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Plot synopsis: Flutterhy invites Rainbow Dash to her home under the pretenses of having some important news to tell her. When Dash arrives, the shy pegasus reveals her desire to become a mother and have a little foal to take care of. Fluttershy then offers her friend a drink of ''gummyade'' and demonstrates the lullaby she sang to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. While listening, Rainbow Dash discovers too late that the drink was drugged, and wakes up some time later strapped to a table in a darkened room decorated up like a nursery, but with all the trappings and toys sized up to adult pony scale. Fluttershy then reappears and informs Dash that ''she will be her new baby''. While Dash struggles against her restraints, Fluttershy calmly gets out four bondage booties decorated to look like baby booties and an adult diaper. She forces the diaper on Dash and unbinds the tomboy from the straps on the table. Upon trying to escape, Dash finds herself inexplicably too weak to fly.

''Part 2'' begins with Fluttershy perfecting a [[Retcon|drug]] called [[Incredibly Lame Pun|foalmula]] which is the drug she actually used to revert Dash's mind back into that of an infant, but the effects aren't permanent...yet. They are now. Meanwhile, Scootaloo begins a search for her mentor and eventually runs afoul of the truth and is subjected to a series of demeaning tasks and tests ripped straight from the [[Saw]] series. {{spoiler|She ends up PERMANENTLY REVERTING THE DASH'S MIND INTO A PERMANENT INFANT in order to save herself from the same fate}}. {{spoiler|Then she finally comes to the final room and has a choice of two drinks to chose from. One drink, the milk in the baby bottle, allows her to keep her mind and she becomes Fluttershy's apprentice. In the other, a glass of water, also permanently regresses her into an infant-like state and she becomes Dash's "sister"}}.

 

The fic has already become the subject of [[MST]] fics and [[Dramatic Reading|dramatic readings]]. You can two watch such readings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTslJZbIylE here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwConrQBq_U here].

 

 

Now it has a tumblr, [http://ask-fluttermama.tumblr.com/ Hello my little babies]. Read at your own risk.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Fluttershy, herself. No surprise. At one point Regressed Dash is left alone and panicked in a small room by herself and just allowed to go into a terrified crying fit while 'Shy has [[Sarcasm Mode|other, more important things]] to do. ''So Dash can just wait for mommy to come make it all better.'' So Yeah...

* [[Adult Child]]: An extreme case. Fluttershy literally regresses her "children's" minds back to infancy with the help of a [[Fantastic Drug]].

* [[Affably Evil]]: Fluttershy still acts '''just''' like her canon self through everything in these fics.

* [[All Take and No Give]]: Taken to psychotic levels.

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Foalmula. A chemical that someone unravels the adult mind and sends you back to infancy.

** Crosses into [[Artistic License Chemistry]] and [[Chemistry Can Do Anything]].

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|In order for the third test to work out in Fluttershy's favor and get Scootaloo to turn Rainbow Dash into "Wittue Wain-boo" forever, she has to destroy the pedestal Scoot's spent years building up. Which, to be fair, isn't really all that hard}}

* [[Brown Note]]: Fluttershy's photo album of her other "babies" acts this way to Dash.

** The sole exception is Dash, who has to have it ''forced'' onto her, adding new levels to the term [[Mind Rape]].

* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Well, Mamashy and Ponyville seem to think so. The audience has another take on the matter.

* [[Evil Mentor]]: {{spoiler|What Fluttershy becomes to Scootaloo in the "good" ending.}}

* [[Evil Virtues]]: In this case, the rarely used '''Love'''. Fluttershy just ''loves'' her little babies, and would do absolutely ''anything'' to keep them.

* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: Some readers have commented they'd rather be [[Cupcakes|cupcaked]].

** To eliborate on that, this means that readers would rather be slowly and sadistically dismembered than have this happen to them!

* [[Fetish]]: Age Play, to be precise, and not played for sexy or laughs. 'Tis played for [[Horror]].

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Fluttershy. She goes from the harmless, sweet, shy, caring, and compassionate mare we all know and love to an Age Play-obsessed maniac who has taken up raising adult babies and [[Mind Rape]] as hobbies.

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Even the Mayor is in on it.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Albeit illegally in every step of the process in Dash's case.

** There's also some contrived nonsense about social expectations, retribution, and penance at the end of ''Part Two'', but the core issue is that Fluttershy wanted a baby, and ''anyone'' will do.

** Summarised:

'''Everyone on Earth''': That's not obvious at all! }}

* [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]]: Oh yes. There was no slow descent into madness. Fluttershy jumped right into it and perfected the arts of chemically induced Age Play rather quickly.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: That should go without saying at this point. However, it is worth noting because you will be hard pressed to find a better example of a dog being so casually kicked repeatly than what Fluttershy does to Dash over the duration of both parts.

** [[Genius Bonus]]: The formula regresses the mind to that of a baby. A baby's mind works fundamentally different from that of an older pony, among other things, memories are stored differently. When growing up, the way memories are stored changes, and those earliest memories are no longer consciously accessible. That's why you don't remember anything about being a baby.

* [[Left for Dead]]: Dash from a psychological standpoint. First by Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Zecora. {{spoiler|Later by Scootaloo, who actually set off the gas in her chamber}}.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] and [[Love Makes You Evil]]: It certainly had this effect on the shy one.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]] sang at the end of ''Part Two''. Plays just like a regular rhyme, but put to lyrics like: ''you'll never hurt anyone else now that your mind is gone little Dashie.'' Brr...

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Fluttershy, of all ponies. Using a chemistry set loaned to by Twilight and ingredients she got from Zecora, Fluttershy experimented and created the foalmula.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Control maintained with an extra helping of [[Fantastic Drug|foalmula]].

* [[My Biological Clock Is Ticking]]: Somehow, staring down a Cockatrice got this started. Different strokes, I guess.

* [[Nice Is Not Good]]: '''Yes.''' So, ''so'' much.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Guess. Go ahead.

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Dash could have avoided this whole mess on account of one thing. She was happily napping on a cloud beforehand and only woke herself to go see Fluttershy, ''because she's a good friend''.

* [[Not Himself]]: anyone under the effects of foalmula.

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Fluttershy doesn't seem to get why anything she does could be considered wrong.

** Also, Rainbow Dash, throughout the entire baby treatment of ''Part One''.

* [[Secret Diary]]: Dash's, in fact. {{spoiler|Presented to Scootloo in order to [[Broken Pedestal|break the pedestal]] that she's built for Dash. Whether or not the diary really was written by Dash is another matter altogether...}}

** Dash falls under the effects of [[Instant Sedation]] and wakes up tied to a table.

** Fluttershy calls for Pinke to bring cupcakes in one ending of ''Part Two''.

* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: Despite being a parody, it is ''firmly'' Horror Dominant.

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: How Dash is taken captive to begin with.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: If there's a better explanation of Scootaloo's behaviour in the "good" ending, we don't want to hear it.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Well, to a changing table, but still.

* [[Team Killer]]: Not in a physical sense, but Dash is rendered absolutely incapable of functioning as the Element of Loyalty anymore. So here's hoping Equestria never needs those girls again.

* [[Torture Cellar]]: Done [[Saw]]-style, too!

* [[Troll Fic]]: the author has admitted that ''Pattycakes'' is this, and is quite pleased with the horrified reactions it has gotten.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Crosses straight into [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] for poor Dash.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: A whole ''land'' of happy little babies for Fluttershy to mother!

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: It just wouldn't a [[Cupcakes]]-style [[Fanfic]] without this trope in play. In a manner of speaking, Dash ''does'' die. Her mind is permanently destroyed by the end of ''Part Two'', meaning that the Dash that was is no more and never will be again.

* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]: Dash, who passes out in 'Shy's living room, and wakes up strapped to a changing table.

** {{spoiler|Scootaloo, who is clobbered over the head, and wakes up in a box. On top of a row of shelves. In the basement/dungeon. Yeah.}}

* [[When It All Began]]: ''The Stare Master''.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Blunt instrument + Scootaloo's head = Yep

** She also builds a crate around Scootaloo and sets it on top of a high shelf with the intention of forcing Sootaloo to make it fall to break it open, despite the risk of severe injury.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''Part Two'' is basically ''Pattycakes Part One'' Meets [[Saw]].

* [[Yandere]]: Fluttershy, but not in the traditional sense which involves butcher knives and romantic rivals. No she'll [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] by [[Mind Rape|shattering their mind]].

 

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