Pony POV Series: Sunset Shimmer's Cutie Mark

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
Pony POV Series: Sunset Shimmer's Cutie Mark
By Alex Warlorn

"I was proud of you, too proud, to see what you were becoming, to see . . . what I was turning you into."

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Cover art by Fox Moonglow. http://fox-moonglow.deviantart.com/art/Sunset-s-Fall-1-The-Faithful-Student-382137378

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Alternate title:
"Enantiodromia"

Takes place after 'A Canterlot Wedding' Pony POV Series style.

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Jordan179

Jordan179 #1 · Aug 15th, 2014 · 3 · ·

Unsure on the chronology here. Ink Well is pretty darn old -- up there with Granny Smith Apple -- and she looked at most middle-aged during the attack on Canterlot. Any filly old enough to be able to do what you describe during that attack would therefore have to be much older than Twilight Sparkle, not just half a generation older. I'm guessing that Cadance is roughly in the same age cohort as Shining, and I don't think that Shining is more than in his late twenties to late thirties -- though apparent age can be very deceptive for Alicorns, given that Celestia and Luna are many centuries old in their current incarnations.

I'm guessing you're ditching the comic books entirely, then?

I must share with you Twilight Sparkle, dark magic is not inherently evil, but the emotions that its users must draw upon and master in order to command it: anger, hate, greed...fear, are emotions that ponies have always looked down on as 'wrong' to feel. Ponies are emotional by nature, and most emotions for dark magic are uncommon and not felt regularly by everypony, so when they are felt, they aren't known for being properly dealt with. And so when it's called upon, the results are seen as ponies losing control of themselves and being a danger to all around them.

Makes sense: it's not the magic itself, it's the psychological state required to employ the magic. In Call of Cthulhu terms, these are spells which also cost Sanity as well as Magic Points to cast. It's been shown that way in the series, too -- a sort of look of twisting or revulsion or extreme effort on the faces of a pony trying to use such magics, even if it's a very powerful spellcaster such as Twilight Sparkle.

Sunset convinced two ponies who were best friends into being her test subjects for a series of dark magic spells intended for her to try and deconstruct how friendship worked. After all, it was a duty requested of them from Princess Celestia's personal student, how could it possibly be wrong? It was for the greater good of Equestria.

(*nods*) Deliberately testing friendship to destruction is a fairly evil thing to do.

Now you know why I was so upset with you after the Smartypants Incident.

Because I wound up seeing Equestria Girls before I saw "Lesson Zero" (I got into MLP after Season Three had already aired) I had the same thought myself watching "Lesson Zero" -- that Celestia must of thinking "Oh no, not again." The more so because the show implies an escalating and increasingly-frequent series of attacks on Equestria (the reason I came up with the "Shadow Wars"), meaning that Celestia woudln't have time to train a new apprentice if Twilight Sparkle went mad. (And in any case, she loves Twilight, so her going mad would be pretty darn upsetting in itself).

The comics make it pretty obvious that she loved Sunset Shimmer too, but that Sunset damaged her love by taking advantage of it.

Your version of their break is better than the comics, though the one in the comics has its own high points.

And ponies quietly buried records of her and their memories of her so deep it was like all had forgotten she had ever existed rather than face Celestia's chosen had fallen from grace. Speaking of her became an unspoken taboo. At times, I felt like I was the only pony who even remembered her.

I can see this -- Celestia's no tyrant, she wouldn't punish Ponies for speaking of Sunset Shimmer -- but she wouldn't be happy, and Ponies want to make her happy, the more so because she isn't a tyrant. There's a danger to that, too -- the danger of sincere sycophancy instead of honest advice.

I wonder how time runs on the other side of the mirror. Based on your chronology, Sunset Shimmer would if she'd stayed on the Pony Earth now be middle-aged to elderly -- but then she probably would have also Ascended if she'd remained sane. Her form on the other side of the mirror was that of a Humanoid in her late teens -- but then so was Twilight's form, and Twilight has to be around 20 as a Pony if they have the same lifespan as we do at that point. Same thing goes for the rest of the Mane Six, who seem to be Twilight's age or slightly older on Pony Earth, but late teens on Humanoid Earth.

It's strange.

Alex Warlorn

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