The Root of It All
HAPPY HEARTH'S WARMING!!!
Thank's Pinkie.
And Merry Christmas, Happy Hannacka, Io Saturnalia, Happy Kawanza, Happy Yule Time, and all other Holidays celebrated and Holy Days observed around the Winter Solstices
Song used: Put One Foot in Front of the Other from Rankin/Bass' Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, it just seemed to be a better song than what we got from the show and ... It's Christmas/Hearth's Warming.
The bubble opened and all three were on the ground, there were on the outskirts of a small city a little larger than Magiville and a little more advanced, but was for the most part full of Magicborn. Twilight and Spike looked around clearly at a loss of where they were, they figured that when they were was the past, maybe a year or two before Rainbow Dash’s first sonic rainboom at most. “Where are we?” Twilight asked as she elected to get to the heart of the matter.
Starlight began walking towards the village, “That map of yours is connected to every part of Mystica, remember!” Starlight pointed out annoyed as if she had to point out that water was wet. After she beckoned Twilight and Spike to follow her, “and this part was my home.” They soon arrived at what looked like a fairly large house in comparison to all the others, it wasn’t anywhere near the divergence of the Riches’ manor to the better part of Magiville, or Celestia’s castle compared to the upper crust that resided in Chantalot, no it was more like the house shared by Octavia Melody and her sister Vinyl Scratch and the rest of the houses on that street. However, even with the two very different sisters were not present that home gave off the vibes of life, this home, even if fully occupied seemed to more like a tomb. Starlight then pointed to a window, Twilight and Spike looked inside and saw a younger Starlight Glimmer, no more than eleven with clothes similar to what she had now and her hair was done with two pigtails. Also in the house was a boy about her age. His eyes were a gradient of various shades of blue dark cornflower blue to moderate cyan. His hair was two shades of vermilion, both vivid and brilliant. He wore a bright gamboge shirt and pants, on his hands were a set of white gloves. The two had finished playing a board game and Starlight was using her magic to reach for a book on a nearby bookshelf that was fairly high up, “His name is Sunburst.” Starlight informed before Twilight or Spike could ask. As the two continued to watch, Starlight continued to narrate as the younger Starlight seemed to struggle to get the book she wanted. “Sunburst and I did everything together. In fact, I don't remember us ever being apart. Until today.” Starlight stopped as the younger one was finally able to get the book but the bookcase started to lean forward and was about to bury her, under the books, likely killing her in the process. Or would have, however, Sunburst’s focus gem, which he wore between his throat and heart started to glow bright yellow as did his eyes. Just before the books could make contact with Starlight, Sunburst’s magic managed to grab and hold all the books in the air and they started to circle around him as his magic grew to a near explosion, a burst. Once the burst of was over, all of the books were back on the shelves and everything was back in order. Sunburst fell to the ground and after a second he saw that there was as an image of an orange sun bursting with four yellow rays of two different shades of yellow on the sun’s left side with six blue stars of two different shades of blues around the sun’s right side. Sunburst then gave a ‘whoopie’ before he ran out of the house to come across a man and woman that looked like they were his parents and they were heading to the house as if to pick him up. The two seemed to very happy and went about to show that their son had discovered his Aura Mark. One then ran off to their home.
“And just like that, my friend was gone.” Starlight said as she watched her younger-self step outside and tried to get to Sunburst. As the younger Starlight tried to reach her friend, she was pushed and shoved aside by the other children. While it was not actually addressed, it was mentally noted by Spike and Twilight. “His family recognized his magical talent and sent him off to Chantalot, to Celestia’s School for The Gifted. I never saw him again.”
“Well, why didn’t you try to enter the Celestia’s School for the Gifted yourself?” Spike asked as he could not help but notice that there was a way for Starlight to have still seen Sunburst.
“My parents were never around,” Starlight as she pointed back to the house a which was pretty much empty and devoid of signs of people living in it, not even family photos. “Their jobs always kept them away. And because of that I never had a chance to apply. And all of the other children thought I was a freak!” Twilight and Spike instantly recalled what they saw when the younger Starlight went to be with Sunburst, they could tell that it wasn’t playful, it was, in fact, cruel, albeit the cruelty children show due to ignorance. “Because my folks weren’t around they thought that there was something wrong with me! But not Sunburst, he was the only one that reached out to me. But then this day. I lost my only friend because of an Aura Mark! He got his Aura Mark, and I didn't! He moved on, and I didn't! I was left here and was never able to make another friend!” As she spoke, Starlight fell to her knees as she tried to hold back tears, as her past started to come back.
“That's ridiculous. An aura mark can't take your friends away.” Twilight pointed out, as she called out the fault in Starlight’s argument, more or less pointing out the ‘post hoc ergo proctor hoc’ logical fallacy that was at its core.
Starlight got back to her feet and scowled at Twilight as she wiped the tears that formed in her eyes, “Not everybody's lucky enough to get their aura mark at the same time as their friends!” Starlight then teleported the three to be on a cloud on the outskirts of Cumula and saw that Rainbow Dash was racing Hoops and Dumb-Bell. “You don't know what it's like to lose a friend because of an aura mark. But once I stop the rainboom, you will!” Starlight then teleported Spike’s backpack to her and reached into it. As she pulled out the scroll she threw it back to the dragon. “And when I destroy this scroll, there'll be no way for you to change it!” She then began to tear the scroll, but it was not as one might think as it was protected by a purple magical aura.
“You're right, Starlight,” Twilight said as her left hand also glowed, having quickly thought of a way to the situation she continued, “I don't know what you went through! But you were at my lecture, you know that Apple Bloom’s best friend before the start of the school year of the year I moved to Magiville was a girl named Twist, and she discovered her aura mark before Apple Bloom. And while the friendship took a back burner, she formed new friendships with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, and they formed the Cutie Mage Crusaders, they made a destiny together.” This seemed to give Starlight some pause, but she continued to try to bind together a means to circumvent Twilight’s shield spell, “And YOU know I can't allow you do this! We’ve both seen where this leads!”
Starlight stopped and as she placed her hand on her heart and tried to dismiss what she saw, “I only saw what you showed me!” which was a true statement Twilight had to concede, “Who knows what'll really happen?” Starlight asked as she returned to her attempt to destroy the scroll, she managed to get a small tear, but little more.
Twilight had to think fast, “Have ever wondered why you keep coming back here and haven’t seen your village?” Twilight asked quickly as she recalled that during the last time she got help from Time Turner and Brighteyes. “Think about it. Your modifications would send you right to your village a week before my friends and I arrived. Not only that things don't turn out well in Mystica overall without my friends but your village doesn’t last long enough for my friends and me to challenge you!” Twilight attempted to appeal to Starlight’s want of the village in the first place pointing out that the village would share in the fate of the rest of Mystica.
“Ugh!” Starlight stopped her attempt and groaned as she rolled her eyes, “What's so special about your friends?! How can a group of people that are so different be so important?!” Starlight was done with this back and forth, but if she wanted to put an end to Twilight’s interference, she had to know why Twilight was so determined to stop her.
“What is special about us is that we are so different from each other and it is the differences between me and my friends are the very things that make our friendship strong!” Twilight answered as she and Spike slowly walked to Starlight. “In truth in the grander scheme of things, we’re not special. But we’re important, and that is because all of us in this world are. From Sunburst to Spike to you, to Me, everyone, we are all important. Think about it, do you have any idea how much better this world would be if your friendship with Sunburst didn’t end.” Twilight pointed out as she called back to what she was shown.
“I thought Sunburst and I were the same.” Starlight closed her eyes as she tried to cry, “But we turned out different, and it tore our friendship apart!
“So try again! Make new friends! And if something that you can't control happens that changes things, work through it together!” Twilight was a few steps away from Starlight, all the while Rainbow Dash’s race continued. “That's what friendship is! An ever-changing ever-growing thing! And it's not just my friendships that are important to Mystica! Everybody's are! When yours ended, it led us here. But just imagine all the others that are out there waiting for you if you just give them a chance!” Twilight had seen what Starlight’s life has been and what could be if she kept on this path.
“How do I know they won't all end the same way?” At that moment Starlight’s grip on the scroll loosen and was capitalized on by Spike, and the scroll was in his talons.
Twilight just in arm's reach of Starlight and began to hold her hand out, “You don’t know, I don’t know, for even the wise can’t see all ends.” She confessed which gave Starlight pause, “But what I do know is that if you always do what you always did, you will get what you always got. And look at yourself, you’re bitter, miserable, hurt and alone.” Starlight turned her face away slightly, as she felt the weight of those words, “Your actions led you here, you can either continue doing this or you can try something else and maybe be happy.” Starlight hesitated for a second before she nervously reached out her hand to accept Twilight’s hand. As soon as the two hands touched they heard the explosion of a sonic boom. The trio turned to see Rainbow Dash’s first Sonic Rainboom.
“It’s beautiful…” Starlight said. Just then Twilight’s eyes became fields of white, much like when, in her life, she was first affected by the rainboom. The scroll glowed purple and in an instant, the three were at the table just as Twilight and Spike were pulled in to the past when Spike touched the scroll. Before any of the three could ask, a purple beam came from the bubble that sent Twilight and Spike into the past the first time and another from the map itself. The two beams hit the scroll and encased it in a purple magic and teleported the scroll away. After a second a piece of paper appeared in Twilight’s hands on it read, ‘Deposited, one heavily modified time travel spell scroll into Vault 13.’
While Twilight was processing what just happened, Spike elected to kiss the floor of the castle a couple of times, like a man that was lost at sea finding land, or a soldier arriving home and needing to be with his wife. “One Castle of Friendship – check!” Once he finished the last kiss the doors from the library to the throne room opened to show Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.
“Finally we’re here!” the fashion savvy enchantress shouted, “What in Mystica was all that?!” she asked as she elected to get to the brass tacks, “We couldn’t return from Midnight Castle, no matter what we tried!”
“Is everybody okay?” Fluttershy asked as she hoped to defuse a potentially explosive situation.
When Spike saw the others, he ran over to them and hugged each of them, kissing Rarity’s right hand, once he finished, “One group of amazing friends – check!” Twilight chuckled, glad to know she was home and that this was over, the other girls also had a short laugh, more so at Spike’s actions.
Applejack stopped first as she drew her sword and pointed it at Starlight, “What's she doin' here?” she asked ready to strike Starlight down there and then, with no regrets.
“Actually, it's kind of a long story,” Twilight answered as she walked over to Applejack and lowered the blade.
“Yeah, we have a story to tell you, too.” Rainbow commented, “You’re not going to believe it.”
Just then the blue box that Time Turner owned appeared out of nowhere right in the throne room, it’s door opened and Brighteyes looked out, “Um, Doc, we’re not in the wrong place. You meant your house, not the Castle of Friendship.”
“Well, this old girl likes to mess with me time to time. Alright once more. ALLONZY!”
After the blue box left, “What the actual…” Applejack started to ask.
A couple hours later, after Twilight had told Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie what transpired, as Starlight waited in the lobby just outside of the throne room, her feet and hands in magical shackles, Twilight, and her friends were in discussion about what to do concerning her. However, there was one in the group still stuck on the fact that the first sonic rainboom performed by Rainbow Dash seemed to be such a lynchpin to the present state of Mystica Three guesses who. “I mean, I knew my rainboom was awesome, but I never thought all of Mystica depended on it!” Rainbow Dash said as she hovered above her seat as everyone else was seated on their thrones, as Twilight was on her feet.
“Or on us!” Pinkie pointed out, in an attempt to both reel Rainbow in and to get in on the excitement. The two were Mystica’s number 1 and number 2 extraverts.
“I think it's more than that. Friendship connects all of Mystica, and undoing one group of friends made its magic less powerful. What I experience and can testify to is what would have happened if our friendship never took place, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” Twilight pointed out as she recalled that this whole situation traced to the end of the friendship between Starlight and Sunburst.
“What Ah can't believe Y'all were able to travel through time like that.” Applejack pointed out, it was pretty obvious that the magic in Mystica was linked to and empowered by the bonds typically of Friendship between each other.
“That Starlight must be pretty magical!” Pinkie pointed out.
“Actually, Pinkie.” Twilight started, “she’s a binder, they are a fairly rare group of mages that able to bind together multiple small spells together into more complex and powerful ones, but they cannot cast the traditionally more powerful spells and they rarely are able to bind together more than ten spells on the best of days. She was able to bind over thirty.” This left her five main friends agape, “Because she was able to bind so many spells together and that she had planned this for over a year, I couldn’t use my powers alone to stop her. I had to convince her to stop on her own. Once I realized that everything fell into place.”
As this revelation sank in, Applejack voiced the concern about how powerful and skilled Starlight was, “But if she's as powerful as all that, we can't just send her on her way, can we?”
“Actually, I kind of have something else in mind,” Twilight then pulled out a waistband. “It’s harsh but it is something.” She then nobbed to Spike and the dragon went to the door to the lobby that Starlight was in. He opened them and beckoned Starlight in.
Starlight gulped and exhaled as she walked it, limited in her speed by the shackles that Twilight had placed on her, “I know there's no excuse for what I did, but I want you all to know that I'm ready for whatever punishment you think is fair.”
Twilight nobbed to Rarity, who enchanted a key to unlock the shackles. Twilight spoke as she walked towards Starlight, “Everyone here is in agreement, you can’t be allowed to move about as you wish until we are sure you’ll be more socially capable. So,” Twilight then placed a band on Starlight’s wrist. “This band is designed to prevent you from using your magic, beyond the most basic of spells and you can only bind together a maximum of two them together. You are still a powerful and potentially dangerous magic-user and what you did was heinous.” Starlight could not and would not argue that point, she almost doomed the world to an icy wasteland. “The band will, of its own accord, fall off when you have gone a time equal to the total of all time each person you removed an Aura Mark from was without their Aura Mark.” This shocked the other five, they knew that Starlight had done wrong, but that seemed a bit of an overreaction. Twilight was not phased as she continued, “However, should any person that you have wronged at any point, think, say or write that they forgive you what you did to them and the effects of what you did to others had on them, of their own accord either to the Divine or you, the time of your penance will be shortened by what remains of that person’s time you had wronged them, should the Divine deem that you merit that forgiveness.” This seemed to ease Applejack and Fluttershy, as their magic came from the Divine and one of the key lessons from the Divine is to overcome your want of vengeance and forgive those that wronged you. “Only beings more powerful than I can override this spell, be them demigods, avatars of certain forces, or the Divine, but that override will last only one hour unless it’s the Divine that overrides it for as long as the Divine deems it.”
“While it does sound just, that seems a little harsh.” Starlight pointed out.
“Well, I could ask Celestia or Luna to send you to the moon for a thousand years,” Twilight commented while looking back slightly.
“On second thought, maybe I can get used to this.” Starlight weakly commented.
“I knew you would.” Twilight couldn’t help but smirk at that. Being a demigod has its perks. But Twilight swiftly changed her focus back to Starlight, “Now I 've been thinking a lot about how badly Mystica fared without just one group of friends. Because even when one friendship dies, the results can be disastrous.”
Starlight looked at the floor ashamed of herself and her actions as she rubbed her left upper arm with her right hand, “I know first-hand how true that can be.”
Twilight placed her hand on Starlight’s shoulder, this got Starlight to look to Twilight, “And that's why I have one more thing to ask. If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to teach you what I know. You'll have the power to make Mystica an even better place. You just need a hand in finding the right direction to use your powers.”
“How do I start?” Starlight asked as she looked at the floor again, clearly at a loss for what to do.
Twilight smiled as turned to her friends, who were now standing not far from Starlight and Twilight, “Well it’s like learning how to walk. Hit it Pinkie.”
Pinkie gasped in joy as she pulled out of her hair all the instruments the others play, including her one-man-band set up, as Spike was given Pinkie’s drum set. After a few beats, Twilight started to sing, “Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door” as she sang she walked towards the door. As she sang the rest played their instruments as they seemed to be sliding on the ground, in including Spike and Starlight.
“You never will get
where you're going
If you never get up on your feet
Come on, there's a good tail wind blowing
A fast walking man is hard to beat”
“Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door” Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Spike all sang, while all but Pinkie seemed to be shocked at this initially, they elected to just let it go.
Twilight flew back to Starlight as they reached a part of the road that was an intersection, up ahead looked to be a dead end, but to the left and right were paths, “If you want to change your direction
If your time of life is at hand
Well don't be the rule, be the exception
A good way to start is to stand”
“Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door” Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy and Spike sang the refrain of the song as Twilight hovered to one of the two paths that Starlight could go.
Starlight looked to one of the windows of the closest houses and saw her reflection, which was how she was when she first met Twilight et al, “If I want to change the reflection
I see in the mirror each morn?” She sang.
“Oh, you do!” Twilight asked, trying to get Starlight to take the step.
“You mean that it's just my election?” Starlight asked as she started to see how she currently was dressed.
“Just that!” Twilight confirmed.
“To vote for a chance to be reborn.” Just as Starlight finished she undid the ponytail she had hair had a slight part in it while seeing herself as a little girl just before her friendship with Sunburst ended.
“You put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor
You put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door” Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy and Spike sang the refrain of the song as Twilight hovered to one of the two paths that Starlight could go as Starlight slowly began to walk towards were Twilight hovered.
“Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door” Twilight and Starlight joined Applejack et al with this as they headed down the road. At the end of the path was the Castle of Friendship and the start of Starlight's new life.
Epilogue: The Letter to Celestia:
As night fell Twilight was in her room, having helped Starlight move in, as the latter had accepted the offer to be Twilight’s student in Friendship, she took out a quill, ink fountain and a piece of parchment. She took a breath. She knew she had to tell Celestia all that transpired, maybe Luna as well, but she did not to sound like she overstepped her authority. Reluctantly she dipped the quill into the ink fountain and began to write.
Dear Princess Celestia
“I miss writing that,” Twilight said to herself after she finished the start of her letter.
Today was a bizarre day.
“Understatement of the millennium.” Twilight had to confess before she continued.
A little backstory, last year after my friends and I helped Sunset and the Shadowbolts defeat the Sirens, we were sent on our first mission from the Aura Map. We went to a village, well more of a hamlet, in the middle of nowhere and came across a cult centered around the idea that if everyone had the same Aura Mark, then they would all be equal and happy. We exposed the leader, Starlight Glimmer, to the rest of the cult, the fraud that she was and we managed to get all the Aura Marks back. However, Starlight escaped into the mountain paths and cave network not far from the village. We would still be looking for her if we followed her then.
“I wonder how she’ll take this next bit, I went through it and I’m still coming to terms with the whole thing.” After a second she started to write.
Over the last year, Starlight planned to have revenge on me by making me see her stop Rainbow Dash’s first Sonic Rainboom. She managed to get a copy of Star Swirl’s time-traveling spell, you know the one that allowed me to go back in time one week, which cause Kerberos to leave his post. Well, she modified it, by binding to it various spells that allowed her, with the use of the Aura Map to travel to any time and any location in Mystica. As I said she elected to attempt to stop Rainbow’s first sonic rainboom. She nearly succeeded but I was able to convince her to stop. I would gladly tell you more about my experience, but I keep it simple. I have elected to take Starlight on as my student in regards to what I have learned in friendship. Now I already have something set up for her to atone for her actions, but I have a favor to ask of you. She said she had a friend that was accepted to Celestia’s School for The Gifted, by the name of Sunburst. I don’t recall a student by that name, but I know you would have a complete record of all students and where they currently are. With the Summer Sun Celebration coming up, and Cadance's is due, I think it would be great to have the two meet again, as was the formation of my friendship with my friends here.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
Twilight then pulled out a dragon-fire candle and lit it. She then sent the letter and then blew out the candle before she turned to her bed. It had been a long day and she needed a good night’s sleep.
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Oooh, okay, you definitely put a whole lot more emotional weight into this resolution than what we actually got in canon. Good job. I still have the headcanon that Starlight is actually an orphan and that the house she was living in was an orphanage, but I understand if you feel like that would be too sad.
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Back in "Revenge of Nightmare Moon", I address the freezing temperature, falling snow, etc, which is what happens with eternal night.
For the rest because the internal harmony of Luna while as Nightmare Moon was never reset, the Elements of Harmony didn't get new bearers and the harmony that Celestia and Luna used to seal away Discord was never broken. Because Twilight never used the spell to travel back in time to tell herself to not worry about the future, Kerberos didn't leave his post and thus Tirek never got out of Tartarus. Due to the eternal night, people died off and the love that Chrysalis was drawn too was gone, and she too suffered under it. Concerning Sombra, Nightmare Moon would not suffer a challenger, but again eternal night and the dying of everything. And that's not addressing the eternal day on the other side. TL;DR, look at the planet Mercury, it spins very slowly in its axis, and the side closest to the sun is stupidly hot and the other side is stupidly cold
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It's not I think the orphan idea is too sad, it's mostly because the orphan trope has been used often enough in my opinion and that I can't see there be anything that her being a latchkey kid wouldn't have already cover. Basically, I ask 'why kill someone off if they can just be offscreen and their absence conveys all the same points?'
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Okay. Thanks very much for the answer. And, yeah, that DOES make sense.
On another note, this is an excellent job on the chapter. The exchanges, characterization and future story set-up are all quite well done. I particularly liked how you put a little more emotional weight behind Starlight's backstory, how well you combined punishment with rehabilitation AND the touch concerning the basically "for old time's sake" letter to Celestia.
But just out of curiosity, did you simple forget to switch the story to "Complete" or is there really one more chapter left? Either way, it's okay.
At any rate, I will still be looking forward to more of your work, but will still be quite willing to be patient.
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I just haven't gotten to switching it to complete yet.
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More than fair enough.
Now Starlight's reasons aren't so petty as in the show! Always hated characters like that...
Nice reference! One of my favourite shows.
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At least I don't insult people for having their own opinion and take on things that happen on a tv show.
Do you think that all the members of the fandom who hate Starlight's reasons are wrong and they didn't understand the character? Good, maybe you are right, maybe you are not. It's your opinion to have and I respect it.
What I don't respect is the unnecessary need to insult people for having a different opinion from yours. That's just mean and childish.
I won't make assumptions about you and I won't do and say anything rude, but I simply ask you to refrain from this behaviour and to consider that not everybody likes the same characters as somebody else, and sometimes that sentiment is such that they won't give too much of their time to try and deeply analyze that character. It happened to me many times, so I can understand what you are feeling, and I know that throwing insults it's not the solution, but the cause of many problems.
Having said that, I bid thee farewell and hope that you at least will think about I said.
nicely done; also, obligatory music/reference, go:
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Thank you.
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you're welcome 🙂
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I hope you enjoy the rest of my works
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I am: I just haven't thought of a proper way to comment on any of them yet...
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Wait, if the first pony that Starlight thinks of when Twilight says "first pony you ever cared about" is Sunburst, then (pause) what kind of ponies were her parents that she preferred Sunburst over them?! Hopefully, that question will get answered when the episode airs.
So, a synopsis for a future episode involves Starlight and Sunburst visiting their parents, so my whole "Starlight is an orphan" headcanon has just gone out the window.
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There is a little more nuance to the matter than that.
Never saw Octavia and vinyl as Sisters, not a bad idea.
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