History Fanfic / PoniesAndDragons

* AlternateSelf:
** In addition to the known ''Equestria Girls'' counterparts, we meet several others:
*** Human Sombra is the CEO of a videogame company and HappilyMarried to Radiant Hope while Chrysalis is his VP and Discord is his chief game developer. All three are far better people than their Pony counterparts. Rabia used to run the company, but was ultimately arrested for undisclosed, but implied to be terrible, crimes.
*** Human Gilda is a friend of Human Rainbow Dash who works at a junk yard.
*** Dog Ember and Torch are Human Gilda's dogs, while Dog Garble is a stray. Ember ends up being given sapience eventually.
*** Human Tirek is a corrupt lawyer.
*** Human Storm King is a ruthless landshark and Tempest's legal guardian.
*** Human Novo is the principle of another school.
*** Human Kabuto, Decepticolt, Goldcap, and Zappityhoof are former game designers for Sombra's company who were fired for various reasons. [[spoiler:The latter three later become hackers to try and get revenge.]]

* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Gilda invokes this, using Equestria's new computers bought from the human world to play SimCity... while asking someone online for advice on playing on expert mode. Except Gilda is now queen of Griffinstone and she's using experience in the game for help in running her new kingdom, and she's unwittingly asking advice from Celestia. Celestia drops hints she knows exactly what's going on, and enjoys mentoring future rivals.

** Gizmo mentions a newspaper joking about [[FanFic/PonyPOVSeries Queen Tiamat]] accidentally sitting on ''a city'' she'd gotten for her birthday. It's unclear whether this ''actually'' happened, or was just made up by the paper.

* CreatorDisillusionment: InUniverse, Night Gale suffered this after learning her early books were being lampooned and felt she was the butt of a joke that only she wasn't in on. She eventually found the courage to learn and improve.

** PinkSugarExplosion is Pinkie Pie.

** Almost said word-for-word by Gilda, after she pulls an [[StuffBlowingUp insanely]] [[MoreDakka violent and brutal]] [[KillEmAll assault]] on the heads an [[TheEmpire evil government]] in a game about rebellion. She even remarks that her plan was ''tame'' by griffon standards, and that some griffons she knows from back home would have gone even further over the top.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Happens to Garble several times, usually thanks to Discord's magic and Garble's big mouth.
** Subverted with a game show that happens: while the losers all get transformed into things, it's temporary, they agreed in advanced, and have some say over what they get turned into.

* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse: An in-universe example. Human!Rainbow Dash and H!Gilda discover an exploit in "World of Horsecraft" that allows a growth potion item's effects to go to insane levels if multiple potions are used at once. Their characters [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever get big enough to tower over the map]], much to the pair's delight...but when they try to step on some low-level players, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the game can't quite handle their characters being that big, and they move slow as molasses and harmlessly clip through much of the scenery. Their glitch-fueled "rampage" becomes a comedy show for their would-be victims.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Chrysalis launches her endgame from the season 6 finale. In addition to what happened to her in canon, she's no longer welcome at the gaming table and her [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] is revoked. Her attempts to seek political asylum [[spoiler:due to being overthrown by Thorax]] also don't go well, as her actions mean the default reaction is "You made your bed, now lay in it." Lastly, [[PersonaNonGrata her mother banishes her from her and her other daughter's lands]].
** Chrysalis in one segment has banned "King of Manehatten" (a popular in-universe board game) from her Hive due to one of its {{Kaiju}} characters being a hornet-like Changeling Queen--i.e., ''not'' her; [[ItsAllAboutMe something she finds personally offensive since SHE isn't held up as a monster like she wants]]. Chrysalis soon gets a visit from Queen Supia, [[AlwaysABiggerFish a titanic Changeling Queen resembling a Japanese giant hornet]], and Supia is '''not''' amused with Chrysalis' behavior:
---> '''Queen Supia:''' ''(Her voice a demonic, buzzing hiss)'' "...And then I learned of your tantrum over the game. [[EvilIsPetty Sending some of your soldiers to harass the poor developers just for NOT making YOU their monster?]] Do you even KNOW size-shifting spells? Have YOU ever caused a tsunami with just the force of your wings? Have YOU ever crushed a mad daimyo's army LITERALLY underhoof?" ''(Licks at her mandibles)'' Do YOU know what kappas taste like when you swallow them whole by the dozens?!"
** Chrysalis immediately agrees to revoke the ban, and is left with a paralyzing phobia of ''anything'' wasp-like.
** The human versions of Gilda and Rainbow Dash find an exploit in "World of Horsecraft" that allows a growth potion item's effects to exponentially increase if multiple potions are used at once...and it works! Their characters get big enough to tower over the map, much to the pair's delight. EG!Gilda decides to step on some stunned low-level players...only to find that the game wasn't meant to handle player characters being that big. Her character moves at a snail's pace, and her foot harmlessly clips through her would-be victim. EG!Rainbow suffers the same effect, and their glitch-fueled "rampage" becomes a laughingstock for everyone else on the server.
** The hacker [[spoiler:(Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap)]] from their short StoryArc decided to hack a major company's systems repeatedly and run amok. This results in them being arrested and facing up to 20 years in prison.
** Ember the Dog is a sapient dog, but she's only been sapient for a short time and unlike Dog!Spike doesn't have a super smart owner to learn from. When she builds a house in "Crystals and Rainbows" it is naturally a complete mess and needed Spike the Dog to help her just to get the game ''set up'' in the first place..
** Discord summons the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Tales 7]] for a game. Being normal teenagers from a world without magic, all of them but Patch are terrified by the situation until Twilight calms them down.

* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse: An in-universe example. Human!Rainbow Dash and H!Gilda discover an exploit in "World of Horsecraft" that allows a growth potion item's effects to [[UpToEleven go to insane levels]] if multiple potions are used at once. Their characters [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever get big enough to tower over the map]], much to the pair's delight...but when they try to step on some low-level players, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the game can't quite handle their characters being that big, and they move slow as molasses and harmlessly clip through much of the scenery. Their glitch-fueled "rampage" becomes a comedy show for their would-be victims.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The entries from the latter half of Chapters 66 to the former half of 69 are a loose adaptation of the 2017 movie instead of the usual fare.

* DiplomaticImpunity: Chrysalis has diplomatic immunity due to being queen of a sovereign kingdom, so long as she doesn't do anything too evil. Doesn't stop her from abusing it. [[RealityEnsues She loses it following the events of the season 6 finale]], both because of what she attempted [[spoiler:and because Thorax overthrew her, so her 'kingdom' consists of a handful of changelings and her children.]] Even if that wasn't the case, her hive is no longer sovereign due to her mother, the Changeling Empress, reluctantly declaring her an exiled criminal.

* RealityEnsues:
** Chrysalis launches her endgame from the season 6 finale. In addition to what happened to her in canon, she's no longer welcome at the gaming table and her [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] is revoked. Her attempts to seek political asylum [[spoiler:due to being overthrown by Thorax]] also don't go well, as her actions mean the default reaction is "You made your bed, now lay in it." Lastly, [[PersonaNonGrata her mother banishes her from her and her other daughter's lands]].
** Chrysalis in one segment has banned "King of Manehatten" (a popular in-universe board game) from her Hive due to one of its {{Kaiju}} characters being a hornet-like Changeling Queen--i.e., ''not'' her; [[ItsAllAboutMe something she finds personally offensive since SHE isn't held up as a monster like she wants]]. Chrysalis soon gets a visit from Queen Supia, [[AlwaysABiggerFish a titanic Changeling Queen resembling a Japanese giant hornet]], and Supia is '''not''' amused with Chrysalis' behavior:
---> '''Queen Supia:''' ''(Her voice a demonic, buzzing hiss)'' "...And then I learned of your tantrum over the game. [[EvilIsPetty Sending some of your soldiers to harass the poor developers just for NOT making YOU their monster?]] Do you even KNOW size-shifting spells? Have YOU ever caused a tsunami with just the force of your wings? Have YOU ever crushed a mad daimyo's army LITERALLY underhoof?" ''(Licks at her mandibles)'' Do YOU know what kappas taste like when you swallow them whole by the dozens?!"
** Chrysalis immediately agrees to revoke the ban, and is left with a paralyzing phobia of ''anything'' wasp-like.
** The human versions of Gilda and Rainbow Dash find an exploit in "World of Horsecraft" that allows a growth potion item's effects to exponentially increase if multiple potions are used at once...and it works! Their characters get big enough to tower over the map, much to the pair's delight. EG!Gilda decides to step on some stunned low-level players...only to find that the game wasn't meant to handle player characters being that big. Her character moves at a snail's pace, and her foot harmlessly clips through her would-be victim. EG!Rainbow suffers the same effect, and their glitch-fueled "rampage" becomes a laughingstock for everyone else on the server.
** The hacker [[spoiler:(Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap)]] from their short StoryArc decided to hack a major company's systems repeatedly and run amok. This results in them being arrested and facing up to 20 years in prison.
** Ember the Dog is a sapient dog, but she's only been sapient for a short time and unlike Dog!Spike doesn't have a super smart owner to learn from. When she builds a house in "Crystals and Rainbows" it is naturally a complete mess and needed Spike the Dog to help her just to get the game ''set up'' in the first place..
** Discord summons the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Tales 7]] for a game. Being normal teenagers from a world without magic, all of them but Patch are terrified by the situation until Twilight calms them down.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Zephyr Breeze suggests as much when he pitches some game remake ideas to 8-Bit and his friends; all of which have [[DownerEnding less]] [[RocksFallEveryoneDies than]] [[CruelTwistEnding happy]] endings. They ''fire him out of a cannon'' in disgust.

** Twilight goes from going nuts every time her game goes off course (see {{Derailing}} below), to learning to roll with it.

* {{Derailing}} / OffTheRails: The storylines and themes of some games...aren't always followed to the letter, much to the resident Game Master's annoyance/humiliation. And it's always done ''firmly'' within the game's own rules, without cheating!
** Shining Armor's [[VideoGame/XCom XCOM]] -like alien war RPG? The girls basically ''throw the hard military themes out the window'' and convert the aliens with Equestrian pop culture! Poor Shining was left face-down on the table by the end.
** Later, Twilight [[GameMaster GM]]s a SteamPunk Sky-Pirate RPG in a [[BalkanizeMe balkanized Equestria]], ready for a swashbuckling adventure...only for Rarity to hijack the storyline, ultimately [[TheMagicComesBack kicking off a magical Renaissance]] and becoming ''Queen'' of a reunited Equestria. (Effectively destroying the game's technology-dominated setting, AND snuffing out its entire backstory.) Twilight was NOT amused.
** And THEN we have Twilight (visiting the ''Equestria Girls'' world), utterly ''demolishing'' a squad of human soldier characters, led by Human!Shining Armor, with fantasy creatures....in a game ''all about'' MugglesDoItBetter, no less!
** The Crusaders call in Button Mash to do this while playing ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 War Horse 40 Carrots]]''. He manages to purify the corrupted Mane Six and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu blow up the]] EldritchAbomination that corrupted them, all within the game's rules. Garble flips the table and storms out in a RageQuit.
** While playing a game about playing as gods trying to care for their worshipers, an actual EldritchAbomination hijacks it to try and break into the universe.

* VillianousRescue: Tiamat wants Flim and Flam to be dragons due to their unfiltered greed and their help with the dragon potion. Discord claims they're 'taken'... because they're destined to became the twin Draconequi of temptation.

!!''Ponies and Dragons'' providess examples of:

* YourRebelsAre urFreedomFighters: The Migrant Dragons consider the Dragon Town dragons traitors for abandoning the Dragon Lord... naturally the Dragon Town dragons consider their cousins to be uncouth savages.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Spoiled Rich]] ends up having one after discovering [[spoiler:Diamond Tiara put a ton of work into a homemade RPG she'd just verbally torn apart...and made a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of her the BigBad, causing her to [[HeelRealization finally realize how Diamond really sees her.]]]]

* InstantAIJustAddWater: The human world Screwball is an anti-hacker program human Discord created. Discord somehow ended up causing her to become self-aware while screwing around in a fit of sheer boredom.

* KillerGameMaster: Poor Wallflower has the misfortune of running into one, and the Memory Stone merely reveals him as such. She ends up decking him in the end.
* KnightOfCerebus: Human Sombra's mother Rabia. While she's currently in prison and thus can't be an active antagonist, she's not only genuinely evil but the tone becomes pretty dark whenever she is mentioned.

* LeeroyJenkins: Rainbow Dash is prone to this, predictably. Her TFOS character in particular takes advantage of the game's "no death" rule to ignore any fatal consequences... with the result that she gets knocked out a lot instead.

* MoreThanMindControl: It turns out the Sirens were using the natural [[MusicalWorldHypothesis Heart Song]] nature of Equestria to nudge the groups along in order to feed themselves--via OminousLatinChanting, no less!--since they no longer can use their magic to feed.

* PintSizedPowerHouse: Flurry Heart was causing Chrysalis trouble ''before she was born'' due to this trope.

** Ember the Dog is a sapient dog, but she's only been sapient for a short time and unlike Dog!Spike doesn't have a supersmart owner to learn from. When she builds a house in "Crystals and Rainbows" it is naturally a complete mess.

** Human Discord (a game developer) made ''himself'' the BigBad of an expansion of ''World of Horsecraft'', and the EarnYourBadEnding route ends with [[spoiler:the heroes killing Discord and usurping him.]] The Equestrian Discord is not amused when he finds out, but says {{Touche}} when he finds out it was done by himself.

** The [=CMCs=] also did this when they thought their bad luck with board games was over, and decided to play 'fill the barn' at an actual barn... it ends as well as you expect.

** A Changeling tried to brainwash Snails. Due to his emptymindedness, it 'got lost' in his mind.

As of September 2019, it is 97 chapters long and still ongoing.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: A number of games made by the company the human version of Sombra runs are apparently this. Though to be fair, Sombra's not ''quite'' a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The giants learn this the hard way, when Flurry Heart [[IncredibleShrinkingMan makes them all the size of toys]] during their outrage-fueled siege of the Crystal Empire.

* AmoralAttorney: It turns out that Human Tirek is one, and owns a law firm called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tartarus & Co]]. Notably, he's one of the ''very few'' people who actually like the human version of Rabia...which didn't stop him from stabbing her in the back the moment it benefited him.

* AssKicksYou: Applejack's giant pony warrior character in ''March of the Giants'' slips on some ice and lands her flank on an evil baron, [[KarmicDeath flattening him instantly]] to everypony's amusement. AJ even gets a [[BondOneLiner nice quip]] immediately afterward.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Mane Six all play as giant equines in ''March of the Giants''. Their characters even have a rampage through an evil pony baron's castle, ''[[SquashedFlat literally]]'' [[CurbStompBattle crushing any opposition]] from the tiny {{Mooks}} with some lucky dice rolls. (And one NOT so lucky roll on Applejack's part, that leads to a KarmicDeath for said evil baron via AssKicksYou.)

* AttractiveBentGender: [[JerkassGenie Discord]] helps Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack out with understanding "Guys' Night" by [[Rule63 turning them into handsome stallions]]. It's just annoying at first. Then Dash arrives and jokingly hits on them. And Discord uses his Infinity Die again, which summons a 'wandering monster'. [[TheVamp Sweetcream Scoops]].

* BornLucky: Clover, as in ''Tales''. During the joint O&O/D&D game, despite her indecisiveness personality making her character a complete mismatch, she gets max starting stats out of ''pure luck'' of the dice roll. She then consistently gets the best gear Shining Armor had on his loot table.
* BossRush: The Chrysalis boss fight in "World of Hoofcraft" turns out to include one of these.

** Chrysalis is very much this, even singing a version of [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder "I'm the Bad Guy"]] to Starlight when Starlight tries to reform her.

* CuddleBug: Chrysalis describes her mother, Empress Blackrose, as 'a hugger'. The first thing she does upon being introduced into the story is to give Chrysalis a motherly bear hug. Later, when introduced to [[spoiler:King]] Thorax, she does the same thing due to CutenessProximity.

** The Crusaders call in Button Mash to do this while playing ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 War Horse 40 Carrots]]''. He manages to purify the corrupted Mane Six and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu blow up the]] EldritchAbomination that corrupted them, all within the game's rules. Gable flips the table and storms out in a RageQuit.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough : Discord brings multiple monsters out of game world to the real one, all without ever thinking through the consequences of doing so or how dangerous they might be.
** Nor did he learn his lesson. In later chapters, he summons some cryptids from Earth like TheMothman and TheFlatwoodsMonster to play ''Crystals and Rainbows'' with him and Fluttershy; and then he summons a AD&D [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werevixen]] who almost conquers the town!

** Discord frequently plays, though is rarely the GM for obvious reasons.

* DiplomaticImpunity: Chrysalis has diplomatic immunity due to being queen of a sovereign kingdom, so long as she doesn't do anything too evil. Doesn't stop her from abusing it. [[RealityEnsues She loses it following the events of the season 6 finale]], both because of what she attempted [[spoiler:and because Thorax overthrew her, so her 'kingdom' consists of a handful of changelings and her children.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: [[spoiler:Thorax]] is unaware of how powerful he's become since [[spoiler:becoming a ''cured'' Changeling King.]] He's just himself while [[spoiler:''both'' courts are in awe of how powerful he appears to them. He's put in a test of strength against a Changeling King renowned for his NighInvulnerable armor. He ends up blowing said king across Blackrose's kingdom and knocking him unconscious with several cracks in his armor. Thorax is as shocked as anyone else.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Chrysalis ''expects'' this to be the case between her and Cadence following her endgame from the season six finale. [[SubvertedTrope Cadence's response is to fire a bazooka at her]] and ''no one'' is willing to [[GoKartingWithBowser play with her anymore]].
* EpicFail: Trixie and the Cutie Mark Crusaders tend to suffer these in their games. [[RunningGag Very often.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In [[https://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-XXXI-Just-Have-Fun-625577374 Chapter 31]], Chrysalis of all beings anounces she'll leave the table if they use one particular [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord in the game]]; one that represents [[WouldHarmAChild abusing and killing children]]. When the Mane Six point out that she nearly killed their little sisters, Chrysalis sniffs and says that was 'politics' and not simply [[ForTheEvulz for sick laughs]].

* EvilMatriarch: Human Rabia, who's one of the few human versions of Equestrian villains to be every bit the monster of her Equestrian counterpart, only lacking in sheer power to actually match. So much so Sombra helped lock her up in prison and Ira seems to be the only one of his siblings who holds it against him. Her World of Horsecraft self is naturrally thee same.

* FusionDance: Discord and an alternate universe version of Accord (who's the dominant personality and LawfulGood by his own admission) perform the TropeNamer to become Disaccord, Spirit of Neutrality...[[MundaneUtility to be joint game master of an O&O game for their universes' mane sixes.]]

** Human Chrysalis and some personal players (including her sons) are presently the only ones allowed to use Changeling class avatars in ''World of Horsecraft'', with it being explicitly said they're too overpowered for players to us.

** Nor did he learn his lesson. In later chapters, he summons some cryptids from Earth like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman Mothman]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster Flatwoods Monster]] to play ''Crystals and Rainbows'' with him and Fluttershy; and then he summons a AD&D [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werevixen]] who almost conquers the town!

* NeverLiveItDown: Session 40.9 reveals one such embarrassment for Supia--she apparently went on some attempted conquests of her own back in the day, only to be routinely bested by a [[HistoricalInJoke Diamond Dog admiral and his fleet of armored turtle ships]]. She even got shot in the rump by a full broadside of cannonballs!
** Applejack thinks this will happen to her character in ''March of the Giants'', after a bungled saving roll causes an AssKicksYou demise for an evil baron and his knights.

** She later sings a version of "[[Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride My Lullaby]]" as she prepares her endgame.

** [=BBBFF=] is Shining Armor

As of March 2019, it is at least 90 chapters long and still ongoing.

* BornLucky: Clover, as in ''Tales''. During the joint O&O/D&D game, despite her indecisiveness personality making her character a complete mismatch, she gets max stats out of ''pure luck'' of the dice roll.