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* BiTheWay: While Applejack is currently in a stable relationship with Rainbow Dash, she admits to having had a crush on [[KissingCousins Braeburn]] when she was a filly.
** Princess Luna, as well.
--->'''Celestia:''' I just hope the press doesn't catch wind of the stallions--
--->'''Luna:'''''{grinning}'' And mares! Oh, and a griffon! Feisty thing she is--
--->'''Celestia:''' [[SarcasmMode Thank you for clarifying.]]
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* EpicFail: When we first see Sweetie Belle using her magic, she's trying to put out a fire she caused trying to cook dinner. That's not impressive. What *is* impressive is that the water she's trying to put the fire out with has somehow caught fire too.
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* ShoutOut: A whole flood of them when Twilight is trying to figure out what movie Pinkie's based her fencing style off of. She guesses ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo The Knight of Mounte Crisco]], [[Film/TheManInTheIronMask The Mare In The Iron Mask]]'', and ''[[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves Robin Hoof: Princess of Thieves]]''. After the duel, Pinkie reveals that she'd been channeling ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride The Princess Bridle.]]''

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* ShoutOut: A whole flood of them when Twilight is trying to figure out what movie Pinkie's based her fencing style off of. She guesses ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002 The Knight of Mounte Crisco]], [[Film/TheManInTheIronMask The Mare In The Iron Mask]]'', and ''[[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves Robin Hoof: Princess of Thieves]]''. After the duel, Pinkie reveals that she'd been channeling ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride The Princess Bridle.]]''
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* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler:Fluttershy.]] Turns out she's still getting royalty checks from [[spoiler:her brief stint as a professional model.]] Not knowing what to do with all that money, (and apparently not understanding the point of banks), she's just been burying it around her property for so long that even she doesn't know how much there is.
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* FairytaleWeddingDress: Designed by Rarity, of course.

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* FairytaleWeddingDress: [[spoiler:Fluttershy and Rarity both get to wear them at their wedding in the finale.]] Designed by Rarity, of course.course. She also spends some time looking forward to making dresses for Rainbow Dash and Twilight (on the assumption that Applejack and Pinkie Pie would wear tuxedoes.)
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* RedBaron: Posey is referred to in reverent whispers as [[AwesomeMcCoolname Wildflower]].
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* FairytaleWeddingDress: Designed by Rarity, of course.
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* WhirlwindRomance: Rarity's read about them, of course, but when she finds herself in one she worries that maybe it's moving a little ''too'' fast.

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* WhirlwindRomance: Rarity's read about them, of course, but when she finds herself WeddingDay: [[spoiler:Fluttershy and Rarity]] get theirs in one she worries that maybe it's moving a little ''too'' fast.the final chapter.
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* EnemyMine: Princess Luna and Dragon Lord Torch form one during the TimeSkip to deal with [[Main/Kaiju Yongling]], a five-mile long evil serpent menacing Chineigh.

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* EnemyMine: Princess Luna and Dragon Lord Torch form one during the TimeSkip to deal with [[Main/Kaiju [[{{Kaiju}} Yongling]], a five-mile long evil serpent menacing Chineigh.
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* EnemyMine: Princess Luna and Dragon Lord Torch form one during the TimeSkip to deal with [[Kaiju Yongling]], a five-mile long evil serpent menacing Chineigh.

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* EnemyMine: Princess Luna and Dragon Lord Torch form one during the TimeSkip to deal with [[Kaiju [[Main/Kaiju Yongling]], a five-mile long evil serpent menacing Chineigh.
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* EnemyMine: Princess Luna and Dragon Lord Torch form one during the TimeSkip to deal with [[Kaiju Yongling]], a five-mile long evil serpent menacing Chineigh.


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* TimeSkip: In the final chapter of ''Green'', the period between Rarity and Fluttershy's [[spoiler:engagement]] and [[spoiler:their wedding]] is entirely jumped over. The first couple chapters of ''The Folly of Princesses'' includes Luna and Middy discussing things that happened in the world during that time, including Luna battling the {{Kaiju}} Yongling and Middy's belated honeymoon.
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* KingIncognito: ''The Folly of Princesses'' opens with Celestia getting tired of staying cooped up in the library, so she and [[MindHive Astra]] start working on a disguise so she can go out among the citizens of Ponyville without causing a panic.


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* MindHive: Functionally, Celestia and [[spoiler:Astra]].
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* EnemyWithin: Celestia has to deal with an antagonistic doppelganger within her mind, which manifests mostly as [[HearingVoices an incessant voice]] that is slowly driving her mad. Celestia calls the thing a fiend, which Twilight decides to use as its name because it has none of its own. [[spoiler:Played with in that Fiend isn't an outside enemy but rather a manifestation of Celestia's long-suppressed id, and thus an important part of her psyche.]]

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* EnemyWithin: Celestia has to deal with an antagonistic doppelganger within her mind, which manifests mostly as [[HearingVoices an incessant voice]] that is slowly driving her mad. Celestia calls the thing a fiend, which Twilight decides to use as its name because it has none of its own. [[spoiler:Played with in that Fiend isn't an outside enemy but rather a manifestation of Celestia's long-suppressed id, and thus an important part of her psyche. Coming to terms with the circumstances that brought Fiend into being is a big part of Celestia's character arc.]]
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-->'''Celestia's InnerMonologue:''' And this is why you trust these ponies when the world is doomed. They don’t back down.

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-->'''Celestia's InnerMonologue:''' -->'''[[InnerMonologue Astra]]:''' And this is why you trust these ponies when the world is doomed. They don’t back down.

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!!''Green'' contains examples of the following tropes:

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''Green'' has been completed, and there's now a sequel in the works, called ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/372448/the-folly-of-princesses The Folly of Princesses.]]''

!!''Green'' contains and ''The Folly of Princesses'' contain examples of the following tropes:


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* MeaningfulRename: Once Celestia comes to terms with [[spoiler:the idea that Fiend is not in fact malevolent, they decide to give the voice a less insulting name, eventually settling on Astra.]]
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* MacGuffin: Referenced. The ''[[ShowWithinAShow Daring Do]]'' book that Celestia's reading in Chapter 69 features Daring Do's search for the Guffin of Maxwell, [[AllThereInTheManual a very important doohickey from the race of Nevaherdufums, deep in the hidden jungles of Nawarinpaticula.]]
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** Luna adding to her mental tally of the raise she plans to surprise Midnight Oil with every time his political savvy saves her bacon.
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** Pinkie Pie even more so, since she isn't constrained by such petty concerns as the laws of physics.

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** Pinkie Pie even more so, since she isn't constrained by such petty concerns as the laws of physics. However, it seems that Pinkie's supremacy only applies to baked goods, since when she and Celestia (who hasn't been in a kitchen in six hundred years) try their hooves at making pasta, it doesn't go nearly as well.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Celestia is the Responsible to Luna's Foolish. Celestia has been doing her job every day for over a thousand years, while Luna frequently skips out on her duties for parties and other escapades, leaving an already overworked Celestia and [[BeleagueredAssistant Midnight Oil]] to pick up the slack. [[spoiler:Which means Luna's in for a pretty severe learning curve when Celestia is temporarily depowered, leaving leadership of the country solely in Luna's hooves (with help, of course, from [[HypercompetentSidekick Middy]].)]]
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* ChewingTheScenery: Deconstructed. Princess Luna is as large a ham as they come, but earth-shaking theatrics aren't really the ''best'' way to go about interacting with a populace you're trying to ''calm down.''
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Luna can't ''stand'' dealing with the press, which comes back to bite her later on.
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** Related to that, there's the fact that nopony has replaced the lock on the library door that Sweetie Belle melted.
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* BerserkButton: Pretty much anything Fiend says tends to tick Celestia off. [[spoiler:Justified, because Fiend is the manifestation of her suppressed id and is deliberately trying to get a specific reaction.]]


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* BrutalHonesty: Fiend's modus operandi revolves around pointing out truths that Celestia doesn't want to acknowledge.


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* HearingVoices: Celestia begins hearing (and arguing with) a voice in her head that provides a voice to her darker impulses, which eventually comes to be known as [[MeaningfulName Fiend.]]
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Fiend and Celestia go toe-to-toe in the Canterlot of Celestia's nightmares.


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* EnemyWithin: Celestia has to deal with an antagonistic doppelganger within her mind, which manifests mostly as [[HearingVoices an incessant voice]] that is slowly driving her mad. Celestia calls the thing a fiend, which Twilight decides to use as its name because it has none of its own. [[spoiler:Played with in that Fiend isn't an outside enemy but rather a manifestation of Celestia's long-suppressed id, and thus an important part of her psyche.]]


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** When [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie]] finds out how [[spoiler:Celestia]] feels about [[spoiler:Twilight]], she ''also'' starts feeling this way, trying to get them together, even as [[spoiler:Celestia argues for Twilight to stay with Pinkie.]]


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* TheMcCoy: Fiend, who is [[spoiler:literally Princess Celestia's id, which she's forcibly suppressed for so long that it's become its own psychic entity within her brain.]]
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* TheGoodChancellor: Midnight Oil, Princess Luna's HypercompetentSidekick [[spoiler:and Celestia's official Regent during her stay in Ponyville.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: [[NoSocialSkills Luna]] has a hard time running a modern government; she's incredibly lucky to have Midnight Oil to assist her.
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** [[TheNicknamer Pinkie Pie]] has these for almost everyone, most notably Twi-Twi for Twilight, Dashie for Rainbow Dash, and Celly for Princess Celestia.
** Princess Luna, while still on a FullNameBasis with most other ponies, is close enough to her BeleagueredAssistant Midnight Oil to call him "Middy".


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* BeleagueredAssistant: Midnight Oil, personal assistant to Princess Luna.
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* SpitTake: Celestia manages to inflict this on ''herself'' via TalkingToYourself while drinking coffee.
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* TemptingFate: Luna ''almost'' makes the mistake of asking if it could get any worse, but Rarity is GenreSavvy enough to stop her before she can finish the statement.

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