Days in Sunny June'', Raspberry Beryl returns to an Equestria that has moved a year forward in time. Trying to get a handle on her life, she has to deal with the fact that the world she's returned to is not the same as she left it.
it. What's more, a prophecy emerges linking Razz to three others with her dark bloodline. Razz and friends must now find these 'Scions of Sombra' before more sinister forces do. All this with Sunset Shimmer's coronation right around the corner...


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* CallBack: Quite a few, not just to 7DSJ but to ''A Hairy Problem'' and its sequel as well. [[spoiler:The Nightshade arc even features the return of werewolves.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: So far we have Neon Lux, [[ReligionOfEvil the leader of a Sombra worshipping cult]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]], [[TheStarscream and a rogue changeling from Chrysalis' hive trying to usurp her]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: King Sombra himself, whose machinations one thousand years ago drives much of the plot.


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* RunningGag: Nopony likes Twilight's gaudy crystal tree castle.


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* ShoutOut:
** One member of the Four-Footed Performers is named [[Creator/MelBrooks Mellow Brook]], whose cutie mark is a [[Film/BlazingSaddles blazing saddle]].
** The mayor of Nightshade is named Series/TwinPeaks


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* TownWithADarkSecret: Nightshade, the setting of the first major story arc.
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* ShesBack: Part of the first arc of [=TGAOA=] is Raspberry adjusting to how her three weeks on Earth have drastically affected her life, especially given that in Equestria, they had believed her to be dead, while on Earth she'd briefly lost her magic and had a crisis of confidence.


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* OccidentalOtaku: Minuette and Gilda bond over their love of MagicalGirl anime.
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* BigBrotherMentor: Lyra's brother Harper essentially serves as this to Trixie, given that she's a singleton.
* ThirdWheel: Due to the relationship that Lyra and Bon-Bon have, Trixie feels lonely even when with her best friend and said best friend's lover.
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* NarniaTime: Due to the Events of 7DSJ Book V, an unexpected timeshift occurred between the two realities, which weren't moving at the same rate of time to begin with. As a result, by the time Razz returns to Equestria, over eight months have passed there, even though it was only three weeks on Earth.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: Titled after the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Age_of_Apocalypse album]]'', actually.
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''The Golden Age of Apocalypse'', a joint project by [=BlueBastard=], Shinzakura and Flynt Coal, is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, and the third phase of [=BlueBastard=]'s ''Berylverse'', set after the events of ''Fanfic/AHairyProblem'', ''Fanfic/AHairierProblemRiseOfTheFurball'', and ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune''.

After the events of ''Seven Days in Sunny June'', Raspberry Beryl returns to an Equestria that has moved a year forward in time. Trying to get a handle on her life, she has to deal with the fact that the world she's returned to is not the same as she left it.

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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/257905/the-golden-age-of-apocalypse The Golden Age of Apocalypse]]'', which deals with Raspberry adjusting to her new situation.

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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289909/meanwhile-tales-of-the-berylverse meanwhile....: Tales of the Berylverse]]'' - sidestories explaning the continuation of the human storylines.

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The Berylverse as a whole has its own [=FIMFiction=] [[https://www.fimfiction.net/group/205969/berylverse group]].

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