Every action taken is like dropping a pebble in a pond, creating ripples that extend ever outward. Every choice has consequences, good and bad... Putting on a Crown may have changed Sunset Shimmer's life...but it also Changed two worlds...
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Oh hey Sunset dropped CSGU as the actual name of her school. I'm sure nobody will try to look that up later and be confused by the results (or lack thereof).
Mmmmm, steamy. Throw in mixed emotions, social anxiety, and a bacon horse and you get this! Got to watch those little white lies, Sunny. They catch up to you eventually. Even with the best of intentions. And she actually said CSGU... risky, since Twilight might get curious enough to try and google search that if for no other reason than to see where it might be in the world.
Considering Sunny hangs with Flutters, quiet girls are no problem.
Ooh, Twi's starting to have suspicions that Sunset's hiding something. Not good!
Another cozy scene with the lavender and peach girls. I'm glad Twiggles is sorta warming to the idea of CHS, but she's still wrapped up by that witch's web of deception.
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I'm sure it will *never* cause any problems at all. Ever.
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Indeed. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft agley, after all. (which is where the chapter title comes from haha.)
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Shy introverts, not a problem. Wallflower though?
Time will tell.
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Oh the tangled webs we weave...
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>:}
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Both. I'm an oWoD player from the early 2000s, when the World-wide LARP orgs were big. I possess "World of Darkness Lore x5" and have pdf copies of pretty much everything other than the Demon LARP books. Not only am I prone to making hilarious meta jokes for my own amusement, but things like "Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth", "Book of the Wyrm", and "Freak Legions" are ready source material for ideas. Say what you will about WoD, but it knew how to create ATMOSPHERE in storytelling, using nothing more than scraps of myth and hints of information. There are actually little references to WoD scattered throughout the story, heheh. Some people have caught a few, but no one has picked up on all of them.
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Twilight definitely not someone who would look up an unfamiliar term. Definitely. Probably. Uh oh.
At this point I'm unclear on why Sunset is keeping magic a secret. An entire school knows, so it's not like this is some super secret she has to keep (it is frankly bending credulity that an entire school of teenagers can keep this secret). She had to pretty much lie to Twilight here, technicalities aside, and knows this is hindering Twilight's work a little bit. Is she too afraid to have the "I'm a Unicorn and also not really a teenager" talk?
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Sunset is keeping it a secret for a variety of reasons. One of them is that she's afraid. Afraid that Twilight won't believe her. Afraid that she will. Afraid that Twilight will be angry for keeping it from her.
Part of it is also that its not as simple as "Oh, hey, btw, magic's real." It means coming clean about herself. About all of the little details about who and what she is, was, and became. Its about saying "I'm a unicorn," and "I'm from another world" and "I was raised by an immortal sun goddess," but also about admitting "I was so twisted and corrupt I was transformed into a literal demon" and "I tried to murder your otherworldly pony counterpart" and so many other facts. Any one of them is a bit of a shock, but all together...and its...well, its a lot. Not to mention, people are not always rational. Especially teens. They tend to live in a world of extremes, with trials and troubles that to them are world ending, but to adults are...just kind of silly. And while Sunset may have lived more years than she appears, she very much has the emotional maturity of a teenager, if a highly intelligent one.
As for teens keeping secrets. People keeping secrets, really...there's two things you have to understand. First, Teens are actually better at it than you think. Partially because ADULTS DON'T LISTEN. Back when I was in high school, there were plenty of "things that the students knew" that the adults never did. Like where to go to be out of view of cameras for illicit activities. Which "fire" door to the outside didn't have a functional alarm which meant you could use it to sneak in and out of the building. Who was the school's forgery expert who could sign your progress reports with your parents name for a small fee. The fact that the chemistry teacher was sleeping with the varsity cheerleaders, and the physics teacher was a perv (who later actually did get arrested by the FBI). These were things that...were just known to the student body, through something like social osmosis. We didn't talk about them, because we didn't have to. And even if we had, the adults in the school never paid attention to conversations in the lunch room, or locker room, or on buses or on the walk to the parking lot.
Which leads into the second thing: People see only what they want to believe. What's easier to believe? Magic and monsters? Or teenagers and their silly antics. A girl who accidentally blows up part of a sidewalk with illegal fireworks as a social stunt for popularity, or a girl turning into a demon trying to kill fellow students with magic? Look at the way people dissect "cryptid" photos, or "evidence of ghosts/aliens/etc". People want to be deceived, they debate and dissect, argue and lie. You see it in the modern day, with people from all kinds of perspectives unwilling to fact check or validate everything from news to politics to medicine, in favor of what "Tim from the Bar" or "Pastor Ted" or "Emperor Palapatine" said last week.
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It's not so much teens keeping secrets I find unbelievable, it's several hundred teens keeping secret something they all saw firsthand or were even directly impacted by.
How is the town not drowning in rumors, whether or not authorities believe them? Ultimately it's the kind of thing I just ignore since EQG stories mostly can't function without suspending disbelief on this, I guess.
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Honestly, if a school of 1000 students can keep a secret that the "best Chemistry teacher in the school" is regularly f*cking the bulk of the Varsity cheerleading squad for over a decade (I'm not exaggerating on this, as it was a real thing, in the high school I went to, back in the late 90s/early 2000s), I just don't see a school of about the same population not being overly chatty with adults about magic being a suspension of disbelief at all. And again, your average adults don't *listen* to teens. They see only what they want to see, hear only what they want to hear. (Some do, usually the best parents or mentor figures, but they are very much in the minority.)
And magic? please. Every girl who ever went to a sleepover between the ages of 12 and 18 has played 'light as a feather, stiff as a board' or dared each other to chant "Bloody Mary" in the bathroom mirror. Teenage girls "dabble" in shit like that all the time. There's an entire reason I made the "love spells for the teenage witch" joke in one of the chapters.
The fact is, teens can and will keep important secrets from most adults. And since most adults overlook teens a lot, don't mind what children say, and otherwise have a tendency to make assumptions based on what they want to see and hear and believe, I don't see it as suspending any disbelief. The only difference between this and some of the things that teens do, is that in this story, the secret is about magic that just so happens to be real.
But I suppose that is just based on my experience with teenagers--first as a person who was "15 going on 40", and now as an adult that does their very best to mentor the teens and young adults. Perhaps your experiences have been very different? Maybe its a generational thing? I'm not sure.
hahah, she gets by on a technicality! "nope, nothing strange here, all that magic nonsense is normal!"
oops!
it's relationship schism due to secret keeping time!
oh good, twilight's suffering from bootstrap syndrome
oh dear
celestia and luna really are very good people
yeah, she'd have to figure out how to use her hands as foci first!
awwww
sunset you better fucking inform your friends beforehand or that'll be a mess
that sounds too ominous, hmm...