Beats of Life
is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction.
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Tropes:
- Anti-Magic: Octavia's Reserve badge gives her protection from magical attacks, but it cannot affect telekinesis on other objects.
- Badass Bookworm: Octavia is an intelligent and cultured cellist. She's also a fully trained Reserve Guardspony, with bucks like Applejack's.
- Big Damn Heroes: Octavia hears Vinyl's cries, and while she's too late to prevent her from being raped, she is able to stop them from breaking her horn off, which would have taken a long time to grow back, and have been painful as well.
- Broken Bird: Vinyl's rape pretty much destroyed her emotionally, and she seems to need to rely on Octavia as a Living Emotional Crutch to stay functional.
- Child by Rape: Vinyl's rapists impregnated her, and her realization of her pregnancy makes her trauma even worse.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Vinyl's pegasus rapist seems to be homophobic.
- Rape as Drama: Vinyl's rape kickstarts the entire story.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Vinyl trying to recover from her rape is a big part of the story, and it's made quite clear that she'll probably be emotionally scarred for life by the experience.
- Simultaneous Arcs: Beats of Life takes place at about the same time as Rekindling, with one chapter having a scene from Rekindling told from Vinyl's perspective.
- Verbal Tic: Vinyl stutters.
