Line #111 Fanfic/BloomingMoonChronicles


1	The ''Blooming Moon Chronicles'', also known as the ''99 Worlds Saga'', is a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]] fanfiction series written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/BlackRoseRaven BlackRoseRaven]].
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3	A mix of fantasy, adventure, and romance, the story follows Luna and her personal aide, [[OriginalCharacter Scrivener Blooms]], as they travel across the world in an attempt to find their true selves. Along the way, they make new friends and battle deadly foes.
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5	The series draws heavy inspiration from [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse Mythology]].
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7	It is divided into ten books, with a five-book sequel series titled ''Songs of Lost Children''.
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9	Warning! There may be unmarked spoilers ahead!
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11	[[folder:List of Stories (Series One)]]
12	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48755/moonrise Moonrise]]'': "Luna begins an adventure that will change everything she knows."
13	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/49336/lunar-lights Lunar Lights]]'': "Old enemies come to Equestria to seek their revenge on Luna and Celestia."
14	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/49337/starlit-knights Starlit Knights]]'': "Darkness has come to Equestria, and the world is threatened with destruction. Can Luna stop it?"
15	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/50944/metempsychosis Metempsychosis]]'': Luna and Scrivener race to reverse Ragnarok, and restore all that was destroyed.
16	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/51278/because-love-conquers-all Because Love Conquers All]]'': An alternate ending to Metempsychosis that depicts Luna and Scrivener's journeys into corruption and darkness.
17	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/52182/decretum Decretum]]'': As worlds and realities collide, Luna fights one last war to save Equestria.
18	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/59040/absolution Absolution]]'': Antares Mīrus sets off on his journey to find his parents; heroes who vanished years ago.
19	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/91977/synthesis-of-the-atheist Synthesis of the Atheist]]'': A malicious psychopath sets his sights on Luna and Scrivener.
20	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/105642/the-hermits-tale The Hermit's Tale]]'': The confessions of the administrator tasked to watch over the ponies' world.
21	* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/130200/glory-be Glory Be]]'': Luna and Scrivener fight to set right the wrongs of the past, and save their family and friends.
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25	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/163991/zecoras-pinata Zecora's Piñata]]'': "A zebra spirit meets an unlikely ally after he's sent to right a wrong in Equestria."
26	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/68739/the-rhythm-of-the-dance The Rhythm of the Dance]]'': "Cadence and Shining Armor have an adventure."
27	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/173323/one-wish-for-nothing One Wish For Nothing]]'': "An evil alicorn tries to bring destruction to Equestria, and accidentally ends up fighting a much greater threat to the nation than he could ever be."
28	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/227685/thorn-of-the-rose Thorn of the Rose]]'': "A foal is adopted by an unlikely mother: now, a flesh-and-blood pony must learn to survive in a Clockwork World."
29	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/347000/hecates-orphanage Hecate's Orphanage]]'': "Cadence and other ponies from across countless parallel worlds work together to protect their universe from monsters."
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33	Both series are complete; however, there are also numerous side stories. A collection of all the stories in this 'verse can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/group/211708/blackroseravens-99-worlds-verse here]].
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36	A Characters page is in the works.
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38	!! The Blooming Moon 'Verse as a whole contains examples of:
39	* AbusiveParents:
40	** Scrivener's unicorn-supremacist father treated Scrivener like a slave because the latter was born without a horn.
41	** Sol Seraph, Fluttershy's mother, was also an extremely abusive mother to Fluttershy.
42	*** [[spoiler:Which runs in the family, as ''Hecate's Orphanage'' shows Sol Seraph's father to be just as bad, if not worse.]]
43	* ActionGirl: Pretty much any female character; Luna, Twilight, Cadence, and Freya are just a few. Freya, in particular, borders on LadyOfWar status.
44	* ActionMom: Luna and Twilight. Hecate also counts, being the mother of Thesis.
45	* AdaptationalBadass: Cadence, in the show, does have some badass moments, but is generally a supporting character. This version of her, though, is an ActionGirl and is one of the best fighters in Decretum.
46	* AffablyEvil: From her appearances in ''Hecate's Orphanage'', Melinda the Sky Witch could be seen as this. She even offers advice to characters like Moonflower and Thorn Blackfeather. However, she does still remain an antagonist, and many of her actions do hinder Cadence and her team.
47	* TheAgeless: Pretty much the entire main cast qualifies. It's been more than a hundred years since the beginning of the story, yet very few characters have actually aged past their prime.
48	* AlternateUniverseFic: The series radically diverges from canon, with multiple new characters and new locations.
49	* AllJustADream: The side-story ''The Long Dark Tunnel'' presents the events of the first six stories as delusions that Scrivener Blooms has after Luna, his fiancée, dies. [[spoiler: It is later implied that ''The Long Dark Tunnel'' is the dream, while the main series is the real world.]]
50	* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler: Luna's]] soulstone horn from ''Synthesis of the Atheist'' and onwards could be considered this.
51	** In ''Because Love Conquers All'', multiple characters receive these:[[spoiler: namely, Celestia, Scrivener Blooms, and the Moon Blessed.]]
52	* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Thorn of The Rose'', Thorn Blackfeather gets his foreleg caught in a massive gear; as a result, it has to be amputated. He receives a mechanical leg as a prosthetic.
53	* ArchivePanic: The original series itself contains almost 4.5 million words as a whole. The entire 'verse spans nearly 7 million words.
54	* AscendedExtra: Baron La Croix is a minor antagonist in ''Glory Be''. However, he later becomes the protagonist of ''Zecora's Piñata'', and one of the main characters of ''Hecate's Orphanage''.
55	* BackFromTheDead:
56	** [[spoiler: This happens to almost every character in ''Metempsychosis''. The condition was to be a good or repentant soul. Many, like Sol Seraph and Scrivener's father, refused and were denied.]]
57	** [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle is revived as a lich in ''Decretum''.]]
58	** [[spoiler:Sleipnir died over a thousand years before ''Moonrise'', and yet is hanging around Looking Glass World with his new wife, Pinkamena.]]
59	** With the help of the Swan, Cadence is able to come back to life after being killed, and does so multiple times. However, this does result in drastic physical changes. It also strengthens the connection between Cadence and the Swan.
60	** The Voidborn.
61	* BadassBookworm: Scrivener Blooms is a poet and a writer. He is also an ''extremely'' competent fighter.
62	** Twilight Sparkle could also count.
63	* BattleCouple: Luna and Scrivener.
64	* BigBad: Valthrudnir could be considered this, as his actions are the driving force behind most of the events in the series.
65	** Thesis is the Big Bad of ''Synthesis of the Atheist.''
66	** ''Glory Be'' has He Of Many Thousand Faces. [[spoiler:Subverted as HOMTF [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wanted friends]] and did it wrong, the true Big Bad is Cardinal [[LouisCypher Luxferre]].]]
67	** The BigBad of ''Hecate's Orphanage'' appears to be a witch named Thokk. [[spoiler: "She" is actually Loki in disguise.]]
68	* BloodMagic: Blood Seers, like Scarlet Sage.
69	* CampGay: Moonflower, so much.
70	* DeathIsCheap: Many characters are dead, yet get to hang out with their still living friends. [[spoiler:Chief among these is Sleipnir, whose death was a major part of ''Moonrise'''s backstory, and whose return led to him meeting his wife, Pinkamena.]]
71	* {{Doorstopper}}: Most of the later books in the series are well over 300,000 words long, with ''Glory Be'' clocking in at 1,039,124 words.
72	** ''Hecate's Orphanage'', the final book in ''Songs of Lost Children'', is even longer, at 1,149,615 words.
73	* EternalLove: Luna, Scrivener, and [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle]] are immortal and in a relationship.
74	* FantasticRacism: Scrivener Blooms' hometown, North Neigh, was extremely unicorn-supremacist. Scrivener was born without a horn. As a result, his family and neighbors treated him very horribly.
75	* FaceHeelTurn: Ignominious became the monster we see in the story because [[LoveMakesYouEvil he fell in love with Luna and was rejected]].
76	** [[spoiler: Innocence undergoes one in ''Glory Be''. She eventually does do a HeelFaceTurn, though.]]
77	* FluffyTheTerrible: A Tyrant Wyrm is a fabled monster that leaves death and destruction in its path. In ''Glory Be'', Scrivener Blooms artificially creates one, and then names it Poe.
78	* GenderBender: ''Six Broken Ponies'' reveals that Rainbow Dash is [[{{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} trans]] male. Since this is [[MagicalLand Equestria]], Twilight figures out how to transform his body into a stallion's, and then make it permanent.
79	* {{Gotterdammerung}}:
80	** ''Starlit Knights'' ends in the world's destruction due to Ragnarok. ''Metempsychosis'' is about Luna and Scrivener tracking down all of the good ponies' souls and ferrying them to Looking Glass World before the old world finishes decaying into nothingness. [[spoiler:Ponies like Sol Seraph and Scrivener's father are left behind to fade with the world, while Velites are resurrected to their original bodies and [[DarkIsNotEvil demons or spirits]] who were GoodAllAlong (like the Phooka) are also brought to Looking Glass World.]]
81	** There is also Decretum and Endworld, warped from simple alternate Equestrias to the mechanical post-apocalyptic locales we see, both as a deliberate result of Valthrudnir's machinations.
82	* HeelFaceTurn:
83	** Thesis, formerly the main antagonist of ''Synthesis of the Atheist'', does one in ''Hecate's Orphanage''. [[spoiler:Regrettably, [[YourDaysAreNumbered he dies of Void poisoning before it ends]].]]
84	*** His mother, Hecate, does one even earlier, going from simply an alternate Princess Celestia to what was essentially a tyrannical puppet of Valthrudnir, to a ruler who genuinely wants to protect her empire, however harsh or cold she may seem.
85	* KnightTemplar: Stronghold Halfdragon, who led a Crusade against Equestria nearly a thousand years [[spoiler:prior to replacing the Two Sisters]] in the backstory of ''One Wish For Nothing''.
86	* LightIsNotGood:
87	** At the end of ''Moonrise'', [[spoiler:Celestia (with a nudge from [[TheChessmaster Valthrudnir]])]] goes power-mad and decides to "protect" Equestria by going OneWingedAngel and rejecting the magic of friendship in favor of increased control, [[spoiler:though she gets better after Luna snaps her out of it]].
88	** The Light is an antagonistic force in ''Glory Be''.
89	* TheMultiverse: The series features many different alternate worlds revolving around a single core world (the world as depicted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''). The further away a world is from the core, the greater the differences between that world and the TV show.
90	* Myth/NorseMythology: As stated at the top, the whole story is based on it. Specific examples include:
91	** Luna is Brynhild, aka [[BrawnHilda the infamous singing Fat Lady]] who immolated herself alive. Apparently after that she became a Valkyrie under Freya.
92	** Celestia is Freya, and is forced to revert to that identity in ''Glory Be''.
93	** Sleipnir is '''NOT''' Odin's eight-legged steed, but rather named after him. The Sleipnir we know is actually Thor. You are challenged to figure out how that works.
94	** Valthrudnir is a Jötnar, a draconic frost giant.
95	** Odin and Hel turn up, Valhalla and Helheim are visited, and Kvasir takes over for Odin when the All-Father is killed in battle. What he was fighting depends on the timeline.
96	** One version of Cadance is Danzsöngr, a Swan Maiden, a line of artificial warriors that preceded the Valkyries. The rivalry between them is why Cadance and Luna Brynhild can never get along.
97	** Loki ends up being the FinalBoss of the canon, unless [=BlackRoseRaven=] decides to write further for it, and all draconequi, as chaotic beings, invoke his name.
98	* OurLichesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]] is a lich.
99	* PrecisionFStrike:
100	** Scrivener Blooms drops one Valthrudnir in ''Metempsychosis''.
101	** Cadence tries to drop one on [[spoiler: Loki]] in ''Hecate's Orphanage'', but it ends in a CurseCutShort.
102	* {{Reincarnation}}:
103	** Luna is the reincarnation of the Valkyrie Brynhild, while her sister Celestia is Freya reborn.
104	** [[spoiler: Sleipnir is a reincarnation of Thor.]]
105	** [[spoiler: Cadence from ''Songs of Lost Children'', was formerly a Swan Maiden (a precursor to the Valkyries) who was reborn as a pony.]]
106	* ShoutOut: Discombobulation makes too many of these to count.
107	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Luna, Scrivener and Twilight are quipping at each other almost half the time that there isn't ''actual'' combat happening.
108	* SplitPersonality: One wants to say it's [[PlayingWithATrope played with]], but that doesn't seem to do it justice. Pinkamena is introduced as one in ''Six Broken Ponies'' but it turns out she's the original, imprisoned by the Element Of Laughter, which used her as a template to create the Pinkie Pie we know, when her Nature, awakened once more by [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom]], clashed with the Nurture of her upbringing, courtesy of her parents. To say she's not happy about it, even years later at the point in time in which 6BP takes place, would be to say lava is warm. One is reminded of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' by what she's got in mind for Pinkie and her friends.
109	** LiteralSplitPersonality: And then Pinkamena got a new body for herself when she became a demon, though it ended with her HeelFaceTurn and reconciliation with her declared younger sister.
110	* StartOfDarkness: The side story ''Gjallarsong'' is one for Thesis and Hecate, showcasing their lives before the Empire of Decretum came into being.
111	* WingedUnicorn: As expected from a My Little Pony fanfic, there are numerous examples. e.g: Luna, Celestia, [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle]]
112	** [[spoiler: Antares]] has his own set of bat-wings, which he received from [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon]].

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