A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic written by Jordan179
in 2014. Complete. An explicit sequel to Bad Horse's "Fluttershy's Night Out", it has its own sequel, Fluttershy Is Free.
Set in Season 1, early October YOH 1500, just before "Call of the Cutie". Fluttershy becomes terribly upset at the sight of an ordinary bar on the outskirts of Ponyville, and tells Rarity of a shameful and upsetting encounter that happened to her four years ago. Can Rarity help Fluttershy understand and come to terms with her own past?
Available here.
Tropes appearing in this tale include:
- Acrophobic Bird: As in Season 1 canon, Fluttershy hates to fly and when she runs in panic from the vicinity of the Carrot and Stick, Rarity can follow her because Fluttershy is fleeing on foot — despite being a Pegasus.
- Alternate Animal Affection: After Rarity has enabled Fluttershy to understand why "Nosey" really left after his seduction of her, finally letting Fluttershy realize that it had nothing to do with any lack on her own part, this happens:As they turned toward the door, Fluttershy lowered her head, bumped, rubbed herself and leaned against Rarity's side, expressing wordlessly how much she loved her friend. Warmth spread from the point of contact.
- Break the Cutie: Two examples in-story.
- Happened to Fluttershy four years ago in Fluttershy's Night Out. This story is about healing her.
- Seems to have also happened to Rarity around the same time, but not as badly, and she's long since recovered from the bad event.
- The Casanova: "Nosey." In contrast with the Chivalrous Pervert Fluttershy first meets, "Nosey" has absolutely no compunction against taking advantage of a sweet, innocent teenager.
- Closed Door Rapport: At first Fluttershy won't let Rarity into her cottage after Fluttershy's Freak Out, and Rarity has to talk to her through a closed, locked and barred door.
- Crazy Cat Lady: Fluttershy, especially after her seduction by "Nosey" and before Rainbow Dash and Rarity came back to town. She's getting better.
- Driven to Suicide: Two examples of near-misses in story.
- Fluttershy's extreme loneliness and sense of rejection nearly causes her to kill herself with her family's fifteen-hundred-year-old "honor blade" — an artifact explicitly crafted for the purpose of ritual suicide. Thankfully, her sense of duty to her animals, and her awareness that at least one Pony, Rainbow Dash, still loves her stays her from completing the act.
- Rarity implies in her flashback that she, also, once felt suicidal, and was considering ending her life with her scissors. At no point does she give the explicit reason, but it seems to have been for a reason similar — though perhaps even more serious — to Fluttershy's.
- Emotion Eater: As in Fluttershy Is Free, Fluttershy is part-Changeling and thus able to sense and to tap the emotional energy of another's love. Twice in-story she slips and says suspicious things along these lines to Rarity, but in neither case does Rarity at the time understand the clues. Also, in-story Fluttershy at one point taps Rarity's love for her, but Rarity fails to notice.
- Epiphany Therapy: What Rarity manages to achieve with Fluttershy. When Fluttershy finally realizes that it's not that she was unloveable, but rather that "Nosey" was unwilling to love she feels much better about herself. She's not exactly happy that she lost her virginity to a jerk, but she is able to look forward to a better future, in which she might meet somepony more loving.
- Freak Out: Fluttershy suffers one of these when she unexpectedly finds herself being cat-called by two strange stallions who are standing right in front of the Carrot and Stick. It makes sense later when one learns that Fluttershy met her seducer four years ago in that pub and she's reacting as if they are taunting her for her worthlessness. Being Fluttershy, she runs rather than using her horrible powers against them.
- Hate Sink: As in Fluttershy's Night Out, "Nosey" — and for the exact same reasons. Both in-story (Rarity briefly fantasizes about practicing all her martial arts routines on him) and in the comments.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Two examples in-story.
- Fluttershy was this where Nosey was concerned — more significantly, she has still failed to comprehend his true motivations by the story's beginning. Happily, Rarity helps her understand what really happened.
- Surprisingly, Rarity was this in the undisclosed incident in her past which made her consider suicide. She learned from her mistake; Fluttershy didn't, until this story's climax.
- I Just Wanted To Make Friends: One of the main reasons why Fluttershy went into the bar in the first place, four years ago. Both of her Pony friends, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, were away for protracted periods of time, and she had no one to talk to for months but her animals.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: One of Fluttershy's main motivations in life, the more so because as a part-Changeling, she is an Emotion Eater literally dependent upon love. It was through her desire for love that Nosey was able to seduce her.
- The Ingenue: Fluttershy at 16, even more so than she is at 20.Rarity could picture a sixteen-year-old Fluttershy, incredibly-innocent and devastatingly-beautiful ...
- Local Hangout: The actual nature of the Carrot and Stick, though Rarity finds it "seedy" and Fluttershy is terrified of the place because it's where she met Nosey. The only two patrons we meet in-story are rude but essentially harmless.
- Obliviously Beautiful: Fluttershy does not seem to realize that she is extremely beautiful. (This story takes place before "Green Isn't Your Color", and Fluttershy has only two really good friends of her own species, one of them being Rainbow Dash (who doesn't usually admit to noticing female beauty) and Rarity herself (who compliments her friends constantly), so Fluttershy's innocence on this matter is quite plausible).
- Seduction Leads To Insanity: How Fluttershy became broken.
- Shrinking Violet: As always Fluttershy — though to less of a degree than usual, because almost the entire story involves her conversing with Rarity, one of her best friends, who is first trying to draw her out a little, and then trying to help Fluttershy deal with her grief and pain over her seduction by Nosey four years ago. Once Fluttershy decides to open up on the topic, she isn't shy at all to Rarity, though she is very sad about what happened to her, and worried by her fears of unloveability. As in canon, Fluttershy's shyness varies depending on how much she trusts the Pony with whom she is conversing.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Given her innocence and loneliness, she might have been seduced anyway, but what really made it inevitable was that even the 16-year-old Fluttershy was stunningly-lovely. This guaranteed that she would be approached by "Nosey". The "curse" proves pretty severe, as not only does Fluttershy lose her virginity to him, but becomes so depressed from her abandonment by him and (she thinks) resultant proof of her fundamental unloveability, that she seriously contemplates suicide on multiple occasions.
- There Are No Therapists: Fluttershy nearly went insane from her seduction, coming close to suicide, and has apparently never spoken to anyone about what happened until now, four years later. This, despite the fact that we know Equestria has mental health professionals. Sadly justified in that Fluttershy is an incredibly-shy hermit who until recently had a grand total of two fully-sapient friends, and she's so ashamed of what happened that this is the first time she's gotten up the courage to mention it. There is no way Fluttershy would have taken the initiative to go to a stranger and tell him what happened to her. This happens far too often in our world, as well.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The gist of what Rarity tells Fluttershy.
