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I have to be honest, I think the comics had something making Apple Bloom and the Crusaders to be pretty horrible people. I kind of wish they’d kept going with it, turn Apple Bloom’s love for her sister into an obsession that would make her evil. Not Nightmare possessed evil, but legit evil. Ah well.
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That’s what I did with my AU
The point of the comic was to show that posting stuff online can cause just as much harm as the supernatural. It didn’t do a good job, but it still had a compelling enough idea there’s a reason fics based on it are so popular.
Why not just rewrite it so it’s before Rainbow Rock when Sunset’s treatment would be more justifiable and we know she’d ultimately get a worthwhile ending? That would even be consistent with the retcons in other comics.
@Mugen Kagemaru (addendum)
How’s that story coming along?
Which, sadly, didn’t happen. Feel free to write it, though. PM me with a link when it goes up.
There IS a way to make that moronic decision make sense. Have Sunset realize that her friends, and everyone around her, are turning on each other much too easily for it to be normal, not after all they’ve been through together. She notices the increased aggression, bickering, and disharmony, and realizes that her initial hunch (otherwise just a throwaway moral aesop) was the correct one.
She discovers that Applebloom and the CMC have been possessed by a rogue windigo who entered this world following Clover the Clever’s routing of them, and that it has been feeding off of their genuine insecurities with not spending time with their sisters and turning it into hatred it can use to sack Equestria. Sunset breaks the spell, with some help from Princess Twilight, who put the same pieces together and rocked in, and the Mane 7 exterminate the last Windigo.
Apple Bloom realizes what she did, apologizes in a sobbing wreck, the cast forgive each other and affirm their friendship for life, and that THAT love is what the holidays are about.
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The WORST part was that it was set after Rainbow Rocks, AFTER Sunset had proven herself.
Just… God dammit, IDW.
I guess what I was trying to say is that I don’t think having Flash be a vindictive douchebag would be a good idea. I think he’d be doing what he thought was right, but because he let a personal grudge cloud his judgement, and winds up doing something dumb because of it and regretting it later.
I was thinking his goal would be to prevent people from trusting her so she couldn’t deceive or betray them.
Also, the first movie mentioned it was him who dumped her, so I can’t help but think there are some very ugly stories in their past.
Actually, if it was Flash… It could make sense. After all, he called her “The bad girl everyone loves to hate”. If even after the Battle of the Bands, he still saw her as evil, then framing her just to set her off…
Yeah, that could’ve made him even more hated than Starlight Glimmer is, but…
Maybe. But if it were me, I’d have had it not be Apple Bloom at all. I’d have picked Aria Blaze or, if I wanted to surprise people, Flash Sentry, who doesn’t believe she’s really changed and thinks he’s protecting everyone.
If it’s Flash, I think it would turn out like so: he finds out Sunset is going to confess to what he did just to make it all stop, realizes her change of heart was genuine after all, and runs off to stop her from scapegoating herself and make things right.
So Apple Bloom is basically an abusive girlfriend. Jesus tapdancing Christ, IDW.
Hell, this image and this whole comments section has outlined a pretty damn epic storyline which does the idea they were going for some real justice.
Two reasons I can think of. First, making AJ less popular means fewer people wanting to spend time with her that she could spend with Apple Bloom instead. Secondly, it could leave her emotionally vulnerable and thus easier to lovingly manipulate.
But I suspect I may have thought about it more than IDW did at this point.
Oh, but of course, Apple Bloom gets to have her big apology moment, and Applejack once again proves herself useless by barely even SCOLDING her for something that should obviously be very alarming behavior. As I’ve often said, the implication was Apple Bloom was going to do this to ALL of Applejack’s friends. That’s not child cruelty, that’s legitimate insanity.
Hell, if she was so obsessed with Applejack, why did she humiliate her like that with the pig stuff? God, it’s like a terrible onion of bad ideas! Shrek, save us!
The only way it works after Rainbow Rocks is if you change who did it and none of the Human 5 give up on her at all. (Bonus points if she says they shouldn’t have to suffer with her, and it just makes hem more determined to help.)
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Not only did they abandon her, not a single one of them ever apologizes for kicking her to the curb for something she didn’t do after the Crusaders confess.
And the best part is? It would STILL fit what they wanted to say! Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash, being exceptionally kind, non-grudge-holding, and loyal, respectively, would stand up for her from the start, whereas Rarity and Applejack, as the overly dramatic and the ignorant, would get caught up in their emotions and not see what the CMC were up to! It would cause a rift between their friendship a la Civil War and add some interesting stakes, not to mention giving Apple Bloom a legitimate reason to come forward, seeing how the whole thing is making Applejack miserable.
The real kiss of death for this was making it happen after Rainbow Rocks. There was no way that the girls should have turned on Sunset THAT easily after they saw her SAVE THE SCHOOL AND ALL OF THEIR LIVES. I mean, god damn, just look at the end credits of the movie!
Definitely agree from the story making sense character wise and it also would have established clearer message about sticking by your friends.
You know what else could have made it a better story? Instead of everyone thinking Sunset’s guilty, have at least enough people who think she’s innocent that there can be a fight or two over it.
Honestly, the idea in general had so much potential and then pretty much everything got done wrong.
The human 5 not trusting Sunset is one of the parts that bothers me most. Not only should they know her her better by then, but if they’d stopped to think about what motive she might have had, they’d have realized that doing this would destroy all the progress she made in the past few months without her gaining anything in return.
Get on it fandom.
That’s a good dark version of that song…. O_O
When Ah set fire to her name
It don’t matter where y’all hear it from
Whether truth or lies, it gets said all the same
Whatever’s on the table plays!”
I think how it would get used might be the deciding factor.
Or it’s just not the same people.
What he said. :3
They want it done RIGHT, is what they want. Applebloom in the comic was almost as bad as Diamond Tiara, it made no sense for her to target just Sunset given her reasoning, and she’s played as sympathetic for it. The idea is good, but the execution sank it.
No, no, no. It was trashed, insulted and mocked by how POORLY it was executed (AB destroys Sunset’s and pretty much the rest of the ‘s reputation, and suddenly feels shame and is easily forgiven because… HOLIDAYS!).
What we praise of this idea is a AB who does this out of malice, or maybe distrust, but feels no remorse or shame of it. In a way show how bad can it be to not accept someone’s forgiveness and the extreme side of the “goody do-well” people.
…a very complex theme that can be done right on MLP or EqG… Given to the right writer.