Line #136 FanFic/TheRejuvenationPlay


1	[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/349691/the-rejuvenation-play The Rejuvenation Play]] is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic[=/=]Series/DoctorWho fanfic by Purple Patch, published in 2016 on [=FimFiction.com=]. Set approximately seven years before Season 1, it tells the story of one very eventful play taking place in Ponyville. A heavily-pregnant Derpy Doo is taking part in the event, playing the equally-pregnant Dandelion. Meanwhile, Princess Celestia is in the audience, most of the other actors have their [[DysfunctionJunction own issues]] and the Doctor is running around. [[BlatantLies This cannot possibly end badly]].
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3	This is the first story in Fanfic/TheRejuvenationverse, and the direct sequel is ''Fanfic/Old Fences''.
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5	!!This story contains examples of:
6	* AristocratsAreEvil: Played straight by Countess Magnifying Glass, although [[spoiler:not by Derpy, her niece]].
7	* BedlamHouse: Glanders Gate is described in this way.
8	* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Mayor Mare.
9	* EvilMatriarch: Countess Magnifying Glass of Invitro Hall.
10	* EvilOverlord: Tirek, as in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials canon]].
11	* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The father of Derpy's foal is the Doctor, after a drunken encounter some months earlier.]]
12	* HotAsHell: Aloe and Lotus' costumes are designed to evoke this.
13	* IChooseToStay: The Doctor, at the end.
14	* IncendiaryExponent: The Megan costume. Apparently dynamite is part of its construction.
15	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mayor Mare and her friends after the play. [[spoiler: They go for something stronger after meeting Countess Glass]].
16	* LargeHam: Bulk Biceps, part of the reason for his casting as Tirek in the Rejuvenation Play.
17	* MaternityCrisis: Derpy goes into labour towards the end of her first scene.
18	* MeetCute: After the Doctor bowls over Fancy Pants, he's helped up by Fleur.
19	* NobleFugitive: [[spoiler: Derpy, although until the end of the story her pursuers were content to let her live in hiding]].
20	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup:[[spoiler: The [[LeonineContract 'Family Agreement']] signed by Derpy. There were copies, but they were destroyed after Derpy started using them as evidence of abuse. The original was later destroyed by Mayor Mare to keep it from being enforced.]]
21	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Doctor is less than helpful during the delivery, despite his best efforts.
22	* NotWhatItLooksLike: An unconscious Written Script with his head between Derpy's legs. He'd fainted upon being told she'd gone into labour.
23	* OhNoNotAgain: Lyra's response to her Megan suit spontaneously breathing fire despite not having a flamethrower installed.
24	* PantomimeAnimal: [[InvertedTrope Megan]], as played by Lyra and Bon-Bon.
25	* ProducePelting: {{Invoked}} by Mayor Mare on Aloe and Lotus to try and stop the play's rating getting any further above PG.
26	* PurpleProse: Ponet's rewritten lines suffer badly from this and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. To the point where he gives Celestia flashbacks to ''Luna''.
27	* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler: Derpy is revealed to be related to one of Canterlot's most noble families in the epilogue.]]
28	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Countess Glass has this philosophy.
29	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: And when the above fails, she falls back on this.
30	* ShootTheMessenger: Tirek to Verrucas, Ponet's dismay at having such a small role results in attempts to pad his part.
31	* ShowWithinAShow:The eponymous Rejuvenation Play.
32	* StageFright: Written Script suffers from this. To the point where he rewrote most of his lines to give them to other people.
33	* StylisticSuck: The play definitely suffers from this.
34	* SummonBiggerFish:[[spoiler: When Countess Glass threatens to use her influence to ruin Derpy's life, Mayor Mare points out that Celestia attended the birth of Derpy's foal.]]
35	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Carrot Top thinks this. Her thought is interrupted by a ScreamingBirth.

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