On the day of my judgment, when I stand before Celestia, and she asks me "why did I kill one of her star pupils?" What am I going say? That it was my job? My job?

You tell the Sun Goddess it was a kindness you done. I know you're hurting and worrying, I can feel it on you, but you ought to quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do.

I'm tired, Twi. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of ponies being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like... pieces of glass in my head- all the time. Can you understand?

Yes, Sunset. I think I can.















Credits are as follows:

Panel 2: Princess Celestia vector by Jordilla-Forge

Panel 3: Princess Celestia vector by 90Sigma ., Sunset Shimmer reflection by tzolkine Panel 4: Sunset Shimmer vector by Strelok , reflection by piranhaplant1 Panel 5: Princess Celestia vector by atakua , Alicorn Amulet vector originally by theirishbronyx (panel 9 as well). Panel 9: Mirror vector by Kishmond (panel 12 as well). Panel 11: Sunset Shimmer vector by KiOWA213 Panel 12: Princess Celestia by doctor-g

Also Bad Guy by Eminem is a paragon rap song- the end is ridiculous. If anyone's familiar with Stan, this is a sequel to it, and I've been listening to this on loop all through out this.

Backgrounds were drawn by me, and the rest of the vectors were heavily modded combinations of several vectors that either I made myself or meshed several together to make something completely different. Technically by that definition adding a new mane/colour scheme to a pony is enough to warrant as its own original work, but at the same time these guys literally halved the amount of time needed to make this happen otherwise. A thank you would be in order for all these folks. I know the MLP community doesn't like anything that conveys negative emotions, but I'm rather proud of this piece no matter what becomes of it.

23 hours and a load of not-sleeping-because-I'm-too-excited later I come up with this. The idea came to me when I thought to myself "what if Sunset Shimmer wasn't always a brat and an arsehole"? You know... dynamic characters and soforth. What could possibly set her off so badly she forces herself to become a recluse in an alternate realm? The result was this headcanon where Sunset Shimmer used to be Celestia's student- and she had her own squad of friends. Then she lost them, all of them, in one fell swoop, and it's at least partially Celestia's fault. I'm also assuming Sunset isn't stupid; there has to be some form of leverage that makes her confident enough to confront an alicorn of that power level. That's where the Alicorn Amulet comes in. If someone can wreck a living God in a 1v1 she has every right to be cocky.