Line #23 FanFic/TheSteadfastSky


1	The tyrannical Shadow Stallion oppresses Equestria, coating the land in a thick layer of clouds, tightly controlling the population. Three children, the unicorns Celestia and Luna, along with a Draconequus, Discord, must live up to their fate. They must find the Elements of Harmony and take up their rightful place as Equestria's new gods and saviors.
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3	This is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/TheGreyPotter TheGreyPotter]]. It can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/11495/the-steadfast-sky here]].
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7	!!This fanfic has examples of:
8	* {{The Artful Dodger}}s: The Sickle Ravens are a group of homeless colts who cause troublemaking and steal food from markets. When they reluctantly brought Celestia with them, she tried, and failed, to tame them.
9	* BrokenPedestal: Blueblood to Celestia when she found out that he saw her as a trophy to win in a game of politics and not as a pony.
10	* {{The Chosen One}}s: Celestia, Luna and Discord are the next to be chosen by their respective Elements of Harmony.
11	* ConflictingLoyalty: Discord suffers from this at the beginning. He doesn't want to lose his new unicorn friends, but he also doesn't want to anger the Shadow Stallion who he, like all other Draconequui, view him as his 'Father'.
12	* TheCorruption: The Nightmare. It is an emotional magical condition that occurs mostly to highly magical beings when they constantly feel bitter emotions. Discord feared that Celestia was falling victim to this after their fallout.
13	* TheDarkTimes: Equestria has been founded for 60 years, but the bitterness of its first gods caused it to turn into an oppressive {{Dystopia}} with the sky always overcast and the Shadow Stallion (who was Butterfly Bright, the last bearer of Kindness before he fell in his Nightmare) always watching.
14	* EldritchAbomination: The Smooze. Is it even a living thing or just sentient chemical?
15	* EvilOverlord: The Shadow Stallion, who was the last bearer of the Element of Kindness before his fall to Nightmare.
16	* EvilUncle: Not really evil as in 'Mwahahaha!' evil, but Celestia and Luna's uncle was actually very neglectful to his nieces (if he was even alive for that matter and his butler didn't just tell them that he was busy so they would not know he is dead).
17	* {{Fallen Hero}}es: The first bearers of the Elements of Harmony became the first victims of the Nightmare with the Shadow Stallion still ruling with an iron hoof.
18	* HonourBeforeReason: Martyr, one of Celestia's alter egos, wants nothing more than to risk and work herself to death for satisfaction that she made a generous good deed.
19	* ImpoverishedPatrician: Celestia and Luna are very poor since foalhood when their family inheritance were stolen by officials after their parents went missing, possibly dead. Celestia is also a baroness.
20	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Discord. He actually cares about both Celestia and Luna as his first ever friends, but his Draconequus nature makes it harder for him to act like one.
21	** His adoptive brother Ruin could be described as such too. Even if he doesn't show it, he really does care for little Discord.
22	* PerpetualFrowner: Ruin, but that could be because of his deep cynicism and annoyance to the stupidity of his fellow Draconequui.
23	* PhysicalGods: The first Element Bearers are also known as the First Gods. Celestia, Luna and Discord are also on their way to become the Second Gods due to being Element Bearers.
24	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Discord gave one to Gravekeeper in chapter 73:
25	--> I was on my feet in a moment, roaring at the top of my lungs, "You blame me for not caring about the country! Then you just forget about that and yell at us for being friends! You said friendship was a bond and it would work! Now you say it's stupid and we should forget it! You keep finding thing after thing after thing wrong with us, and not everything you say even adds up!" I swiped at the rocks at my feet. "This broken rocks are Four-Clover! The First Gods chanted something to connect to one another! The nightmare is inevitable, except for Four-Clover, oh no, he was special! You're just, just all over the place! What the hell are we supposed to believe?!"
26	* SanitySlippage: What happened to Celestia during her time travelling alone and in the Sanatorium [[note]] Her mind became split in 4 personalities; [[HonourBeforeReason Martyr]], [[SpoiledBrat Princess]], Snippy and [[TheTeamNormal Baker]] [[/note]].
27	* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Gravekeeper, an old stallion living in and keeper of a desolate Tomb of Magic, treats the young trio like how an old teacher treats an ignorant student.
28	* SlaveRace: The pegasi are shown as being forcefully working to maintain the overcast sky in Equestria under the Shadow Stallion's rule with the griffons as hired slave masters.
29	* SnobsVsSlobs: Celestia, a baroness later princess, is the Snob and Discord, a juvenile Draconequus, is the Slob. Luna is somewhere in between, but due to her getting very close to Discord she is more in the Slob side.
30	* VitriolicBestBuds: Celestia and Discord might not look like the best of friends to outsiders, but after a while they care for each other a lot.

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