News has finally reached Rarity about the death of one of her favorite musicians. At the same time, news has also reached her revealing his bigotry. The unicorn finds herself torn between the urge to mourn his passing and her own confusion as to whether he deserves her sorrow for preaching such hateful things.
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Tropes found in this story include:
- Expy: The dead musician who is the crux of the story is clearly one of Prince.
- Fantastic Racism: Exactly what "The Prince" believed in is left a little ambiguous, but is implied to be a combination of homophobia and anti-intertribal relationships.
- Feet of Clay: "The Prince" was a brilliant musician and a sincerely nice pony, but he had some very bigoted beliefs.
- In Love with Love: What Rarity ultimately concludes about herself and her romantic beliefs.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the Continuum, news takes a long time to get anywhere due to the lack of communications-oriented magic. The fastest means of spending news in an emergency is to have talented unicorns teleport between cities to inform town criers — and most teleporters have limited range and have only memorized local arrival points. This means that outside a crisis, information typically spreads at the speed of ponies.
