Hey, who wants a (roughly) one page PGS chapter preview?! · 6:29am Jun 8th, 2017
You do? You, right there? Well, of course you do! Think of it as my way of apologizing for yanking your chain last week with that totally not made up PGS blurb.
This offers little in the way of spoilers, or even substantial content; it’s just a short little bit of a scene that captures a quiet moment between Cherry Jubilee and a DualShock controller look, just read it and find out if you’re interested.
Twilight still hadn't come out of the bathroom, so I loaded the guns back into the locker, and pulled out the file folder. I flipped through pages of memos and inventory lists – documents that had apparently been too complicated for her tiny pony brain – and filled my mind with as much Pegasus Wings trivia as I could.
I was reading through a particularly scintillating memo about the dire need for a long-term supply of ammunition when I noticed Cherry Jubilee eyeballing me from across the library. The mare was laid out on a pile of cushions, with a book open in front of her that I didn't honestly believe she was reading.
I turned to look at her, and she immediately redirected her attention to the literature in front of her. "Enjoying yourself?" I asked.
The question didn't register right away – when it did, she flicked her gaze up at me, uncertainty in her eyes. "It's... um..."
Frowning, I set the folder down and walked toward her, noticing the tension in her limbs – having me close made her nervous. That in mind, and leaving an arm's length between us, I knelt and gently pulled the book away from her, flipping it shut to examine the cover.
"SLAYMARE: THE HARDCOVER COLLECTION," it read, in jagged, crimson font. The logo had been stylized to appear defaced – presumably, for marketing and branding purposes – with "COVER," crossed out and "CORE," spray-painted sloppily beneath. Below the title, an audaciously posed mare smirked at me, standing on her hind legs with her front hooves crossed over the hilt of a longsword. Its blade was thrust, halfway to the hilt, into a pile of monster corpses, with the ruins of a dead city smoldering behind her. The mare’s coat was charcoal-grey, her flowing mane striped red and white, and her eyes were hidden behind mirrored sunglasses.
"Shit, this that comic Killjoy was talking about.” I flipped through the pages – panels and pages of hardcore violence, of blood and gore and viscera, flew past. Otacon might've liked it – he's always been into weird shit. Him and his damn anime. “What fever dream did you ever find this in?”
"I wasn't actually reading it," Cherry mumbled thickly. "Just... it was in Twilight's saddlebags, an'... I was snoopin'..."
"Yeah, she got those from Killjoy. This must belong to her." I snorted, closing the book and setting it back on the floor. "Suits her, I guess. Sure doesn't seem like it'd be to Twilight's taste."
"...Ain't mine, neither." Cherry pushed it away, a smile breaking through the layers of trauma and fatigue.
I couldn't help wondering what sort of person Cherry Jubilee might have been like before. She struck me as similar to Applejack, but, somehow, even folksier. Her scars ran deep, but that smile was a glimpse of someone else. Someone vibrant, and vivacious. Someone I think I would have enjoyed getting to know – someone who, tragically, may have been lost forever among the sands of Dodge.
Then, just like that, the smile was gone, and she was looking at me through that confused, semi-lucid haze.
I haven't read PGS but this Slaymare thing sounds wicked badass.
Man, that went from 0 to 100 on the Feels-o-Meter real fast.
So why haven't you written a Slaymare spinoff series yet? Missed opportunity if you ask me
4564092 It really isn't. It's just pulp schlock that's ridiculously popular with the Royal Guard. Anyone providing an honest literary assessment calls it garbage.
I had half a mind to write it as an April Fools story.
4564357 It would be terrible.
On purpose.
An interesting preview, no doubt.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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That doesn't sound like a reason not to write it if you ask me!
But what do I know? I used a double negative just now.
Daily reminder to Posh that he tried to put a Harambe reference in his story.