Red swan · 4:59pm Oct 10th, 2018
Life sure has a way of throwing a wrench at your head. I can't even remember how many days this past month where I just went to work and came home to sleep for twelve hours. I don't even remember a few days because they all just blur together. However! that is soon to change. I have made a decision, and starting the week after next, (the 22nd) Monday updates are coming back, and they're going to keep coming until Super is done. I know I've been saying it's almost finished for a long time now, but this time, I really mean it. We're nearing the last act of the final arc, and very soon I am going to make everyone who's journeyed with me up to this point cry, probably including myself while we're at it. After nearly two and a half years of writing this, a moment I've had planned since the beginning is finally coming.
So, on to today's chapter; the end of the prodigal daughter. This marks the moment where Pinkie decides to grow up. Her life was hard more often than not, but all the while she spent it using her powers to run away from her greatest regret. By telling her parents everything and subsequently her friends, she has nothing left to hide, and now that her shame is out in the open... Fluttershy makes a joke and ruins everything. The beautiful climax you always expected. The perfect ending to something that should've been emotional, ruined by sarcastic laughter from one that might as well have been her closest friend.
P E R F E C T.
but really, I've had this stuff in mind for a long time, basically since I wrote HS3: Outsider. Details were scarce, Crotalo didn't have a name, who reacted negatively in her family was undecided and who would be there to hear the story wasn't even a thought, but the idea was there. It's pretty astounding to think that this idea wouldn't come to the page until two years later, damn near on the dot. Outsider was published on Oct 9 2016, and today is Oct 10 2018. I always thought that the way I brought Pinkie about was like putting a shonen protagonist as the side character in somebody else's story. She's got all the elements to basically be Naruto, but in the end there just isn't a way for her to become the best in this world, and to make it worse she can't even be Endeavor. Tons of others out class her, and someday more might do the same. Through staring death in the face, she realizes she can't become what she wants to, so she sets her sights somewhere else. To truly move forward though, she realizes that she has to let the past be the past, and that is going to take an apology. More difficult than killing yourself is admitting to your faults and mistakes over the years. Shame is one of the most painful emotions one can experience, and it is a mountain you can't climb alone.
And with that, the side arc exploring our main cast is just about over. The road to the finish is long, but with every page, I'm coming closer to the end. I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I do, because it's going to get wild.
Final updates: starting this week, I'll be going through a few chapters every week to update some of the writing quirks I've found to be faults more recently than not. Not much should change but grammar here and there, and I might reword a line to two, so there's your heads up.
Anyways, that's all from me.
Until Next Time~
-KCZ
