History Fanfic / DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl

** [[Spoiler: And then the theory falls apart, because the summoning was created by '''Tirek'''.]]

* HiddenAgendaVillain: The mysterious cult that performed the ritual to summon Cerea. As of yet, we don't know what they were expecting her to do (especially since the Diarchs strongly suspect they ''didn't'' intend for her to end up in the wild zone), and thanks to the unpredictable nature of summoning magic in the Continuum we can't be sure whether they were trying for Cerea specifically, or whether they wanted a centaur, or a knight, or even wanted something wholly unlike Cerea and just "missed" with the summons. About all we do know is that they number at least several dozen unicorns, they have access to a power-combining working that lets all those unicorns pool their powers (and possibly for more than just the summoning spell), they possess some very obscure knowledge on summoning, and that they are attempting to summon ''something''.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Cerea works by very different rules than Tirek did, to the point where the Doctor's Bear essentially treat her as a member of a separate-if-similarly-shaped species. And both Cerea and Tirek are implied to be very different than the ''other'' centaurs who live on Menageria. Because there have been others, never citizens and very rarely, but sometimes a centaur needed to travel through Equestria. None of them showed Tirek's mana draining abilities. And considering how much of Menageria remains unexplored, there may be a nation of them, somewhere...

* 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 notes to have wondering at least once if 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.

%%** Played for laughs. Due to the series' aversion of AsYouKnow, Cerea initially believes that the Bearers of Harmony are an elite order of crack commandos who are carefully trained and deployed by the Princesses to solve matters of extreme importance. For example, she initially thinks ''Fluttershy'' is an '''assassin'''. She is rather discombobulated to learn that they are actually a bunch of perfectly ordinary civilians who just happened to bond to powerful magical artifacts and so get thrown into situations they have no real training for with just the vague hope that it'll all work out.

* CainAndAbel: Tirek and Scorpan, of course. [[Spoiler:
Except here, Scorpan did not survive his betrayal, if it even was a betrayal. Tirek sees it as such, but also admits that Scorpan was looking for help fixing what they'd done to themselves in the search for magic.]]

* DeathByAdaption: [[Spoiler: In Chapter 78 Tirek strongly hints that Scorpan did not survive betraying him in this story.]]

''Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl'' is a ongoing crossover between ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' (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]].

* TheHerosJourney: Invoked. Prior to [[spoiler: entering Tartarus]], Cerea (who's read the book)recognizes that multiple elements from the classic format could be applied to herself. She just doesn't consider herself to be a hero. After all, she's not a ''real'' knight...

* ParadoxPerson: Cerea, to a degree. It's been repeated at several different points in the Continuum that magic comes with sapience, that anything which can think has ''some'' form of magic. Judging by her reactions to platinum and plastic, Cerea has ''no'' magic, despite being undeniably sapient.

** Overlapping with ThoughtTheyKnewAlready, Cerea initially doesn't bring up just how ''sensitive'' her sense of smell is to the Mane Six on a mission because she thought that they knew (and/or that pony senses of smell were only slightly worse than hers). They get the shock of their lives when she unthinkingly mentions that she can smell the presence of fur dye that was used several days ago... which is only compounded when she clarifies that she can tell both the dye's ''color'' and '''the gender of the ponies that used it'''.

* CerberusRetcon: Trixie's disdain for wheels whilst under the influence of the Alicorn Amulet was just a bit of comedic SanitySlippage in the cartoon. In chapter 71, Trixie not only is shown to have it as a standard part of her personality, but breaks down ''why'' she feels that way. Namely, wagon wheels are fragile, have a tendency to break at the worst possible moments and in succession, it's impossible to carry enough spares, and they're quite expensive -- and traveling wheelwrights tend to mark the price ''up'' if they meet a customer on the road. Combine this with Trixie's hoof-to-mouth existence as a traveling performer, the general state of Equestrian roads, and the fact that Equestria largely consists of small settlements separated by ''huge'' swathes of untamed, unpopulated, monster-infested wilderness, and... yeah. Trixie has a ''reason'' for hating wheels. She taught herself the skills of wheelwrighting because the alternative would have been to die in the wilderness or give up traveling at all.

* 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 -- [[which is revealed in Chapter 74 to be a sketch of Kimihito Kurusu, [[MythologyGag and she's never gotten his eyes right]]]].

* SuperSenses: Centaurs of Cerea's species have incredibly acute senses of smell, to the point that whilst Cerea insists that she is no bloodhound, she still pulls off incredible feats of odor detection. For example, she can not only detect that pony fur dye was used in an area two days later, when to ponies fur dye stops being detectable by scent a couple of hours after first used, but she can also easily tell that the dye was cerulean colored and that it was used by a pair of stallions. In chapter 71, Twilight begins to understand the depth of Cerea's ability when she realizes that when Cerea described her as "reeking of guilt" earlier, the centaur was being ''entirely literal''. Even by the standards of ponies, whose society is heavily scent-based, Cerea's olfactory abilities are incredible.

* 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 -- but the story hasn't said what that image is.

** Barding, as one of the ''fallen'' has lost the ability to care about anything other than his work.

->''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame only a monster...]]''

* AdaptationalSexuality: Closer to Adaptational Sexual Confusion. Most of Cerea knows about her own deepest desires is that she's never been attracted to centaur stallions (and has felt like that means there's something wrong with her, as every other mare seems to manage). She's never actively pursued a relationship with a female, but feels that she was closed out of the GayRomanticPase of herd life and seems to regret not having gotten to participate in 'the time for love'. The most she ever felt towards any girl in the household was sisterly affection. And she certainly isn't feeling anything towards ''ponies''. Ultimately, there's a suggestion that what she's looking for is '''''anyone''''' who'll both love and accept her, and her eyes may have initially fallen on Kimihito just because he was the first person who ''listened'' to her.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Closer to Adaptational Sexual Confusion. Most of Cerea knows about her own deepest desires is that she's never been attracted to centaur stallions (and has felt like that means there's something wrong with her, as every other mare seems to manage). She's never actively pursued a relationship with a female, but feels that she was closed out of the SchoolgirlLesbians phase of herd life and seems to regret not having gotten to participate in 'the time for love'. The most she ever felt towards any girl in the household was sisterly affection. And she certainly isn't feeling anything towards ''ponies''. Ultimately, there's a suggestion that what she's looking for is '''''anyone''''' who'll both love and accept her, and her eyes may have initially fallen on Kimihito just because he was the first person who ''listened'' to her.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Discussed. It's normal in Cerea's herd for fillies for a certain age to be with each other. However, once you reach the point where you're an adult, that's ''over''. Homosexual relationships as an adult are unacceptable for mares, because keeping the population stable is so difficult that everyone who ''can'' become pregnant, eventually ''must''. As Cerea internally puts it, adolescence is the time for love, while adulthood is the time for breeding.

* 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 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 [[ALoadOfBull 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.

* GentleGiant: Centorea is 6'7"...well, 200.66cm. (She's French; she thinks in metric.) Which just about matches Celestia's height and leaves her towering over normal ponies, who aren't exactly confident about the "gentle" part.

* GreetingGestureConfusion: A brief, self-correcting version in Chapter 31: Ambassador [[ALoadOfBull Torque Power]] initially greets Cerea by extending his fist knuckles-out, but quickly switches to offering a handshake. It leaves Cerea marveling at the sensation of having touched someone's ''hand'' for the first time in more than a month -- or, given her general treatment, just being touched at all.

* Rapid-Fire"No!": Crossing is less than thrilled to be working with Cerea.

* EldritchLocation: The "deep places", locations where the rules of physics, magic, and the like are somehow distorted. The [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies mirror pool]] is one, and Tartarus turns out to be another.

* AsYouKnow: {{Averted}}. There are certain fundamental facts about the world (that Celestia and Princess Luna are immortal, that SUN and MOON cannot run without them, etc), that are never explained to anyone other than babies because it's not possible to grow up in Menajeria without learning them. These facts are so well-known that it takes a long time for anypony to realize that Cerea doesn't have some of the fundamentals: Emery Board is sedately surprised that his latest recruit needed to independently figure out the current ''year''. [[note]]If you're curious, it's 1275.[[/note]]

** In relation to the [[Fanfic/TriptychContinuum Triptych Continuum]], this is '''The Bus Came Back: The Fanfic'''. Ponies who haven't been seen in ''years'' keep showing up.