Line #79 Music/DestinyATaleOfUnicornWings


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[BlatantLies Everything is going to be fine.]]]]
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4	->''Somebody told me of \
5	A silly little thing \
6	Called [[TitleDrop destiny]] \
7	[[{{Foreshadowing}} Go unchecked\
8	I'll go blind]] \
9	[[FromBadToWorse Finding how it got the best of me]]''
10	-->-- '''Twilight Sparkle''', ''[[http://heylasfas.bandcamp.com/track/like-you Like You]]''
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12	''Destiny: A Tale of Unicorn Wings'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' RockOpera by Elizabeth L.K. Icarus Gray, better known as [[IAmTheBand HeyLasFas!]], [[AdaptationExpansion expanding upon]] the events that take place during and after the season three finale, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]. Twilight Sparkle, after coronated as Equestria's new princess, must leave Ponyville adjust to her new life and duties.
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14	[[FromBadToWorse It goes about as well as you'd expect]].
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16	It can be found on Bandcamp [[http://heylasfas.bandcamp.com/album/destiny-a-tale-of-unicorn-wings here]].
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18	Not to be confused with ''{{VideoGame/Destiny}}''.
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21	!!Destiny: A Tale of Unicorn Wings contains examples of:
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23	* AdaptationExpansion: The album takes an event only briefly touched upon in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show]] and runs with it for ''nearly two hours''.
24	* ArcWords:
25	** "Home"
26	** "I can't tell you how much it meant to me."
27	** "Forgive me"
28	** "Somebody told me of a silly little thing called destiny..."
29	** "It's not your fault."
30	* AuthorAvatar: Twilight, [[http://lizzieshinkicker.tumblr.com/post/98301281440/i-cant-wait-until-someone-calls-out-the-fact-that according to Gray herself]].
31	* BeneathTheMask: After being grounded from visiting her friends, Twilight feigns confidence and being on top of everything in front of everyone, but is deeply remorseful when alone.
32	* BookEnds: "Starborne" opens up with a mysterious monologue about looking up at the stars to find your way home.
33	* BreakTheCutie: Twilight's arc from being a bookish librarian to a depressed alicorn princess. [[spoiler: Not to mention when she transforms into [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Silent Dusk]]...]]
34	* 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]].
35	* 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 "Dusk."]]
36	* CallBack: "Like You" contains one to a previous song of hers: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTffNy5MHXY Gone (Learned to Fly)]].
37	* CelebrityIsOverrated: Turns out, joint-ruling over an entire country isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
38	* CoverDrop: In the final track:
39	--->''[[spoiler: I'll meet you in the sun.]]\
40	[[spoiler: I'll meet you when I earn my fragile wings.]]''
41	* [[{{Ambient}} Dark Ambient]]: The intro of "Heartache" has shades of this.
42	* DarkReprise:
43	** "Like You?" as well as a particularly heartbreaking echo of the opening lyrics in "Empty."
44	** "Dusk" reprises both "Maturity" and "Something Missing."
45	* DeconstructionFic: The album is essentially a musical form of this. It takes the (at the time) common fan theory that Twilight was being prepared to become an alicorn princess and runs with it in a decidedly tragic manner. It goes to great lengths to subvert the romantic images associated with royalty by showing what suddenly being thrust into a position of power and importance would do to Twilight mentally, and how her new life wears her down to a shell of her former self. It draws attention to the fact that Twilight pre-Season 2 was very neurotic and worrisome, and didn't seem like someone who would be able to handle such an important, highly public position. The fact that Twilight actually ''did'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure become a princess in the show itself]] around the time the album was released is either HarsherInHindsight or {{Reconstruction}} depending on how you look at it.
46	* DeconReconSwitch: While most of the story is pure deconstruction, the finale reconstructs the concept into something more closely resembling the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic source material]]. See EarnYourHappyEnding below.
47	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Twilight uses the last of her force after breaking free of Silent Dusk [[HeroicSacrifice to shove the sun away from a collision course with Earth]]. At the end of Fragile Wings, her remaining friends inadvertently invoke the Elements of Harmony and manage to bring Twilight back to life]].
48	* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Starborne."
49	* EpicRocking: The album is an hour and fifty minutes long and has sixteen songs. That averages to about ''seven minutes each track''.
50	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
51	** Pretty much every lyric is brimming with foreshadowing, but nothing stands more than "Starborne" or the chorus of "Something Missing"
52	** The stained glass and Twilight's wings on the cover artwork foreshadow [[spoiler: the apocalypse Silent Dusk almost causes, as well as Twilight's HeroicSacrifice.]]
53	* FurryReminder: In the second verse of "Semantics":
54	--->''This work in progress moves as planned\
55	Set in motion by your own\
56	[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]\
57	...hand?\
58	[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]\
59	[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It's not like I can't make up words around here.]]''
60	* GenreRoulette: Ambient, to orchestral, to industrial, to pop-punk, to hard rock, to hardcore and heavy metal. The only thing consistent is the ProgressiveRock feel.
61	* GrowingUpSucks: While Twilight is already an adult at the start of the album, the story nonetheless plays out like this, with new responsibilities taking the place of literal aging.
62	* HellIsThatNoise: The first few minutes of "Heartache" are made up of this.
63	* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: [[spoiler: Twilight to save the earth from the falling sun in ''Fragile Wings'']].
64	* IAmTheBand: Gray [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome wrote and produced the entire album by herself,]] albeit with engineering help from Klisk.
65	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Twilight's entire motivation is to obtain a sense of normality in her new life. [[spoiler: She fails in the most terrifying way possible]].
66	* IronicEcho: The breakdown of "Semantics," as well as the entirety of "Like You?"
67	* GratuitousPanning: The end lyrics of "Dusk."
68	* [[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'''.]]
69	* LastNoteNightmare:
70	** The last few minutes of "Empty" are made up of booming, mechanical rhythms and heavy, dissonant synth growls. It's supposed to signify [[spoiler: Twilight's transformation into Silent Dusk.]]
71	** Inverted in "Heartache," whose first few minutes are made of nightmarish ambiance.
72	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Looking through Gray's Tumblr before listening to the album is a bad idea.
73	* {{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."
74	* LonelyPianoPiece: "Heartache."
75	* LossOfIdentity: Twilight feels that she lost her true identity after throwing herself into her royal work. [[spoiler: And then she transforms into Silent Dusk when she feels that there's no chance of returning]].
76	* MeaningfulEcho: At the end of the title track, Twilight uses a line from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show's]] ThemeTune [[spoiler: right before her HeroicSacrifice.]]
77	---> '''Twilight''': [[spoiler: Don't you know you're all my very best friends?]]
78	* MoodWhiplash: "Faultless" jumps between clean, electronic-tinged verses and TechnicalDeathMetal style riffing. Proof that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as it effectively puts listeners in Twilight's fragmented state of mind.
79	* 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]]]].
80	* NonAppearingTitle: "Starborne" and "Faulted."
81	* PerishingAltRockVoice: Gray sounds like this most of the time.
82	* PrecisionFStrike: Aside from a few 'damn's, there's no cursing in the entire album. Then you get to "Semantics"...
83	* RockOpera: The longest one in the fandom, at that.
84	* ShoutOut:
85	--->''[[Music/SomethingBroke Something's stolen\
86	Something's broken\
87	Vital words\
88	Have yet been spoken]]''
89	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Starborne/Like You" and similarly, "Semantics/Like You?."
90	* SmashCut: Throughout the album, there's numerous sudden changes in tone and volume, but no song does it '''consistently''' like "Faultless."
91	* SpokenWordInMusic: "Faulted" opens with several voices complaining about various aspects of day to day life, royalty, and oranges?
92	* TextlessAlbumCover
93	* 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]].]]
94	* TitleDrop: In a few cases of the album, the title of the track is reserved for literally the most heartwrenching point in that track.
95	** See: "Like You/?," "Empty," "Fragile Wings."
96	** AlbumTitleDrop: "Somebody told me of a silly little thing called Destiny..."''.
97	* UncommonTime: "Faultless" and "Empty" have cases of 15/8 and 7/8. ''The entire bridge of "Faultless"''.
98	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Silent Dusk]]
99	* VillainSong:
100	** While Celestia is not technically a villain, she is the main antagonist, and "Control" has the proper tone.
101	** [[spoiler: Villain Silent Dusk is so named because unlike Twilight, she WON'T sing. This places arguably the narrative track "Dusk" or the instrumental "Silence" as being her theme. ]]
102	* VocalRangeExceeded: Happens during the bridge of "Something Missing."
103	* WhamLine: In "Control":
104	--->''I know that she'll forgive me...\
105	I know that she'll forgive me...\
106	I know that she'll forgive me...\
107	[[spoiler: I hope that she'll forgive me...]]''
108	** In the title track:
109	--->''From there, the six friends gathered for what felt like the longest embrace.''\
110	''Almost as if it was for the very last time.''\
111	''[[spoiler: Because it was.]]''
112	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The poor dog that Twilight turned into an orange prior to the events in "Faulted" is never returned to canine form, despite the protests of its owner.
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