History Music / DestinyATaleOfUnicornWings

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: ''Don't you know you're all my very best friends?'']]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Celestia, ''three bucking times''. First, she thrusts Twilight into the limelight and responsibilities of princesshood, causing Twilight's HeroicBSOD. Then, she decides the best way to snap Twilight out of it and help her adjust is to [[spoiler:cut her off from her friends- the ones who helped her ascend in the first place- causing Twilight to lose her sense of self in her work]]. Finally, [[spoiler:when she senses Twilight is going to the emptied-out library in Ponyville, she sends those same friends to calm Twilight down, complete with the Elements of Harmony. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Seeing the Elements arrayed against her as though she is another danger to her friends serves as the shove over the ]]DespairEventHorizon [[SelfFulfillingProphecy which transforms her into Silent Dusk]]]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Celestia, ''three bucking times''. First, she thrusts Twilight into the limelight and responsibilities of princesshood, causing Twilight's HeroicBSOD. Then, she decides the best way to snap Twilight out of it and help her adjust is to [[spoiler:cut her off from her friends- the ones who helped her ascend in the first place- causing Twilight to lose her sense of self in her work]]. Finally, [[spoiler:when she senses Twilight is going to the emptied-out library in Ponyville, she sends those same friends to calm Twilight down, complete with the Elements of Harmony. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Seeing the Elements arrayed against her as though she is another danger to her friends serves as the shove over the DespairEventHorizon which transforms her into Silent Dusk]]]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Celestia, ''three bucking times''. First, she thrusts Twilight into the limelight and responsibilities of princesshood, causing Twilight's HeroicBSOD. Then, she decides the best way to snap Twilight out of it and help her adjust is to [[spoiler:cut her off from her friends- the ones who helped her ascend in the first place- causing Twilight to lose her sense of self in her work]]. Finally, [[spoiler:when she senses Twilight is going to the emptied-out library in Ponyville, she sends those same friends to calm Twilight down, complete with the Elements of Harmony. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Seeing the Elements arrayed against her as though she is another danger to her friends serves as the shove over the DespairEventHorizon which transforms her into Silent Dusk]].

* CoverDrop: [[spoiler: "I'll meet you in the sun / I'll meet you when I earn my fragile wings"]]

** The stained glass and Twilight's wings on the cover artwork foreshadow [[spoiler: the near-apocalypse Silent Dusk causes, as well as Twilight's HeroicSacrifice.]]

** "I can't tell you how much it meant to me"

* ArcWords: There's two main examples:

* Leitmotif: Several melodies and chord structures are reoccurring, as the nature of a ConceptAlbum, but the most apparent are the chords that play during ''What if I can't?'' in "Like You."

* IAmTheBand: [=LasFas=] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome wrote and recorded / sequenced the entire album by himself.]]

* IAmTheBand: [=LasFas=] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome wrote and recorded the entire album by himself.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably, to his 2012 rock opera ''Nightfall."

* ArcWords: "Home" and "I can't tell you how much it meant to me"

** See: ''Like You/?'', ''Empty'', ''Fragile Wings''.

* UncommonTime: ''Faultless'' and ''Empty'' have cases of 15/8 and 7/8. ''The entire bridge of Faultless''.

* BookEnds: ''Starborne'' opens up with a mysterious monologue about looking up at the stars to find your way home.

* BreatherEpisode: ''Silence'' is a soft mellow track that is paired with [[HowWeGotHere some nice reading material]], especially compared to the loud aggressive synthesizers and drums of the previous track [[spoiler: where Twilight transforms into Silent Dusk]].
* BSODSong: ''Empty''. [[spoiler: Twilight returns to her library in Ponyville to discover that it was emptied out and all her old books were missing. When she sees her friends wearing their Elements of Harmony, she feels that they're being worn for their protection. Cue ''Silent Dusk''.]]

* DarkReprise: ''Like You?'' as well as a particularly heartbreaking echo of the opening lyrics in ''Empty''.

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: ''Starborne''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pretty much every lyric is brimming with foreshadowing, but nothing stands more than ''Starborne'' or the chorus of ''Something Missing''

* IronicEcho: The breakdown of ''Semantics'', as well as the entirety of ''Like You?''
* GratuitousPanning: The end lyrics of ''Dusk''.
* [[spoiler: JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope]]: [[spoiler: In ''Empty'', Twilight goes from being depressed about losing everything she cares for to '''ATTEMPTING TO OBLITERATE THE PLANET BY CRASHING THE ENTIRE SUN INTO IT'''.]]
* Leitmotif: Several melodies and chord structures are reoccurring, as the nature of a ConceptAlbum, but the most apparent are the chords that play during ''What if I can't?'' in ''Like You''.
* LonelyPianoPiece: ''Heartache''.

* MoodWhiplash: As manic as the song is, ''Faultless'' jumps between upbeat electronic pop verses to intense metalish breaks.
* NonAppearingTitle: ''Starborne'' and ''Faulted''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Aside from a few 'damn's, there's no cursing in the entire album. Then you get to ''Semantics''...

* SiameseTwinSongs: ''Starborne/Like You'' and similarly, ''Semantics/Like You?''.
* SmashCut: Throughout the album, there's numerous sudden changes in tone and volume, but no song does it '''consistently''' like ''Faultless''.
* SpokenWordInMusic: ''Faulted'' opens with several voices complaining about various aspects of day to day life, royalty, and oranges?

* TheElevenOClockNumber: ''[[TitleDrop Destiny]]''. [[spoiler: Twilight breaks free from Silent Dusk with the help of her friends and she writes a final letter to Celestia before her [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]].]]

* Leitmotif: Several melodies and chord structures are reoccurring, as the nature of a ConceptAlbum, but the most apparent is