History Fanfic / BlackQueenRedKing

** Slagteri: A definite case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. His name means Slaughterhouse.

* LotusEaterMachine: Changeling venom paralyses its victims and forces them to hallucinate visions of the people they love, often erotic visions. It is the emotional equivalent of digestive enzymes.

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[[caption-width-right:320:[[HiveQueen Chrysalis]]: the first of the [[ThinkingUpPortals Gatekeepers]].]]

* YourSoulIsMine: Rex says the name of the trope verbatim to John, then proceeds to rip his soul out, play with it, and then accidentally ''swallow'' the man's soul.

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/101408/black-queen-red-king "Black Queen, Red King"]] is a "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]" fan fiction story by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/wille179 wille179]][[note]] who is also a troper[[/note]].

"Black Queen, Red King" stars a teenage boy named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent William]] who forms a psychic connection with [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-MajorVillains}} Queen Chrysalis]]. The story is set on a version of Earth [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in the year 2029]] and during the middle of season two of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]].

The thing is, he's not the only human to start pairing up with creatures in the other world, and not every human is as interested as he is at [[{{Masquerade}} upholding the masquerade.]]

* PaintingTheMedium: While Rex telepathically thinks to Chrysalis, it's in orange. When she replies, it's in green. Also, certain words that describe [[spoiler: Rex and Chrysalis's souls]] have Zalgo text, like this: t҉̻̙ḛ͈̩̫͚n̠̭͍̗̫d̤̬͍͇̲͝ͅr̘̯͠i͝ļs̞̤̜͓.

* HiveMind: Each changeling hive has its own mental network.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Catherine]] is killed when [[spoiler:Gilda]] attempts to free her from her cocoon. She drops twenty feet and breaks her neck. [[spoiler:Gilda dies a minute later due to the connection of their souls.]]

* MisterSeahorse: Since changelings are biologically capable of holding both reproductive roles, any changelings that identify as male qualify[[note the main character included[[/note]].
* OneGenderRace: Changelings are this, which aids in their ability to assume the forms of both human genders. Changelings can both sexually[[note]]Each partner takes the role of either male or female[[/note]] or asexually[[note]] Only the king/queen can do this[[note]]. Rex is both the mother and father of Klika.

->"Three weeks ago, it started with a dream."

* WingedHumanoid: Catherine, Selene[[note]] who both grew wings[[/note]] and Gilda[[note]]A griffin that turned humanoid[[/note]].

* WingedHumanoid: Catherine, Selene[[note]]who both grew wings[[/note]] and Gilda[[note]]A griffin that turned humanoid[[/note]].

* Hermaphrodite: Changelings. Rex and Chrysalis have both impregnated themselves at some point in time.

"Black Queen, Red King" stars a teenage boy named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent William]] from a version of Earth [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in the year 2029]] who forms a psychic connection with [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-MajorVillains}} Queen Chrysalis]] during the middle of season two of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]. Eventually, William[[note]] who changes his name to [[MeaningfulName Alvarium Rex]][[/note]] is [[ShapeShifting transformed]] into a [[HiveQueen royal]] [[VoluntaryShapeShifting changeling]] capable of [[TeleportersAndTransporters transporting matter]] and opening [[ThinkingUpPortals portals]] to Chrysalis's universe.

The thing is, he's not the only human to start pairing up with creatures in the other world.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Catherine and the anti-changeling movement, including

* DeadManSwitch: the anti-changeling movement has ''twelve of them.'' One eventually does go off.

* DemonicPossession: At one point, Rex pretends to be the devil, kidnaps a serial killer from a prison, rips out the man's soul, and then animates the body with a fragment of his own soul to create Ψ.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Rex's soul]] and [[spoiler: the mouth of Death.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Any human who discovers the changelings.

* HiveMind: Each changeling hive has its own.
* HiveQueen: William and Chrysalis, who each have their own hive.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The hive is searching for a way to do this, but has yet to succeed.
* {{Magitek}}: One of the goals of Research & Development. Change.lng is an animated computer program, while Rex creates a golem out of a robot and the soul of a serial killer[[note]] He destroys it a minute later. It was just a proof-of-concept[[/note]].

** Lampshaded by Klika: "We all name ourselves; Protector, Slaughterhouse, Daughter,[[note]] the meaning of Klika's name in the changeling language[[/note]] Stalker – of course it’s fitting."

* MindRape: Rex does this to his subjects on a couple of occasions, sometimes on accident.
* MisterSeahorse: Any changelings that identify as male, the main character included.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: William, Nick, and Catherine.

* PhysicalGod: Celestia, Luna, and Cadance. It is implied that Selene is one, too, though it is never explicitly stated.

* ResurrectiveImmortality: Rex, Chrysalis, and all [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]].

* ShapeshifterBaggage: The changelings can shrink down to the size of flies or grow to the size of a large man. WordOfGod handwaves this by saying that the false bodies are magical constructs with simulated mass.

* TheMenInBlack: The Silencer Division.

* TranshumanTreachery: Most converted changelings are this way, though Slagteri and Taruke take it UpToEleven. However, the latter case suffered from MindRape, which made him that way.

* VoluntaryShapeShifting: The changelings, obviously.

* YourSoulIsMine: Rex says the name of the trope verbatim to John, then proceeds to rip it out, play with it, then accidentally ''swallow'' the man's soul.

* Magitek: One of the goals of Research & Development. Change.lng is an animated computer program, while Rex creates a golem out of a robot and the soul of a serial killer[[note]] He destroys it a minute later. It was just a proof-of-concept[[/note]].

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: [[spoiler: Rex's soul]] damages Sally-Anne's eyes and visual cortex when she sees it.

"Black Queen, Red King" stars a teenage boy named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent William]] from a version of Earth [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in the year 2029]] who forms a psychic connection with [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-MajorVillains}} Queen Chrysalis]] during the middle of season two of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]. Eventually, William[[note] who changes his name to [[MeaningfulName Alvarium Rex]][[/note]] is [[ShapeShifting transformed]] into a [[HiveQueen royal]] [[VoluntaryShapeShifting changeling]] capable of [[TeleportersAndTransporters transporting matter]] and opening [[ThinkingUpPortals portals]] to Chrysalis's universe.

-->'''William'''

"Black Queen, Red King" stars a teenage boy named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent William]] from a version of Earth [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in the year 2029]] who forms a psychic connection with [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-MajorVillains}} Queen Chrysalis]] during the middle of season two of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]. Eventually, William is [[ShapeShifting transformed]] into a [[HiveQueen royal]] [[VoluntaryShapeShifting changeling]] capable of [[TeleportersAndTransporters transporting matter]] and opening [[ThinkingUpPortals portals]] to Chrysalis's universe.