History Fanfic / DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl

* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted. Upon arrival, nopony can understand Cerea, and all she hears are some rather complex horse noises. The only reason she can currently comprehend anypony (and vice-versa) is the loan of one of the rarest devices on the planet -- out of the ''five'' known to exist. However, the magic only works on ''sounds''. Cerea finds herself rendered fully illiterate -- and for someone whose fillyhood window on the outside world came from stories, who now finds herself surrounded by tales no centaur has never read, unable to make out a single word... it's agonizing.

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Fluttershy is the Bearer of Kindness. She can befriend and forgive even those who have personally hurt or betrayed her. But she ''hates'' Cerea [[FantasticRacism for being a centaur]].

* SignificantSketchbook: Invoked. As of Chapter 22, Cerea is keeping one as to have something she can bring back with her if she ever gets to go home. (It's directly said that she was inspired by reading '''The Dungeon''' sextet as a filly -- and also that she hated the way it ended.) However, to date, all she's done is draw images of Japan and the other liminal girls. It's also implied that she's having a lot of trouble with the ''first'' sketch in the book -- [[spoiler:which is revealed in Chapter 74 to be a sketch of Kimihito Kurusu, [[MythologyGag and she's never gotten his eyes right]]. Cerea brings the sketchbook into Tartarus so she can record changes, and the deep place immediately starts to use everything within against her -- starting with animating Kimihito's eyeless face and having it call her a monster]].

* BodyHorror: Chapter 79 reveals that Tirek can absorb other creatures' magic [[spoiler:because Scorpan constructed a Device ''inside him'' by cutting him open and inserting a web of platinum wires, one wire at a time.]].

* GagBoobs:
** It's mentioned that Centorea's large bosom was a source of much mockery, derision and vulgar commentary, due to how amply equipped she is compared to humans. And now she's living among a species that only displays some degree of swelling when actively nursing. Whenever any pony looks at her chest, their reaction is invariably ''[[RunningGag Yearrggh...]]''.
** InUniverse, female [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]] (''ageládas'') have breasts, but the majority of ponies haven't met any. It does mean there are proper corsetiere shops -- but they're mostly in Mazein. However, that nation has a degree of pony population, and so Corsetiere Garter becomes Cerea's official clothier -- although if not closely supervised, her creations tend to tilt into lingerie.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Cerea has decided to stay in Equestria until a way can be found to send her home, serving Luna as both a guard and her seneschal. The ponies of Canterlot are finally warming up to her, and Nightwatch is planning to have a house built that the two can share. And at long last, she's moving out from under her mother's shadow and feeling much more more comfortable with herself.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: From all evidence, Tirek. The autopsy showed that several of his organs weren't actually ''doing'' anything. It appears that his first attempt to drain magic killed him: he already possessed (ignored) magical sensory enhancement, and trying to add extra capabilities internally is known to be fatal. But just as Discord found his essence trapped in the web of platinum wire, Tirek's soul wound up bound to his body. Absorbing magic brought him closer to true life: his largest observed size had him capable of bleeding. But his digestive system no longer functioned, and the thaums were his only energy source. Cerea breaking the internal wires while the sword was negating internal thaums may be what truly finished him off.]]

** Fancypants also wants to put together a party, allowing Canterlot's nobles to meet her.

* EatMe: As shown in Chapter 46, this was how Discord defeated Tirek. He allowed Tirek to consume his magic, and because Discord ''is'' magic, his mind went with it, allowing him to strip the stolen power from Tirek from the inside out.
* EldritchLocation: The "deep places", locations where the rules of physics, magic, and the like are somehow distorted. The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies mirror pool]] is one, and Tartarus turns out to be another.

* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Well, not to Equestrians... However, the story clearly establishes Cerea's herd is located in France, and she considers herself to be a native of that country.

* NotNowKiddo: In chapter 13, Crossing Guard repeatedly dismisses Cerea's attempts to verbally dissuade him from taking her out of their room without waiting for their official escort, going so far as to grab her arm and physically pull her into following him. It's only after they stumble across a pony who ''isn't'' among the palace staff (who know of Cerea's existence) that he finally realizes that Cerea was trying to say that the point of the guard escort isn't to keep Cerea from escaping, it's to clear the way of any unauthorized personnel. Crossing later admits that he was infantilizing Cerea as part of his fear response to her.
** During the storming of the palace, Squall dismisses Cerea's attempt to warn him that the mob has actually come for the arsonist -- either to free her, or to kill her so she won't implicate anypony else.
* NoSell: As long as Cerea is wearing her plastic hairpins she is effectively immune to magic with mental effects including Griffon Domination and [[spoiler:Tartarus' mental manipulations]]

** Barding, as one of the ''fallen'' has lost the ability to care about anything other than his work. Ironically, this means he gets along well with Cerea, as long as they talk exclusively about metalwork. He is also the ''only'' pony encountered so far besides the Princesses who does not show an instinctive fear reaction to her, not even a little.

* SignificantSketchbook: Invoked. As of Chapter 22, Cerea is keeping one as to have something she can bring back with her if she ever gets to go home. (It's directly said that she was inspired by reading '''The Dungeon''' sextet as a filly -- and also that she hated the way it ended.) However, to date, all she's done is draw images of Japan and the other liminal girls. It's also implied that she's having a lot of trouble with the ''first'' sketch in the book -- [[spoiler:which is revealed in Chapter 74 to be a sketch of Kimihito Kurusu, [[MythologyGag and she's never gotten his eyes right]]]].

* UncannyValley: InUniverse, almost everything about Cerea seems designed to freak out ponies. Even leaving aside her "monstrous" hybrid anatomy, she's ridiculously large, with the proportions making what would otherwise be an attractive mare's body into some uncanny. And then there's her speed; something so big should ''not'' be able to move so fast.
** Also in-universe, pegasi like Nightwatch ''freak'' at the sight of a sketch of Papi the harpy, which Cerea realizes is because the combination of similarity and alien traits.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Played with, satirized, and ultimately discarded. While Cerea's usual verbal formality is very real, most of the syntax she works with has been picked up from "several hundred stories, most of which had been written by authors who saw [[CriticalResearchFailure research]] as something which only got in the way of a good tale." As a result, her attempt to "speak properly" in front of the ''Princesses'', processed through the translator, turns into something so severe as to make ''[[AntiquatedLinguistics Luna]]'' tell her to reacquaint herself with the concept of contractions. '''Immediately.''' She's been speaking a little more normally ever since.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Cerea has decided to stay in Equestria, serving Luna as both a guard and her seneschal. The ponies of Canterlot are finally warming up to her, and Nightwatch is planning to have a house built that the two can share. And at long last, she's moving out from under her mother's shadow and feeling much more more comfortable with herself.]]

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Strepho, a prisoner in Tartarus, is heavily implied to be an Angel of Mercy, someone who kills because they think their victims would be better off dead. And one is not imprisoned in Tartarus unless they've made a genuine attempt at ending the world...]]

* WouldHurtAChild: After the mob breaks the arsonist out of the palace holding cells, she threatens to strangle two foals to death unless Cerea lets her go.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: From all evidence, Tirek. The autopsy shows that several of his organs weren't actually ''doing'' anything. It appears that his first attempt to drain magic killed him: he already possessed (ignored) magical sensory enhancement, and trying to add extra capabilities internally is known to be fatal. But as Discord was trapped in the web of platinum wire, Tirek's soul wound up bound to his body. Absorbing magic brought him closer to true life: his largest observed size had him capable of bleeding. But his digestive system no longer functioned, and the thaums were his only energy source. Cerea breaking the internal wires while the sword was negating internal thaums may be what truly finished him off.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[Spoiler: From all evidence, Tirek. The autopsy shows that several of his organs weren't actually ''doing'' anything. It appears that his first attempt to drain magic killed him: he already possessed (ignored) magical sensory enhancement, and trying to add extra capabilities internally is known to be fatal. But as Discord was trapped in the web of platinum wire, Tirek's soul wound up bound to his body. Absorbing magic brought him closer to true life: his largest observed size had him capable of bleeding. But his digestive system no longer functioned, and the thaums were his only energy source. Cerea breaking the internal wires while the sword was negating internal thaums may be what truly finished him off.]]

* AxCrazy: The arsonist ends up this way, even going so far as to [[WouldHurtAChild attempt to strangle two foals]], just because they're of different species and trying to help each other get away from the final battle. And she not only does this in full public view before multiple panicking witnesses, but she slows down in her escape attempt to go after the children. It takes a sword strike from Cerea to break the field -- and the arsonist promptly claims that the centaur ''[[NeverMyFault made]]'' her do it. [[spoiler: The end of the story has her in an asylum -- which she doesn't even recognize: she thinks it's a place where researchers can study the changes she made to her field.]]

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Centaurs play with this trope; whilst they have fairly standard male/female sexual dimorphism on the surface, the difference is exaggerated far beyond the norm. Female centaurs are elegant, refined, intelligent, articulate and highly civilized. Males, by comparison, are borderline caricatures of masculinity; [[DumbMuscle immensely strong and equally immensely stupid]], impulsive, emotion driven, and bestial, concerned only with sex, violence, and the prospect for either. They're so savage that centaur society revolves around keeping the genders segregated until and unless it's time to procreate, and even then the mares only tolerate the stallions until they have conceived. Cerea herself admits to having wondered at least once whether centaur mares and stallions aren't actually entirely separate species of {{One Gender Race}}s who just happen to be capable of interbreeding in a GenderEqualsBreed manner. Upon learning more from Cerea about the stallions of her race, a horrified Nightwing bluntly asks if Cerea is sure that centaur stallions are even ''sapient'', and an uncomfortable Cerea simply looks away and refuses to answer.

* AxCrazy: The arsonist ends up this way, even going so far as to [[WouldHurtAChild threaten to strangle two foals to death]] unless Cerea lets her go.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Cerea has decided to stay in Equestria, serving Luna as both a guard and her seneschal. The ponies of Canterlot are finally warming up to her, and Nightwatch is planning to have a house built that the two can share.]]

''Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl'' is a ongoing crossover between ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' (as a sequel to ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'' and using most of the setting, characterization, and magic rules previously established in the ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'') and ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', written by Creator/{{Estee}}. The story can be read [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/432523/daily-equestria-life-with-monster-girl here]]. It is complete, spanning 100 chapters published from February 2019 to July 2022.

* CurbStompBattle: Chapter 79 gives us [[spoiler:Cerea vs Tirek. On one side, we have an UnskilledButStrong brute, whose primary tactics are to drain an opponent's magic, use energy blasts if that doesn't work, and rely on sheer muscle against whoever's left. On the other, a StrongAndSkilled knight-in-training, who has no magic to steal, can NoSell the energy blasts, and has spent most of her life learning how to properly use her body in a fight. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown It's over in a matter of seconds.]]]]

* DeusExitMachina: Why hasn't Discord become involved in this? ''He's in critical condition.'' We get the full story in Chapter 46: he stepped in to protect Sweetie and Diamond from Tirek, and was drained to the edge of death. He currently exists as a barely-cohesive, heavily weakened chaos storm: unresponsive and unable to assume any other form.

** [[spoiler: Eventually confirmed. Cerea can eat meat from Menajeria. In fact, the improved nutrition may help her in some ways...]]