Mediation
Domino City: Evening…
Flash was currently sitting on a couch within the lobby of a hotel, the one he and the other eight students decided to stay at while in Domino City. For a while now, he’s been mulling over one question.
“How did I get here?” The Destiny Hero user questioned himself.
Flash hadn’t suddenly developed amnesia mind you. It was more of a spiritual ‘how’ than a physical ‘how’ that he was asking himself now. Sunset finding him had not gone how he expected, but looking back at it now allowed him to see the dots.
He could trace the events that transpired, from the day he met Sunset to this moment, and they made a logical throughline. That was a strange thought when magic, card games, and Mystable were part of that throughline. It was almost as weird as where Flash found himself now.
As he saw it, the CMC and Rainbooms just hadn’t/weren’t really talking about what happened. Given past instances, that seemed par for the course, but those same instances showed that simply didn’t work. At times like these, they tended to need someone.
That someone seemed to rally them, weather they saw it or not. At first, it was Twilight before that task was unofficially passed to Sunset. Both did a good job until the former had to return home and the later was made out to be Anon-a-Miss.
Those were invaluable instances to learn from because Flash realized that, by default, the role kind of fell to him. Granted, he could choose to ignore this, but that isn’t who he was. It wasn’t the kind of guy he wanted to be. This all only brought it back to his question.
“How did I get here?” The Destiny Hero user thought.
How did a guy like him end up in this situation? If he wanted to take it back to the inciting incident, it was dating Sunset. Even with how that ended up, he didn’t regret the time they had together, so Flash supposed he couldn’t exactly go throwing blame that way.
Regardless of all these thoughts, he couldn’t really put it off. At this point, he was practically going around in circles just to avoid what had to be done. Despite how things were slowly improving back home, they wouldn’t truly get better until the people at the center did.
“Well, best to get a move on, but I’m going to the CMC first.” Flash thought.
Despite being the main ones behind Anon-a-Miss, Flash had noted Sunset focused more on the Rainbooms over them. Given everything, he could guess it was because she understood the three younger girls on some level. It all essentially boiled down to pettiness.
When Sunset did it, she wanted power and to prove her mentor wrong. When the CMC did it, they wanted to punish Sunset and get more time with their sisters. No matter the result of their actions, it all came back to pettiness.
As Flash entered the elevator and took it up, he could just feel the CMC would be easier to deal with than the problems of the Rainbooms. He also figured that attending to the easier problem might give him more confidence to deal with the messier problem.
Before spending time contemplating the lot in life he wanted, Flash had the forethought to text and ask where people were. The CMC were in Apple Blom’s room while the Rainbooms were in Rainbow’s. He had also checked in on them, hence knowing their current states.
Perhaps it said something that they at least wanted to be in the same room, but without any conversation, nothing would be resolved. Part of Flash was now wishing for things to go back to normal, but he knew they now had to redefine a new normal.
Apple Bloom’s Room
Upon entering Apple Bloom’s room, he saw Scootaloo looking out the window while Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom played a silent game of highest monster. They were taking turns drawing cards, it looked like Apple Bloom’s deck, and the highest AT won.
Within the room there was a desk, chair, and bed. Flash lept right into the deep end by grabbing the chair, turning it around, and plopping down in it. The CMC did spare him looks, but they were quick to get back to whatever they were doing.
“Rough day, huh?” Flash broached.
It seemed words had an impact given the girls now gave him their full attention.
“Rough day…” Scootaloo scoffed. “Nothing was fixed with Sunset, I think our sisters might hate us now, and I ended up blowing the lid on everything to someone who is effectively a stranger. No, telling me she’s technically not does not fix anything.”
“What she said.” Sweetie Bell voiced.
“Well, minus the telling a stranger about everything bit.” Apple Bloom added.
“Sunset was fixed.” Flash stated.
“What?” The girls asked.
“Look, I’m not going to sugar coat this.” Flash sighed. “Right now, you three are being selfish, and it validates what Sunset was saying. All you want is for everything to go back to a normal that can never be. Even if it could, it’d be falsified for your benefit.
The simple fact is, Sunset is content, and that’s something I haven’t seen since the early days of our relationship. Given what little we understand about her life prior, her being genuinely happy was a rare. Yeah, things didn’t turn out how you wanted, but they ended well enough.
“I suppose that does make sense.” Sweetie Bell voiced.
“Perhaps we are being selfish, and that’s not really going to pan out in the long run.” Apple Bloom sighed as she rested her head on her heads. “Heck, being selfish is what brought us to this point anyways.”
“As for your sisters, or sister figure, hating you, I know you think that.” Flash voiced. “Honestly, they are doing the bare minimum to dissuade such thoughts. That’s something I’ll have a chat with them about when I go see them next.
Let me just say, you’ve seen how they treat someone they hate.” He was alluding to Sunset. “I think the fact that they could stand to be around you on this trip and at the park today tells me that, at minimum, they still like you.”
The girls shared a look at that as it seemed to make sense, but it was clear to Flash he wasn’t going to have much luck truly convincing them. To be fair, it wasn’t really his place to convince them. That was AJ, Rainbow, and Rarity’s job.
“As for you bearing everything to this world’s Twilight, Scootaloo, that was a mistake.” Flash shook his head. “There’s no easy way to say it, and it doesn’t matter what justification you try to give.”
“I bet it on a duel.” Scootaloo voiced weakly.
“Duelist pride is important, but there are some things you just don’t wager.” Flash voiced. “The fact you did is just another breach of trust you’ll need to work to earn back. Ultiamately, that’s the biggest thing between you and your sisters.
Despite what I said, I genuinely think your sisters do love you. That’s not the issue here. It’s all a matter of breaking their trust. Look, we’ve clearly reached the end of attempting to fix things with Sunset; however, you can start working to repair things with your sisters.
The first step towards that will be accepting that what was normal no longer applies. Whatever fantasy any of us has of Sunset coming back needs to end, if for nothing else than her sake. I think we at least owe her that much.”
The girls hung their heads as they were in deep contemplation over everything Flash laid out. “At the end of the day, my word isn’t law.” He stood and walked to the door. “Right now, communicate. Lean on each other and decide for yourselves how to proceed.”
With that, Flash left the girls to hopefully talk things out.
Rainbow’s Room
As Flash entered the room where the Rainbooms were, it was seemingly worse off than the CMC. At least two of them were wordlessly playing a game together. Here, not a single member was interacting in any way.
Rainbow was staring out a window, AJ sat on the desk chair with her hat tipped over her eyes, Pinkie was laying on the ground while Fluttershy was on the bed and both were staring at the ceiling, and Rarity sat against the wall with her mascara running from crying.
“Alright, none of you are talking, so I’m going to get it started.” Flash clapped his hands as he walked into the room. “What I want is for all of you to speak the truth.”
“The truth?” Applejack asked confused.
“I want all of you to honestly tell all of us how you really felt about Sunset.” Flash declared. “The reason you are all refusing to speak is because her words cut deep. Now, start speaking up and don’t sugar coat it. Getting everything out there is the only way you’ll move past this.”
At first, no one seemed up to saying a word, but AJ already spoke once. “The truth is, I did hate Sunset.”
The other girls gasped at Applejack’s confession.
“Let her finish, and I’ll expect to hear you all out to.” Flash declared.
“She ruined my bake sale and tricked us into cutting off contact.” Tears welled up in AJ’s eyes. “She manipulated us like puppets and stabbed us in the back. I wished every day for someone to finally put her in her place, and I was happy when it happened at the Fall Formal.
After that, I started to get to know her. She volunteered to help me with my chores and homework. Little by little, I started to see how honest and hardworking she was. I thought we were becoming friends, but I couldn’t forget the things she did.
In the back of my head, I feared she was pretending to be my friend to get me to lower my guard. Then, she’d hurt me and my friends even worse. When Anon-A-Miss happened, it seemed to validate my fear, so I was all too happy to cut her out before she could hurt us again.”
Applejack was sobbing, unable to continue.
“The night of the Spring Fling was supposed to be my debut.” Rarity took this opportunity to go. “They would marvel at my beauty and sense of style. Everyone would remember my name, but instead of being the best night of my life, she made it my absolute worst.
My dress came apart as I walked on stage, and I was humiliated with everyone laughing at me. Then, she went onto win the Spring Fling. I cried myself to sleep the first few nights after that. Things only grew worse when she separated us, and I didn’t have the support of all my friends.”
She started crying again. “When Twilight came to our school, and I noticed she was doing to her what was done to me, I vowed to do everything in my power to help her. I admit that seeing Sunset look defeated and humiliated made me feel vindicated.
Not long, she volunteered to be a model for my latest fashion line. I always see the beauty in everything, and the more time we spent together, the more her beauty began to shine. She generously offered to help me complete orders.
She would also watch Sweetie Bell whenever I had a last-minute invite to a fashion gala while none of the girls were available.” She smiled slightly, but it quickly vanished. “Then, the trouble with Anon-A-Miss began. Once again, I was humiliated.
This time, my friends would be humiliated as well. I thought she was showing her ‘true’ colors again, so I struck first before she had the chance. I left her humiliated in the hallway, but it turns out I was the ugly one all along.”
Rarity began sobbing.
“I was fully committed to welcoming her as our newest friend.” Pinkie sat up. “When I threw her a welcome party, I was happy to see her smiling.” She wiped away a stray tear. “Sunset then began working hard to prove how much she changed.
At one point, I wanted to make sure she always had that smile.” The tears were flowing on her end now as well. “Then, I ended up taking her smile away. I was mad that she seemingly lied to the point I didn’t care about her happiness anymore. I just wanted her to feel miserable.”
Pinkie began to break down, so Fluttershy came to her side before hugging her. “I hated you Sunset, too. She would always pick on me because I was too shy to fight back, so I was glad when I learned what we did brought out her sympathy in full force.”
A waterfall of tears began spilling from her eyes. “When I thought she was being mean again, I didn’t want to stand by and watch as she made my friends suffer. In the end, I was wrong. I began to feel terrible for making her suffer, but I realized too late.
Even if she betrayed us, I never should have yelled at her. I began to have doubts as to whether she was guilty, but I was too much of a coward to act against the others. To avoid them being angry with me, I kept up my prior feelings and let her suffer alone.”
Fluttershy continued to sob which left only Rainbow.
“I honestly think I hated Sunset the most.” Rainbow spat with venom as memories of the old Sunset flooded her mind. “She messed with my friends and turned us against each other. She did the same to everyone. We were nothing but playthings to her.”
Tears began to spill from her eyes. “When Twilight told us to teach her about friendship, I had my doubts, but she started to show how committed she was to making things right. I slowly started to warm up to her after seeing her endure CHS.
She wouldn’t give up on making things right with everyone, and I soon began to see her as a friend. In fact, she was steadily becoming someone I could have called my best friend. Then, Anon-a-Miss…
I was enraged that she seemed to be faking our friendship the whole time. It seemed like she was messing with my friends again. That she only got close to us, so it’d really hurt. Then, the CMC came forward, and I realized I’d been an idiot.”
Flash looked on as the Rainbooms broke down in tears with each painful confession, but now wasn’t the time to simply back off. “If Twilight hadn’t asked you, would you have ever reached out to her?”
“I would have.” Pinkie answered softly. “Not even who she was deserved no one.”
The other girls hesitated before answering in unison. “No.”
Even with one of them saying they would have, Flash did believe Pinkie since that’s just who she was, the Destiny Hero user realized Equestrian Twilight had made a mistake. That’s not to pin the blame on her. Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
In the end, she’d asked teenagers to look after their tormentor, and they did it out of some form of obligation. Honestly, it was kind of working, but the first major road bump could/did derail everything to the point they were here now.
“Okay, this doesn’t change anything Sunset said because everyone’s view is valid.” Flash stated. “I’d also like to point out that no matter her prior mistakes, Sunset was working on or had fixed them with you. By all accounts, you five forgiving her should have been it.
In the end, whatever you thought the relationship was, it’s evident none of you were truly her friend. No one at CHS was. Honestly, I probably don’t have much of a leg to stand on myself, but I’m the best you got, so I’m going to keep talking.
No matter what you thought your intentions were, the truth is all of you simply wanted things to go back to normal, but you lost that opportunity a long time ago. To think, for even a second, it’s possible to go back is just plain selfish.
Right now, Sunset is happy and content with the life she has. If any of you think I’m wrong about you being selfish, if even a little bit, then latch onto that feeling and let Sunset thrive. Perhaps one day she’ll be ready to define a new normal with all of you or maybe she won’t.
Regardless, that will be her decision, and I suggest you all shift focus to what you still have before losing that to. AJ, Rarity, and Rainbow, your sisters are darn near convinced you hate them at this point.”
That seemed to really grab their attention as a level of fear entered all their eyes. Clearly, while they have paid mind to their respective siblings, they hadn’t gone beyond that. Hearing this, they realized they were close to losing their sisters too.
Beyond that, all of you still have family back home, and I’m certain they’d love to have their daughters, granddaughters, and/or siblings back.” Flash held up his hands. “For me, I’m taking what closure I got and will move forward. What I want is to see how far I can go in Battle City.
I’ll admit, maybe my words are hollow considering Sunset did forgive me, but I implore you all to at least heed some of it because Sunset’s right. We won’t be in high school forever, so I’m going to do my growing. The first step for me is getting some rest since today was exhausting.”
With that, Flash took his leave hoping anything he said stuck with someone. That hope would quickly come to pass as Apple Jack, Rarity, and Rainbow rushed from the room. Flash breathed a sigh of relief as he continued walking, content to leave it in their hands.
Café
Shining sat across from Spike who just finished detailing his first duel.
The Noble Knights user flinched. “That’s rough buddy.”
“Yeah, but I don’t regret it.” Spike stated. “Better to lose against the strong than coast along against those less so.”
“I hear that.” Shining voiced. “Kind of wish I’d run into Arctic since we both placed in the Top 12 at Duelist Kingdom.” He then noticed their sister approaching and smiled. “Hey Twilight, how…” She wasn’t smiling. “Did you lose all your locator cards to?”
“No, I actually ran into someone who really opened my opened my eyes to a lot.” Twilight voiced as she sat down.
“Uh, you want to talk about it?” Spike questioned.
“It’s not really my place to share, but there is something I’d like to talk about.” Twilight looked at her older brother. “Shining, I can’t keep attending Crystal Prep.”
“Huh?” Shining questioned, stunned yet concerned. “What brought this on?”
“Self-reflection based on what I saw.” Twilight sighed. “Shining, I don’t know entirely what it was like while you were there, but I realized Crystal Prep is stifling, even with the perks. Dean Sombra is manipulative, and the students aren’t exactly great to me…”
From what Twilight gleamed today, Sunset had left her old school and found something better. Hearing what Canterlot High was like had her revaluating Crystal Prep to the point she was no longer concerned with maintaining a place there. The perks were no longer worth it.
Despite how much Shining loved his time there, Twilight knew her brother would hear her out. As she spoke, Shining and Spike were both appalled to learn how Sombra had been running things. She knew it was safe to say Shining would have her back on this.
Muto Residence
Yugi, Sunset, Joey, Tea, and Tristan sat in the living room where the prior three recounted everything that happened today. This was done to explain their duels and their various encounters with the CHS group, plus 1.
“Things have gone downhill more than I thought.” Sunset shook her head. “For Trixie of all people to willingly take orders and wish for that on everyone else.”
“Sunset, you’re not blaming…” Tea began.
“Nah, at this point I know whatever choices they make are on them.” Sunset voiced. “They can try to use me as justification all they want, but it doesn’t change who made the decision in the end. Though, the next time any of us runs into the others, we should tell them about this.”
“Agreed.” Yugi nodded. “No matter how we may view them, no one deserves Marik dictating their actions.”
“Beyond that, to think you’d end up in that mess not long after Mr. Muto and I parted from you.” Tristan voiced. “Despite how it turned out, I wish I’d been there.”
“Hey, all of you were.” Sunset declared. “As we’ve learned, it doesn’t matter the distance. The bonds we forge mean we’re there in spirit when we can’t be there physically. The fact is, without you guys, I wouldn’t have been able to say half the things I did.”
“Still, Tristan nor I got to say our piece to any of them like Joey and Yugi did.” Tea voiced. “I mean, you are right Sunset, but I’d have liked to give one of them a piece of my mind.”
“Well, don’t stress about it.” Sunset sat back with a content smile. “At this point, it’s over, so all you’d really be doing is letting them live rent free in your minds. I know I’m going to stop after I say…” She nodded at Yugi and Joey. “…thanks for sticking up for me.”
“Eh, not sure how well we did since you were willin’ to talk, but it’s no problem.” Joey voiced.
“Yeah, you went through enough.” Yugi began. “Now, Sunset is right…
“Yugi, pizzas are here!” Solomon called from the shop downstairs.
“Coming grandpa!” Yugi called out as he stood before looking at everyone. “Sunset put it to rest, so we should do the same.”
“There we go.” Sunset cheered. “Let’s move onto celebrating the fact Yugi, Joey, and I are closer to the next round!”
“Good point.” Joey stood. “Here, let me help you with the pizzas Yugs.”
“You mean you’ll eat one of them before you two even get up the stairs.” Tristan got the guy in a headlock. “Quick Sunset, go help Yugi while I hold him off.”
“Eh, let go Tristan!” Joey voiced, struggling against his grasp.
Sunset played along as she ran over to join Yugi. “You’re one brave soul Tristan.”
Tea giggled happy to see Sunset in such high spirits. Of course, the students from CHS weren’t much of a problem compared to the darkness within this tournament. After hearing of today, she was confident their group would come out of this fine, just like with Duelist Kingdom.
Domino City: Rooftop, Night…
Helios has been keeping an eye out over the city, just as he knew Hope and Soren were. As things stood, the first day of Battle City was pretty much over, yet he saw nothing that potentially hinted at his mother having a hand in this.
“Perhaps we’ve been wrong in our assumptions.” Helios mused as he stared outward.
“Heh, so you’re Golden’s lame son.” A gruff, female voice called out.
Helios turned to see a younger female, possibly a teen, who wouldn’t look out of place going up against him in the ring. She certainly had the muscle for it. She also had white hair, which was short in the back yet long enough in the front to form a pompadour that looked feather esc.
She also had yellow eyes and a tan complexion. Her attire consisted of a white shirt that showed her midriff, a brown leather jacket, and yellow pants. She wore a duel disk, like the one Soren got for him. Given what she said, he figured this was no Battle City competitor.
“So, mother finally sent someone.” Helios voiced. “Not going to lie, figured it’d have been a lot sooner. Despite how conflicting she could be, she did seem to try and hold on tightly to me.”
“Honestly, not really sure what she sees in you either, but I don’t get paid to ask.” The girl shrugged. “I get paid well to do my job, and at present, that means taking you to her.”
“Ah, you must be from the Card Professor Guld.” Helios nodded. “Well, I don’t feel like going anywhere. We can settle this with a rooftop scrap or duel for it. If you win, I’ll come along. If I win, you leave empty handed and tell my mother I’ll come back on my own terms.”
“Sounds fair.” The girl activated her duel disk. “Name’s Gilda, and I’ll be dragging you along shortly.”
“I believe there’s an old saying about assumptions, but rather than get crass, I’ll merely prove it through action.” Helios declared, activating his duel disk.
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Tomorrow’s another day. I hope the Rainbooms can move on after that.
Curious about Helios vs. Gilda
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Get everything out there that's negative, and your sleep should be restful. Come morning, things should be better.
It's one of two duels featured this round that has no locator cards on the line. My story because neither are in Battle City.
Oh man, things sure happen here, I would agree that Sombra was a BIG miss opportunity.
But I wonder who will take the roles of Sunset and Twilight for the Friendship games. Also when exactly will that happen?
Because after battle city. I saw you said you were doing yugioh R, and we still have Pyramid of light movie before we get into the next BIG arc being waking dragons
Follow up, was Tea gonna say sunset blaming herself? Or Trixie?
And can’t wait to see how Helios Vs Gilda turns out
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Right? Don't worry about the Friendship Games. I hear some young guy, who makes cards, has a potentially lucrative proposition. Why, I hear he has another for some lucky student from Japan as well.
Might as well add a little more completion after to. Moving onto the blame game, Tea was worried Sunset would blame herself. Fortunately, this day was rather developing for Sunset.
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Interesting, that’s gonna be something to look forward to in the future.
And thanks for clearing the blame game up and specifying it a bit more.
As for what’s next, assuming things play it out as they are, I’m assuming we’re getting Yugioh R before touching the movie? And then moving onto the next arc?
Curious how things will turn out this time for the movie judging by what you have plan for R
Personally I think twilight should go to the school where yugi goes. The friendship will be more real there and though she will expected to try to get good grades for a brain like her that shouldn't be a problem. Plus canterlot high has problem with facing themselves and forgiveness. The minute she messed up they probably wouldn't be happy with her plus they are still dealing with the problems that they created because they were unwilling to truly forgive. I am annoyed because nobody forced them to agree to give sunset a chance in learning forgiveness. Twilight asked but they definitely didn't have say yes. Though I hope one day to see twilight chewing them out for this mess and faking friendship with sunset.
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We'll see. I might do the movie first to give Kaiba Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon before then moving onto R, or maybe I'll do the arc followed by the movie. Depends on how I'm feeling and what side of the bed I get up on that day.
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That would be easier said than done. They have to face what sunset said about them was the truth that they kept themselves apart that she gave a push but it didn't take much for them to run with it. And they did the same thing with the cmcs. They need to understand why when push comes to shove they can't trust. The cmcs need to grow up and face they don't own their sisters and hurting others just because you don't want share is Inexcusable.
11776005
Cool, cool.
One last thing I wanna know, despite what sunset said about them making the decision in the end, she would feel bad about Trixie right?
Like it was said, no one deserves to be taken that path because of Marik especially what happens if they fail and/or lose to him
A relatively slow chapter to wind down from the excitement. But one that is necessary for greatly needed self-reflection. Flash steps up to the role Twilight and Sunset had to keep people together. To be the glue to them. And help guide them forward.
Twilight also had her own self-reflection and decided what she wanted...to leave Crystal Prep. It was also a missed opportunity to not have Sombra as the Crystal prep dean.
And Sunset has a nice, relaxing moment with her friends.
And now we have Helios vs Gilda. This will be an interesting duel.
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Well, to be fair, Twilight is highly intelligent. Now, we don't know her family's financial situation in this world, but my personal head canon, for canon, is that Shining got a full ride for his sports prowess while Twilight one for her brain power. Not exactly sure that will translate to going to Domnio High. It is all the way in Japan, and despite wearing uniforms, it's no private school.
Sunset only got to go because she has a terrible mother with a lot of money. Even if she doesn't go there, Canterlot High is not on her list at this point. Tentatively, I could see a scenario where she goes with the original plan of getting into Everton. Given the differences here, I don't see Sombra being able to hold that over her head like Cinch did in canon.
Then again, I could very well see a scenario where Sunset pulls some strings with her brother, as he's now funding her, to get Twilight with them. Considering Everton was already a study abroad thing her parents were okay with, I don't see why they wouldn't let her go to Japan if an opportunity presented itself.
When it comes to Equestria Twilight's request, you are right...in a way. Personally, I see them taking it rather seriously because Twilight asked, after just saving their hides. Without here there, the magic of friendship wouldn't have saved them. Despite it being a request, I could see a scenario where they feel more obligated to take it on.
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When you really think about it, Trixie made her choice. The only bearing Sunset had on that is the fact that she took her leave of the school. Sunset feeling guilt over that is like you feeling guilty for leaving someone in a room with a blatantly hot pot, and they touch it. Then because you weren't there, they got burned.
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If I regret anything, and I barely do because a nighttime duel is great atmosphere, it's that I didn't put the coming duel before getting down to talking. It would have been perfect to have the talking come once all of Day 1's duels were handled. A great transition into Day 2 content. At the same time, holding off on the talking portion might have dueled the impact. Essentially, I picked my poison.
Now Flash is officially the Twilight Shimmer or Sunset Sparkle of Canterlot High. Congratulations Flash. As for Sombra...I know, right? to bad for him that his brightest student got caught up in some CHS drama that saw her reflecting on her own schooling. Now, as Sunset gets to relax, Helios is thrust into a duel of his own.
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True,true.
This has me hoping that after this, that Sunset and Trixie friendship still happens like in the canon
Because man, never thought those two chemistry together would work out in a nice friendship because Trixie could relate to Sunset in forgotten friendship
huh. wonder if Sunset is willing to add in up to 4 new friends even if 3 of them live else where?
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True about eg twilight family money but Everton in the show wasn't known for friendship so I don't think twilight would be good there. She needs a somewhat mature school that can handle her brain. I know Japanese kids are encouraged to do good in whatever they take on including school. I know the girls probably felt some of an obligation towards the Equestria twilight but they were only apart because they refused to talk with each. Like the cmcs sunset planted the seeds and they made them grow. Twilight despite her youthful appearance was probably older than them and had a lot more experience learning about friendship than them and certainly could have handled a no. If princess couldn't make a reasonable request without a no being an option than she wouldn't be much of a person.
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Personally, if the financial situation is poor, I'd consider playing the Kaiba card. Seto takes an interest in Twilight's intellect, engineering, and analytical skills. He offers her an internship at Kaiba Corp. and pays for her high school expenses.
For a comic story that's turning ten years old next year, it still astounds me how it inspired so many stories either trying to 'fix' it...or what I feel is more likely, the number of stories that's come out where it feels like venting; a lot of it towards what the Rainbooms did and/or did not do.
Some feel like the author wanted to send Sunset on some sort of path towards their choice for her girlfriend or...I don't know. Admittedly, I feel tired from it all. I could be wrong but I don't think something like "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" got so much attention.
At the same time, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say that some do draw me in from changing some of the formula, such as this story, even if it's simply adding in Yu-Gi-Oh. And that brings me to...some of this chapter; particularly towards the truth coming from the Rainbooms - AJ hating Sunset, Pinkie as the only one openly accepting Sunset as opposed to doing it as an obligation to Princess Twilight - and wonder if those are the ideas in support of writing Sunset leaving the bunch behind with little to no shot at redemption.
Personally, if I were to change up the proceedings of the original tale, either the Rainbooms don't get hit so hard by the stupid stick or Pinkie & Fluttershy would be the ones to hear Sunset out, probably with Rainbow. Why not Rarity & Applejack? Guess cause it was their homes, and the truth might hit harder.
Hum I’m am wondering about gold fraction since it could be two ways with Malik on the way .
Pulse if twilight not going to crystal prep I don’t think Canterlot any better.
Keep up the great work 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍.
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That is an idea to keep in mind.
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In this story, Canterlot High isn't an option. Don't worry about that.
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You do raise some valid points, and honestly, even as a writer for one of these stories, I to am astounded by the sheer number of them. Weather you believe me or not, I actually like the original comic.
The simple fact is, the number of fics that attempt to correct it in some way simply gave me a path forward to get Sunset from Canterlot to Domino. If I were going that route, I wouldn't half it.
As for the Rainbooms, they were starting to genuinely accept her, but then Anon-a-Miss kicked off. In this universe, the sirens never would have show up, they are working for Darts.
I instead moved up Anon-a-Miss to happen there. This means it hasn't been too long into Sunset changing her ways, and there's been no big show of it either
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I mean, Mektaveus, Arctic, Thunder, and Shining, after what he tried to do for everyone, are friends with the group after the events of Duelist Kingdom.
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what about Mai Serenity and Misty?
Flash doing a good job at being a motivational speaker.
Pinkie admitting she'd still try despite Sunset being an ass is entirely in character, she's too much of a social butterfly to outright shut someone out.
Overall great chapter without a duel to give some depth to the Canterlot crew. Let's just hope the CMC and their sisters don't actually have a fallout.
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I guess but the rainbooms needed a lecture in order for any chance at friendship to be rebuilt and the girls to learn that trust isn't something that you pick up and put down when things look bad. If you trust someone it has to through the good and bad and rubbing in someone faults and past mistakes doesn't make it right.
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Mai, yes. Serenity I'd say more Joey's sister and Tea's friend as the rest haven't met her. Misty was just st met briefly before Battle City began. Give it time.
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He's doing the only thing he can, his best. Hopefully, it'll all work out.
Yeah, shame it just couldn't hold up.
I think, despite how down their moods are, the CHS crew has learned a lot from all this. Now, it's on them to fix things.
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ok. fair enough.
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Thanks for reminding me of what probably makes the original story make even less sense; the events of Rainbow Rocks. ...unless it takes place in its own continuity.
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Well, it's hard to say. If you look at the MLP comics and the show proper, there's not really any form of crossover until you get to the comics covering sort of season ten of the show. For the most part, nothing covered in comics comes into play within the show proper making them a sort of soft canon.
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And so the events of the comic may or may not be canon.
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It more or less depends on how you see it. A general rule of thumb in the community is that they are canon until proven otherwise. Essentially, using that logic, some might be canon while others fell out of canonicity. Anther rule I see thrown around is that all comics are non-canon until proven otherwise. Essentially, it's pretty much fan interpretation, unless you're talking about the comics referred to as MLP season 10.
After Generation 4's series came to an end, comics are made to further extend the adventures. Admittedly, I haven't personally kept up with those, so I'm not entirely certain where their canonicity rests these days. All I do know is that they were initially pitched as a direct continuation from where the show ended. To me, I basically consider comics as extra story generally. To me, that means they are fair game to include in fanfiction.