History Fanfic / ChrysalisVisitsTheHague

* CatchPhrase: Edith's "[[SeenItAll Ive seen worse.]]". Though, given her job (pathologist) and her nationality ([[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian]]), that's not too hard to believe.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Just as Edith and Pierre drive through the evacuation of Ponyville, his cell phone goes off, and the ringtone turns out to be the haunting ''[[https://tinyurl.com/lakk3hk For What It's Worth]]'' by [[Creator/NeilYoung Buffalo Springfield]]. Pierre [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, even opting to let the music play out.

** Dries the turnkey nicknamed Chrysalis "[[Music/{{Queen}} the Killer Queen, dynamite and gelatine]]".

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Chrysalis becomes increasingly (literally, physically) clingy in her interactions with her lawyer Estermann. The implications that these are the actions of [[HornyDevils the G-rated succubus that she was in the show]] are rather plain.

* TranquillizerDart: The first resort against Chrysalis consists of tranquillizer rifles, filled what seem to be absurdly lethal amounts of sedative.

* StunGun: The first resort against Chrysalis consists of tranquiliser rifles, filled what seem to be absurdly lethal amounts of sedative.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: WordOfGod states that there is a quite bit of it, ostensibly to ensure that the story stays “readable”.
** In-universe, Lexy Fori is called out on it by Estermann, who is angered by her unprofessional attitude.

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'''''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62981/chrysalis-visits-the-hague Chrysalis Visits The Hague]]''''', written by one [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Dan+The+Man Dan The Man]], is not your typical ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, but a uniquely weird amalgamation of courtroom drama, political thriller and fantasy adventure that places Queen Chrysalis and Equestria as a whole in a war crimes tribunal procedural plot, exploring the issues that might arise when a cynical human judicial system designed to prosecute war offences and crimes against humanity is abruptly forced to arbitrate in an ever-lasting battle between good and evil inside a magical and ''painfully'' idealistic CrapsaccharineWorld.

* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks: Chrysalis is brought to the Netherlands in a US Air Force plane, and guided through her extradition by US Military Police.

* TheJudge: There's three of them on the pre-trial panel: Lexy Fori (who's Equestrian, vengeful and entirely backing the prosecution), Jessica Suruma (who's Ugandan, phlegmatic and indecisively neutral) and Colm Mullan (who's Irish, jovial and well-disposed to the defence).

* GreyAndBlackMorality: Seems to be very much in effect. Both the Equestrians and humans are in equal parts jaundiced, smarmy and secretive (though nominally well-intentioned), and Chrysalis is... Chrysalis.

The story follows Alexander Estermann, a Swiss lawyer tasked with defending the queen, and Edith Saric, a Bosnian forensic investigator working for the prosecution, as they dig their way through "a quagmire of vengeance, racism, manipulation, lies, hearsay and self-deception" to find out who the changeling monarch really is and what her role was during the worst chapters of Equestrian history.

** Lauren ''[[Main/{{Faust}} Mephisto]]'' is alluding to... well, [[Creator/LaurenFaust guess]].

* SpottingTheThread: Edith realizes almost immediately that [[spoiler: the so-called UN official she meets in the changeling hive ''isn't'' one. He has a rank that doesn't exist in the UN, has a surname that isn't a surname, can't pronounce the UN's full name correctly, doesn't know the full name of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is under the impression that the place is another kingdom. But what really seems to give it away for Edit is when he offers her a glass of vodka with a bread slice on top (a sort of thing done in Russia to ''honour the dead''). Lastly, he tries to pass off a crown cork as an order of merit]].

* VictimisedBystander: Considering Chrysalis' brutality and long past, only a handful of her countless Equestrian victims have survived to speak for themselves. And her human victims (particularly the cops and soldiers she brutalised in the plane) only get a glancing mention before disappearing from the narrative altogether.

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Estermann, unsurprisingly, runs into this territory while talking to Lyra. He ends up apologizing straight away.

--> "Because as far as I’m concerned, a pony's only good to be ridden and sliced up for sausage. How the hell am I supposed to make myself a picture of one's 'inner workings'?"

--> ''Chrysalis'': Ah, yes... These jokes… they’re a little like changelings.
--> ''Estermann'': Yep. They never get old.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: InUniverse. At one point, Chrysalis and Estermann are locked in an increasingly dark joke-telling competition, which culminates in Chrysalis telling him a [[BlackComedyRape very off-color rape joke]], only for Estermann to beat her to the punchline. Naturally, this leads to the two bonding.
--> '''Estermann:''' What? ...Too much?

--> “What? ...Too much?”

* BlackComedyRape: In-universe; At one point, Chrysalis and Estermann get locked in an increasingly-darkening joke-telling competition, which culminates in Chrysalis telling a ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice very]]'' off-color rape joke, only for Estermann to beat her to the punchline. Naturally, this leads to the two bonding.

--> “You see, that was a metaphor.” she explained on, “I have nothing against bugs. There are differences between them and you. One is a mindless, parasitic kind that takes over what does not belong to them and does nothing in return but spreading their disgusting, poisonous filth all over to make it theirs. And the others... are bugs.”

--> “You see, that was a metaphor.” she explained on, “I have nothing against bugs. There are differences between them and [ponies]. One is a mindless, parasitic kind that takes over what does not belong to them and down nothing in return but spread disgusting, poisonous filth all over to make it theirs. And the others... are bugs.

** BaitAndSwitchComment: Also courtesy of Chrysalis:

** Another bait-and-switch statement, also courtesy of Chrysalis: