Friday Dec 23 b
“What do you mean you didn’t block us, darling?” Rarity asked, the group hug breaking up as they backed away to give Sunset space.
“Just that, I didn’t do it.” Sunset said, confusion lacing her voice until another voice startled them.
“That would have been me, I thought you deserved time with your mother.” Marigold explained, the voice getting Sunset to pull out her phone to look at it.
“You have a talking phone? How awesome is that!” Rainbow said with excitement.
“It’s because of my magic. I tend to bring electronics to life when I hang around them for too long.” Sunset explained.
“That explains a lot ah reckon.” Applejack sighed. “Ah could have sworn I heard voices around your place, but I wrote it off as just havin’ loud neighbors.”
Susan couldn’t help shake her head in disbelief as she watched the girls crowd around Sunset to look at the talking phone. None of them seemed really fazed or bothered by it, which Susan wasn’t sure how to feel about. How much must have happened here for magic to just be waved off as an everyday thing as it looked like the girls were doing at the very moment.
“Anyways, girls, this is my mom.” Sunset said, taking a step back to wrap an arm around the woman who put her own around the teen’s shoulders.
“Hi, I’m Susan Vandom.” Susan introduced herself to the excited girls before her.
“Hi, Ms. V, has anyone told you that you’re hot?” Rainbow Dash asked as she sported a cheeky grin. “Name’s Rainbow Dash, by the way. I used to be the coolest girl around.”
“Don’t hit on the girl’s mom, darling.” Rarity said as she gave a dramatic eye roll, “You can call me Rarity Belle. If you ever need any one of a kind fashions, all my creations are chique, unique, and magnifique.”
“You know I’m not that way, Rares. Sheesh, just trying to compliment the woman.” Rainbow Dash grumbled.
“Well, you needn’t do so in such a vulgar fashion, darling.” Rarity admonished.
“Hey there, names Applejack.” Applejack said, tipping her hat in greeting.
“H-Hi... I’m Fluttershy.” Fluttershy said, her voice so quiet Susan wasn’t sure she heard the girl.
“I’m Pinkie Pie! We should throw a Happy Mother Daughter Party!” Pinkie Pie shouted from behind Susan, scaring her half to death as she spun around to look at the pink girl.
“Pinkie, what have I told you about scaring customers?” Mrs. Cake asked, walking over to shake Susan’s hand as the woman calmed down from her fright. “I’m Mrs. Cake, I’m sorry about Pinkie Pie.”
“You said not to?” Pinkie Pie asked, earning giggles from the girls and a face palm from the older woman herself as if this was a common occurrence.
“Why don’t you girls talk for a few minutes while I order our food?” Susan said, sending an encouraging smile to Sunset who did look a little nervous. She sent a small nod in return to Susan and moved with the girls to take their usual table as the mother followed Mrs. Cake to the counter to place their order.
“How is the poor dear doing, really?” Mrs. Cake asked, pulling out a pad of paper to scribble the order down while flicking her eyes to Sunset.
“Do you know her well?” Susan asked, curious to hear what other people from Sunset’s life had to say about her daughter.
“Not as well as I would have liked, but I know she is a good girl who had some rough times. Especially with this whole Anon-A-Miss fiasco, that really took a toll on the poor child.” Mrs. Cake explained, “I tried to get her to talk to me about it when she came in, but she would insist everything was fine to me. I might be Pinkie Pie’s boss, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have given the poor girl a shoulder to lean on. Mind if I offer a word of advice?”
“I’ll take any helpful advice.” Susan said thankfully.
“Get the girl to see a good counselor. Things like that whole fiasco tend to leave scars on everybody. I know for a fact the girls have at least seen one once, and I’m making sure Pinkie Pie keeps going.” Mrs. Cake said.
“Don’t worry, I plan to. Sunset means the world to me and I know she needs help.” Susan said, unsure of why she felt so trusting to this woman. It felt almost as if she was talking to her own mother, even if the woman was barely that much older than Susan herself.
“I’m glad to hear that dear, so what can I get the two of you?” Mrs. Cake asked, getting ready to write the order down.
Sunset looked around the table that had become quiet all of a sudden. It just didn’t feel normal to her as this group always seemed to be pretty talkative. Even when they had problems, they still seemed to be chatty. Now it was as if they all just clammed up.
“Fine! I’ll say it!” Rainbow huffed, throwing up her hands in exasperation. “We messed up, Sunset! Really bad, and we are really, really sorry!”
“It’s ok, Dash, I forgive you. All of you.” Sunset sighed, not really wanting to get into all of that. As Applejack was about to add her two cents, Sunset held up her hand, stalling her. “Look girls, mom is taking me to the mall so I don’t have enough time and I really don’t want to spend it going over all of this again. I love your girls and I forgive you. Yes, what you did hurt me, and I can’t say we’re going to all of a sudden start having slumber parties again, or hanging out like we did. I just want to move past it, ok?”
“Can we at least chat?” Pinkie Pie begged, her eyes growing watery and larger as her bottom lip started to tremble.
“Pinkie, the puppy dog pout isn’t going to work, but yes we can chat. I’ll make sure Marigold doesn’t pull that again either so we can text.” Sunset explained, “I just have a lot going on the next couple days, so don’t worry if I don’t spend a lot of time online.”
“I’m glad.” Fluttershy said, “We all really do miss you.”
“I miss you girls too.” Sunset admitted as she gave them all a sad smile.
“Thank you so much for the game ball, how in the world did you score that thing?” Rainbow Dash asked with renewed excitement.
“It’s a funny story, actually.” Sunset said, eyes darting back and forth nervously. “The coach was looking for someone to create the new logo for the team.”
“How is that funny? Sugarcube?” Applejack asked, confused.
“How did you get involved, darling?” Rarity asked.
“I can tell you girls, but what I say does NOT leave this table. Am I understood?” Sunset said in a hushed tone, getting a nod of agreement from the girls one by one before continuing in the same quiet tone. “I met the coach through Street Fighter as we have matches from time to time. I mentioned how Rainbow Dash is their biggest fan while the coach mentioned how big a fan several of the players are of Flanksy after hearing me mention her name.”
“How do you know that Flanksy is a her?” Fluttershy asked, getting more excited than Sunset has seen her for probably months.
“Because she is Flanksy.” Pinkie Pie said so matter of factly it got everyone staring at her in disbelief. “What, you didn’t know? How can you not see the similarities in Sunset’s art and Flanksy’s?”
“There is no way… that…you are, aren’t you?” Rainbow Dash said, slowing down little by little as her eyes started widening in realization.
“How do you think Flanksy knew what Fluttershy and Angel looked like? Sure, I could have given Flanksy a picture of Fluttershy to go off of, but I didn’t have any of that deviant little rabbit.” Sunset said, giving Fluttershy a teasing smile. She liked teasing the girl about her pet rabbit as Angel somehow managed to get into everything he wasn’t supposed to and escaping any cage and lock used for him.
“This is so amazing!” Fluttershy squealed in excitement, something the girl rarely ever did. “I’m friends with the best artist in the world!”
“You ready to go, Sunset?” Susan asked, carrying a bag and drink carrier as she walked over to the table.
“Coming mom, I’ll talk to you girls later.” Sunset said as she got up.
“Wait, what about your gifts from us?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“We can stop by on the way back home if you want to bring them here.” Susan suggested.
“I can keep them in the back if you girls can’t stay.” Mrs. Cake offered, joining Sunset and giving the girl a hug. “It was great seeing you again sweetie. Take care and have a Merry Christmas!”
“Thanks Mrs. Cake, you too. I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas too.” Sunset replied with a smile.
“That would work, it would keep Sunset from having to go to everyone’s house right now since we won’t have much time.” Susan said.
“Well, let’s go grab them and bring them back!” Rainbow Dash cheered.
“I already gave her mine, darling.” Rarity said, sticking her tongue out in a teasing manner when she thought nobody was looking only to get a wink from Sunset, making the white girl blush in embarrassment at being caught.
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Truthfully unless they really talk and that means facing possible pain they can never really begin to heal because emotional scars have to faced in order to move forward from them. This is just avoidance and you can't run from your feelings.
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Pretty much, Sunset will figure that out later after something happens that pretty much forces her to realize she is...well, I can't really say to much without a major spoiler.
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Well you are not wrong about Luna having the ability to cause covert-type havoc, but she also can cause an overt one just like her sister ... well maybe not on exactly the same scale (messing with planet gravity well or ocean tides via moon movement or simply deorbiting planets moon is not the same scale as throwing the sun, causing supernova or targeting solar flare/prominence).
Generally speaking in my opinion Celestia is an overt-havoc type (Funny since she's a politician), Luna and Cadance are covert types (There are many negative things about gods of love *ekhem*Aphrodite the <bunch of descriptive expletives>*ekhem* but no one can deny that angering someone who can make you hate your friends and family and become love-obsessed with ... for a light example let's go with toilet paper... Sooooo pink princess of food is scary
), and Twilight is ... kinda an omni-type with a penchant to use transmutations and mental arts with overwhelming power.
The point is, you don't mess with pretty pony princesses... no matter what version/universe...
... I was writing about usefulness of animated appliances in the last comment, and then I didn't think that a phone could block connection out of its/her(Marigold suggests chosen gender so I won't be like Quarians with Geths and simply nod that synthetic life form has its own choices) initiative ... excuse me, there is a nail that needs to enter the wall and its nice occasion to use my head ...
Rain-bold Dash enters the field.
Pinkie, you are trying to use a cute act against an Equestrian
... it's like trying to drown a water elemental ... it's hard to achieve even with your disregard for the laws of reality...
Therapy for everyone. It seems it's the latest fashion ...
And Susan gets from girls another clue that she needs to abandon sanity, it's like morning with electronics wasn't a clue enough in addition to the latest elemental attack ... oh, and her entire life in Sheffield ... Wow she has a too strong grip on sanity if you ask me.
Well, that was nice meeting ... why do I think that it's gonna go downhill from there and that was one out of only two nice groups in Canterlot?
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Good for a minute I was worried that you were shortcutting the healing process like some authors. Can't wait until Celestia actually faces her mistakes. She now realizes how much she messes up. Though I hope Luna petty grudge won't ruin anything.
11501582
Well, I dunno about that...
I mean I agree with you and also hope that Luna's interference will turn only positive effects at best, neutral in the worst-case scenario, but I would rather say it's an "understandable" grudge instead of a petty one.
I mean we (as readers) still don't have access to information about what exactly Kandrakar council did to deserve diarchy animosity... Except you know, being a Kandrakar council filled with old farts ?
I will be first to admit that I might irrationally&automaticly look at any old mage/noble organisation in any universe and without even hearing about it go with destroy button, but how many times would I be wrong to do that?
That is of course only an opinion.
11501587
Without knowing more about why she hates them and considering she has no right to pass judgment on sunset when Celestia and twilight forgave her for the crown and cadence never cared about sunset just twilight it looks like a petty grudge. She had her chance to complain and she didn't.
11501590
That ... is a very good point.
Call me ignorant, but what is "Anon-a-miss" and why is it synonymous with Sunset Shimmer?
11501805
Anonymous was a gossip and secret reveal stite created by the human cmcs as a way to make sunset look bad . They made it appear that she was the creator of the stite and nobody wants their secrets out there for the world to see. Of this results in sunset getting a lot of hate. In the comic the cmcs Conscience got to them and they confessed to their sisters and everything went back to normal. Not everyone like this ending because it was too easy on the guilty party so in the fanfics they write their own.
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Ah, makes sense.
11501581
True, but even if not as intense as Celestia's over havok in some ways, they are a bit more scary in a way. Just gives more points to the best pony princess.
Celestia is too much of a politician in so many ways, if she acted more with her heart instead of her mind and scheming ways, both Twilight and Sunset would be a lot more balanced and Sunset likely would have ran in the first place. Aphrodite...brrr...if there would be any of those gods/goddesses I would want to avoid getting angry it would be her. While some would be worried about a lightning bolt or something, Aphrodite's more subtle wrath could tear a person apart from the inside. Same with Cadence, though Twilight could be bad too as I wouldn't want to end up as a potted plant.
Yep, though Marigold did it before she was being messed with by Twilight's toy as she literally blocked almost everyone on Sunset's contacts including the principals.
I kind of always seen Rainbow Dash like that, brash and bold and being blunt to the point of inserting foot in mouth at times. I am avoiding the Rainbow is gay thing it seems a lot of people expect. Just making a crack about Susan as she has a crush on one of the Wonderbolts as in one of the guys.
Yep, even with Pinkie's reality distorting powers, cute attacks won't work as well on Sunset as her resistance to them is off the charts.
Most was more or less pushed to at least see the school counselor, but I see Pinkie as seeing one regularly anyways. I'm not sure if it's from canon or fandom that I got the idea from, but I see her as having bi-polar problems at least. Nothing wrong with that, it can be managed if you are allowed to see a therapist or something, which I'm sure Pinkie doesn't have problems doing.
By the time things are done Susan will probably have enough reason to not only jump aboard the crazy train, but take over for the conductor. Will she crack or not is the question.
Not too many things will really happen yet as their resolution is yet to actually come,
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Nope, it's just Sunset playing Martyr a little too much if that is the word I'm looking for. She's trying to push herself to brush most everything aside and not confront anything really, but it will bite her in the butt hard. She will try to work through it then though and will talk things out and actually work towards healing instead of stuffing everything in a bottle until it's too full. Also, believe me Luna has an extremely good reason to hate Kandrakar and be mistrustful of those associated with it.
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Even so if the Literal forces of harmony can decide not to care plus isn't the harmony thing built around forgiveness and second chances are part of that. And whatever Luna reason she shouldn't not be deciding someone she barely knows is a monster considering her past.