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->''"I can't see anything. I can't smell anything. I can't feel anything. And all I hear... Is beauty. They don't understand it, though."''

''Can't Be Saved'' is a DarkFic based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', written by @/JimmyLethal.

The story revolves around Vinyl Scratch, who has come across a song [[BrownNote she can't stop listening to]]. Her obsession begins to go to the point where she begins to lose all four of her senses to power her sense of hearing, [[AndIMustScream ending up leaving her a blind, immobile shell]].

You can read the story [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/94371/ here]]. Has a sequel called ''Fanfic/DimmedSpotlight'' which can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/181601/ here]].
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!!Tropes:

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:When Vinyl is about to go deaf, she wakes up.]]
* BoundAndGagged: Bound, anyway; the story's cover art has Vinyl in a straitjacket.
%%* BrownNote: '''Oh, hell yes'''. The story revolves entirely around one.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier
* {{Determinator}}: Vinyl still tries to go through life as normal despite her senses slipping away from her.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] The story was AllJustADream.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[ThroughtheEyesofMadness Through Vinyl's eyes]], her coltfriend Ace pulls one when he calls the "experts" on her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When Vinyl's music player breaks and she begins to go deaf, she has one of these moments.]]
%%* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Vinyl, when her music player breaks.]]
%%* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Stallion]]: Ace becomes this.
%%* OriginalCharacter: [[PunnyName Ace Spade]].
* SanitySlippage: As the story progresses, Vinyl becomes increasingly unhinged.
* SerialEscalation: At first, "Can't Be Saved" is just a song Vinyl likes. [[{{Understatement}} Then it becomes a problem]].
* TitleDrop: ''"We should leave her here. She can't be saved."''
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:It was AllJustADream, after all.]]
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