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When Wallflower Blush gets injured, Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle use the journal to talk about her recovery.


Written for the Twilight Files Contest.

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Not sure why that background scenery people insist is a character from Forgotten Friendship had to be part of this. Meh I guess?

Why is "and Twilight Sparkle" in italics, but not the rest of the synopsis?

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A cue that in the journal entries, Twilight's side of the conversation is in italics.

This was very sweet. I can't help but wish we also got to see events from Wallflower's perspective, too. Like, she literally got isekai'd, except she didn't actually die. I can only imagine her inner monologue. And also, was Discord present at her O&O game? If so, her reaction likely would have been priceless.

A very interesting premise. There are several stories where Sunset decides to return to Equestria, but very few, if any, where Sunset stays in the human world, and another character goes pony full-time instead.

Hmm...but even though Sunset has decided she belongs in the human world, the story's plot point seems to revolve around Sunset not using the portal at all during this entire encounter, which is kinda a plot hole. I mean, she couldn't take a day off and go through to help Wallflower adjust when she woke up, instead of being surrounded by total strangers in pony form? Or check up on her once and awhile? Or visit her after she decided to stay pony? Seems kinda unrealistic and out of character? Though, I get that it needed to be done for the journal-format to be unbroken through the entire story.

Definitely an interesting turn of events with Wallflower with her wishing to stay in Equestria and enjoying the life there. The inner conflict of Sunset with Wallflower's wishes was also a nice to read adding and realistic for me. After all, in Forgotten Friendship Wallflower was putting the blame in Sunset. The touch of sentences ending abruptly or the smileys etc. gave also the feel that Sunset and Twilight are "chatting".

I was wondering a bit how the family side of Wallflower had reacted to the accident or if anything regarding her family would be mentioned, but EqG was not the show that mentioned parents ever in the first place so I guess that works too. :pinkiecrazy:

Nonetheless, a nice, "self-finding" story with two characters writing with each other like friends would do :twilightsmile:

She got hit by a truck. I guess he didn’t see her.

That was one of her main complaints, wasn’t it? Feeling invisible?

oof, definitely a darkly ironic way for Wallflower to end up in the hospital

That’s great to hear. I was so worried. I had no idea how going through the portal with those injuries would work so I’ve been freaking out this whole time. Will you tell me when she wakes up?

ah that is interesting to think about, how going through the portal with injuries would even work. and that explains why pony Twilight is the one talking to Sunset here

How did she handle having four legs and no fingers all of a sudden?

Very well! Only a little scream.
That went on for a while.

yeah that is a lot to deal with on top of being hit by a truck!

True. I feel a little bad that this is how she learned about the pony world, though. 🐎

I don’t think you should feel bad. You quite literally saved her life.

well this makes me imagine just how many more human lives could be saved by sending them to Equestria to get magically healed

She has the same Motif here, but I guess I’d thought she’d chosen something depressing for being alone and her actual cutie mark was something like sunflowers or something like that. 🌻

aww, but the fandom cutie mark is just way too fitting!

I can’t ask how she got her cutie mark. She’s from the human world.

that does bring to mind a lot of questions about how cutie marks even work. shouldn't humans on the pony side be blank flanks?

And it’s crazy how each counterpart here and there have the exact, same symbol, I mean, what are the odds?

yeah best not to think too hard about that one

And some ponies might think there were too many -ly words there at the end.

yeah that is a bit clunky for a poem

No, that’s a good idea. She’ll talk about it if she wants to.
But I really, really, really want to know.

i mean, could always track down pony Wallflower. wouldn't that be fun?

But what the heck were you thinking, starting a message like that? “She was GONE”??? 😠

yeah that is not the best way to phrase it!

I thought it was just that she didn’t want to climb back up the stairs, of which there are copious amounts in this castle for some reason, but it was definitely her wanting to stay in the garden.

yeah there really are a lot of stairs in that thing

But seriously. Pony food is just better.

so true

And by that, I mean she got roped into one of Spike’s O & O games. She rolled up a druid.

I’m going to pretend I know what that means.

Nature-loving magical being.

Should have guessed.

hehe that does sound fitting

I bet the rules are similar across dimensions even though magic is real in one and doesn’t exist in the other.

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Never mind. Tell her
We’re excited to have her back.

I will.
Are you doing ok?

I’m just fine. I promise. 😁

aww sounds like she's not just fine!

I wish I could send pictures through this journal. I found Wallflower in the garden with her forehead pressed against a sunflower, trying to make it grow.

that is very adorable

I can just see them reacting to her cutie mark. The horror!

…?

Oh, right, you wouldn't get that reference. They tend to freak out over every little thing, including a wilted flower.

hehehe, yeah, Sunset won't get your Ponyville references Twilight!

I mean, I spent all my time in the castle. I don’t think I even saw an earth pony, except for some of the guards.

well that just sounds very sheltered

It sounded like she was an adult in the human world, or at least old enough to make her own decisions?

aww, yeah, very relatable that Wallflower wouldn't want to go back

In your world?

hehe, guess Sunset just instinctively considers herself a human now

But even just writing that, there’s a lot of I, I, I and I know that’s not right. And if I was a good friend, I would worry about what she wants. What’s best for her. And support her.

aww, why doesn't she go over to Equestria and talk to Wallflower herself?

Did she say anything about coming back? It just seems a little sudden, I guess.

yeah that did seem very sudden, do wonder just what happened

She’s doing well. I caught her scratching at her neck and I thought it was from the surgery but I guess it’s more she hasn’t needed to wear clothes for a bit.

aww yeah must be a lot to get used to again

Is that a thing in Equestria? Bowling, I mean?

Sure is. The CMCs helped a pony get his cutie mark in bowling last week, actually.

How does that work without fingers?

Surprisingly well.

yeah i'm not gonna think too hard about that one

I don’t know. She’s a little quieter. More pensive.
I mean, she was always pretty quiet.
Never mind. I might just be overthinking things.

oof that doesn't sound good!

don’t know how humans evolved, but ponies were prey, and things that hurt us stick longer in our minds.

aww, and yeah, Equestria is a very nice place so tolerance for that kind of thing might be lower, too

Nope. And people don’t stand in the dirt like that, either. But she wasn’t even embarrassed. She just looked at me and asked if I miss it.

this is a cool scene to imagine! i do like the idea of Wallflower just really missing being an earthpony, and feeling even more off in her own skin than she even did before in the human world. just so poignant, augh

She came back because she didn’t want to feel like she’d given up. That she could make it here, like anyone else here.

i do like this bit of HiE at a remove, with the common theme of Equestria being so nice and happy that it doesn't feel as real as struggling against everything that comes with being human

I know what you said but I still think it’s partially my fault and so I have to fix it. But now I’m not going to get that chance.

yeah Sunset is projecting her own ego here instead of thinking of how Wallflower feels and what she needs! she does need to let go of that streak inside of her

But I mean, I get it. She found a place she could be her, and I think that’s really all we want, right? Some place where we can just be… us. I found it with friends here, she found it with plants there.

yeah you'd think Sunset of all people would be very sympathetic to Wallflower here!

You know, I think a part of me thinks a part of her thought she didn’t deserve to be happy.

aww yeah that is also definitely a possible motivator for her pushing away the place that made her happy

Well, she’s just going to eat them when I give them to her, but sure.

aww, truly the pony way!

She’s happy now, and I’m happy she’s happy. She bloomed.

She did. And she’s beautiful.

and a nice note to end it on. glad that Wallflower found the place that she belonged! and very fitting that she and Sunset's journeys mirrored each other, in a way

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