History Fanfic / TheConversionBureau

* TheRez: ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/458269/the-reservation The Reservation]]'' takes place after the war with the ponies put in a reservation, the various chapters detail how specific human and pony characters are dealing with the state of affairs.

** ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl'' mentions a "Humans Are Bastards" [[ShowWithinAShow horror film]] called ''The Converters''. The makers of which nearly got sued for libel.

%% * AssimilationPlot: Celestia's ponification crusade.

* LesCollaborateurs: It's mentioned that human scientists helped develop the [[MutagenicGoo ponification serum.]] Additionally, the world's leaders seem to have no interest in stopping what the ponies are doing, often because they are aware that the world is ecologically ruined.
** The PER are often depicted as such as well.

** Also, how powerful and threatening the PER and HLF are varies by writer. Some fics have them as little more than street gangsters and a nuisance; others portray them as highly sophisticated paramilitary organizations with enough resources and firepower [[NGOSuperpower to rival a small country's army]] and being ''very'' dangerous.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed in ''Railroad Seven-Three.'' The average native Equestrian sometimes claims to pity humans rather than hating them; many humans in turn resent this. Balthazar in particular despises Celestia for what he views as an incredibly condescending attitude.

** ''Grayscale'' has this ''in spades'' for both sides: for the humans, it's just an alternative to conversion, a process that kills them as the people they are; for the other side, it's the Bureaus' volunteers that kill themselves because of the massive emotional burnout that comes from what is essentially killing off innocents. Rainbow Dash (the POV character) remembers how, after the Bureaus began working, the suicide rates rose in Equestria and how over half of them were volunteers that had crossed the DespairEventHorizon. Things got so bad that a royal decree instituted that no one should work on a bureau for more than six months.

** These are more the main viewpoints of the PER (Ponification For Earth's Rebirth) and the HLF (Human Liberation Front) respectively. Most regular ponies and humans stay a mixed bag.

* ForcedTransformation: Some stories have forced ponification as a response to the Human Liberation Front and humans that like being humans. Ponies usually see it as better alternative to killing them, but those getting changed tend to disagree.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: The ponies are fairly consistently portrayed as racist (speciesist?) to varying degrees, but genuinely believe that their actions are helping humanity and leaving them happier in the long run. Humanity is only trying to defend itself, its culture and its world but seems to take rather perverse glee in living down to its thuggish reputation in the process.

Because this series tends to arouse strong emotions, ''especially'' the stories written by [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Chatoyance]], please keep Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement in mind. To add a bit of perspective to that, ''A New Age'', ''Transhumanism'' and ''Not Just Ponies'' are the only stories listed above that are not out to [[CurbStompBattle defeat the ponies]], who are depicted as an invading enemy force.

* TheRez: [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/458269/the-reservation The Reservation]] takes place after the war with the ponies put in a reservation, the various chapters detail how specific human and pony characters are dealing with the state of affairs.

* TranshumanTreachery: Once a person goes pony, they may still feel attachment to individual humans. Any sense of love for the race as a whole is long gone, however, even if they ardently supported it before.

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: One of the major contentions with the premise and its fans is that readers who would stand against the MindRape, xenocide and [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilation]] of humanity were the perpetrators orcs or lizards or beastmen or other stereotypically ugly sorts instead support it because cute ponies are the ones doing the "conversion".
* WhatTheHellHero: If someone calls out the ponies or Celestia specifically for their actions, they'll invoke this.
** This forms the premise of ''The Ballad of the White Rose'', where a group of rebellious young ponies discover that the death of humanity was no accident and decide that Celestia has a lot to answer for.
** ''Not Alone'' ends with the queen of the gryphons declaring Celestia's OmniscientMoralityLisence revoked, making it clear that the other races of Equus are not happy to hear about what she did to the humans and now they have every reason to fear for their own safety.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: The ponies essentially force mankind to "convert" en masse into ponies. If they don't, they'll killed by the unstoppable barrier. The sentiments that ponies have towards this in some of the darker fics leans towards the Type A variant.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: In some fics Celestia is motivated by this, she thinks humans are wasting their potential by not using their talents for harmony.

** The PER: Saviors of a fallen humanity? Or [[TheQuisling Quislings]] who've thrown away their humanity in exchange for "paradise"? Or [[KnightTemplar Knight Templars]] who believe everyone should be ponified — regardless if they like it or not?

The original story can be found [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-conversion-bureau.html here]]. Spinoff fics can be found [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/conversion-bureau-compilation.html here]], [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/new-conversion-bureau-compilation-post.html here]], [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/22/the-conversion-bureau here]] and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/26/the-conversion-bureau here]]. The majority of the ShadowArchetype of the stories (the [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]], fics, [[TakeThat Take Thats]], and the like) are found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/714/alternative-conversion-bureau here]].

The original story can be found [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-conversion-bureau.html here]]. Spinoff fics can be found [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/conversion-bureau-compilation.html here]], [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/new-conversion-bureau-compilation-post.html here]], [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/22/the-conversion-bureau here]] and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/26/the-conversion-bureau here]]. The majority of the ShadowArchetype of the stories (the [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]], KillEmAll fics, [[TakeThat Take Thats]], and the like) are found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/714/alternative-conversion-bureau here]].

* HateFic: There are a ''lot'' of fics that either examine its flaws or just go KillEmAll on the characters.

** In ''Not Just Ponies'', humanity and pony kind are both benevolent and trying to largely work with the other side to save as many people as they can. The PER and HLF, however, are ''both'' grossly misunderstanding the situation, actively opposed to one another, and seen in universe as [[KnightTemplar extremist lunatics]] who cause suffering to innocent people on ''both'' sides.

** The ponies see humans as savage brutes. The humans see the ponies as xenophobic conquerors and despots. How right each side is depends on the story in question.

* PyrrhicVictory: Deconstruction stories that have the ponies successfully turn Earth into a Neo-Equestria and all of humanity into newfoals go out of their way to show how ruinous victory would really be for them on a social and economic level. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/29404/the-conversion-bureau-the-price-of-generosity The Price of Generosity]]'' is one such example.

** In ''The Other Side of the Spectrum'', it's made clear that this will be the end result for TCB!Equestria if humanity and its allies are all assimilated. The Solar Empire is already [[FascistButInefficient collapsing under its own weight]] of waging a near {{hopeless war}} against the [[HumansAreWarriors humans]] and dealing with a '''massive''' population boom while having little resources available to support them; victory will only exacerbate the problem.

Complicating that, however, is that ponification--as the process is called--is heavily debated both in- and out-of-universe. In-universe, this leads to [[KnightTemplar ideologues forming terrorist groups]]. One, the Human Liberation Front (HLF), is violently anti-pony; the other, Ponification for Earth's Rebirth (PER), sees ponification as a sacrament which absolves humans of their vices, and which should be given to every human on the planet, [[BalefulPolymorph whether they like it or not]].

* AffablyEvil: Many members of the Ponification for Earth's Rebirth (PER) movement meet this description. They are almost unfailingly friendly and polite, and will ''usually'' begin a conversation with a human by trying to reason with them and convince them that getting converted is the best choice. [[BalefulPolymorph If the human disagrees, however...]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Some stories have forced ponification as a response to the Human Liberation Front and humans that like being humans. Ponies usually see it as better alternative to killing them, but those getting changed tend to disagree.
** Any story featuring the PER will involve this as well.

* MoreThanMindControl: In some fics, the ponified humans are more than happy to [[BalefulPolymorph forcibly ponify]] any humans. Even if they were once friends and family.

* TechnicalPacifist: On paper, the PER is ''biologically prevented'' from harming humans. In reality, they find quite a few ways around this: BalefulPolymorph is their hat, obviously, but they also have no problem forcibly converting humans under hazardous conditions or with experimental, unstable serum versions. Both circumstances can, and often do, lead to death.

* AssimilationPlot: Celestia's ponification crusade.

* {{MST}}: Most notably, there's one by the same people who are riffing on the first draft of ''Fanfic/PastSins''.

* TheSocialDarwinist: The whole ponification thing has more than a few similarities to a eugenics program.
* WishFulfillment: Per WordOfGod, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/26347 one of the reasons]] why Blaze wrote this fic.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The substance that turns a human into a Pony is called a "serum", which more properly is the fluid that blood cells travel in, and is used for medical purposes when containing antibodies.

** Taken UpToEleven in ''Option Gamma'' where the humans are ''horribly'' outmatched by ''all Equestrian species''.