Why I Wear This Jacket
Sunset Shimmer entered her living room with a massive bowl of popcorn. All of her friends were crowded together in the limited space she had to offer.
Rarity and Applejack were grouped together under a blanket on her loveseat, discussing something with Fluttershy who laid on the floor at their feet. Meanwhile Twilight lounged on the couch with Pinkie, giggling at whatever their conversation was about. The only person separated from the others was Rainbow Dash. She was crouched beside Sunset’s limited DVD collection, browsing through it.
“So, what are we watching tonight?” Sunset asked.
She plopped down on the couch next to Pinkie, offering her the bowl of popcorn.
Pinkie took it in a flash and shovelled a handful into her mouth before passing it over onto Twilight. She was considerably more conservative with her consumption.
“Well I’m stuck between Red Dawn and Rocky 4,” Rainbow Dash said.
Rarity groaned. “Why those two movies?”
“Because I have a history paper due Monday and I need to know how the Cold War ended,” Rainbow Dash said.
Twilight swallowed hard, nearly choking on a kernel. “Wait what? Rainbow Dash, you can’t use one of those movies as a primary source. They aren’t even grounded in reality.”
Rainbow Dash decided to ignore her. “Sunset, why don’t you have Netflix?”
Sunset snorted. “It’s kind of hard to sign up for Netflix without a credit card.”
“And why don’t you just get a credit card?”
“Because I’m an illegal immigrant with next to no income? Its kind of hard to get a credit card when you’re missing basic things like a social insurance number or a birth certificate.”
Rainbow Dash shook her head and held up both titles for her friends. “Alright let’s have a vote then. All in favour of Rocky raise your hand.”
Applejack lifted her arm and Rarity begrudgingly joined her.
Rainbow Dash nodded. “Alright and those in favour of Red Dawn?”
The other four girls cast their vote with a varying degree of reluctance. Rainbow Dash shrugged and simply cast Rocky aside.
“Hey!” Sunset yelped as the case landed upon the hardwood floor, skidding across it.
“I’m surprised Sunset,” Applejack said.
Sunset looked up. “Huh?”
“I thought you would have picked Rocky for sure. It’s a boxing movie after all.”
“I mean what does that have to do with anything?”
“I just, you know, thought you were a big fan of boxing is all.”
“Not especially. I’m not honestly into fighting movies.”
“So where did you learn to fight then?” Pinkie Pie blurted out.
“Learn to fight? I have no idea how to fight.”
Everyone instantly went silent as their attention was drawn to Sunset.
“Wait you don’t know how to fight?” Rainbow Dash asked.
Sunset shook her head. “I mean I get the gist of it but I’ve never actually been in a fight.”
“But you wear a leather jacket,” Applejack said.
Sunset shrugged. “So, what does that have to do with anything?”
“It’s just you usually expect someone who wears a leather jacket to know how to fight is all,” Applejack said.
“I don’t know what to tell you girls. I’ve literally been in zero fights that didn’t involve magic.”
“Ok but why do you wear a leather jacket then?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Because I like the way it looks and it's cool? This thing goes well with everything I own.”
Rarity nodded. “I have to agree with Sunset on this. That jacket does suit her.”
“Wait, so you all thought I knew how to fight because I wear a leather jacket?”
The girls all looked to one and other before nodding in agreement.
Sunset couldn’t help but laugh. “Come on, it’s just a leather jacket. There doesn’t need to be some hidden story behind what I wear. It’s like trying to find some special meaning in why Dash always wears plaid. There just isn’t one.”
Rainbow Dash looked away and coughed into the sleeve of Spitfire’s plaid shirt.
“I mean it’s not just the leather jacket. You also have this really confident personality,” Twilight added.
“So?” Sunset began. “A lot of people can be confident and not resort to physical violence. I mean look at Rarity and Applejack. Rarity is confident and doesn’t resort to fighting and with the exception of arm-wrestling neither does Applejack.”
Rarity and Applejack exchanged a look.
“She has a point,” Applejack admitted.
Fluttershy looked away for a moment. “Ok but you also used to be really mean and aggressive.”
Sunset winced at this. “Yeah I guess. I guess I was.”
“You even used to push people around,” her voice grew softer with each word, “like me.”
Sunset’s pained expression deepened. “Ok look, I was a complete and utter bitch back then. I knew how to manipulate people and make them fear me. However, if, say, Rainbow Dash actually decided to do something about it and punched me in the nose? I would have collapsed like a house of cards.”
Rainbow Dash grinned at this.
Sunset continued, “I mean think about it for a second. Where did I come from before Canterlot High?”
“Equestria,” Pinkie Pie interjected.
“Ok but more specifically.”
“Weren’t you a personal student of Principal, er, Princess Celestia?” Applejack asked.
“Exactly, and who else was a personal student of Celestia?”
The girls all looked at each other before their gaze settled upon Twilight. She laughed nervously at the sudden shift in attention and adjusted her glasses.
Sunset nodded. “Exactly, now ask yourself. Does Twilight, like either Twilight, look like the type of person who knows how to fight?”
“Well,” Rarity began.
Sunset held up a hand. “I am talking about a fistfight not a magic fight. Believe me, I know just how dangerous that girl is with magic.”
“Heck, Twilight wouldn’t last for ten seconds in a real fight,” Applejack drawled, “no offense Twilight.”
“None taken,” Twilight said.
“Phhh, I’d give her five.” Rainbow Dash snickered.
“Ok a little offense taken.” Twilight sighed
“See what I mean? I’m pretty much as big of a bookworm as her. We even had the same background until I went off the deep end. I was a coddled unicorn filly until I was six. I then went to a private school where I toiled away doing ten hour days of studying, attending lectures, reading books, casting spells, and being an all around brownnose to Celestia. Hell, I didn’t even step foot in a gym until I got here.”
“So, what you’re saying is,” Rarity started.
“You all apparently thought I was some badass when really I’m just a girl who thought a leather jacket looked cool. Do you really want to know what inspired me to wear this?”
“What?” Twilight asked.
Sunset pointed a finger towards her DVDs. “Second shelf all the way to the left.”
Rainbow Dash turned around and glided her finger across the second row until it settled upon the title in question. In bold letters were the words, ‘Mad Max’.
“Wait so you stole the idea from a movie? You’re such a dork,” Rainbow Dash teased.
“Damn straight.” Sunset grinned. “Now hurry up and put on a movie. I’m getting bored.”
Rainbow Dash snorted but complied, sliding Red Dawn into the DVD tray.
As the movie started the conversation simmered down until all seven girls were engrossed in the best that the 1980’s had to offer. At least until Rarity got a bit too vocal about where exactly Applejack’s hand was. It just got kind of awkward after that.
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Well I liked it. All except for the part about Red Dawn being the best that the 1980s had to offer. Certainly it's a good movie, but there's a lot of other good movies to be had.
Well, this is an interesting find!
Fanon tends to make quite a few assumptions about quite a few things, then stick by them without another thought. They're usually pretty understandable, even if they don't always hold up under a bit of scrutiny. This here is a great example.
I've never been entirely sure about Sunset's physical prowess myself, but if she successfully bullied a whole school this long and we see her getting rough with people, you can kinda make the logical connection that she might be relatively tough. Of course, as said here, she may have just been a pretty standard bully that withers at the first punch and if she spent most of her life as a bookworm, it's not irrational to think that muscle mass wouldn't be her greatest literal strength. It's also not irrational to think that, losing her magic, she might have resorted to working out a bit and maybe studying some basic self-defense to give herself an edge (if one assumes she wasn't so ridiculously arrogant as to think she couldn't be outmatched already. Which, in the movie, she kind of was. Come to think of it, that she mainly relied on social media to do her bullying kind of says something...), but nothing is really proven either way.
Her brains are a bit questionable too, given her canon behavior, but I while I generally like to think she's a relatively smart cookie anyway, I'm a little less inclined now to think she's as tough as the jacket makes her look. It's now that I recall that Flash Sentry wears a similar jacket.
TL;DR: Good thoughts. Good story. Liked.
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Why does Sunset Shimmer wear that jacket all the time?
Doesn't do much for me. It would have helped if they at least made some mention of her carrying herself like she knew how to fight.
"Frankly dear the way you carried yourself you looked like you were barely restraining yourself from striking or choking someone all the time," Rarity said
I always thought she wore it as some sort of security blanket
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Look, Red Dawn was pretty dope. It might not be the best but its one of the best in my opinion.
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Hey thank you for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the story.
Also Sunset still kicks ass she just doesn't kick ass when it comes to fighting.
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We'll never know.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you for the read anyways.
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Security blankets can still look cool >.> <.<
Good to know Sunset likes 80s movies. Of course unicorns or former unicorns would be total wimps in a fistfight.
Ha! I see what ya did there.
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Well it was all said in good fun. You've effectively deconstructed the idea of Sunset Shimmer being able to back up her image with physical prowess, demonstrating the bullies are a lot of hot air and little else. There really wasn't much else for me to comment on.
7992822 ehhhh i liked the new red dawn truefully take from that what you will
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I mean its not so much, 'like'. It's more, 'oh wow 12 movies for 2 bucks' at a garage sale.
Sunset's poor. Please help her.
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Only top tier word play from this author
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Your comment was appreciated. I didn't mean to make it sound otherwise. Thank you for the kind words.
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I actually liked it as well. Its not as good as the original but it does have some fun moments and a few actors that I enjoy.
7992985 I sometimes forget about that. I've been reading fics where Sunset brought some bits or gems and she's well, loaded. But then again, poor Sunset's good too.
i'll never not love this line
no it's not, prepaid "gift" cards are a thing.
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Someone doesn't know how Netflix works...
also, are you assuming she has a debit card? Because I doubt she can even get a bank account.
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you're right obviously.
red dawn is nowhere near how you're supposed to spell "The Miami Connection".
I thought she wore the jacket cause of her sex appeal.
7993510 *raises eyebrow*
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Oh, come on. You can't say leather jackets aren't hot.
7993608 Yes, people in them get very sweaty, especially in Summer :3
DVDs?
Really?
What is it, 1999?
Why does she wear it? Let my good friend Bane answer cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/9-16/QnpgmQAm21-2.png
7992985 heh now I'm wondering about a mlp x red dawn crossover maybe the ponies helping the wolverines against (china was it?) and the griffins after the end of the movie maybe two months after the prison break end scene and 3 months after the thorax's changeling becoming king maybe helping them as well
Good job AJ, you tried to cop a feel and made movie night awkward. Nice little story, I never really thought about Shimmy's ability to fight.
TELL ME ABOUT SUNNYBUNNY, WHY DOES SHE WEAR THE JACKET?!
A LOTTA FEATURING FOR A SUB 1.5k WORD FIC! No but for real, I thought that 1.5k was the minimum to get featured, even though 1k is the minimum period? I both learned something AND enjoyed this.
If Sunset really is a Mad Max fan, then I strongly advise that the girls choose another designated driver.
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And now someone has to tell her how exactly leather is made.
I wonder if people think that about me when I wear my leather jacket.....
no way in hell.
For some reason, this story reminded me of this story.
WONDERCOLTS!!!!!
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I had a good giggle. Thanks.
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Ok lets be honest here boys. None of these are how you type Terminator.
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Ahhhh SnnStt ahnhnhhhh nnnnhhh.
Sorry I tried to type a Bane impersonation.
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Old Movie: US, Britain, Canada, China v USSR
New Movie: US v North Korea
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It's a trope I've noticed a couple of times I just wanted to poke fun at it.
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Look I'm honestly as surprised as you are.
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I mean I've already done something like that.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
7994184
That's what torrents are for.
I like this. This is good.
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That's an odd way of saying Empire Strikes Back.
Then again if we're only picking from action, then you should all be ashamed. Alan Rickman is rolling in his grave from the lack of Die Hard in these responses.
The moment you see a fic at the top of the feature box with a common and disgusting grammar fail.
7994721 They're their now. Its not two bad is it?
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Thanks for catching that. I fixed it. Sorry aboot that.
Everything I know about Red Dawn I learned from trying to figure out why Gohan yelled "Wolvervines!" in the Lord Slug Abridged movie.
7994770 It's still there.
Should be "they're".
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i'm in so much trouble right now :c
7994792
Thanks, I actually had two errors. I hope they didn't deter you from reading the fic.
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Its okey mum
7994809 Oh not at all. I enjoyed reading it.
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That's good to hear. Thank you very much for the help by the way.
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And also Cuba and Nicaragua
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Oh right, I forgot that all of Central American was communist in the first movie. Thank you.
7994880 what does USSR mean?
7994916
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
7994944 so, hetalia.kitawiki.net/images/archive/a/ac/20130126060736!AmericaChibi.png , images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29800000/England-hetalia-england-29806932-462-322.png , hetalia.kitawiki.net/images/0/0b/CanadaAnime.png , and hetalia.kitawiki.net/images/5/5b/ChinaChibi.png vs. hetalia.kitawiki.net/images/archive/8/8b/20130127060206!Russia_Chibi.PNG , cuba and nicaragua?