YMMV / Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons

• Accidental Innuendo:
  Blackjack: Glory! Flash 'em!
• Adorkable: Being sheltered all his life and having not seen any other females out of his species, Stygius tends to act in a goofy manner around other females.
• Arc Fatigue: Project Horizons was longer than the original story before the Thunderhead arc began in chapter 58 and started to answer the big mysteries.
• Awesome Music: Know When to Hit, No When To Hold. A chaotic, but darkly catchy glitch rap. The distorted cello doesn't hurt either.
• Base-Breaking Character: Goldenblood. While some readers agree with the author's intentions that the character should explain the state of wartime Equestria, others feel that he lessens the original characters and events by stealing away the responsibility for their actions.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Boo, the allegedly soulless clone that Blackjack befriends in Hippocratic Research, received fan art and an independent Character Blog within days of her first appearance.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • The reason why Stable 99's recycler wasn't able to get rid of the Raider Virus? It's based on Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and Mad Cow Disease which are caused by prions. Prions are proteins that act like viruses but cannot be destroyed short of destroying the material that they are contained in.
  • The reasons for Glory's mother becoming a dashite aren't really explored, save for the fact that she was originally from the surface and therefore unpopular with the Enclave. Then you consider that Glory mentions having four sisters, the youngest being a pair of twins. The Enclave has strict limits on breeding due to population and resource concerns - as a mother of five, as well as an outsider, it's no wonder that Dawn caught a lot of flak. Her husband's rank and political influence were probably the only things keeping her from being banished (or worse) sooner.
  • When Blackjack first meets Spike, she reluctantly suggests that Charity might be this generation's Element of Generosity, since she can always get exactly what a pony wants, even if she does charge them for it. Then, in a later chapter, after Charity has the Crusaders beat Blackjack bloody for being too slow to pay her back, Blackjack angrily declares she can't believe she ever suggested Charity for the role. This meshes with the idea presented by the Goddess in Fallout: Equestria that the Elements can be embodied in "corrupt" forms that bring suffering rather than healing.
• Fridge Horror:
  • Goliath, the enormous train-pulling pony that Blackjack and friends meet at the beginning of Chapter 36, is mentioned to have gotten his incredible size from an encounter with Killing Joke. BJ notices a grievous scar on Goliath's mother's belly, and suspects that the injury was caused by a landmine. She fails to consider another, somewhat darker possibility.
  • Every single pony that has died in Hoofington, including those that Blackjack and company have killed, has had their soul sucked into the swirling vortex of endless torment and despair that orbits around the fallen star that lies at Hoofington's core. Every single one. Count them.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "I'd once heard getting your horn smashed was like having all four legs cut off."
  • Blackjack has the ability to compare both in Chapter 33.
• Moe: Boo, of course. Charity and Scotch Tape have their moments.
• OT3: Blackjack, P-21, and Glory. Sometimes referred to as Gloryjack-21. Possibly canon as of chapter 67.
• The Woobie: A good half the named cast, really. Even in the Wastes, Hoofington is hell.

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