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What cost is worth paying to live in the City above the clouds? Whatever it takes for Rainbow Dash to feel alive.
While this fic is a sequel to I wander, no prior knowledge is necessary to enjoy this fic.
Written for the Science Fiction Contest.
CW: violence, injury, use of hallucinogens
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An amusing segment!
The segment in chapter 1 with the incoming messages was well done: amusing, realistic, and futuristic! It felt cyberpunk as did the entire work!
This seems a bit impossible. Maybe: "didn't think to do it until just before said unicorn..."
A grim ending!
Thank you for sharing the work!
I liked this
This gave me some serious Brave New World vibes and I am here for it. The drugs, the cool technology, the seeming utopia with a horrific underside... This time literally!
Congrats on winning the Starlight Glimmer Committee award, you deserve it!
love this bit of worldbuilding! might as well enhance the pegasi too if we're doing the earthponies, after all
ooh, ominous setting details
oh hey, that's me
very interesting use of Twilight, with a hint of TwiDash, very nice
brings to mind questions of what happened to the other species in this setting, though the griffons and changelings sticking around make the most sense, as they are winged species as well
oof, love the irony here
a fantastic start, introducing us to the elements of the setting so naturally, with just another day in the life of Rainbow Dash. love how there are just enough clues about darker aspects of this world to be picked up on later without lampshading them. looking forward to see what's in store at Rainbow's appointment!
that's so Rainbow Dash! very irresponsible
augh, they're so perfect for each other and i ship it
Chekov's delivery mare?
between this and "Real Fruit Juice", lots of implications here!
aww! i know that Pinkie can definitely be a bit much, but my heart breaks for the lost friendship in this AU
it was nice to see glimpses of the other members of the Mane Six here! the Pinkie is just delightful, and at the perfect level of annoying to get on this clearly down-in-mood Rainbow Dash's nerves
oof, i truly am Rainbow Dash
future drugs, very sci-fi!
continuing the trend of references to other species only being winged species, neat
ooh, sounds very pretty. glad to see pony fashions also adapting to this sci-fi setting
oof, bringing her down to earth! or the sky?
painting a fuller picture of Rainbow's place in society here! i'm reading Fluttershy as in the same position as Rainbow here, with a different type of distraction (Rainbow's bike literally being a perk of her job!) to not have to think about the ponies literally below them, or either of their as-of-yet unspecified roles in the ominous-sounding Administration. the vapor club just reads as pure decadence, soma in Brave New World, with the quick wearing-off letting its usage be seamlessly integrated into a life of schedules and workdays.
starting to get a feeling for what Rainbow's job is!
very ominous
ah, i absolutely love this. retroactively makes all of Twilight's concern and familiarity with Rainbow Dash read as much more dark in the context of her role in this society, agh. great stuff
how dare you do this to me
fantastic
and the dark side of loyalty, bringing together the promise of the fic title and the running theme of menace behind things that sound pleasant and good on their surface
ah, i love this so much! there is so much to unpack! especially with Twilight having casually coördinated with the Twilights of the evictees just minutes earlier, Rainbow Dash is under absolutely no illusion about Twilight's job here. and another crushing layer of this is that Twilight could genuinely mean what she says, and genuinely care for Rainbow Dash in the way a Twilight does, without changing the situation at all.
fantastic stuff, what can i say? set up and paid off its themes spectacularly, wrapping it in a tight story. the secondary characters here were well-chosen and well-used to paint vividly the arc of Rainbow's day. Zephyr and Spitfire's presence at the beginning (both pegasi!) gave us a taste of the lighter "problems" in her life, the kind that one would expect to be dealt with in a slice-of-life tale. Pinkie's exuberance being something that Rainbow detests and has no patience for really illustrated her aloofness and how her job has affected her. (augh, i just got that Twilight tried to set them up as friends, a calculation that would have worked in the canon setting but not this one, just adding to the tragedy of the encounter!) Fluttershy's insensate haze was beautifully rendered, making me feel the anomie of it all, and the futility of escapism. and Applejack! even up here in a nameless apartment the clouds, so far removed from the context of a family farm that it just feels wrong to see her this way, all we see are her roots: her love of her family, her connections to Rainbow Dash's fillyhood, and finally, her beloved hat, discarded along with her to the depths down below.
and that lie and hope that Rainbow tells herself, that everypony she evicts could have survived and lived on in the out-of-sight, out-of-mind below, now extending to her fillyhood friend and her family. and agh, that twisted sense of loyalty again.
just beautiful stuff, Silent. one of the best fics i have read
Howdy, hi~!
Damn. That was intense. Okay, the world-building is fantastic, the subtle introduction of the mane 6 and the various ideas built into the world were amazing. On one hand, I want more, on the other, as is the story is an excellent sort of pocket with a clear beginning and end. Rainbow Dash is wonderfully written and this really hits the dystopian vibe fantastically. I don't know what else to say except that this was a banger of a fic.
Thanks for the read~!