Gosh I can't really remember. I worked in alicorn!Sunset into my original headcanon [this will be canon in Shimmer Verse as well], and I must have been thinking of Moondancer at the same time? It probably had a lot to do with Sunset and Mooney being the ""other"" Twilight and would match well.



I /think/ what I was going to do in my original hc was Sunset was going to return to Canterlot following the events of Friendship Games, leaving the "new" mane 6 behind. Having learned Friendship and showing empathy/compassion to human!Twilight, she would become an Alicorn upon returning [Princess of... uh Empathy? Forgiveness?? Just a princess?? I didn't much think of it lmao]. Living in Canterlot now she'd encounter Moondancer who is struggling to rebuild her friendship with Minuette and the girls, and the two end up really hitting it off as Sunset spends time with her Mooney and her friends :>