Friheten Rainbooms

—Official warning

The **Friheten Rainbooms** (abbreviated as the **VR**), also known as the **Petrovburg Heroes**, are a presidential music band in the Luna the Miracle Boy series, consisting of themselves. The name of this community is derived from the word "Friheten" that means "the freedom" in Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish. Sometimes, the abbreviation of this music band is known as a reference to a professional MotoGP rider from Italy named Valentino Rossi.

The presidential band's members are Luna on rhythm guitarist and lead vocals, Jason on electric guitar, Vincent on drums, Dennis on bass, Celestia on tambourine, Tobias on keytar. The possible songwriters for this presidential music group are Polina, Vincent, or Jason. Since the Legend of Everfree story episode, Martin joins as vice vocalist and rhythm guitarist. Guest members have included DJ Una on turntables. The Seborga High Girls (Roman, Husniati, Cecil, and Zaynab) as dancers. Performing with the latter four, the music group is presently known as the **Equestria Flares**.

## Depictions in the series

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Rainbow Rocks

The Friheten Rainbooms compete in the Canterlot Presidentials' Music Showcase against several rivaling bands, including the Dazzlings and Cecil and the Illusions. It is stated by Jason that starting the band was his idea. Throughout the story, he asserts that it is his band, despite his friends' insistence that they each have an equal stake in the band.

When the Dazzlings arrive at Canterlot Presidentials and place everyone under their spell, the Friheten Rainbooms, unaffected by the Dazzlings' magic (actually Aulia's curse magic), call on President Diana for his help and hopefully recruit Luna into the band as the lead vocalist.

As they advance through the competition, the Friheten Rainbooms succumb to moments of infighting: Jason's egotism grates on his friends' nerves, Dennis argues with Tobias over the latter's obsession with the band's stage wardrobe, Celestia emphasizes how being in a band is supposed to be fun and has her expectations disappointed by the arguing, and Polina's desire to play a song she wrote goes unheard. Other bands in the competition also attempt to sabotage their performances, and Cecil (at the suggestion of Princess Aulia) traps the Friheten Rainbooms under a stage to keep them from participating in the final round.

Before the Frihetens fall victim to the Dazzlings' magic due to their arguing, Luna convinces them to work out their disagreements. With the help of Spike, Sergey, and DJ Una, the Friheten Rainbooms eventually defeat Aulia and the Dazzlings in the final round of the Battle of the Bands and free the campus from their spell. Soon after, Luna is promoted permanently for the Friheten Rainbooms as a lead vocalist plus the rhythm guitarist.

### Rainbow Rocks animated short stories

The Rainbow Rocks animated prequel short stories partially depict the band's formation, with each member discovering and taking up what would be their instrument of choice.

In the Guitar Centered segment, Jason acquires a new electric guitar after a "shred off" against Cecil. In the Hamstocalypse Now segment, Polina discovers her tambourinist talent like Celestia's one when tending to a rambunctious group of hamsters. In the Vincent on the One segment, Celestia discovers Vincent's talent for playing the drums when the Petrovburg Heroes seek an outlet for Vincent's boundless energy. In the Player Piano segment, Tobias takes up the keytar as a more portable substitute for the grand piano. In the A Bad Case of Déjà Vu segment, Dennis recovers her bass guitar from Flim and Flam after her mother – Mrs. Maria Applejack, accidentally sells it to them at a yard sale. In the Sirbistan Night Fever segment, the Petrovburg Heroes try to cheer Luna up by celebrating his birthday with the special invitation of Princess Moravia to the Sirbistan Partizan Carnival at Canterlot Presidentials.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Friendship Games

The Petrovburg Heroes practices before the titular event. In [[its animated short story – The Science of Magic segment, Roman does experiments on the Friheten Rainbooms to try to find out why Luna and his friends pony up whenever they play music.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Legend of Everfree

The band proudly invites Martin as vice vocalist, performs the Legend You Were Meant to Be song as fundraiser to save Camp Everfree.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Dance of the Equestria Flares

In this EF edition story, the Friheten Rainbooms compete against the Seborga High Girls (Roman, Husniati, Cecil, and Zaynab) in the "Chance to France" music video contest to raise money for Camp Everfree. They later join forces to film the music video, winning the contest and splitting the prize money. Their collective group name is referred to in Dance Flares' lyrics as the Equestria Flares.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Magical Mirror Flares

In this EF edition story, the Equestria Flares briefly appear performing in the Dance Flares music video as it is being played at the Canterlot Mall.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Summertime Short Stories

In Get the Show on the Road segment, the Petrovburg Heroes restore an old presidential bus and use it to go on tour with Hideyoshi as the driver while performing the titular song in the campus parking lot.

### Better Together / Choose Your Own Ending

In A Fine Line segment, the Friheten Rainbooms have an informal rehearsal while waiting in line for the Tirek's Revenge video game at the Canterlot Mall. In the Road Trippin segment, Maria and Hideyoshi drive the Friheten Rainbooms' tour bus to their scheduled performance at the Petrovburg Heroes' party.

In the second season short Festival Filters segment, Dennis references the Friheten Rainbooms when Jason shows her a photo filter that puts them in a virtual band by remarking "we do that already".

In the Polina's Butterflies segment, the Friheten Rainbooms are mentioned by Jason when discussing Polina's stage fright.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Forgotten Friendship

The Petrovburg Heroes appear to performing in the climax of the Battle of the Bands during We've Come so Far and in Dennis' memories.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Rollercoaster of Friendship

The Friheten Rainbooms get booked as the centerpiece for the new Wilhelmshaven National Park's light parade. When the park's public relations head - Mrs. Dustin Afyenni, attempts to unilaterally change the group's image, she uses her Aulia-enchanted cell phone to teleport the members to cyberspace. Dustin proceeds to replace them with dramatically-altered holograms to perform at the parade with herself as the lead singer, renaming the band "Throwbacks". After the members escape and destroy Dustin's phone.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Spring Breakdown

The Friheten Rainbooms perform the All Good song on the KLM luxury liner during a Spring Break cruise. Their performance is cut short when they cause a power failure on the ship after Jason tries to enamor the crowd during the performance by transforming to create "rainbow lasers".

## Performed songs

*For a number of their performing songs, see the Petrovburg Heroes.*
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Rainbooms