The Empty Room

The Empty Room is a My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic fanfiction by Wanderer D.

Originally, it's about the ramifications of Celestia discovering she had a child, and not remembering any of it. Unfortunately, things quickly get worse with the death of Twilight Sparkle, the release of Celestia's Super-Powered Evil Side, and a shadowy figure known only as the Guardian seemingly running things from behind the scenes.

This fanfic contains examples of:

 * Action Girl:  and , most notably when.
 * Anti-Villain:
 * Artifact of Doom:, which also suffer from a severe case of Clingy MacGuffin.
 * :  and.
 * Batman Gambit: Several of them layered on top of each other, to the point where it pretty much reaches Gambit Pileup levels.
 * Because Destiny Says So: 's   adventure and   turn out to be pre-destined; she had to.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Quite a few times.
 * Black Cloak: Each member of  wears one at some point or another.
 * Black Comedy Rape: Quick! To the mattress fort, !
 * Chekhov's Gun: Way too many to count.
 * The Chessmaster:  and, to some level,.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
 * Dark Action Girl:
 * Death Equals Redemption: Arguably,  fits the letter of the trope better than the spirit;.
 * Death Is Cheap: Unless you're a background pony...
 * The Dragon: Too many to count, though.
 * Driven to Suicide:
 * Eldritch Abomination: The Guardian.
 * Evil Counterpart:
 * Face Heel Turn:
 * Played straight with  and subverted with.
 * Geometric Magic: In the same room where the  has been for so long. Your Mileage May Vary, though.
 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Hyde Plays Jekyll:
 * Functional Magic: Both the magic inherent to the universe as well as the with which.
 * Hermetic Magic
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Let's not forget !
 * Magic Music:  performs one for.
 * Never Found the Body: Well, they did find a horn, but...
 * Well,.
 * Oh Crap:  at the end of Chapter 17.
 * Playing With Fire:  quite literally after.
 * Purple Prose: The man sure does love his descriptions. Doesn't really detract from the story, fortunately.
 * Rags to Royalty:, Sleeping Beauty Style.
 * Red Shirt: Guards through most of the chapters. A funny example is the transition between Chapters 6 and 7.
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Pretty much  and all its.
 * Sealed Evil In A Room: Among various other things...
 * Shout Out: .Hack, other MLP fanfics, and The Sixth Sense, in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
 * In Chapter 17, the Cutie Mark Crusaders get directions from a colt with a big backpack and a black and yellow bandana...and get lost. Ryoga much?
 * Spear Carrier: A few guards have done so, when they don't end up burned to a crisp.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: A very important trope to this fic...which often ends up being subverted somehow.
 * , oddly enough, turns out to be the Big Good of the story.
 * The resurrected  is another subversion.
 * The only one played absolutely straight is.
 * Taking You With Me: Performed by  near the end of Chapter 19.
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Lampshaded by  in Chapter 7.
 * The Undead:  and.
 * Unstoppable Mailmare: Guess.
 * The Vamp:
 * Unstoppable Mailmare: Guess.
 * The Vamp: