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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Seems that the miasma is starting to get to her. Not that Twiggles has made it any better with her behavior.
I'm gonna be honest. That primal panic at the end and the description.
Like, my guy, fuck. It's on point in a way I hope most people don't have to experience. Just... door's at my 1, window's 10:00 high, bag, 9:00 low at bed with shoes. Door engress? Out window, hit ground, reorient, 3:00 outside ac unit, vault fence, reorient, 11:30 immediate, thin 'alley' between yards, adults can't squeeze through, exit, hang left, two blocks, hook right 3 blocks, school leaves shed unlocked often, shelter, bag of extra clothes in rafter...
Kind of forgot about that.
Not that I'm fussed, just, impressed with how well it's described, how it can pull you in and put that emotion in you. You continue to amaze me with your descriptions.
Missed you over the break, glad you're doing well, and I hope you were able to enjoy as much of your holidays as you could.
Someone call a medic, I don't think Sunny's looking too hot right now... Pun absolutely not intended — don't even try to get me started on that.
I wonder what Twiggles' reaction to all of this would be, if she saw any of it or if she's rearing her head yet again.
Yeah, Sunset isn't handling this well at all. She needs to go to her friends. She will not, but she should.
If anything is going to get Celestia and Luna to let Sunset do something she is supposed to be baned from, it's the games.
They know how smart she is, how good a leader she can be. Without knowing Twilight exists at CPA, Sunset's brain should make winning at lest a possibility.
If she can keep it together long enough. She is spread very thin right now.
Well that was... something...
Sunny's magic is starting to come out at the Sparkle house. Not good...
And she's going primal too...
interesting how she still considers Princess Celestia "safe" despite the comparing her to the current situation.
As one of the smartest and brightest, if not the smartest and brightest at CHS, her peers are probably looking to her for the academic leg-up, the academics to match Rainbow's athletics.
And it's good to see a CPA alumnus like Night Light who has some time to distance himself from CPA (somewhat) to gain an understanding of the rival school's position.
Tension. Nothing can survive under increased tension to the breaking point. Yikes. My next thought goest to Velvet who will got to check to find the door locked but Night and Vel are smart, those locks can be bypassed as any child's room lock would be. What will they find in that room? A scared, tortured girl baricaded under a bed or something smoldering about to break?
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It does indeed.
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Great minds think alike. Also, the bit about vandalizing CPA with rock salt and cold iron made me snort soda out my nose.
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Mm...Sunny's having a rough time, and she cant even have girlfriend cuddles to make it better.
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Wow. Um...Man. Gotta admit, this kind of comment really makes my day--despite it being a bit of a grim subject.
There's a long standing and well known struggle for writers in writing experiences in a way that does portray them...well. THe old "Write what you know" adage, and the long standing debate between what exactly that means, whether it means you should avoid writing things you've not personally experienced, or do research, or get the perspective from someone who has experienced, or just do the best you can.
For me, for us, it means we research. We look up information on the subject, the psychology, and then run it through the filter of the character's personal psychology and experiences to try and make it make sense for them. It means that there's a lot of stuff in here we've done--Like Sunset's pain-and-exhaustion-addled-brain fears and paranoia in this chapter--that is so far outside our personal experiences that we really were just "doing our best with what we learned by researching."
So when someone remarks on the narrative with a comment like this, saying "I've lived this, and you nailed it," it means so much. Its satisfying and relieving and so many things all at once for us, because we do worry. I worry enough for the whole team all by myself, I think, because I recognize that I don't know who will read the story, or what experiences they will have had. So thank you. Comments like yours make me feel good about the narrative risks we take.
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What do you mean? Pfft. Sunset's on fire! She's fine!
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She should. She might even.
And yes, there's a chance she could be in the games. A chance. We'll see how that pans out. She is an excellent leader and organizer, as we've seen, she's not afraid to get her hands/hooves dirty, and she's one of the smartest students in CHS....but will it be enough to overcome her punishment from the fall formal?
She is spread thin though. Can she handle one more project/responsibility?
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She's...going...something, that's for sure. And yes, her magic manifesting is something she's been...dealing with. Poorly.
Even in civilized creatures, instincts are still there, and they do manifest. There's a reason most humans instinctively react by recoiling away when they stumble across a snake or a spider, or why we are unnerved by complete and utter silence/darkness. In this case, ponies are herd animals in their oldest origins, and equine herds are actually run by the lead mare. Princess Celestia is the absolute definition of a lead mare, and when you couple that with the fact that emotions around parental figures (even abusive, bad, or neglectful ones) are complicated things, for all Sunset dislikes what happened to her or how Celestia didn't believe her as a filly, she still looks up to and loves her--if she didn't, it wouldn't hurt so damned bad--in her worst moments...she's going to look for the oldest source of comfort and safety: the mare who chased away her nightmares as a small foal.
Or, put another way...There's a reason dying men on the battlefield all cry for their mothers.
As for the games, time will tell.
Night...is showing a remarkable amount of free thought for a CPA alumnus, isnt he? Hmmm...Curious that.
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This I actually feel comfortable answering outright. Mom-Velvet checked, but respected the privacy signal of a locked door for two reasons: one, Sunset is not throwing up red flags for self harm concerns at the moment, and two, because the adults (Shining and Cady included), discussed their plans-of-action around Sunset, who they believe is suffering from some pretty rough PTSD, and one of the last things you want to do to a kid who is trying to hide like that, to seclude themselves, is go after them. It reinforces the "adults=aggressive threat" connection in the brain. (Just like you don't corner an agitated or fearful dog.)
It is a thought though...had she gone in...who...or what...would she have found?
well that's ominous. So is the fact her magic is instinctively ponying her up to protect her from...something. Now to see if anyone spots her unconscious covered form.
Edit: I should read author comments before commenting. Still a fun what-if scenario.