Fanfic / Silent Ponyville Chronicles

Welcome to Silent Ponyville...

"The fear of blood tends to create fear of the flesh"

—Silent Hill's tagline

The Silent Ponyville series is a Crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the Silent Hill series by Jake-Heritagu. So far the series has stayed away from Silent Hill's mythology and has opted for an approach to each story that is reminiscent of Silent Hill 2. All stories in the Silent Ponyville universe can be found here on DeviantArt, or on the author's other profile here on FIMFiction, starting on page 3.

The author also has a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic called Motherly Scootaloo, which features Scootaloo getting pregnant and the events that come after (thankfully, it's nowhere near as Darker and Edgier as this fic).

The first story starts out with Pinkie Pie waking up from a terrible nightmare, the worst in a long string of nightmares. Weary after two weeks of almost no rest, and depressed by the content of her nightmares, she seeks help from her friend Twilight Sparkle, hoping that the unicorn's booksmarts and magic can help her. It does. After Twilight casts a spell to delve into Pinkie's mind, Pinkie wakes up in a fog-filled and dilapidated version of Ponyville, with no idea of what's going on. With nothing but a cryptic note and a lantern to guide her, Pinkie sets out to learn why she is having her nightmares. Is she able to find the truth? Or does the sinister, twisted version of Ponyville cause her to meet her end?

Each major story in the continuity has multiple endings, paying further homage to the traditions of Silent Hill, although each one has a canon ending where everything turns out for the best. However, that does not prevent the other endings from being Downer Endings on the level of Silent Hill's, enough so even to provoke the fans to start calling the author a monster. One alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 even prompted one fan to write a fix fic just because he found it that depressing of an ending.

Silent Ponyville chronology:

• Silent Ponyville 1
• Too Shy For A Rainbow
• Silent Ponyville 2
• Silent Ponyville: Reunion (a story written not by Jake-Heritagu, but by Brony17. It started as Recursive Fanfiction, but the author added it to the canon. In-progress.)
• Study of the Mind Delve
• A Rainbow's Surprise
• Silent Ponyville 3
• Readable Teaser
• Silent Ponyville 4 (on hiatus)

The Silent Ponyville series is a big progenitor of Recursive Fanfiction, with several stories either complete or in progress. A list of the major ones can be found below:

• Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles.
• Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun. (AU sequel to Blood Chronicles)
• Silence of Ponyville.
  • Silence of Ponyville: The Shop. (Set during Silence of Ponyville)
• Silent Ponyville: Darkness Scoots.
  • Silent Ponyville: Catch and Reweave. (Sequel to Darkness Scoots)
• Silent Ponyville: Spooky Song.
• Silent Ponyville: Loving Memory. (AU to the original Silent Ponyville 2)
• Silent Ponyville: Shattered Memories. (AU to the "2nd" ending of Silent Ponyville 1: It's Time to get Baking)

Tropes are separated according whether they are common for the whole Chronicles, part of the main or the side stories. The same trope can still appear in several categories, if they're character relevant or relevant to the respective continuity.

Common tropes for the whole of the Silent Ponyville Chronicles:

• Abandoned Hospital: Explored in Silent Ponyville 2 and Blood Chronicles.
• Alien Geometries: Memories of locations tend to disregard their initial positions and move to wherever they're needed- even if that means distorting the fabric of space and time. In Silent Ponyville 2 for example, in the Otherworld Fluttershy falls down a hatch in a house in Ponyville, goes through a tunnel and enters a house that is in Cloudsdale, a pegasus city built in the sky. Justified as her trauma happened in her hometown, not in Ponyville.
  • Blood Chronicles lampshades this early on when the protagonist remarks to himself that the schoolhouse could only physically contain two classrooms at the most— only to find it to be a large, public school-sized building on the inside.
• All Just a Dream: No, really the whole Silent Ponyville thing, and monsters included are literally the protagonists' twisted parts of their subconscious, but the dream can kill the pony while sleeping.. However, as is the Silent Hill tradition of discombobulating what you think is real and what's not, Silent Ponyville 3 shows that there's far more to where the Mind Delve takes us than just that... in other words, the Otherworld is REAL.
• Alternative Continuity: Due to Recursive Fanfiction, numbers of continuities based on the original story began thriving.
• Ascended Fanon: The Silent Ponyville's author sometimes adopts details from the side stories into his canon.

• Body Horror: If the monsters in the stories weren't enough of this trope for you, there's also MANY examples of this in the fanart section of the DeviantArt Group- some are based on monsters from the stories, while others are original designs.
• Chaos Architecture: The protagonists never know if the room they just left or the path they walked will be the same if they turn around and head back.
• Dark World: The Mind Delve spell is supposed to expedite psychological treatment of subconscious issues within the patient, but it actually sends the subject to a distorted and very dangerous version of their surroundings. Then it turns out that the spell actually sends the patient to a real plane of existence, very much not a mental construct.
• Drone of Dread: The sirens signify impending world-shifts.
• Enemy-Detecting Radar: All of the noise variety so far.
• Epiphanic Prison: The Otherworld is this for each character who gets drawn into it. It customizes to their personal, most traumatic memories and experiences, trapping the character on several levels while forcing them to face these traumas to move forward. The ultimate epiphany is to let go of their past and negative feelings at which point they wake up. Failure to do this means that they either die or succumb to their worst desires and compulsions; the latter will usually get them out of the Otherworld too, but not as the person they were.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: A whole freaking town.
• Fix Fic: While not totally meant as one, Jake's inclusion of both Slenderpony and Cupcakes!Pinkie was a result of reading some shoddy Slenderman fanfics and Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) respectively, and wanting to write plausible reasons for either to exist in the Friendship is Magic setting.
  • The aforementioned alternate alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 deserves mention here because Silent Ponyville's main author, Jake, thought it was good enough to make it an official alternate ending for Silent Ponyville 2, and even declared it canon to the original alternate ending's AU.
  • Also, the first full-length Recursive Fanfiction Silent Ponyville story, Blood Chronicles, was based off of an Original Character created for the sole purpose of killing The Colt in two equally disturbing and highly gruesome ways in the short side story Spilled Blood and its alternate perspective Mind Screw sequel, New Bloodstains.
• Foreshadowing: Part of the Mind Screw, and another homage to the traditions of Silent Hill. Practically everything that the protagonists face in the Otherworld (scenery, monsters, puzzles, etc.) ties into their past, making much more sense on rereading.
• Genius Loci: Much like Silent Hill, it seems highly probable that the memory town itself is sentient somehow- particularly after Study of the Mind Delve confirms that an external force has been changing the spell's effects.
• Harmful to Minors: The vast majority of the protagonists' experiences involve issues like this.
• Journey to the Center of the Mind: The actual purpose of the Mind Delve Spell is to grant the patient access to all their memories, even the hidden/suppressed, in order reveal traumatic experiences and deal with them. Too bad an alien force hitches it sometimes for hellish rides, manifesting the patient's personal demons and mixing them with the memories. As of Silent Ponyville 3 and in the side stories, however, other ways have been introduced with which the main characters are drawn into Silent Ponyville / the Otherworld in general.
• Killed Off for Real: When a character dies in the Otherworld they also die in the real world.
• Multiple Endings: Both completed Silent Ponyville One and Two have several alternate endings, most of them either Downer Endings or joke endings, with one canon ending that for both stories is the only true "good" ending (though there are arguably two good endings for SP 2). And the ponies have to really have to work for them. The same goes for the side stories Blood Chronicles and Darkness Scoots.
• Nightmare Sequence: The otherworld sequences, especially Otherworld Sugar Cube Corner. Just guess what this links to.

• Posthumous Character: While this has not been a confirmed trend for all of the Silent Ponyville stories, both Silent Ponyville and Silent Ponyville 2 revolve around the fate of Pinkie's little sister, Bellamina and Fluttershy's mother respectively.

• Recursive Fanfiction: Has developed some rather good ones, such as Blood Chronicles (Twilight accidentally draws herself and a Serial-Killer Killer / Deadly Doctor into the cursed town) and Darkness Scoots (an OC who seems to be the arbiter of the Mind Delve spell is forced into cursing Scootaloo).
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Colt in Silent Ponyville 1, Demitri/Dexter in Blood Chronicles, and the unnamed mare from the Ask The Colt tumblr. Lampshaded repeatedly in the Ask The Colt Tumblr.
• Rule of Symbolism
• Sequel Escalation: The first story simply had Pinkie Pie entering the Fog World. Second fic had her, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash together (though not for long). Third one begins with the Halo of the Sun itself manifesting, deflecting Celestia's attempt to dispel it, and manifesting the Fog World for everyone.
  • Adding to that, due to the Otherworld adapting to its victim's powers, Twilight fights a monster in the second chapter that would have been a boss monster in Pinkie or Fluttershy's Otherworld in terms of strength and agility. And she does so by wielding a sword with her magic!! The main character using an actual weapon is a first for the original Silent Ponyville stories.
  • The sequel/side-story to Blood Chronicles, Setting Sun, starts with Pinkie in a dream, facing the Colt's spirit who intends to kill her. A triangular symbol sucks him in before he can go through with it, which also takes the various foals Pinkie saw in her dream, who are maybe or not other spirits. When waking up, she notices not only she's brandishing the wound the Colt inflicted on her, but also that all of Ponyville is screaming in horrible nightmares. And later the same force kills every prisoner in Canterlot's prison as well as the guards, one of whom the power possesses to overwhelm Celestia and sedate her.
• Shout-Out: To both the fanon concepts of Cupcakes and Slenderpony (see Fix Fic above).

• Trauma Conga Line: If it didn't happen in the protagonist's past, you can be CERTAIN it will happen in the town, with severity Depending on the Author.
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: The town seems to enjoy forcing characters to relive the worst moments of their lives in as much vivid detail as possible.

The Main story Silent Ponyville contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Oh dear god, poor Fluttershy. If it's not her mother forcing her incredibly young daughter who doesn't have a concept of death yet into mercy-killing her, then it's her father's attempt at killing her, followed by systematically abusing her and attempting to ruin her life to make her "atone" for this. Unsurprisingly, they're amongst the most hated of the characters in the series, even beyond the Colt, a character whose modus operandi was KILLING AND EATING CHILDREN, Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) style.
• Actual Pacifist: Fluttershy during the whole Silent Ponyville 2 story, she never killed a single monster, even if it almost killed her. Pinkie Pie almost counts, but she will fight back if she sees no other choice. But then again, not really, since she has three known kills, with the possibility of there being several more. It's implied that during SP 2 she would attack her Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) persona on sight.
• All Just a Dream: Played straight until Silent Ponyville 3. Then the fog rolled into the real Ponyville...
• Break the Cutie: And how. If what happens to Pinkie in 1, and Fluttershy in 2 doesn't qualify, then we can't imagine anything that DOES. And from the look of it, 3 is shaping up to do the same to Twilight...
• Break the Haughty: Similarly, Lance in Reunion.
• Cool Sword: "The Black Sword" wielded by Twilight towards the end of Silent Ponyville 3, not only is it a Infinity +1 Sword, but it turns out to be Excalibur as well the key to finally dispelling the nightmare world for good
• Creepy Doll: The headless Mannequin is an enemy in Silent Ponyville 2.
  • Lance stumbles into a room full of mannequins. They are scary at first because he didn't see them in the darkness before he lit the room and saw what they are. Still, that they are there at all and in such numbers mean something - especially when you think of the Headless Mannequin in Silent Ponyville 2.
• Cutlass Between the Teeth:
  • Pinkie's crazed Cupcakes!self attacks with a butcher knife clenched between her teeth.
  • Some of the pony soldier monsters in Silent Ponyville 3 carry and use their swords like this, while others draw axes or spears.
• Death of a Child:
  • In Silent Ponyville 1 filly Bellamina dies by the Colt's hooves, and Pinkie nearly followed suit until the police raided the Colt's lair.
  • In Silent Ponville 3 Twilight suffers a horrible vision showing her Spike dead. She feels it's a warning sign. Unfortunately, she's right as the monsters they encounter nearly kill them both... and Spike ultimately did not escape with his life.
• Death Glare:
  • Fluttershy's STARE with which she cowed the (Cupcakes inspired) version of Pinkie Pie. Later she uses it on nurse Soft Cure who was trying again to be an abusive jerk to her. "Trying" the keyword.
  • Fluttershy seems to have gotten the STARE from her father, as Twilight is subjected to it after annoying him.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: SP1 has Pinkie defeating her version of Silent Ponyville with the element of Laughter. Fluttershy scolding that place's version of Pinkie, causing her to concede defeat in SP2 also counts. Yes, THAT Pinkie.
• Door Stopper: Reunion is 126K words posted over the span of a entire year, and still going.
• Drowning Pit: Fluttershy nearly dies in one after she has stepped down into a cellar, water begins to rise and the way back up is suddenly much longer than before.
• Enemy-Detecting Radar: For Pinkie a radio, for Fluttershy her mother's old musicbox, for Lance in Reunion a busted pocket watch. Twilight's is a medallion — through which, as a first, a voice seems to speak.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: One ending in Silent Ponyville 2 shows this; Dash and Pinkie will both die if Fluttershy gets killed at any point, because their minds are directly connected to Fluttershy's by diving together.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Twilight's eyes go white as she prepares and executes the killing strike against the monster attacking her.
• Happily Married: One of the few bright spots of the series is Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's relationship blooming into marriage.
• Kill the Cutie: Prevalent in the 'bad ends'. One particular bad end in 2 was so soul-crushingly depressing that it prompted the aforementioned Fix Fic.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Nobody whom Twilight ever uses the Mind Delve Spell on tells her what they experience in their dreams, due to how horrifying and personal the experience is. They only order her 'to never use that spell again', not specifying why it's so bad. She is understandably frustrated.
• Mood Whiplash: A Rainbow's Surprise's last chapter has Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy celebrating their marriage. The chapter's cheerful mood gets dampened by Celestia's ominous closing words. The actual mood whiplash comes, however, in the prologue of Silent Ponyville 3. We see the same scene again from Celestia's point of view before she tries to destroy the dark energy hiding under the town. But not only does she accidentally free the source of the Otherworld, it overwhelms her and materializes the Otherworld in the real Ponyville.
• Memento MacGuffin: Fluttershy's warning signal also doubles as this, being her mother's damaged music box from when she was a child. Also included: Fluttershy's doll (a sign of happier times), Pinkie's pink hair (representing her family), and the saddlebag Lance gave his wife (the start of their relationship).
• My God, What Have I Done?: Silent Ponyville 1 - Pinkie almost says this word for word after she killed the White Filly. Silent Ponyville 3 — while Twilight doesn't use the words after she killed the monster, her reaction of guilt and grief is heartbreakingly similar to Pinkie's.
• Never Split the Party:
  • A defied example during Fluttershy's own Mind Delve. Pinkie and Rainbow tag along with her, due to Twilight modifying the spell at their behest, and they plan to stick together so that Fluttershy doesn't have to deal with her nightmares alone. Then played straight, since the Otherworld doesn't approve of this strategy and almost immediately splits the party, forcing all three mares to go through the trials alone.
  • Twilight's own experiences in the Otherworld starts with her looking for anyone else to form a party with, but now the force behind the Otherworld is outright interfering with time and space to stop anyone in Ponyville from being in the same room for more than ten minutes.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Due to Celestia's interference, she freed the force who creates the Otherworld to manifest for everyone in reality. It also captured her.
• Oh, Crap!: In-universe all the time. But the really big one comes with Silent Ponyville 3's prologue, with the Halo of the Sun itself manifesting, deflecting Celestia's attempt to dispel it, and manifesting the Fog World for everyone. Lampshaded by the author.
• Old Shame: an in-universe example: Study of the Mind Delve reveals Twilight wrote terrible self-insert fanfiction when she was a filly. Celestia is amused.
• Ominous Music Box Tune: Silent Ponyville 2's equivalent to the radio.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Type O Other, as in 'not really zombies but close enough'.
  • Discussed and lampshaded by Spike and Twilight after fleeing from the pony soldier monsters. Spike believes they're the real deal, Twilight points out they don't fit all the traditional characteristics of the zombies they know from stories. She still admits that they look close enough to zombies.
• Shout-Out: The scene in Silent Ponyville 2 with Rainbow Dash standing in a burning room is reminiscent of Angela's final fate in Silent Hill 2, although both scenes carry different backgrounds and symbolism.
• Split-Personality Takeover: If Pinkie dies in the fight against Cupcakes!Pinkie, the real Pinkie is gone and the latter overtakes her mind and body. It's implied this ending will directly lead to the story of Cupcakes.
• Tomato in the Mirror:
  • Pinkie: Her baby sister Bellamina was killed by a serial killer, whose modus operandi was killing and eating children after luring them to his lair. Bellamina didn't trust him, but since Pinkie did, she went along to what the stallion called the 'party'. Bellamina was slowly sliced to pieces, and the murderer locked Pinkie in a cage that was in full view of what he was doing. He also used Pinkie's hunger to trick her into almost eating a cupcake that contained her dead sister's flesh, and she was only just rescued from the same fate by a police raid.
  • Fluttershy: Her mother's mind was so far gone due to sickness, she forced her innocent and browbeaten daughter, who didn't even understand the concept of death yet, into mercy-killing her. Her father discovered what had happened, then tried to kill Fluttershy because he believed she had maliciously killed his wife because she was sick and vulnerable, before settling for regularly abusing her since it was less merciful. From this point on, he believes that she's an Enfante Terrible hiding behind a veneer of demure passiveness that deserves endless punishment.
• Tragic Keepsake: The red ribbon Pinkie Pie finds in the first story she ties into a bow in her hair. And then when she returns to the real world and finds the ribbon gone, she asks for some red ribbon to replace the one she had during her journey through Silent Ponyville. She is still wearing that red ribbon in her hair in later entries to the story, which take place several months after the first.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Both Pinkie and Fluttershy have forgotten their traumatic memories, to the point that they don't remember how they ended up in Ponyville to begin with.
• The Unreveal: We never learn what exactly Rainbow Dash's version of the Otherworld looked like, what she faced for monsters and, most of all, what her past was before coming to Ponyville. The fact she even had an experience on par with Pinkie and Fluttershy implies that she has a similarly traumatic past, but the only hints for what she went through involve the following: her remarks about always "burning her own bridges", talking about her own abandonment issues, and her being found in a room of fire.
• Video Game Remake:
  • Jake, as well as developer Mavro Manitari and whoever else is involved with the project but as of yet unlisted, is in the process of releasing Silent Ponyville 1 as an actual video game. Information about game development, as well as the eventual copy of the the game, can be found here.
  • Kaminakat has created a Retraux adaptation of Silent Ponyville 1 in the style of a Game Boy Color game. It takes into account information from the later seasons of the show, so it's not identical to the original story. You can find it here.

The side story Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles contains examples of:

• Acid Attack: The "wrapped-up" monsters spray the stuff from their chests, the monster nurses attack with syringes FILLED WITH ACID, and the room where Demitri fights Dexter features an Acid Pool. All of which allude to how Demitri lost his face.
• Acid Pool: The room where Dexter is found has one, which Twilight is suspended above, having clearly been tortured, and is later plunged into the acid, killing her. Represents the way Demitri lost his face and his natural fear of acid.
• Afraid of Needles: The variation on the classic Silent Hill Nurse monster plays on this by attacking with a syringe full of acid.
• Afraid of Blood: Played with- Demitri starts off with a strong Blood Lust (which he hides from Twilight), but towards the end, his fantasies about how all the blood got there slowly fade, but his feelings on blood are never directly stated.
• Alternate Continuity

• Asshole Victim: Only two of Demitri's victims' identities are ever disclosed- one was the stallion who murdered his parents right in front of him and threw acid in his face, and the other was The Colt from Silent Ponyville 1. Also, Demitri makes it abundantly clear that he only ever kills murderers- although he is very quick to jump at the possibility of a pony being a murderer.
• The Atoner: Demitri, in Ending 4.
• Anvil on Head: Game Destroyer, the author's Author Avatar, drops an anvil on the original Silent Ponyville's author's avatar, as "punishment" for the extensive Fluttershy abuse in ''Silent Ponyville 2''.
• Autocannibalism: One of the ways Demitri tortures The Colt in New Bloodstains. The Colt is disappointed in his taste.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Demitri at the very start of Blood Chronicles, then later, Twilight Sparkle, even though it ends up not doing her much good.
• Beneath the Mask: Depends on how the reader answered the "Test of Character."

• Black Cloak: Demitri in Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains, and Hooded Pony in Blood Chronicles.
• The Blank: Almost all of the monsters Demitri faces. Slender Mane even shows up for a brief cameo in the woods.
• Bloodstained Glass Windows: Revelation A's setting, for the Final Boss Battle against Twilight Sparkle.
• Blood Lust: Demitri, full throttle. Or just Dexter, depending on your interpretation on who/what Dexter is...
• Cain and Abel: Demitri's father, Trifecta, and his partner Dark Shade. Exactly how close they were is never made clear, but they were more than likely Heterosexual Life-Partners until circumstances forced the latter to murder the former. This trope is also likely why Dexter, the manifestation of Demitri's dark nature, insisted he was Demitri's brother.
• Came Back Wrong: Twilight, in the Bad Endings stemming from "Revelation A".
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience / Convenient Color Change: Demitri's eyes change from their normal brown to red to black as Dexter gains more control over Demitri's actions. Also, in Revelation B, Dexter reappears with a contrasting Palette Swap color scheme.
• Color Contrast: One of the big themes throughout, the most obvious being the many Black/White contrasts, but there are also numerous examples of other contrasting colors, the most predominate being the contrasting of green acid contrasting red blood and Twilight's purple coat.

• Coup de Grâce Cutscene: Demitri tends to finish off bosses that can talk by holding them at gunpoint and engaging in a final conversation before delivering a final headshot as a Finishing Move.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Demitri...

• Deadly Doctor: The main character Demitri, who was a surgeon before he was "dismissed".

• Death Glare: Twilight and Demitri exchange a fair number of these throughout the story.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight:Alhough not actually touching her at the time, Twilight dies while Demitri holds her with his magic, having caught her to late to save her from her Cruel and Unusual Death.
• Doesn't Like Guns:
  • Demitri, oddly enough — he frequently wonders aloud to himself why he even brought a gun with him at all, since he NEVER uses them to kill ponies, normally. Likely due to how his parents died. Also, in one of the bad endings, Demitri shoots himself with it.
  • Also, Twilight herself bears animosity to firearms, but mainly due to their association with violence.
• Dr. Jerk: Demitri, before he fled the profession after cutting off a patient's face and dismembering their corpse. So much for the Hippocratic Oath...
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette / Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Demitri as well as his mother, in the Redemption ending. His father and Dexter's true form in Revelation B both invert these tropes.
• Enemy Within: What Dexter eventually turns out to be.
• Enemy Without: Dexter in the Good Endings stemming from "Revelation B"
• Evil Orphan: Arguably Demitri, despite his being Happily Adopted
• Face Stealer: Part of Demitri's MO.
• The Faceless: The hooded pony that begins stalking Demitri after the battle with Dexter.

• Finishing Stomp: Demitri seems particularly fond of these with standard enemies, and is there as a Shout-Out to Silent Hill's traditional gameplay. May be a way of invoking Kick Them While They Are Down for Demitri without the Kick the Dog implications.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Arguably Demitri and Twilight.

• Forgiveness Requires Death: Revelation B has Demitri confront the Hooded Pony that has been tormenting him through the final act and kneel before him, expecting to be killed or receive some sort of punishment. Instead, the Hooded Pony simply lays his hoof on him and a warm feeling comes over him.
• Freudian Excuse: Demitri himself deconstructs this, realizing Dexter was never responsible for his start of darkness but he decided on his own to give into his urges. Dexter is just the most malevolent part of himself that enjoys tormenting and killing others.
• Gainax Ending:
  • The extremely and deliberately ridiculous "ZOMBIE" Joke Ending.
  • The other two Joke Endings — "UFO" and "GD" — also could count.
• Game Face: Demitri takes off his mask to reveal his true face to The Colt in New Bloodstains, and to Twilight in Revelation A in Blood Chronicles. In both cases, those who see his face don't live to tell about it.
• Give Me a Sword: Demitri gives Twilight his gun and his pager when they decide to split up in the hospital.
• Happily Adopted: Demitri ended up in a happy household that is seen to have genuinely loved and cared for him growing up, encouraging to use his talents productively.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Both times] Dexter dies, Demitri uses the shotgun he took from Dexter to finish him off.
• Improbable Weapon User: Demitri uses a surgical scalpel as his only melee weapon, and relies on it surprisingly often. Justified, though, since it was Demitri's weapon as a surgeon-turned-serial killer, and no other blade is present throughout the story.
• I Owe You My Life
• The Killer in Me: Inverted. Demitri spends the entire time thinking he is fully responsible for his actions, and is shocked to discover that he has an alter-ego that was actually doing all the killing.
• Latex Perfection: Demitri uses a special chemical to turn the faces of his victims into these kind of masks, and constantly wears one to hide his own horrifically mutilated face. Also, Demitri is seen wearing an actual latex example of this trope during a flashback of his last day as a surgeon.
• Leave Behind a Pistol: What Dark Shade was afraid Demitri's father would do, and why he killed him and his wife.
• Leaning on the Furniture / Rebel Relaxation: Demitri does a sitting/lying version of this pose, complete with Badass Arm-Fold. May also count as Slouch of Villainy.

• The Mole: Demitri's father and his fellow officer, Dark Shade. Leads to the latter killing the former and his wife.

• Murder the Hypotenuse: Why Dexter kills Twilight.
• Natural Spotlight: Draws Demitri's attention to the Test of Character in the classroom, and then later Twilight is found moping in the gym under one.
• Never Found the Body: It's never said how Demitri deals with the bodies of his victims- except for their faces, which he keeps as masks. The exception is his first victim, Dark Shade, whom he left in pieces and scattered about the OR.

• Note to Self: The mad scribblings on the wall reading things like "DO NOT OPEN" were written by a young and very frightened Demitri.
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Dexter, before being locked deep within Demitri's mind after using Demitri's body to attack and nearly kill a school bully.
• Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Unsurprisingly invoked when Demitri tries to teach Twilight how to use a gun before they decide to split up. Also, it should be noted that the gun in question is a revolver, meaning it probably wouldn't have a safety at all. Except that guns are said to be almost NEVER used in Equestria, meaning that the ones that WERE made would probably be designed to be as deliberately difficult for an untrained novice to use as possible.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Twilight's uncharacteristically emotional behavior is noticed by Demitri after it dawns on him that he has been unusually more open and less careful with his words around Twilight than he would be under normal circumstances, and begins to suspect that it may be an effect of the town. The author has insisted on multiple occasions that this was intentional, which seems to imply that the unusual behavior of the characters might indeed be the town's way of playing on Demitri's fear of having his Dark Secret exposed.

• Poetic Serial Killer: Demitri, particularly in New Bloodstains.
• Prophetic Names: "Demitri" is a portmanteau of "demi", which means "half" or "in two", and the name "Dimitri", which is a derivative name of Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvest. Both duality and "harvesting" (that is, the association between harvest and Judgement Day/Death themes) end up becoming key themes throughout everything Demitri in Demitri's life from his parents' death onwards.
• Psychic Surgery: Justified by the fact that Demitri is a unicorn with magical abilities, though it's mentioned several times that Demitri was considered a god among ponies when it came to surgical operation regardless of magical ability. Lampshaded by The Colt in New Bloodstains when Demitri practices his art on him, successfully managing to remove The Colt's own stomach from his chest, force him to eat it, and still have time to do a number on his intestines and organs before The Colt finally bleeds out.

• Redemption Equals Death: Lampshaded and brutally parodied in the "GD" Joke Ending.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Demitri and Dexter.
• Red Right Hand: Demitri's true face, which he keeps hidden under a mask made from the face of one of his past victims.

• Sealed Evil in a Can: Dexter, who was sealed deep within Demitri's mind through rigorous psychological therapy, though he has a habit of breaking out whenever Demitri is about to kill.

• Shout-Out: Several:
  • Most obviously, Demitri is a blood-obsessed Serial-Killer Killer whose parents were killed right in front of him. And, in case the reference wasn't blatant enough already, his dark side is even NAMED after Dexter.
  • The Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2 appears, except restrained with a plastic-like membrane as opposed to skin and represents different things.
  • Dexter, Demitri's Split Personality, refers to Demitri as his "brother". Also, the second phase of his Boss Battle has him using a hopping-from-perch-to-perch tactic similar to that of The Fear from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
  • Demitri used to work in Operating Room 18-OR, and the song "Turn Around, Look At Me" is used to signal the presence of a boss monster.
  • Demitri cuts off his victims' faces and occasionally wears them as masks Hannibal Lecter-style.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: "There is someone... Walking behind you... Turn around... look at me..."

• Strapped to an Operating Table: Implied to happen to most of Demitri's victims, and his use of a scalpel as his weapon suggests at the very least that his victims are always restrained somehow. We see him actually use an operating table for his first kill in a flashback in Blood Chronicles, while the short stories Spilled Blood/New Bloodstains have The Colt strapped to the very table he himself had used to kill his victims on.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Young Demitri, to Dark Shade. Dark Shade responds by throwing a vile of what turned out to be acid in Demitri's face.
• Through the Eyes of Madness / Unreliable Narrator: Both Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains tell the same story, only from different perspectives. However, since both perspectives are from two equally insane murderers, and the fact that some events change between their recounts, it is impossible to say which story is more reliable.
• Treachery Cover Up: The truth behind Demitri's parents' deaths was covered up by the police for fear of implicating one of their undercover officers. They even went so far as to insist that Demitri's first mask made it impossible for him to talk in public until the situation had died down entirely.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Demitri is seen in a flashback to have stabbed a bully that threatened him half to death with the pocket knife he stole from said bully in his school years.
• Two-Faced: Demitri, in a rare lateral example; he wears a normal face cut off from one of victims that appears normal, but removing it reveals that his real face is horribly burned beyond recognition.
• "Uh-Oh" Eyes: Demitri, whose eyes change color as he is about to kill/torture someone, normally from brown to red, but also occasionally to black. His Split Personality Dexter is only ever seen with these eyes, and its heavily implied that the eye color change is a sign of his presence affecting Demitri's actions.

• Where It All Began: Most of the interiors of buildings seem to become places where key events that influenced Demitri's descent into becoming a serial killer took place. The exception is Sugarcube Corner, but it holds significance as the reason Demitri wound up in Ponyville in the first place.
• White Mask of Doom: Demitri wears one constantly. It's made from the flesh of one of his past victims.
  • Also, apparently he was forced to wear a latex one while working as a surgeon.
• White Shirt of Death: Played with a lot. Demitri's white coat is certainly there for the dramatic "blood against white background" effect, but most of the time its his victims' blood, rather than his own.
  • Unsurprisingly played straight for the "Game Over" ending.
• White Void Room: The motel where Demitri's parents were killed, which appears drenched in blood (likely as a Shout-Out to Dexter) near the end of story, and then again in Ending 4, in pristine condition and where his parents converse with him.

• Your Head Asplode: Dexter. Twice if you count his second death in Revelation B.

The side story Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun contains examples of:

• Alternate Continuity: It's not only an AU to the original 'Silent Ponyville' series, but also one to Blood Chronicles.
• Anyone Can Die: Gruesomely hinted at in the prologue: the wounds the ponies suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. And then the mysterious force killed both prisoners AND wardens inside the Canterlot prison. See entry for Sacrificial Lion.
• Crucified Hero Shot: The "Remastered Cover" for the fic drawn by the author himself.
• Dark Reprise: Pinkie is heard singing one of "Giggle At The Ghostly" in the Basement Otherworld of the Shack in Chapter 7.
• Destination Defenestration: How Applejack commits suicide/is killed — the broken glass causes her to bleed to death.
• The Dreaded: The executioner pony that appeared in chapter 2 in a painting makes its entrance in chapter 7. The scythe it held is actually its limb, and its presence alone terrifies Celestia.
• Forced to Watch: What the town itself seems to be doing to Celestia.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Celestia finishes off the Queen Wasp monster by impaling it through her horn, and Rarity is found impaled on a spike in the Otherworld version of the Carousel Boutique.
• Lured into a Trap: The entity behind the Otherworld in this universe possessed the dead Captain Lance to come close enough to Celestia to sedate her.
• Mirror Monster: Will happen at some point, as the released scene art shows.
• Mood Whiplash: Pinkie's pleasant dream devolves literally into an inferno when she follows a colt inside a house and down into the burning cellar, seeing various other foals on fire. She grabs the same colt she followed to save at least him, but he changes into the Colt — the serial killer who killed her sister.
• Prehensile Hair: Applejack uses it to hold her weapon, a .45 Magnum, which Celestia acquires not too long afterwards, after the rather sudden death of its previous owner.
• Prison: The first setting of Celestia's Otherworld is an seemingly endless (no matter where she looks, she can't see neither ceiling, bottom or walls), abandoned and dark prison.

• Run or Die / Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Despite being afraid, Celestia mostly feels (restrained) disgust/pity for the Otherworld's creatures and killed them to save her life. Come chapter 7 where a monster appears whose presence alone sends her into panic and running away before she even sees it.
• Sacrificial Lion:
  • The third chapter poignantly kills off Applejack soon after she is introduced, and then reveals that the rest of the Apple family are dead as well.
  • Later, later, Rarity is found impaled in the Carousel Boutique, and a letter from Twilight found in Rarity's bedroom alludes to the fact that another of the mane 6 may already be dead.

• Your Mind Makes It Real: The wounds Ponyville's residents suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. Justified as it wasn't the usual Otherworld they were in. This one is reserved for Celestia this time.

The side stories Silence of Ponyville and Silence of Ponyville: The Shop contain examples of:

• Doomed by Canon: Knick Knack died in Silence of Ponyville after he entered the Otherworld. The Shop is showing what he experienced during his time there.

• Fanservice: When Knick sees first the back end of a Vile Mare; but their front makes it into...
• Heroic BSoD: [Gr]Annie Smith collapses when she realizes that Knick is dead.
• Killed Off for Real: Knick Knack. The Shop shows his travel through the Otherworld and ultimately why he died.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Not by much but [Gr]Annie Smith is stubborn, confident and strong from the work on her family's farm; Knick Knack is more soft-spoken and less confident than her.
• Off the Rails: Knick Knack is the first (main) character in all Silent Ponyville stories so far who has broken the rules. He has ignored both times the obvious, blue door, and broken open a chained entrance whose locks he was supposed to open with numbers he had found before. He literally goes off the pre-given rails made by both the entity behind Silent Ponyville and his own mind.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Shop introduces enemy ghosts and many holes which break the laws of space and time.
  • The Nurses from Silent Hill 2 inspired the Vile Mares as of Word of God.

The side story Darkness Scoots and its sequel Catch and Reweave contain examples of:

• Mirror Monster: Not-Dream Catcher (Not-Me)
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Taken to the literal when Dream Catcher breaks the siren.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Both Not-Dream Catcher and Soul Weaver do this quite frequently.
• Reality Warper: Soul Weaver has displayed the ability to change the scenery around him as he sees fit.
• Room Full of Crazy: The Hallway of Drawings, symbolic of all the drawings Dream Catcher did before he lost his sight.
• Rule of Three: The Hydra symbolizes Scootaloo's friendship with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, with all its hardships. One of its three heads is chopped off, representing Scootaloo's disappearance from Ponyville.
  • The Character of Dream Catcher has an alter-ego named Soul Weaver, and a doppelganger (Mirror image) whom he calls "Not-Me".
• See You in Hell: Soul Weaver's line: "Fall into your darkest dream, you pathetic excuse for a pony. I'll be waiting for you when you get there." Not-Dream steals this line in Catch and Reweave to use on Dream Catcher.
• Shadow Archetype: Dream Catcher's feelings towards Soul Weaver and Not-Dream Catcher.

• Torture Cellar: Soul Weaver's version of Dream Catcher's Basement.

• Weirdness Magnet: Dream Catcher and his Dream Walking Ability.

The AU story Shattered Memories contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Pinkie, who tried to turn her own daughter into a cupcake. This resulted in Princess Celestia taking her daughter from her and her mate the Colt. Also subverted with the Colt himself, who had went to Princess Celestia himself becouse of Pinkamina
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Cupcake's friend, Black Ice. It is stated by Word of God that he hates being confused for a mare (and that this confusion happens often).
• Hollywood Pudgy: Sunset Blaze is supposed to be a bit chubby, as described in her refferance art.
• Orphanage of Fear: Cupcake was (unknowingly) put it one, as she says the caretaker makes her life hell.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted with the main character, Cupcake.
• The Woobie: It is hard not to feel sorry for The Colt or Cupcake just in the first few pages of the comic.

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