Getting Back on Your Hooves: Difference between revisions

''"Twilight finds Trixie homeless on the streets in Canterlot. Can Twilight help her get back on her hooves? And will Trixie even LET her?"''

 

 

During a trip to Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle and Spike encounter a familiar face: Trixie, who is now an unkempt, miserable hobo. Feeling somewhat responsible for Trixie's condition, Twilight sets out to help the fallen entertainer her get back on her hooves, starting by letting her live in the library. But will the haughty, prideful Trixie even let her? How will Twilight's friends handle Trixie's presence in Ponyville? And what does Checker Monarch, a cold and quietly terrifying unicorn mare, have to do with it?

Kendell2 also made a short fic set in the same universe called [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8146409/1/Perfect_Companions Perfect Companions] which deals with how the Mane Cast got their pets.

 

 

* [[A God I Am|An Alicorn I Am]]: Checker Monarch's worldview has shades of this, even if she doesn't outright say it, though hers is a more realistic depiction of a god complex than most.

* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: Twilight does this to [[Prince Charmless|Prince Blueblood]] during a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. After explaining how [[God-Emperor|Celestia and Luna]] seek such a close relationship with their subjects, a stark contrast to the self obsessed, high and mighty Blueblood, she asks him a question that, for once, actually makes him think about his actions:

{{quote|'''Twilight Sparkle''': If they're the highest royalty in the land, Blueblood, what does that say about how you behave when you're so much lower than they are?}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Losing is one for Checker Monarch.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Checker Monarch, {{spoiler|Trixie's sinister sister.}}

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Checker Monarch, [[Meaningful Name|natch.]]

* [[Dark Reprise]]: It's hard to tell without any actual music to listen to, but going by title and lyrics, Checker's "[[Villain Song|Through My Eyes]]" is this to Trixie's "[["I Am Becoming" Song|Through New Eyes]]".

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: As Trixie lives with Twilight, she gradually opens up and becomes a much nicer mare to everypony.

** {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash gives Trixie the cold shoulder throughout the story, but eventually eases up when she realizes she's been acting like the bully she accused Trixie of being, and warms up some more when she realizes they have stuff in common.}}

* [[Face Palm|Face Hoof]]: Happens rather often.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Checker Monarch's [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|inability to anticipate empathy]]. {{spoiler|Her otherwise good plan to have Trixie run out of town and rob her of what little self-confidence she has left hinged on Rainbow Dash kicking her out...then Dash saw her in a [[Corner of Woe]].}}

* [[Fountain of Youth]]: What Poison Joke does to Trixie.

* [[Fragile Flower]]: Trixie, once she's age-regressed by Poison Joke. Justified in that not only does she have the emotional maturity and control of a child, but she had a rather traumatic childhood, and being physically and emotionally regressed made all those old wounds become fresh.

** {{spoiler|It's heavily implied that Rainbow Dash's treatment of Trixie is due to having been bullied as a filly, thus meaning Trixie's humiliating her in public was far more painful for her than it otherwise would be.}}

* [[Hobos]]: Trixie, until Twilight takes her in.

* [["I Am" Song]]: The second song, Checker Monarch's [[Villain Song|"Through My Eyes"]], gives us an insight into her cruel, manipulative persona.

* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]: Pinkie Pie, as always:

{{quote|'''Trixie''': How did she…when did she…where did she g…What just happened?!

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Trixie forms one with the Cutie Mark Crusaders after she saves them from a Ropen in the Everfree Forest (though Sweetie Belle already liked her before then).

* [[Jaw Drop]]: Trixie, repeatedly, upon learning of the Mane Cast's heroics.

{{quote|'''Trixie''': Of all the days for me to start actually caring about somepony else's well being…}}

* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Trixie's reaction after her encounter with Fluttershy's "[[It Makes Sense in Context|ninja chicken]]".

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Checker Monarch. Manipulation is ''[[Up to Eleven|her Cutie Mark!]]''

* [[Mind Rape]]: {{spoiler|Checker Monarch subjects Rainbow Dash to this via a dream infiltration spell, giving her horrible nightmares involving Trixie to turn her against her. And it ''almost'' works. This act [[Even Evil Has Standards|even horrifies the Diamond Dogs.]]}}

* [[No Sense of Direction]]: While trying to find a camp spot in the Everfree Forest, the Cutie Mark Crusaders get so lost they somehow end up in the middle of a cave.

{{quote|'''Applebloom''': How'd we even get in here?}}

** She has one earlier, when she realizes that Twilight is ''the Princess''' personal student.

** She has another one, this one played for drama, when she merely sees Checker Monarch's name written down on the tag of an article of clothing, causing her to [[Deer in the Headlights|freeze up in]] [[Heroic BSOD|catatonic terror]].