History VideoGame / StoryOfTheBlanks

* BetrayalByInaction: Mitta blames herself for not protecting Ruby when the other ponies of the town wanted to kill her for getting her cutie mark. She is the only one who feels she deserves their punishment and protects Apple Bloom from sharing in Ruby's fate.

* SurpriseCreepy: As soon as Apple Bloom looks in that fireplace, things start taking a very dark turn for the worse.

* {{Creepypasta}}: Called as such in the Newgrounds and Deviantart descriptions. This is more of a case of non-TV Tropes TropeDecay than anything. Basically, it just means it's {{horror}}.

* FriendlyZombie: Mitta is revealed to be a Nightmare like the other townsponies. But she is the only one who understands that what they did was wrong, and helps Apple Bloom escape the cursed town.

* TheAtoner: Mitta didn't protect Ruby from being killed when she got her Cutie Mark, and as a result she spends her now undead existence lamenting her failures. When Apple Bloom is in danger, this time she takes the chance to do what she did not, and protects the filly from the pursuing Nightmares.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: This is subverted with Mitta. She was already dead to begin with, having been turned into a zombie, but she atones for her inaction towards Ruby's murder by helping Apple Bloom escape the undead hordes of Sunnytown.

-->''Fools...even in death, they do not understand. I should have protected her, but I made my choice. This is our everlasting punishment, what we deserve. Now, run. Run for your life!''

* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler:Apple Bloom, just a little filly herself, discovers the terrible truth behind Ruby's murder and the curse of the town, and has to flee for her life before she becomes a zombie-pony.]]

* PartingWordsRegret: One of the Nightmares, Mitta, laments about not protecting Ruby when she had the chance, and being forced to share in the fate of the rest of the townsponies.

* {{Creepypasta}}: Called as such in the Newgrounds and Deviantart descriptions. This is more of a case of non-TV Tropes TropeDecay than anything. Basically it just means it's {{horror}}.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Albeit in a different sense. Ruby's magnifying glass cutie mark, based on her knack for finding things, triggered the village into killing her. In a roundabout way, Apple Bloom's curiosity would've been the end of her, too if Ruby and Mitta don't help her escape.

* FluorescentFootprints: Apple Bloom follows some of these, presumably created by Ruby, to escape from the Nightmares (temporarily).

* TheReveal: Everything seems okay in Sunny Town, but once Apple Bloom follows Ruby into her house and looks in the fireplace, she sees the burnt remains of her skeleton. Ruby later tells Apple Bloom that she was killed by the other townsponies after she received her cutie mark.

* SchmuckBait: Three Leaf and Roneo as Nightmares. Similar to Mitta, they are not actively hostile, but unlike her, they ''will'' turn you into a Nightmare if you touch them.

* FireballEyeballs: As a zombie pony, Three Leaf has those in her dialogue box.

* SchmuckBait: Three Leaf and Roneo. Similar to Mitta, they are not actively hostile. Unlike Mitta, however, they will turn you into a nightmare if you touch them.

* TheAtoner: Mitta. She didn't protect Ruby from being killed when she got her Cutie Mark, and as a result she spends her now undead existence lamenting her failures. When Apple Bloom is in danger, this time she takes the chance to do what she did not, and protects the filly from the pursuing Nightmares.

-->''Fools...even in death, they do not understand. I should have protected her, but I made my choice. This is our everlasting punishment, what we deserve. Now, run. Run for your life.''

* AdultFear: Fantastical elements (even the ones canon to [=FiM=]) aside, one can only imagine how panicked Twilight was when she discovered Apple Bloom wasn't with her anymore, and was instead wandering somewhere in the Forest, at nightfall.

* BlessedWithSuck: Since the ponies in Sunny Town murdered those with cutie marks and those indicated you had discovered your special talent, the only way not to be murdered was by never figuring out what you were best at.

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Albeit in a different sense. Ruby's magnifying glass cutie mark, based on her knack for finding things, triggered the village into killing her. In a roundabout way, Apple Bloom's curiosity would've been the end of her, too if Ruby and Mitta didn't help her escape.
* CursedWithAwesome: Cutie marks are treated like a curse in Sunny Town, even though they just marked awareness of your special talent. The thing you were ''awesome'' at. However, with the release of episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox "The Cutie Pox"]], it makes their horrific crime even worse as it comes off as a case of either ignorance or irrational paranoia on their part.
* CuteGhostGirl: Ruby.

* DeadAllAlong: Ruby, the strange filly Apple Bloom finds in the Everfree Forest, is actually a ghost, having been murdered by the people of Sunnytown for gaining a Cutie Mark. The same goes for the people of said town, who are cursed to become zombies because of their aforementioned crime..

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: (red, black, and grey) Apple Bloom's escape sequence, to unnerving effect.

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The inhabitants of Sunny Town are cursed to become decaying zombies called Nightmares. It's implied that it's the result of their murder of Ruby, a young filly, making it a KarmicTransformation.

** Zecora tells Twilight and Apple Bloom to get out of the forest before it gets dark. And then along comes Ruby...

** That the village exists in the depths of the Everfree Forest itself is one. In the show, every time they go into the forest, there's mention of how it's filled with horrible monsters and is utterly unnatural, yet somehow there's this nice, brightly lit village in the middle of it that no one knows about?

* FreudianExcuse: ''The Cutie Pox'' supplies one for the townsponies. They were so scared of being infected that they were willing to kill a young filly for finding one of her neighbors a good gift to woo his love...

* IdiotBall: Let's face it Apple Bloom, leaving your guardian to follow some random pony into a haunted forest wasn't the best idea you've ever had.
** It was almost a CuriosityKilledTheCast situation.

* KilledOffForReal: Ruby, which is a central plot point.

** As well as the potential of the cutie pox having led to the town's fear of cutie marks.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: ZigZagged, Apple Bloom seems disappointed when she finds a ruby the size of her hoof, but it's actually what Roneo intended to give Starlet as a present. This trope is even justified within the setting- this is a world where you can find diamonds the size of your head just by wandering around in the hills, and gemstones in general are abundant enough that entire species can use them as a food source without them worrying about running out. Spike regularly snacks on stones bigger than that in the show. Apple Bloom finding a ruby of that size isn't so much of something to celebrate as it is a very mild curiosity.

* AdultFear:
** Twilight took her eyes off of Apple Bloom to get rid of some logs in their path, but by then Apple Bloom has disappeared, lured into the Everfree Forest by Ruby's spirit. At the end of the game when Apple Bloom escapes Sunnytown, Twilight had been so worried that she doesn't even get mad at her for wandering off, just glad that she found her again.
** For Mitta, she failed to protect young Ruby from being burned to death by a lynch mob (implied to include many of her own neighbors) for something out of the young filly's control. She proceeded to wallow in grief, blaming herself for Ruby's death for years. But then she sees the same situation repeating with Apple Bloom...

It follows Applebloom as she wanders away from Twilight Sparkle in the Everfree Forest and happens upon a village (called Sunny Town) full of ponies preparing for a party. She's invited to come in and enjoy herself, and aside from the fact that none of them have Cutie Marks or even know what Cutie Marks are, everything seems wonderful and straightforward...

* BigNo: Applebloom's reaction to finding Ruby's bones in the fireplace.

* FromBadToWorse: As you first start playing, it seems like a straightforward find-and-give game, though just a ''little'' bit ominous with Mitta. Then Applebloom looks into the fireplace...

* InterfaceSpoiler: Once Applebloom enters Sunny Town, the text boxes' border design changes, possibly hinting that something isn't quite right about the place. The borders go back to normal after Applebloom and Twilight Sparkle leave the forest, but the narration at the end still uses the alternate design.

--> '''Applebloom''': Every. Single. One.