Elementals of Harmony: Difference between revisions

The good news? She has considerably more leverage in the situation than you might think. After all, she's a Planeswalker.

 

 

The story can be found [http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1048/Elementals-of-Harmony here] and Sideboard can be found [http://www.fimfiction.net/story/17719/Sideboard-of-Harmony here].

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Spike's fire breath apparently burns faster than entropy. The story [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledges]] that this shouldn't even make sense, but dragonfire, like dragons, is magical enough to make it work regardless.

* [[Black Mage]]: In both [[Lady of Black Magic]] and [[Black Magician Girl]] variations. (Luna and Pinkie Pie, respectively.)

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Pinkie Pie, of course, to the extent that she does it in her first line of dialogue. (See Medium Awareness)

** She also sings a [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] [[Song Parody]] that pretty much obliterates the poor thing.

{{quote| '''Ditzy:''' Where did you come from?<br />

'''Flawless:''' Since Madam is a parent, I should scarcely think that such matters would need to be explained to her. }}

** {{spoiler|Laughter is annihilated by Pinkie Pie, its own Bearer and a far better comedian.}}

** {{spoiler|Honesty is defeated by a concentrated blast of thermodynamic inevitability.}}

** {{spoiler|Generosity undoes itself with its own better nature: Once it [[My God, What Have I Done?|realizes that it is destroying the universe through its very existence]], it gives the gift of a future.}}

** {{spoiler|Loyalty [[Taking the Bullet|dives in front of its own attack]] to save Rainbow Dash.}}

** {{spoiler|Magic is disempowered through copious use of countermagic, then finished off through her own use of the Elements of Harmony. She doesn't die, though.}}

* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: Ditzy has trouble with this and, by extension, red magic. At least, she does until [[Mama Bear|her daughter]] [[Berserk Button|gets hurt]].

* [[Double Meaning]]: Screwball, the avatar of discord, a reference to both [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220539 a Magic card] and the FiM villain in whose episode she appears.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Technically, the titular elementals, since their very presence is destabilizing the universe. Some, however, are more eldritch than others.

** Also Screwball, avatar of discord.

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Rainbow Dash's is number four on her all-time list of things she hates. For the record, it's Jennifer.

'''Applejack:''' Is it magic?<br />

'''Pinkie:''' Well, duh. Anyway—<br />

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: The kindness elemental, [[Beyond the Impossible|even more than Fluttershy.]] Not even Angel Bunny can bring himself to harm it.

* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Delivered to Dinkabeth Sharuum Doo.

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: The [[American Accents|Apple family]], with a [[Punctuation Shaker|heapin' helpin' o' 'postrophes.]]

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Averted, several times. Especially by Pinkie, who at times literally [[Fight Like a Card Player|fights like a card player]].

* [[I Have Many Names]]: "On [[City Planet|Ravnica]], I am the nameless patron totem of Rauck-Chauv, the Gruul festival of spontaneous vandalism. On [[Lilliputians|Segovia]], I am Apocalypse-Given-Flesh, accidental flattener of civilizations. On [[Useful Notes/Shinto|Kamigawa]], I am Piki-Piki, kami of [[Odd Job Gods|akki poetry and octopus hats]]. Oona, queen-mother of the faeries of Lorwyn, remembers me as the pony who tried to eat her. [[Big Bad|Nicol Bolas]], elder dragon planeswalker, acknowledges me as the one being who has withstood his touch with sanity unchanged. [[Eldritch Abomination|Emrakul]], [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Aeons Torn]], [[Rule of Three|She of the Six Thousand Tentacles of Annihilation]], considers me her therapist...I am Pinkie Pie. I am a planeswalker. And I am on your side."

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Chapter 4 opens with a pair of cultists summoning a demon and an [[Expy]] of [[Conan the Barbarian]]. Turns out it's the Cutie Mark Crusaders playing in the park.

* [[Large Ham]]: Ditzy's father is once described as "glowing with the power of pure ham." His daughter and granddaughter later use melodramatic [[Rule of Funny]] to defuse an awkward situation with Luna.

** While she's been humbled, Trixie still has a soul of pork, as evidenced with her play with Dinky.

{{quote| She turned to Pinkie Pie for a more sensible explanation (and what a sorry state of affairs that implied.)}}

* [[Magi Babble]]: Rather frequent during the early chapters, which assume the reader knows much more about ponies than card games.

* [[The Magnificent]]: During the Great and Powerful Trixie's first scene, she uses a different pair of descriptors each time she refers to herself in her [[Inner Monologue]]. Lampshaded when, during a caffeine nadir she once resorts to "The Adjective and Other-Adjective Trixie."

** Later on, after a few life-shaking events have gotten Trixie to drop the habit, she catches herself doing this and recognizes it as a sign of mental contamination.

** For some reason or another, Desiderata Lillian Doo goes through life referred to by her fillyhood nickname 'Ditzy'.

** Though known to ponies as Angel Bunny, among his own kind he is [[Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom|Archon of Virtue, Who Punches Evil in the Face]].

* [[Power Strain Blackout]]: Happens to Ditzy when she overextends her magic. The first time, it's after she teleports Dinky and herself from Ponyville to above Canterlot.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Spake the Most Holy Bringer of Dawn: "Shit."

* [[Sensory Overload]]: Happens several times to Ditzy, given her ability to see magic. Usually, it's near Twilight's house, given the ludicrous amount of magic there, but also happens when meeting the [[Physical God|Myojin of Seeing Winds]], which to her eyes is a blue giant star five feet from her face.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Trixie declared her undying love to Twilight before the story even began... but while under the influence of a "ludicrous" amount of poison joke.

* Shout Out: And how.

** ''[[Homestuck|Years in the past, but not many...]]''

*** ''[[Lampshade Hanging|(With apologies to Andrew Hussie)]]''