YMMV / CRISIS: Equestria

• Adorkable:
  • Due to the circumstances of the original timeline, this doesn't show up from Twilight Sparkle quite as much as usual, but it's still there. When she misinterpreted the "fun" that Briarthorn was intending to show her, it wasn't just hilarious, but classic Twilight Adorkable as well. She really gets to live it up in the divergence timeline, which has more lighthearted moments, particularly with her and Winter's friendship.
  • Also in the original timeline, Havocwing ever since Chapter 25, oh-so-much. Being genuinely humbled by getting appointed as a temporary leader, awkward group hugs, consoling her sisters through their Heroic BSODs, that smile at the end of Chapter 27... the list goes on and on.
• Anti-Climax Boss: In the sequel story, the defeat of the major villains amounts mainly to a few one-on-one fights that are mostly handled with relative ease compared to what was seen of the villains in the central story, such as the Mean Six or Shadowstep. It's given some justification in that Pedigree and Stormy Night aren't exactly as powerful, but then they're also not facing off against good guys that are powerful either. Nihila and the Wendigos feel like the only legitimate threats.
• Awesome Ego: Starlight Shadow loves to brag, but her hamminess makes her boasts so much fun to read. It doesn't hurt that, for the most part, she's telling the truth.
• Awesome Music: Forza Soundfire's "The Journey Begins" for the aborted audioplay.
• Base-Breaking Character: Briarthorn, people tend to either find him hilarious or despise him.
  • Rainbow Dash got some of this treatment in the original timeline, as her abrasiveness, while justifiable within the story's terms, still comes across as mean-spirited at times. She gets better.
• Cry for the Devil: It's hard to not feel sorry for the Mean Six after their "father" Silvertongue abandons them once he sees that they no longer serve a purpose to him, in the original timeline at least.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Shroud, Silvertongue's secretary who mostly only showed up on the other side of an intercom. To the point where the author gave her a big farewell because of her popularity in the original timeline, and hooked her up with Curaçao in the divergence timeline.
  • Applies to Gadget and Crossfire as well, who were well-liked for their brief appearance in the original story, enough that they, as well as Blackburn, are the focal characters of the prequel story.
• Evil Is Cool: CRISIS Equestria has an absolute smorgasbord of badass villains. Whether it's master manipulators like Silvertongue, or Creepy Awesome Serial Killers like Shadowstep. But by far the best example has to be The Mean Six Themselves.
• Fridge Brilliance: Red Velvet is a type of cupcake. Guess what inspired her personality?
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In this story, Twilight Sparkle gets a Foil and Evil Counterpart in the form of Starlight Shadow. In the series proper, Twilight would get Foils and Evil Counterparts in the form of Starlight Glimmer and Tempest Shadow. The author has expressed his consternation about this.
  • Someone creating clones of The Mane Six and the group is named "The Mean Six", although they are never referred to as such in-story.
• Ho Yay: Despite their status as Heterosexual Life-Partners, Flathoof and Lockwood definitely have shades of this, and other ponies make jokes about it rather often.
  • In the original timeline's Chapter 12, when the party is stuck in a cramped space and Lockwood has apparently been rubbing Flathoof's flank, thinking it one of the mares in the bubble. When Flathoof tells him off, Lockwood doesn't outright show disgust, but actually compliments Flathoof on his toned flank. Rainbow doesn't miss the opportunity to call attention to it.
  Rainbow Dash: "Aww, you guys are cute together."
  • In the original timeline's Chapter 27, the party gets new outfits to replace their tattered old ones. Flathoof's first outfit, chosen by Rarity, makes him look rather of a certain persuasion, and Briarthorn and Tick Tock, who are the only two at first that know what it represents in their world, relentlessly tease Flathoof about it. Tick Tock is the one that brings up the possibility of Lockwood and Flathoof being a couple first.
• Incest Yay Shipping: There is an awful lot of subtext between Starlight Shadow and Silvertongue, who she knows as her adoptive father. She seeks to please him by carrying out his orders flawlessly, takes great pride in being his favorite, and emulates his way of speaking (though hers is a little off). He, in the meantime, adores her for her incredible power and loyalty to him and regularly makes point in front of the others that she is his favorite.
  • Golden Dawn explicitly denies that she has any such feelings for her father when she slips up and says something that could be interpreted in that way. Given how she continues to act towards him afterwards, she's either lying or in denial.
  • Curaçao and Insipid don't count, as at least by the time of the original timeline's sequel story, it's clear that it wasn't a sexual or romantic thing at all between them. There's not even a trace of it in the divergence timeline.
  • In the original timeline, Applejack fears that this will be assumed of why she likes Flathoof, and starts to distance herself from him. She isn't fooling anypony, and the real reason she seems to not want to talk to him is because she thought he was being dishonest about sharing a relationship with Tick Tock. Both of these thoughts are put into her head by "Rarity," who was actually Curaçao in disguise.
• Jerkass Woobie: Tick Tock is a jerk, and she may have a heart of gold, but she's still rather a jerk in general. Despite this, she deals with significantly more punishment than any other single character in Twilight's party, nearly getting killed over half a dozen times on her own by now, and getting traumatized when she finds out that Shadowstep is a zombie that still wants her dead. Her relief that he can't follow her is hers alone - the readers know he can, and is.
• Love to Hate: Shadowstep seems to be quite popular despite, or perhaps because he's so unrepentantly evil.
• Misaimed Fandom: The readers hold a lot of affection for Silvertongue and the Mean Six, despite the former being almost entirely responsible for the sorry state that the world is in as of the start of the plot and the latter being a group of antagonistic mares who have no real qualms against killing unless expressly forbidden from doing so. Despite this, more attention is payed to them being a family and less to their being murderous and evil. That's even discounting the fact that Silvertongue all but spells out that he does not care about his "daughters" and discards the Mean Six like broken toys after they help him achieve Alicorn status since after that he sees no more use of them.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Original timeline Red Velvet's techniques for frightening ponies may or may not actually be frightening to the reader. Chapter 24 so far is the pinnacle of her power, and she becomes so strong as to actually corrupt the text.
  • If one has a fear of insects, the Gargantuans are of course likely this for you.
  • Lockwood's nightmare from the original timeline Chapter 22, as the whole nightmare itself is written without any indication that it's a dream, and involves Lockwood violently murdering Flathoof, Rarity, and Fluttershy before Tick Tock destroys him and he wakes up. That doesn't end it though. When he wakes up and is frantically begging to be let go to get away from them, Rainbow Dash and Applejack point out that Lockwood's eye has become warped and red, just like the zombies of the Blood Mire.