History Fanfic / TalesOfTheCanterlotDeportationAgency

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!!Tropes present in Jack:

* ShoutOut: The blue-haired girl first seen in '''Soul Survivor''' is named here as Miguni. And between her following Centurion (an earth pony stallion Guard) everywhere he goes, trying to take care of his problems, and using her control over magnetism to stay with what she keeps calling her ''Ashikabi'', it's clear that New Cynosure has managed to pick up a {{Manga/Sekirei}}.

* ShoutOut: The "temporary human settlement camp" was named New Cynosure by one resident: the name stuck. It's a reference to ''ComicBook/{{Grimjack}}'' and partial inversion of that premise: a single set of rules in a small area, but with pandimensional residents. (David claims to have named it in a quest to find anyone from his own world who's really into old comics at ten for a dollar.)

!!Tropes present in Soul Survivor:

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All three chapter titles are {{One Word Title}}s, start with A, and are ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' terminology:
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413226/1/tales-of-the-canterlot-deportation-agency-soul-survivor/aret Areté]]: A mage's "power level".
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413226/2/tales-of-the-canterlot-deportation-agency-soul-survivor/avatar Avatar]]: The aspect of a mage's soul that lets them work magic.
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413226/3/tales-of-the-canterlot-deportation-agency-soul-survivor/awakening Awakening]]: The event when a mage forms their Avatar and becomes able to use magic.

!!Tropes present in Divine Intersection:

There are six Tales currently written:

** Joanna, a HolierThanThou theocrat from some unidentified but very unpleasant theocratic version of America, makes her debut appearance to taunt Bree as a "spawn of Satan" who deserves to have died with her world. She's such an asshole that one of the New Cynosure pony guards openly tells Joanna that he'll turn a blind eye if Bree decides to kick the shit out of her. She's ultimately driven away when Laurie, one of Bree's few friends and a [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]], responds to Joanna proclaiming Bree should be stoned to death for being mixed-race by telekinetically pelting her with rocks until she flees in fear for her life.

-->'''Ben''': They're from other worlds -- so many other worlds... and some of those places produce nightmares. But ours? ''Is the nightmare.'' We are ''everything'' that could go wrong -- everything which already ''has''. We live in the middle of an endless scream and tell ourselves we're happy because if we aren't, ''someone will kill us for it''.

** Unfortunately, this was not made sufficiently clear in the early stories, causing many readers to see the [=CDA=] as a DesignatedHero ''at best''.

[[WordOfGod Word Of FanFic Author]] is that the ''Tales'' and ''Triptych Continuum'' are separate continuities, but they share rules of magic and the pre-incursion setting -- plus pre-incursion backgrounds shown for pony characters here will be their backstories in the FanFic/TriptychContinuum.

* ShoutOut: In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413226/3/tales-of-the-canterlot-deportation-agency-soul-survivor/awakening Awakening]]'': The 'fully-distracted Japanese youth, who'd been caught in the middle of an open argument with his right hand', is said by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413226/3/tales-of-the-canterlot-deportation-agency-soul-survivor/awakening#comment/9016659 Word Of Fanfic Author]] to be Shinichi Izumi from ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}''.

* LandingInSomeonesBathtub: Played with, with how Jack arrived:

** Jack is "The Jester" (or he would be if he allowed himself a codename), a heroic doppelganger to ComicBook/TheJoker from the MirrorUniverse of DC Earth-3. [[Spoiler: Ultimately, the bundle of chemicals is inspired by the classic joker image -- to take the name "Wild".]]

** Jack is "The Jester" (or he would be if he allowed himself a codename), a heroic doppelganger to ComicBook/TheJoker from the MirrorUniverse of DC Earth-3.

* ShoutOut: Perhaps unintentional, but Jack's world is referred to be Luna as "the Shadowfell", which is a plane of existence from TheMultiverse of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.[[note]]Specifically, the Shadowfell is the Realm of the Dead, a gloomy and benighted place that eats away at the souls of the living and drives them to madness, depravity, ennui and despair, which is mostly because it's the place where souls go after they die and the living are ''not'' supposed to be there.[[/note]]

** Dr. House shows up and begins acting with his usual abrasive tastelessness to the shell-shocked Bree. including a very direct physical attempt to keep her in the hospital area. She responds by gripping her throat, buying herself enough time to complete the rote which would normally take her home -- only to discover she's opened on a gate onto ''nothing''.

* DeathSeeker: Develops slowly over the course of the story. Surviving her world's ending hasn't exactly left Bree in a good emotional place, and she keeps noticing opportunities for actions which might lead to her own demise. [[spoiler: Ultimately, she winds up attempting SuicideByCop with Jake as her intended killer, trying to make him believe he's in a fight for his life and ''has'' to kill her -- but it doesn't work.]] She also directly tells the Diarchy that in the event of her losing sanity, ''they'' were her backup plan for killing her. They don't take it well.

* SelfInsertFic: In-universe. One dimension hopper’s reason for making the trip was that it would have been their ultimate self-insert fic.

'''Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency'' is a series of oneshot ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfictions written by Creator/{{Estee}}, the author of the ''FanFic/TriptychContinuum'', revolving around the titular agency and its efforts to prevent Equestria from being invaded by dimension-travelling humans. Some are harmless, some are accidental, many come with dark purposes, all could potentially have serious negative effects on all of Equestria. The [=CDA=] tries to prevent anyone - human or pony - from getting hurt and safely send them back home.

* AfterTheEnd: With a side dose of AndThenWhat? The bad guys won. The world is gone. Everything Bree did with her life in the name of stopping it was utterly pointless. What happens now?

** Bree herself invokes this when Crossing Guard gets on her nerves with false sympathy, pointing out that her particular magical powers are far stronger than his own, and she's used to killing, whereas he isn't.

* ApocalypseHow: The World of Darkness has been consumed in an unspecified cataclysm involving "a red star".

** Dr. House shows up and begins acting with his usual abrasive tastelessness to the shell-shocked Bree. She responds with a magical ForceChoke.

* DeathSeeker: Bree is, initially, not in a good place, as you'd expect of somebody who sensed the annihilation of every human being on her world. But, as a Euthanatos, she wasn't very stable to begin with; she even tells the Princesses to their faces that she was always hoping that if she showed signs of sliding into ''needing'' to kill, tht they would kill her.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Crossing Guard's status as a NobleBigotWithABadge. When he approaches Bree and offers her sympathy, she immediately calls him out on his bullshit, pointing out that her powers and experience with him make him well aware that he's only "sorry" that Bree and the kids she saved didn't die with the rest of their world. She then threatens him to stay away from her, warning him that whilst she's weaker than the Princesses, she's still far stronger than he is.

* {{Irony}}: Bree managed to save ''two'' children from her world before she escaped... and neither of them were human. They're both ''TabletopGame/{{Changeling|TheDreaming}}s''; one Nocker and one Pooka.
* MindOverMatter: Laurie is a telekinetic, and she used that ability to pelt Joanna with stones, for being insulting.