Under A Luminous Sky is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fan Fiction by Jake the Army Guy
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Tropes present in this work:
- Aloof Ally: Though Bentgrass and Twilight are working towards the same ends, he remains unemotional and detached (though generally polite) in all but a very few circumstances, and will harshly question anyone he believes has pertinent information, even if he was civil to them a moment before.
- Blackmail: One of Sheriff Shackle's tactics to cover things up is to blackmail Doctor Well to withhold evidence.
- FBI Agent: Special Agent Bentgrass works for the Royal Investigative Service, essentially Equestria's IRS... or, more specifically, its semi-secret Division Six, an "unexplained phenomenon" investigative office.
- Forced Transformation: Undergone by Angel Bunny and Big Macintosh, in an exceptionally unpleasant process. The Power of Love transforms Big Mac back; poor Angel recovers his mind, but is stuck in the body of a monster for what might be the rest of his life.
- Mind Rape: Parchment's tactic for using poor Zecora as a scapegoat for his murders. Even with him dead, her prognosis is... not optimistic.
- Mistaken for Gay: It's mentioned that Rainbow Dash had to fight rumors of her sexuality for a long time. So, of course, when she has to distract a mare that's actually gay...
- Police Are Useless: Sheriff Shackle cares only that he get to his retirement without any undue difficulty. Ritualistic murders in a land of nigh-pacifistic ponies? He'd much rather cover them up- going so far as to blackmail the town coroner- than actually investigate them.
