It was starting to rain. It was just drizzling now, but Rainbow knew enough about weather to be certain it was gonna start pouring soon. The sound of rain hitting the rushing train window was like a melody matching the rhythm of Rarity tapping her nails against the side of her seat as she stared vacantly out the window.
Which was definitely a mood; Rainbow was in a real ‘staring vacantly out the window’ place herself to be honest.
Should she ask Rarity what she’s thinking? If Rarity was feeling contemplative, Rainbow didn’t wanna interrupt, but if she was feeling lonely then Rainbow did wanna interrupt! Decisions, decisions. Rainbow hated making decisions! It was so much easier to just live life on the first impulse that entered your brain, but Rainbow’s first impulse on this situation was to fret over it!
“Something on your mind, dear?” Rarity asked, and the irony wasn’t lost on Rainbow. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brow more furrowed.”
“I was wondering the same thing, actually,” Rainbow said softly, smiling at Rarity, who smiled back and gave a gentle laugh, and Rainbow was feeling kinda gay about it. It’d been a while since Rarity and Rainbow had just hung out together like this, and Rainbow always forgot how pretty Rarity always was. “About you, I mean.”
“Ah, of course, of course,” Rarity nodded and laughed again, smiling at Rainbow Dash wish sent a jolt straight to her heart. “I admit, I am a tad on edge. Dealing with Celestia and every— oh dear, I just realized this will be the first time I’ve seen her since everything with Twilight went down. That can’t be right, can it? Oh no I think it is right, oh shit, oh god, oh I’m freaking out now.”
This looked like a job for wing hugs, so Rainbow jumped over to Rarity’s seat and wrapped her wing and her arm around her.
“You wanna talk about something else until we get there?” Rainbow asked. “Cuz like, yeah it’s gonna be awkward at best, so… I don’t blame you for freaking out.”
“I am not ‘freaking out’,” Rarity scoffed in disgust.
“Rarity you literally just said ‘I’m freaking out now’.”
“Oh. Yes, I suppose I did, didn’t I?” Rarity said flatly, Rainbow snorting into her hand. “Okay fine, force of habit, you shush!”
Rainbow cackled as Rarity gave her a playful shove, and Rainbow immediately shoved her back, with Rarity escalating the shoving war even further until the two were shoving each other super hard, Rainbow eventually shoving Rarity off the seat and onto the floor, and then toppling on top of her.
“Wow, you have a real talent for this,” Rarity said drolly, pinned underneath Rainbow and looking up at her with those gorgeous blue eyes.
“My cutie mark should just be a picture of me on top of a beautiful woman,” Rainbow snarked.
“Oh? Am I that beautiful?” Rarity grinned, and Rainbow jumped off of her and curled into a ball on the seat, Rarity climbing up next to her. “What’s the matter, darling? Feeling a little flustered?”
“Sh-shut up!” Rainbow squeaked. “What’s gotten into you, anyway? First Cadance and now this? Is Twilight not treating you right or something?”
“Just the opposite, in fact,” Rarity said, smiling at herself. “She’s treated me so well, and Fluttershy too. I used to be terrified of romance because— oh because of a million silly reasons, but now that I’ve experienced the real thing? I guess I just can’t get enough of it.”
“Wait,” Rainbow squinted and let her mouth hang open as the gears in her brain click-clacked slowly into place. “Wait, do you like, actually like me? Like I mean like-like me?”
“Darling,” Rarity laughed and booped Rainbow’s nose, “I love you.”
You ever, like,, you’re dealing with some complex machinery and it just explodes on you? That’s what Rainbow’s brain felt like it was doing. Or maybe her heart? Or both? She just? Like? WHAT!!!!
“Wuh?”
Nicely done, Rainbow.
“Haha, I’m sorry if that’s a little sudden,” Rarity said and put her hand on Rainbow’s leg. “But the truth is, I do love you. You’re one of my dearest friends, and if being with Twilight and Fluttershy has taught me anything, it’s that the line between friendship and romance is razor thin.”
“Oh,” Rainbow said contemplatively, and then blinked a couple times. “You wanna make out?”
“Absolutely.”
I've been there.
Smart horse.
She's got you in a corner there.
It really should be.
I see.
And here we have Rainbow Dash. The most eloquent character in the entire fic. See how words flow from her mouth with no effort, poetry on the tip of her tongue, and song ready to burst from her heart.
Fair enough.
fair
oof
oh noooooo
wing hugs! the solution to all problems
rainbow does tend to end up that way
oh my
awwwww
(tbh i can never remember the current state of the polycule. i'd have to keep a graph and update it per chapter and nah, i'll just be happy about the gay moments that arrive.)
awwwww!
ah aro life, aro wife.
also happy 2^8 / 8-bit chapter!
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yea, same honestly; i actually had a chart for a little bit lmao.
i feel like a couple pairings haven't rly been given their due and i wanna change that before we get to the upcoming OMNISHIP COMPLETE chapter, but for the most part the characters are all dating each other already for all intents and purposes, they just haven't made things official yet.
so much romance fiction is all about building up to that Big Moment where the couple confesses their feelings to each other, and i kinda tried doing that at first just cuz i felt like that's what u were supposed to do, but the more i wrote the more i realized that doesn't fit azure edge at all. azure edge is alot more about little moments than big ones, if that makes sense, and that's somthn i honestly rly like about it.
HELL YEA ARO GANG BABEY
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i appreciate that, not everything needs to be a world ending disaster or some big theatric moment. it's nice to just have the soft, slow, and quiet moments also matter just as much
hell yeah! (it's a shame i don't really personally like the green on the aro flag, but eh the ace flag is just perfect so whatever)
(hmm, maybe i could have a tri-split design of the flags in our avatar. wonder how complicated that would be. graphic design may not be my passion but i do know my way around gnu imp and am not afraid to use it)
Lovely chaptervand at this point I kight dare to go back from the beginning to count how many times the word gay is used.
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this intrigued us so we took a look
turns out, 39 (including chapter titles but not including authors notes. also not including things like "gayly")
first time is in chapter 33, then chapter 130, 136, 138, 141, 143, 148, 149, 150, 166, 193, 206, 209, ok we're done. counting the occurrences was easy and automatic but individual chapters is manual and we're not going through all 39 instances
suffice to say it picks up quite a bit after the second occurrence.
(also this is assuming the fimfic txt download isn't missing anything so who knows)
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wait is there a way to word search on the entire fic at once?? cuz i was literally just thinking that i could extremely use something like that
also that is a shockingly low number. i need to up my gay game lmao
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i just clicked the "download as .txt" button, which gives a single txt file of all the chapters concatenated, and then searched through that
pretty sure there isn't a way to do that inside the fimfic interface though
and if you have an epub reader it should also work with that, because txt removes formatting and author's notes and stuff, but txt was easier to search for simple things like wordcount
as for upping the gay game: absolutely, please continue
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oh yea that is EXACTLY what i needed! thank u very much!!
i will make so many more gays. more gays than anyone can handle >:3c
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happy to help!
my gays are too powerful for you traveler...
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Thank you both... lets hooe the gayness is at maximum levels.