My Little Denarians

My Little Denarians (also available at FF.Net) is a The Dresden Files/My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic crossover fanfic by Chengar Qordath. After the events of Forever!, a previous short story in which Harry accidentally summoned Pinkie Pie to his kitchen, her brief presence on Earth turns out to have realy major repercussions: Nicodemus learns of Pinkie Pie and by extension, of the possibility of travelling to various fictional universes through the Outside. His team of Denarians arrives in Equestria just at the start of the second season, making the episode go off the rails in hope of bringing Discord to Earth. Now, to save both worlds, Harry must save the mane six - not just from the effects of Discord's brainwashing but from the corrupting influence of the black coins...

Compare and contrast The Dresden Fillies.

""We're fucked.""
 * Action Girl: Rainbow Dash and.
 * And Then John Was a Zombie: by proxy. She is a.
 * Apologetic Attacker: The ponies profusely apologize to while they tie her up and gag her to delay her return to the guards.
 * Armor-Piercing Question:
 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence:  is offered a chance but refuses, instead accepting a Power Limiter, so she can stay on Earth and help Harry.
 * Author's Saving Throw: After reviewers called the author out on  the author offered explanations in the next chapter.
 * Awesome but Impractical: apart from unicorns, who can use telekinesis, ponies really aren't made to wield.
 * Batman Gambit: Discord pushing Celestia's Berserk Button
 * Bavarian Fire Drill: how the group gets into the palace
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: As soon as he learns about the possibility of travel between worlds, Harry wishes for a chance to visit . By the end of the story he gets his wish and as it turns out, almost getting beheaded by is the high point of this trip.
 * Berserk Button: Discord casually stomps on 's long enough to distract and kidnap.
 * Beyond the Impossible: Everyone thought that it was impossible to destroy
 * BFG: The
 * Big Bad Duumvirate: Discord and Nicodemus.
 * Blood From the Mouth: after a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from . It was as serious as it looked.
 * Blown Across the Room: A mutual case between
 * Bob From Accounting: One of Harry's Imagine Spots contains "Bob the cultist", an unfortunate servant of Nicodemus forced to watch and rewatch the first season of ponies to gather intelligence on their targets.
 * Bring News Back: Before going for a really desperate plan, Harry persuades to leave the group and warn everybody in case he fails.
 * Brown Note: Harry has a bit of a Heroic BSOD when.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Derpy. She is every bit as ditzy as she looks but that means she can get away with any level of Obfuscating Stupidity - and being a postmare allows her to go almost anywhere without looking suspicious.
 * Card-Carrying Villain: all over the place. Parodied with.
 * Catch Phrase: How Pinkie Pie is originally summoned to Earth, compelled to deliver the punchline when Harry discusses the consequences of losing a friend's trust.
 * FOREVER!
 * Chekhov's Gun: In chapter 9,.
 * Chekhov's Skill:
 * Closest Thing We Got: Rarity briefly being pressed into service as a medic because she knows how to make stitches, and.
 * Combat Clairvoyance:
 * Confusion Fu: Derpy helps the heroes greatly through acts of seemingly random clumsiness.
 * The Corrupter: Discord and the Denarians natch. Discord also claims that he.
 * Corrupt the Cutie: Harry unintentionally performs a mild version of this by expanding Rainbow's vocabulary to include human swear words.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Derpy.
 * Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Lash and Tessa, having actual swordfighting experience unlike Harry, can't let go of their training when  Later given as the reason for why
 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Words of creation..
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy:, keeping the elements at hand rather than in some secluded location. Also
 * Dark Fic: A half-example, since it's dark for a My Little Pony fic, but about on par with canon for The Dresden Files.
 * Dark Magical Girl: The possessed Ponies, especially.
 * Darkest Hour: The ending of chapter 13, with . And then chapter 15, with
 * Deadly Dodging: Twilight uses her Teleport Spam to this effect. Later attempted against Magog, to much lesser effect (since him hitting a wall at full speed only does damage to the wall).
 * Death or Glory Attack: Luna's attempt to distract  so that the Elements can be retrieved.
 * Demonic Possession: All over the place via the black coins.
 * Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?:
 * Didn't Think This Through: Harry's idea to disrupt a magical storm by siphoning energy from it. Fortunately, the realisation of what exactly he is doing dawned on him just in time to avoid getting fried. He immidiately fell to the trope again, deciding to fight in the open.
 * Disney Villain Death: Several denarians, thanks to typical.
 * Dueling Shows: with The Dresden Fillies.
 * Dynamic Entry/"Hey You!" Haymaker:  lands a flying kick to  face. It's actually fairly effective, since it managed to give her a black eye and a bloody lip.
 * Elaborate Underground Base: Princess Luna uses her powers to transform Applejack's cellar into one.
 * Eldritch Abomination: greatly disturbs Dresden, who is no stranger to seeing horrifying things.
 * Eureka Moment: Harry has several, pushing the action forward whenever the group gets stuck
 * Evil Costume Switch:  offers  a choice between Hell-Bent for Leather, Badass Long Robe and Spikes of Villainy and actually hopes she goes with Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains and chooses something Stripperific. She is less than thrilled.
 * Exact Words: Invoked.
 * Exactly What I Aimed At: Harry throws his at a denarian and it seems to have only scratched him... but he was not aiming for vital areas:
 * Fandom Nod: Remember all those fan vids about
 * Fashion Victim Villain - - Hell-Bent for Leather, Tin Tyrant, In the Hood, Badass Cape, Spikes of Villainy, Badass Long Robe and Sigil Spam (skull of course!) may all be cool but certainly not all on one uniform - mocked it but it went over his head. Invoked Trope.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Several denarians but most notably.
 * Fighting From the Inside:
 * Flash Step:  through her voice powers. After being purified
 * Full Name Ultimatum: Harry gets one from Lash for teaching Rainbow Dash to swear.
 * Game Breaker: In-Universe, the nephilim, with angelic powers and human free will. For this reason the Heavens decided to exterminate them.
 * Game-Breaking Injury: Dash suffers a cracked rib while trying to subdue . She overcomes the pain through sheer stubbornness, but later on, the loss of agility proves a dangerous weakness.
 * Genre Blindness - For most of the story, Harry is Genre Savvy to great effect. However, he forgets that even in cartoonland, where good always triumphs, . Also, by Equestria standards he is an Anti-Hero, so he doesn't fully benefit from Equestrian tropes for heroes.
 * Tessa suffers from a case of Contractual Genre Blindness.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: Is what Chapter 13 should be renamed.
 * Also, it is significant that by that time
 * Girl with Psycho Weapon:.
 * Gladiator Games: Discord transforms Twilight's library into a huge arena for denarians vs ponies showdown.
 * Godzilla Threshold: Harry . Also, at some point the group discusses the possibility of contacting hell to Summon Bigger Fish
 * Go Mad from the Revelation: Traveling through The Outside will do this to anyone who doesn't have some sort of guide to lead them through. Harry wonders if Pinkie's frequent travels through The Outside have contributed to her barely-controlled cheerful craziness.
 * Also comes up during the first battle. Harry is facing an illusionist demon but can't use his Sight, for fear of seeing the true forms of deamons, or worse, Discord.
 * Harry makes sure Rainbow Dash won't see the pony-themed toy section in a shopping mall, fearing that it could result in a serious identity crisis.
 * Gory Discretion Shot: Harry covers Dash' eyes when kills an old man. All we get is a Sickening Crunch.
 * Gosh Dang It to Heck: Invoked in Equestria. My Little Pony is a kids' show after all. Harry can't even THINK a curse.
 * This becomes a Plot Point.
 * Gotta Catch Them All: It takes all the mane six to use the Elements of Harmony.
 * Gut Punch:.
 * Half Truth: used by Discord to break . Though considering the mindboggling number, he may have just been outright lying.
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power: averted -  could be borderline Lethal Harmless Powers but she has no idea how to use them in a fight and ends up not using them at all.
 * Heroic BSOD:.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Stupid Sacrifice: possibly. see One-Dimensional Thinking
 * Heroic Willpower: Two of the ponies.
 * killing in a duel of wills.
 * Hit Me Dammit / My Fist Forgives You: Invoked by Applejack after.
 * Promptly subverted by.
 * Hope Spot: gives Harry one, possibly to repay him for the taunting.
 * Hostage Situation: Harry does this to
 * Idiot Ball: Getting tricked by a denarian - it happens. Getting tricked by a duo of
 * I Have Your Wife:.
 * Though since this takes place at the start of season 2
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight / Talking the Monster to Death : Fluttershy's default way of fighting.
 * Immortality Hurts - being able to regenerate from any injury as long as you have your coin is a cool power, but if your opponent is in an Unstoppable Rage and armed with a, he will just keep chopping you up until he finds it.
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: presented by.
 * Implausible Fencing Powers: has no actual wizards, so upon entry, Harry is turned into.
 * Improvised Weapon: Pinkie Pie weaponizes the party cannon, many weeks before it was validated by the cartoon series.
 * In-Series Nickname: Pinkie suggests that Harry call  Snakeyhooves.
 * Indy Ploy: Discussed - Harry wishes he had an actual plan but the enemy is forcing his hand and there is no time to gather additional intelligence.
 * Insistent Terminology: Luna angrily dismisses Pinkie's attempts at coming up with a name for
 * Irony:
 * I Surrender, Suckers:
 * It's All My Fault:
 * It's Personal: If it wasn't before for Harry, it clearly becomes so once the villains make
 * The fight against Lasciel is personal for  by default.
 * It's Quiet... Too Quiet: Harry gets paranoid when the infiltration plan goes too smoothly.
 * Interspecies Romance: discusses the  variation. She finds it distasteful.
 * Jedi Mind Trick: used to avoid paying for a cab ride.
 * Kick the Son of a Bitch: Harry's would have come across as cruel to do even a Denarian... but it's  so no one feels a drop of remorse.
 * Knight of Cerebus:.
 * Lady of War: Luna is shaping up to be this. She's a decent tactician at least.
 * The Lancer: Rainbow Dash becomes this to Harry.
 * La Résistance: Princess Luna organises it in Equestria.
 * Large Ham: - mercilessly lampshaded by.
 * Light Is Not Good:
 * Magic A Is Magic A: Harry's first action after arriving to a new world is usually to test how the local magic works and how it affects him.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: lands in . The expectable happens.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Discord. Poor.
 * Mood Whiplash: Compare the beginning of chapter 13 to the end of chapter 13.
 * Or the beginning and ending of
 * More Dakka: artillery attack.
 * Mega Crossover: The major crossover here is Dresden Files/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but Harry and the ponies travel from to.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Anyone who got possessed, even though Harry tries to protect them from learning about the worst things they did.
 * My Greatest Failure: How Harry feels about
 * Mythology Gag: Bon Bon's voice is different each time she speaks.
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: Not only does get a body as the result of visiting Equestria, when Harry is   it turns out   something extremely rare in Dresdenverse.
 * Nobody Can Die: An important plot point, as the effect depends on the current setting. In Equestria, this is mostly true, especially for the heroes. Other worlds are much less forgiving.
 * Not the Fall That Kills You - realistically averted. Harry's force shield can protect him just fine from a barrage of kicks by . A 50 meter Meteor Move? Not so much.
 * Oh Crap: Ptzriel when he realizes . Harry and his friends when . Magog, when.
 * Chapter 13:Hey, . Fancy meeting you here.
 * Oh My Gods: Ponies use Celestia or Luna to swear or curse by.
 * One-Dimensional Thinking: a four-dimensional thiking in this case. The heroes could avoid a lot of problems if they remembered that they can shift to the Outside to escape danger.
 * One of Us: The author and, by extension, Harry, though he falls a bit behind due to being a Walking Techbane.
 * One-Winged Angel: "Silly me, I forgot about the demon transformation."
 * Only Sane Man:.
 * OOC Is Serious Business: Dash asking for reassurance. Later, Pinkie.
 * The Ophelia:.
 * Out of the Inferno / The Worf Barrage: Celestia tries to fight Discord, unleashing The Power of the Sun on him and actually melting a large part of the great hall in the process. Yet when the smoke clears, Discord is not only unharmed but casually backstroking in the resultant pool of lava.
 * Pinball Projectile: Apparently spells can ricochet off All-Natural Gem Polish
 * Later validated by the tv series.
 * Playing Possum: Nicodemus, which causes Also, , with a little help from her illusion magic.
 * Precision F-Strike: :
 * Later validated by the tv series.
 * Playing Possum: Nicodemus, which causes Also, , with a little help from her illusion magic.
 * Precision F-Strike: :


 * Put Down Your Gun and Step Away as usual, it works. What is surprising is that
 * Psycho Electro: Both Tessa and enjoy spamming lightning attacks while in
 * Redshirt Army: zigzagged. Though obviously weaker than the group,  and   do manage to seriously inconvenience the heroes and become a credible threat when allowed to play to their strengths.
 * Sarcasm Blind: - his ego makes him unable to grasp that anyone might mock his Large Ham behaviour, his magnificent evil costume or his master plan.
 * Ship Tease: A bit towards Pinkie Pie/Rainbow Dash at the end of the ninth chapter.
 * Even more in chapter 13 and it adds Lyra and Bon Bon to the mix.
 * Shout-Out: In keeping with his canon status as a Pop-Cultured Badass, Dresden tosses lots of references into his dialogue and narration.
 * Pinkie Pie will occasionally get in on the act, such as calling Discord Q.
 * "Princess Celestia" eats a banana while subjecting  to exile. This is a possible reference to the popular fan-animation Friendship Is Magic Bitch.
 * Stealth Hi Bye: standard for Pinky. Very surprising for
 * The Smart Guy:.
 * Squee: Harry definitely has this reaction after realizing that he's ended up in the 'verse after finding out his trusty blasting rod has been replaced by a.
 * The Starscream: Averting this trope is revealed to be why.
 * Still, Nicodemus isn't Genre Savvy enough to avoid hiring, who clearly has an agenda of her own and gleefully throws his backup plan out of whack by using lethal force against
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: Subverted for . Subconscious resistance causes to become a ridiculous Card-Carrying Villain, still dangerous but much less so than raw power might suggest. Played completely straight later when.
 * Take Over the World: plan.
 * Take That: In, Harry is glad to see the in ruins, as it means  is already past.
 * Tastes Like Purple: The Outside. The fact that it also includes directions makes navigation an unforgettable experience.
 * That Man Is Dead: - Used by in a fight against.
 * The Cameo: while moving between worlds, the characters briefly encounter Deadpool, Cupcakes Pinky and Littlepip. Pinky Pie herself seems to have making random cameos as a hobby.
 * The Evils of Free Will: the denarians' backstory and the reason for the Fall. Any possible sympathy is negated by their Motive Decay.
 * The Multiverse: Not only do all works of fiction have their own worlds but any fanfic that is popular enough will form its own bubble reality.
 * The Power of Friendship: mostly played straight but with one interesting subversion - unlike the cartoon version, Rainbow Dash is "discorded" by getting her judgement skewed rather than by personality reversal - she is still fiercely loyal to her friends but blind to what has happened to them. The combination of denarius powers and genuine Heroic Resolve makes her extremely dangerous.
 * Theory of Narrative Causality: Its made explicit that worlds originating from the human imagination, like Equestria, follow the general narrative conventions of their source work.
 * There Is Another:
 * Timey-Wimey Ball: During her first appearance, Pinkie not only ignores the laws of physics, as is usual for her, but causality as well.
 * Token Yuri Girls: Lyra and Bon Bon.
 * Unstoppable Rage - Pushing Harry's Berserk Button by threatening innocents is risky even under normal circumstances. Do it in verse, where he is susceptible to, and you have one paragraph left to live.
 * Villain Exit Stage Left: Parodied. attempts a Smoke Out but has not prepared the escape route and is still struggling with a window when the smoke clears.
 * Villains Want Mercy: begs Uriel to save her
 * Warhammer 40,000: Discussed by Harry, who is quite glad not to have to go there.
 * Pinky drops in there for a brief cameo on her way to Equestria.
 * Weak but Skilled: In the context of the cast, Rarity. See her crowning moment of awesome.
 * We Can Rebuild Him: After spending the whole chapter on a race against time to save, Harry suffers a moment of Fridge Logic when he realises the group had access to all sorts of fictional realities, with their respective brands of magic and/or technology.
 * We Can Rule Together: to, delivered in the cheesiest way possible
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: has a delusion of being one.
 * Wham! Episode: Chapters 5, 10, 11 and 12:.
 * Chapter 15:.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Harry correctly guesses that
 * Word of God states that they could actually be very dangerous - but  lacked the creativity to use them.
 * What Measure Is a Mook?: Averted. Harry has no problem killing denarians, regardless of rank, because he considers them no longer human. However, he won't kill.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: all of Harry's companions, (except for, who is becoming a bit of an Anti-Hero from all she experienced) are shocked by him
 * In chapter 16, Pinkie Pie delivers a roundabout one to Harry
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: Party cannon won't get the job done? How about . Still nothing? Then how about a
 * Shining Armour is a Barrier Warrior and lacks offensive spells (or the personality to employ Lethal Harmless Powers). Still he puts his abilities to good use, dividing the battlefield to thwart the enemy team tactics and allow the guard to corner individual opponents.
 * Willing Channeler: is brainwashed into this. The result is an insane boost of power, enough for.
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: Luna, which she drops temperarily while talking to Harry about.
 * Worf Had the Flu - used in-universe by After, she can't stomach the defeat despite the circumstances and blames it on , despite all the evidence to the contrary.
 * Xanatos Gambit - Nicodemus' plan to have the denarians fight the mane six - if they win, they will have eliminated the greatest threat to his plan. If they lose.
 * You Can't Thwart Stage One
 * You Do NOT Want to Know: Pinkie to Harry, after dimensional navigation error briefly lands them in Cupcakes.
 * You Do NOT Want to Know: Pinkie to Harry, after dimensional navigation error briefly lands them in Cupcakes.