Sure, high school is lame and becoming a freshman was a lot to take in but it’s like I rule this place now. I’m a shoe-in for the Fall Formal crown. I’ll look so good with my boyfriend at my side. Everything is working out according to my plan. But what happens if there is ANOTHER Sunset Shimmer from a strange otherworldly place with designs on living MY life, someone even more vicious than I?
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Ouch, poor Human!Sunset. I've always had the same kind of theory that perhaps she did that to her double. Nice to see she reacts rather realistically to Equestria with the total panic and being unable to handle it but forces herself to adjust.
I like this a lot. It's always interesting to see how we as fans can fill in where the narrative drops the ball and come up with ways that make sense and have some consistency. Also I loved that EQG!SS actually seems to have changed during her time in Equestria, whether that's from just the environment change or her shock making her more susceptible to bettering herself I'm unsure.
4040755 I wanted to leave it ambiguous if she ever went back, or wanted to go back, but still have a bittersweet ending. The letter to Celestia seemed like a good way to go. I think her character would feel much better once actually learning how to make real friends.
4038410 I was thinking about it and it had to be terrifying, because Equestria Sunset at least come from a magical world herself but other Sunset is just a kid. And she had to be there thirty months, minimum! She would have to adjust and kind of go native or go crazy, and I don't think Celestia would stand for that.
4040938 I agree yeah.
The only implausible thing about this whole situation is your baseless claim that there's anything recoverable about that movie's gigantic plot holes!
But it totally seems plausible SS would shove her double through the portal. She's also pretty handy (heh) with a shovel. Also explains why Celestia didn't drag her back to ponyland for some timeout on the moon. New Shimmer pony is going to be O.K. I think. Celestia should know what she herself did wrong to corrupt Shimmer, so won't repeat the mistake. Like for instance taking on the new Shimmer as her personal protegé.
4043839 Hold on to your butts for Equestria Girls 2, it's going to be utter nonsense and I will watch it like 10 times because I like to torture myself like that.
The only thing about this story I did not like, was that you did not continue any further with it. Wonderful job. I'm always glad to find fanfic involving Sunset Shimmer and her counterpart from the human world.
4152595 Thank you so much for your interest and the favorite. There are two reasons this story was so short.
One is that I'm a big fan of the short story medium. A writer who can get in, establish a world in a few thousand words, mess things up, and get out really has some talent so I've taken it as a challenge.
The second is that I had two specific questions I wanted answered through this story: what happened to Human Sunset and why didn't we see her fate addressed in the movie. After I accomplished that I felt any more detail would be filler. As a reader you can imagine her first few days at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, continuing adjusting to her new body, alienation morphing into acceptance and humility. I didn't want to spell it all out.
I guess I exhausted my curiosity about the character though I learned to appreciate her more. I can and have written several stories about Scootaloo and Celestia who are in my mind the most interesting characters. Something I like about mlp is how the villains are never just the evil king on the mountain, they are always coded to something a child may encounter in their lives. Discord is change and upheaval, Sombre represents abuse and post-traumatic stress, Trixie the showy rival we often face. At first I thought "Sunset is just a cyberbully and mean girl, not very deep really" but now I know she is the most important of them all since Equestria Girls is meant for middle school aged kids and THIS is the sort of antagonism that has and is harming and killing them. She's a real threat. So yeah I think I will read more Sunset fics for inspiration.
Thank you again for your feedback.
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Wow!
You're very welcome.
Well kudos then for making a good short story [I'm not sure how good I am at that genre].
Hmmm, interesting perspective on what Sunset represents. I guess the there is a serious threat with Cyber bullying and all that. To me, Sunset is a villain with so much potential of being great. Or, at least she is the most visually appealing. Her colour scheme alone is [to me] full of symbolism of who she is as a character. If you'd like to hear it, let me know.
Thank you for the in-depth response.
This was a nice little story. Human Sunset got a much better deal in the end than she does in my personal headcanon (in which Equestria!Sunset keeps her tied up in a basement).
Interesting take.
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Yeah. The sad thing is that in this context, even if Pony Sunset (the original) wanted to come back, she probably couldn't. She'd be asking to doubly traumatize "Human" Sunset or unbalance universes. I doubt Celestia would let her. In the best of all words, they could swap places again, but I doubt "Human" Sunset would happily throw away her new life. If either of them had formed any relationships that they valued then they couldn't swap without potentially destroying those and risking the ancillary consequences. The only tidy solution to that problem would be some kind of mind meld that would make them near duplicates with weird memories.
Hasn't occurred to her yet that it would be unfair to traumatize them by knowing they have Sunset back, but not their daughter.
This seems a bit much for Human!Sunset to take for granted without further information.
The word you want is 'mourn', not 'morn'.
Shouldn't that be 'my best guess'? Why not simply state that her sister would know or something less weird to say?
P.S.
Celestia seems a little out of character, not nearly composed or formal enough, especially considering she knows that this Sunset is not one she is familiar with, despite similarities superficial and less so.