Maybe Derpy knows sideways psychology
Sunset yelped and dropped the journal, taking a step away from it.
“Sunset?” Derpy turned towards her friend. “Is everything alright?”
“Yeah I-I’m Fine.” Sunset says staring at the journal intensely.
“Are you sure?” Derpy asks in an unsure tone, clearly not convinced. “People don’t usually scream and drop books for no reason. Not unless they’re like really scary like this one book I read when I was a-”
“It’s nothing really.” Sunset turned to Derpy, interrupting her before she could monologue. “Twilight just asked me if I wanted to talk to my old mentor.”
“I imagine things didn’t end well for the two of you?”
“You could say that.” Sunset nodded awkwardly.
“You gonna go for it?” Derpy asked. “This might be the best opportunity you’ll have for a while.”
“I don’t know. On the one hand I want to apologize to her, on the other I have no idea what I’m going to say.” Sunset huffed. “Things ended really badly between us.”
“Well it’s up to you.” Derpy shrugged. “Twilight probably won’t force you into something you’re not comfortable with. You’ll have other opportunities to talk to your mentor.”
Sunset raised an eyebrow at her friend. ‘Why isn’t she encouraging me to talk to Celestia? She practically forced me to run for Princess, this isn’t like her.’ Perhaps she only encouraged Sunset when she thought it would help her, or she thought she did enough encouraging today, or maybe-
Sunset's eyes widened as she realized what Derpy was doing, a knowing smirk growing on her lips. “Nice try Derpy, but I’m onto you.”
Derpy looked confused. “What are you talking about?”
“‘Other opportunities to talk to my mentor’, right.” She winks knowingly at Derpy.
“Uh, yeah. Everyone would understand if you’re not ready yet. You can talk to her later.”
“‘Talk to her later’, gotcha.” She says with another wink. “I’m onto you girl, you can’t fold me that easily.”
Derpy just looked confused as she looked at the ground, trying to understand what Sunset was talking about. Sunset meanwhile picked the journal back up and grabbed the pen.
“You know what? Why not. I can’t keep running from Celestia forever. I’ll talk to Celestia if she’s open to the idea.”
“Oh that’s wonderful Sunset!” Sunset chuckled at Twilight's somewhat sloppy excited hoof writing. “When I have the chance I’ll ask Celestia and report back later. I have a really good feeling about this Sunset. Anyway I need to go, I’ll see you later ok? Love you!”
Sunset smirked mischievously. “Is that s-”
Erratic scribble marks quickly covered up Sunset's writing before she could continue. “Don’t make it weird! You know exactly what I meant!” Sunset couldn't help but laugh, earning another confused look from Derpy. “I love you in a platonic, friendly way. Not romantic at all, ok?
“You know the more you deny it the more suspicious it looks right?”
“Oh whatever! I’m going to leave before you give me an aneurysm, I’m stressed enough as is.”
“Bye Twi, I love you.”
"I love you t- hey! That's it, I’m leaving. I thought I'd get more respect as a princess but I guess not.”
Sunset chuckled and closed the journal. “That girl is too easy.”
“So.” Sunset looked towards Derpy. “Is that a yes to talking to your mentor?”
“Mhm.” Sunset answered. “Thanks for helping me out Derpy.”
“You’re welcome!” She said cheerfully before wondering what she did. “What was it I did exactly?”
Sunset rolled her eyes at Derpys feigned ignorance. "Just give it up Derp, I know you were using reverse psychology.”
“Reverse psychology? I can’t even do forward psychology!”
“Surrreee.” Sunset winked.
“No, seriously, I wasn’t doing anything. You're reading too much into this.”
“Gotcha.” Another wink.
“I’m not kidding Sunset!”
“Oh no of course not.” Wink. "I believe you." Wink.
“I don’t even know what reverse psychology is!”
Wink.
Derpy groaned in annoyance and flopped face first onto her bed.
Scootaloo grumbled as she tediously placed each letter for a text into the flip phone. “How did texting take off when it was so torturous!?” She finally finished and sent the text, cradling her poor thumbs. “How did people survive back then? My thumb feels like it’s about to fall off!”
She was off to the next one when suddenly Sweetie called and Scootaloo answered. “Took you long enough. You forced me to send a dozen texts on a flip phone.”
“Sorry Scoots.” Sweetie answered tiredly. “Now what do you want since it’s so important?”
“Well, somebody’s in a good mood.” Scootaloo snarked. “Anyway, I ran into Sunset earlier and she was crying-”
“Oh no, what did you do this time?”
“I didn’t do anything!” Scootaloo huffed in annoyance. “Sunset was crying cause she was told she isn’t allowed to be Valedictorian, which was pretty important to her.”
“Oh, that’s… sad. Why are you telling me this exactly?”
“Cause she’s not going to fight them.” Scootaloo huffed. “She says she deserves it and that she’s lucky she wasn’t expelled. But just because she’s taking this lying down, doesn’t mean I will!”
“Excuse me?”
“I’m going to fight for Sunset's right to be Valedictorian!” She declared, standing on her bed and holding her fist out. Her triumphant demeanor fell when Sweetie broke into a hysterical laughing fit. “I’m serious Sweetie!”
“And how do you plan to do that, hm?” Sweetie challenged. “Blackmail the school board, old Sunset style?”
“Simple.” Scootaloo said with a cocky smile. “I tell the entire school what the school board is doing, convince them how unfair that is, and have everyone protest until they finally give in. Maybe throw a few Molotov cocktails to really get our point across.”
“Didn’t know you were an anarchist, I’m pretty sure throwing Molotov cocktails is illegal.” Sweetie said half jokingly. “You do realize though that this is probably really private information, right? Sunset may not want this getting out to anyone.”
“Fair point.” Scootaloo's cocky smile fell. “Well, I guess I’ll just have to convince her then. I’ll go up to her tomorrow, tell her my plan, and convince her if she rejects it.”
“But you also do realize that students protesting probably wouldn’t do much, right? We’ve got like, what, a few hundred or so students at school? Even if you convinced all of them to protest, they probably wouldn’t convince the school board to do anything. The only thing the school board cares about is how parents feel, cause that probably affects their jobs.” Sweetie remarked. “And I doubt that parents care whether or not a past delinquent gets to be Valedictorian, especially if their own kids have a better shot with her out of the way.”
“Good point, good point…” Scootaloo was deep in thought at what they could do, her eyes finally lighting up. “I got it! When Sunset gives us her blessing, we’ll reveal to the school what’s going on and convince them not to attend graduation in protest. Students not attending graduation due to a decision made by the school board probably doesn’t look good for them.”
“That’s a pretty big plan, Scoots.”
“I don’t think so. Parents will be so angry for the next few years that the school board will have no choice. Won’t your parents be angry that you won’t attend graduation because of something the school board did?”
“Well…” Sweetie said nothing as she thought it over. “Perhaps parents would be the tipping point for the school board, they’re probably the only people whose opinion the school board cares about. But why would anyone not want to attend graduation to support Sunset? There’s no guarantee of anyone doing that for her.”
“Sunset literally saved the world.” Scootaloo pointed out. “Went through a lot because of what we did so people would be more sympathetic towards her, has shown she’s a good person now (which the school board people don’t seem to care about), and is objectively the smartest person at school. At least when it comes to GPA and academic achievements, so she’s best qualified. I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want her to be Valedictorian.”
“I guess. If we really want to get the message out, we should recruit my sister and her friends. People will listen to them.”
Scootaloo froze at the mention of the Rainbooms. “Uh, y-yeah. That sounds like a good idea, good thinking Sweetie.”
“If you want, I can just ask my sister now. I know things are awkward between you and Rainbow right now.”
“No, no it’s fine. It’ll be easier if they’re all in the same room. Sunset takes priority, I can face down Rainbows wrath when I try recruiting the Rainbooms.”
“If you’re sure.” Sweetie answered in a nervous tone. “So I’m assuming we want to get the seniors and juniors, but what about the other grades?”
“I was hoping we could get everyone seniors down to 7th graders. If we’re lucky, we could maybe convince everyone that comes after for a few years.”
“What would be the point of that? You want to punish the school board?”
“I’m sure they can give her Valedictorian even after she graduates… if they can’t then yes, I want to punish the school board, hundred percent.” Sweetie sighed in exasperation over the other line. “But I’ll take whatever convinces the school board to rescind the punishment. That kind of pressure from angry parents and students will have to convince them, right?”
“We should probably run this by Bloom, see what she has to say.”
“Can’t until tomorrow. But something tells me we won’t be getting any help from her.”
“Probably not. She probably won’t want to join any more plots after what happened Saturday.” Sweetie Belle agreed. “I need to get going Scoots, see you tomorrow.”
“See ya.” With that Sweetie Belle disconnected the call and Scootaloo flopped down on her bed. A big smile spread on her face as she stared up at the ceiling. “Don’t worry Sunset, you’ll be Valedictorian. I promise.”
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I'm not even sure what Sunset heard. I'm as confused as Ditzy (Derpy).
I don't mean to be rude but I'm honestly doubt that having the whole school going against the school board will just do more harm than good. I have a hunch that the board will think that Sunset put all of them up to this scheme or something.
But anyway, great update after a long while.
While Scootaloo’s heart is in the right place (and much reasonable planning), this may be difficult to pull off. It takes a lot to convince a lot of students (especially the parents) to not graduate in protest to convince the board to allowed Sunset to become Valedictorian. And even if they agree to help, it takes a miracle to change the board's minds regarding Sunset.
I really hope good things happen to Sunset for once, especially after everything she went through during Anon, but we'll see how that goes.
While I can't speak for a lot of other high schools, I think the one that I went to had about 250-300 students on average, 9th Grade through 12th, when I graduated back in 1975.
(Junior high (7th and 8th grade) was separate from the high school in Thayer, MO (my hometown).
Then again, Thayer's total population generally fluctuates between 2,000-2,200 people on average.
Don't you mean "rescind" here?
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https://tenor.com/view/he-is-back-sonic2-he-is-back-sonic2-sonic2he-is-back-gif-24092270
Don’t worry, I read the blog. Kind of remind me of how I treated Endgame. How was the movie?
There actually is a reason, I just haven’t found a place to put it in.
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I knew that didn’t sound right but I couldn’t think of a better word.
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That’s a good question... which I will not answer just yet.
That it certainly did.
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She pretty much expected Derpy to try to convince her, So was confused when Derpy was blasé about it.
Mostly she was projecting as she really wants to talk to Celestia but wants to justify it to herself.
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They’ll have no evidence really, and what can they do if they suspect Sunset is behind the protests? She’s already being punished, there’s not much else they can do.
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Hold on there’s her plan is for everyone not to attend their graduation ceremony. I don’t think it’s possible to not graduate from High school if you completed the necessary time unless you drop out right before graduation. They’re (probably) legally required to give you your diploma and you still have the credits. The ceremony is just a tradition, it’s not required by any means that you attend.
Based on her recent interactions with Twilight I’m starting to get that Sunset is just naturally flirty.
So it occurs that maybe she is just like that with her friends which might mean SunJack might not be canon in this story
So given the prior story is listed as required reading, I'm guessing that's the Fluttershy angle, regret over preventing Sunset's suicide (in her mind). Or at the very least, wording that came off that way to Sunset even if it didn't to Monkeyshy.
We can generally extrapolate that everyone was as bad, if not worse, to Sunset compared to the CMC, so mean words like Lyra's little locker ballad would stick out in Flutter's mind as being noteworthily bad while she was comparing actions to Rainbow's. Assault and battery? Deal-with-able deal. Profanity-filled hate poetry? Water off a duck's back. The only real escalation there would be to death, but Fluttershy would be aware of making death threats, so... it would need to have been inadvertent. So something like "Why did I even approach you after the Fall Formal?" -> One side: Why did I extend my hand in friendship? -> Other side: Why didn't I let you off yourself?
Could be completely off-base, of course. Maybe she was wearing one of Rarity's infamous cursed dresses that make her act OOC.
Keep up the good writing!
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Ah, Endgame. That was an awesome movie!
And the Sonic 2 movie was awesome! 
It is now my favorite Sonic and video game adaptation movie to date in my opinion. I recommend checking that out of you're interested. 
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Whoops! I meant to say to not attend the graduation ceramony. Excuse the typo.
I'm really anxious to know how is gonna the conversation with Sunset and Celestia, and i wonder if Scootaloo really gonna make Sunset the valedictorian ?
Scootaloo is going to need all the help - and luck - in her quest to get Sunset into the Validectorian again. A risky task, given the fact most of the student body don't trust her nor her fellow Crusaders, yet one worth of the try.
And Derpy would be a perfect Psycologist in a possible near future. Have she considered running into that career in college?
Derpy is the best.
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Plus the students were all too eager to blame sunset for Anon-a-Miss even though many told the secrets themselves about their friends and blame sunset for Stealing them. They didn't really care about sunset and wanted to hurt her for their own reasons. Sunset is feeling too guilty to agree and every time someone brings up who she uses to be you can see how bad she felt and the stupid no offense comments from the girls probably didn't make her feel better and probably hurt her more than she admitted. Now she struggling to put herself back together emotionally and trust is very fragile for her.
I'll say it again. I never wanted to attend graduation. [It's a long story]
https://youtu.be/4EoAHdwGBvU