Line #10 Fanfic/RoyalBusiness


1	A WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jordan179 Jordan179]] set in early Season 1 (September YOH 1500) at the same time as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]].
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3	Spike is summoned to Canterlot to meet with Princess Celestia. When he gets there, he discovers that he is also meeting with Princess Luna, and Princess Luna wants to talk with him ...
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5	Available [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/207942/royal-business here]].
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7	!!Tropes appearing in this work include:
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9	* BigFancyCastle: The Palace at Canterlot. Spike is very familiar with the Palace, as he grew up playing -- and, later, working for Twilight Sparkle -- in this building.
10	* DefinitelyJustACold: Spike notices (from an air chariot) that Pinkie Pie looks ill. WordOfGod is it that she was ''seriously'' wounded fighting Red Haze the Dragon in ''FanFic/{{Dragonshyness}}'' (a rewrite of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy "Dragonshy"]]), and in consequence is going to come close to death in a story set around the time of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip "Bridle Gossip"]].
11	* FamilyHonor: ''Both'' Twilight Sparkle and Spike feel this sentiment regarding their clan, which is an attribute of the Canterlot gentry.
12	-->Twilight's eyes misted slightly as she recognized the attitude. It was her own, the ethos of a young member of the elite scholar-gentry of Canterlot. It was the culture she had absorbed as a small filly from her parents and her big brother, and now Spike had learned the same lessons from her. Be smart. Be honorable. Be diligent. Never let your family down.
13	* InnocentInnuendo: Luna refers to Twilight Sparkle as Spike's "mistress," unaware that this might imply a sexual relationship. This is not so much because Luna's innocent -- she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld not]] -- but because she is a FishOutOfTemporalWater and word connotations have shifted in the millennium she spent on the Moon. Fortunately, she says this in private conversation with Celestia, ''not'' in the conversation with Spike himself.
14	* InterspeciesAdoption: Twilight Sparkle and Spike the Dragon consider one another siblings.
15	-->Twilight smiled fondly at him. He was her assistant, her friend, her adoptive baby brother.
16	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Upon being personally summoned to court, Spike says: "Guess she's finally realized just who is the Number One Dragon around here!" Immediately [[HangingALampshade Lampshaded]] by Twilight Sparkle, resulting in this exchange:
17	-->"Spike," Twilight chuckled, "you're the only Dragon around Ponyville."
18	-->"And thus the Number One," he replied with impeccable logic.
19	* ParentalSubstitute: Though Twilight is technically Spike's foster sister, the 7-year age gap between them (she's 17, he's 10 at the point of this story) means that she sometimes thinks of him as if he were her ''child''.
20	* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Pony of Mass Destruction]]: One of Luna's memories is of her battle as Nightmare Moon against Celestia, over a thousand years ago. It is revealed that many of her missed shots were ''leveling the Foreverfree City'', something which might be [[InferredHolocaust inferred]] from the condition of the Castle and all the ruins littering the landscale by the time the Mane Six first laid eyes upon the area.
21	* PsychicLink: When Spike attunes with Luna, this temporarily happens. First, Spike experiences some of Luna's memories from her [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long life]], then he experiences some of her memories from her [[TimeAbyss far LONGER life]] as the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Cosmic Concept]] Gravity.
22	* RoyalHarem: At one point, Celestia built a luxurious Seraglio in the back gardens of the Palace at Canterlot. The evidence is that she chickened out before actually putting it to its intended purpose, but she notably never demolished it. Spike -- who assumes it to merely be an abandoned bath house -- often went there to relax while Twilight was busy with Celestia. Princess Celestia has no idea that Spike used to frequent the place.
23	* [[SecretPath Secret Passages]]: The Palace at Canterlot is riddled with these. Some are there to provide access to the old crystal mines from when these were the mines of Bahamut's Rest, but some seem to have been built simply for Celestia's amusement.
24	* [[SociallyAwkwardHero Socially-Awkward Heroine]]: Princess Luna is very nervous at the prospect of speaking with Spike -- not because she's shy around Dragons (she isn't: she ''likes'' Dragons), but because her intent is to learn more about Twilight Sparkle, and she wants to make a good impression on Spike because she knows Spike is Twilight's closest ''confidante''.
25	* TemptingFate: Twilight predicts an uneventful night by herself in the library.
26	-->"There's going to be a big storm coming through here tonight -- the Weather Patrol was really thrown off balance by the need to divert rain to the White Tails to clean up the mess Red Haze made all over the eastern part of the mountains. They called for some rain, and got more than they bargained for out of the Everfree, according to Rainbow Dash. I'm just going to bolt all the shutters, curl up with a good book, and go to sleep tonight. No excitement," she predicted.
27	* TimeAbyss: The two Ruling Princesses, Celestia and Luna, both because they are [[Really700YearsOld over 2500 years old]], and because their Cosmic Selves, Fusion and Gravity, are almost as old as the entire Universe.
28	* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Fluttershy, as Spike notices when he runs into her in mid-air. She's friendly, smiling and even ''mischievous'' with Rainbow Dash after they re-bonded and became friendlier than ever before with Rainbow Dash in ''FanFic/{{Dragonshyness}}''. This is Fluttershy's ''normal'' reaction to discovering that somepony loves her, as we also see (four years later) regarding Bulk Biceps in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames "Equestria Games"]].

Context Fanfic / RoyalBusiness