Epilogue
"Knock, knock," Sunset's voice was muffled by the study's door.
"Hi," Twilight replied. Her horn glowed softly, and the door opened.
"So," Sunset said, "how are you doing?" Today she was magically disguised as a pink unicorn with a paler pink mane, as if most of Ponyville didn't already know what was going on with the pair's frequent back and forth visits between the podunk town and Canterlot.
"Oh...fine, considering. What day it is and all."
Sunset nodded. "Yes. What day it is. I had always thought she would last forever, but...I guess you have to do what you can. I know she would be very proud of you."
"You too," Twilight insisted. She snorted, and half-grimaced impishly. "Especially since you used to be such a buck-up, running away to the human world and all...but then you turned your life around."
"Yes. It's been kind of weird. I couldn't really be a good Princess-In-Chief AND exactly like my old self, so a lot of the time I've been trying to be a princess-in-chief like Celestia. What would Celestia do? I'd spent a lot of time with her, even at some official events, so I had a lot of experience to go by. But in the end, you have to be yourself, you know? Even years later, I'm still learning how to do that."
"You're doing really well," Twilight said. "She would be proud of you."
"I guess she'd be proud of both of us," Sunset agreed. "But I think I'd give almost anything to have her back, and not have had to prove the hard way how proud she could be of us."
"I understand," Twilight said. "It's weird to think about, trying to guess how our lives might have been. Who we might be right now."
"If Equestria hadn't suddenly needed me so much...would I have become a hardcore teenage delinquent? Become the leader of my own crappy little human street gang?"
"I'm sure it would have been the BEST street gang. Maybe you could borrow a dragon from Equestria to intimidate people."
"Hmm," Sunset said. "I don't know. I wonder if I'll ever have enough spare time now, to even visit the human world again. Speaking of freeing up some more of my time, how's the alicorn ascension spell research going this week? I mean, a spell to uplift and supercharge ponies who are morally worthy, good hearted ponies, and not just the rare jerk with the most powerful horn who happens to be strong enough to make the uplifting spell we have now work. Overpowered, one in a million jerks like me."
Twilight shook her head. "You're not really a jerk. And in my alicorn ascension research...I'm still just finding new blind alleys, and new ways to be stuck."
"That's my mare!" Sunset smiled. "When you finally run out of ways to be stuck, you'll have the problem licked!"
"But I'm not sure it's the right answer," Twilight remarked. "Legends say, many thousands of years ago, before Celestia, the sun was raised and lowered by unicorns, working as a team."
"Yeah, and legends ALSO say the unicorns burned out their horns doing it."
"I don't think it has to be that way. I think there must be a way to do it safely, if we can get enough ponies working together for the common good. Because what we understood after Celestia died is right: relying on a single alicorn to raise and lower the sun is insane. It's just too risky. But teamwork could be the answer."
"Well...maybe. So do you have any plans for the day?"
"Sure," Twilight said. "Spend them with one of my best friends."
"What a coincidence! Me too."
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It's good for what it is.
It would've been. Damn you author for ruining it.
This was a very interesting "What if something happened to Celestia and Sunset was made into a Princess" story.
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SPOILERS? I don't know whether to complain that this is too much of a spoiler or not.
Have to be honest, the Nightmare Moon subplot seemed really out-of-left-field and detached from the rest of the story, but other than that (and to echo Skyblazer's comment), this was an interesting hypothetical.
(Also, quick heads-up: there's a leftover prereaders' note at the top of the epilogue.)11387276
Thanks! Leftover note
fotfor prereaders now removed.That was fun.
A strange mish-mash of stories and ideas:
Sunset Shimmer being appointed Princess by a last will and testament.
Luna jilted that Celestia stole her love.
Celestia grooming Twilight. (Or at least a somewhat-groomed Twilight in false love with her mentor.)
Celestia preparing an ascension spell for an eternal lover. (With some unfortunate undertones.)
This could've benefitted from using just one of these ideas, not all of them together in less than 10,000 words. Bully, unreformed Sunset becoming ruler of Equestria through happenstance and having to emotionally develop abruptly is a great idea, but it's bogged down by all the others.
Interesting. Little on the hurried side, but a good read.
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TBH the Twilestia subplot seemed more left field for me
I feel unsure about this story. It is clearly structured to be a dark drama but the dialogue is written like a comedy.
Chapter 1: Ok, this looks great!
Chapter 2: Let's ditch our main character and have a chapter about what a bad pony Celestia is because why not. Surely that won't detract from the story. Except that, no...it totally does.
Chapter 3: Suddenly Sunset has a totally differently personality for some reason.
Chapter 4: Sprinkle unjustified sentimentality on top, the end.
This story started out very promising, but then went all over the place and suddenly ended. I agree with other commenters that this would have been better had it focused on one thing rather than each chapter feeling like unrelated pieces of completely different story ideas.
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True
I feel like this story needed to be longer.... You could have actually done something with your Ideas if you just spent some more time with everything!
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This, basically.
Just got boring
I'm guessing so no one knows it's her/she's trying to be cautious.
Likely.
Ngl, I was a little worried I wasn't gonna like this story as some of your other ones I don't seem to like, but this one is one of the goods ones you've made and I'm glad I read it.