This story is a sequel to Recovery
Sunset Shimmer is a genius. Sunset Shimmer is also a complete idiot when it comes to love. Rarity has learned this the hard way. Feeling down, she has Applejack meet her at the park so she can talk and vent.
This story shares continuity with the Recovery Arc, but is a non-canon side-story.
Why, WHY must this be non-canon?
Rarity is right, Applejack arriving on a tractor because of the car thing is many levels of perfect.
Applejack driving a tractor was great. How fast is that thing, anyway?
Poor Rarity. And poor Sunset, who still feels pretty damn broken...
Triggered.
So this isn't part of the arc? It definitely fits right in...
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But, but... that's how tractors are designed !
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Orange triangle means the vehicle's speed does not exceed 25mph (40km/h). Or 40mph (64km/h) on a highway. I'm using the lower number because that's how I learned it. Regardless, slow tractor is slow.
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It does. And it is. But it also isn't. I promise I will explain. Let's just say I wasn't joking when I referenced the Zelda series after you convinced me to get off my butt and create THE GUIDE. Speaking of which, I need to add this story.
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And how long was Rarity waiting?
Yay, you did your research! (I never thought that OSHA training would pay off, haha)
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I'm in a rural state and used to live out in the sticks. It's normal to see farm vehicles on highways here.
PS: Thanks for catching that "a/an" typo. It's fixed now.
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Forever, as far as she's concerned.
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Ah, that makes sense! I had to do OSHA for school; it was torturous. Also, I didn't notice the typo, but I'm glad you caught it!
I will laugh for several minutes straight if Rarity literally starts smacking Sunset with a rolled up magazine (figure it makes more sense for her than a newspaper) the instant she enters her apartment.
<< Rarity lowered her head. “That, I don’t know. Maybe? Over the past several months I’ve been given such conflicting information and no one is willing to just up and tell me anything!” She pounded the quilt with her fist. >>
- Literally me struggling to get over some details from your stories.
I'm serious, while your stories are great, you can remember the several questions I asked because I didn't get your point of view, like; you're the writer but I don't see the story the same way you do.
It is because you keep mentionning this secret with only half-answers, mirrors and smoke to finally reveal it one day or it is just so casual and not as important as we should think, to just being mentionned just as "the thing about Sunset ('s age maybe?) that could bring a lot of trouble to many people"?
<< “Well, like I said before, she hides a lot about her past. She has a fake ID that says she’s 25, almost 26. That can’t possibly be true, but something she said on our burrito date back some months ago suggested maybe it is. Plus there’s her exemption from school rules and something about quid pro quo? I feel like if I prod too much, it may destroy everything I’ve worked so hard for. Sunset may come to hate me, and I don’t think I could take that.” >>
- So, the big deal that could bring a lot of trouble and not only to Sunset, is because she's older than it seems, or we'll have to wait until everything will be revealed? Or it is a fake ID and she's eighteen, and then it's another secret about something else?
Since Flash said "With age comes experience", I assumed she was indeed older. Now I'm back to square one with everything being said about Sunset's age, but no, here comes a fake ID that makes everything harder to understand, unless she's even more older than the age on her ID.
I'm not reading your stories again and again for fun like before, but to see every link to another and every mention of a moment that happened in a precedent one, all comments and answers that might help me and being avoided to ask again.
Like I'll read immediatly the burrito date story where Sunset mentionned something about her age.
It's wrecking my brain, and I feel bad because it ruins the entertaining I've always felt with you.
I don't know if other people feel like me, but maybe, you could do something like this to clear everything once and for all?
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/819016/shallow15s-equestria-girls-timeline-updated-7-11-18
Thanks.
Be sure that I didn't wanted to seem too harsh and mean, but I'm trying to wrap this since a long time, and each story brings more questions than answers or avoids it at all.
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Oh dear. I'm so sorry. The last thing I want is to frustrate my readers.
I answer your questions in the story where Rarity finally gets her feelings through Sunset's thick skull. I need to rewrite that story anyway in light of certain details I introduced in stories I wrote later but take place before (like this one), but I'll also make sure to settle these swirling "what"s you have.
It's my failure as a writer. I'll try my best to fix it.
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I didn't forget that you already changed a part of a story because I didn't understand, and it shown how you care. That I won't forget.
It's not your fault alone, people may have understood things that I didn't.
I can't blame you for every thing I don't understand, even if it's recurrent.
I know you'll do it fine, and you don't have to change something else this time.
I don't want to ask too much from you, maybe it's just that I can't wait properly or just a little explanation is all I need.
Thanks again for listening.
She sure does.
That's just ridiculous, pay someone to be your friend.
Guess that's why she's like that.
I don't think gloriosa is a good choice for you flash.
But hopefully she will eventually. 🤞
I have so many questions now why applejack arrived here via a tractor. 😧
Huh, didn't know rarity liked pigtails.
Sometimes it's best to keep those thoughts to yourself rarity.
Wait, she did that for her. I didn't expect that 1 bit.
Yep, I think it's time you tell sunset rarity.