Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
Sunset stared at the paper in her hands.
Sunset stared. At the paper. In her hands.
Sunset. Stared.
At. The. Paper.
In. Her. Hands.
....no, not even dramatically emphasizing it made it any more incredulous.
Almost without thinking, she snapped her fingers--and immediately six very confused teenage girls were in the living room with her.
"Before you complain about me stealing you away from whatever," she said quickly, "I need you all to confirm that this thing that I am holding is real."
Applejack peered over her shoulder. "...is... that a court summons?"
Sunset's shoulders sagged. "Yeah. I'm not hallucinating this, am I?"
"Violations of... religious and magical law?" Rarity read.
Twilight took the paper and unfolded it. "Well, that's... quite a list."
"Eh, some people will lawyerize anything," Pinkie said with a shrug. "I mean, I remember this one time I baked a totally awesome cake—"
"Okay, since I'm the blunt one I'm just going to say it. Fluttershy, why are you naked?"
At Rainbow Dash's words, everyone turned to the girl who had hastily wrapped herself in a quilt with Sunset's mark on it, only just now noticing the tattooed lines on her face.
"...I, uh..." Fluttershy blushed. "I... miiiiiight have been practicing a druidic ritual to connect myself to the feeling of nature while in the depths of a local forest." She coughed. "But, yes, that is kind of a ridiculous lawsuit."
Sunset blinked. "Oh. Sorry for interrupting that. I'll just... send you back now if you need it?"
"That would be nice, yes."
With a snap of Sunset's fingers, the now empty quilt fell to the ground. She turned to the others. "So. Anybody else pulled from something important?"
A general casual negative reaction was given.
"Okay. So... Lawsuit. Against me... I mean, what." She threw up her hands. "What."
I checked with Masterweaver. He has no idea who filed the suit. I invite you to speculate.
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Is this suit even enforceable? I mean at the moment Sunset is literally the most powerful being in the universe.
Diamond Tiara
7519154
I do remember several historical case where poeple tried to sue God, and one case that got thrown out because
it was "discovered" that the Devil didn't live in the state in question, and could not be tried under local lawthey didn't have anyway to serve process of Satan and his Staff..Sorry for my original mistake, this link should help
7519155 While her family certainly has the money for such an undertaking, they don't really have anything to gain from it. No, it's probably the Scientologists or the WBC
Good luck enforcing any legal measures against her. She's at least a 5-dimensional being. Though I have to wonder, just what manner of religious and magic laws could she have broken, and how?
7519160
If she's a deity, they could (un)reasonably take her for every single accident, act of god insurance claim, or emotional trauma that was the fault of random chance.
Diamond Tiara (before her redemption) and Spoiled Rich strike me as the kind of shit-heels to attempt it out of pure spite, rather than looking to gain anything specific.
I remember reading a news story about a woman who tried, on God's behalf, to sue the gays. All of them. For being gay. Only in America, people.
I imagine that whatever this lawsuit is for is equally stupid.
7519159 Oh gosh that's crazy. Even more so the courts made a go of it. I still can't see this going well for the plaintiff in this case.
7519231
And on the other side
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_God
We humans are a silly species, no?
The idiot might as well sue Zeus or Manwe Sulimo.....
7519700
I'm fairly certain Zeus has enough paternity suits going on to equal the GDP of a Third World Nation.
7519154
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? the idea of law is that no one is above it. Sure, she could ignore it, and prevent anyone from enforcing it against her, but it would be her openly saying, 'I am above the law'. This might be literally true, but it's not really a great stance to take if you're attempting to maintain an orderly civilization, because you're saying that if someone is strong enough to countermand the force of law, they're immune to it.
7519162
I'm also wondering what religious law is being enforced through the court of law. Isn't that an internal religious matter?
7519190
Well, there's the thing- she's not claiming to be god- just a nigh-omnipotent being interested in maintaining magical stability in this universe. If they're attempting to hold her responsible for acts of god, she can rightly point out they're suing the wrong person.
Tirek, issat you?
So she's breaking religious law? How does that work? Like, who makes religious laws? I don't really see how that would work.
I'm pretty sure any culture that would try to cite someone for violations of religious laws would just try to arrest and/or kill the perpetrator. I can't fathom a society that'd try to sue over it.
7520014 I see what you are saying, but at the same time when Sunset is doing her duties, she can't actually care about anyone one country's laws. In all she's more of a force of nature then a person then. It's more of if she let's the law stop her, then there won't be a planet, much less a civilization.
7520262
Canon law is a thing, normally laid down by Church Leaderships.
7521000 But canon law is done by church leadership, so if this lawsuit has to do with the religion about her, than that means the equivalent of accusing Jesus of breaking canon law. So unless she was a member of a church before the whole "Catalyst of Harmony" thing, and their laws are the ones she's broken, they really have no standing.
This comment made more sense in my head, but I don't feel like rewording it right now.
7521259
There's a bunch of that in fiction see...
"In the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov (1880), one of the characters tells the story of a grand inquisitor in Spain who meets an incarnation of Jesus, interrogates him and exiles him."
... doesn't that make for grand irony.
I don't have a specific idea yet, but Murdock Press is probably involved.
You're a living god, Sunset. Technically, anything that goes seriously wrong in anyone's life could be seen as your fault! Plus there are any number of grifters, chancers and parasites who'd not hesitate to take the chance for free living for life on a deity's dime! Whole religions and clergy classes are built on that fact!
Anyone else reminded of Good Girl's Lawsuit from League of Super Redundant Heroes?
I'd like to read the full story just to see how the hell this would go. I mean, seriously? Wow, I can't see this working out at all.
7521259
That sort of thing did happen a few times while Jesus was walking around and teaching. Of course, those priests and scribes didn't really comprehend that they were attacking their own God. Maybe the Sunset summons was from a similar group, who'd squeezed and distorted the religion into a form they liked, and are highly upset when someone shows up with the real facts.
7520014
When you're as powerful as Sunset, you're not making a precedent. You're stating that you, and only you, are above the law. Because the law is in no way capable of being able to understand or police her, and if it was able to might actually damage the nature and fabric of the universe in its attempts.
Laws made by people of a certain level should deal with people of a certain level. Mortals handling mortals. And, in Sunset's case more or less as this universe's God, Sunset handling mortals. Trying to make her submit to the laws of the far less capable, of those who can't understand an iota of what she is or what she does for them, is not only foolish to the Nth degree but if she went along with it might bring an end to all life and existence depending on how uppity said mortals got with their laws and how many of them might try to pull something legal on her just to satisfy their own wounded egos at the concept of a being so much greater and more necessary than they are. Which you KNOW would happen.
Also, laws are enforced by the idea that up the ladder of enforcement ability is military might regardless of laws preventing military from acting on home soil. Laws can only be enforced because there is violence suitable enough to MAKE people follow them if it has to. So, if someone - anyone - is so powerful that the combined might of the world's little nations and governments can't even make them sneeze, then they are already above the law unless they choose to humor these people for however long they decide. Just the nature of things.
Probably another god filed the suit.