The Rainbooms are heroes. They always do the right thing.
Sometimes, doing the right thing is horrible.
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I'm a little confused, is this Hero's Guilt? Did the girls finally learn that you can't always save everyone?
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A bit of all of that, yes. Largely, it's a story about guilt, mourning, grief, and living with the consequences of doing "the right thing".
On a lower level, it's about how a group of friends cope when something terrible happens to them
This is a very interesting concept. Most of the times in stories as long as a hero has good intentions they are in the right and everything works out, but this seems different. I’m very curious on where a story like this will go.
This was... powerfully real.
I wonder though:
Did the kid get killed by the girls or did he get killed before they could save him?
will we find out the whole story of what went down i wanna say dark magic and an innocent boy who meddled with things should left right alone
Oh Dashie...
I know Anger is a stage of Grief... but damn...
Fluttershy hit the nail on the head here. By Rainbow's logic ever one of the magically powered antagonists they've faced should of been vaporized via rainbow friendship laser. It's also notable that with the exception of the Dazzlings, all the others reformed and are either friends with the Rainbooms or at the least on good terms. Granted we don't know the full story on the kid that died yet but Rainbow is really being insensitive not only to Fluttershy's but the others feelings as well.
Two?
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Twilight and Sunset
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Hey, chillbook1 here, commenting from my alt because I'm on mobile and too lazy to switch accounts.
The two people that Shy is referring to here are Sunset Shimmer and Sci-Twi. They were two villains that The Rainbooms fought and, following Rainbow's line of reasoning, "should have" killed.
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Oh yeah. I forgot about twilight.
Rainbow Dash may OR may not be right. Once we learn all the facts and context surrounding the villain, only then can we determine if Rainbow is correct or not. Because, let's face it, there are people in the world that need to be removed from society in order to protect the innocent.
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both of them were at fault one dash was insensitive but then Fluttershy has to realize people could have been killed. while we do not know the whole story the kid wasn't going to back down and was not showing remorse for his actions. So Flutters a young girl is probably confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life after he attacked everyone, but it's okay he did not know better he was just sad and needed to talk. fuck off fluttershy. the safety of everyone else was paramount. if he had not been taken down more innocent people would have been hurt or possibly even worse.
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Honestly, I’ve heard this argument a lot over the years I’ve been in the fandom. Fans would say that this character deserves this or that but don’t say the same about a character who did the same or worse because they like them.
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Not wrong, but I really need to hear the full story as well.
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There’s some truth to what you’re saying.
Ngl I completely missed the Incomplete marking on the first chapter and thought it was a one-shot. This clears things up a little more.
The girls need to realize that all this time, they've gotten far too lucky. Everyone they've faced has either reformed or became powerless. Not a single person, opponent or bystander, has died on their watch.
They've never had to learn the cold truth of being a hero... until now.
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This is the infamous double standard that plagues Anon-a-Miss fics.
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Yeah, I love situations where they can’t fix their problems with rainbow lasers.
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You’re not wrong.
Rainbow does have a point, but I think she took it waaaaay too far.
Gave this a closer reread and I have to say that both are in the wrong here.
Rainbow Dash has gravely misunderstood her responsibility as a hero. She doesn't realize it's not just about saving as many lives as they can, but also paying the price for those that they can't save.
Fluttershy is a coward. She thinks she's a monster for what they did, but abandoning her responsibility will make her a real monster.
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Yeah, saying that the boy should’ve died is also hypocritical.
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Interesting
She make it sound like an accident. I assumed that they killed him on purpose, but this is interesting.
I wish we saw that.
Why don’t you check yourself first before coming to that conclusion.
Well, I definitely appreciate the slightly more lighthearted note after what went down last chapter. If anyone's gonna end up talking some sense into the rest of the girls, it'll most likely be Pinkie.
We still need to see the battle and Ginseg's motivations before we can draw any conclusions. Oh no, this better not be one of those open ended stories where the author doesn't tell us what happened. It's the author's job to tell us what happened, so I hope we are given that information
Also, speaking of Twilight, she should know about this.
So that leaves Sunset.
Turns out, Humans in this universe were not ready for magic.
They may never be ready. Now, they'll never know.
Worse still, The Rainbooms, as it turns out, have killed four people and not just one.
Now, Sunset has taken the road of isolation, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are divided by their anger, Applejack and Rarity have been drawn closer by their shared grief, Sci-Twi believes herself unnecessary to the group, and Pinkie Pie is hellbent on bringing the girls back together.
I wish them all luck.
She’s not entirely wrong.
Wow, didn’t know sonata had some brain.
Yay Sonata!!!
Ok I’m starting to be on ginseng side.
That’s an interesting premise.
Sometimes you shouldn’t forget.
Based on what sunset said they could’ve helped him but chose not to.
Is it that simple?
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I wouldn’t say the world isn’t ready. Just certain people weren’t.
Cowards.
That's all they are. Just a bunch of cowards. Taking the easy, painless road and giving up instead of facing what's haunting them and powering through. Disgusting.
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While I probably wouldn’t call them cowards I do agree to a certain extent. Sometimes you have to face a problem no matter how hard it is.
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You don't call them cowards??? Sunset is banishing herself, and Princess Twilight is stripping the girls of their power and their contact with her without their consent.
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Well, when you put it like that it does sound bad.
So, what? GIinseg went on a killing spree because he was bullied? He didn't even need magic to do that, assuming guns exist. And I still don't get why the Rainbow Power killed Ginseg instead of just depositing him, so this whole story falls flat.
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Ginseng's murderous intent likely came from the magic that possessed him.
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Maybe he had the killing intent before the magic came along. I don’t think magic affects your behavior. Maybe it just enhances what’s already there.
This is intense, good work
I like serious Pinkie
That's not a solution you idiot, you're cutting them off.
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This story is largely about how good people react when terrible things happen. It's not always going to be what an outside onlooker would consider to be the "right" thing to do.
I think a lot of readers have misunderstood, my intention with this story wasn't to convince you that anyone did the right thing, or that anyone did the wrong thing. I don't necessarily want to make you agree with their decisions, just empathize with the difficulty of reaching them