Saturday, April 30, 2011

Story: Family

[Sad] Rarity time! She doesn't get nearly enough fanfiction.

Author: Larathin Bradley
Description: When a unwelcome guest shows up at Sweetie Bell's birthday party, Rarity realizes the past has one heck of a long reach. Will she be able to deal with the past, or will the life she's so carefully pulled together come crashing down?
Family


Additional Tags:  Family, Past, Courage, Rarity, Abuse

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was pretty good. Some spelling and grammar mistakes, but nothing too noticeable. More importantly, this story tugged at my heart strings, which is always a good sign.

Anonymous said...

Seems like Rarity always gets the sad stuff

CrimeOfKicking said...

Raaaaaarity...... ;_;

Wondeful story! I criiiiied.

Anonymous said...

I find it sorta funny that we just had a Pinky-centric episode that was sure to spawn psycho-pink stories. But then we have Rarity abuse. This might be a new section in the abuse category. Does anyone else recall her being on the receiving end of the beat stick before?
I like the story. The goings on between the characters seems genuine enough, like this is actually how both ends of the the trauma would react. The story may seem a bit formulaic at times but the best part is the last quarter I think.


And did anyone else notice a very subtle nod towards flutter-jack shipping? Or am I just seeing things that aren't there?

Midge. said...

@Anonymous
Haha, yeah, I saw the Flutterjack shipping there as well.

Anonymous said...

Hmm, a little heavy for my liking tbh, well written though.

I always thought of Rarity as having a privileged upbringing though :-/

Anonymous said...

W-wait. Was she... raped? 0.0;

Anonymous said...

Poor Rarity this made me sad. I hope anon above me is wrong and she was not sexually abuse just physically. I can talk from experience good lord it is horrible. This story really hit home for me.

Anonymous said...

Awesome, we need more Rarity fics :C

Anonymous said...

You're deluded if you think that the story was just about physical abuse. I don't think it would be possible for the author to imply sexual abuse any harder unless he started mentioning body parts.

fireant said...

It was painful, really.
5 stars here.
Sorry for the short comment, but I must leave from here, now. :|

Anonymous said...

That was simply great, it truly got to me.
Hardly noticed the mistakes, easily overlook.
I can't get over how great this piece was, it was very well written, 5 stars.

Anonymous said...

I have tars in my eyes right now. This was really some hard stuff to read. I feel really sorry for Rarity and Sweetie Belle. I never thought that these things could ever happen to her. Sad thing is, that stories like this happen every day everywhere all over the world. I makes me sick to think about it.

Anonymous said...

Fantastic story. Really enjoyed it, and it made me like rarity as a character even more. We need more drama/sad fanfics.

Anonymous said...

am I paranoid or is the first part with the decoration "inspired" by the derpy fanfic 'today, tomorrow and forever'? and this part "she nodded and opened her mouth to say the things, that her father had told her so many years before, that he'd kill her for ever saying" is almost identical to "Then, opening her mouth, she uttered the words the monster had swore he'd kill her for uttering." wich is from the twilight sparkle fanfic 'the girl'
the author of 'the girl' is also reffering to the rapist as 'the monster'
It may be just plain coincidence, I don't want to judge you or any of the other authors.
This story is still well written and I really enjoyed it as well as the other two i've mentioned, there's nothing wrong with taking a little inspiration from fellow writers. I just wanted to state thow simliarities

DarkApostleMatt said...

I don't know how I stumbled upon this fic but I thought it was good

Unknown said...

I think the fic was written well and the personalities were accurate, but I can't get my head around the fact that rarity is way too old to protect* sweetie bell...it just doesn't fit two and two together...

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