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Twilight Sparkle is many things, as Princess Celestia is about to learn. Will her newest Faithful Student finally serve a higher purpose?
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Okay, this chapter had me kind sad, as all Young-Sunset stories do.
But that image in the A/N at the end. Pure, absolute GOLD!
I like this. I really do. It's got that perfect mix of heartwarming and tearjerker. Good job, Icy.
Oh, Twilight. Adorkable as ever.
7892125 It's just a phase!
So basically, prior to Twilight, none of Celestia's "Faithfull Students" meant a thing for her or Equestria?
Not saying that I didn't like your story, but that was the feeling it gave to me.
7892903 They were meant as companions rather than anything else - she didn't know Luna was coming back until it was too late. But as time wore on she did begin to think that one might be able to think one of them could save Luna - hence why she was so critical of Sunset and considered taking Shiny as one.
Celestia was the wrong one in this. Sunset did do exactly as instructed. And it is clear that she's not pushing Sunset to go beyond herself here and holding her back.
There needs to be a letter to Sunset as well, Celestia has to realize at some point that she was the one who was wrong in things.
7893116 A bit too critical with Sunset if you ask me. What does Celestia think right now of Sunset?
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So basically Sunset was right about everything she said... This Celestia was pretty despicable at times, between all her interactions with Sunset and her hypocrisy with how she treats and judges Twilight (oh no, Sunset was too antisocial, let's take this even more antisocial pony, whose first actions as a student were to panic over failing and care more about that than anything else and call it different in a good way). Honestly, that may be my favorite thing about this fic. Celestia is hypocritical and in a way very arrogant (expecting Sunset to apologize for pushing herself and completing the test, then for calling her out for what she's doing, basically for not being blindly faithful), but it all came from desperation and she was never down right cruel or evil, but has a habit of dehumanizing (deponyizing?) her previous students and even Twilight to an extent.
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Thank you for all the interesting comments and speculations. If you want to read more about Sunset, I currently only have one other story with her in it right here. This story was meant to focus primarily on interactions with Twi and Tia - it is for the Twilestia contest, after all - as well as mistakes that were made prior to Celestia having Twilight as her student.
7893519 >see her introduction in EqG one via Celestia exposition
>Twilight befriends Sunny and most likely told Celestia about that
Celestia hasn't interacted with Sunset in any other stories I wrote, but it's safe to say that Sunny has moved on from this.
Another excellent story
That scene on Camazotz where a little boy is jerking in pain every time he bounces his ball differently than his compatriots.
7975368 Ironic considering the book referenced in this chapter...
I am not clear on precisely what Sunset did in that specific test as compared to what Celestia wanted her to do.
This right here is what she wanted her to do. Instead, Sunset made her own rules and modified the spell so that it was more powerful and showy. This upset Celestia.
One thing I have noticed is that you use hyphens where you should use em dashes (—).
This was a fun start.
Your image in the author's note broke :(
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Yeah, that's kinda been an always-thing with my writing. Spaced hyphens are certainly a form I've seen used in writing before, and they just kinda stuck.
You started this pretty quick, though.
This was cute.
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Here it is!
Overall, this was pretty cute. Glad I took the time to read this
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Hyphens instead of em dashes is the big dumb
And of course I got to it quick.
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Das a nice picture.
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oops! Fixed!
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shhh
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Sorry! These are all the other Sunset words I have, so it was what came to mind. I have a lot of other words, though...
Ooh! Nice prologue, can’t wait for Chapter Four! (At least, I think that’s whats happening?)
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Yeah, chapter four will drop when I have the chance to finish it. Until then, all the current chapters have been revised and expanded. They can still be enjoyed without it.
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That's a common occurrence with fanfiction writers; we're used to writing with a type of software that automatically turns hyphens to em dashes when they're preceded and followed by spaces.
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Many of my stories were written on software that didn’t have that. This is different in the updated versions.
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Exactly what I'm getting at. Just about any time I try to write an em dash with a html system it comes out as a mere hyphen. Is this not what happens for you?
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Usually this is the case.
Strings
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What about strings? Could you please explain what it is you mean? I'm afraid one word isn't much to go off of.
the time jumps confuse the fuck out of me.
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It was never intended to be a linear story. You don’t need to pay hard attention to a particular year the story takes place, or anything like that. Generally just knowing what particular character was in what place at what time is enough.