History YMMV / StoryOfTheBlanks

*** Mitta being Ruby's mother or older sister, either for the same reason as the above interpretation or the fact she's the only one of the villagers who regrets not protecting Ruby.

** Since Sunny Town's villagers are all earth ponies, it is popular to assume that in addition to hating cutie marks, they also hate unicorns and pegasi. [[https://www.deviantart.com/babyrainbou/art/MLP-Other-Tale-of-the-Blanks-241008233 No freaks!]]

* {{Fanon}}: ''Story of the Blanks'' was released a few months before "The Cutie Pox" aired. Once that episode aired, however, fans incorporated the canon story into the fan-game's universe. The disease is a pretty good explanation for ''why'' the ponies of Sunny Town act the way they do about Cutie Marks.

** [[spoiler:Blank!Apple Bloom also gets a fair amount of fan art.]]

* ItWasHisSled: Most fanworks based on this don't even try to hide [[spoiler: that Sunny Town is composed of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Nightmares]], that Pony you've been chasing is named Ruby and she's [[DeadAllAlong dead]], or that Apple Bloom becomes one of Nightmares if you fail to escape.]]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Ruby, who is forced to spend eternity with the ones who murdered her. [[JerkassWoobie Mitta]] qualifies, having had the choice to protect Ruby but chose not to, and is thus forced to serve in the punishment as well.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The game doesn't explain much, leaving people to interpret the events of the storyline.

** The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Season 5 opener]] ''also'' concerns a creepy town full of seemingly happy ponies who think cutie marks are bad.

** Though now the episode "The Cutie Pox" has provided a handy explanation for why they thought anyone with a cutie mark was bad news. They may have even seen it as a {{Mercy Kill}}.
*** The Cutie Pox was aired after the game was already finished, so the only way the Cutie Pox could have anything to do with the game would be through a Retcon.

* {{Fanon}}: The game quickly worked its way up after it was released, whether it be as a mention or an in-joke in another fanfic/fanwork.
** It's actually Canon in the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries''. [[spoiler:In the second season, the town's inhabitants have been recruited by [[BigBad Princess Gaia]], having their memories erased. When they deal with Princess Gaia, the curse is still in effect, with them screaming how they didn't mean to forget, how they thought it was the plague their ancestors warned them about (see below).]]
** Minor, but apparently [[http://lokiadventure.tumblr.com/post/26467605259/92-clearing-out-old-commands-actions Loki is gonna visit the town]]. His visit was brief, but horrifying.
** Fanon Retcon: ''Story of the Blanks'' was released a few months before "The Cutie Pox" aired. Once that episode aired, however, fans incorporated the canon story into the fan-game's universe. The disease is a pretty good explanation for ''why'' the ponies of Sunny Town act the way they do about Cutie Marks.
* HarsherInHindsight: The ponies in Sunny Town [[spoiler:killed one of their own fillies because she got her Cutie Mark]].[[note]] The game never states outright or implies that Ruby was ever a native resident of Sunny Town. In fact, it is just as likely that she wandered in just like Apple Bloom did, and just happened to get her cutie mark while there.[[/note]] "The Cutie Pox" gave us the eponymous disease that causes ponies to get multiple Cutie Marks, forced to perform whatever talent the marks represent against their will, and make others [[spoiler:run in terror of being infected]]. [[FridgeHorror Now replay the game with these in mind]].

* MoralEventHorizon: See CallItKarma and the implications [[spoiler:Ruby wasn't the first, or at least, not the last]] in FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:The town got cursed for it]] after all.

** In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' it gets revealed at one point that Ruby could have left after death, but she stayed behind when everypony else got cursed (by [[BigBad Nightmare Moon]], no less!) because she pitied the other ponies and refused to leave until they were all redeemed.
** [[spoiler:Let's not forget poor Apple Bloom herself. Poor girl had to endure some serious horrors, despite being but a wee filly.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The looping sound effect that plays when [[spoiler:Apple Bloom discovers Ruby's charred corpse in the fireplace]] and when [[spoiler:the Bone Fiends find Apple Bloom and Ruby]].

** Six years later to Season 6 gives us [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater]] which features zombie ponies as a main part of the story. Granted they are only a very tame, family-friendly variety, they're still zombie ponies all the same.