BV 4.1 - Paint the Sky

 

Welcome to "Paint the Sky", also known as PHASE FOUR of Mr. Shinzakura's Wild Ride! The main author for this phase is Flynt Coal, who is the most highly qualified of the Berylverse crew:

And best of all

 

There's not much worth posting about yet, but here's the QRD:

Any questions?

 

Now, on the SIREN front:

Should be fun convincing the contractors not to ask questions about the APC, 9000 guns, or Stargate Command magic mirror setup.

 

 

Aside from Silver Spoon hitting on Edgelord in front of Chrysalis

nothing too crazy happens in this part, which feels like an extended introduction more than anything else.

 

In chapter 1, Chrysalis meets the CMCs but ends up befriending Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and Crazy Glue instead. I was expecting this to go on for a while, until she realizes that they're all assholes and ditches them.

 

Turns out it was a little less subtle than that. Chrysalis directly overhears Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon talking about why it's worth keeping up the act: Chrysalis can be their "in" with Sunset Shimmer, and she's useful as muscle too. Chrysalis decides to play along for a while, but when Diamond sends her with some jock to beat up Sweetie Belle and Button Mash (for the sake of poor Crazy Glue, who's broken-hearted at her husbando's betrayal), Chrysalis changes her mind halfway through and beats up the jock instead. Then she goes back to tell Diamond to fuck off, and ends up choking her out and threatening to kill her.

 

Chapter 3 ends with Chrysalis joining the CMCs for lunch, and with Diamond Tiara swearing to discover Chrysalis's secrets and destroy her.

 

That about wraps up every existing plot, so the next chapter (in two weeks) should be something new. Hoping for more like this:

and less mostly-ordinary high school drama.

 

 

Don't be ridiculous. It's still going, just slow.

 

Actually not much to say on this one. Flynt Coal is a reasonably good writer and isn't insane, so Paint the Sky has been decent so far.

 

After miraculously delivering on "30 and a horse" after I thought Shinzakura had crashed it with no survivors, in this fic Flynt Coal is setting up a more extensive "3000 and a bug" plotline, with Chrysalis agonizing over whether to tell Apple Bloom and her other friends about her origins in Equestria. (The M5's families weren't in the cage to watch the Sunset vs. Chernabog showdown at the end of 7DSJ4, so they haven't been read in on Equestrian magic yet.) This is getting more interesting as of chapter 5:

 

The other major plotline is about a couple child traffickers who are kidnapping young girls. They've grabbed three girls from Chrysalis's grade so far, so hopefully this will get more interesting soon. Even better if they're working for the O12 (wizard war), but there's no sign of such involvement yet.

 

Like I said, nothing too egregious. I'm just hoping that

 

 

Apparently this is the chapter immediately before shit gets interesting.

 

1:

(There's actually this whole thing about cameras and consent and a girl undressing and THE TALK and Featherweight is like ten years old and doesn't understand any of this shit except his mom was REALLY mad. But the point is, he hasn't shown anyone the video yet and is worried he'll get in trouble for having it.)

 

2:

(As a reminder, the original origin story has Sombra trade a maid for Cavalcanti's wife, then torture and rape her and let Pony Mengele experiment on her to turn her into the human-changeling hybrid everyone knows today.)

 

Looking forward to the next chapter, in December or so