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* CatFolk: Khans, who are pretty much bipedal cats who stand somewhat shorter than normal humans.



* FelineFolk: Khans, who are pretty much bipedal cats who stand somewhat shorter than normal humans.

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* AssassinOutclassin; A Khan has a go at Twilight in a fort full of Equestrian troops.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Zigzagged. Field officers are more experienced and therefore generally better fighters than enlisted troops. However, high ranking officers are definitely squishier on account of age and being kept off the battlefield to take care of running the show. Equestrian princesses, with the possible exception of Twilight, are like Physical Gods compared to everyone else.

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* AssassinOutclassin; AssassinOutclassin: A Khan has a go at Twilight in a fort full of Equestrian troops.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Zigzagged. Field officers are more experienced and therefore generally better fighters than enlisted troops. However, high ranking officers are definitely squishier on account of age and being kept off the battlefield to take care of running the show. Equestrian princesses, with the possible exception of Twilight, are like Physical Gods compared to everyone else.
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* BigFun: Diplomatic Incident.

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* BootCampEpisode:

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* CommandingCoolness: Yup, this too.

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* KnightTemplar: Justicars.

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* LadyOfWar: Princess Luna 100%
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: The situation in the Khanate.

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* NobleDemon: Khan religious officials count.

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* {{Qurac}} The Khanate.

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* {{Qurac}} %%* {{Qurac}}: The Khanate.Khanate.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Zigzagged. Field officers are more experienced and therefore generally better fighters than enlisted troops. However, high ranking officers are definitely squishier on account of age and being kept off the battlefield to take care of running the show. Equestrian princesses, with the possible exception of Twilight, are like Physical Gods compared to everyone else.



* ScareCampaign: Khan propaganda
* ShiftingSandLand: The Khanate.

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* StreetSmart:

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* WretchedHive: Tarhen

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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: It becomes clear that this is the case for every princess.

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* HornyDevils: The Khans think that Princess Cadance is an actual Succubus.


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* SuccubiAndIncubi: The Khans think that Princess Cadance is an actual Succubus.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: No, no it is not. As a matter of fact, Khan religion HATES them.
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* WorkingClassHero: RainbowDash, having originally been first a weather controller, then a stunt flier, and now a soldier, is absolutely smack dab in the middle of working class.

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* WorkingClassHero: RainbowDash, Rainbow Dash, having originally been first a weather controller, then a stunt flier, and now a soldier, is absolutely smack dab in the middle of working class.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Twilight has one one chapter while alone in the shower.



* HideYourGays: Khan mores are homophobic to say the least.



* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Khans combine with loophole abuse to do their damndest to foil Twilight's diplomatic missoin.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Khans combine with loophole abuse to do their damndest to foil Twilight's diplomatic missoin.mission.



* RestrainingBolt: Princess Luna's mask.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Zsarina and Andrelana fit the bill, both being 8 foot tall Valorossiyans.

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* BigBeautifulWoman: Zsarina and Zsaryna Andrelana fit fits the bill, both being an 8 foot tall Valorossiyans.
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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109994/legionnaire Legionnaire]] is a [FunWithAcronyms FiM]] fic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/The+Lord+Inquisitor The Lord Inquisitor]] set in a humanized steampunk AU. Part political intrigue, part historical fiction, part romance, and part action adventure, the story of Legionnaire is merely the first completed part of an epic work in progress. Its [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/199358/legionnaire-death-of-innocence sequel]], Legionnaire: Death of Innocence, is currently in progress.

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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109994/legionnaire Legionnaire]] is a [FunWithAcronyms [[FunWithAcronyms FiM]] fic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/The+Lord+Inquisitor The Lord Inquisitor]] set in a humanized steampunk AU. Part political intrigue, part historical fiction, part romance, and part action adventure, the story of Legionnaire is merely the first completed part of an epic work in progress. Its [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/199358/legionnaire-death-of-innocence sequel]], Legionnaire: Death of Innocence, is currently in progress.
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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109994/legionnaire Legionnaire]] is a FiM fic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/The+Lord+Inquisitor The Lord Inquisitor]] set in a humanized steampunk AU. Part political intrigue, part historical fiction, part romance, and part action adventure, the story of Legionnaire is merely the first completed part of an epic work in progress. Its [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/199358/legionnaire-death-of-innocence sequel]], Legionnaire: Death of Innocence, is currently in progress.

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[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109994/legionnaire Legionnaire]] is a FiM [FunWithAcronyms FiM]] fic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/The+Lord+Inquisitor The Lord Inquisitor]] set in a humanized steampunk AU. Part political intrigue, part historical fiction, part romance, and part action adventure, the story of Legionnaire is merely the first completed part of an epic work in progress. Its [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/199358/legionnaire-death-of-innocence sequel]], Legionnaire: Death of Innocence, is currently in progress.
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* HuskyRusky: Valorossiyans, being essentially the setting's nonhuman equivalent of Russians.

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* HuskyRusky: HuskyRusskie: Valorossiyans, being essentially the setting's nonhuman equivalent of Russians.



* LeftHandVersusRightHand: The situation in the Khanate.

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* LeftHandVersusRightHand: RightHandVersusLeftHand: The situation in the Khanate.

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* BootCampEpisode:



* TapOnTheHead: When DiplomaticIncident gets captured.

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* TapOnTheHead: When DiplomaticIncident Diplomatic Incident gets captured.



* TrainingArc: Teaching Twilight to shoot and fight eats up a fair amount of the middle.



* XanatosSpeedChess: DiplomaticIncident is a grandmaster of it.

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* XanatosSpeedChess: DiplomaticIncident Diplomatic Incident is a grandmaster of it.

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* AggressiveNegotiations: Take place when Prophet shows up with an entire ship of ChurchMilitant.



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Zigzagged. Field officers are more experienced and therefore generally better fighters than enlisted troops. However, high ranking officers are definitely squishier on account of age and being kept off the battlefield to take care of running the show. Equestrian princesses, with the possible exception of Twilight, are like Physical Gods compared to everyone else.
* AvoidingTheGreatWar: The officials of Equestria and the Khanate want to. Others, not so much.



* BerserkButton: Everything pisses off the Khans.



* BloodKnight: The standard Legionnaire attitude, especially in the ninth company.



* ConflictingLoyalty: Justicars like Prophet have to choose between the good of the Khanate and the good of the Church.



* DeathNotification: An indirect example occurs near the beginning of the story. When Twilight does not hear an affirmative that Rainbow Dash, who is going under an assumed name in the Legion, is alive after the embassy bloodbath, she presumes her dead.
* DevilInPlainSight: Khan religious orthodoxy considers all Equestrian alicorn princess to be demons.



* DivineConflict: The Khan church likes to see everything as this, with the existence of alicorns being a direct affront to their strictly absolute monotheism.



* EvilCounterpart: Springbok is Diplomatic Incident's foil, naturally.
* FelineFolk: Khans, who are pretty much bipedal cats who stand somewhat shorter than normal humans.
* FlauntingYourFleets: Nobody can resist making a good display of power.



* FriendlySniper: Dash functions as her team's sharpshooter when need be.
* FuroScene: Things almost get too hot and heavy in the bath.
* GenderIsNoObject: Male, Female, human or not, if you can follow orders, you can serve in the Legion right alongside everybody else.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Rainbow Dash to Twilight.
* GotVolunteered: Essentially how Rainbow Dash ended up in the Equestrian Legion -- she was forced by Celestia to enlist.



* GuileHero: Considering tha the fic is about politics, this is a given.
* GunboatDiplomacy: As much as Celestia wants to avoid this impression, there isn't much that can be done to protect her borders in case of war while not provoking the Khanate.



* HornyDevils: The Khans think that Princess Cadance is an actual Succubus.



* IronLady: The ideal for Equestrian princess. Of them, Luna and Celestia come close.



* KeepingTheEnemyClose: The ninth sticks to Prophet like glue.



* KnightTemplar: Justicars.



* LegionOfLostSouls: Being based off of the French Foreign Legion, the Equestrian Legion is one.
* LittleBitBeastly: Vals to the point that sometimes they get referred to as human, which they do not like one bit.
* LoopholeAbuse: Both sides take part in this, but the Khans are something else.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Khans combine with loophole abuse to do their damndest to foil Twilight's diplomatic missoin.
* MomentKiller: Between two exes who must conceal their relationship on a dangerous mission on a military base, these are everywhere.



* NervesOfSteel: Veterans of the game have them. Newcomers either develop them or don't last.



* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Celestia wants these out of the way because of the mission's urgency, so she sends just Princess Twilight with the most trusted member of her foreign service.
* OlderAndWiser: Twilight's and Rainbow's superiors are this. Special attention goes to Rainbow's CO, who can talk sense into the infamously headstrong woman.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted -- there is more than one Adrelana.



* PermissionToSpeakFreely: Private conversations between Dash and Twilight are seldom fully professional as they ought to be between ruler and subject.
* PhysicalGod: The Khan's opinion of Equestrian princesses. Given the sheer power of 3/4 of them, it's hard to blame them.



* PreventTheWar: Twilight's mission is to do this.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Vals. Khans also have a very violent culture.



* RebelliousPrincess: Twilight is much less rebellious than most, not that she's happy about how Celestia forcibly broke up her and Rainbow in the backstory.



* ScareCampaign: Khan propaganda
* ShiftingSandLand: The Khanate.



* SpyFiction: Dips across the line a few times. More stale beer flavored.
* StreetSmart:



* TapOnTheHead: When DiplomaticIncident gets captured.
* TechnicallyATransport: Skiffs, which often get strapped with enough firepower to take on sizable threats.



* TheDitherer: Twilight Sparkle grows out of this as she learns how to take charge.



* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Twilight Sparkle contemplating her actions following a skirmish with a Khan skiff.
* TheSpymaster: Diplomatic Incident, and his enemies know him as such.



* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: This thought is never far from the minds of any Equestrian in the Khanate, even in an embassy.



* UpThroughTheRanks: The only way to get anywhere in the Legion is to start at the bottom and work your way up.
* UptownGirl: Twilight, of course, being a princess.
* UriahGambit: One possible interpretation of why Celestia chose to have Dash put into a Legion recon company, exactly.
* WickedCultured: Every single aristocratic villain.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: The Khan Church definitely thinks that way.
* WorkingClassHero: RainbowDash, having originally been first a weather controller, then a stunt flier, and now a soldier, is absolutely smack dab in the middle of working class.



* WretchedHive: Tarhen

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* WouldNotShootACivilian: Subverted -- legionnaires only will do this when absolutely forced to.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: The villains adore this trick.
* WretchedHive: TarhenTarhen
* XanatosSpeedChess: DiplomaticIncident is a grandmaster of it.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Twilight upon reaching Tarhen.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Stage one was the embassy attack at the start of the fic. The heroes spend the whole thing in damage control mode.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Twilight has one one chapter while alone in the shower.



* BadassBookwork: Twilight after she gets trained up a bit can at least defend herself somewhat.
* BigFun: DiplomaticIncident.

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* BadassBookwork: BadassBookworm: Twilight after she gets trained up a bit can at least defend herself somewhat.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Zsarina and Andrelana fit the bill, both being 8 foot tall Valorossiyans.
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BigFun: DiplomaticIncident.Diplomatic Incident.



* CommandingCoolness: Yup, this too.



* CulturePolice: Khan Basiji, combined with ChurchMilitant.



* DrillSergeantNaqsty: Legion trainers.

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* DrillSergeantNaqsty: DrillSergeantNasty: Legion trainers.



* FriendlyEnemy: Prophet, being a Khan zealot who works with the Equestrians definitely counts.



* HideYourGays: Khan mores are homophobic to say the least.



* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: An international political version is given by Celestia as the reason why Twilight cannot be with Rainbow.
* KnightInSourArmor: Rainbow Dash morphs more into this as the story goes on.
* LadyAndKnight: A femslash example with Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle.
* LadyOfWar: Princess Luna 100%



* NobleDemon: Khan religious officials count.
* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: Khanate councils.
* PatrioticFervor: The villains of the story are exploiting this to get their war.
* PeaceConference: The plot hinges around getting Twilight to one in Tarhen, the Khan capital.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: They don't come more active than Equestrian princesses.



* SilkHidingSteel: Princess Celestia is a truly composed proper lady who don't tolerate crap.

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* SilkHidingSteel: Princess Celestia is a truly composed proper lady who don't doesn't tolerate crap.nonsense.
* StrictlyProfessionalRelationship: What Twilight and Dash are forced to have due to their circumstances.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Nightmare Moon to Princess Luna.


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* WorthyOpponent: Springbok thinks of himself as this for Diplomatic Incident. He doesn't realize that he himself is just a moron.
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* BadassBookwork: Twilight after she gets trained up a bit can at least defend herself somewhat.



* BodyguardingABadass: Anyone who protects Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, or Princess Cadance.



* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Khanate governemnt. See below.
* ChurchMilitant: Several, including actual religious police. They are fond of provoking incidents with Equestria.
* CoolAirship: Entire fleets of them. Equestria's are the coolest and mightiest of them all.



* HotBlooded: Legionnaires in general, especially Rainbow.



* LeftHandVersusRightHand: The situation in the Khanate.
* MerlinAndNimue: Diplomatic Incident when it comes to any woman he works with.



* RefugeInAudacity: The Khanate's church demanding an apology from Equestria for defending themselves against an attack by a Khan mob against their embassy.



* SilkHidingSteel: Princess Celestia is a truly composed proper lady who don't tolerate crap.



* TheFundamentalist: The politically influential members of the Khanate's church are absolutely this.



* UnresolvedSexualTension: Twilight and Dash, full stop.

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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Twilight and Dash, full stop.stop.
* WretchedHive: Tarhen
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* ActionGirl: Rainbow Dash, just like any woman in the Legion.
* AssassinOutclassin; A Khan has a go at Twilight in a fort full of Equestrian troops.
* BadassArmy: Several.
** Equestrian Legion, being based off of the French Foreign Legion, takes the cake.
** The rest of the Equestrian armed forces counts, given that they are the world superpower.
** The Khan Army counts.
* BigFun: DiplomaticIncident.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: How the Legion's officers tend to be versus the enlisted.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Diplomatic Incident.
* DirtyCommies: The Reds in the offscreen Valorossiyan Civil War.
* DrillSergeantNaqsty: Legion trainers.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: No, no it is not. As a matter of fact, Khan religion HATES them.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Valorossiyan Civil War, which has been ongoing for quite a while.
* GunPorn: If you like turn of the century hardware, certain chapters will be quite a treat.
* HuskyRusky: Valorossiyans, being essentially the setting's nonhuman equivalent of Russians.
* InstantMarksmanJustSqueezeTrigger: Defied. It helps, but teaching marksmanship takes a long time.
* {{Qurac}} The Khanate.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Being ordered to a frontier fort.
* RestrainingBolt: Princess Luna's mask.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Yes, princess can't just do whatever they like.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: It becomes clear that this is the case for every princess.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: As much as it is possible for Twidash to be so.
* TrainingArc: Teaching Twilight to shoot and fight eats up a fair amount of the middle.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Twilight and Dash, full stop.
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The year is 1882. Relations between the Equestrian Empire and its neighbor, the Khanate, are teetering dangerously close to open war. Following a severe incident, Princess Twilight Sparkle is sent with elder statesman, Diplimatic Incident, and the protective force of the ninth company of the Equestrian Legion, to try to resolve the situation before it's too late, if they even can at all.

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The year is 1882. Relations between the Equestrian Empire and its neighbor, the Khanate, are teetering dangerously close to open war. Following a severe incident, Princess Twilight Sparkle is sent with elder statesman, Diplimatic Diplomatic Incident, and the protective force of the ninth company of the Equestrian Legion, to try to resolve the situation before it's too late, if they even can at all.
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The year is 1882. Relations between the Equestrian Empire and its neighbor, the Khanate, are teetering dangerously close to open war. Following a severe incident, Princess Twilight Sparkle is sent with elder statesman, Diplimatic Incident, and the protective force of the ninth company of the Equestrian Legion, to try to resolve the situation before it's too late, if they even can at all.

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The year is 1882. Relations between the Equestrian Empire and its neighbor, the Khanate, are teetering dangerously close to open war. Following a severe incident, Princess Twilight Sparkle is sent with elder statesman, Diplimatic Incident, and the protective force of the ninth company of the Equestrian Legion, to try to resolve the situation before it's too late, if they even can at all.all.

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109994/legionnaire Legionnaire]] is a FiM fic written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/The+Lord+Inquisitor The Lord Inquisitor]] set in a humanized steampunk AU. Part political intrigue, part historical fiction, part romance, and part action adventure, the story of Legionnaire is merely the first completed part of an epic work in progress. Its [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/199358/legionnaire-death-of-innocence sequel]], Legionnaire: Death of Innocence, is currently in progress.

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!!This ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic contains examples of:
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The year is 1882. Relations between the Equestrian Empire and its neighbor, the Khanate, are teetering dangerously close to open war. Following a severe incident, Princess Twilight Sparkle is sent with elder statesman, Diplimatic Incident, and the protective force of the ninth company of the Equestrian Legion, to try to resolve the situation before it's too late, if they even can at all.

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