Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Rainbow Dash cradled a mug of cider in one hoof and rubbed her face with another.
"I'm happy for her... I am... I am..."
She lifted her bleary eyes up from the tabletop below. "I'm happy for her! I'm totally... totally happy for her!"
Lyra, Bon Bon, Vinyl, and Caramel stared back at her.
"... ... ...well..." Vinyl cleared her throat. "If that's the case... then what brings you here tonight?"
Rainbow sighed. She lifted the mug to her muzzle again. "Cuz I wanna drink until I'm happy for her."
"I'm confused," Bon Bon said, squirming in her seat. "Wasn't the whole point of the camping trip to... to sort that out?"
"Mfrnnnghhh..." Rainbow finished sipping. She wiped the foam from her chin and glared into the neon lights of the nearby window. "The whole point of the camping trip was to prove that I can still be a loyal friend."
"So what's the big friggin' problem?" Lyra droned.
Rainbow siggggggggghed. "The big friggin' elephant-in-the-room murdering problem is that I can't stop wanting to be her pony lover and her best friend!"
"Well..." Caramel smiled nervously. "Who says you c-can't be both?"
Lyra glared at him. "What, are you goddess-dayum stupid, girl?"
"Errrrr..." Ears drooping, Caramel hung his head. "Lyra's right..."
"Rainbow, don't you see what you're doing wrong?" Lyra squinted across the table. "You keep expecting everything from life. Well, news update. Life sucks. If you can't pick and choose, then maybe you gotta just learn to settle."
Rainbow grumbled into her mug. "That's the most unawesome thing I've ever heard ever..."
"Face the music, Rainbow." Lyra stifled a yawn, then gestured at herself and Vinyl. "Celestia knows we have."
"Uhm..." Caramel smiled hopefully. "Life has dresses, though."
"Yeah!" Lyra cackled, waving a hoof at Rainbow. "But Lil Miss Toilet Water over here thinks she can wear a kimono and a tutu at the same time! And that's just not how it friggin' works!"
"Keep your voice down," Bon Bon droned. "Honestly..."
"No! I'm tired of playing nice with Miss Drunk'n'Stuff!" Lyra growled at Rainbow. "Rainbow, girl, if you can't accept the fact that your favorite hayseed has been swept away by crows, then you gotta find a way to get with the program!"
"But... but..." Rainbow rolled her eyes. "He's so... averaaaaaage."
"Is that what really matters, Rainbow?" Bon Bon inquired. "Or is it what Applejack thinks of him?"
"Meh."
"So your camping trip proved that you can let her be happy," Vinyl said. "Now you gotta find a way to let yourself be happy."
"Like how?"
"Like stop obsessing all the time!" Vinyl shrugged. "Find a way to distract yourself until you're not thinking about how miserable you are twenty-four seven."
"Go on a trip!" Caramel said, eyes bright. "Vacations always make me feel good!"
"Ooooh... like a scenic trip to Dream Valley!" Bon Bon cooed.
Vinyl gestured. "Anahaym. It's not so crowded this time of year."
"How about going for a dip off the edge of the world," Lyra droned.
"Lyra!" Bon Bon hissed. "Not helping!"
"I... I dunno..." Rainbow gulped. "I was sorta hoping I could drown myself in my work."
"How's that going for you?" Caramel asked.
"Mmmmmm-not good."
"Well, how about hobbies?" Vinyl asked.
"Huh?" Rainbow looked up.
"You've got hobbies, don't you?"
"I... fly... fast...?"
Silence.
Vinyl leaned forward. "Yeah..." She squinted through her shades. "...and?"
Rainbow Dash blinked. Tonguing the inside of her muzzle, she stared around the lengths of the bar, quiet and contemplative...
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Well, RD did have a hobby. That was collecting chaos shards. But now I guess her drinking buddies are right; RD needs a new hobby. ...Other than obsessing herself with Applejack, of course.
"Like stop obsessing all the time!" Vinyl shrugged. "Find a way to distract yourself until you're not thinking about how miserable you are twenty-four seven."
Yeah, because when the only thing that keeps you going in life gets taken away from you, you can just forget about it right? Screw you vinyl.
She's still working on that one. It's a long trip.
First Shy in Utaan, now Lyra here, ponies having enough of Dash's bullshit seems to be a common trend lately.
Stunts Dash, what about practising your stunts?
...great, just watch her push herself even harder athletically.
Hey, what did I say earlier?
Pegasi; Silly, flighty creatures.
Can lancie come back now, i miss lancie
I hate to be a bummer, but at least it's better than fixating on her looming, eventually terminal full-body paralysis. In case anyone forgot.
I have to say... This scene here just kinda proves how much Raibow's drinking buddies are just that -- drinking buddies not friends. I mean... If Lyra was a friend, she'd use that cynicism in the other direction and yell at Applejack for being an idiot and not seeing what she was putting Dash through... Cuz honestly we may not have seen the Listing Breeze Incident, but this is starting to sound like a relapse.
On the other hand... if that Stu is a changeling theory I've seen recently holds, maybe that's exactly why Lyra's being a Jerk to Rainbow and not vice versa... I mean before this chapter they all seemed much more supporting, and Lyra was a brainwashed bridesmaid baseline.
6839895 Thank you!
That's exactly what I was thinking when she said that!
Oh Rainbow...
~ADG
BREAKING: Rainbow Dash takes up writing fanfics
Lyra comes off the buckle with a truth bomb straight to Rainbow's face!
I feel like this could be the start of a super fun arc though. Side-story distraction stuff as Rainbow tries to find a hobby or tries to settle for dating someone else or whatever. I mean, she might take one single chapter to give up and return to depressive Apple-obsession, but ideally we'll get to have a bit of fun first.
Those advices could really mean something if Rainbow hadn't done them already! Goddamn, it's like reading through my vacation suggestions all over again.
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Yeah Zap, this does sound like the start of an adventure arc. It would be pretty good about now to distract Rainbow from her troubles. Also, seeing her trying new hobbies would be amusing - yet also sad at the same time. Not many things are going to fill the hole in Rainbow's life, and could leave her feeling even more frustrated and depressed.
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This would be a great time to have Lancie come back, Rainbow's made some progress thanks to Fluttershy (which quickly got undone) but she needs another kick in the right direction. Lancie, being someone Rainbow seems to listen to, would be a great one to do that. At the very least, JE could tease us with having a potential instant cure for Rainbow's condition again in exchange for another quest.
You mean being bitter and unfulfilled isn't a hobby?
6842001 Only a pass time
This story has been making me feel so unhappy lately.
6843321 Really? only lately? This stories been depressing me for months.
Yes. Off the edge of the earth. Cool.