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Darkstarling


I think far, far too hard about things. These things include magical ponies.

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On the eve of the winter solstice, Starlight and Twilight are interrupted on what is definitely not a date by an injured Sunset Shimmer. She says she’s from the future, and she has the wings to prove it. She’s come to warn of a terrible threat to the changelings.

And, in Sunset's excitement, she lets slip that Twilight is her future wife.

Written for TheBandBrony for Jinglemas 2018. Cover art by 9seconds.

Chapters (2)
Comments ( 20 )

I enjoyed it! Very good story! The only small criticism that I'd give is that the reveal felt like it happened a bit too fast.

Also when is the next chapter of Integral Trigonometry coming out? :pinkiehappy:

9373147
Glad you liked it.

It's what I'm working on next, then more for War Games.

9373159

Yay! Both of those are stories I follow and really like.

So you've heard my thoughts on quite a bit of this already, but finishing it up now, that ending was amazingly sweet. I can see the point made about the Chrysalis reveal being a little too sudden, but otherwise I enormously enjoyed reading this :yay:

A great story, but mentioning a certain character in the description pretty much gave away the twist from the very first scene. I read the spoiler by accident as I was copy-pasting the description into a text-to-speech engine for audio-book generation. Still an enjoyable ride, as I could follow along as her scheme unfolded, but I couldn't help but wonder why you put that information there. :derpyderp2:

9375248
Heh, yeah I was a bit torn about how to handle that. It was mostly wanting to thoroughly document the thing without it being obvious.

9373147
Eh, we all know somelings have chronic problems with premature self-revelation.

You really should just delete that spoiler in the description. Aside from that, thrilling read. An emotional roller coaster blended with some very nice intrigue. Thank you for it.

9392154
Fiiiine... obsessive documentation removed.

Glad you liked the story, even with spoilers.

Great story. Epic failure to make it not obvious that wasn't really Sunset. Future or not, I'd like to think she'd remember Starlight after all that time.

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Well yeah but it was an insult and she was insecure enough to believe it. Glad you liked it!

Cute as all hell

9373473
The picture would be cuter if I could actually see it without squinting

Talk about plot twist...

I clicked on your username just to take a look, because you left a good comment on Guardian. Picked this story to try, because it was short and not too niche. Kept reading because the opening paragraph was so good. Very pleasantly surprised. There are a few missing commas, and, yeah, maybe the reveal is too sudden like somebody said. But this is solid. :eeyup:

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I still think it would've been better if Cheeselegs had done Sunset so well that Starlight went through the portal to find out what the buck was going on from current Sunset.

Then have it all fall apart from there when Sunset says she doesn't even like girls like that. Let alone Twilight.

Funnily enough, MLP seems to have conditioned me to think 'changeling!' every time something green is mentioned in a magic-y way. xD Because of that, I immediately suspected changeling involvement the moment the scarf-scene ended with a green flash. That being said: The story was great, anyway. Suspenseful, even. Dramatic. Just because I thought I knew what was happening didn't meant that I knew how it was going to play out - which became the interesting part.
And I really do like how you portrayed their relationship. Familiar, grounded, and oh so believable.
Thank you!

I almost believed something bad had happened in the future but it still felt weird to me as I’m not sure what Starlight could’ve done to cause a breakup. Sunset was also acting very strange.

Man, what a low blow Chrysalis pulled. As if turning Twilight’s friends against her wasn’t enough, she has to pull this crud. I’m just relieved it was all a ploy and not something that genuinely happened.

Great story.

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