History NightmareFuel / TheNegotiationsVerse

* To show Halberd that ponies aren't the PerfectPacifistPeople he believes they are, Garen takes him to the distant past from before the three pony tribes united, and shows him a platoon of pegasus soldiers executing disabled foals by throwing them off the clouds. The last one to be executed is an adult stallion, whose hooves and wings are bound. He had planned to escape the village with his disabled son, only to be sold out by his wife--who personally throws their foal off the cloud herself.

* To show Halberd that ponies aren't the PerfectPacifistPeople he believes they are, Garen takes him to the distant past from before the three pony tribes united, and shows him a platoon of pegasus soldiers executing disabled foals by throwing them off the clouds. The last one to be executed is an adult stallion who planned to escape the village with his disabled son, only to be sold out by his wife--who personally throws their foal off the cloud herself.

* Twilight finds out that Celestia lied to her about the reason they teleported to Earth, that their entire cause of wanting to bring harmony and friendship to the humans has been nothing but a gigantic self-serving lie, ''and'' that she killed Spike to keep him from getting a message to the resistance, and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes completely bonkers.]] Which is to say, she vaporizes most of Celestia's head with a huge magic blast, impales the commander of the Royal Guards with her own spear before slaughtering the entire platoon, strangles Applejack with her own lasso, smashes Rainbow Dash's head against a rock, snaps Pinkie Pie's neck like a twig, and then personally slaughters all the remaining royal guards and Equestrian military before destroying Canterlot and herself in a giant magical explosion, leaving nothing but a smoking crater where the city once stood.

* As is common in deconstructions of the Conversion Bureau, the newfoals bring about plenty of it. While it could be considered mitigated by the fact readers don't get to meet any individual newfoals, what is told about them is more than unsettling enough. Between them [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul not showing any emotion other than happiness]], the way [[TranshumanTreachery some are shown to be given the task of singing songs to boost the morale of ponies who are going to kill or forcibly convert more humans]], and the fact [[ExtremeDoormat they can't say no to anything natural-born ponies ask of them]], including [[QuestionableConsent requests for sex]], there is plenty of material for nightmares. It's mentioned in Rest that there are thousands of former Newfoals on suicide watch because of their trauma.

* Before her execution, Princess Celestia reveals the truth to Twilight about why she brought Equestria to Earth: 300 years before Nightmare Moon's return, she realized the sun was dying. She tried everything she could to save it but failed. As a last resort, she had the Mane Six use the Elements of Harmony to teleport Equestria to another planet, that being Earth, so that her ponies could survive. But because they didn't take the rest of Equus with them--not that they could have--no one was left to move the sun and moon. Every single race left behind on Equus--dragons, minotaurs, yaks, changelings, griffins, zebras, and all the other non-pony races, a total of 1.2 billion lives--either froze or burned to death. Any character who finds out about it, in-universe, immediately has a massive, debilitating HeroicBSOD.

* As is common in deconstructions of the Conversion Bureau, the newfoals bring about plenty of it. While it could be considered mitigated by the fact readers don't get to meet any individual newfoals, what is told about them is more than unsettling enough. Between them [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul not showing any emotion other than happiness]], the way [[TranshumanTreachery some are shown to be given the task of singing songs to boost the morale of ponies who are going to kill or forcibly convert more humans]], and the fact [[ExtremeDoormat they can't say no to anything natural-born ponies ask of them]], including [[QuestionableConsent requests for sex]], there is plenty of material for nightmares.

* The end of chapter 12. The Windigos have returned. [[spoiler:They haven't, thankfully, as they were illusions created by Discord to distract Twilight, Celestia and their armies while his companions sabotage the Harmony Cannon. This, however, leads into the truly nightmarish reveal of [[WhamEpisode chapter 13]]...]]
* [[spoiler:'''[[GreaterScopeVillain The Black Guardian]]'''. They are the ''real reason why Celestia had Equestria teleported to Earth to "save" her ponies'', '''''killing everyone back on Equus who weren't on Equestria at the time and giving him free reign upon a universe where the ponies have become absent, wiping out their future achievements and heroics in one fell swoop'''''. Even before his reveal, the most he appeared in previous chapters was through their [[CompellingVoice psychic influence]] on Celestia, represented by corrupted text, to the point that their more forceful influences result in her getting BlackEyesOfEvil, or a darker and menacing tone of voice, which creeps everyone around her who happens to notice, [[EveryoneHasStandards including Twilight]]]].

* The end of chapter 12. Wendigos have returned. [[spoiler:They haven't, thankfully, as they were illusions created by Discord to distract Twilight, Celestia and their armies while his companions sabotage the Harmony Cannon. This, however, leads into the truly nightmarish reveal of [[WhamEpisode chapter 13]]...]]
* [[spoiler:'''[[GreaterScopeVillain The Black Guardian]]'''. They are the ''real reason why Celestia had Equestria teleported to Earth to "save" her ponies'', '''''killing everyone back on Equus who weren't on Equestria at the time and giving him free reign upon a universe where the ponies have become absent, wiping out their future achievements and heroics in one fell swoop'''''. Even before his reveal, the most he appeared in previous chapters was through their [[CompellingVoice psychic influence]] on Celestia, represented by corrupted text, to the point that their more forceful influences result in her getting BlackEyesOfEvil, or a darker tone of voice, which creeps everyone around her who happens to notice, including Twilight]].

* The end of chapter 12. Wendigos have returned.

* After Fluttershy's defection to aid humanity, the Equestrian government starts imposing [[BigBrotherIsWatching 1984-esque levels of surveillance]] to root out dissenters and traitors, under the eye of the Equestrian Secret Service. Households are checked regularly and civilian ponies are financially rewarded with huge sacks of bits for turning in potential traitors, even their own friends, family members and neighbors. Anypony judged to be disloyal to Equestria's cause or too sympathetic to humanity is arrested without trial by the ESS and sentenced to hard labour in the work camps. Even not contributing enough to the war effort is seen as unpatriotic and can be grounds for a prison sentence; the chapter "Documentation" reveals that Applejack turned in a mare named Mountain Song for "deliberately obscene idleness in times of crisis".

* After Fluttershy's defection to aid humanity, the Equestrian government starts imposing [[BigBrotherIsWatching 1984-esque levels of surveillance]] to root out dissenters and traitors, under the eye of the Equestrian Secret Service. Households are checked regularly and civilian ponies are financially rewarded with huge sacks of bits for turning in potential traitors, even their own friends, family members and neighbors. Anypony judged to be disloyal to Equestria's cause or too sympathetic to humanity is arrested without trial by the ESS and sentenced to hard labour in the work camps. Even not contributing enough to the war effort is seen as unpatriotic and can be grounds for a prison sentence; the chapter "Documentation" reveals that Applejack turned in a mare named Mountain Song for "deliberately obscene idleness in times of crisis" and "inappropriate yodelling".