Heroes of Canterlot High By Fox-Moonglow Watch

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Should have used a reference for those hands...



*Spoiler Alert*



So, I consider Vinyl Scratch to be the second-most heroic character in Rainbow Rocks (after Sunset Shimmer), despite her role being an extended cameo.



For starters, of the entire student body, she is the only one outside the main characters to not get brainwashed by the Dazzlings. Meaning that she gets to remain lucid and aware which all of her friends compete to see who can level up in Jerkass the fastest. And either she knows what's going on (and can't do a thing about it), or, more likely, this has completely come out of left field for her.



The she gets exodumped by Spike, releases the heroes, and at that point she could have walked off, good deed done, This isn't her fight.



Instead she volunteers herself and her sound system (the best around) to help with the fight against the Dazzlings. Putting her right behind the front line.



Battle round one happens. The Rainbooms are beaten down. Vinyl doesn't balk. She doesn't back down. She changes the track, ups the tempo, and gives Sunset Shimmer the lead in to begin round two.



And here's the thing. Vinyl Scratch is an ordinary teenaged girl.



Sunset and Twilight are transformed unicorns. The Rainbooms are magically augmented humans.



Twilight and the Rainbooms had been planning this all week, and could reasonably expect to kick some ass in the fight. Vinyl could augment their magic music, but has no magic of her own with which to fight.



Twilight, Sunset, and the Rainbooms all have a decent amount of resistance to the Dazzlings' magic. Vinyl has nothing.



Let me repeat that, because it's the most important.



VINYL SCRATCH HAS ABSOLUTELY NO DEFENCES AGAINST THE DAZZLINGS' ATTACKS.



She got lucky in the cafeteria and hadn't been in a position to be affected since, but had they gone after her in the final battle, that would be it. Game over for Scratch.



Despite this, she is fully involved in the final battle against the Dazzlings. Even when the Rainbooms' first counterspell is defeated, and it looks like the day is lost, she keeps up the fight. Her entire contribution is in a supporting role, true, but consider the nerves it must take to keep fighting knowing that you are the only member of your team completely exposed to a very powerful enemy, and yet the day would likely be lost without you.

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