After four years in prison, human Sunset Shimmer comes back to reclaim her identity. For the pony who's been impersonating her, this might get complicated.
Also, we learn the secret TRUTH about Angry Gamer Sunset, and why so much computer software is buggy and annoying.
This is an authorized AU fanfic for C-L-Strife's story "Two Sunsets." Strife described his story as
Sunset's other self from the People Dimension is released from Jail but, The Criminal Life-Style is too hard for her to get past.
(I wanted my story to be at least partly original. That's why I carefully avoided reading most of Strife's story before composing my own fanfic of it! I only read Strife's story AFTER writing my fanfic, and I enjoyed Strife's tale even more than I had expected!)
Mildly AU.
Prereader and Technical Credits
I'm very lucky that Samey90 (fimfiction.net link) preread even part of this story. Thank you! As so often happens, I might not work out how to apply some of the more interesting and profound feedback until later stories, after this contest's deadline.
Thank you to Mykola (offprint, fimfiction.net) for advice on an obscure topic relating to science fairs! (Specifically, Mykola checked a Google translation of a Russian language line of dialog by Twilight Sparkle.)
Contests?
This story might be an entry in a Sunset x Sunset story contest, idk.
#sunsetxsunsetshipcontest2021
Wow. You put your own spin on it while truly keeping the spirit of the original.
And it didn't even contain even one bigomy.
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...and
criticcommenter lacks details that would show they'd ever seen the story.Feel free to put them in spoiler tags.
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Thank you very much, I think!
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I mean that I loved it, sorry that wasn't clear
I enjoyed it & think it was a good alternative version of the original. And I love the way it jumps from one scene to the other without any transitions
Is this an official entry in the competition?
By this criterium alone, this fic is, at best, a slingshot.
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I can tell you read my story (since you quoted some dialog I wrote, my Twilight's somewhat negative remark about profanity!) Thanks!
Also, I'm pretty sure I didn't MEAN for my story to kill any readers or even make them feel bad.
Also, thank you for rolling with the remark I had Twilight say! One true measure of the success of a bit of writing is when other people build upon it, so I feel very flattered.
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It's in the official contest entries folder, so why not?
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Thank you!
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I didn’t notice lol sorry
Does something smell... Fishy?
aww, a sunny smile preceding police brutality!
whoa! this certainly is not the Sunset Shimmer we know!
that is indeed the right teenager to ask
ah right, the wound is to distinguish her from the other Sunset, right? good thing Pinkie knows all about genre tropes!
wait, how does she know about the horse thing?
that would not be fitting for a Y7-rated show, now would it?
good choice
aww i totally forgot the Sirens were in this!
that is, uh, quite the cleavage
rip
yeah, not too bad for Sci-Twi here!