History Fanfic / AsylumDaemonOfDecay

--> Pinkie: “You’re a bad pony.”
--> Twilight: "What?"
--> Pinkie: “You tricked me into doing something I didn’t want to. You stole something from Doctor Rose. And you hit me. You didn’t used to do that. Whatever Doctor Rose did to you made you all different and stuff, and now… now you’re a bad pony.”
--> Twilight: “Now Pinkie Pie, you can’t really believe that, We’re best friends, remember? We’re fighting to save Equestria. We’re the good guys.”
--> Pinkie: “I don’t like fighting this evil shadow. I liked it better when we were knights. That was more fun. When I was Lady Pinkie of the Order of Pie, and you were Princess Sparkle, the Wizard in the Tower, and we fought monsters and saved stallions in distress and had fun, You never got angry then. Can’t we go back to doing that?”
--> Twilight: "Pinkie. Have you believed anything I told you?"
--> Pinkie: “Of course I believe you! You’re my bestest friend, and bestest friends never lie! It’s just… we used to be knights, and scientists, and librarians. We had fun. But ever since this shadow thing turned up, everything has changed. Now you’re lying to the doctors, and sneaking into offices, and getting all meany-face, and it’s just not the same! I don’t think this shadow pony thing is changing your friends. I think it’s changing you, making you a bad pony. My Twilight wouldn’t yell or lie or steal or hit me! I want my Twilight back.”

* JerkassHasAPoint: Though her intentions are not clear, The Other Twilight wasn't exactly we wrong when she told Twilight she was using and accidentally hurting her friends, to achieve her goals.

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Dr. Rose is only acting like he believes in Applejack and is using her [[FantasticRacism desire to prove Earth Ponies can be docters]] to manipulate her.]] Though, this could just be in Twilight's head.
-->(After reassuring Applejack, that she can prove Earth Ponies' ''can'' make it in the medical field)
--> [[spoiler: Dr. Rose]]: That's what I get for hiring an Earth Pony with a chip on her shoulder.

** This is also why Applejack has trouble with her carrier choose as a doctor, [[spoiler: and what Dr. Rose uses to probably maybe manipulate her.]]

* FantasticRacism: Rarity accuses Nurse Ratchet of this.
** This is also why Applejack has trouble with her carrier choose as a doctor, [[spoiler: and what Dr. Rose uses to probably maybe manipulate her.]]

* JerkAssHasAPoint: Though her intentions are not clear, The Other Twilight wasn't exactly we wrong when she told Twilight she was using and accidentally hurting her friends, to achieve her goals.

* PowerNullifier: Twilight has a cap on her horn that prevents her from using her magic. This of course prevents her from easily escaping the asylum.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Dr. Rose's methods are highly questionable, but it is to make sure that no unicorn ever has to be "cured" by a Keratotomy. At least, it seems for now.

(After reassuring Applejack, that she can prove Earth Ponies' ''can'' make it in the medical field)

* ShoutOut: Nurse Ratchet shares the name of the BigBad from Literature/OneFlewOverTheCookoosNest and is about as pleasant.

* HiddenDepths: Dr. Rose reveals that he served in Saddle Arabia and is implied to have deep seated guilt, about having to make tough choices regarding the ponies he operated on. [[UnreliableNarrator Probably...]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Nurse Ratchet tries to come off as a kind and caring pony, but it only takes a couple of moments talking to her to realize how coldhearted, cruel, and condecinding she actually is.

* StepfordSmilerr=: Twilight quickly figures out that all the nurses and doctors seem to be trained to have these.

* HiddenDepth: Dr. Rose reveals that he served in Saddle Arabia and is implied to have deep seated guilt, about having to make tough choices regarding the ponies he operated on. [[UnreliableNarrator Probably...]]

* HiddenDepht: Dr. Rose reveals that he served in Saddle Arabia and is implied to have deep seated guilt, about having to make tough choices regarding the ponies he operated on. [[UnreliableNarator Probably...]]

* StepfordSmilerr: Twilight quickly figures out that all the nurses and doctors seem to be trained to have these.

** Inverted with Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight. According to Twilight, she is meant to be nineteen however in the asylum-universe she is [[spoiler:seventeen]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: in chapter 12 we are introduced to Rarity, Twilight's caseworker, who gets into an argument with Applejack about Nurse Ratchet; specifically, her views on Keratotomies, calling her a 'heartless butcher'. Later in the chapter, Twilight asks Rarity why she stopped being a fashion designer, and is told she 'had her reasons'. She then inquires after Sweetiebelle, offering to donate her old Smarty Pants doll to her. Rarity seems deeply offended and rushes off. In chapter 17, we learn that [[spoiler:a Keratotomy is the Unicorn equivalent of a lobotomy- removing the horn, along with the part of the brain that channels magic]]. It is a common procedure, and could happen to Twilight if her treatment fails. Then, at the very end of the chapter, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Sweetiebelle underwent such a procedure and is now a drooling vegetable]].
* {{Flanderization}}: Done deliberately with [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash's]] protectiveness of her friends and aggression and [[spoiler:Fluttershy's]] shyness and cowardice.

[[WMG: This fanfic contains examples of:]]

* AgeLift: [[spoiler: Scootaloo is an adult in this story.]]
* AllJustADream: According to the doctors of Broadhoof Memorial, most of Twilight's life has been this.

* HopeSpot: Twilight would sometimes get a sense of comfort from elements of the world she woke up in are more familiar to her world before it hits her with a cold reminder that she isn't in her world anymore. One example is when she sees Pinkie Pie the first time (since she first woke up in the hospital) and is relieved that she is the same pony (sans her now always straight hair) she knew from Ponyville. [[spoiler:The one difference that killed it was a massive scar covering Pinkie's cutie mark.]]

* WhamLine: Spoken by Rarity as Twilight sees her attending to a catatonic earth pony [[spoiler:or at least hornless]] filly:

* AdaptationalBadass: One of the therapists has speed and agility rivaling a Wonderbolt. Who is this therapist? [[spoiler: A young Pegasus mare named [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Scootaloo Scootaloo.]]]]

-->“Would you like that, [[spoiler:Sweetie?]]”

* {{Foreshadowing}}: in chapter 12 we are introduced to Rarity, Twilight's caseworker, who gets into an argument with Applejack about Nurse Ratchet; specifically, her views on Keratotomies, calling her a 'heartless butcher'. Later in the chapter, Twilight asks Rarity why she stopped being a fashion designer, and is told she 'had her reasons'. She then inquires after Sweetiebelle, offering to donate her old Smarty Pants doll to her. Rarity seems deeply offended and rushes off. In chapter 17, we learn that [[spoiler:a Keratotomy is the Unicorn equivalent of a lobotomy- removing the horn, along with the part of the brain that channels magic]]. It is a common procedure, and could happen to Twilight if her treatment fails. Then, at the very end of the chapter, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Sweetiebelle underwent such a procedure and is now a drooling vegetable]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] tries to kill herself after [[one of her birds is accidentally killed. But, she fails.]]

* BigBad: It's ''someone''. It's difficult to say who or what it is for sure, (or even if it's all just in Twilight's head) but the closest we have to this trope is either [[spoiler: Other Twilight,]] or the [[spoiler: "plague doctor"]] or, if it ''isn't'' real, [[spoiler:the Shadow menacing Equestria.]]

* BigBad: It's ''someone''. It's difficult to say who or what it is for sure, (or even if it's all just in Twilight's head) but the closest we have to this trope is either [[spoiler: Other Twilight,]] or the [[spoiler: "plague doctor"]].