Vida’s life has always been marked by strife and the challenges she barreled through head on, heedless of whatever she left in her wake. But what of those she leaves behind? What of those she hurts on her warpath to victory? What if she finally saw what she has done to those around her, with her own immesurable power?
 
This is the answer to those questions: temperance, rebirth, and a little something new. Taking after the only pony to ever show her the kindness she most certainly never deserved, she tries to honor Gabriel’s memory in memorial flowers and the very gracidea that young filly gave to her so long ago.
 
A counterpoint to this:  
https://derpibooru.org/2072222?q=oc%3Avida+emotionate
 
Also inspired (in part) by Wickedsilly changing her main OC. Not saying I really know any of the background context, but seeing that made me wonder if I can’t modernize my own proto-creation.