In The Weedverse, many stories are told about the great heroes and magical princesses of friendship castles. Cerulean Skies is not a princess, nor a wizard, nor a hero. She's just a unicorn born to a family of pegasi, who ruined the lives of those around her. Being a unicorn made living in Cloudsdale impossible for her family.
What About The Rest of Us can be read on FimFic here
The tropes in this short are:
- Arc Words: What about the rest of us?
- Axes at School: A unicorn with even a small idea of what they're doing can be devastating if they cut loose, and Cerulean is getting tempted. Fortunately, she doesn't snap, instead confiding in her father. Once it comes out, he's rather glad about what she actually did.
- Bathos: The serious scenes of Fairweather and Dusky reacting to Indigo's conscription and Cerulean's introspection are interrupted by Flicker Nicker and Piper chasing rats into the scene and out again with a chainsaw. Lampshaded in The Rant.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: Dates at the spar to try and tame hers are not one of Cerulean's favourite things.
- Boxed Crook: When Indigo is accused of sexual assault, he's given a choice between the Guard and jail.
- Chainsaw Good: Flicker Nicker and Piper's arrival in the story is shortly followed by a revving chainsaw.
- Chocolate Baby: The trope is Invoked by bullies trying to get at Cerulean, by claiming her mother cheated on her father.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Cerulean lets rip at Miss Pie after getting told off for not excusing herself before farting loudly, despite the fact that Cerulean attempted to do just that, and was refused by Miss Pie.
- Continuity Nod: Mr Mariner owns the factory where Cerulean is offered a job.
- Dreadful Musician: Cerulean is terrible at the tuba, but loves playing it anyway.
- Graffiti of the Resistance: Cerulean achieves catharsis (and her cutie mark) by engaging in this, using the Arc Words question.
- Hero-Worshipper: Cerulean has a fascination with Moondancer, or at least, her somewhat skewed vision of Twilight Sparkle's best friend. She occasionally begins to cross over into Loony Fan, but fortunately doesn't have the opportunity to act on it.
- Kids Are Cruel: It doesn't take much to get Cerulean nasty comments.
- Named After Somebody Famous: In-Universe, the school that Cerulean attends is named after Trixie Lulamoon.
- The Talk: The story opens with Cerulean in a sex-ed class at school.
- Parents as People: Dusky and Fairweather are genuinely trying to provide for their children, but the necessity of working twelve-hour shifts makes it near-impossible.
- Potty Emergency: Cerulean has one during class, due to the influence of her mother's choice in breakfast. Miss Pie is unsympathetic.
- Skipping School: After blowing up at the teacher, Cerulean decides to just leave, rather than deal with the school.
- Stalker Shrine: Cerulean maintains one to Moondancer, despite never having met her.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Miss Pie has this attitude, not overtly, but definitely places different emphasis on fillies' curricula.
- Stern Teacher: Miss Pie comes across as this, though lacking the reasonableness often associated with the character type.
