Story of the Blanks/YMMV

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 * Alternate Character Interpretation: The game doesn't explain much, leaving people to interpret the events of the storyline much like a Silent Hill game.
 * Though now the episode "The Cutie Pox" has provided a handy explanation for why they thought anyone with a cutie mark was bad news. They may have even seen it as a Mercy Kill.
 * Awesome Music: All of the music used in the game (of which there is a surprising amount), but especially the theme used for Sunny Town, "And So I Mourn For My Dear Ones".
 * Fanon: The game is already working it's way up, whether it be as a mention or an in-joke in another fanfic.
 * It's actually Canon in the Pony POV Series.
 * Fanon of a Fan Fic: Fear of a Cutie Pox outbreak is theorized to be the cause of Sunnytown's paranoia toward Cutie Marks.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: The ponies in Sunny Town . "The Cutie Pox" gave us said disease that causes ponies to get multiple Cutie Marks, forced to perform whatever talent the marks represent against their will, and make others . Now replay the game with these in mind.
 * Not to mention the fact that one of the ponies in "The Cutie Pox" said something similar to a line from the game...

She had the Mark! She had to go!"

"Spike: Is it... ZOMBIES!?
 * Another thing to consider: Who is the character you play as in Story of the Blanks? Applebloom, who happens to be the starring pony in "The Cutie Pox".
 * Hell Is That Noise: The looping sound effect that plays when and when.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The game does a fairly good job building up the unsettling revelations.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: "Hilarious" may not be quite the right word considering the creepiness, but Spike's comment at the start of Bridle Gossip:

Twilight: Uh, not very likely.

Spike: Not likely, but... possible?"


 * It's Short, So It Sucks: The biggest complaint of this game; even favorable comments frequently comment on its length.
 * Moral Event Horizon: See Call It Karma and the implications in Fridge Horror.  after all.
 * Nightmare Retardant: Momentarily at least. While  is supposed to be the big jarring plot point of the game, to me   My initial thought, honestly, was   ...then it sunk in.
 * The Woobie:
 * In the Pony POV Series it gets revealed at one point that Ruby could have left after death, but she stayed behind when everypony else got cursed (by Nightmare Moon, no less!) because she pitied the other ponies and refused to leave until they were all redeemed.
 * In the Pony POV Series it gets revealed at one point that Ruby could have left after death, but she stayed behind when everypony else got cursed (by Nightmare Moon, no less!) because she pitied the other ponies and refused to leave until they were all redeemed.