The Vinyl Scratch Tapes/Heartwarming

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Vinyl: Because you made it for me!

    • Princess Luna listening to and visiting Blueblood's radio show, not because it's any good, but because he's her nephew. And she too knows the pain of having everypony hate you.
  • Season 1 Episode 2 is chock full of these:
    • When Spitfire tells Octavia why Vinyl is her best friend:

Spitfire: Well, eventually I had to leave for Flight School. We were both still pretty young at the time. Neither one of us had our Cutie Marks. When I told Vinyl I was moving, she didn't say anything. She acted like it didn't bother her at all. Tried to play it cool, I guess. So I ended up going to Cloudsdale to learn to fly. After I was there for a couple months, I got a letter from my parents saying Vinyl was in the hospital. I immediately freaked out and flew home.
Octavia: Why was she in the hospital?
Spitfire: That's exactly what I wanted to know. When I got there, I found out she'd broken her leg. I went right to her room and asked her what had happened. Apparently, she'd fallen out of a tree. She had climbed it, built some little "wings" for her hooves out of cardboard, and jumped out of it. She was trying to fly.
Octavia: ...
Spitfire: So I said, "Vinyl, that is without a doubt the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Why would you do something like that?" She said, "I wanted to go to Flight School. You have to fly to go to Flight School." As if it was just common sense or something. When I asked her why she wanted to go there, she was quiet for a minute. That was a first, by the way; seeing her quiet about anything. And she just looked up and said, "I wanted to see you again."

    • Octavia received a ton of appreciative fan letters after the episode. They still adorn the studio walls.
    • Vinyl framed the picture she took of her, Octavia, and Spitfire. She keeps it on her desk so that she can look at it every day.
  • Season 2, Episode 3 is very heartwarming, especially Princess Luna's You Are Not Alone speech to her nephew Blueblood.
  • Almost all of Season 2, Episode 4. Octavia gathers all of Vinyl's friends--and even Celestina and Luna--to bring her out of her Heroic BSOD. And then there's the end of the chapter, which hints that Blueblood (who was about to start yet another Evil Plan) has had a Heel Realization and is about to do a Heel Face Turn.
    • Trixie willing to stand up for Blueblood and call out everyone else's hypocrisy.
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