Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes

The Ghost of 52, in all her adorable glory.

Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes is a completed fanfic by Mimezinga. Though based on the Fallout Equestria lore, it breaks off from the rest of the other Recursive Fanfics in having its own distinct style, setting, and characters.

This is the tale of Puppysmiles, a little filly who was trapped in Canterlot after pretty fireworks fell all over the city. Released after centuries and transformed by Canterlot's Pink Cloud, Puppysmiles sets out to find her mother in the wastelands of the Long 52.

Tropes used in Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes include:

• Action Girl: Henrietta, a dual-pistol wielding griffin mercenary Puppysmiles helped out of a tight spot.
• Adult Fear: By a non-related character, no less. Trigger Happy, a town guard, is distraught when Puppysmiles runs into a death fortress full of certain death, and rushes to save her. Her fears are realized when she sees several Security Bots cut Puppy to ribbons with machine-gun fire. Puppy gets better, of course.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Mister Blue. Initially.
• Air Vent Passageway: Puppysmiles is just a little filly, meaning it's easier to crawl around in tight spaces. She uses this to enter a locked-down fortress to search for her mom.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Jammed Gun, a guardspony, gives one to a fellow guard Trigger Happy, pleading with her not to throw her life away on finding Puppysmiles. She tells him she's lesbian and departs anyway. However, his declaration won her over, and she returns the sentiment when she survives.
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Puppysmiles is an easily distracted young foal, and puts pretty much anything that's colorful and small enough to carry into her saddlebags (bits of glass, ammunition, pieces of plastic, whatever). Luckily enough, this is how her suit's repair system is able to still function even after being shot and torn dozens of times over the course of the story; it just uses Puppysmiles' findings as raw material.
• Atomic F-Bomb: Molten Gold drops one when Puppy's cluelessness wears out his temper.

Molten Gold: Why a fucking retarded foal, why!? FUUUUUCK!

• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Sun City is an entire city of brainwashed wastelanders, who are forced to rebuild their community and have had conscious thought suppressed. The resident AI justifies this as not trusting anyone in getting along with others. And sure enough, once the Mind Control Device is disabled, the community dissolves into chaos and infighting.
• Berserk Button: Henrietta does not like being called a chicken.
• Catch Phrase: "Hi! I'm Puppysmiles!"
• Character Blog: The Ask a Pony blog Ask Puppysmiles.
• Dead Baby Comedy: Puppy, blissfully ignorant as always, adopts a dead parador cub as a pet and winds up carrying its decomposing carcass with her for several chapters. She remains unfazed by the disgusted reactions of the ponies she meets.
  • Stretch your definition of 'baby' a little, and Puppy is dead baby comedy.
• Deadpan Snarker: Several of the people Puppy meets fit the bill, and even Mister Voice gets in on it occasionally. Probably entirely by accident.

Puppysmiles: Uh... mister Voice, gimme that shiny thing that makes a lot of noise.
Mister Voice: Warning. Object Puppysmiles cannot be retrieved from inventory.

• Death From Above: Puppysmiles accidentaly designates a Steel Ranger holdout for a Solaris Orbital Artillery strike. The Applejack's Rangers who were assaulting the compund were pleasantly surprised on how quickly the battle ended afterwards.
• Demonic Possession: For a brief moment during chapter 12 by what MAY be Nightmare Moon
• Determinator: Puppysmiles will find her mom, darnit, and she's too busy to let things like death and Post-Apocalyptica get in her way!
• Dynamic Entry: Henrietta is prone to these when Puppysmiles wanders off while under her care. Even when the filly is in no danger at all.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: One guess as to what food the town of Brocolli grows.
• Flash Back: Puppysmiles frequently has some when something reminds her of certain events in her past.
• Footnote Fever: As is customary, Pink Eyes includes a footnote at the end of every chapter describing her level growth.
• Foregone Conclusion: Puppysmiles starts out in search of her lost mother Rainy Days. The problem is, it's been two centuries since she last saw her. Unless Rainy Days has been ghoulified or otherwise preserved, her quest is doomed to end in heartbreak. According to Molten Gold, the grave of Rainy Days is located at Emerald Shores, at the of the Big 52, by the sea.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Rainy Days is long dead, and Puppy's grief at realising her mother is gone forever allows Creepy Voice to take over and kill several of the ponies trying to help her. When Puppy accepts her own death, her body falls apart. However, in the epilogue Puppy and those she inadvertently killed find themselves in the pony afterlife, where Puppy is finally reunited with her parents.
• Fourth Wall Mail Slot: The Ask a Pony blog Ask Puppysmiles.
• Genki Ghoul
• Harmful to Minors: The premise, though half the time Puppy doesn't notice.
• Have a Nice Death: Footnote: Level up! (20) No wait. You’re dead. Sorry kid, better luck next time.
• Healing Factor: Being a Canterlot Ghoul, Puppy can survive outrageous injuries. Her list so far includes being dismembered and devoured by a manticore, taking several antimateriel rifles to the chest, and being cut to ribbons by a minigun barrage.
• Heroic BSOD: Puppy gets one after accidentally destroying the Steel Ranger's fortress, because she was under the impression that her mother was in there. She gets better once she's told she had moved on already.
  • She suffers a second, terminal BSOD after finding her mother's grave.
• Hope Bringer: Puppy, entirely by accident. Her relentless optimism and faith in the inherent goodness of people inspire most of the ponies she meets.
• Improbable Weapon User: Puppysmiles' only armnament is a rock. Nothing can stand in her way, especially after she gets several perks that increase its effectiveness.
• Incompetence, Inc.: Solaris, Inc., whose fine products included a doorbell with integrated anti-burglary systems that were responsible for electrocuting, among others, dozens of traveling salesponies and several muffin-selling scouts.
• Innocent Inaccurate: Being barely above pre-school age, Puppy just can't understand all the horrible things going on around her.
• Killer Rabbit: Puppy, though usually by accident. Several of the wasteland nasties that try to kill her discover - much too late - that she's filled with flesh-melting gas.
• Kill Sat: Ponymedes, a set of orbital mass drivers. Which happens to be targeted by the below Lethal Joke Item...
• Left the Background Music On: Puppy frequently turns on her radio to ignore what's going on around her. This leads to, in true Fallout style, the orbital bombardment she accidentally causes being set to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Mane".
• Lethal Joke Item: Just like in Fallout: New Vegas, Puppy trades a high value item for a child's toy laser gun. And as in 'Fallout: New Vegas, that toy laser gun is the laser designator for a Kill Sat.
• Mood Whiplash: Puppy's childish naivety and one-track mind cause the story's tone to ricochet wildly between Black Comedy, Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker.
• Mugging the Monster: A random mercenary, hearing tales of the Ghost of 52, decides to put the so-called-legend in her place after she stumbles into him. But she's just a filly who can't even comprehend his threats, and his beatdown consists of spanking her. Eventually, everyone including the mercenary leaves due to the embarassment and awkwardness.
• The Nicknamer: Puppysmiles invents nicknames for virtually everything and everyone. Watcher becomes Questioner, Steel Rangers become Robocolts, and a tank shell becomes 'Teapot'.
• The Pollyanna: Not even the apocalypse can get this filly down.
• Psychopomp: Pinkie Pie, complete with soul-ferrying Cool Airship.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Happens every now and then, usually directed at Puppysmiles.
• Real Stallions Keep Brushable Dolls: Turns out Scold, the grumpy head of the Applejack's Ranger Scribes, keeps a brushable Lyra figurine in the pocket of his robes.
• Rock Beats Everything: Nothing hostile in the Wasteland survives an encounter with Puppy's rock.
• Shout-Out: Lonesome Pony makes passing references to The Stable Dweller and Security.
• Stealth Insult: When Puppysmiles is worried she might be a robot Henrietta reassures her she's not, since "robots are intelligent." It takes a while for Puppy to catch it.
• Too Spicy for Yog Sogoth: A manticore eats Puppysmiles at one point. Big mistake, as the Pink Cloud inside Puppy dissolves it from the inside out.
  • The paradors, mashups of Fallout New Vegas' cazadores and Friendship is Magic's parasprites, cringe in fear and trip over themselves to get away from Puppysmiles. All except for Fuzzy Ball, who is dead.
• Tragic Keepsake: Puppysmiles encounters Henrietta's dying father, who pleads her to give his baby to his other baby. When Puppy delivers it to Henri, after a small freakout, she uses it to great effect.
• Undead Child: Of a sort. Puppysmiles is a Canterlot Ghoul and does not qualify as living, but you'd never think of her as anything other than an excited filly if you saw her.
  • Our Zombies Are Different counts double for Puppy. She's not so much a Canterlot ghoul as she is an ambulatory mass of pink cloud, liquefied flesh and shattered bone, held together by her radsuit, a weak necromantic talisman, and sheer willpower.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Lots of them.
  • Voice, the integrated AI interface for Puppysmile's radsuit.
  • P7, another AI who's pretty much Pinkie Pie's personality uploaded into a computer.
  • SolOS, a fairly antagonistic AI that Puppysmiles booted out of his residence. Twice.
  • Watcher makes his return, though Puppysmiles insists on refering to him as "Questioner".
  • Creepy Voice, who seems to be similar to Nightmare Moon.