A Not-Date (Part One)
The next morning Sunset woke up the the feeling of her phone vibrating under her pillow. It took her a moment to remember that she had gone to the Helping Hands shelter the night before, and that was why she had a pillow.
"Mmph. Hello?"
"Goodness, Darling! Are you not up yet? It's almost ten and you have a date at noon!"
"It's not a date." Sunset grumped as she sat up. The room she was in was empty, proof that it was in fact later in the morning.
"Yes, well, a 'get together,' then." Rarity corrected herself, "Anyways, Applejack says that you should try and talk the Dazzlings into coming to school again. We agree that it will be easier to keep an eye on them than way."
"Makes sense." Sunset, now more awake, was digging in her backpack for her tooth brush. She had to get in the shower before eleven at the latest, make sure she had money, try not to talk to anyone who might kick her out or steal her stuff...
"What are you going to wear?"
Oh. Right. Clothes... She groaned, My clothes are on the other side of town! There's no way I could get them in time! She hadn't brought all of her stuff with her to the shelter for a few reasons, the main one being her stuff tended to go 'missing.' She kept a few jackets and her valuables in her locker at school, and the rest of her clothes in a duffel bag at an abandoned fort in the woods near the school.
At the moment, she only had the clothes she had worn yesterday.
"Oh, don't worry about it, Dear!" Rarity heard her tone and assumed she just hadn't thought of it yet, "I can find an outfit for you! I'll throw one together right now."
"Are you sure?" Sunset hesitated. Was this the same Rarity as the day before? The one that made a face at the mention of Sunset liking a girl? What's going on?
"Certainly! I can come pick you up, if you want--"
"No, that's okay," Thinking quickly Sunset attempted to get off the phone before Rarity could ask about her address, or any other personal questions. "I'll meet you at the boutique in a bit, okay?"
"Suit yourself. Ttfn!"
Sunset rolled her eyes and proceeded to walk towards the showers, stuffing her phone in her pocket. After making sure no one was around, she began to get ready for the day.
"Come on in, Sunset, I found the perfect outfit." Sunset let Rarity drag her inside the boutique, wondering if somehow a changeling had snuck into the human world and replaced Rarity. The duo walked towards the back of the store, and Rarity opened what looked like a section of the wall, but was actually a door to another room.
Is she some kind of spy? Sunset wondered. She realized there were figures in the dimly-lit room. With a dramatic flair Rarity flipped a switch on the wall next to Sunset.
"Ta-da!" Sunset blinked as she came face-to-face with... herself? She gave Rarity a pointed look.
"Is that a manikin of me?"
"I have manikins of all of my friends, that way I can make outfits for them in my spare time."
Definitely a spy. "...When did you get my measurements?"
"That's unimportant. Your hair was the tricky part; to be honest I just don't understand the shape of it. Thankfully I was able to get it pretty close."
This is too creepy. Sunset cringed. Finally, however, she decided to look at the outfit on the manikin. The shirt was a short-sleeve, light blue one, close to her eye color. The pants were black with a white, vine-like line going up the left side. It was simple and not too fancy, exactly as she wanted.
"It's awesome." She grinned and looked at her friend.
"Oh, so glad you like it!" Rarity gushed. "One problem with it; I couldn't find anything close to your sun design, so the pants have this instead." She turned the manikin around and revealed that the back of the pants had a blue diamond on the back-left pocket.
"It's fine," Sunset waved her off, "I like that it's more like my eyes. Thank you." She said this sincerely, touched by her friend's dedication to the outfit.
"You're most welcome! Now hurry and change!" Rarity pushed the girl into a nearby changing room, the outfit following soon after. Sunset chuckled at her friend's enthusiasm and figured she had better hurry if she didn't want to be late for her date.
Like a date, duh.
Sunset had her own reasons for telling her friends it wasn't a date. Between their reactions to her talking to Adagio and Rarity's... Whatever, Sunset just didn't feel comfortable telling them. She felt bad, and she knew she should tell them, but something about it just... Didn't feel right.
"Rarity..." Sunset took a deep breath, "Why are you helping me so much? You didn't seem too enthusiastic yesterday."
There was a shuffling on the other side of the door, and Sunset imagined Rarity fiddling with her hair. "Oh, Darling, I just..." Rarity sighed, "I suppose my reaction yesterday was a bit off-putting, hm?"
Sunset didn't respond. Rarity began again, "And I apologize for that. I was... Caught off-guard. At the idea of you and Adagio. And, well, you and a girl. But I meant what I said, when I said there was nothing wrong with you liking a girl." She sounded sincere, and Sunset blushed. "I'm more worried that she might try something to hurt you."
"I guess I just took it... Kind of personally. Back in Equestria, ponies don't care about those kinds of things. Well, I'm sure some do, but it's not like here. Where people hate each other for being gay." Sunset adjusted her jacket and opened the door. Rarity stood on the other side, a frown on her face.
"That must have been horrible. Moving to a society with such extremely different views."
"It's terrifying." Sunset looked away, not making eye contact, "It's one of the reasons I dated Flash. To hide the fact that I'm... Different."
"But being different isn't a bad thing." Rarity put a hand on her shoulder and frowned when Sunset wouldn't look at her. "Sunset, we're your friends. We don't care who you like, so long as you're happy."
"I know." Sunset whispered, "But it's been me versus this world for so long. I learned three years ago that differences are weaknesses. This world is cruel, and there aren't any monsters, or demons, or Gods of chaos to blame it on."
Rarity was shocked into silence for a moment. After realizing she had no response, she wrapped her arms around Sunset's shoulders. "I'm sorry."
Sunset leaned into the embrace. "It's not your fault."
"It doesn't have to be my fault for me to feel sorry that it happened."
"Thank you, Rarity."
"Of course. And please be careful with Adagio. We have no way of knowing if her intentions are truly good, and I don't want to see you get hurt. Whether it's a date or not."
Sunset blushed again. She realized she couldn't keep it from Rarity anymore. She had told her so much already."... Actually, the thing with Adagio is supposed to be a date. But I don't know how I feel about it yet, so I don't want the others to know."
"My lips are sealed."
"Your lipstick is messed up." Aria snickered at the panicked look on Adagio's face at the comment. The purple siren had never seen Adagio so nervous about something before, and she sure as hell wasn't about to let the opportunity to mess with her go by.
"What? No it's not! Stop messing with me!" Adagio scowled at her fellow siren, "Next time you have a date, I'll be sure and hide all of your things."
"At least I don't panic." Aria smirked. She was sprawled on the couch, as dusty and dirty as it was, and she was enjoying the sense of power she had over Adagio. "You act like you've never gone on a date before."
"I haven't in about twenty years!" Adagio pointed out with a growl, "It's practically a different event altogether now!"
"Well, it's not my fault." Aria countered dryly, "I was wondering why you never seemed interested in your past... Endeavors. Poor Dagi has been in the closet all this time."
"Don't you even start!" Adagio scowled, taking a menacing step closed to Aria. "I found the chest binder under the bed. I'm not the only one hiding things."
Aria sputtered and sat up swiftly, "What?! Th-that's-" Her face paled as she attempted to explain herself, before giving up and sneering, "That's irrelevant. Just don't forget the real purpose of your date. Don't let her go converting you to the light side."
"I know what I'm doing." Adagio said in a low voice, "It's just another seduction. I can do it."
"I don't doubt that you can." Aria paused, "Now that I think about it, I thought you liked that blue girl with the white hair."
"Miss Talkes-In-Third-Person? No, thanks."
Aria snickered. There was a moment of silence between them. Aria thought she had got away with changing the subject, but Adagio hadn't given up yet.
"...so..." Adagio smirked, "What's with the binder?"
"I told you, it's nothing." Adagio didn't miss the way Aria's face went red, or the way the other girl gripped her left sleeve in her right hand, like she often did when she was nervous or upset.
"Mh-hm. So I guess, if it's nothing, we could just throw it out?"
"No!" Aria realized she had fallen into a trap, and stood up swiftly. "It's none of your business what it is, so just drop it!"
Only when Aria left the room did Adagio wonder if she had upset her friend.
She deserved it, for giving me a hard time. Adagio figured as she sat on the couch.
Thoughts of Aria aside, her mind turned to Sunset Shimmer. Or, more importantly, the date. Adagio knew the purpose of the date was to convince Sunset that she was good, and then from there convince her that they were better off being bad. Aria had come up with it, figuring that since Sunset was a reformed villain herself, all they had to do was get back in touch with her more devious side.
But getting her to be a bad girl again and getting her to help them were two different things. Sunset had said she wanted to help, but what about getting their magic back? What will it take to get her to help us? She wondered, Saying please? More dates? Sex? All were reasonable forms of bribery for the situation at hand, but Adagio wondered if they were enough.
Glancing at her watch, a hideous pink thing with a fairy on the face, Adagio decided she would have to think on her feet.
It was almost time to meet Sunset for the date.
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You're doing a fine job with Rarity. Forgetting about Fluttershy is fine, if she's adding much to the story or conversations often enough to be called a character in a story about someone else then she's OOC anyway. Also, first time I've seen a GQ Aria. I am liking the idea, good sauce. And as we all know, Sonata is Tacosexual. Working at Taco Bell must be like landing a job in a porn shop.
5464502 Everything about this comment is amazing. From the Flutters observation, to someone knowing about GQ, to the tacosexual comment... Such awesome. Much amaze. (Am I too late on that meme? Too last year? XD )
Thanks for the comment!
your.
I may be nitpicking, I may not, but i just feel it would be better like this: "Finally, however, she decided to actually look at the outfit on the manikin"
and lastly, and i now know i'm nitpicking:
lowly or slowly?
now, about the story:
Rarity being unintentionally creepy is fun. Sunset being homeless is sad. We're yet to see Pinkie and Sonata, and I'm thrilled to find out what your take on them will be.
and how is Adagio going to bring the mean girl out of Sunset... Playing the victim when other students start picking on her for returning to the school so Sunset has a reason to be mean? something else entirely? rough sex?
man, I just can't get enough of this.
5465159 Fixed!
And you're theories aren't far off... Well, besides the rough sex part. That won't happen here XD
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Dude! Don't you ever do that again! you may have a plan in which something never happens, but you never destroy a fan's hopes of it happening!
it really ruins the posibility of impliying it happens in the end...
good night!
5465200 You can find SunDagio smut elsewhere xD Though I see your point.
Night!
Genderqueer Aria? Lesbian Sunset and Adagio? What, is Sonata a transvestite too? Pardon my opinion, but I feel that you're putting too many things where they don't belong. There's too much going on, and it doesn't feel anywhere close to being realistic now. I mean, could you really see all of that in an average TV show or novel?
5466670 Yes, I could see all of this in an average TV show. Modern Family, Faking It, Family Guy, I could go on. A novel? Like Luna, Coming Out Straight, Far From Xanadu, Keeping You A Secret, and many others?
I'm sorry that you feel that way. It's not my intention to make this bad for anyone to read, but I understand that everyone has opinions. If you feel that too many of the characters are queer, go read something else. I'm not keeping you here, and if you don't like the story just don't read it. These are head canons, personal opinion. Please don't take them too personally.
Also, I never said what Adagio's sexuality is. Or Aria's. Or Sonata's. And if you think that three, maybe four queer characters in a fic with many straight ones are too much, than I suggest you don't read my work, because that's what I do. I make it realistic. Now, Sunset falling in love with Adagio is a stretch, but them being gay isn't, really.
I think my rant's gone on long enough, though.
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I'm still interested in where this could go, but I'm just really unsure of all the suddenly gay characters. If you want to ship two characters who just happen to be the same gender then I wouldn't have given it much notice. However the Aria thing just seems unnecessary and random.
5467196 And I'll keep that in mind when writing more about her. I've mentioned it before, but while Aria is a major part of this story, her gender is not. The main thing is she's going to be playing the mastermind here. Also, if the pairing is SunDagio, of course there are going to be at least two queer characters. So far I've only added Aria to that, as well.
I guess we just have two different views on 'how much gay is enough gay'
Okay, I don't fully understand the binder thing. Don't judge, I'm Aspergic. Could someone clear it up for me, please?
5467820 It's a chest binder; most look like some kind of tank-top or shirt. They're used to... well, to bind breasts to make them looks smaller or to make them go away entirely. So in the scene where Adagio confronts Aria about it, it's revealed that for some reason Aria is using that binder.
5467823 Ah, thank you.
5467823 ahh now i think i get it, i searched for the meaning in German ( genderqueer ) , but could not find exactly what i wanted.
i don´t know if you want it to be hidden or not, so i made it a spoiler.
Now i think what you mean is, that Aria feels more like a Boy, or at least she thinks of herself as weak if she would act as a regular girl, and well similar to Rainbow Dash, she is acting more like a Boy right? Or does it really mean that she wants to be a boy? I thought i would know what you mean because i saw that one comment and got a new information, which i kindna understood.
5468592 Yeah, something like that! What it's going to be (you're really onto something, I just am not focusing on that part of the story yet) is Aria's going to want to be seen as not a girl, but not a boy, either. Middle ground, if you will.
Hmm... Rarity suddenly assuming the role as supportive ally? And what exactly is Aria hiding from Adagio?
5473812 All will be explained in time ;3 I might actually make a separate one-shot thing about Rarity. Or not. Dunno.
Make sense, oh what fun is there in making sense?
Mannequin.
Because reasons. The best reason of them all.
heh, Rarity's gonna dress her and says "Suit yourself" it's just a silly contrast
"This world is cruel, and there aren't any monsters, or demons, or Gods of chaos to blame it on." I like this a lot.
Nervous Adagio is super endearing... oh, oh my a chest binder huh?I like the idea of genderqueer Aria enough, esp if she just likes to play with it on occasion
Are all four of the Equestrians in this story just kind of homeless? That's kind of a sad thought, but at least they seem to be getting by.
Thoughful moments in a cutesy ship-fic! Not too uncommon, but always welcome!
Ohh, when teasing backfires. Poor Aria.
Two thumbs up for genderqueer Aria, I like it!
yeah and to the people who are like that they seriously need to get their heads out of the 1800s it's the 21st century people get your heads out of the revolutionary age