Abandoned by her friends during the events of Anon-A-Miss, and facing a harsh, unforgiving winter homeless and without support, Sunset makes a choice. One that draws the eye of a certain Entity.
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Another amazing chapter, great job!
Also, being from West Virginia, I approve of the inclusion of "Country Roads" there at the end and the symbology it alludes to.
Can't quite pin why I think so, but this seems appropriate for this chapter ending;
country roads really dude
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Yes, really, I’m sorry you apparently have a problem with that?
Her last idea was a fucking terrible idea, and look how that worked out? I don't think I'm too worried. Will admit, kind of, sad it seems that Sunset isn't gonna forgive the girls, but, hey, friends fuck up all the time, and in this story, unlike what I've seen from that horrible comic it's based off of, the girls did have genuine reasons for why the did what they did. ...granted, they still fucked up, and don't deserve easy forgiveness, but they at least deserve a chance to make up for it.
Welp someone just saw the fallout 76 trailer
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Actually I’ve had this chapter written for about two weeks, I also just happen to love the song. I grew up with John Denver’s music all over the place and this song always makes me think of my first home and my family.
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No one ever deserves to be forgiven. That’s always been my view anyway. I’ve never understood the concept of earning forgiveness. You can’t just weigh good and bad on a scale and then, once the good outweighs the bad, boom: your forgiven.
Forgiveness is given, no more or less and some people don’t forgive easily or at all in some cases. There’s nothing wrong with taking a long look at your own heart and admitting that you don’t have it in you to forgive someone. That’s just being honest.
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*shrugs* Everyone has their own views. With me, I only give one chance of forgiveness, if, it was something I feel can be forgiven. After that, you do it again, never again. And if it's something I feel can't be forgiven, well, yeah, no first chance in that case. Course, I tend to be as kind a person as possible, and, it takes a lot, to truly make me angry at someone. Everyone has their own views and opinions, which is good, if we all didn't, well, things would be boring.
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I don't know either but it's amazing and quite fitting. I also now have a new favorite song. Thanks for that :3
You beautiful heart breaking bastard 10/10
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If it were possible, I'd give another favorite just for putting that song in.
Well, it seem like I'm at least getting part of my wish when it comes to endings. Frankly, as long as it wasn't a Elements of Machina ending I was going to be fine with it, but this fits nicely into my preferred endings: She extracted some revenge from the CMC, and everything isn't going to go back to Rainbows and Sunshine with the other 5. Sure, she'll probably still be friends with Twilight, but you've made it abundantly clear that she just wants to leave the other five alone and not be bothered. She won't forgive, but she seems to be trying to find a way to forget.
The main reason I think I prefer this fic to all the other Anon-A-Miss fics I've read so far is kind of hard to explain. To my knowledge, the vast majority of the Anon-A-Miss fics can be boiled down to: Sunset get's abandoned by her friends, feels like shit, and then one of the Main 7 or a side character or OC steps in and helps her either resolve her issues with her friends and discover the CMC, or simply move on. Or, she goes critical, attempts suicide, and the same happens again, except with higher stakes and occasional plot-driving amnesia. The second one usually does not have her resolve her issues with her friends.
Now, on the surface, Dead by Sunset appears to be Type B, ie the attempted suicide plot. But, it lacks something the other 2 have on common; some plot-contrived force that moves in and helps her with her problems with no real effort on Sunset's part. Some new or old friend who moves in a fills the void made by the Mane 7, and acts as emotional crutch that props her up while she recovers. Sure, Tempest and Co. and the Entity can be seen as this; they more or less fill the same role in the plot; a new group of friends to focus on, and an adversary to overcome. But the way this is written, it just feels as though Sunset is more invested in her own recovery.
She doesn't have some person come up to her and pick her up, dust her off, and say, "forget those bitches, they aren't worth it," a group of people who are offering their support and telling her she's not alone. Instead she is tossed even deeper into the shit and forced to work with a new group just to survive. Her new friends aren't being supportive and trying to fix her problems, they're just trying to survive one more Trial. So Sunset has to move past her issues on her own terms and make the effort to open up to these new people and make new friends with out any help or support from a third party. It really feels like she's earned her own resolution to her issues, and I think that's it 's a better story for it.
Another way I would like to see an Anon-A-Miss fic approached, but have yet to see, is a 13 Reasons Why version of the plot. You kind of touched on that with the first Interlude, when Twilight fully believed after they told her what happened that Sunset had killed herself, but it was over pretty quick and we never really dig into that idea. I think a story where Sunset does die, either from suicide or simply a result of not having a place to stay over the winter, and the girls have to move through the stages of grief knowing that she died as a result of their actions, would be damn interesting. How would the Mane 5 deal with her death with no resolution, no way to apologize for fucking up so bad, and no way for Sunset to either forgive them or condemn them? It would be dark, and I'd hate fro Sunset to die in such a shitty way, but damn would that plot be intense.
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I'm going to be writing a much fluffier fic after this one is finished, although it is going to completely conform to my special brand of crack-shipping. It's also Anon-A-Miss, but coming at it from a less Dark tone. I don't know if it'll match up to Dead by Sunset, but it's a story I've been wanting to tell specifically because it features a character (shipped with sunset of course because everyone is gay for sunset shimmer) who generally gets portrayed as one dimensional in other anon-a-miss fics and I felt that was a shame.
I look forward to your reviews of my upcoming fic, though, given that your views on Dead by Sunset have been very well articulated and thought out.
As an aside, I should mention: just because it's not darkfic material doesn't mean it's not gonna get bad for my favorite bacon-haired heroine. I'm a writer, I only hurt my favorite characters because I love them.
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i dont.
Honestly it was kinda sad and fit the moment really well so good job.
This is one of the best storys i have read in a while so i hope the next part is just as god as this was.
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I'll look forward to it then. I know I was just extolling the virtues of dark, serious fics, but I love a good crackfic! I mean, I don't know if you're a RWBY fan, but if you ever encountered the fic Professor Arc than you can understand how well a crackfic can drive a plot. And don't get me started on Taylor Varga.
Aside from that, would love to see an update on The King & Shy, but as long as you keep writing I think I'll be fine.
Jesus Christ.... This whole (well almost) chapter was very emotional, especially right about near the end with that song.... Lord I almost teared up a bit...
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I got say love this fic, and everything, but need to point out, the Rainbooms said how Clever Sunset was at making problems and getting away with it.
How for years she was unstoppable, and even Luna and Celestia said so.
So makes it so much tragic and dumber for the Rainbooms to fall for this frame up, it should be pointed out, if Sunset was so smart and sneaky...Then how would she made such a obvious attempt at making trouble for everyone!
Wouldn't made more sense she did in a more secretive manner and made sure it wasn't traced to her or framed someone else for it?
I'm sure if the Rainbooms and Celestia and Luna thought about ti, they go very pale and run off to throw up, in horror on how easy or how much they WANTED her to be guilty.
That they utter fail for a such easy to see Frame Up.
There needs to be more stories like this, not this story mind you (though if love to see another), but stories were sunny and the dazzlings become like a family, yes I know there's the ship fics of sunny+1 or more of the dazzlings, and I love them all the same. But stories were there relationship became like this? So few and far between that they might as well be treated like a shiny Pokemon, a rare trading card, or a blue moon, treasured and re-read to the point you could memorize every word.
Right as I got to the first "Country Road" paragraph, I realized something stupid and insane and genius…
SHE COULD STILL USE THE HATCH!!!
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a good thought, but killers can't use the hatch, and at the end of the night, she's still a killer.
Bitch I am standing right here!