Silent Ponyville Chronicles



""The fear of blood tends to create fear of the flesh""

- Silent Hill's tagline

The Silent Ponyville Chronicles series is a Crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the Silent Hill series by Jake-Heritagu. So far the series has stayed away from Silent Hill's mythology and has opted for an approach to each story that is reminiscent of Silent Hill 2. Can be found here.

The first story starts out with Pinkie Pie waking up from a terrible nightmare, the worst in a long string of nightmares. Weary after two weeks of almost no rest, and depressed by the content of her nightmares, she seeks help from her friend Twilight Sparkle, hoping that the unicorn's booksmarts and magic can help her. It does. After Twilight casts a spell to delve into Pinkie's mind, Pinkie wakes up in a fog filled and dilapidated version of Ponyville, with no idea of what's going on. With nothing but a cryptic note and a lantern to guide her, Pinkie sets out to learn why she is having her nightmares. Is she able to find the truth? Or does the sinister, twisted version of Ponyville cause her to meet her end?

Each major story in the continuity has multiple endings, paying further homage to the traditions of Silent Hill, although each one has a canon ending where everything turns out for the best. However, that does not prevent the other endings from being Downer Endings on the level of Silent Hill's, enough so even to provoke the fans to start calling the author a monster. One alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 even prompted one fan to write a Fix Fic just because he found it that depressing of an ending.

Silent Ponyville Chronology:


 * Silent Ponyville 1
 * Too Shy For A Rainbow
 * Silent Ponyville 2
 * Silent Ponyville: Reunion (a story written not by Jake-Heritagu, but by Brony17. It started as Recursive Fanfiction, but the author added it to the canon.)
 * Study of the Mind Delve
 * A Rainbow's Surprise
 * Silent Ponyville 3
 * Readable Teaser
 * Silent Ponyville 4 (in Hiatus)

The Silent Ponyville series is a big progenitor of Recursive Fanfiction, with several stories either complete or in progress. A list of the major ones can be found below:


 * Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles.
 * Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun. (AU sequel to Blood Chronicles)
 * Silence of Ponyville.
 * Silence of Ponyville: The Shop. (set during Silence of Ponyville)
 * Silent Ponyville: Darkness Scoots.
 * Silent Ponyville: Catch and Reweave. (sequel to Darkness Scoots)
 * Silent Ponyville: Spooky Song.
 * Silent Ponyville: Loving Memory. (AU to the original Silent Ponyville 2)
 * Silent Ponyville: Shattered Memories. (AU to the 2nd ending of Silent Ponyville 1)

Tropes are separated according whether they are common for the whole Chronicles, part of the main or the side stories. The same trope can still appear in several categories, if they're character relevant or relevant to the respective continuity.

Common tropes for the whole of the Silent Ponyville Chronicles:

 * Abandoned Hospital: Explored in Silent Ponyville 2 and Blood Chronicles.
 * Alien Geometries: Memories of locations tend to disregard their initial positions and move to wherever they're needed- even if that means distorting the fabric of space and time. In Silent Ponyville 2 for example, in the Otherworld Fluttershy falls down a hatch in a house in Ponyville, goes through a tunnel and enters a house that is in Cloudsdale, a pegasus city built in the sky. Justified as her trauma happened in her hometown, not in Ponyville.
 * Blood Chronicles lampshades this early on when the protagonist remarks to himself that the schoolhouse could only physically contain two classrooms at the most-- only to find it to be a large, public school-sized building on the inside.
 * Alternative Continuity: Due to Recursive Fanfiction, numbers thriving.
 * Ascended Fanon: The Silent Ponyville's author sometimes adopts details from the side stories into his canon.
 * Blood Spattered Innocents
 * Body Horror: If the monsters in the stories weren't enough of this trope for you, there's also MANY examples of this in the fanart section of the Deviant ART Group- some are based on monsters from the stories, while others are original designs.
 * Chaos Architecture: The protagonists never know if the room they just left or the path they walked will be the same if they turn around and head back.
 * Dark World: Trope says it all.
 * Drone of Dread: The sirens signify impending world-shifts.
 * Enemy-Detecting Radar: All of the noise variety so far.
 * Epiphanic Prison: The Otherworld is this for each character who gets drawn into it. It customizes to their personal most traumatic memories and experiences, trapping the character on several levels while forcing them to face these traumas to move forward. The ultimate epiphany is to let go of their past and negative feelings at which point they wake up.
 * Psychological Torment Zone: Once again, the Other World, as described above.
 * Everything Trying to Kill You: A whole freaking town.
 * Fix Fic: While not totally meant as one, Jake's inclusion of both Slenderpony and Cupcakes!Pinkie was a result of reading some shoddy Slenderman fanfics and Cupcakes respectively.
 * The aforementioned alternate alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 deserves mention here because Silent Ponyville's main author, Jake, thought it was good enough to make it an official alternate ending for Silent Ponyville 2, and even declared it canon to the original alternate ending's AU.
 * Also, the first full-length Recursive Fanfiction Silent Ponyville story, Blood Chronicles, was based off of an Original Character created for the sole purpose of killing The Colt in two equally disturbing and highly gruesome ways in the short side story Spilled Blood and its alternate perspective Mind Screw sequel, New Bloodstains.
 * Foreshadowing: Part of the Mindscrew, another homage to the traditions of Silent Hill.
 * Genius Loci: Much like Silent Hill, it seems highly probable that the memory town itself is sentient somehow- particularly after Study of the Mind Delve confirms that an external force has been changing the spell's effects.
 * Harmful to Minors: The vast majority of the protagonists.
 * Journey to the Center of the Mind: The actual purpose of the Mind Delve Spell is to grant the patient access to all their memories, even the hidden/surpressed, in order reveal traumatic experiences and deal with them. Too bad an alien force hitches it sometimes for hellish rides, manifesting the patient's personal demons and mixing them with the memories. As of Silent Ponyville 3 and in the side stories, however, other ways have been introduced with which the main characters are drawn into Silent Ponyville / the Otherworld in general.
 * Killed Off for Real: When a character dies in the Otherworld they also die in the real world.
 * Multiple Endings: Both completed Silent Ponyville One and Two have several alternate endings, most of them either Downer Endings or joke endings, with one canon ending that for both stories is the only true "good" ending (though there are arguably two good endings for SP 2). And the ponies have to really have to work for them. The same goes for the side stories Blood Chronicles and Darkness Scoots.
 * Nightmare Sequence: The otherworld sequences, especially Otherworld Sugar Cube Corner. Just guess what this links to.
 * Oh Crap: In-universe all the time.
 * Ominous Fog
 * Posthumous Character: While this has not been a confirmed trend for all of the Silent Ponyville stories, both Silent Ponyville and Silent Ponyville 2 revolve around the fate of Pinkie's little sister, Bellamina and Fluttershy's mother respectively.
 * Recursive Fanfiction: Has developed some rather good ones, such as Blood Chronicles (Twilight accidentally draws herself and a Serial Killer Killer / Deadly Doctor into the cursed town) and Darkness Scoots (an OC who seems to be the arbiter of the Mind Delve spell is forced into cursing Scootaloo).
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Colt in Silent Ponyville 1, Demitri in Blood Chronicles, and the unnamed mare from the Ask The Colt tumblr.
 * Lampshaded repeatedly in the Ask The Colt Tumblr.
 * Rule of Symbolism
 * Sequel Escalation: First fic simply had Pinkie Pie entering the Fog World. Second fic had her, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash together (though not for long). Third one begins with
 * Adding to that, due to the Otherworld adapting to its victim's powers, Twilight fights a monster in the second chapter that would have been a boss monster in Pinkie or Fluttershy's Otherworld in terms of strength and agility. And she does so by wielding a sword with her magic!! The main character using an actual weapon is a first for the original Silent Ponyville stories.
 * The sequel/side-story to Blood Chronicles, Setting Sun, starts with Pinkie in a dream, facing the Colt's spirit who intends to kill her.
 * Shout-Out: To both the fanon concepts of Cupcakes and Slenderpony (see Fix Fic above).
 * Surreal Horror
 * Trauma Conga Line / Deus Angst Machina: If it didn't happen in the protagonist's past, you can be CERTAIN it will happen in the town, with severity Depending On the Author.
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback: The town seems to enjoy forcing characters to relive the worst moments of their lives in as much vivid detail as possible.
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback: The town seems to enjoy forcing characters to relive the worst moments of their lives in as much vivid detail as possible.

The Main story Silent Ponyville contains examples of:

 * Actual Pacifist: Fluttershy during the whole Silent Ponyville 2 story, she . Pinkie Pie almost counts, but she will fight back if she sees no other choice.
 * Adult Fear: Lance lost his wife to an incurable sickness.
 * Twilight hasn't only to fear for her safety but for Spike's as well, as their first encounter with monsters showed.
 * All Just a Dream: Played straight until Silent Ponyville 3.
 * Break the Cutie: And how. If what happens to Pinkie in 1, and Fluttershy in 2 doesn't qualify, then this troper can't imagine anything that DOES. And from the look of it, 3 is shaping up to do the same to Twilight...
 * Break the Haughty: Similarly, Lance in Reunion.
 * Creepy Doll: The headless Mannequin is an enemy in Silent Ponyville 2.
 * Lance stumbles into a room full of mannequins. They are scary at first because he didn't see them in the darkness before he lit the room and saw what they are. Still, that they are there at all and in such numbers mean something - especially when you think of the Headless Mannequin in Silent Ponyville 2.
 * Cutlass Between the Teeth:  attacks with a butcher knife clenched between her teeth.
 * Some of the pony soldier monsters in Silent Ponyville 3 carry and use their swords like this, while others drax axes or spears.
 * Death Glare: Fluttershy's STARE with which she cowed Pinkie Pie's evil (Cupcakes inspired) counterpart Pinkamina. Later she uses it on nurse Soft Cure who was trying again to be an abusive jerk to her. 'Trying' the keyword.
 * Fluttershy seems to have gotten the STARE from her father.
 * Did You Just Laugh At Slenderpony?: SP 1 has Fluttershy scolding Pinkamina, causing her to concede defeat in SP 2 also counts. Yes, THAT Pinkamina.
 * Drowning Pit:.
 * Enemy-Detecting Radar: For Pinkie a radio, for Fluttershy her mother's old musicbox, for Lance in Reunion a busted pocket watch. Twilight's is a medallion - through which, as a first, a voice seems to speak.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: Twilight's eyes go white as she prepares and executes the killing strike against the monster attacking her.
 * Infant Immortality: Averted in Silent Ponyville 1 when.
 * Kill'Em All:.
 * Locked Out of the Loop: Nobody whom Twilight ever used the Mind Delve Spell on tells her what they experienced in their dreams. They only order her 'to never use that spell again', not specifying why it's so bad. She is understandably frustrated.
 * Mood Whiplash: A Rainbow's Surprise's last chapter
 * Memento MacGuffin: Fluttershy's warning signal also doubles as this, being her mother's damaged music box from when she was a child. Also included: Fluttershy's doll (a sign of happier times), Pinkie's pink hair (representing her family), and the saddlebag Lance gave his wife (the start of their relationship).
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Silent Ponyville 1 - Pinkie almost says this word for word after she killed the White Filly. Silent Ponyville 3 - While Twilight doesn't use the words after she killed the monster, her reaction of guilt and grief is heartbreakingly similiar to Pinkie's.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
 * Oh Crap: In-universe all the time. But the really big one comes with Silent Ponyville 3's prologue, with  Lampshaded by the author.
 * Old Shame: an in-universe example: Study of the Mind Delve reveals Twilight wrote terrible self-insert fanfiction when she was a filly. Celestia is amused.
 * Ominous Music Box Tune: Silent Ponyville 2's equivalent to the radio.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: Type O Other, as in 'not really zombies but close enough'.
 * Discussed and lampshaded by Spike and Twilight after fleeing from the pony soldier monsters. Spike believes their the real deal, Twilight points out they don't fit all the traditional characteristics of the zombies they know from stories. She still says they look close enough to zombies.
 * Shout-Out: The scene in Silent Ponyville 2 with  is reminiscent of , although both scenes carry different backgrounds and symbolism.
 * Split Personality Takeover: . It's implied this ending will lead to the story of Cupcakes.
 * Tomato in the Mirror:
 * Pinkie:
 * Fluttershy:
 * Tragic Keepsake: The red ribbon Pinkie Pie finds in the first story she ties into a bow in her hair. And then when she returns to the real world and finds the ribbon gone, she asks for some red ribbon to replace the one she had during her journey through Silent Ponyville. She is still wearing that red ribbon in her hair in the most recent entries to the story, which take place several months after the first.
 * The Un-Reveal: We never learn
 * Video Game Remake: Jake, as well as developer Mavro Manitari and whoever else is involved with the project but as of yet unlisted, is in the process of releasing Silent Ponyville 1 as an actual video game. Information about game development, as well as the eventual copy of the the game, can be found here.
 * Fluttershy:
 * Tragic Keepsake: The red ribbon Pinkie Pie finds in the first story she ties into a bow in her hair. And then when she returns to the real world and finds the ribbon gone, she asks for some red ribbon to replace the one she had during her journey through Silent Ponyville. She is still wearing that red ribbon in her hair in the most recent entries to the story, which take place several months after the first.
 * The Un-Reveal: We never learn
 * Video Game Remake: Jake, as well as developer Mavro Manitari and whoever else is involved with the project but as of yet unlisted, is in the process of releasing Silent Ponyville 1 as an actual video game. Information about game development, as well as the eventual copy of the the game, can be found here.
 * Video Game Remake: Jake, as well as developer Mavro Manitari and whoever else is involved with the project but as of yet unlisted, is in the process of releasing Silent Ponyville 1 as an actual video game. Information about game development, as well as the eventual copy of the the game, can be found here.

The side story Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles contains examples of:

 * Afraid of Needles: The variation on the classic Silent Hill Nurse monster plays on this by attacking with a syringe full of acid.
 * Afraid of Blood: Played with- Demitri starts off with a strong Blood Lust (which he hides from Twilight), but towards the end, his fantasies about how all the blood got there slowly fade, but his feelings on blood are never directly stated.
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Anti-Hero / Byronic Hero
 * Asshole Victim: Only two of Demitri's victims' identities are ever disclosed- one was, and the other was The Colt from Silent Ponyville 1. Also, Demitri makes it abundantly clear that he only ever kills murderers- although he is very quick to jump at the possibility of a pony being a murderer.
 * Auto Cannibalism: One of the ways Demitri tortures The Colt in New Bloodstains. The Colt is disappointed in his taste.
 * Batman Grabs a Gun: Demitri at the very start of Blood Chronicles,
 * Beneath the Mask:
 * Black and White Insanity
 * Black and White Morality: Played with extensively.
 * Black Cloak: Demitri in Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains, and Hooded Pony in Blood Chronicles.
 * Black Eyes:
 * The Blank: Almost all of the monsters Demitri faces.
 * Bloodstained-Glass Windows:
 * Blood Lust: Demitri, full throttle.
 * Cain and Abel:
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience / Convenient Color Change: Demitri's eyes change from their normal brown to red to black as Dexter gains more control over Demitri's actions.
 * Color Contrast: One of the big themes throughout, the most obvious being the many Black/White contrasts, but there are also numerous examples of other contrasting colors, the most predominate being the contrasting of
 * Contemplate Our Navels
 * Coup De Grace Cutscene: Demitri tends to finish off bosses that can talk by holding them at gunpoint and engaging in a final conversation before delivering a final headshot as a Finishing Move.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Demitri...
 * Deadly Doctor:
 * Death by Origin Story
 * Death Glare: Twilight and Demitri exchange a fair number of these throughout the story.
 * Doesn't Like Guns: Oddly enough, Demitri- he frequently wonders aloud to himself why he even brought a gun with him at all, since he NEVER uses them to kill ponies, normally.
 * Also, Twilight herself bears animosity to firearms, but mainly due to their association with violence.
 * Dr. Jerk: Demitri, before he fled the profession after cutting off a patient's face and dismembering their corpse. So much for the Hippocratic Oath...
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette / Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Demitri
 * Enemy Within:
 * Evil Orphan: Arguably Demitri, despite his being Happily Adopted
 * Face Stealer: Part of Demitri's MO.
 * The Faceless: The hooded pony that begins stalking Demitri after the battle with Dexter.
 * Finishing Stomp: Demitri seems particularly fond of these with standard enemies, and is there as a Shout-Out to Silent Hill's traditional gameplay. May be a way of invoking Kick Them While They Are Down for Demitri without the Kick the Dog implications.
 * Fire-Forged Friends: Arguably Demitri and Twilight.
 * Forgiveness: Deconstructed.
 * Forgiveness Requires Death: Revelation B
 * Freudian Excuse: Demitri
 * Gainax Ending: The extremely and deliberately ridiculous "ZOMBIE" Joke Ending.
 * The other two Joke Endings- "UFO" and "GD"- also could count.
 * Game Face: Demitri takes off his mask to reveal his true face to The Colt in New Bloodstains, and
 * Genre Savvy: Demitri, partly due to having gone extensive psychological assessment as a child, and partly due to being a criminal fugitive and knows most forms of self-defense in case he were ever to be discovered and pursued.
 * Give Me a Sword: Demitri gives Twilight his gun and his pager when they decide to split up in the hospital.
 * Happily Adopted: Demitri ended up in a happy household that is seen to have genuinely loved and cared for him growing up, encouraging to use his talents productively.
 * Harsher in Hindsight / Hilarious in Hindsight: The story starts off with the protagonist conspiring with prison guards to get "alone time" with a convicted child murderer, whom he brutally murders, setting the later events in motion. One year later, cue Silent Hill: Downpour...
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Improbable Weapon User: Demitri uses a surgical scalpel as his only melee weapon, and relies on it surprisingly often. Justified, though, since it was Demitri's Weapon of Choice as a surgeon-turned-serial killer, and no other blade is present throughout the story.
 * Hollywood Acid: The "wrapped-up" monsters spray the stuff from their chests, the monster nurses attack with syringes FILLED WITH ACID, and the room where Demitri fights Dexter features an Acid Pool.
 * I Owe You My Life
 * Kill'Em All:
 * The Killer in Me:
 * Latex Perfection:
 * Leave Behind a Pistol:
 * Leaning on the Furniture / Rebel Relaxation: Demitri does a sitting/lying version of this pose, complete with Badass Arm-Fold. May also count as Slouch of Villainy.
 * Man in White: Demitri.
 * The Mole: Demitri's father and his fellow officer, Dark Shade.
 * Moral Sociopathy
 * Natural Spotlight: Draws Demitri's attention to the Test of Character in the classroom, and then later Twilight is found moping in the gym under one.
 * Never Found the Body: It's never said how Demitri deals with the bodies of his victims- except for their faces, which he keeps as masks. The exception is his first victim,, whom he left in pieces and scattered about the OR.
 * No Face Under the Mask
 * Not with the Safety On, You Won't: Unsurprisingly invoked when Demitri tries to teach Twilight how to use a gun before they decide to split up. Also, it should be noted that the gun in question is a revolver, meaning it probably wouldn't have a safety at all.
 * Except that guns are said to be almost NEVER used in Equestria, meaning that the ones that WERE made would probably be designed to be as deliberately difficult for an untrained novice to use as possible.
 * OOC Is Serious Business: Twilight's uncharacteristically emotional behavior is noticed by Demitri after it dawns on him that he has been unusually more open and less careful with his words around Twilight than he would be under normal circumstances, and begins to suspect that it may be an effect of the town.
 * The author has insisted on multiple occasions that this was intentional, which seems to imply that the unusual behavior of the characters might indeed be the town's way of playing on Demitri's fear of having his Dark Secret exposed.
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * Poetic Serial Killer: Demitri, particularly in New Bloodstains.
 * Prophetic Names: "Demitri" is a Portmanteau of "demi", which means "half" or "in two", and the name "Dimitri", which is a derivative name of Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvest. Both duality and "harvesting" (that is, the association between harvest and Judgement Day/Death themes) end up becoming key themes throughout everything Demitri in Demitri's life from his parents' death onwards.
 * Psychic Surgery: Justified by the fact that Demitri is a unicorn with magical abilities, though it's mentioned several times that Demitri was considered a god among ponies when it came to surgical operation regardless of magical ability. Lampshaded by The Colt in New Bloodstains when Demitri practices his art on him, successfully managing to remove The Colt's own stomach from his chest, force him to eat it, and still have time to do a number on his intestines and organs before The Colt finally bleeds out.
 * Recursive Fanfiction
 * Redemption Equals Death: Lampshaded and brutally parodied in the "GD" Joke Ending.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni / Sibling Yin-Yang:
 * Red Right Hand: Demitri's true face, which he keeps hidden under a mask made from the face of one of his past victims.
 * Revolvers Are Just Better
 * Scars Are Forever: Demitri's true face.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can:
 * Serial Killer Killer
 * Shotguns Are Just Better
 * Shout-Out: Several:
 * Most obviously, Demitri is a blood-obsessed Serial Killer Killer whose parents were killed right in front of him. And, in case the reference wasn't blatant enough already, his dark side is even NAMED after Dexter.
 * The Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2 appears, except restrained with a plastic-like membrane as opposed to skin and represents different things.
 * Dexter, Demitri's Alter Ego, refers to Demitri as his "brother". Also, the second phase of his Boss Battle has him using a hopping-from-perch-to-perch tactic similar to that of The Fear from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
 * Demitri used to work in Operating Room 18-OR, and the song "Turn Around, Look At Me" is used to signal the presence of a boss monster.
 * Demitri cuts off his victims' faces and occasionally wears them as masks Hannibal Lecter-style.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: "There is someone... Walking behind you... Turn around... look at me..."
 * Start of Darkness
 * Strapped to An Operating Table: Implied to happen to most of Demitri's victims, and his use of a scalpel as his Weapon of Choice suggests at the very least that his victims are always restrained somehow. We see him actually use an operating table for his first kill in a flashback in Blood Chronicles, while the short stories Spilled Blood/New Bloodstains have The Colt strapped to the very table he himself had used to kill his victims on.
 * Take That Me:
 * This Is Unforgivable!: Young Demitri, to Dark Shade.
 * Through the Eyes of Madness / Unreliable Narrator: Both Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains tell the same story, only from different perspectives. However, since both perspectives are from two equally insane murderers, and the fact that some events change between their recounts, it is impossible to say which story is more reliable.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior:
 * Uh-Oh Eyes: Demitri, whose eyes change color as he is about to kill/torture someone, normally from brown to red, but also occasionally to black. His Alter Ego Dexter is only ever seen with these eyes, and its heavily implied that the eye color change is a sign of his presence affecting Demitri's actions.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Where It All Began: Most of the interiors of buildings seem to become places where key events that influenced Demitri's descent into becoming a serial killer took place. The exception is Sugarcube Corner, but it holds significance as the reason Demitri wound up in Ponyville in the first place.
 * White Mask of Doom: Demitri wears one constantly.
 * Also, apparently he was forced to wear a latex one while working as a surgeon.
 * White Shirt of Death: Played with a lot. Demitri's white coat is certainly there for the dramatic "blood against white background" effect, but most of the time its his victims' blood, rather than his own.
 * Unsurprisingly played straight for the "Game Over" ending.
 * White Void Room: The motel where Demitri's parents were killed, which appears drenched in blood (likely as a Shout-Out to Dexter) near the end of story,
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * This Is Unforgivable!: Young Demitri, to Dark Shade.
 * Through the Eyes of Madness / Unreliable Narrator: Both Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains tell the same story, only from different perspectives. However, since both perspectives are from two equally insane murderers, and the fact that some events change between their recounts, it is impossible to say which story is more reliable.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior:
 * Uh-Oh Eyes: Demitri, whose eyes change color as he is about to kill/torture someone, normally from brown to red, but also occasionally to black. His Alter Ego Dexter is only ever seen with these eyes, and its heavily implied that the eye color change is a sign of his presence affecting Demitri's actions.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Where It All Began: Most of the interiors of buildings seem to become places where key events that influenced Demitri's descent into becoming a serial killer took place. The exception is Sugarcube Corner, but it holds significance as the reason Demitri wound up in Ponyville in the first place.
 * White Mask of Doom: Demitri wears one constantly.
 * Also, apparently he was forced to wear a latex one while working as a surgeon.
 * White Shirt of Death: Played with a lot. Demitri's white coat is certainly there for the dramatic "blood against white background" effect, but most of the time its his victims' blood, rather than his own.
 * Unsurprisingly played straight for the "Game Over" ending.
 * White Void Room: The motel where Demitri's parents were killed, which appears drenched in blood (likely as a Shout-Out to Dexter) near the end of story,
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * White Void Room: The motel where Demitri's parents were killed, which appears drenched in blood (likely as a Shout-Out to Dexter) near the end of story,
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * Your Head Asplode:

The side story Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun contains examples of:

 * Alternate Continuity: It's not only an AU to the original 'Silent Ponyville' series, but also one to Blood Chronicles.
 * Anyone Can Die: Gruesomely hinted at in the prologue: the wounds the ponies suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. And then the mysterious force killed both prisoners AND wardens inside the Canterlot prison.
 * Badass Princess
 * Crucified Hero Shot: The "Remastered Cover" for the fic drawn by the author himself.
 * Dark Reprise: Pinkie is heard singing one of "Giggle At The Ghostly" in the Basement Otherworld of the Shack in Chapter 7.
 * The Dreaded: The executioner pony that appeared in chapter 2 in a painting makes its entrance in chapter 7. The scythe it held is actually its limb, and its presence alone terrifies Celestia.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * Forced to Watch: What the town itself seems to be doing to Celestia.
 * Lured into a Trap:
 * Mirror Monster: Will happen at some point, as the released scene art shows.
 * Mood Whiplash:
 * Prehensile Hair: Applejack uses it to hold her weapon, a .45 Magnum,
 * Prison: The first setting of.
 * Royal Who Actually Does Something
 * Run or Die / Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Despite being afraid, Celestia mostly feels (restrained) disgust/pity for the Otherworld's creatures and killed them to save her life. Come chapter 7 where a monster appears whose presence alone sends her into panic and running away before she even sees it.
 * Watching Troy Burn
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: The wounds Ponyville's residents suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. Justified as it wasn't the usual Otherworld they were in.
 * Run or Die / Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Despite being afraid, Celestia mostly feels (restrained) disgust/pity for the Otherworld's creatures and killed them to save her life. Come chapter 7 where a monster appears whose presence alone sends her into panic and running away before she even sees it.
 * Watching Troy Burn
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: The wounds Ponyville's residents suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. Justified as it wasn't the usual Otherworld they were in.
 * Watching Troy Burn
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: The wounds Ponyville's residents suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. Justified as it wasn't the usual Otherworld they were in.

The side stories Silence of Ponyville and Silence of Ponyville: The Shop contain examples of:

 * Alternate Continuity
 * Doomed by Canon:
 * Fan Service: When Knick sees first the back end of a Vile Mare; but their front makes it into...
 * Fan Disservice
 * Heroic BSOD: [Gr]Annie Smith
 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Not by much but [Gr]Annie Smith is stubborn, confident and strong from the work on her family's farm; Knick Knack is more soft-spoken and less confident than her.
 * Off the Rails: Knick Knack is the first (main) character in all Silent Ponyville stories so far who has broken the rules. He has ignored both times the obvious, blue door, and broken open a chained entrance whose locks he was supposed to open with numbers he had found before. He literally goes off the pre-given rails made by both the entity behind Silent Ponyville and his own mind.
 * Panty Shot: Knick has a 'Hello, Nurse!' moment when he sees the attractive back end of a filly with panties. She loses then any appeal when she turns around.
 * Shout-Out: The Shop introduces enemy ghosts and many holes which break the laws of space and time.
 * The Nurses from Silent Hill 2 inspired the Vile Mares as of Word of God.

The side story Darkness Scoots and its sequel Catch and Reweave contain examples of:

 * Artifact of Doom: Dream Catcher's Mirror
 * Magic Mirror
 * Genre Savvy: Having lead many others through the nightmares before, Dream Catcher is well familiar with the rules of engagement in place in the otherworld.
 * Mirror Monster: Not-Dream Catcher (Not-Me)
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Taken to the literal when Dream Catcher breaks the siren.
 * Offscreen Teleportation: Both Not-Dream Catcher and Soul Weaver do this quite frequently.
 * Villain Teleportation
 * Reality Warper: Soul Weaver has displayed the ability to change the scenery around him as he sees fit.
 * Room Full of Crazy: The Hallway of Drawings
 * Rule of Three:
 * The Character of Dream Catcher has an alter-ego named Soul Weaver, and a doppelganger (Mirror image) whom he calls "Not-Me".
 * See You in Hell: Soul Weaver's line: "Fall into your darkest dream, you pathetic excuse for a pony. I'll be waiting for you when you get there."
 * Not-Dream steals this line in Catch and Reweave to use on Dream Catcher.
 * Shadow Archetype: Dream Catcher's feelings towards Soul Weaver and Not-Dream Catcher.
 * Split Personality
 * Enemy Within: Soul Weaver
 * Torture Cellar: Soul Weaver's version of Dream Catcher's Basement.
 * Weirdness Magnet: Dream Catcher and his Dream Walking Ability.
 * Weirdness Magnet: Dream Catcher and his Dream Walking Ability.