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The Rainbooms

These folders contain tropes pertaining to the Rainbooms as they are in the Fallout Girls fanfic.

As A Group

Action Survivor: All of the girls are slowly growing into this as the story progresses.
Amazon Brigade: The Rainbooms as a whole can be thought of as this as they become more accustomed to fighting, especially when they become the first members of the Brotherhood of Steel’s new Order of the Staff. One Paladin even refers to them as “amazon warrior princesses” at some point.
Beware the Nice Ones: The Rainbooms are easily some of the nicest people in the Capital Wasteland, but this doesn't mean that they are pushovers. Raider gangs, the Super Mutants, Talon Company and even the Enclave have all learned the hard way that the girls are not to be taken lightly.

Sunset Shimmer

Awesome, but Impractical: The Nova Pistol, a magically enhanced plasma pistol that Sunset loots from a dead Enclave Officer. It is phenomenally powerful, but only has three rounds which need to recharge after use.
Badass Bookworm: One of the smartest Rainbooms, and the one who provides the most help to Rivet City in dealing with rampant magic, after a few weeks of training Sunset is also capable of going toe-to-toe with Harkness in unarmed combat.
Heroic BSoD: Goes through a few over the course of the story, notably the first time she sees someone get killed, and the first couple of times she kills someone herself.
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Downplayed. Most of the time when Sunset uses her powers on wastelanders, she has at least some idea of what to expect. Played in full force when she accidentally reads the mind of a dying Enclave soldier, seeing snippets of his life before feeling firsthand what dying feels like. She breaks the connection quickly, but promptly passes out afterwards.
Ship Tease: There's some interesting chemistry growing between Sunset and Harkness in Rivet City.

Twilight Sparkle

Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Downplayed. Twilight shows detailed knowledge in many subjects, including rapidly becoming a recognized expert on nuclear fusion, but she struggles when asked to research the Forced Evolutionary Virus as well, lagging behind Fluttershy (who has already had some medical training from various wasteland doctors). Twilight outright states that studying extremely specialized disciplines from two very different branches of science is pushing her limits, and flat-out refuses when Elder Lyons requests that she head a team researching how magic works in the Fallout world on top of everything else.
Squishy Mage: Twilight is easily the least physically adept of the Rainbooms, but at the same time her magical powers are capable of hurling people, crushing power armor and even lifting an entire subway car to drop on a horde of feral ghouls.
Teen Genius: The most academically gifted of the Rainbooms, Twilight managed to learn enough about nuclear fusion to actually accelerate the Rivet City science team's progress, in two weeks. She is also studying the effects of FEV (though she admits to struggling with it) and also enjoys upgrading Liberty Prime's programming in her down time.

Rarity

Barrier Warrior: Rarity regularly uses her magic to create shields and cover when facing gun wielding opponents.
Odd Friendship: With Fawkes. One is a fashion-obsessed socialite, the other is an eight foot tall mutant that has spent decades in a small cell wearing the same tattered jumpsuit every day. The two get along famously, to the point that Rarity throws a tantrum when the Brotherhood of Steel initially refuses to allow Fawkes to have a shower.
Shipper on Deck: She very much approves when she discovers a budding romance between Fluttershy and Adam.

Applejack

Super-Strength: As per EQG, Applejack's Geode gives her phenomenal magical strength. Her power gives her a distinct advantage against tougher foes that aren't expecting it.

Pinkie Pie

Awesome, but Impractical: The magically enhanced pickaxe that Pinkie loots from a Super Mutant infused with her magic. When swung, it passes through any matter easily, but whatever it is swung through becomes infused with magic and explodes with incredible force a second or two later. Incredibly powerful, but tricky to use given that it's a melee weapon. Pinkie herself has the Brotherhood of Steel help her build a more practical weapon further down the line.
Genius Ditz: Downplayed, but Pinkie has proven herself capable of easily following complex scientific conversations, including displaying a fair grasp of how nuclear fusion works.

Rainbow Dash

Cool Sword: Rainbow manages to put together a Shishkebab in Rivet City. It later gets enhanced with Equestrian magic, making it sharper and more durable while burning with a blue flame.
Leeroy Jenkins: Has a tendency to charge in and attack without thinking things through. This has led to her getting beaten and narrowly avoiding death on more than one occasion.

Fluttershy

Badass Adorable: A sweet, gentle girl who embodies kindness itself. After getting mutated into a vampire by FEV, she also happens to be capable of tearing apart an entire raider gang in seconds.
Combat Medic: Fluttershy starts out as The Medic and refuses to actively fight, but after becoming faster, stronger and more aggressive due to her vampiric mutations from FEV, she eventually becomes this.
Cool Sword: The second time she visits the Family Vance gives her Vampire's Edge, a unique Chinese Officer's Sword that's sharper and more durable than its ordinary counterparts.
Cute Little Fangs: Gains these after being mutated by FEV
Damsel out of Distress: In Chapter 67 Fluttershy finds herself kidnapped by raiders. Rainbow Dash charges after them on a rescue mission, only to discover an (unbeknownst to her) FEV infected Fluttershy already in the process of slaughtering the raiders herself.
My Instincts Are Showing: Happens occasionally when her vampiric hunger for blood gets the best of her.
The Nose Knows: One of the mutations given to Fluttershy by the FEV is a greatly enhanced sense of smell. It's heavily implied that she realises that the Lone Wanderer has woken from his coma because she recognises his scent coming from another room.
Super-Strength: Not as pronounced as Applejack, but when in her vampire form Fluttershy has shown herself to be capable of easily tearing doors off their hinges and even using her claws to do superficial damage to power armour.

Vault 101

Adam/The Lone Wanderer

Badass Normal: Naturally, given that he's the Lone Wanderer. Even more so once he gets his own suit of Enclave power armor.
Beware the Nice Ones: So far seems to be a kind and gentle if somewhat awkward young man. Thus hasn't stopped him tearing through those he sees as enemies like a hot knife through butter.
Named by the Adaptation: Unnamed in the original game, here he is named, according to the author, as an additional nod to the biblical references in Fallout 3.
No Sense of Direction: Adam gets lost easily and can’t read maps very well. According to Fluttershy, he would even get lost in Vault 101 at least once a week, despite growing up there.

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