Pony POV Series/YMMV

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YMMV Tropes In This Fan Fiction Include:
{{quote|Discord: YES!!! (Evil Laugh + Evil Gloating)}} {{quote|Golden Tiara: "Ya disconnect this bone connected to the hip bone, you disconnect this bone connected to the shoulder bone, you disconnect this bone connected to the neck bone, wait, better not touch that one on second thought. Fold myself up, if I try really hard I'm sure I could fit into a soup can. Really scared the hay out of an orderly one time, you'd think they'd never saw a mare hiding in a box half her size before! Took a while to get out, especially since he fainted on top of me."}} {{reflist}}
 * Anvilicious: This series is very keen on hammering it that Dark Fics are bad.
 * Alas, Poor Scrappy:
 * Alas, Poor Villain:
 * Alternative Character Interpretation:
 * Invoked by Word of God with
 * Another one is provided by "AJ's Dream".
 * Award Snub: The fic is actively insulted on Equestria Daily because they think Applejack's accent is too thick. Seriously. They did accept the Audio Adaptation, however.
 * Base Breaker:
 * Cerebus Retcon:
 * According to a Loose Canon story, the reason Pinkie has Medium Awareness is because   . Why?    .
 * Remember the Parasprites?
 * Complete Monster:
 * Discord. Not only did he do the canon stuff, the canon stuff is portrayed as Mind Rape and what he does to Trixie is just... Brutal. On top of that, he's also responsible for at least three genocides, neither of which he really seems to give a darn about. Word of God refers to Discord as an "egotistical, sadistic hedonist". That probably tells you a good bit of how monstrous this guy is. It doesn't help that Discord's Mind Rape is actually described almost as if it's real rape, including one of the Wonderbolts stating she feels "violated" by what he did to her. And Discord does this for fun! To sum up, as opposed to the more canonical view of him being a more malicious Equestrian Loki, this universe has him portrayed as a more whimsical Equestrian Satan. In fact, the actual Equestrian Satan was his Evil Mentor!
 * Loneliness:
 * It's implied Fluttercruel and Angry Pie fit this in the Bad Future, Fluttercruel doing things so horrific that "Twilight Tragedy" refuses to tell us (of note, she has no problem informing us of every horrific detail of Discord's reign except this) and Angry Pie has apparently been known to murder anyone she thinks is laughing at her. She even attacked 'the Master' [Discord] at one point for laughing in her presence, which went as well as you'd think. In Fluttercruel's case, it serves to highlight how different the version of her in the timeline proper is from what she would have become. With Angry Pie, it shows just how horrible it'd probably be if she'd succeeded with her Split Personality Takeover.
 * Celestia's brother Morning Star was implied to be every bit as vile as Discord is, as Celestia describes Discord's soulless eyes as being exactly like his. In fact, Morning Star was Discord's mentor!
 * Crack Pairing: Averted between.
 * Crazy Awesome:
 * Pinkie Pie. Even more so after
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The music for the audio adaptation certainly qualifies.
 * Especially the Theme Song; We'll Make It Through
 * Family Unfriendly Moral: For this story it's "all stories that are Darker and Edgier are bad, the people who write them should feel bad that they wrote them, and the people who enjoy them should feel bad for enjoying them."
 * Flanderization:
 * An in-universe example: Pinkie Pie tries to repair the damage Discord caused to the other ponies (and especially herself) by taking her normal personality and cranking it Up to Eleven, partying continuously without sleep for almost three weeks.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment:
 * Another moment that ties into the same discovery: in "Links," shortly before Pinkie Pie  It's just Pinkie being Pinkie, right? ...Until later, when we learn that
 * Genius Bonus: You're going to need a cheat sheet when you get deep into the G3-G4 Generation Transition POV, as the level of Mind Screw is up there with Primer in the amount of things you need to hold onto at any given time.
 * Harsher in Hindsight:
 * In the
 * Onyx has racism towards the other two races of pony. "Hearth's Warming Eve" gave a valid explaination for why he might.
 * Jerkass Woobie:
 * Filthy Rich/Onyx Tiara. Think about it. If you were aware of how pegasi and Unicorns once used your sun-species as effective slave labor, and how no one else of your sub species seems to care and in fact have friendships with them despite all that you and your kin endured because of them, wouldn't you be a little bitter?
 * Coffee Swirl.
 * Marey-Sue: Invoked in universe by Pinkie Pie {{spoiler|when considering how to "fix reality." She comments on how now that she's Sane and can still go Breaking the Fourth Wall with her antics, perhaps she's become a Game Breaker and too perfect.
 * The members of the pantheon, especially the draconequi members, are all poorly written and unlikable Sues, and do terrible things and get away with them due to a combanation of the author's delusions and this story series readers being chock-full of Fan Dumb.
 * Memetic Molester: In-Universe and Deconstructed Trope. Celestia gets a lot of crap from the tabloids, most of it she just laughs off and in some cases exploits. The rumor they spread about her being a molester is the only one that truly seems to hurt her.
 * Moral Event Horizon: "Origins", being a prequel explaining Discord's Start of Darkness, gives several equally horrific options for Discord, but thus far, the most obvious is {{spoiler|rubbing it in Celestia's face how her actions lead to the Draconequi and Alicorn War and stated he gladly takes the credit for his own role in it and enjoys the result. Made even worse is Word of God has heavilly implied that Discord did this entirely to twist the knife of Celestia's guilt for his own enjoyment.}}
 * And then there's {{spoiler|eating his own brother and father (well, his avatar, but still), and feeling absolutely no remorse for it. In-Universe, the Paradise Estate ponies decide he's crossed this after his genocide of the Sea Ponies and Flutterponies.}}
 * {{spoiler|Forcing Diamond Tiara to relive the moment when her mother went insane and tried to strangle her to death, a memory she repressed due to just how painful it was. He then rubs salt in the wound by telling her that it was all her fault her mother went insane in the first place!}} Just when you thought he was out of lines to cross!
 * {{spoiler|And THEN he showed Diamond Tiara an alternate world in which she didn't sneak into her mother's jewelry box. Her mom got the help she needed and stayed sane; her dad didn't become a paranoid racist; she and Silver Spoon actually got to be friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders; and she got to be genuinely happy. But as Discord tells her, she made that other choice and made the life of everyone around her a living hell.}} Guess what this does to Diamond Tiara. Worse? It's implied by the jump cuts during the vision that Discord controlled what she saw just so he could tell her she doesn't have a happy life solely due to her own actions.
 * His reaction?
 * Filthy Rich/Onyx Tiara. Think about it. If you were aware of how pegasi and Unicorns once used your sun-species as effective slave labor, and how no one else of your sub species seems to care and in fact have friendships with them despite all that you and your kin endured because of them, wouldn't you be a little bitter?
 * Coffee Swirl.
 * Marey-Sue: Invoked in universe by Pinkie Pie {{spoiler|when considering how to "fix reality." She comments on how now that she's Sane and can still go Breaking the Fourth Wall with her antics, perhaps she's become a Game Breaker and too perfect.
 * The members of the pantheon, especially the draconequi members, are all poorly written and unlikable Sues, and do terrible things and get away with them due to a combanation of the author's delusions and this story series readers being chock-full of Fan Dumb.
 * Memetic Molester: In-Universe and Deconstructed Trope. Celestia gets a lot of crap from the tabloids, most of it she just laughs off and in some cases exploits. The rumor they spread about her being a molester is the only one that truly seems to hurt her.
 * Moral Event Horizon: "Origins", being a prequel explaining Discord's Start of Darkness, gives several equally horrific options for Discord, but thus far, the most obvious is {{spoiler|rubbing it in Celestia's face how her actions lead to the Draconequi and Alicorn War and stated he gladly takes the credit for his own role in it and enjoys the result. Made even worse is Word of God has heavilly implied that Discord did this entirely to twist the knife of Celestia's guilt for his own enjoyment.}}
 * And then there's {{spoiler|eating his own brother and father (well, his avatar, but still), and feeling absolutely no remorse for it. In-Universe, the Paradise Estate ponies decide he's crossed this after his genocide of the Sea Ponies and Flutterponies.}}
 * {{spoiler|Forcing Diamond Tiara to relive the moment when her mother went insane and tried to strangle her to death, a memory she repressed due to just how painful it was. He then rubs salt in the wound by telling her that it was all her fault her mother went insane in the first place!}} Just when you thought he was out of lines to cross!
 * {{spoiler|And THEN he showed Diamond Tiara an alternate world in which she didn't sneak into her mother's jewelry box. Her mom got the help she needed and stayed sane; her dad didn't become a paranoid racist; she and Silver Spoon actually got to be friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders; and she got to be genuinely happy. But as Discord tells her, she made that other choice and made the life of everyone around her a living hell.}} Guess what this does to Diamond Tiara. Worse? It's implied by the jump cuts during the vision that Discord controlled what she saw just so he could tell her she doesn't have a happy life solely due to her own actions.
 * His reaction?
 * {{spoiler|And THEN he showed Diamond Tiara an alternate world in which she didn't sneak into her mother's jewelry box. Her mom got the help she needed and stayed sane; her dad didn't become a paranoid racist; she and Silver Spoon actually got to be friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders; and she got to be genuinely happy. But as Discord tells her, she made that other choice and made the life of everyone around her a living hell.}} Guess what this does to Diamond Tiara. Worse? It's implied by the jump cuts during the vision that Discord controlled what she saw just so he could tell her she doesn't have a happy life solely due to her own actions.
 * His reaction?
 * Nightmare Fuel: Has it's own page.
 * Plot Tumor: The whole {{spoiler|"Apocalypse of G3"}} arc and all the other cosmic sidestories spun off from it.
 * However, it doesn't really affect the main story line that much, outside of a few character's back-stories and setting up the Origins Arc.
 * Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The fic gives this treatment to {{spoiler|the entire G3 world. G3 is hated by a vast majority of fans, Gen 3.5 even more so.}}
 * Squick: Golden Tiara (a.k.a. "Screwball") can squeeze through tight spaces with ease, like slipping through cell-bars or squeezing her way through drainage systems. How does she do this? Why, by voluntarily dislocating her own bones.
 * Tear Jerker: Now on its own page.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good CharacterIt's hard not to feel this way about {{spoiler|Rancor,}} not helped by the author.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: The first episode of Reharmonized Ponies begins with the ending of Epilogue, the picture slowly burning away to reveal the ending of "The Return of Harmony".
 * What Could Have Been:
 * In-universe, Applejack learns what could have happened had she remained in Manehatten: {{spoiler|Big Macintosh would have taken up the Element of Honesty and become part of the Mane Six, while Orangejack would have embraced different talents, had a different cutie mark, and eventually been Happily Married and started a family}}.
 * Also in universe, is Luna telling Fluttershy how, {{spoiler|if she'd behaved a little differently, her paradise might have been closer to being achieved and she might have even come out OK from it.}}
 * The Woobie:
 * Dear Celestia, where do we begin!?
 * Special mention goes to {{spoiler|Pinkie Pie. This version (at least in her own memories, which Word of God has said may or may not be true), she's the G3 Pinkie Pie who had to watch her world be destroyed, remembers it, and had to see one of her best friends sacrifice herself to save her from being erased from existence. She doesn't show it much, but when she does it's heartbreaking.}}
 * Now its been revealed that {{spoiler|after spending the twilight of her world trying to save her best friend Minty, Minty dies right in front of her while Pinkie begs for her to wake up and then she comes across another of her friends Rarity on deaths door. All she can do is tell her everything is going to be ok and watch her die along with their world. Though she did manage to save Minty from being erased from existence by fusing her with the G1 Twilight to create our Twilight.}}
 * Author on Board: To make a very long story short, it's quite clear that the author hates all dark stories and wants everyone to know it. It seriously verges on Author Filibuster at times.