Sunset Shimmer has been harboring a crush on Twilight Sparkle for a long time, one she knew could never go anywhere. This became doubly frustrating after the appearance of Twilight Sparkle. But what if she has a real shot this time? There's only one way to find out, by talking to Twilight Sparkle.
so how long did it take scitwi to regain consciousness after getting asked
how long did she hyperventilate
and how many times did she say yes super softly before finally getting it out loud enough for sunset to hear
Sunset: "HA! we arent even wearing pants"
So cute! We need more sunlight stories like this one. Thanks for sharing it.
About the change of Sunset's magic's color. After listening to the commentary on the Rainbow Rocks blue ray, I believe they decided to make her magic red, because that is the color Sunset added to the rainbow when she joined the girls in the last fight of that movie; it's something the creators are weirdly proud of. So, I guess one could say she defeating the Dazzlings is what changed her magic's color.
This was wonderful. I loved reading this, it was funny and sweet and perfect.
I would request more of this from you. Perhaps not another chapter but something in the same continuity.
This was a very fun read. Would like to see this continued on as a series.
This gets a like just for bringing the magic thing up. Seriously, what the f****!!!
Just gotta say, that's a clever username you've got.
I totally agree with the magic thing. Plus as far as I remember all unicorns' magic color is within a shade of their eye color. That’s how I’ve always assumed it was determined.
I never even noticed the magic thing. But in regards to the story, I really like it.
Cute story. Enjoyed it.
However, having grown up in the 80's, and having had a sister and mother who would jokingly talk "valley girl" to each other, every time I see the work 'like' used as it was at the end all i can think of is "like, for sure."
I hate my brain sometimes.
"THINK OF THE SCIENCE!"
Oh, Twi, never change...
A bit bare bones - there's not much actual story here . But it did make me grin a lot, so I guess I don't mind.
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Usually the magic is the same color as the pony's eyes. There are some cases where it is completely different, however, even disregarding alicorns. Shining Armor is one example. There doesn't seem to be any kind of real pattern or reason for this. So apparently the colors matching is most common, but it's not a rule.
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Remember that Sunset's magic used to be teal, kinda like her eyes, and then became red after turning into the demon. I assume that this was the case, something that the writers had stick with her instead of, say, scars from forcibly growing wings and a tail.
Also, for some reason I thought that it was supposed to be Starlight Glimmer in the story. I don't know why I kept reading Sunset's name as Starlight, in the description and tag, but i sure as shit did.
This was rather cute. And Twilight's geek out was extremely adorkable. Specially Sunset's reaction
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ah, I see you are a man of culture as well!
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Meme. That said, I also agree. There's no reason to leave it as 'ok' in a story.
i dont exactly know how i feel about this story.
Great story!
Nice little shipping story.
I'm with you. Continuity flaws in character design cause endless internal screaming. See also Luna's cutie mark: it disappears in Season 4 and just the crescent is gone, but Starlight switches them in Season 7 and the black part goes with it. I yelled at the screen over that one.
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Ah ... that might really be it! Her permanently altered colour is like a magical scar. And a scar that serves as reminder of something that set her life on the path of friendship.
That is the feeling of a plothole healed with good headcanon. Much thanks.
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Of course. Having just recently watched the eqg shorts and having not seen the original movie in such a long time, i hadn't particularly noticed it, but still headcanons were formed.
Was really hoping this would be followed up with "I'm not wearing any pants." Preferably accompanied by a seductive smirk.
Excuse me for a few moments as I imagine what this story would have been if Sunset had been crushing on the human Rainbow Dash and decided to ask the pony Rainbow Dash advice.
Oh, yes, yes, the trainwreck is magnificent. Now make out and don't stop before I've returned.
Okay, done.
You've done the said tags half way; the word after the dialogue is lowercase but it's preceded by a period instead of a comma. So here come the corrections;
"Don't you judge me, book pony!"
but it was a mystery to save for another day, she reminded herself.
since you don't usually show up unannounced and screaming," Twilight said with a good-natured chuckle.
provided it's not an emergency that is," she added
"Ugh, alright here comes the part of this conversation I've been dreading," she grumbled
"You heard me just fine," Sunset huffed
"though I still think you're cute," she added with a wink
she felt a whole new set of butterflies settle in her stomach
transferring several absurdly large volumes to and from her bag.
I also suggest separating this;
into;
That was definitely not what Twilight was expecting, as evidenced by the combination of an embarrassed yet flattered blush on her face, her eyes wide with shock, and her wings that had snapped open like a startled bird about to involuntarily take flight from the room.
"...I'm sorry could you repeat that?" she asked, maintaining her awed expression, though she at least managed to fold her wings back down so as not to give Sunset the impression they were open for other reasons entirely. Damn things could send very mixed messages...
Now comments;
I see Sunset was top of her class in Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns
and only them becausescrew youfeather brains and mud ponieswhen it came to summaries that are both short and tell us everything.Oh, so now you notice the color of magic. Would have been handy when Chrysalys was prancing around Canterlot with green magic when Cadance always had blue magic, don't you think?
Or were you too busy crushing on your foalsitter to notice any other magic than the sway of her hips?
Yeah, involuntarily. Let's go with that.
Rarity, what have we discussed about wishful thinking?
I suggest showing here more than telling. Even though I have no idea how to describe that expression in narration.
Good thing you're not in the upcoming movie then, your mane and tail would have matched Rainbow's from the second you looked at Commander
Trying Too HardTempest.Glad to see somepony got good priorities.
And it was a good thing, for worrying about the sad state of her life would have spawned so much dark poetry Luna would feel threatened and discretely have her disposed of in a dark alley.
I'm wondering if Twilight got this expression from the human world or if minotaurs are just real obsessed.
I don't want to be punched by this Twilight.
And you don't need a gender swap spell, Sunset. You might just have a double somewhere in Equestria... that's a stallion. I used to have a dead ringer the opposite of my sex a long time ago after all.
Let me tell you, it was hilarious.
Though yeah, I understand that you'd prefer to be the one macking on Twilight rather than somepony else.
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Haha I think this is the longest comment I've ever received! Sincerely, thank you for taking the time to write it
I gotta work on proper use of punctuation when swapping between framing and dialog in general, it gets a bit hectic since most of my writing is off the cuff and unplanned. I appreciate the corrections and hopefully I will implement them sometime when I haven't had far too many beers
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There are a bunch of unicorns/alicorns whose magic color doesn't match their eyes. Celestia, Cadance, Shining, Starlight Glimmer, Fancy Pants, Sunburst, Twilight Velvet, Minuette, Party Favor, and Sugar Belle, for example. Their magic colors do match the focal parts of their cutie marks fairly well, though, as do Twilight's and Rarity's. Magic color=eye color seems to be more of a background pony thing, Sunset's original magic color being a notable exception.
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I'm not sure I'd put it that way. It's probably more that ponies with miss-matched eye/magic colors have become more common in later seasons, mostly via new supporting characters. I distinctly remember that it was unusual back in season 2 when Shining and Cadence appeared to have their magic colors switched.
There's also Sweetie Belle, whose magic matches her eyes but doesn't match her cutie mark at all. I'm sure there's more examples I can't think of right now.
Like I said, I don't think there is any particular rule or pattern to this.
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I try to write comments that are actually worth reading (according to my ridiculously exacting standards, at least). You're welcome and thank you for making the effort and having the decency to reply to my comment.
Cute and cuddly
I'm not gonna scroll through all of the comments, but you do realize that in EQG1, Sunset Shimmer was evil, right? Possessed by a demonic entity thingy that twisted and warped her magic, and in Mirror Magic, she's using her own, natural, magic.
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It’s in reference to her magic in the very beginning of EQG1 when she’s a pony and steals the crown before fleeing back through the mirror, not when she’s all demon-y
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Oh, ok.
Certainly cute stuff. I'm a sucker for Sunlight and clever use of dimensional counterparts. You could use a bit more practice with some of the fundamentals with puncutation and homophones, but overall, this was quite fun. Thank you for it.
Also, my hypothesis is that Sunset's magical frequency got rejiggered as a side effect of demonic corruption and/or taking a rainbow to the face.
This was a fun little short story. Definitely a lot more shipping fuel for Sci-Twi than Prin-Twi
Hah, I loved all of Princess Twi's interactions with Sunset in the beginning! Bunch of laughs, followed up with the short but sweet d'awws of Sci-Twi and Sunny later. Though, I wish we would've seen Sci-Twi's immediate reaction to Sunny asking her... ;)
Actually, that probably happened much earlier. In the end of Rainbow Rocks, when they use their rainbow power on Dazzlings, Sunset's color in that rainbow is already red! The only inconsistency was her alicorn-y form in Friendship games, when her magic was golden, but Twilight's was much brighter than normal back then too, so maybe it's just a result of being overcharged with magic.
So, in my opinion, her magic most likely changed when she got blasted with the Elements, or when she ponied up properly for the first time when fighting Dazzlings, which is less likely. Or, you know, someone messed up while making EQG1.
What does she think of Celestia's changing?
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Damn, never even noticed that one!
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Season 1, man.
Check rarity
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Season 3
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And twilight
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Now that I think of it, it was s3 when they decided to make magic color based on cutie mark instead of whatever. Since eqg was done in parallel, it's easy to see how that decision could have slipped for the movie.
Red magic because her red geode, the magic in it gas a different colour, so it changed the colour of Sunset's magic
I fought valiantly, but...
... that line just broke me.
An entertaining story, thank you!
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not to mention, Sunset was only a pony for less than a minute of screentime in the first EqG, and wasn't a pony again until the webisodes.
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Well that fixes a common complaint about Chrysalis' impersonations. Clearly, ponies' magic just sometimes changes color.
Loved it!
Sometimes I wish they explained that when Sunset returned to equestria following the events of mirror magic.
Yep, I'm pretty sure she did this on purpose so princess twilight could try and solve it.
Ok, now she's going too far now.
Best decision imo.
Proud of you sunset.
Given that Sunset was a megalomaniac pre rainbow blast my money is on mania. 🤪🤪🤪🤪😜😜🤪😜
Twinkle Sprinkle T H I C C
This might help:
https://youtu.be/PVxAlbO60IU
Short and sweet and cute. Not enough people write Sunset Shimmer as a bundle of nerves in their romance stories, and it's always nice to see other author's takes on this romance that should have been. Very cute indeed.