@KentuckyFriedScootaloo  
Huh…
 
Nice catch! I missed that!

@Darth Sonic
 
Look closely at the bottom of the fifth panel. That’s why I tagged Melody Charm, not the sixth panel.

@Background Pony #6185  
This got longer than expected, but since you asked…  

 
Maybe, maybe not. There are different kinds of evil, and where Aria and Adagio came across as more Sulky Teen Doing What She Wants and Person Doing Bad Thing For Selfish Reasons, respectively, Sonata’s behavior paints her more as Just Plain Bad Person, if that makes sense.
 
You know how children, for all their ‘innocence,’ can be utterly soulless, self-absorbed little monsters? An extremely popular depiction of Sonata is that she’s the most childish of the three, but fanon being fanon, it’s almost always in a ‘positive’ light, making her a dim-witted little girl in a teenage body, but skipping over any part of being a kid that might make her less sympathetic, like, say, taking great enjoyment in the pain of others.
 
“Too bad, so sad!”
 
In the movie, none of the sirens show any redeeming characteristics, but most people have no problem assigning them to Sonata and Sonata alone in fan-made material. Not here, I think. This is a pretty harsh, but reasonable take on what a selfish brat in an adult(ish) body might be like; “I don’t care that you’re bleeding out on the floor, give ME candy now!!”
 
The idea behind the three behavior types I mentioned earlier is that a sulky, selfish teen (which matches with Aria’s behavior in this comic, for the most part) will eventually grow up and grow out of what makes them act the way they do. In Adagio’s case, the previous evils were all very calculated and deliberate for an immediately comprehensible reason, a more adult way of thinking. When she couldn’t get what she was after anymore, she had no reason to keep being horrible, and seems to have pretty much stopped as a result, hence the softer, more motherly Adagio we see here.
 
A child who doesn’t grow up, however, doesn’t mature, doesn’t learn to think about other people all that much, and could just plain not care about anyone but herself. That is my theory on why they might not all be written to the same degree of evil.

@Background Pony #6185  
There’s evil, and there’s sociopathy. Sonata is the latter.

@Otterhand
 
@Background Pony #DAC0  
except shouldn’t they all have been about as evil as sonata keeps being portrayed as?
 
@Background Pony #928D  
yeah. sunset in this universe is kinda of really unlikable.

Also, we sure that’s Melody? The clothing seems off, and while I can totally see Sonata doing something like that, I don’t see Aria fucking with her own niece like that.

Yeah… Aria, Honey? Being a bitch is not the same thing as being flat out Evil, so only Sonata really counts as Evil here even without the mitigating factor that the whole “we eat misery to LIVE” thing.

Why is it the former villain is being more open about Twilight and Sunset’s relationship than Sunset was? If it’s because Sunset is embarrassed, why is she the ask pony?

@Background Pony #6185  
Well, Sonata was insanely abusive, but the others apparently had at least a shred of a conscience or a capacity to love even back then. I kind of get the vibe that Sonata doesn’t even care about the other sirens that much, just hangs around them because they can still make her own life easier. Might even be enjoying Aria’s predicament right now.

if i was a siren i think i would be most like sonata

@Background Pony #6185  
Sometimes when you love something you overlook its flaws…no matter how huge and noticeable those flaws are…

so they were super evil but weren’t super evil enough to be abusive to there kids/ were able to have marriages…

I still feel for you, Aria.

Well that explains Sonata’s cruelty