Line #23 Fanfic/PinkieSenseAndSensibility


1	A WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] in 2014. Incomplete.
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3	The part written so far covers the origins of the Paracosmic Paradise and the birth of Pinkie Pie, the latter taking place in YOH 1481 -- nineteen years before Luna's Return.
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5	Available [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/187249/ here.]]
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8	!! Tropes appearing in this tale include:
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10	* AdvancedAncientHumans: The Ponies of the Age of Wonders, who developed a global high-technology civilization and then mastered sorcery as well as science to craft the Great Wish.
11	* AndManGrewProud: The downfall of the Age of Wonders came when the Ponies attempted to cast the Great Wish, nearly crashed the continuum, and instead attracted the attention of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts,]] who destroyed both the alternate timeline of Paradise and then the Engines of the Wish to prevent Paradise from occurring: The result was The Cataclysm that wiped out most of Ponykind, and cast the few survivors back into the Dark Ages.
12	* ApocalypseHow: ''Four'' examples in-story, in a fanfic about the happiest member of a race of cheerful technicolor sapient ponies. MoodDissonance, anyone?
13	** The [[TimeCrash Crash of the Continuum,]] had it occurred, would have been of Universal Scope and led to Metaphysical Annihilation. The [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts]] prevented this from occurring by an essentially firebreak strategy.
14	** The Destruction of Paradise was instead of Stellar Scope (Paradise had planted Pony societies all through the Solar System) and resulted in Metaphysical Annihilation through a ''controlled'' RetGone.
15	** The Cataclysm which ended the Age of Wonders was of Planetary Scope (actually, the whole Solar System was affected, but the Ponies had turned away from Space and hence were unaffected by what happened to the rest of the System), and resulted in Societal Collapse verging on Species Extinction for the Ponies.
16	** The Shadow Invasion, if successful, will be of Multiversal Scope and ultimately lead to the Total Extinction of all life in the Multiverse, as the ravenous Shadows consume all life and all energy in Creation.
17	* ApocalypseWow: The first half of the first chapter of the fic describes ''two'' Apocalypses -- the one which destroyed the World That Was Lost, and The Cataclysm which destroyed the Age of Wonders. Describes them in loving, horrific detail.
18	* TheChosenOne: Three examples in-story, consisting of Pinkie Pie and her two full sisters, each of whom has her own task.
19	** Pinkie Pie herself is the Herald of Paradise, destined to spread the message of joy and kindness which will awaken Ponies to the possibility of Paradise.
20	** Maud Pie is the Guardian of Paradise, whose job it is to protect Pinkie Pie in time of Pinkie's ultimate need.
21	** Claire ("Least Noticeable") Pie is the Opener of the Way to Paradise, who shall open the Gate to Paradise itself.
22	* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Cleaner and prettier than normal, anyway. {{Justified\|Trope}} in that Claire ''teleports'' into the birthing pan when she finds her way difficult, and Pinkie warps reality several times to surmount birth complications.
23	* ClockRoaches: One of the roles of the Cosmic Concepts, in fact their ''oldest'' role, is to coordinate causality throughout the Universe. This includes containing and destroying any RealityBreakingParadox which manifests so as to prevent a TimeCrash.
24	* {{Cosmic Entit\|y}}ies: The Cosmic Concepts, such as Fusion, Gravity, Discord [[spoiler: and Laughter.]] They are awesomely powerful, since their roles are to co-ordinate their respective Cosmic principles, but they care little for mortal affairs. [[spoiler: However, Fusion has gone native, and the New Concepts such as Laughter are primarily loyal to Equestria's Earth.]]
25	* DepopulationBomb: The effect of [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm]] on Ponykind.
26	-->The Earth had held eight billion Ponies on the day of the Cataclysm, proud possessors of a high technological civilization. As night's terminator drew its kindly veil over the wreckage on one continent after another, barely eight hundred million Ponies remained alive. Famine, plague, pestilence and war would reduce that population to eighty million by the end of the first year. Monsters long imagined mythical emerged to menace the badly-shaken survivors. It took a century for the Pony populations to begin their slow and painful recovery, and there were then but forty million Ponies on the Earth, most of them at or below an Early Iron Age clan-based civilization.
27	* DeusEstMachina: Paradise evolved from the artificial intelligence the Ponies of the Age of Wonders built to control the Great Wish. To save equinity when the Wish began to crash the continuum, Paradise was forced to become a god.
28	* {{Elemental Embodiment}}s: The true nature of the Cosmic Concepts, both of Chaos and of Law. Celestia is an Avatar of Fusion, Luna an Avatar of Gravity, and Discord is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. [[spoiler: And Pinkie Pie is Thalia, an Avatar of the Cosmic Laughter.]]
29	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Or really, equinomorphic personifications. The Alicorn and Draconequus Immortal Avatars of the Cosmic Concepts. Examples include Celestia, Luna, Discord [[spoiler: and Thalia.]] They are much less powerful than their Cosmic Selves, but also much more concerned in mortal affairs.
30	* FirstKiss: Cloudy and Igneous share their first kiss in Chapter 3. It's pretty significant to both of them. Moreover, it's Cloudy Quartz Pie's first kiss ''ever.''
31	* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The Paracosmic Paradise is the last surviving representative of its whole world, and Pinkie Pie bears the spirit of a Pony of the World That Was Lost. The purpose of Paradise is to [[spoiler: make a new world of Paradise restore its billions of Ponies from its compressed backup files to live there, creating The World That Was Restored.]] In order to achieve this end, of course, it must both [[spoiler: reconcile with the Cosmic Concepts, convincing them that it is no threat to the continuum]] and [[spoiler: defeat the voracious Shadows, who most definitely are a threat to our whole Universe.]]
32	* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: One of the major destructive elements of [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm.]] In addition to ordinary super-tsunamis...
33	--> [...] seas slopped out of their basins and inundated subcontinental areas [...]
34	* AHeroIsBorn: After the introductory chapter, the story proper begins with the birth of Claire and Pinkie.
35	* InstantAIJustAddWater: Paradise was never intended to be fully sapient, let alone godlike. It was forced to become such in order to fulfill its primary purpose of protecting Ponykind.
36	* IntergenerationalFriendship: How the relationship between Igneous Rock and Claire Quartz begins: He's in his twenties, she's still a young filly, the friend of his little sister Sedimentary.
37	* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Claire and Pinkie are only named after their birth. {{Justified\|Trope}} in that even normal Ponies are usually given {{Meaningful Name}}s, and Claire and Pinkie are two of three of {{The Chosen One}}s.
38	* TheMagicComesBack: Half of the reason for the transition from the Age of Wonders to that of the present day. The other reason was [[ApocalypseHow The Cataclysm.]] This nearly finished off the Pony species, as not only did the emotionally-shocked survivors have to try to rebuild their civilization with most of their physical plant destroyed, but they found themselves coming under attack from monstrous races whose very existence they had once thought merely mythical.
39	* MessianicArchetype: The three oldest Pie Sisters are conceived by MysticalPregnancy and born to a virgin, and they are explicitly {{The Chosen One}}s destined to fulfill a divine promise to the followers of the deity.
40	* MysticalPregnancy: How all of the Daughters of Paradise, including the three eldest Pie Sisters, are conceived. This does not surprise Cloudy Quartz Pie, their mother; nor Goldie Pie, who is Cloudy's mother and the leader of the cult, because such pregnancies were exactly what they were expecting. The immense importance of the three foals who are born, however, ''does'' surprise them.
41	* {{Omnidisciplinary Scientist}}s: Sundreamer and Moondreamer, who are Cosmic Celestia's and Cosmic Luna's first two Avatars in the new timeline.
42	-->Sundreamer and Moondreamer, who as mere mortal avatars did not remember their Cosmic Selves, became great scientists among the Ponies of their Age, and had many adventures in that exciting era. Unfortunately for that Age, when the Magic came back, they applied their formidable intellects to the problem of improving the power systems of the Great Wish. They improved them so much that when the Cosmic Destruction came to prevent the causality crash by exploding the reactors powering the Wish, the resultant explosions would have been orders of magnitude greater than anything intended -- powerful enough to scour the Earth clean of all macroscopic life, ending the story of Ponykind for ever.
43	* RagingStiffie: Igneous Rock is terribly afraid of getting one of these right in front of his then innocent teenaged filly friend, Cloudy Quartz, the evening he first declares his love for her. He is even ''more'' worried that her family will come out and observe him with it. Since the Ponies don't wear pants, this would mean that he was "unsheathed" right in plain sight, which is a very embarrassing situation for a stallion to be in before somepony with whom he is ''not'' yet sexually intimate. What makes matters worse is that Cloudy is at this point something of an InnocentFanserviceGirl, being extremely flirtatious but not fully-understanding the implications of her actions.
44	* RealityBreakingParadox: The ultimate and most dangerous power of the Great Wish -- and the ultimate and most dangerous weapon of the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts.]] The Cosmic version of this produces a controlled RetGone. When the Great Wish accidentally starts to crash the continuum, the Cosmic Concepts must destroy Paradise so that it is not and never was, making it The World That Was Lost. Goldie Pie knows that Pinkie Pie bears within her a fragment of the Great Wish, and fears the possibilities of her uncontrolled use of this power as a newborn foal. Paradise assures her that Pinkie's greatest powers are locked for the sake of safety until she is mature enough to wisely use them.
45	* TheTalk: When Goldie Pie finds out that her 15-year-old daughter Cloudy Quartz has fallen in love with 31-year-old Igneous Rock, she's not worried about the age difference. She just decides it's time for one of these. When Cloudy protests that her mother already gave her this talk when she got her Cutie Mark, Goldie explains:
46	-->Goldie: Well, ''that'' was the Talk I give to a filly just entering puberty, to make sure that she knows what to ''not'' do with excited colts if she doesn't want any unexpected additions to her family. ''This'' is the Talk I give to an excited young mare who is actually stepping out with a very special somepony, to make sure that she knows what ''to'' do to resolve their excitement without it resulting in at best a somewhat hasty marriage. Do you understand me?
47	* TimeyWimeyBall: The timeline leading to the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic world is at least the second iteration of an open time loop, with the first one having led to three thousand years of Paradise followed by annihilation by the [[ClockRoaches Cosmic Concepts,]] followed by Cosmic Celestia, Cosmic Luna and Cosmic Discord deciding to incarnate themselves in the second version to manipulate Pony history.
48	* ThreeLawsCompliant: Paradise, who even as a Paracosmic God is governed by a version of the Three Laws of Robotics.

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