What Good is Any of This Anymore?

After the finale, seeing Dash in the war with Sombra made my head-canon sense start tingling.

Since the world was plunged in to war, does that mean that no pony is able to find their special talent?

Were all the ponies forced to give up on any and all the dreams that they had because of the war?

Did all of the ponies forget what it was like to be happy? To have a bright and colorful future?

This led me to think that Dash, who's entire life's dream was to become the fastest flier and join the Wonderbolts, would basically believe that she doesn't have much of a purpose in the world anymore. But she only keeps on because of the small possibility of a brighter future at the inevitable end of the war and for the benefits of all of ponydom.

So yeah. I tried to make this one sorta "feels-y." Dunno if I actually succeeded in that or not, but yeah.

I drew this in my sketchbook. Instead of completely doing it with pens, I only used pens for the outline and shaded it with a pencil. Then, just cause, I played around with the brightness/ contrast settings in Sai and ended up making it look like this, so this is the version I'm going with.

Link to the original, unedited version will be here:

I splashed some color on it. I think it looks a lot better with color.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Black and white version: