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  • Catharsis Factor: Given some of Twilight's more reprehensible actions, it's very satisfying whenever L knocks her down a peg.
  • Crazy Is Cool: Pinkie Pie is just as much of a Cloud Cuckoolander as her canon self, and her scenes are some of the most fun to read in the story.
  • Creepy Awesome:
    • L is an Emotionless Girl and her social awkwardness is played up compared to the canon L, but her scenes are an absolute blast. Byuk is also just as creepy as Ryuk but brings a lot of comic relief, and it's very cathartic when he tells Twilight off for killing Pinkie Pie in order to get onto L's team.
    • Bon Bon's reveal as a changeling in Chapter 31 is pure awesome. She almost gets to take out Twilight and avenge L's death, but sadly Twilight had planned for that.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Pinkie Pie. She gets killed a third of the way into the story, but makes a significant impact in that time, and seems to have put a Thanatos Gambit in place to take down Kira.
    • Sweetie Belle only has a few scenes before dying in Chapter 14, but the way she goes out makes it one of the story's most memorable moments.
  • Fridge Horror: Reread any scene with Bon Bon after The Reveal in chapter 31.
    • The scene between Rainbow Dash and Applejack at the funeral becomes this once you realize Applejack is now acting as Kira.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In this story, Twilight remembers Moondancer very well and seems rather obsessed with her, a far cry from canon events.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • For many, Twilight crossed it when she killed Ray and the other EBI agents, thus going from only killing criminals to targeting anyone who opposes her. And if not then, she crossed it when she engineered Rarity and Pinkie Pie's deaths in order to gain enough sympathy to infiltrate the L team.
    • Second Kira crosses it when she kills Sweetie Belle. Even Twilight, who still has some delusions of being the good guy, is disgusted by this.
    • Mer killing Granny Smith in order to force the Apples to be the Third Kira. Which may or may not have been on Twilight's orders, in which case this is on her, too.
      • It's actually implied that Twilight set her death up ahead of time, and Mer was just acting like she was the one doing it. If that were the case, then she crosses it when she writes Spike's name on the Death Note and makes Twilight kill him right after Sunny Days dies.
  • Narm: It's Death Note with ponies. Even if you're a fan of FiM, it can still be hard to take seriously. Especially when the characters start acting wildly out of character, like with Twilight murdering Rarity and Pinkie Pie.
  • Tear Jerker: Several, particularly the funeral scene.
    • Now tied with Ditzy/Derpy learning about her fiancee's death.
    • Sweetie Belle's death counts, too.
    • Anyone familiar with the original story knows what's coming, but the outcome of Twilight's Gambit Roulette still hits hard.
  • Too Cool to Live:
    • Pinkie Pie. Doesn't stop her from being cool from beyond the grave.
    • Sweetie Belle, who dies heroically while calling out an angry mob of Kira supporters.
    • This L is even more awesome than the original, but sadly suffers the same fate.

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