History Fanfic / WhyAmICrying

* OneSideOfTheStory: When Apple Bloom met with Diamond Tiara again after forgetting about her in the three years she was gone, she took her old friends' account of what happened between her and them and told her to back off when Diamond asked for her to listen to her side of the story. Seeing Diamond's side detailed in her diary left Apple Bloom [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply regretful]].

* BerserkButton: Scootaloo doesn't take kindly to displays of cowardice and weakness, and hates being called weak. And she doesn't like it whenever someone brings up [[ParentalAbandonment her mother]].

* ExcessiveMourning: Filthy Rich did this following the death of his wife and unborn baby, so much that he deliberately ignored his daughter because she looked so much like her.

* GrayingMorality: Scootaloo initially believes that all bullies are born bad and that they are incapable of changing their ways. But after hearing from Miss Cheerilee that she was once a cruel bully before becoming a kindhearted teacher and that Diamond Tiara foalsat the Cake Twins and protected Silver Spoon from their own bullies, she realizes that they ''can'' change for the better.

** Scootaloo's mother [[ParentalAbandonment walked out on her and her father]].

* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Miss Cheerilee was a horrible bully in high school, something she regrets with all her being.

* BerserkButton: Scootaloo doesn't take too kindly to cowardice and weakness, and hates being called that herself. And she doesn't like it whenever someone brings up [[ParentalAbandonment her mother]].

* BittersweetEnding: The fates of several ponies in the epilogue.
** Scootaloo has been told by an expert what she had feared, that her wings would never grow to be like that of a normal pegasus, and that her father had moved to Las Pegasus to become a card dealer so he can pay his gambling debts. But she was adopted by Miss Cheerilee so she wouldn't be put in a foster home, got her cutie mark, and is now the captain of her school's soccer team. Plus, [[spoiler: finally finds it in her heart to forgive Diamond Tiara]].
** Silver Spoon has to put up with a lot of shit as a filly, and is seeing a therapist to help her deal with the trauma of her best friend dying before he eyes. In the future, she appears to be moving on from her experiences; she is no longer a bully, is the student body president of her high school and has received a promising scholarship to a collage in Baltimare.
** Filthy Rich retired and sold his various assets to relatives, while remaining good friends with the Apples. He later died of a stroke, but he's now in the great beyond, reunited with his beloved family.
** Shoestring Catch died of cancer three months after he first spoke to Sweetie Belle, but she got to fulfill his dying wish to have a girlfriend before his passed on.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Silver Spoon acted cautious around her friend Diamond Tiara for a time because of her role in the Gabby Gums incident.

-->"If I really was that cruel, I would have made fun of Apple Bloom's parents a long time ago."

* GrayingMorality: Scootaloo initially believes that all bullies are born bad and that they are incapable of changing their ways. But after hearing Miss Cheerilee was once a bully before becoming a kindhearted teacher and that Diamond Tiara foalsat the Cake Twins and protected Silver Spoon from their own bullies, she realizes that ponies ''can'' change for the better.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Diamond Tiara had a good side she didn't like to make public; she was secretly a great foalsitter, had healthy friendship for Silver Spoon and showed empathy to Dinky Hooves following her father's death.

* NotSoDifferent: Miss Cheerilee points out that Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara are very similar; their mothers were gone when they were young, their fathers are always working and barely have enough time for them and hate members of their opposite social classes, but they also had loyal friends by their side.

* PersonaNonGrata: Because of the Gabby Gums incident, Rarity banned Diamond Tiara from her shop (precisely for spreading lies about her and blackmailing her sister into making them), and Mr. & Mrs. Joyous forbade her from sitting their foal because they didn't want him acquainted with a "manipulative liar".

* {{Swirlie}}: One of the hardships Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon suffered from bullies at a hellish summer camp was them dunking their heads in the toilets and [[{{Squick}} making them lick the rims]].

** While Scootaloo was arguing with Miss Cheerilee about the potential that she might become a bully like she did in her younger years, she tries to say that it won't happen because she's got her best friends by her side.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The last chapter takes place years later when the Crusaders are in their senior year of high school.

-->'''Scootaloo:''' ''I'm'' horrible?! She was the one who was horrible?! I can't think of a single good thing about her, and yet you're acting like she was your best friend when she was nothing more than a jerk! I'm not saying I'm glad she's dead, but why should i care?!
-->'''Sweetie Belle:''' ''Because somebody'' '''''died!'''''

* ExcrementStatement: At the summer camp, older colts urinated on Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon while taunting that they would "make good toilets".

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Sweetie Belle chews out Scootaloo, who doesn't think she should feel sorry for the filly who did nothing but make their lives miserable, for not feeling sad over the fact that somepony died.

* PersonaNonGrata: Because of the Gabby Gums incident, Rarity banned Diamond Tiara from her shop (precisely for involving her sister in it), and Mr. & Mrs. Joyous forbade her from sitting their foal.

* YouAreNotAlone: Apple Bloom shows Filthy Rich that he's not the only one who

* GrayingMorality: Scootaloo initially believes that all bullies are born bad and that they are incapable of changing their ways. But after hearing Miss Cheerilee was once a bully before becoming a kindhearted teacher and that Diamond Tiara foalsat the Cake Twins and protected Silver Spoon from her own bullies, she realizes that ponies ''can'' change for the better.

** Miss Cheerilee did this in the past when she was an assistant teacher at a summer school, after a smart filly told her that she wanted to grow up to be a kind teacher like her. It was at that moment where she finally realized the monster she had become, and she went home to her family begging them to forgive her everything she had done. She did it too in the preset when describing that event to Scootaloo.

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Sweetie Belle chews out Scootaloo, who doesn't think she should feel sorry for the filly who did nothing but make their lives miserable, for not feeling sad over the fact that somebody died.

* PetTheDog: Diamond Tiara showed empathy to Dinky Hooves when her father was killed while serving in the military. She foalsat in secret, and frequently sat the Cake twins.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: One of the reasons Diamond Tiara was because after she moved back to Ponyville after living in Manehattan for three years, she found that none of her former friends, including her best friend Apple Bloom, forgot about her within that time period.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Diamond Tiara, after getting tortured at summer camp and getting being accused by her former best friend Apple Bloom of bullying her old friends all because she was perceived as a "rich brat", snapped and decided to show everypony how bad "rich brat" could be, staring with the filly who hurt her the most, Apple Bloom.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Diamond Tiara, after getting bullied at summer camp and getting chewed out by her former best friend Apple Bloom for threatening to sue her friends (which she said was a defense mechanism) all because she was perceived as a "rich brat", decided to show everyone how bad "rich brat" could be.

* BerserkButton: Scootaloo doesn't take too kindly to weakness, and hates being called that herself.

* {{Forgiveness}}: The driving force of Scootaloo's arc is her struggling on whether or not to forgive Diamond Tiara on account of all the horrible things she did to her and other fillies and colts. At her funeral, she decides that she can't forgive her (at least not at the moment), but that she doesn't hate her anymore. [[spoiler: She finally does forgive her when she visits her grave years later.]]

* GrayingMorality: Scootaloo initially believes that all bullies are born bad and that they are incapable of changing their ways. But after hearing Miss Cheerilee was once a bully before becoming a kindhearted teacher, she realizes that ponies ''can'' change for the better.

* LaxativePrank: While she was a bully in high school, Miss Cheerilee fed Scootaloo's father Crimson a drug that made him go diarrhea in the cafeteria. Because of it, Crimson's parents took him out of school and Cheerilee got suspended.

** Scootaloo's mother walked out on her and her father.

** Scootaloo initially doesn't care that Diamond Tiara is dead, due to all the mean stuff she did. She gets better.
** Green and Shady Daze, on the other hand, make it quite clear that they're glad she's dead, and they mercilessly beat up Silver Spoon while saying that she should have died as well.

* PetTheDog: Diamond Tiara showed empathy to Dinky Hooves when her father was killed while serving in the military.

** While Scootaloo was arguing with Miss Cheerilee about the potential that she might become a bully like she did, she tries to say that it won't happen because she's got her best friends by her side.

* {{Workaholic}}: Filthy Rich always insisted on working, because he was, in his own words, afraid of his daughter due to her looking so much like his dead wife, which ultimately strained their friendship.

** Scootaloo initially doesn't care that Diamond Tiara is dead, due to all the mean study she did. She gets better.

** Scootaloo has been told by an expert what she had feared, that her wings would never grow to be like that of a normal pegasus, and that her father had had moved to Las Pegasus to become a card dealer so he can pay his gambling debts. But she was adopted by Miss Cheerilee so she wouldn't be put in a foster home, got her cutie mark, and is now the captain of her school's soccer team. Plus, [[spoiler: finally finds it in her heart to forgive Diamond Tiara]].

* PottyFailure: Sweetie Belle wets her bead after having a nightmare of Death coming to get her.

When Diamond Tiara gets hit by an out-of-control carriage and dies from her injuries, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, like everyone else in town, and shocked by this turn of events. But how do they deal with it now that the filly who did nothing but make their lives miserable is gone?

* TitleDrop: Scootaloo thinks to herself "Why am I crying?" when she comforts Scootaloo following her suicide attempt.

** Scootaloo has been told by an expert what she gad feared, that her wings would never grow to be like that of a normal pegasus, and that her father had had moved to Las Pegasus to become a card dealer so he can pay his gambling debts. But she was adopted by Miss Cheerilee so she wouldn't be put in a foster home, got her cutie mark, and is now the captain of her school's soccer team. Plus, [[spoiler: finally finds it in her heart to forgive Diamond Tiara]].

* BlackmailIsSuchAnuglyWord: In her diary, Diamond Tiara refers to her blackmail of the Cutie Mark Crusaders during the Gabby Gums incident as "insurance".

* InelegantBlubbering

* MissingMom

* AdultsAreUseless: None of the councilors at the camp Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon did anything about the atrocities they suffered at the camp. When the camp was shit down by Filthy Rich, they admitted that the headmaster told them to keep quirt about them.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Scootaloo is incensed at the Daze twins for beating up Silver Spoon, noting that for all the stuff she and Diamond Tiara did to her and her friends, she at never got physical with them.

* laxativePrank: While she was a bully in high school, Miss Cheerilee fed Scootaloo's father Crimson a drug that made him go diarrhea in the cafeteria. Because of it, Crimson's parents took him out of school and Cheerilee got suspended.

** While Scootaloo was arguing with Miss Cheerilee about the potential that she might become a bully like she did.

** Silver Spoon has to put up with a lot of shit as a filly, and is seeing a therapist to help her deal with the trauma of her best friend dying before he eyes. In the future, she appears to be moving on from her experiences; she is the student body president of her high school and has received a promising scholarship to a collage in Baltimare.

* EveryoneHadStandards: Scootaloo is incensed at the Daze twins for beating up Silver Spoon, noting that for all the stuff she and Diamond Tiara did to her and her friends, she at never got physical with them.

* EvenEvilHasSTandards: Silver Spoon acted cautious around her friend Diamond Tiara for a time because of her role in the Gabby Gums incident.

* MoralityPet: Silver Spoon appeared to be this to DiamondTiara; she once tried to talk her out of mocking other ponies and was quite shocked at her actions from "Ponyville Confidential".

* Green and Shady Daze, on the other hand, make it quite clear that they're glad she's dead, and they mercilessly beat up Silver Spoon while saying that she should have died as well.