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"Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest sister used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn. The younger brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects: all the different types of ponies.

"But as time went on, the elder sister grew greedy. Though the ponies relished and played in the day and honored her above her younger sister, she wanted to become queen of both night and day. One fateful day, she turned upon her younger sister. The younger sister tried to reason with her, but the avarice in the elder one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of fire and hate: Corona. She vowed that she would reign forever over day, night, and everything in between.

"Reluctantly, the younger sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony! Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her elder sister and banished her permanently into the heart of the sun. The younger sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since."

The Lunaverse, originally by RainbowDoubleDash is a series of Alternate Universe fics of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

On the surface, it is a Bizarro Universe: Celestia grew power-hungry and had to be sealed away by Luna. When she returns, it is up to Trixie and an alternate Mane Six (made up of the regular series background ponies Raindrops, Lyra Heartstrings, Carrot Top, Ditzy Doo [better known as but not in this universe called Derpy Hooves], and side-character Cheerilee) to stop her. However, things are not so straightforward, with many other divergences that make this more complex than that. Furthermore, just as the canon did not end with the defeat of Nightmare Moon, there are other stories to be told beyond Corona's defeat.

RainbowDoubleDash has opened up the Lunaverse to any author who wants to write in it, and the Shared Universe is constantly expanding.

Now has a (still-in-progress) character sheet, as well as a recap page

It also has a (very much still-in-progress) creator page.

As of now, the entire series is receiving a live read starting at episode 1 as seen here

     Stories in the Lunaverse 

Canon stories, in chronological order

Before Season 1

  • A Day in Canterlot is set roughly seven years before the start of Season 1. Fizzlepop Berrytwist has joined Luna's Night Guard with the support of Shining Armor, but trains to the point of exhaustion in order to make up for her broken horn. Her annual performance evaluation takes an unexpected turn when her superior officers put her in charge of looking after Luna's young apprentice Trixie for the day. It is complete.

Season 1

  • Longest Night, Longest Day is a rendition of "Mare in the Moon" and "Elements of Harmony", telling of Trixie's initial arrival in Ponyville, her gathering of the Lunaverse's Mane Six and their defeat of the Tyrant Sun Corona. It is complete.
    • The Night After is the first story set in the Lunaverse not by RainbowDoubleDash. It takes place after Longest Night, Longest Day. Trixie's house has been destroyed by rioting ponies, so now she must seek out the help of her friends to find a place to stay until her place can be fixed. It is complete.
    • Longest Night: Everypony's Day Some stories are too big to be told completely, some aspect always get overlooked. Some actors are too small to affect the outcome of a big story and their parts get left on the cutting floor. In their own right these small parts are worth knowing, worth experimenting to better understand the universe they are set in. A series of A Day In The Lime Light stories retelling what various side characters were doing during the events of Longest Night, Longest Day. It is a group project featuring work by multiple authors. It is dead, with no updates since 2014.
  • Family Matters is the first wholly original Lunaverse story. Taking place after Longest Night, Longest Day but before Boast Busters. It is also the first story to center on a side-character rather than one of the new Elements of Harmony; in this case, the main character is Dinky Doo, and the story is about Dinky's attempts to buy a birthday present for her mother and her first meeting with her half-sister, Amethyst "Sparkler" Star. It is complete.
  • Helping...Hands?: Lyra Heartstrings, graduate of Luna's Academy of Magic, is going to have her first solo show - tonight! It's nothing major, just a few pieces for the Academy itself to play for the new student body, but with some of the most talented musicians in all of Equestria set to be there, the chances to make contacts and get her name known in the right circles is just the opportunity she's dreamed of! She just has to do a quick favor for Trixie first, and then it's off to Canterlot. Surely nothing can go wrong? It is complete.
    • Trixie's Winter Wrap Up: It's time for Winter Wrap-Up in Ponyville, and Representative Trixie has to take part. She wishes she could have stayed in bed. It is complete.
  • Griffin Over the Line: Ever since Gilda the griffin came to town, Rainbow Dash has been slacking off from her weather duties even more than usual. Worse still, the pair are practically terrorizing the townsfolk with recklessly inconsiderate pranks. Raindrops tries to take this all in stride, but when one prank goes too far, the temperamental pegasus takes it into her own hooves to teach the pair a lesson. It is complete.
    • Keep On Trying: Trixie talks with Raindrops after the events of Griffin Over the Line. It is complete.
  • File Under 'I' For 'Impossible'. Trixie greatly underestimated the amount of paperwork expected from a Representative of the Night Court of Luna. At Lyra's suggestion she decides to hire an assistant to help her out around the office. She puts up ads all over town and gets ready to receive interviewees. What could possibly go wrong? It is complete.
  • Ill Communication: Trixie finds Pinkie Pie irritating... at best, but when a parasprite finds its way into Ponyville and begins multiplying, she and the Luna Six need her help to contain the plague before it gets out of control... or more out of control than it already is. It is complete.
  • Boast Busted, the original release, is a retelling of "Boast Busters" as it occurred in the Lunaverse. Trixie's performance during the Eventime festival, the celebration of the spring equinox, is interrupted by a certain purple unicorn who doesn't think Trixie is doing real magic and wants to show her what magic is really all about. It is complete.
    • Boast Busted: The Lost Tales No story is ever truly whole unto only itself, there are always details and events that go untold. This is one such tale. While searching through the Everfree forest, Twilight Sparkle encounters a musical aquatic trio, but are they really what the claim to be? Not if this unicorn has anything to say on the matter. This story takes place during Boast Busted, specifically when Twilight Sparkle goes into the Everfree looking for the Ursa Minor.
  • Where There is Smoke: Corona has been defeated by the Elements of Harmony, but she has not yet given up on her desires for conquest. While she is still too weak to dare a new confrontation, she is still unwilling to let those annoying ponies who dared defy her go unpunished while she recovers. She decides to unleash her one and only true immortal ally, one that was sealed away by Luna centuries ago. This ally will set the world on fire on her behalf, starting with Ponyville! It is time for the phoenix to rise from her ashes once again, time for the world to tremble once again at the name... Philomena! It is complete.
  • Secret of Andalantis: A week of vacation in beautiful Cayo El Bayo! Trixie thought this was the perfect getaway to rid herself of the hijinks plaguing Ponyvlle for a while. Sadly her peaceful vacation was not meant to be. Out on a snorkeling excursion with her friends, Ditzy dissapears! Now Trixie, Lyra and... Rarity?! Must scour the ocean floor and find their friend. What they discover is something bigger than the dissapearance of a single pony and might help unravel a thousands of year old mystery of mythic proportion. Can Trixie and her friends unravel the secret of the Lost City of Andalantis? It is complete.
  • Carrot Top of the Line: Angel has been stealing Carrot Top's crops for a few days now, something he never did before. Worried about this turn of event, the farmer decides to have a talk with Fluttershy. This is easier said than done. With Ditzy and Dinky out of town, Carrot Top will need the help of Rainbow Dash to confront the shy recluse. When Rainbow Dash initially refuses, Carrot Top must push herself to be more assertive and get to the bottom of this story. It is complete.
  • Musicians and Dreamers: Lyra is pleasantly surprised to find that her friend and mentor, Octavia Philharmonica, is in Ponyville. It seems that Canterlot will be having a three-month long music festival, they need a top-notch lyre player, and Octavia has recommended Lyra. Lyra is thrilled, of course, but torn as to whether she can really leave her friends for months to go play music in Canterlot. Meanwhile, Trixie is sure that this is just a political move and that one of the Canterlot factions thinks having Lyra under their hooves would be helpful. Unfortunately, Lyra is all too aware of how manipulative Trixie can be. She thinks that Trixie's warnings are just a selfish attempt to keep Lyra nearby in Ponyville, and is only driven closer to accepting Octavia's offer. Can Trixie patch things up with Lyra and expose Octavia's scheme? It is complete.
    • A Canterlot Morning: It's a beautiful morning in Canterlot, but Octavia Philharmonica is having trouble practicing. After her previous betrayal of one of her best and closest friends, she has been unable to move on, and her resulting emotional turmoil is disrupting her music. A mysterious friend drops by to help her redeem herself, but Octavia is unwilling to even consider that she could change. Will Octavia's friend be able to get through to her? And just who is she, anyway? It is complete.
  • Scootalong to the Cheer: After a particularly random day, Cheerilee calls for a Parent Teacher conference. But what will come of the conference? How badly will Scootaloo be punished? Will Cheerilee be able to relax? It is complete.
    • The School Talent Show: It's time for the school talent show! Let's watch how everything goes. It is complete.
  • A Hard Bargain: Ditzy Doo is a loving mother, a good friend and a dedicated mail mare. She also happens to the Element of Kindness, something that can lead to a pony getting some unwanted attention. This starts to become a problem when she is approached by some ponies from Manehattan with an offer they doubt she'll refuse. What will happen? How will the Elements react? And what part does Big Macintosh play in all of this? It is complete.
  • Carrot Top Season: Carrot Top enters a farming competition in order to try to win the prize money, which she needs to complete a major business contract. Sadly, the Apple Trust has always been the only Ponyville entrant, and Applejack is furious that Carrot Top is trying to compete against her. Carrot Top thus has to deal with hostility from the largest farm in the region, as well as the costs of competing, which quickly promise to bankrupt her if she doesn't win. When a couple of con-artist unicorns begin to interfere in the match, it becomes even harder for the poor, beleaguered carrot farmer. Can Carrot Top and her friends save the farm, fend off the con-artists, and avoid going to war with the Apple Trust? It is complete.
    • Greengrass's Night It's another night in the life of the Night Court, the body that governs Equestria. Duke Greengrass, a young and ambitious politician, embarks on his latest scheme to accrue power and influence in the court of Princess Luna. It is complete.
  • Tales of Ponyville: Not everyday can be about battling monsters and mad gods. Not everyday can be about a farm in danger of going under, or a political gambit from one of your rivals in the Night Court. Not everyday can be about old family secrets coming to light. Not every day can be extraordinary. But that doesn't mean that the ordinary days can't be some of the most important days of our lives - or at least some of the most fun. It is complete.
  • Of Hearts and Hooves: Lyra and Bon-Bon love each other. That's obvious to anypony just walking down the street. But today, on the most romantic day in Equestria, something terrible has happened. And if they missed such an important holiday, what else could this possibly mean for them? Is their romance over? Is there any way to salvage what love remains?. It is complete.
  • To Cheerilee with Love: On Hearts and Hooves Day, Sweetie Belle decides that she should be Miss Cheerilee's new very special somepony. Anonymous cards, out-of-control rumours and failed attempts to "help" things along create havoc among Cheerilee's friends. It is complete.
  • The Hero of Oaton: Trixie Lulamoon, Night Court Representative, Element of Magic and... kind of a jerk. But she's getting better. With the help of her friends Trixie is starting to realize what friendship could be. But a little ego never hurt anypony, right? When a filly desperately approaches Trixie to save her village, convinced Trixie is the 'Hero of Oaton', Trixie is caught up in the reputation she may not have earned. With two of her friends, Raindrops and Cheerilee, by her side Trixie returns to Oaton to confront a corrupt Lumber Guild. But how much of Trixie's past reputation with the town is genuine and how much was drunken delusion and ego-driven lies? And does she have what it takes to be a hero for real this time, or will ego and doubt get in the way? It is complete.
  • Through the Fire and Flames: Lyra has another concert in Canterlot, and this time all her friends are here to see it. But when Princess Luna gets called away, thieves take advantage of her absence to break into the royal library. Their target? A certain artifact of incredible power leftover from one of the greatest spell casters of all time. And when one of their own gets taken as well, can the Elements put a stop to them before yet another ancient evil is released? It is complete.
  • Symphony for Moon and Sun: Octavia Philharmonica has betrayed her friends and allied with the corrupt nobles of Luna's Court, but her usefulness is at an end. After a discovered attempt to redeem herself and save her friends from the politicians, she finds herself compelled to play the infamous Symphony for Moon and Sun — a piece from which no musician's career has ever escaped intact. Princess Luna hates the piece and shuns anypony who dares play it, and no venue will host a pony shunned by the princess of Equestria. In her desperate straits, her only hope is the aid of her former student Lyra Heartstrings... but not only is Lyra still feeling the effects of Octavia's betrayal, but Octavia isn't even sure that she deserves the help. Can Lyra get through to her former teacher and help her survive the most important performance of her career? Or will both of them find their careers crashing to a premature end? It is complete.
  • A Chance Encounter: After spending months on end in Corona's palace, Spike runs away, leaving the insane alicorn and his friend Zecora behind. But he doesn't get far before he runs into a different pony, a unicorn on the run from the law who has a few screws loose. It is complete, with the final two chapters being written by another author here.
  • The Jackelope Valley Festival: A thousand years ago, Corona cursed Jackelope Valley, and it has never rained there since. Now the barren desert is the site of an annual music festival that celebrates up-and-coming artists — and Lyra's been invited to play! When Raindrops learns that her favorite band, the Daughters of Discord, are playing, she comes along as well... but soon after arriving, the two stumble upon the last living Jackelope. What should have been a week of fun and music turns into a race against time and the pitiless sun as the two ponies, aided by DJ-Pon3 and the guitarist pegasus Thunder Axe, struggle to save the Jackelope's life. It is complete.
  • Dinner With The Folks: Lyra loves Bonbon. Bonbon loves Lyra. They love their parents. Their parents love them. But will their parents themselves get along when sitting down for dinner? It is complete.
    • Foaling Around: Cheerilee takes the foals in her class on a trip to Canterlot. Unfortunately, several of them are soon split off from the group and begin wandering around the castle! How will the guards, staff, nobles, and even princess react to the antics of the Ponyville foals? It is complete.
  • Adventures in Ponysitting: After one of the worst days of her life Carrot Top is asked by a dreadfully ill Rainbow Dash to help Fluttershy. Feeling sorry for the mare, the Element of Generosity agrees to help Fluttershy with getting the animals' homes cleaned out. What could go wrong? Kidnapping, randsom, evil illusionists, and multiple musical numbers aside. It is dead, last updated in May 2015.
  • Eye of the Hurricane: Raindrops has always had a problem with her anger, and despite her strong self-control, she sometimes can't help but lose it. Unfortunately, her latest explosion has not only gotten her suspended from her job, but also ordered to attend anger management. When she finds an alternative procedure, however, she's suddenly all smiles and giggles. Can her friends figure out what's happened and bring her back to normal? And more importantly, will Raindrops even want that to begin with? It is dead, not updated since 2014.
  • Foalish Misadventures: When the Ponyville adults are hit by a curse that makes them all perpetually drunk, there's only one group of ponies that can save them — Dinky and her friends! But to succeed they'll have to get through a town gone completely crazy and somehow dispell the curse, all without help from any of their parents and sibings. Can they put their rivalries aside for long enough to work together? Are they up to the task? And can they do it without breaking more stuff than the partying adults? It is complete.
  • At The Grand Galloping Gala: In the aftermath of a terrible curse placed on Ponyvillenote , the town is a complete wreck: windows smashed, possessions missing, crops ruined. The town's emergency fund isn't enough to cover the damages by a long shot — but for some reason, the nobles of Canterlot are refusing to send aid! Now, Trixie and her friends must descend into the dark heart of Canterlot during the Grand Galloping Gala, in order to put a stop once and for all to the machinations of the Night Court of Luna. It is complete.
    • The Game and The Garden: After the disastrous events of the Grand Galloping Gala, Greengrass finds himself in his private sanctuary. Alone except for his thoughts, he wonders who he had miscalculated and where the game went wrong. More importantly though, he wonders how he had ended up saying four words that he'd thought he'd never say about The Game and all it's glory. It is complete.
    • Pinkie and Bluie: After Prince Blueblood and Pinkie Pie met at the Gala, he'd expected it to be a one off thing, like so many times before. So why is he finding it so hard to tell her that? It is complete.

Season 2

  • The Return of Tambelon: A long, long time ago, the necromancer Grogar conquered the city of Tambelon for his own nefarious purposes. Working together, the princesses Celestia and Luna were able to banish Tambelon and the fallen city into the realm of Shadow, never to be seen again...or so they thought. Two thousand years later, Tambelon and Grogar return — and the world may never be the same... It is complete.
  • Sergeant-at-Hooves: Cheerilee goes overboard when trying to prepare her friends for the fight against Corona. In-progress.
  • Magic Tutor: Trixie offers to help teach Dinky and Snails master their magic, due to a slight misunderstanding half of the unicorn foal population think they have been invited too. Chaos ensues. It is complete.
  • A Concert For Ponyville: Trixie arranges for Octavia to help Fluttershy prepare for a concert, but when the two don't get along, the showmare must use everything she knows about friendship to save their relationship as well as the show. It is complete.
  • Old Friends: Everypony loves Cheerilee — except, apparently, for an old friend of hers from college, who has just returned to Ponyville with a score to settle! It's a wild race around town as Cheerilee attempts to flee her former companion long enough to figure out what, exactly, she did — she was a bit drunk at the time, and her memories are rather hazy — and how she can make it up to her. Not to worry, though: if Cheerilee can't set things right, her students are happy to help out! ...for a generous definition of 'help.'. It is complete.
  • Exam Jitters: Ditzy Doo has many responsibilities — delivering mail, supporting her community, and even fighting evil as the Bearer of the Element of Kindness and a Knight of the Realm to boot. None of these, however, are as important to her as her primary job of raising her daughter Dinky. Through good times and bad, Ditzy has always been there for her daughter, and she works tirelessly to make sure that Dinky grows up in a happy, healthy, and loving environment. Unfortunately, nopony is perfect, and after a freak accident almost results in disaster, Ditzy becomes even more protective of her daughter. When Dinky subsequently becomes eligible for a fantastic opportunity, the foal is excited, but Ditzy is so worried that her daughter will get hurt that she finds herself wishing Dinky would pass it up. Ditzy must choose, then, between keeping her daughter as safe as possible... and allowing her to grow. Lunaverse story. It is complete.
  • A Bushel of Carrots: Everypony in Ponyville knows Carrot Top, the element of generosity. Always ready with kind words and a helping hoof when they're needed. But when Carrot Top finds herself stuck between her friends in the Farmer's Union, and a request from Applejack, she turns to a legend of the Everfree to gain some extra hoof power. But strange magic has its consequences. Will Ponyville and Carrot Top be able to deal with them?
  • Half-Arrogant, Half-Crazy, All Trixie Lulamoon: Trixie is very bored. In an effort to relieve said boredom, she is reading her textbooks on magic. This is a very bad idea. The result? A spell goes wrong and Ponyville ends up with two Trixies, or at least two pieces of Trixie. One is carefree, pompous, and just a wee bit more arrogant than usual about her powers. The other is a nervous wreck that can't work up the courage to do anything based on the thought that it'll lead to a personal failure in her responsibilities. They are two incomplete halves of a whole that have a spell to fix. The problem with fixing it? One of them decided to run off to Neigh Orleans during a night of endless partying.
  • Ice Hearts: Ditzy and the other Elements must contend with a windigo who wants to find his child, and a noble of the Court who wants the child for herself
  • Up And Automaton: Its winter in Ponyville and for the most part everything seems to be going well. That changes when Grinding Gears, a friend of Cheerilee's from Detrot with more engineering skill than common sense, comes to town hoping to get endorsement for his latest invention. The Automaton, a fully mechanical creation powered by magic. He's researched extensively, planned out thoroughly and has brought his first working prototype for inspection. What could possibly go wrong? It is Complete.
  • Games Ponies Shouldn't Play: While cleaning out her basement, Cheerilee comes across a long forgotten board game. Deciding to give it a shot, she invites her friends over for a night of fun. Unfortunately, she's unaware of the reputation this game has gained. For you see, in Diplomacy, the number one rule is: Never play this game with friends, or you may need to find new friends...
  • Ponies On The High Seas: Trixie and her friends are attacked at sea by a gang of vicious pirates. After Raindrops, Dinky and Pip are taken captive, Trixie and co set sail to get them and their stolen treasure back!
  • Title Match: It's no secret that Trixie hasn't had the best track record with friends. So she is the last pony to be surprised that a former friend would track her down to settle a score. But when that former friend is Galeb, a Zebrony skilled in the art of Neigh Orleans Voodoo, things start to get a little tricky. When that same former friend is trying to force Trixie into a duel with her very Knighthood on the line, that's when things start to get down right difficult.
  • The Glass Kingdom: On a goodwill visit to the Kingdom of Zaldia, Trixie and Lyra find themselves embroiled in conspiracy when an impossible crime occurs.
  • From the Depths: In a bid for the terrible power of the Flashstone Amulet, Corona has released an ancient evil from it's prison and has let it loose upon the capital city of Cavallia, Roam. Princess Cadence is forced to defend her home and her subjects alone against a power that has toppled ancient empires & gods alike. It is complete.

"Movies" and tie-ins (not canon unless referenced in a canon story)

  • An Early Reunion: A distant prequel to the rest of the Lunaverse, taking place 980 years before Longest Night, Longest Day. Celestia has been trapped in the sun for twenty years. They have been hard times for the ponies of Equestria as they have sought to try and rebuild their society and recover from all that she did in her madness. But fear not! For though her coat and mane are now pink, and though she is shorter, and though she remembers nothing of her previous life, all that Celestia was has been reborn, and returned to Equestria! It is complete. Canon.
  • Elements of Insanity: Fugitive Twilight Sparkle, having convinced herself that Trixie Lulamoon has pulled off an elaborate hoax by passing herself of as the Element of Magic when she's not that powerful, plans on proving her worth to the world by assembling her own superior group of elements. It is complete. Canon.
  • Raindrops of Clan Drops, Barbarian Queen: The Evil Enchantress Torka has kidnapped Prince Miche of the Kingdom of Levure. None of the kingdom's warrior dare defy the reptillian warriors of the enchantress! Only one mare is bold enough dares to defy the Evil Enchantress to save the prince, to brave the Dark Fortress of Ugn, and invicible enough to hope to come back alive: Raindrops of Clan Drops, Barbarian Queen! It is complete. Non Canon due to it being All Just a Dream.
  • Changing Gossip: So things Ponyville are always a little... off, mainly due to Pinkie Pie's antics. But this isn't the normal Ponyville brand of weird. Ponies are doing things they don't normally do, there's somehow two of them at the same time, and they swear they had nothing to do with it. And when Lyra starts acting up, Trixie has no choice but to get involved. But what exactly IS going on? It is in progress.
  • The Court Musician of Equestria: Octavia Philharmonica has achieved everything she ever dreamed of. Thanks to her skill, talent, and friends, she has risen to the rank of Court Musician and has earned the right to perform for the Princess and the nobles as frequently as she could want. Yet the musical scene of Canterlot is never still, and she learns that a new musician is taking the city by storm. At first, Octavia's interest in the musician is merely professional, and she wants only to learn more about his new style of music. However, as she is drawn deeper into his concerts, she learns that this newcomer harbors a wicked secret, and his phenomenal success may have more to do with dark magic than music. Octavia will need to use all of her ability and strength to expose the truth and stop him, or the entire city may fall under his sway. It is complete.
  • Treasure City: Vicereine Puissance, one of the richest and most powerful mares in Equestria, has many vaults. One of them contains, not gold, gems, or valuables, but ponies. The story follows one such pony throughout a day in her life, and explores the strange, isolated world within the secluded Treasure City. It is complete.
  • Countdown to Crisis: Big things have small beginnings. Canon.
  • Time After Time by Talon and Thorn: Fleeing from the Time Lords the Doctor accidentally damages the barrier between his own universe and that of Equestria an event that may lead to disaster for both universe. Now each of his incarnations must visit Equestria to repair the damage. Stories for the first eleven Doctors have been completed, with plans for Twelve and possibly the War Doctor are pending. Non-Canon.
  • For the Mare Who Has Everything: Vicereine Puissance has ruled as one of Princess Luna's richest and most powerful nobles for fifty years, but not even her uncountable wealth or legions of followers can save her from old age. As her health begins to fail and the doctors tell her there is nothing they can do, she rejects the suggestion of Luna and others that she should retire and spend her remaining time with her family. Instead she decides to solve this problem as she has solved all others: by drawing upon her stupendous resources and vast political power in order to obtain the one remaining thing she wants: the immortal, ageless life of an alicorn. But while she thinks she can afford any price, the journey she sets out on could prove to be far more costly than she had ever anticipated.

Non-canon

  • Dinky and the Blanks: When Dinky Doo sees a mysterious gray foal in the Everfree, she chases after her and is split off from the other Ponyville foals. She soons winds up in a strange town called Moonville, where no pony has a cutie mark and the parties go on forever. Although the village at first appears idyllic, Dinky soon realizes that something is very wrong and that the town hides a terrible secret. Can Dinky escape? And, more importantly, can she help save the benighted citizens of Moonville? Based off of Story of the Blanks. It is complete.
  • Dark Tidings: Something is happening in the hallowed streets of Canterlot. A madpony hunts for those he believes responsible for his disgrace, urged on by a mysterious force that gives him terrifying power. Captain Shining Armor of the Royal Guard is in a race against time to apprehend this felon before blood is spilled and lives are lost. And in order to do so, he must turn to an ally that may be more threatening than than the very pony he is pursuing. It is complete.
  • In the Heat of the Moment: Trixie is in heat. Because she's asexual, she does not like this. But for everypony else, it's an opportunity... A non-canon Crack Fic by RainbowDoubleDash himself. Due to the subject matter, it's for mature audiences. It is complete.
  • Red Magician's Last Adventure: Excerpt from a tale of the great wizard Red Magician and his final battle against evil. It is complete.
  • Fate/Lunaverse: A crossover with the Fate/stay night series. Seven equines (Trixie, Ditzy, Rainbow Dash, Zecora, Twilight, Shining Armor, and Duke Greengrass) find themselves with Servants who must battle each other out to win the Grail, a magic artifact of untouchable power. It is dead, with no updates since 2014.
  • Rime of the Ancient Pegasus: 'Tis the night before Hearth's Warming, and Ponyville has a visitor, an old student of Princess Luna's released from her imprisonment in Tartarus named Snowy Wind. Written by RainbowDoubleDash. In progress.
  • Nightmares Yet to Come: One night, a cult of ponies abduct Trixie and Twilight. Things do not go to plan, and soon there's a new, familiar-looking little alicorn to deal with. But not everything is as it seems. A sort-of homage to Past Sins. In progress.

Currently uncategorized

  • Fishing In The Dark: The Night Court governs Equestria, and the ponies on the Court hold power unimaginable. Still, even the highest nobles have limits to their power. Shortly before the Grand Galloping Gala, in a quiet hallway in the castle two of the most powerful ponies in the nation meet to discuss political affairs, family matters... and one particular Element, whom both despise. It is complete.

Other stories have been planned (by multiple other authors as well as RainbowDoubleDash).


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This Fan Fiction series contains examples of the following tropes:

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  • Action Mom: Ditzy Doo. The chief reason for why she wants to stop Corona is that the Tyrant Sun kidnapped Dinky.
  • Adaptation Decay: An Embarrassment in Three Acts has the Element Bearers watching a play about themselves with many, many, many liberties taken, including: Trixie and Lyra being lovers, with BonBon completely Adapted Out, Cheerilee being a ninja, Ditzy a secret agent, Raindrops a dumb dude, Corona speaking in rhyme and Zecora the opposite, and the Sirens from Rainbow Rocks instead of the Sirens the characters actually encountered. And yet, it does get Cheerilee's taunt to Corona accurate.
  • A Day in the Limelight:
    • Parts of Scootalong to the Cheer serve as this for Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara
    • Greengrass's Night is this for Greengrass.
    • Canterlot Morning and Court Musician of Equestria serve as this for Octavia Philharmonica.
    • The tales found in Longest Night: Everypony's Day are this for various secondary characters.
  • Adults Are Useless: Happens during Foalish Misadventures, when all the adults in Ponyville ends up constantly drunk due to a curse, and it's up to Dinky and her friends to fix everything. Not only are the adults useless, but they are actively hindering the foals and trying to bring them under the curse as well.
  • Affably Evil:
    • The Sirens (not those Sirens), who are surprisingly good conversationalists. Well, two of them, anyway. The third is just hungry.
      "Can we please stop talking to the food and just eat already?"
    • Duke Greengrass is a jocular, pleasant stallion who treats his (loyal) subordinates kindly and reacts even to setbacks with grace and aplomb. He's also plotting on seizing control of the Elements for political power, and is willing to target their friends and businesses in order to get them. Also, when he finds Dinky, Snails and Twist hiding in his room (during a school trip to Canterlot), he just keeps them entertained until Cheerilee shows up, instead of using them for political leverage.
  • A God Am I:
    • Not only is Corona a self-absorbed creep with an allergy to taking responsibility for her actions, she's a theatrical lunatic who wants to set herself up as God Empress of Applebucking Everything. By which we mean she wants to Take Over the World, not be the one in charge of bucking apples.
    • In The Return of Tambelon, Grogar claims this after becoming a lich, just before dying.
  • Alas, Poor Villain:
    • Just before Zecora saves her flank, we see Corona devoid of her upper ground...and that she is honestly and truly insane, utterly incapable of trusting other ponies except as subordinates, and honestly thinking she's the last line of defense against everything. It's kind of sad to see how Celestia could have been if she was a bit more paranoid.
    • Applejack gets a good dose of this in Carrot Top Season. She's just fighting to make sure no one starves on her watch, and she'll do anything to ensure that no one does.
  • Allergic to Routine: After a while Trixie becomes so used the chaos that is an average day in Ponyville that during an unusually quiet week she started a game of "stealth hug" with Pinkie to alleviate her boredom.
  • All Just a Dream: Raindrops of Clan Drops, Barbarian Queen.
  • All There in the Manual: Not only has RDD written blog entries explaining some of the aspects of the world (like the differences from the canon!Equestria), the series has also its own group in Fimfiction.net, where a lot of the world building takes place.
  • Alternate Universe: The series itself, of course. Two stories by RDD, In the Heat of the Moment and I'll See You Soon, themselves take place in a slightly-alternate universe from the Lunaverse, nicknamed "the Sexyverse". Events still play out mostly the same, but everyone is a lot more promiscuous.
  • Anachronic Order:
    • The first story in The 'Verse, Boast Busted takes place after the events of multiple later fics, with some hints being dropped as to the resolution of Longest Night Longest Day.
    • Later fics by other authors were released in a fairly loose order, as well.
  • ...And That Would Be Wrong: At one point in "Nightmares Yet to Come", Thesis asks if she couldn't ask to stay over at Ditzy's house. Her guardian states this would be very manipulative, unfair on Ditzy (who lives in a small apartment with her daughter on a low income), and wrong.
  • Arc Words: "Nightmare", in "Nightmares Yet to Come".
  • Artifact of Doom: Has become something of a staple for the series (though canon had plenty to choose from as well).
    • The Alicorn Amulet
    • The Rainbow of Darkness
    • The Guitar of the Sirens
    • The Flashstone Amulet, once held by Squirk, and separated into two to stop him reviving. At the end of "From The Depths", Corona brings the halves back together, though only after Cadence has made sure it won't revive Squirk.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How a dragon becomes Overlord. They have to fight any and all contenders for the title. If they win, and live, they get to be Overlord and all other dragons have to obey them. Of course, since they got there via asskicking, if they start losing a fight, they're kicked to the curb.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
    • All dragons, who usually grow to be about 50-70 feet from head to tail, but some grow even bigger. However, most generally keep to themselves and don't want to be bothered by ponies.
    • Raindrops due to poison joke.
    • And, of course, the Ursa Minor in Boast Busted.
    • Not to mention the Ursa Major in Crisis on Two Equestrias, which gets beefed up some more by dark magic.
    • Spike, too, as of chapter 16 of Longest Night, Longest Day. And again a few stories down the line.
    • Ditzy is briefly turned gigantic thanks to a zap from Zizanie's chaos magic during At the Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Back from the Dead:
    • In Where There's Smoke, after Raindrops accidentally "kills" Philomena the phoenix, Philomena simply resurrects from her ashes a minute later, coming back stronger than before. Then again, in canon MLP (as in traditional mythology), the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth, being able to come back from the dead repeatedly.
    • Grogar in The Return of Tambelon. Becoming a lich in the first place requires you to be killed - you have to be "dead" before becoming "undead", after all.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: In "From The Depths", Corona manages to accomplish what she's after and get away, though not before Cadence manages to make a serious dent in her emotional state trying to reason with her.
  • Bad Liar: The first half of Crisis on Two Equestrias might not have happened if Applejack weren't a terrible liar. Trixie was already suspicious something was up, but Applejack's attempts to convince her everything is normal don't help.
  • Batman Gambit: Whatever Trixie's plan in AtGGG is, it seemed to rely at least partially on predicting the moves of Zizanie based on what she knew of her. Turns out that Trixie's plan was to get Zizanie caught because she knew that Luna would then speak to Zizanie and convince Zizanie to make a plea bargain with Luna, telling Luna everything about the corruption of the Night Court — which leads to Luna chewing them out epically in Chapter 13.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Ursas are just as dangerous in the Lunaverse as in the main universe, as chapter 3 of Boast Busted shows. In Crisis, we actually see what happens when an Ursa Major gets let loose.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Discussed at one point during Nightmares Yet to Come between two characters as to why a magic ritual gone wrong has produced a tiny baby alicorn. Since the scene is from the POV of said alicorn, she doesn't pick up on all of what she's listening to, like that some of what her "sister" is describing is coming not from hypotheticals, but her own experience. Or at least the experience of someone she knows.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: One of the reasons Blueblood falls for Pinkie- she has no social skills, is loud, mildly annoying, and wouldn't advance his causes or his house. She's still there for him when he needs her, is genuinely happy around him without trying to manipulate or scheme, and loves him even though she knows he's not a nice pony.
  • Believing Their Own Lies:
    • The ponies of Zaldia are total paranoid nutcases who believe their extensive armory of anti-Alicorn weapons are what caused Luna to stop expanding Equestria's borders, and that they are the only thing keeping her and Cadenza from marching in and taking over their horrible country. When Trixie points out to two of them this isn't real accurate, they say they "see the truth".
    • Kindle was deluded long before he met up with Corona.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Calling Trixie by her Embarrassing Middle Name.
    • Calling Lyra's lyre a harp. She doesn't handle Pinkie stealing it in Ill Communication very well either, saying that she'll "only break one of [Pinkie's] legs if she puts down the lyre immediately."
    • And doing anything that Corona doesn't like (such as calling her Corona).
    • Mentioning Ditzy Doo to Amethyst Star. At least when we first meet her; she's more amicable towards her by the end of Family Matters.
    • Don't call Berry Punch lazy. Applejack doing so in Carrot Top Season got her dangerously calm and would have been bucked if Trixie didn't intervene.
  • Beware the Nice Ones:
    • Cherilee, when angry, is fearsome enough to toss Big Mac aside without effort. Raindrops is relieved when she doesn't have to try to restrain her as well.
    • You'd think this would apply to Corona, but invokedWord of God is that between the two alicorn sisters, Luna is far more capable of cruelty. The worst Corona will ever (intentionally) do to you is kill you, and quickly. Luna's the sort who might come up with creative punishments designed to make you suffer.
  • Bilingual Bonus:
    • Zizanie's name
    • All but one of the non-english name in Raindrops of Clan Drops are this.
    • Theoretically, any time RDD uses alternate languages in his stores...though these are usually only the result of Google Translate since by his own admission RDD speaks only two languages: English and Bad English
  • Bittersweet Ending:
    • Griffin Over The Line ends with Raindrops earning Gilda's respect, but she lost control of her temper despite how hard she tried to avoid that.
    • Musicians and Dreamers ends with Lyra evading Greengrass's clutches, but her mentor is still a corrupt pawn of Duke Greengrass.
    • Boast Busted ends with Twilight on the run from the law, Trixie reflecting on how she failed by driving away Twilight, and the town still has massive damage done to it... which is actually a plot point in "Carrot Top Season."
    • Foalish Misadventures ends with the curse removed, but the town still utterly wrecked, setting the start of At the Grand Galloping Gala.
    • The Return of Tambelon ends with Grogar defeated and Corona having regained all her power, but Corona's also come out of it more level-headed and calm, leading to the Hope Spot ending.
  • Bizarre Taste in Food: Trixie, in spades. For example, she's been known to impale a whole apple on a carrot and drench both in caramel, and she favors sauerkraut on her pancakes. In Crisis on Two Equestrias, it's revealed that both she and canon!Trixie have eaten seafood, which wouldn't be a big deal, if ponies weren't herbivores.
    • One of her favorite combinations, chili powder in hot chocolate, is actually mildly popular in real life. Hershey's sells pre-mixed cocoa powder with this flavor, and there are candy bars consisting of these two ingredients.
    • Scootaloo uses liquid rainbow, which was too spicy for even the canon Pinkie, as dip.
    • Clover Charms has this as well, as shown in "Elements of Insanity", mostly because of her lack of finances. To paraphrase her bio in Chapter 3, her primary diet consists of day-old baked goods generously garnished with whatever condiments are freely available, supplemented with cheap prepackaged meals from the discount bin, "often consisting of some rather strange mixes of food not normally considered to go together."
  • "Blind Idiot" Translation:
    • An in-universe example with a group of unicorn scholars, who totally butchered a foreign spell book required for researching zebra magic, translating the ingredients, steps, and words separately and matching them up later, instead of dividing the book up into thirds and each translating a portion.
    • One of the scholars shows up again later, leaving a Griffon text partially translated as a stylistic choice. She did include a guide to the language... in the back of the book.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Ocellus and the Sirens have a case of this. While both are sapient and can speak with ponies and interact with them meaningfully, they're both predators at their cores. As such, the biggest problems they have with eating people is not that it's morally wrong, but that it might mean that the prey might gang up on them. That being said, Ocellus is still nicer than the usual Changeling, and is genuinely friends with Snails, valuing his advice and acknowledging him as a friend.
  • Body Horror: Shades of this in Helping... Hands?, with Lyra's transformation into a human.
  • Book Ends: At the Grand Galloping Gala begins and ends with the reader being told to look at the state Ponyville is in. We start with a devastated town and end with everypony pulling together to rebuild.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy:
    • Spike's big form.
    • During Crisis on Two Equestrias, Trixie accidentally does this to the canon versions of the Luna-6 under the belief that Corona has done this to everypony in Ponyville.
    • A group of ponies show up in Nightmares Yet to Come, evidently having been brainwashed just by going too near an old shrine to Tirek. The result has completely fried their minds, to the extent most of them can't remember anything about themselves anymore. Even one of the antagonists is horrified and disgusted by this.
  • Breaking Lecture: The final antagonist of "The Hero of Oaton" tries to give one, but it fails partly because Evil Cannot Comprehend Good and partly because everyone's trying really hard to ignore it.
  • Break Them by Talking: After quack psychiatrist Dr Neighsier Crane gets done making Raindrops 'cheerful' and 'upbeat', she parades around town leaving ponies emotionally devastated by what she thinks is telling them the truth and what everypony else sees as berating them about their deepest insecurities. So far, she's called her younger brother Snails a mental defective and broken Ditzy's heart by reminding her of the one thing that she's most ashamed of: her affair with Castor Cut. Cheerilee's plan for dealing with the 'good' doctor involves using Silver Script's idea of 'love and tolerance'.
  • Brick Joke:
    • The ponies noted under "Blind Idiot" Translation were fired by Luna, but one of them returns in "Voice of the Sun" having learnt nothing from her screw-up. Lyra's incensed enough that Raindrops has to hold her back.
    • "Eye of the Hurricane" mentions early on that Berry Punch has it as a rule anyone who's dealt with Trixie gets a drink, no questions asked. In "Nightmares Yet to Come", which takes place some months later, it's mentioned Berry has since rescinded this rule, seeing it as unfair to Trixie, since she's (usually) a paying customer.
  • Broken Pedestal: Celestia, to Luna. A thousand years later, and Luna is still making decisions based on the fear that if Celestia wasn't strong enough to not turn evil, there's no way that she is.
  • Broken Record: The Carrot Clones eventually get reduced to being unable to say anything other than "help". On the plus side, it makes finding the real Carrot Top easy.
  • Brutal Honesty:
    • How Raindrops represents the Element of Honesty. The Zebra potion Truth is a Scourge also forces this upon the drinker.
    • Pokey Pierce, Trixie's administrative assistant, also isn't afraid of speaking his mind to his boss. He knows he can get away with it, though, because he's trustworthy and good at his job, and hiring somepony else with the same qualifications would be more work than Trixie is willing to put up with. Also, she's well aware that she needs somepony to keep her ego in check, and Raindrops can't be around all the time.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer:
    • The explanation given for why Rainbow Dash is given so much leeway to goof around - she is just that good at her work when she bothers to. It also turns out that she can't be fired because of her political connections- she's really only there to look after Fluttershy, and her high position is so that she has the power to get others to cover for her in case she needs to care for the shy pegasus.
    • Seems to apply to a lot of the apprentices that Luna's taken on over the years, if Snowy Night in The Rime of the Ancient Pegasus is any indication.
  • Butt-Monkey: Trixie, most of the time, but everyone gets it now and then. GrassAndClouds2 fics often have characters being harsh on Carrot Top for being boring.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": In the epilogue to "Helping... Hands?", Luna refers to the ape-like cryptid Lyra got turned into as a hominian.
  • Call-Back: In The Great Dragon Coronation, Cheerilee and Raindrops notice the Alicorn Amulet, and try remembering what Carrot Top told them about it, only to mention they can't because in Elements of Insanity, Carrot Top's recounting of the story wasn't much good.
  • Cast Full of Gay: In contrast to canon, there are more ponies that show off actual sexuality, most notably those of LGBT varieties. Lyra and Bon Bon are the most notable homosexual couple, but Cheerilee and Rarity are confirmed as bisexual, and Lyra herself has two fathers.
  • Catch a Falling Star: Appears in Griffin Over The Line, only it doesn't happen: Raindrops isn't fast enough to save Trixie, and while Dash could have caught her, she's struck dumb and doesn't react in time.
  • Chain of Deals: Baron Mounty Max goes through one of these within the Night Court to secure another member's vote for an important bill in the webisode, "Climbing the Mountain". It threatens to collapse when the last pony involved (who is implied to be big on scandals) refuses to cooperate unless Max gets her either a Grand Galloping Gala ticket or an interview with his colleague/mentor, Fragrant Posey, and he refuses to do the latter. At his assistant's suggestion, he gives up his own ticket to settle the matter, ends up being Fragrant's escort... and the voter admits he would've voted for the bill anyway.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Trixie tries cheating in Games Ponies Shouldn't Play, using her illusions to spy on her friends. She still loses.
  • Chekhov's Boomerang: During "Helping... Hands?", Trixie notes something called "Truth is a Scourge" in the zebra book. During "Tales of Ponyville", she gives it a test-run. Then it comes back during "At The Grand Galloping Gala".
  • Chekhov's Gag: During "The Return of Tambelon", Cheerilee mentions most Equestrian knights spend their days going to parties. A few years later, the non-cannon "Nightmares Yet to Come" introduces the knight Dream Catcher, who mentions that most of the time, he just gets invited to parties.
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • The Alicorn Amulet, which first appears in "Elements of Insanity", when it goes missing down a drain.
    • The Mirror Pool, from A Bushel of Carrots, which establishes it's broken. The end of The Glass Kingdom shows Corona knows about it, and where to look for a superior replacement. Eep.
  • Chekhov's Gunman:
    • An odd one: The non-cannon but still written by RDD story "Apprenticeship" mentions one of Luna's past apprentices was called Rimewind, and wound up being less than stellar. Rimewind later appears in the still-not-quite-cannon but also written by RDD "Rime of the Ancient Pegasus", which focuses on her.
    • During Nightmares Yet to Come, when the not-cultists speak on their own, one grumbles that the fallout of their failed ritual has damaged his mane, and he's going to have a time explaining that in the morning. Cue the next chapter, and while in Canterlot's university, note is given that one of the ponies examining Thesis has a burnt mane...
    • Some chapters later in the fic, the same ponies are noted to be looking for someone called "Star", and hire a pair of supposedly bungling ponies to go looking for her, while not identifying them by name. All three turn up a few chapters afterward, and it turns out the duo are Sunset Shimmer and Lightning Dust.
  • Children Are Innocent: During "At the Grand Galloping Gala", a foal called Flicker tells his great-grandmother, Vicerene Puissance, all the things his dad (Puissance's grandson in-law) said about her (namely that she's an evil, awful pony who is cursed with annoyingly good health), without understanding why it might be a very bad idea to tell her this to her face.
  • Circling Monologue:
    • Luna seems to have a fondness for these. She does one in "Longest Night, Longest Day", as she's chewing Trixie out, and she does one in At the Grand Galloping Gala as she explains to Trixie why she can't out-and-out purge the current Night Court.
    • Corona herself gives Luna the circling treatment when she first escapes the sun, too.
  • City of Adventure: In Magic Tutor. Trixie tells Twilight Sparkle that while her Ursa Minor was the biggest monster to attack Ponyville so far, it wasn't the only one. As a matter of fact, they have to rebuild at least one or two buildings a week. Later material has expanded on this, revealing that Ponyville and two other towns on the edge of the Everfree, Hoofington and Bridleton, deal with this all the time; as such, the North Everfree province that all three are in is considered to be something of a wild, untamed land full of crazy ponies by the rest of Equestria, despite being only two hours from Canterlot by train.
  • Continuity Nod: All over the place.
    • In Longest Night, Longest Day, Raindrops promises to hit Trixie very hard if she ever again behaves as badly as she did in the run-up to the Longest Night Festival. When Trixie publicly humiliates Twiilght in Boast Busted, Raindrops keeps that promise by laying her out with one punch.
    • Also, in Longest Night, Longest Day, Trixie couldn't quite remember if her predecessor as Representative was "Blueblood Something" or "Something Blueblood" and believed that Dinky was was Ditzy's younger sister. In Grand Galloping Gala, Blueblood can't remember if the silvery grey Pegasus with the off-putting eyes is "Something Doo" or "Doo Something" and believes the lilac-grey unicorn foal that's accompanied her to the Gala is her younger sister.
    • During A Bushel of Carrots, Lyra and Raindrops both wonder if the bizarre goings on are the work of Dr. Crane, from Eye of the Hurricane. (For the record, it's not.)
    • For that matter, in Eye of the Hurricane, there's speculation on if one of the Lunaverse 6's normal foes is behind this. Cue a montage of enemies they've faced in the past confirming that no, it's not them.
  • Cool Helmet: The Royal Guard of Zaldia have helmets designed to look like roaring bears.
  • Crazy Enough to Work: Snails's plan for getting found after he, Dinky and Twist are separated from the other foals in Foaling Around is to hide in Duke Greengrass's office. Since all three of them are related to an Element of Harmony (or the marefriend of one in Twist's case) he figures that the adults would expect Greengrass to gain political advantage over the Elements through their loved ones, therefore his office would be among the first places to look.
  • Crack Pairing: In-Universe as well as out of universe, Pinkie Pie and Blueblood get together in the wake of the Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Crazy-Prepared:
    • Pinkie Pie is educated in all ways to make cupcakes, including recipes and methods that were used centuries ago, in case a time traveller from the past shows up and needs a historically accurate party. Granted, this was in the admittedly non-canon story "Dinky And The Blanks", but it does seem in-character enough for Pinkie.
    • To keep the Discordians from unleashing Daddy Discord, Luna had his statue sealed in concrete, surrounded the concrete block with eight different warding spells and buried it. Celestia of the Mane Six's world is astonished both by that and by the fact that there are Discord cultists in the Lunaverse. Though she also mentions that it wouldn't really matter what she did, if Discord wanted out of his prison, it wouldn't matter if he was behind Luna's defenses or out in the garden where Celestia keeps him- he's getting out.
    • According to Rime of the Ancient Pegasus, on their second Hearthswarming Night together, the Element Bearers decided to actually have their Elements to hand in case someone or something decided to start something. Mercifully, that time it proved unnecessary.
  • Creator Cameo:
    • Fizzy, the bartender in Berry's bar and an OC of one of the Lunaverse authors, Fizzy Orange.
    • Hoofington has been populated almost entirely with the OCs of Lunaverse authors.
  • Crisis Crossover: The Discord of one timeline has "recruited" Ditzy to serve as the Element of Kindness in a sort of all-star team of other alternate Elements. Along with her are Spike of the Flipverse, Octavia of the Cadenceverse, Rainbow Dash of the Rainbowverse, Orange Sherbet of the Manehattanverse and Pinkie Pie of the Hasbroverse.
  • Awesome Music:
    • In-universe, the dreaded 'Symphony for Moon and Sun' seems to be this, as Luna is brought to tears once a pony is able to play it correctly.
    • Also in-universe, Octavia and Thrash Metail duel to the tune of 'Devil Goes Down to Georgia', which also seems to be this.
  • Cryptic Background Reference: During "The Return of Tambelon", Tirek is mentioned to be "Tirek of the legates and the Cabal" (and generally not fun times for anypony), but no further elaboration is given on those.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Corona plain destroys Luna when they fight again.
    • The Luna-6 to Corona. The Tyrant Sun's attacks just bounce off the Elements of Harmony until they counterattack. Once.
    • The fake Luna-6 against the real Mane-6 in "Crisis on Two Equestrias". Not actually having the abilities they believe they have, everyone but Trixie are subdued within seconds. It gets worse when they try using the Elements, which recognize that Trixie was the one who cast memory spells on all of them, and backfires.
  • Culture Clash:
    • Trixie grew up in Neigh Orleans, and a few fics (mainly the ones penned by DoubleDash) have established that ponies there have a looser attitude to what they'll eat, which includes fish. At one point in Crisis on Two Equestrias, Trixie brings this up, and two Twilight Sparkles take this to mean that she's a carnivore and might try and eat them (Trixie is very insistent that she never ate anything with a hoof. And she's not a carnivore.)
    • All over in "Contest of Champions". Ditzy nearly gets attacked by an elk for understandably confronting him on seeing the guy rifling through someone's mailbox and assuming he was a thief, prompting him to chase after her demanding a duel to the death for offending his honor. Dao Ming of the Shouma is baffled by the idea of a farmer talking back to a social superior, or Trixie doing something as scandalous as asking Luna - her mentor - personal questions, and finds BonBon's confused reaction to her sister saying she'd make a fine servant back home is strange (Tomoko had meant it as a compliment, and to the Shouma it would've been the highest praise imaginable). Not to mention at one point trying to protect the empress when Celestia shows up. To an Equestrian, or the reader, wanting to protect her mother from potential harm would be an entirely normal reaction. Instead, it's a massive insult that causes Dao great shame.
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  • Dark Is Evil:
    • Played with. While Luna isn't evil, as we the audience know, In-Universe ponies were and continue to harbour their own suspicions about her.
    • Tirek, in The Return of Tambelon, is described as a being of pure darkness and evil.
  • Dark Is Not Evil:
    • Luna, despite her reputation as as dark, mysterious and potentially evil figure, is a genuinely benevolent leader who truly cares for her people.
    • Ocellus is a Changeling, who explicitly survives by eating love (as well as organic matter, but she shows she's capable of eating things like bark and pinecones to cover that). She's also a good friend of Snails', and isn't overly aggressive. She just siphons off extra love she feels as she walks through Ponyville to get what she needs.
  • Darker and Edgier: Goes in this direction, though most of the stories published so far still manage to remain within their "Everyone" ratings on Fimfiction.net. The first exception was Helping...Hands?, due to Lyra being transformed into a human and naked for the majority of the fic. Others have since been pushed a little higher, but generally the universe tries to stay around PG-13 at most.
    • At least one part of the "Darker and Edgier" part is that while the canon show has the mane six deal with arbitrary "Friendship Problems," such as "Twillight doesn't turn in an assignment on time" or "Applejack doesn't know how to accept help," or Monster of the Week attacks, the Lunaverse tends towards adult dilemmas such as "My daughter just met her half-sister, and she's just as much a victim of her father's affair as my daughter is," or "I could lose my farm because of the rising costs and increasing wear-and-tear on the various parts of the farm," or towards literary deconstruction of canon black-and-white events.
    • By RainbowDoubleDash's admission, "The Return of Tambelon" is about as dark as the Lunaverse should get. Featuring Grogar committing genocide, trying to murder Bray, Bray murdering him in turn, Lyra being magically tortured, and all of Grogar's skin burning off when he becomes a lich.
  • Dead Man Walking: When Octavia is forced to play an infamous piece that nopony has ever played to Luna's standards (with the results that their careers are wrecked), the cellist is treated this way. All her concerts are canceled and none of her friends or colleagues in Canterlot will talk to her. Certain institutions even refuse to allow her entry for fear of the Princess's wrath.
  • Decadent Court: At the Grand Galloping Gala has Trixie make the unpleasant realization that the Night Court is completely corrupt. Even the most decent members, like Night Light, willingly and often use blackmail, bribery, and threats in order to get what they want; or else simply stand aside and do nothing, like Fluttering Posey. Greengrass and his allies are just the most aggressive about it. As such, the final villain of Season 1 isn't any one pony, but the Night Court as a whole.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Everyone gets in on it, but the following example is especially deadpan.
    Cheerilee: What has [Raindrops] in such a good mood?
    Bon Bon: Well, let's think. Her name is Raindrops, her cutie mark is rain, and it's raining. So clearly it's because Trixie finally learned about the Birds and the Bees.
  • Death Glare: Carrot Top wishes she could pull that off. That and Eye Beams. She eventually manages it in The Return of Tambelon.
  • Deconstructor Fleet: Of many tropes of the original show.
  • Deconstruction Fic: The first few chapters of Longest Night, Longest Day come across as this for five of the original Mane 6. The author uses the very different viewpoint of Trixie (as compared to Twilight Sparkle) to reexamine the behaviour and personality of Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and to a lesser extent Fluttershy and Rarity. The results find them in a somewhat less than sympathetic light.
    • Applejack retains her concern that the Apple Family/Trust might collapse practically at any minute, although with its size and virtual monopoly on apples throughout Equestria getting more focus than in canon this is portrayed as a very unrealistic fear. Applejack cannot see this because she honestly believes that her hard work is the only thing standing between Ponyville and famine no matter what her account books or Granny Smith might tell her. The source of this belief (in her case, a distorted version of the Trust's founding) is unimportant; the end result of her driving away anypony foolhardy enough to tell her that the weight of the world isn't actually on her shoulders is.
    • Rainbow Dash's laziness and heedless nature are somewhat more apparent, and her loyal nature has been re-focused solely on Fluttershy, such that she's willing to leave Ponyville hanging in order to hang out with her, even if it appears to be more out of concern for Fluttershy rather than just a desire to slack off. Carrot Top of the Line reveals that Rainbow has been looking after Fluttershy ever since they were fillies. When Fluttershy moved away from Cloudsdale, her father arranged for Rainbow to get the Ponyville weather manager job so the two could stay close.
    • Pinkie Pie is still basically Pinkie Pie, but Trixie (and Lyra, for that matter) are less than enthused at her constantly hyper-active nature — the hyperactive Genki Girl party animal is exactly as annoying as she would be in Real Life. Most of what seems to be wrong with her is that unlike her counterpart in Celestia's world, this version wants to make people happy without bothering to learn what makes them happy. In Ill Communication we learn that growing up her family hardly spoke so she ended up speaking to anything or nothing, so she grew up not knowing how to deal with real ponies who could talk back. She gets better by the end of the fic.
    • Without her canon friends to pull her out of her shell, Fluttershy's social anxiety reaches extreme levels, to the point of only having regular contact with three other ponies — Rainbow Dash, Ditzy Doo, and Dinky — and being prevented from reaching out more by her crippling fear of social interaction. According to Carrot Top of the Line, her parents are a Cloudsdale weather magnate and a member of Luna's Night Court. She didn't want to go into the family business, so she changed her name and moved to Ponyville with their financial support.
    • Rarity is, like Pinkie Pie, still basically just Rarity, but she did not make a good first impression on Trixie and paid for it later, albeit unfairly. As of Carrot Top of the Line it appears her generosity hides a much more self-interested goal of obtaining favors from others. According to RDD, she isn't a bad pony, just a little more self-interested than her normal self, and Rarity's skill set and interests don't really match up to the main cast's at all unless they're in opposition to one another, so we tend to see her in a more negative light.
    • Boast Busted shows us a much different Twilight. All the devotion that originally went to Celestia now goes into studying magic, to the point where it is how she spends every hour of every day. Her diary is little more than an impersonal record of her studies. Without Spike, Celestia or the rest of her canon friends to moderate her worse impulses, she's noticeably more arrogant, has even fewer social skills, and she doesn't have the sense God gave a mule.
      • Elements of Insanity shows us that Twilight's need to not admit that her lack of social skills is a problem has mutated into the belief that Trixie is running a colossal scam.
      • Countdown To Crisis has her finally admit the possibility that it was just random chance that made Trixie and the rest of the Luna Six the Bearers. Too bad that she had to get stuck in the Mane Six's world and learn about how rising showmare the Great and Powerful Trixie was goaded into fighting an Ursa Minor in some hick town to do it.
    • Crisis on Two Equestrias also deconstructs Twilight's Transferable Memory spells to restore her friends, by portraying Trixie's use of it on the ponies that she thought were her friends from her own universe as disturbing borderline Mind Rape, asking the question "what happens if this is used on the wrong ponies?"
  • Defeat Means Friendship:
    • For some reason or another, getting beat up by Raindrops causes Gilda to declare her a friend.
    • Averted with most other villains, who seem to teleport or run away after being defeated. RainbowDoubleDash lampshaded this with an omake ending to "Family Matters" where Sparkler announces that she's teleporting away so that "[she] doesn't have to have character growth", after stealing the cake. And That's Terrible.
    • "The Ling From Another World" plays this straight, but combines it with Because You Were Nice to Me. Snails goes back and finds the Changeling they beat, and feeds her love, since his Animal Empathy told him she was just hungry. It works, and she becomes Snails' friend.
  • Deal with the Devil: Or Deal With the Demon Ram, in this case. Grogar made a deal with Tirek of his soul for immortality, unaware that one of the necessary requirements for lich-based immortality is a soul.
  • Determinator:
    • One of Raindrops' defining character traits.
    • What Pokey Pierce is hinted to be at the end of 'File Under "I" for "Impossible'. "I won't stop until I've pierced the heavens themselves!"
  • Didn't Think This Through: If Grinding Gears had even an ounce of foresight in "Up and Automaton", things could have been resolved much easier.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Cheerilee earns her stripes by making a Country Matters joke when Corona complained about her undereducated tongue.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Night Light blocks the sending of emergency funds to Ponyville after the damage caused in "Foalish Misadventures" as a means of punishing Trixie for what happened to Twilight. Turns out he was always going to send them the money; he was just delaying until Luna got sick of it. That said, he also tells Trixie that there are two ways that he'll accept her apology. The first way he'll accept her apology is if she resigns from the Night Court (thus giving up her life dream), and the second is if she finds and returns Twilight Sparkle to him. If she doesn't, he'll personally see to it that she never advances past Representative.
  • Distant Epilogue: "An Early Reunion"'s last chapter takes place 980 years after the main story, shortly after "Longest Night, Longest Day".
  • Downer Ending: By the end of Boast Busted, Twilight has rendered herself Pony Non Grata in Ponyville and becomes a fugitive. Trixie's attempt to make amends by opening up to her just gets twisted around to fuel the other's obssession with proving she's not a suitable Bearer of Magic. And Shining Armor learns Twilie's gotten herself into a situation her BBBFF can't fix. Bittersweet at best, this at worst. As of the season finale, "Foalish Misadventures" is revealed to have one. The town is destroyed, and there's no Reset Button to fix it.
  • Dragon Hoard: A compulsion of all dragons, and the Overlord of All Dragons gets the biggest, with enough gold alone to completely destroy any economy it encounters, to say nothing of all the other valuables in there.
  • Dramatic Irony: A major part of "An Early Reunion" is that, while the readers know Cadence isn't Celestia, she doesn't. A big reveal later on in the story is that Luna knows exactly who she is.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: In Carrot Top Season, the titular character does this after making a deal with the other farmers that are not the Apple Trust.
  • Dying Race: Dragons. They're not in any immediate, serious danger, what with being long-lived, tough-to-kill beasties, but being fuelled and motivated largely by greed means that they don't have any culture or civilisation, and no desire (or real ability) to work together long enough to do something about that.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: The abandoned island of Tambelon briefly appears during "An Early Reunion", when Luna and Cadenza visit it to spar. It reappears (naturally) in "The Return of Tambelon".
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Greengrass seems to be on track for this. His life was pretty hellish after At the Grand Galloping Gala—he was forced to publicly spill all of his secrets to Luna, he was humiliated by her, lost his influence and power in the Court, lost his best friend, was attacked, stabbed, and almost murdered by the Sun Cult, was attacked and almost murdered by a vigilante justice force, and learned that even his one remaining friend didn't trust him. But he did manage to find redemption in Just Us Little Ponies and he even got Notary back.
  • Engineered Public Confession:
    • The climax to Musicians and Dreamers. Genre-Savvy Octavia sees it coming a mile away but ultimately falls for it anyways.
    • Used again in At the Grand Galloping Gala, this time taking the victim completely by surprise. Only this time just getting the confession isn't the end by a long shot...
  • Enemy Mine: On a few occasions, Trixie and her friends have to do this. In Secret of Andalantis, they do this with Zizanie, who had been posing as Rarity for a good part of the story. In At The Grand Galloping Gala, they do it again. In The Return of Tambelon, after Lyra is kidnapped by Grogar's forces, Trixie and company ally with Corona of all ponies while Lyra herself allies with Zecora (who had been kidnapped earlier in the story). And in Just Us Little Ponies, the Elements have to ally with Duke Greengrass, of all ponies, in order to oppose both the mafia and the conspiracy that was trying to kill Twilight.
  • Epic Fail:
    • The scholars who "translated" the zebra spell book in Helping... Hands? had no clear idea of what they were doing. Amazingly, one of them returns in season 2, and they're still at it.
    • We get to see some of the performances of the Symphony for Moon and Sun that didn't meet Luna's standards. The results aren't pretty. Of special note is the con artist, Stringer, whose plan was to hope that Luna wouldn't show up to her gimcrack performance. It didn't work.
  • Establishing Character Moment: The danger of bad first impressions is demonstrated here. If RDD's intentions were to let the Apple Trust be sympathetic, their self-righteous and jealously monopolizing ways in Boast Busted and Longest Night, Longest Day did not help.
    • RDD's intentions probably weren't to make the Trust sympathetic, but he certainly didn't intend them to come across as outright villainous the way they have.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: According to the non-canon story "I'll See you Soon", Bon Bon accuses Lyra of staring at Big Macintosh. Lyra remarks that everyone stares at Big Macintosh. Bon Bon has no choice but to admit it's true while sighing dreamily - and keep in mind that this version of Bon Bon is Lyrasexual.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • In a bit of a Noodle Incident, in Tales of Ponyville Lyra remembers an argument she had with Bon Bon about what "green" tasted like, that resulted in them dragging other ponies into it and only stopping when Pinkie thought that they were being weird.
    • One of the Sirens won't let the others eat Steven (the River Serpant) because he's the only other guy he can talk to.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
    • In Carrot Top Season, the Flim Flam Brothers try to blackmail Carrot Top by infesting Sweet Apple Acres with a devastating weed and threatening to tell everypony they did it on her instructions, anticipating that nopony would believe her innocence due to their rivalry. They had never considered that Carrot Top would have already helped the Apples in stopping the infestation, since the idea of helping an enemy is completely alien to them.
    • The Big Bad of Secret of Andalantis cannot understand why Lyra would help the seaponies and merponies, since she's not one of them.
  • Evil Is Hammy: Corona spends an awful lot of her time chewing the scenery and proclaiming how awesome she is in as loud a voice as possible. In early-modern English.
  • Evil Is Petty: At the beginning of Nightmares Yet to Come, it's mentioned that not only did an evil cult abduct Trixie and Twilight, they also stole all of Trixie's booze. The bastards.
  • Evil Versus Evil:
    • Flim and Flam vs the Apples in Carrot Top Season.
    • Corona verses Grogar in The Return of Tambelon.
  • Evil Wears Black: The not-cultists of "Nightmares Yet to Come" wear black cloaks, and have black fur and manes (Trixie thinks, on seeing this, that Rarity would take exception to their limited palettes). It's shown they're not like this all the time, and one of their number explains it's mainly for iconography's sake.
  • Expy: Corona originally drew a lot of inspiration from pre-Badass Decay Lord Zedd, though this has been toned down and switched due to negative reactions from readers.
  • Fantastic Flora: Ether flowers, plants that only grow in the Everfree Forest, naturally concentrate magic in their leaves and can be used to distill potions to help unicorns recover from overexertion of magic.
  • Fantastic Nuke:
    • Corona keeps thinking about dropping solar flares on those who offend her. It's mentioned that her Start of Darkness involved her doing this to Sombra and the Crystal Empire. When she finally gets mad enough to do so in the modern era, however, it fails utterly thanks to Trixie & Co. being protected by the Elements of Harmony.
    • Luna starts preparing to use her own version on Tambelon when it looks like Tirek might escape.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Most of the minor pony nations are directly inspired by real-life ones, and are usually named after the local tongue's word for horse. Examples include Caballia (Spain, and where Princess Cadence comes from), Hippopotamia (Greece) and Konja (Russia).
  • Fastball Special: In A Hard Bargain, Big Mac does this with Cheerilee to reach a fleeing pegasus who was in league with those who kidnapped Dinky.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Parlay seems like a nice guy at first, until Ditzy tells him no and he rages out.
  • Flame War: There have been a few between the authors in the community, most notably regarding 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', which has spawned hundreds of complaint posts in the story's thread and multiple threads on the message board about its problems.
  • Flat "What": The non-canon story "Bride in the Rain" has this as the title for its only chapter.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Due to the Anachronic Order of the series, a lot of this happens.
    • In Crisis on Two Equestrias, an annoyed Maneverse Rainbow Dash asks if Trixie's going to wind up riding into town on an Ursa Major. Right idea, wrong pony.
  • Full-Name Basis: Rainbow Dash, Ditzy Doo, Dinky Doo, Carrot Top, and Pinkie Pie are normally referred to by their full names by both the narrative and the characters, while most other characters with two names are instead only referred to by their first names. Justified in the case of Trixie Lulamoon, she hates her last name and demands that nopony use it, ever. Except when she's drunk, when she reverts to Neigh Orleans form and prefers to be called Lulamoon. Or in Crisis, when there are two Trixies, meaning the Lunaverse version (as the non-native iteration) has to take a different name... to her disappointment.
  • Fun with Acronyms: One example would be the Farmer's Union, which was created somewhat inadvertently after Applejack antagonized the owners of the small farms surrounding Ponyville.
  • Gainax Ending: "In the Heat of the Moment" climaxes with Trixie and Raindrops deciding to give a relationship a try. The epilogue takes place several months later with the two of them on a date that is soon interrupted by a time-travelling Dinky and Pipsqueak. Subsequent events play out exactly like the ending of the first Back to the Future movie, albeit with a Cool Boat instead of a DeLorean.
  • Genre Blind: Grinding Gears has a distinct lack of foresight and willingness to learn from historical mistakes in "Up and Automaton".
  • Ghost City: Tambelon, thanks to a mix of Grogar killing every living thing but himself and Bray, and Luna taking steps to discourage anyone from settling there (along with the typical reputation an entirely dead city gets anyway).
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom:
    • Corona has them. They also serve as a metaphor: Corona is blind to the monster that she has become. Word of God is that this was initially unintentional (Corona's appearance is based off of this picture), but has since been labeled as Happy Coincidence #1.
    • The evil not-cultists from Nightmares Yet to Come have them. But only some of the time, allowing their members to pass as ordinary ponies.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!:
    • Corona, who is tyrannical, entitled, demanding and prone to violent mood swings and disproportionate punishments for minor slights.
    • Also, God Save Us From the Empress of the Shouma, who is an arrogant, callous, aloof sort, who emotionally abuses her daughter so much she nearly kills herself and the Element Bearers trying to please mommy.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: As it turns out, At the Grand Galloping Gala, Trixie wasn't intending to pull an Engineered Public Confession on the Night Court. She was hoping to fool Zizanie into trying to do one, then have the latter get caught. The resulting, entirely aboveboard investigations would have then unearthed the nobles' treachery. Unfortunately, Zizanie had already spiked the nobles' drinks and everything went Not As Planned after.
  • Greed: Corona's primary motivation, contrasting to canon Nightmare Moon's Envy. She has a fair bit of Pride and Wrath, too. During her defeat, it's also implied that Sloth, in the original form of a Despair Event Horizon, is what finally pushed her over the edge. As the Lunaverse has progressed, this has since become her primary motivation.
    "I am Celestia, foal! I am the Sun! I am thy Queen! Thou hast no right to bar me from assuming my throne! It is mine! Equestria is mine! All of it! Mine!"
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  • Helpful Hallucination: The author of Carrot Top Season points out that chapter eight is semi-canonical - you can treat it as canon if you like it, but you don't have to - since it focuses on Applejack getting a pep talk from her uncle Orange, and then suddenly turns into a song number (specifically, "No Contest" from Chess). Judging by the comments section, many of the readers like to think that sleep-deprived Applejack is hallucinating the whole exchange.
  • Hero Insurance: Rainbow Dash has a form of this; Griffin Over The Line reveals she's officially classed as 'an untamable force of nature', meaning any and all damages she causes intentionally or accidentally is covered by disaster relief funding.
  • Hero of Another Story: In "Family Matters," we see Trixie unable to help because she's busy with something connected to Lyra. It turns out that the story runs concurrently with "Helping... Hands?" Where we get to see the other side.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Applejack thinks she's this. Others disagree. To quote Carrot Top Season:
    "Ah have a duty ta make sure that nopony starves in Ponyvile. Ah'm gonna do whatever it takes ta fulfill that duty. Ah don't... it don't matter if they hate ma. Ah can take it. Someday, they'll need ma'."
  • Heroic RRoD: Lyra overchannels her magic while fending off Sirens in Longest Night, Longest Day. An effect Trixie describes as having 90% of your blood removed after running a marathon.
  • Hidden Agenda Villain: The bad guys of "Nightmares Yet to Come" have an annoying habit of not explaining their plans to each other, in full. So far, the general details involve making... three of something, which they need to do quickly, and getting Corona on their side. One of their number suggests that the abduction of Trixie and Twilight was an attempt to create an alicorn, which didn't exactly work out how they'd hoped.
  • High-Altitude Interrogation: In A Hard Bargain, Ditzy Doo is forced to do this on Parley, who had Dinky foalnapped. She was able to get her answer just as she let him go. Luckily for him, she manages to catch him again inches from the ground.
  • Historical In-Joke: 'For the Mare Who Has Everything' introduces the bovine character Cow Cow, an obvious Expy of the Chinese warlord Cao Cao. During the story, Cow Cow is persuaded to take a copy of The Art Of War, add his own commentary, and pass it off as being written by his servant. This is a reference to the real life conspiracy theory that Cao Cao is the actual author of The Art Of War and he just pretended Sun Tzu was the author to get more people (who trusted Sun Tzu's reputation as a genius general) to read it.
  • Hitler Ate Sugar: Due to Corona's association with the colour gold, Equestrians would rather not want anything golden. As a result, gold as a metal lost all its value and the colour is a taboo and bad luck in Equestria. The same goes to staying outside under the sun at midday.
  • Hive Mind: The Carrot Clones in A Bushel of Carrots, though "mind" is stretching the term. Lyra speculates that the increasingly large amount is the reason they get stupider.
  • Homage:
    • Dinky and the Blanks is a Lunaverse-world retelling of Story of the Blanks, with Dinky taking on Apple Bloom's role.
    • Hero of Oaten is partly one for the Firefly episode "Jaynestown", complete with a Trixified version of the song from the original episode.
    • While many of the episodes of the Lunaverse are original, some are retellings of canon episodes, but with a Lunaverse twist. For example, "Ill Communication" is a retelling of the Parasprite episode.
    • One chapter from "Nightmares Yet to Come" plays out like a chapter from other Lunaverse story "I'll See You Soon": A unicorn flatters their way into seeing Corona, talks to them, is told they're a prisoner, and then manages to escape, right down to the method used. The difference being in that the pony in the former isn't just asking Corona for marriage advice.
    • The Nightmare Night story The 'Ling from Another World is an homage to John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), with shades of Stephen King's IT as well.
  • Hope Spot: Many times in season 2, it looks like Corona might just come back to her old self, or at least give up her desire for control... only for her to continue demanding she be the queen, because her redemption story hasn't begun yet.
  • Humiliation Conga: Trixie goes through a severe one in At the Grand Galloping Gala when she tries to ensure Ponyville gets aid and discovers just how deep the corruption in the Night Court runs.
  • I Gave My Word:
    • For all her other faults, Corona has demonstrated that her word, once given, is iron, keeping to both the letter and the spirit of any promise made.
    • Also, Raindrops keeps her promises. Violently.
  • Ignoring by Singing: Trixie, whenever the subject of fornication comes up. "La la la nopony can hear Lyra!"
  • I Have Your Wife: Corona takes quite a few ponies hostage in her first appearance, as a means of keeping Ponyville passive. She apparently did this to her Day Court a thousand years in the past, as well.
  • Imagine Spot: Used frequently, most often with Trixie imagining exaggerated scenes of Luna learning of her failures or conspiring to "punish" her.
  • The Immodest Orgasm: Bon Bon in The Night After. Oh so much.
  • I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Twilight, who was expecting to find a powerful spell caster to learn from, simply cannot believe that friendship is what makes a run-of-the-mill unicorn like Trixie the Element of Magic.
  • Impossible Task: Octavia is dragooned by Greengrass into playing the infamous Symphony for Moon and Sun, an excruciatingly difficult (not to mention incomplete) piece that nopony in recorded history has managed to play to Luna's standards. If she fails, Luna will shun her and her career will be over.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink:
    • Apparently the Punch Bowl has it as a standing exception that ponies are allowed a Freaking Drink at any time if their day meets certain requirements, like having to deal with Rainbow Dash, or Trixie.
    • Related to this, Cloud Kicker downs a drink after a really bad morning with Rainbow Dash, in one go.
  • Innocence Lost: Celestia becoming Corona effectively served as this for all of Equestria; while Luna seemed mysterious and dark enough that her turning on them wouldn't have been as big a surprise, having The High Queen of the Sun go crazy and try to enslave them taught her subjects that anypony could betray you. While this hasn't bumped Equestria too far on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, ponies are generally more willing to accept that somepony might turn on you to suit their own ends. The end result is that while canon Equestria is very much black-and-white in terms of morality, the Lunaverse has many shades of grey.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: Played with. In Helping Hands, Lyra is accidentally transformed into a strange, bipedal, fur-less mammal that nopony can identify. RDD explicitly identifies her as having been turned into a human, and a naked one at that (the spell did not create clothes). However, as ponies are usually naked anyway, nopony seeing Lyra, nor Lyra herself, make anything out of her nudity beyond the difficulties it causes in staying warm, and RDD keeps describing Lyra in pony terms, i.e., referring to her arms as "forelegs," her torso as a "barrel," Lyra not knowing whether she has hands or paws, etc.
  • Innocently Insensitive:
    • Raindrops starts doing this in conjunction with Brutal Honesty in Eye of the Hurricane. She makes both Pinkie Pie and her own brother cry by pointing out their flaws and shortcomings as though she's making small talk.
    • Pinkie actually falls into this a little: she wants to make ponies happy without considering or asking what would make them happy, and merely throws lots of parties.
  • Ironic Echo Cut: During Contest of Champions, Trixie invokes kicking ass and chewing bubble gum, prompting Raindrops to state she's not sure the island they're on has bubble gum. Cut to Tomoko of the Shouma taking a keen interest in some that BonBon is selling.
  • Inside Job: The Griffon Kingdoms, or more accurately the Border Kingdoms, have a lot of problems with bandits, bandits and monsters. As it turns out, King Gruber, from one of the inner kingdoms, is paying them an awful lot to make sure of it.
  • Insistent Terminology: One of the bad guys of Nightmares Yet to Come get pretty defensive when Trixie calls them a cult. Never mind that they look and act an awful lot like a cult. Later on, one of their number clarifies that they aren't a cult, because they're not worshipping anyone.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Pointed out in Crisis on Two Equestria. Despite the vast differences between the histories of Cannon!Equestria and the Lunaverse version, the same ponies still exist in both universes. M!Twilight has a momentary freak-out about this, before Spike interrupts.
  • In Vino Veritas: Trixie becomes significantly more personable after a few drinks.
  • Internal Reveal: Despite all her conspiracy theories, Trixie doesn't fully realize just how corrupt the Night Court is until she tries to meet with Night Light before the Grand Galloping Gala. When she tries to call him out, his casual response about her not understanding how they function makes her feel like she's just been bucked in the face.
  • Invisibility:
    • Trixie's signiture spell, which she has used several times to either sneak around or avoid danger. A second spell prevents her hooves from making noise when she moves.
    • After poison joke, Trixie is turned invisible and inaudible against her will and can't turn back. It affects her clothes, too, and somehow prevents her from affecting anything other than the rest of the Mane Six. They can feel but not hear her, which causes poor Carrot Top to nearly piddle herself.
    • Played with when Trixie goes up against Octavia, whose ears are good enough that she can locate Trixie when she's invisible. Even being inaudible doesn't help, because Octavia can hear how Trixie's presence is affecting the echoes of the room and divine her location from that. Come the Grand Galloping Gala however, Trixie was able to fix that issue.
    • Sunset Shimmer, in Nightmares Yet to Come, uses a version which is nowhere near as powerful as Trixie's. Fortunately, she's using it in the dark, which helps.
  • Ironic Echo Cut:
    • "The Return of Tambelon" chapter 8 has Corona noting sooner or later that Bray will remember the Tambelon palace has other secret doors. Cut to Lyra in another part of the castle angrily wondering why the palace doesn't have any doors.
    • At one point in "Nightmares Yet to Come", Falling ends one part of a flashback saying she's "in" for a sort-of job offer. Then the flashback ends, cutting to Sunset Shimmer informing Falling she's getting past some museum security.
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: After Grogar becomes a lich, the narration stops referring to him as him, and as "it", since Grogar has given up his humanity, for want of a better word.
  • It's All About Me: During most of Carrot Top Season, Applejack is convinced that Carrot Top is participating in the contest solely to hurt her and her family. She refuses to consider that Carrot Top might need the money to fix up her own farm — all she's concerned about is how this may harm Sweet Apple Acres.
    "Carrot Top, think fer a minute!" Applejack looked flustered. "All this is gonna do is take down both of us! Dang it, ah don't know if ya've got some vendetta 'gainst ma or what, but this ain't worth it!"
    It's not about you! thought Carrot Top.
    and later...
    "No! No, of course not!" Applejack shook her head. "Ya just bet yar farm ta try ta beat ma. Carrot Top, did ah do somethin' ta make ya mad? Is this a grudge?"
  • It's Personal: During Nightmares Yet to Come, Twilight Sparkle notes Trixie takes Midnight's forcible adoption of Thesis personally. Trixie points out this is what happens when someone you think is a friend goes and (metaphorically) backstabs you.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Trixie, who is a slightly Insufferable Genius with Alpha Bitch tendencies, but honestly cares about her friends and is honest about what she actually is. That, and she doesn't bully people so much as get lippy with them.Helping Hands shows that Trixie is afraid of, but resigned to, the possibility that she probably will eventually drive away her friends. In Tales of Ponyville, she recounts exactly how many past friends she's driven off.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Gilda, full stop. The difference is that without Pinkie Pie to show Rainbow Dash what a cretin her old pal is, RD is about to get a gentle talking-to (pronounced "COM-pre-hen-sive BEAT-down") from Raindrops for nearly destroying Carrot Top's farm. By her reappearance in "Voice of the Sun", she's moved up to Jerk With a Heart of Gold.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Raindrops, when she finds the additional Weather Ponies hired to help with Ponyville's weather during the celebration, is furious at Trixie for doing so, as her hiring outside help questions the competence of Ponyville Weather Ponies, not to mention that the leader of these extras was kicked out of flight school (something very hard to do and you have to be really bad to have that happen). Trixie rightfully points out that Everfree Weather is unpredictable and that Raindrops' earlier query as to the nature of the Everfree Storm was rather ambiguous. She also says that whatever the leader of the Extras did in the past, he's here, now, and came highly recommended, so even if he doesn't have the cleanest past, he can still do a job- a job that is vitally needed for a massive celebration. True, Trixie had her own motives for doing this, but she makes rather excellent points that aren't wrong.
  • Kill It with Fire: The bad guys of "Nightmares Yet to Come" have a love of it. They burn down a theatre in Canterlot, and Greengrass' garden at his private estate, and it's heavily implied they did this to Vicerein Puissance, some years before the story began.
  • King Incognito: Luna likes doing this when she needs a little stress relief. She split herself in three and disguised as normal ponies during "Longest Night, Longest Day", and likes to visit a cheese store in Canterlot in disguise. It's very strongly implied that in the non-canon "Pinkie and Bluie Tooie", that she was attending the foals' presentation of the Hearthswarming Play by Pinkie herself.
  • Last-Second Chance: Luna offers one to Corona. Due to her utter sola-cy, Corona refuses it.
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: According to "Sergeant at Hooves", most of Ponyville has this attitude toward the events of "Foalish Misadventures", probably because they were the ones who caused the damage.
  • Light Is Not Good:
    • Corona, of course, is a strongly associated with sun, daytime and light as Celestia is, but is a fantastically evil person.
    • As a direct consequence of Corona's existence, ponies have a number of superstitions pertaining to light and the sun. Due to knowing full well that Corona is trapped in the sun, make a point of always heading back inside at noon, in order to avoid being caught under the sun when it's brightest and directly overhead, and of wearing hats outside to symbolically shield their eyes from it. They also dislike using gold coinage, preferring silver instead.
    • Averted with Princess Cadenza of Cavallia. Her heraldry specifically invokes the image of the rising or setting sun, and she is unquestionably a good pony.
  • Living Weapon: The djinn of Naqah are element-bending camel-shaped weapons, created by the old Caliphate to protect it.
  • Logical Weakness: Trixie has stated before that she is really good at copying spells by watching other people do them. She manages to do this even with spells that don't affect her cutie mark. She was Luna's protege. So, she should be able to raise the sun and moon, right? Wrong. She knows how to do it, but the cost in magical power is so prohibitive that she can't actually do it.
  • Lonely at the Top: Carrot Top diagnoses the Apple Trust as suffering from this in Carrot Top Season.
    "None of the Trust teams had any friends of supporters come with — didn't you notice? I don't think Applejack's the only Trust farmer who's completely isolated on her farm. I'd rather have my friends than a pile of bits and nopony to care about me."
  • Look Behind You: In Up and Automaton, Raindrops really wants to beat someone up, but is told by Cheerilee not to in front of Snails. She distracts him by saying there's a snow beetle somewhere. He turns to look where she pointed, and thus does not see her sock the guy. It is then played with in that there is a snow beetle and that Raindrops made certain she wasn't lying to her brother.
     M-O 
  • Malicious Slander: One of the many reasons why Night Light didn't want to see Trixie in At the Grand Galloping Gala is that one of Greengrass's friends published an article in one of the nation's leading papers that stated that she called him a failure as a parent. The first she hears of any such article was when Shining Armor interrogates her.
  • Master of Illusion:
    • Trixie's talent, which is part of the reason Twilight (who's far more interested in the practical side of things) heckles her.
    • It's a talent that proves useful when she manages to steal the Elements of Harmony out from under Canon Celestia, Twilight, and Applejack's noses, proving that she might not have the raw magical power of Twilight Sparkle, but what power she does have she knows how to use very, very well.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Corona, Latin for "crown". It also refers to the "atmosphere" of the Sun, which can be seen most easily during a total solar eclipse as a bright ring (the corona) surrounding a black disk (the moon); i.e., a thin layer of light surrounding a dark core.
    • Greengrass, for whom the grass is always greener at a higher station of life.
    • Puissance, whose name is a synonym for 'power,' as well as a competitive horse event.
    • Bobbing Fisher, a stupendous chess player (and tribalist), after Bobby Fischer, who was both of those things.
  • MegaCorp: The Apples are this, insofar as they are considered Mega by Equestrian standards.
  • Mighty Glacier: Raindrops is strong even by the average earth pony's standard, but her speed and agility are bad by the average pegasus's standard, to say nothing of prodigies like Rainbow Dash.
  • Mind Rape: In a possible deconstruction of both times that Twilight has made her friends remember their real lives, Trixie giving the Mane Universe versions of her friends memories of their lives in the Lunaverse is played as a lighter version of this — no permanent harm was done and she genuinely thought she was saving them from another Mind Rape, but it was nonetheless a confusing and invasive alteration of their minds.
  • Mood Whiplash: The last chapter of Past Remnants has the Watcher learning Discord has gotten loose in an especially painful fashion.
  • Moral Myopia:
    • The Apples (well, some of them) have this about their monopoly. Applejack at least seems genuinely clueless about why it's a bad thing and appears convinced that they couldn't survive without it, but Apple Bloom is decidedly hostile whenever someone brings it up. Granny is decidedly more reasonable about the whole thing.
    • Discussed in Carrot Top Season. When Trixie tries to dissuade Carrot Top from helping look for the foalnapped Apple Bloom, CT guilt-trips her by saying that she wouldn't have the same attitude if it were Dinky who fell victim.
  • Morality Chain:
    • Explored. Without friends to keep them in line, Rainbow Dash and Twilight are much less personable than in canon. Becomes a Deconstructed Trope for Rainbow Dash — she may care about Fluttershy, but fails to extend it to anyone else. In Tales of Ponyville, Rainbow is developing a friendship with Carrot Top that may include this. Carrot Top points out that creating a sudden rainstorm that ruins everypony's plans just to make it easier for Fluttershy to reach the spa is not a nice move.
    • In several stories, Applebloom is one for Applejack.
    • Return of Tambelon establishes Zecora as one for Corona.
  • Motive Rant: Before Zecora helps her escape, Corona tells Luna that she had to take over because ponies aren't strong enough to destroy real threats... despite six of them shutting her down fairly easily.
    • To be fair, Corona is still of the firm opinion that she is not a threat.
    • And more to the point, she crushed the Six without the slightest difficulty. It was the Elements that took her down, and canonically those are the single most powerful thing in the setting, surpassing even Discord.
  • The Multiverse: There are a few universes that have been connected to one another in the Lunaverse.
    • The Lunaverse itself, which is the setting as described on this page, where Celestia went mad and turned into the Tyrant Sun.
    • The Maneverse, which is basically the canon setting of the show. However, it's revealed that the Maneverse has been visited before- specifically, Luna visited it while in a state of despair from her battle with Celestia. This ended up inspiring the Celestia of that world to enact the plan with the Elements of Harmony to purify Nightmare Moon in her world. The two worlds crossed paths again in "Crisis on Two Equestrias," when Trixie of the Lunaverse followed Twilight Sparkle of her world to the Maneverse, and an expeditionary force of the Elements and Luna went to retrieve them.
    • Protea is the homeworld of the Changelings, and appears to have only one major hive that contains their entire race, ruled over by a succession of Queens, of which Chrysalis is the latest. The rest of the planet is described as a Death World filled with mutants and vaguely implied to have been the victim of a nuclear war. A recent problem for Protea are brief, tiny portals opening up near the surface, which suck in anything that gets too close. Currently, Ocellus, a young Changeling, is living in Equestria after falling through a rift into its world.
    • The "Sexyverse," is a world that hasn't yet been visited, but is functionally identical to the Lunaverse, save for its residents being much more sexually liberated.
    • Then there are other fan-universes, though these are non-canon to the Lunaverse setting.
      • Culture Clashes has Lunaverse Trixie teleport to the world of the Hasbroverse.
      • Multiversal Harmony is the story of a group of ponies from different fan-made worlds, including the Orangeverse, Lunaverse, Hasbroverse, and more being sent on a quest to find the Elements in a world where they were never needed before.
  • Mundane Utility: The Elements of Harmony can protect their wielders from harm, de-power alicorns, banish them for a thousand years, turn chaos gods to stone... in The Glass Kingdom, Trixie uses the clasp of Lyra's element of loyalty to... pick a lock.
  • My Greatest Failure:
    • The reason that Ditzy didn't think that she was qualified to be the Element of Kindness was due to her affair with Castor Cut.
    • Luna had a bad time 1,000 years ago and has three of these: first, she failed to notice that Celestia was going insane until it was too late, resulting in Corona and the subsequent banishment. Next, Cadance was "born" but Luna thought she wouldn't be a good enough mother, so she left Cadance in the care of Cavallian vinters. Finally, the utter despair she felt became too much, so she abandoned Equestria for another world - she came back fairly quickly, but not due to realizing she was wrong. All of this together led to Luna spending a total of twelve years in a drunken, depressed stupor.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • During "Boast Busted", Twilight nearly runs afoul of a cockatrice... only this time, she gets rid of it without even breaking her stride.
    • Rarity's whining is still very impressive.
    • The Shadowbolts exist, but instead of being a pegasi acrobatic team and/or Nightmare Moon, they instead are an elite team of ponies whose job it is to deal with issues the Royal Guard can't handle on its own, a la the FBI.
    • After receiving her own invitation to the Grand Galloping Gala, Ditzy speculates as to how long Pinkie Pie would have to cool her heels in the dungeon after trashing the place with one of her impromptu production numbers.
    • In At the Grand Galloping Gala, as Luna explains to Trixie why she can't out-and-out purge the current Night Court, she starts taking on the appearance of Nightmare Moon.
    • In Secret of Adalantis, Trixie responds to a prank Rarity played on her by turning the fashionista's mane green. Rarity's response is to comment that she can cast illusion spells too so isn't impressed much.
    • When Ditzy tries to get Night Light to at least try to accept Trixie's attempt at an apology, she allows as how Dinky isn't a perfect little flutter pony.
  • Narm: In-universe, during A Bushel of Carrots, when Carrot Top sees Mayor Scroll trying to look serious and dignified as things get worse, she just finds the mare's appearance utterly ridiculous instead.
  • Never My Fault:
    • Corona is incapable of connecting her being a power-hungry maniac with the fear she instills in the ponies of the Lunaverse. Until Tambelon, at least. She's instead fully convinced that everyone's distrust and fear of her is due to lies spread by Luna rather than anything she might have done. It's kind of bizarre. She kidnaps ponies to ensure loyalty, thereby demonstrating that she knows the effect it has on others, yet she expects ponies to love her regardless.
    • Twilight was this way for awhile, though she eventually came around to realizing she made a series of mistakes and turned herself in.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • In Boast Busted, Trixie's Trolling of Twilight helps fuel her desire to humiliate Trixie in return, and her attempt to make amends by admitting her flaws only drives Twilight deeper into denial. By the end Trixie pens an apology letter to Luna mentioning how far she still has to go in her study of friendship.
    • In Crisis On Two Equestrias The Element of Magic gets shattered thanks to the arguing between the two Trixies and two Twilights, both forcing them to work together in order to put it back together and creating a black-magic based fusion of them who is born with the desire to kill her "parents".
    • Trixie is adept at driving away friends, so she's terrified of when she mistakes Raindrops for an imposter because she fears she's lost yet another friend. Thankfully, this trope is averted.
    • In The Return of Tambelon, the Luna-6 attempt to take both Grogar and Corona captive at the same time. It backfires spectacularly and more-or-less directly leads to both Grogar's ascendency as a lich; and Corona regaining the full bredth of her powers
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
    • In Carrot Top Season, Applejack's attempt to dissuade the other farmers from supporting Carrot Top (by bragging about how much Ponyville and Equestria depends on the Trust, because they have a ruthless monopoly, and how everypony owes her for not crushing them completely) only convinces them to give their support instead. Red Onion even makes it personal - "Kick this idiot's flank to Tartarus and back, 'kay?" Worse, the actions of the Trust end up putting pressure on the smaller Ponyville farms to band together into their own version of the Trust, call the Farmer's Union, which is capable of at least putting up a fight with Sweet Apple Acres without getting curbstomped.
    • In The Return of Tambelon, Tirek's mocking Corona by praising her for being 'the Tyrant Sun' makes her think about her plans of conquest. Instead of outright conquering Equestria as she originally planned, Corona decides on only attacking Canterlot and leaving the rest of Equestria be.
  • No Honor Among Thieves: Each member of Greengrass's coalition seems ready to turn on the others as soon as they can find a way to do it.
  • No, I Am Behind You: In The Return of Tambelon, Luna and Corona do this to one another in one fight.
  • No Indoor Voice: An Early Reunion shows Luna having to deal with a dozen would-be Celestia impersonators, all yelling in the Royal Canterlot Voice. As a result of this, Luna finds her fondness for the RCV rapidly diminishing.
  • Noodle Incident: A number of notable and embarrassing incidents in Trixie's past are alluded to throughout the stories. Most are given only passing mention when first introduced, although some later stories expand on what precisely happened.
    • Trixie did something to melt an Ice Palace before the stories began that resulted in her being sent to Ponyville. What exactly it was she did has never been explained, although according to Sparkler it was kind of funny in hindsight.
      • Whatever it was seemed to have damaged Octavia's cello.
      • In Tales of Ponyville, we learn the incident happened at an after-graduation party for Luna's magic academy, and that not even Trixie is entirely sure how she managed it.
      • Crisis reveals that Luna was inside when it melted.
    • In Boast Busted, Lyra is extremely hesitant to volunteer for Trixie's magic trick practice due to the latter having turned her into something the last time she did so, which Trixie angrily claims was only an accident. What exactly happened beyond this isn't explained until Helping... Hands? , where it turns out Trixie turned Lyra into a human by mistake.
    • Snails once attempted to mail-order a baby Ursa.
    • "Apprenticeship" has Luna think of the Great Letterhead Controversy as one of the worse irritations of being Princess. Whatever it was that happened, she nearly shudders at the thought of it.
    • The non-canon story "Nightmares Yet to Come" mentions two:
      • There was some sort of fire-related incident involving the Optibeurs-Golo family, of which Vicereine Puissance is the head, some years prior. This isn't expanded on for several chapters: several years ago,, Puissance's estate was destroyed in a mysterious fire, with the Vicereine and her head of security presumed dead in the fire.
      • Later, it's mentioned that one Abacus Cinch used to be in the employ of Luna's government. Exactly why she isn't anymore isn't said, but she was apparently bad enough that the secretarial staff don't want her coming back.
  • "Not So Different" Remark:
    • Comparing their own actions to those of the Tyrant Sun and finding no substantive difference between them has made Ditzy and the other members of the Luna Six finally realize that Corona isn't a monster as they've been raised to believe. She's something far scarier and a damned sight more heartbreaking: A Mama Bear with the power of a god.
    • On a friendlier level, Ocellus gets along well with the Sirens because they both are people, they just have overwhelming hunger issues that make them target other living things. They're able to use that as a basis for communication and even partnership- at one point she gets them a boar to eat, and in exchange she can eat some of their emotions. She even negotiates that the Sirens will stay away from Ponyville, as that's "her hunting ground."
  • Not What It Looks Like: Cheerilee walks in on Trixie and Raindrops prench kissing for a memory-sharing spell in Tales of Ponyville.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Fancy Pants and his wife, Fleur. Lucky for us they're on the Elements' side.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat:
    • Shining Armor entertains the idea of playing this card on Trixie next time she shows up in Canterlot in retaliation for humiliating his sister during "Boast Busted". Two castle guards also do it to her in an earlier chapter, in response to the ice palace incident.
    • The Night Court have made this into a fine art. Trixie is often a victim of this, as shown in early chapters of At The Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Official Couple: Lyra and Bon Bon, of course.
  • One-Gender Race: Subverted with the sirens. Ponies think they're all female, but that's just a myth — siren stallions do exist, and if they didn't then how would sirens even breed?
  • One-Winged Angel: Zizanie, in chapter 13 of At the Grand Galloping Gala, as she uses her chaos magic. Although in this case, it's not "angel" so much as "draconequus." The one wing is a moth's.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • Eye of the Hurricane has Raindrops start acting very happy and friendly to everypony. This creeps everyone right the hell out.
    • Trixie accuses Raindrops of being an imposter in Tales Of Ponyville due to being uncharacteristically happy about the rain. (Trixie assumes that Raindrops would be upset about having to fix a weather mess Rainbow Dash made, unaware that the pegasus has a simple and genuine love of rain.) Slightly justified on Trixie's part because a) Raindrops was acting remarkably out of character, and more importantly b) she had recently had experiences with a shapeshifter herself, not to mention she's had to tangle with other such beings who could disguise themselves as an Element for their own ends (the Night Court, Corona, etc).
    • L!Trixie's actions in Crisis are taken as such... but it's less of "We think they might be an imposter" and more "We think she might have brain damage." It doesn't help that the main universe's first encounter with her was after she was in a coma from overchanneling magic, she had been hit by lightning, and the exact circumstances of her arrival were not yet known.
    • "Return of Tambelon" has Luna demanding what, to the Lunar Six, seem like unbelievably harsh punishments for Grogar. She justifies this because a) when they were first thought up, it would still have been harsh, but more acceptable by the morality of the day, b) She considers Grogar to be that much of a threat, and c) Grogar's ambitions extend far beyond himself. Also, when discussing Grogar, Luna — who hesitates to take action for fear of becoming a tyrant — exercises her right as Princess to lay down the law, and states she will not go back on it.
  • Our Sirens Are Different: Sirens are hippocamp-like equines whose songs can hypnotize those who listen to them, which they use to get ponies to drown themselves so that they can eat them. This doesn't work on everyone — Lyra's immune to their attempt in Longest Night, Longest Day because the three aren't fully harmonizing with each other and it's enough for her to notice.
  • Overly Long Name: Not a person, but rather the sign on Trixie's residency proclaims it "Official Residency of the Representative to Ponyville of the Night Court of Luna". One of Trixie's lesser struggles is finding a way to parse it down.

     P-S 
  • Paranoia Fuel:
    • Invoked. During "Family Matters"/"Helping... Hands?" Trixie has to sneak into Fluttershy's house to get some chicken feathers, and admits as much to Ditzy. Ditzy briefly considers telling Fluttershy... before thinking it over and realizing that the stress of an invisible pony who could sneak into your house at any time would probably kill the poor dear.
    • Trixie falls into this sometimes due to the presence of things like shapeshifters and Night Court Machinations. Though to be fair, these are things that actually happen. Multiple times. To her and her friends specifically.
  • Physical God: According to the author, alicorns like Celestia/Corona and Luna are basically these, and you can substitute the word "god" whenever you see the word "alicorn" in his stories.
  • Photographic Memory:
    • Ditzy Doo doesn't necessarily remember everything instantly, but she has an easy time committing things to memory, or recalling them.
    • Trixie has a spell that lets whoever she casts it on perfectly remember anything they're looking at for twenty-four hours. Said photographic memory spell shows up in "The Glass Kingdom", where Trixie uses it to memorize some Zaldian phrases. Problem is, using them convinces Zaldians she's more knowledgeable about their language than she actually is (which is to say, not remotely).
  • Post-Kiss Catatonia:
    • Trixie has one after being Covered in Kisses by Bon Bon. It's a long story.
    • A more minor case in "Tales of Ponyville," as a result of a memory-sharing spell that requires lip-to-lip contact to work.
  • Power Copying: one of Trixie's talents in magic. However, as she's never had to actually study spells, she knows only the very basics of the theoretical side.
    • It's shown that Canon!Trixie is much the same way in Crisis, as both compare learning magic from books to learning to dance from a book - you can read all you want on the placement of your feet, but only by getting up will you learn how to dance.
  • Power Floats: Corona stops bothering to flap her wings after a while, using pure magical power to keep herself in the air.
  • Precision F-Strike: Cadence gets off several Italian cusses through "An Early Reunion".
  • Properly Paranoid:
    • Applejack's paranoia pays off in the early chapters of At The Grand Galloping Gala, when Zecora's curse destroys most of the town's crops, and only the Apple Trust's food stores can keep the town fed. Ivory Scroll even tells Applejack that she should feel free to say "I told you so". This trope is actually a large part of Applejack's motivation — she works so hard because she got an incorrect version of the origin of the Apple Trust, so her goal is to make sure that no one in Equestria starves if something bad happens.
    • Luna put a tracking spell on Trixie when she took her on, and never actually removed it, just in case. This comes in handy when Trixie goes missing in a teleportation accident gone very wrong.
    • Trixie is completely distrustful of Bray when the Element Bearers run into him, after what happened with Zecora. It doesn't take very long for her paranoia to be proven right.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From Bon Bon in Griffin Over the Line. "Now why don't you stop staring slack jawed and use some of that fancy magic to. Get. Me. Down!"
  • Rage Breaking Point: Raindrops tries her hardest to keep from losing her temper in Griffin Over The Line, but Dash and Gilda just keep pushing her buttons... until Gilda pulling a flying carpet out from under Trixie proves to be the last straw.
  • Rapid Hair Growth: Carrot Top after the poison joke. Her mane and tail instantly tripled in length, then continued to keep growing at about an inch every ten seconds, eventually clocking out at more than twelve feet long. Also, it turned green.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Captain-lieutenant Bilaketa Sakon of the Zaldian gaursai stands out as an utter oddity among Zaldians, being neither an ass or paranoid, when Trixie and Lyra are framed for stealing Zaldia's greatest and most valued treasures, reasoning instantly that neither they or the Equestria government would do such a thing, because it would be an instant death-sentence.
  • Reassigned to Antarctica:
    • What Trixie is led to think being sent to Ponyville is after she melted an ice palace. The truth is a tad more complex. She was in fact Kicked Upstairs after melting an ice palace, so mostly the same thing.
    • Confirmed that the Equestrian Embassy in the Griffin Kingdoms is the general place to send troublemakers who have spectacularly erred in politics. The first guy to suffer this fate staged a false coup and threatened to invade five foreign nations in order to make a point about Luna needing to be more accessible.
    • That the Griffin embassy is used as such is a plot point in "Voice of the Sun". Most of the staff there are incompetents who shouldn't have retained their jobs at all, and as such the few competent ponies there are utterly frustrated. And because they know they've been sent to the middle of nowhere, never to be seen again, several of the ponies present turn to Corona for revenge.
  • Redemption Rejection:
    • In Carrot Top Season, Carrot Top tries to make a peace offering to Applejack, but gets blown off.
    • In A Bushel of Carrots, Applejack is willing to accept help from Carrot Top to set up Timber Wolf traps. Granted, it was on the prompting of Apple Bloom, but Applejack still says it was a good idea.
    • Corona repeatedly rejects all forms of redemption, claiming that Luna is the evil one and that she does no wrong. The Return of Tambelon and evidence gathered from An Early Reunion show at bare minimum why she feels that Luna is evil (aside from her being crazy). Luna, in order to defeat Corona, committed certain dark rituals, stealing dark power from Tirek and implanting it into a copy she split from herself. This made an ersatz version of Nightmare Moon to fight Corona, which made Corona think that Luna did those dark things to herself (instead of the copy). In reality, during the fight, Luna hit both Nightmare and Corona with the Elements of Harmony, cleansing the copy and sealing Corona in the sun.
  • Refuge in Audacity: During "Nightmares Yet to Come", a frustrated Trixie asks Midnight what her deal is. Midnight replies that she's actually a shard of Tirek in a pony body, having time-travelled back to ensure her own victory. She then admits this was an attempt at a joke gone very wrong. Trixie admits that if it weren't for the time travel bit, she would've probably believed her.
  • Required Secondary Powers:
    • Trixie's invisibility doesn't work against Octavia because not only can the latter hear the sounds the former is still making, she can also hear the inappropriate absence from a silencing spell. By the time At the Grand Galloping Gala comes by, Trixie has come up with a way around the problem.
    • A much more minor example — Pipsqueak is really good at playing on the jungle gym, as he spent a year with his father on a sailing ship and learned how to maneuver on rigging and ropes.
  • Reset Button: Harshly averted. In "Foalish Misadventures," the adults all got drunk and destroyed the town as the result of a curse. The next story in the series, "At the Grand Galloping Gala", shows that things are still destroyed, and the town doesn't have nearly enough money to fix the damages (both from the previous story, and from the Ursa Attack in "Boast Busted", Philomena's earlier attack, and numerous other incidents), which could shut down many of the businesses and force the ponies to start rationing food and water. And at the start of season two, Twilight notes all the construction going on to repair said damage, indicating that things are still a mess (though getting better, and it's somewhat implied that due to her emotional state she may be seeing things worse than they actually are).
  • Revealing Continuity Lapse: "Nightmares Yet to Come" mentions in one chapter that Vicerein Puissance has been dead for several years. The story begins in the November of season 2, with mention that the events of "Ice Hearts" have taken place, which featured Puissance in a very important role (indeed, being one of the reasons that story occurs at all) while still very much alive. Later on in the same chapter, a character flippantly suggests they're a time-traveller.
  • Role Swap AU: Celestia turned evil instead of Luna 1,000 years ago, and the Elements of Harmony belong to a different group of ponies.
  • Running Gag: Trixie's window has been broken so many times she's already on a first-name-basis with the repairpony. His name is Windowpane.
    • At the end of one story (Ill Communication) there's even a scene at the end where Windowpane comes to the Residence just to be informed that no, the window was not broken this time. Both he and Pokey seem disappointed.
    • Shockingly, a detonating crate of fireworks on the front lawn (set off by the children Trixie is mentoring) does not break the window. Seconds after they leave, though, a baseball sails through it.
    • During the Talent Show, Windowpane reveals that Trixie's window is putting his child through college.
  • Sadistic Choice:
    • Corona's offer to the salamanders at the end of Through Fire and Flames. Either they can serve her, or she lets Solrath do what he likes with them. They go with the former.
    • Night Light poses one to Trixie in At the Grand Galloping Gala: give up her dreams of ascending any higher in the Night Court, ensuring Ponyville doesn't suffer any further red tape retribution... or keep trying to make her way up the ranks and keep getting swatted down for her troubles, putting Ponyville at risk at the same time.
  • Sanity Slippage: Bon Bon gets pretty close to this in chapter 6 of Helping... Hands?, with Laughing Mad and trying to strangle Trixie before Lyra calms her down.
  • Scooby-Dooby Doors: In Old Friends, Trixie was advertising a door-connecting spell that...worked in this fashion when Cheerilee went there to escape, with Notary chasing her. By the time the chase continued out of the doors, it turns out that Ivory Scroll was inadvertently sent to Coneigh Island. Thankfully, Trixie (and Twilight) got her back.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can:
    • At the start of Longest Night, Longest Day, Corona, the Tyrant Sun, is this, trapped in the sun for the past 1,000 years. She escapes, of course.
    • The first chapter of Where There is Smoke has Corona releasing Philomeena from her imprisonment to wreak havoc on Ponyville.
    • Grogar and Tambelon serve as one in the season two opening story.
    • Tirek is sealed away in Tartarus, and in fact he really doesn't want to leave.
  • Secret Test of Character: Luna and Cadence's duel in "An Early Reunion" is mainly so Luna can see what Cadence is like when she's threatened.
  • Sequel Hook: At the climax of "The Return of Tambelon", Spellhold, the massive library of Tameblon, goes missing thanks to a teleportation spell. So far, where it's gone hasn't been revealed (though since Bray had been planning on taking it to somewhere in the Mild West, that seems a pretty good guess).
  • Selective Obliviousness: Applejack seems to be willing herself to not see that her concerns about the imminent collapse of the Apple Trust are hot air and that having a monopoly on the apple industry basically guarantees financial security. Why exactly is a potentially natter-inducing discussion not for these parts.
  • Servile Snarker:
    • Pokey Pierce.
    • Greengrass' aide Notary does the same thing. Both she and Pokey get away with it by being highly competent and reliable.
  • Shared Universe: Has more than twenty authors and nearly two hundred stories.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!:
    • Cheerilee earns the Element of Laughter by ridiculing Corona and swearing that if she's gotta go down, she's gonna do it making the ponies see what a sordid joke the Tyrant Sun really is.
    • Spike tells Twilight Sparkle that since she blames everyone but herself for her own problems, she's not really all that different from Corona.
  • Soft Glass: After about the tenth time her window gets broken, Trixie starts ordering a special safe-break glass.
  • Spirit Bomb:
    • Shining Armor acts as the focus for a barrier empowered by most of unicorns in Canterlot to be strong enough that Corona considers using a serious amount of power for the Fantastic Nuke needed to bring it down.
    • Since the Elements of Harmony work by drawing power from the other five Elements and channelling it through the Element of Magic, they sort of work like this.
  • Spontaneous Choreography: Ocellus has a typical "Pony breaks out into song and no one notices," moment in the story "Ocellus' Ordinary Day." Then once she gets distracted from it by Granny Smith, she starts lampshading the whole thing while freaking out, asking "Where did the background vocals come from," and "I'm a changeling, we don't do dance numbers, how was I dancing like that?" She eventually resolves that no one noticed and she's not thinking about it ever again.
  • Start of Darkness: Celestia lost her shit and became Corona because she couldn't handle the stresses that come from ruling a country in a universe where everything wants to wreck it.
  • The Summation: The last chapter of Boast Busted has Luna tell Shining Armor what happened during and as a consequence of the story's events.
  • Sympathy for the Devil:
    • When Trixie looks through Twilight's wagon, she sees some things that lead her to wonder how things would have been like with their roles reversed. There is, of course, a Mythology Gag in there.
    • In The Return of Tambelon, the Lunaverse 6 start to feel this towards Corona, as they come to understand her motivations and what drove her to madness in the first place.
    • In "The 'Ling From Another World", Snips feels this way towards Ocellus thanks to his Animal Empathy.
    • Word of God is that any feelings like this for Antithesis, in Crisis on Two Equestrias, are misplaced — she isn't sympathetic, she's a psychopathic murderer who'd gladly kill everything just for the thrill of it.

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  • Take a Third Option: See Sadistic Choice above, with Night Light and Trixie. Third choice: Destroy the Night Court.
  • Taking the Bullet: Lyra takes one for Cheerilee in Longest Night, Longest Day, when Corona tries to blast the latter. Luckily, it proves her to be the Element of Loyalty, and she's fine.
  • Talk to the Fist: Trixie tries kicking Midnight in the face during Nightmares Yet to Come. And she technically succeeds, but it hurts a lot, and isn't quite as satisfying as she'd hoped.
  • Tall Poppy Syndrome: In Carrot Top Season, Applejack alludes to this in response to Carrot Top asking why there has to be only one farmer in Ponyville, rather than a cooperative group. "But in a group, the weak always drag down the strong."
  • Tempting Fate: During chapter 10 of "Nightmares Yet to Come", Midnight assures Thesis that the chances of something dangerous happening while she's out are very low. In Ponyville. On a Friday evening. Sure enough, something dangerous happens at the very end of the chapter.
  • Tension-Cutting Laughter: After an awkward moment between Bon Bon, Trixie and Lyra. Subverted when Bon Bon's laugh turns out to be more than that.
  • Terrible Interviewees Montage: The first chapter of File Under... is basically this.
  • That Came Out Wrong:
    • Trixie says this word for word in Tales of Ponyville when she realizes how "And you interrupted it before the good part!" sounds in context.
    • During "An Early Reunion", when Ditzy asks how many know about the truth of Cadence's origins, Luna responds "no-one still living". She does immediately realise how that sounds, and clarifies.
  • Theme Song: Theme lyrics, anyway, as well as an extended version. No one has actually recorded them, yet.
    • Surprisingly, Diamond Tiara has This Day Aria. Yes, That song. It crops up in her mind, at least, whenever she thinks of Scootaloo...
    • A variation on "This Day Aria" is also sung by Cadance in the first chapter of An Early Reunion.
    • Ocellus has "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," by Queen, but modified so that it's about how tasty love is.
  • Theory Tunnelvision: Twilight simply cannot and will not believe that Trixie's friendship with the other members of the Lunaverse Six is what helped her chase Corona away. Crisis has caused her to at least rethink that.
  • Threatening Shark: Secrets of Andalantis has the kaosharks, which are hybrids of sharks and other creatures. They used to be seaponies, merponies and plesioponies, until they were forcibly transformed.
  • Tin Can You Hear Me Now: How Trixie and Lyra get past Octavia's practically super-equine hearing.
  • To Be Lawful or Good: Trixie's experiences with the Night Court At The Grand Galloping Gala drive her to come up with a plan that, if successful, will force Luna to take action in reforming the Court, weeding out the corrupt courtiers and allowing the government to focus more effectively on the threat of Corona. When recruiting the other Elements of Harmony into the plan, though, she makes no bones about the fact that what she intends to do is very illegal, and that if they want in on it, they have to be prepared to deal with the fallout of that.
    • Also subverted. Commenters pointed out that Trixie has legal options that would let her beat the bad Courtiers; she just doesn't want to use them.
    • And then Word of God came down and stated that Trixie's treasonous idea was completely necessary and nothing less would have sufficed. Opinions on this were highly divided.
  • Too Dumb to Fool: Ditzy in Griffin over the Line.
    • Given that she smiled after she watched the two pranksters slump off in defeat, we're left with the implication that pretending to be clueless is her way of dealing with abrasive twits who thrive on antagonizing their fellows.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The royalty of Tambelon listened to Grogar, a necromancer, stating he knew of a way to live forever. Their king somehow assumes this means he's going to help them live forever.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • Lyra in chapter 12 of Longest Night, Longest Day reminds us that she's been studying magic as well as music for 3 years when she single-hoofedly defeats three sirens.
    • The Luna-Six, compared to their canon counterparts (where they are merely normal ponies, annoyances, or background characters). Likewise, the Mane Six are this compared to their Lunaverse counterparts.
    • Octavia surprisingly does this by being able to locate invisible ponies simply by the way that the sounds reverberate around the room differently.
    • By season 2, the Element Bearers have realised they are going to have to fight, and start preparing for this. When the Contest comes around, Luna gives them the snazzy gift of some starmetal armor.
  • Translator Microbes: Immediately after running into the L-6, Grogar casts a translation spell, allowing him to understand them and vice-versa.
  • Turtle Island: Why no-one ever found Andalantis, also known as Thetis. She took a nap up on the ocean surface, and no-one noticed because she was taking her kip in an unexplored region. The events of Secrets of Andalantis wake her up.
  • Unknown Rival: Carrot Top to the Apples, until Carrot Top Season.
  • Unstable Equilibrium: Alluded to in Carrot Top Season. Carrot Top asserts that with the Apple Trust's sheer wealth, not only can they afford to maintain their equipment, they can hire more workers and buy the latest equipment, which allows them to produce and earn more, which in turns allows them to keep getting the best... Whereas with the rest of Ponyville's farmers, their struggling to stay afloat means that they can't keep abreast of maintenance and technology, which means that things break down and their profit margin is further cut into.
    Carrot Top: All of us have farms that currently require infrastructural work - laying new irrigation pipes, mending broken fencing, rearranging fields — but these jobs require such a large initial investment that we can't afford to ever get started. And - of course - this just hurts us more and more, because without the latest equipment, or even working equipment in some cases, our daily chores take longer and longer, and we fall further behind.
  • Valentine's Day Episodes: The group held a "Hearts and Hooves Day" event full of these. Two of them (Of Hearts and Hooves and To Cheerilee, with Love) were accepted as canon.
  • Vicious Cycle: Luna sees the Night Court as being stuck in one of these: no matter how many times she clears out the corruption, there will always be members who fall prey to temptation.
  • Villain: Exit, Stage Left:
    • Corona, with the help of Zecora, in Longest Night, Longest Day.
    • Grey Hoof, in Dinky and the Blanks.
    • Zizanie, in "File under "I" for Impossible".
    • Flim and Flam try this. Greengrass is a bit better at preventing it than the L6, though...
    • Octavia, in her first appearance.
    • Twilight, in her first appearance... and continues until she turns herself in after Crisis.
    • Lampshaded by the author in an omake where Sparkler runs away so that "the doesn't have to have character growth".
    • The not-a-cult of Nightmares Yet to Come manage to get away from a very pissed-off Luna and her guard, though it's mentioned one of their number got caught in the backfire of whatever it was they were up to.
  • Villain Song:
    • Applejack and Resplendent Orange as Freddie Trumper and Walter de Courcey from Chess.
    • An epic one in 'Symphony for Moon and Sun' featuring the entire Night Court, also from Chess.
    • Thrash Metail performs Own Little World, by Celldweller, shortly before launching his plan to get revenge on Octavia and conquer Canterlot's music scene.
    • Half a villain song, when Kindle and Raindrops sing "A Whole New World" together, with the latter not realizing who the former is until it's too late.
  • Villainous Breakdown:
    • After being depowered, Corona completely falls apart and reveals just how tragically insane she really is.
    • Grogar, too...for about five seconds before being destroyed.
  • Wants a Prize for Basic Decency:
    • In Carrot Top Season, Applejack considers selling (not giving; selling) apples to farmers going through a bad harvest, so they can survive the winter, a grand gesture of generosity worthy of respect and favors in return. She even points out that she could have just looked away and let them starve (or lose their livelihoods), and seems to have no idea at all how callous this makes her sound. This backfires spectacularly when she mentions how Berry would have gone out of business without her cider, unfortunately implying that if Berry wants to stay in business, she'll stop supporting Carrot Top. This leads to nearly all businesses in Ponyville boycotting Sweet Apple Acres' produce.
    • Corona is shocked that Ditzy is offended that she took Dinky hostage, even though Corona kept her word and none of the hostages were harmed.
  • We Could Have Avoided All This: Is a plot point in "Ill Communication," where it was pointed out to Pinkie that if she took the time, she could have helped avoid the Parasprite infestation much sooner. She responds that she's so unused to ponies actually listening to her that she doesn't have much of an idea how to do that.
  • We Need a Distraction: In order to get past Grogar's golem guards, which the makeshift Bearer-Corona team can't fight all at once, Corona goes off on her own and causes a few explosions to draw their attention.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Trixie, compared to her canon counterpart. Unlike Twilight "I once milked a dozen cows, levitated a water tower, and rocked a baby Ursa to sleep all at the same time and that was before I became a demigoddess" Sparkle, Trixie is far less powerful, and can't learn spells from books easily. However, what tricks she does know (Illusions and similar tricks) she knows very well and is quick on her hooves, so she gets far more mileage out of what at first seems to be a more limited base.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Corona is significantly more powerful than Luna. She is also completely, tragically insane and paranoid.
  • Wham Episode:
    • Longest Night, Longest Day proves that while each main story may be based on the original MLP episode, it does not have to follow it. Not only does being beaten by the Elements and Luna's request for her to come back not redeem Corona, it in fact makes her even more insane and hellbent on complete destruction then she was before.
    • The last chapter of The Return of Tambelon gives us two. Solrathicharnon, an ancient dragon with an immense grudge against Luna, has the Rainbow of Darkness. In the same chapter, Luna, in an attempt to reach out to her sister, has secretly allowed Corona to resume control over the Sun
    • The end of The Glass Kingdom reveals the changelings are already here. And they've infiltrated nearly everywhere in Zaldia.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: At one point, Corona wonders what became of her throne. Certainly, it couldn't have been destroyed after she was sent to the sun. So where did it go? The Great Dragon Coronation shows it's been sitting around in the Overlord's horde the last thousand years or so.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Pegasi as a race tend to get twitchy underground. Some of them are more capable of dealing with it than others.
  • With Catlike Tread: One chapter of Nightmares Yet to Come begins with Sunset Shimmer singing the trope namer, only to be interrupted by Lightning Dust pointing out that this is not a good idea when you're trying to be stealthy. Sunset retorts that it's helping her focus.
  • World of Badass: The Contest of Champions reveals that pretty much every nation out there is just as badass as Equestria. For example, the Elks, who routinely have to fight off marauding dragons.
  • Xanatos Gambit:
    • Duke Greengrass has a penchant for these. A good example is his plan to spread the story that Octavia Philharmonica is playing the Symphony for Moon and Sun for Luna. If she refuses to play, she snubs the princess, she's ruined, and Greengrass has punished her for her betrayal. If she plays and, like everypony else who tried, doesn't play the piece to Luna's standards, Luna ruins her career, and Greengrass has punished her. And finally, if she plays the piece successfully, Greengrass reveals that she had done work for him in the past and spreads the rumor that he made it possible for her to play the piece and get what she wanted, and Greengrass then gets a bunch of servants with big dreams offering to sell him their master's secrets if he'll help them in a similar way. No matter what happens, Greengrass profits.
    • When another villain mis-guesses his plan and hires thugs to stop her from reaching the concert, Greengrass laughs his flank off since he still wins in either case. He takes no action to stop the interference and then blackmails the perpetrator in the aftermath.
  • Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe:
    • Corona, having been in exile for a thousand years, makes heavy use of early-modern English words and phrases, like "thy" and "hast" (not unlike Luna in Luna Eclipsed). Partially averted in that the author is actively trying to make it as accurate as possible rather than just adding "-th" to the end of random words, although he admits to not being very good at it.
    • Most of the dialogue in An Early Reunion, due to it taking place 980 years before the rest of the series.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The Mane Six's world's Luna tells the Lunaverse's Luna that her fear of being Nightmare Moon is so much rubbish. Reason: she's far stronger than she cares to admit.
  • You Are Not Alone: In Carrot Top Season, various other ponies show up to give Carrot Top support for the farming competition.
  • Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Corona is absolutely shocked when Tirek praises her for reminding him of himself.
  • Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Chapter 3 of A Bushel of Carrots has the Timberwolves dealt with, and the Carrot clones supposedly gotten rid of. Then there's a massive swarm of the things.

Alternative Title(s): Lunaverse Rainbow Double Dash

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