Gardening-Variety Weapon: Applejack uses various garden tools to kill ponies.Exact Words: Even though Applejack made well over 400 jars of jam, twice the amount Filthy Rich usually gets, he demands every single jar.Downer Ending: The story ends not only with several innocent ponies dead or injured - Apple Bloom strongly implied to be one of the dead - but also with Applejack being imprisoned, with no recollection of what she was even imprisoned for and no idea what happened to her little sister.Death of a Child: It's heavily implied at the end that Applejack accidentally killed her little sister Apple Bloom.However, most of the darkness comes from the Psychological Horror elements of the story. Dark Fic: The main plot revolves around Applejack losing her grip on reality and graphically killing several ponies. Caught Monologuing: As Applejack gives Rainbow Dash her Hannibal Lecture, Apple Bloom injects Applejack with the cure, most likely at the cost of her life.While it's unequivocally true that it was AJ who insisted to take the potion and went off the deep end, Twilight comes across as just as bad for never saying anything. Here, she not only never tells anyone that the reason Applejack went insane is because of a potion she made, but she throws her under the rug and replaces her with Starlight Glimmer as the Element of Honesty. While the canon version was also known for causing problems, she would always own up to her mistakes and find a way to remedy them in the end. But here, he seems to really not care for the Apples period and is willing to screw over Applejack over their deal. Make no mistake, the show incarnation is a rich asshole, but he was at least a reasonable pony who respected his deals with the Apples (especially knowing the Zap Apples are the reason he's rich anyway). 13 Is Unlucky: Applejack killed 13 ponies before she was arrested.A reading of the fic (complete with fan-art) by TheLostNarrator can be seen hereĪn Apple Sleep Experiment provides examples of:
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