That could do it but it's a lot of patching.The parallel init is a mutual wish
The dirty hack was putting "&" at the end of
Secondary init files..with carefull
But there was a splash screen to use on FreeBSD or is only a linux dejavu?
Maybe this can help
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 1 – Simplified Boot
Later after an update or upgrade it will be gone.
I would like to have that by design but seems that FreeBSD was not designed to be used as a workstation.
Yes, there was once a splash in FreeBSD but it was removed and also that splash lasts few seconds only then it goes back to the text output which was not nice to.