Someday, I'll stop writing silly comedy stories. However, today isn't "someday".
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Unable to stop Starlight Glimmer's plan to stop the Sonic Rainboom, Twilight Sparkle and Spike pleaded desperately for her to stand down. In canon, Starlight relented at the last second and consequently reformed.
But what would have happened if Starlight gave a different reaction to Twilight's friendship offer and hoof?
Spoiler alert: it ended with one of them in roaring laughter.
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Okay, now that's funny
So much for editing. You spelled scroll wrong 3 times here 😑.
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Thanks ad glad you thought so!
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It's even worse than that; I spelled it "stroll" the whole story
but it's fixed now. For some reason, I have a weirdly hard time remembering how to spell "scroll" right, and whenever I forgot how to spell a word, if I used it elsewhere in the story, I'll copy it from that. That sometimes ends with "multiplying" typos, but I'm usually good at catching them, so it's pretty rare when they still be in the final version.
From now on, I'm going to have "scroll" as one of the words, which I'm unusually prone to misspelling, to give special attention to, so that embarrassing multi-typo doesn't happen again with that word.
Fits with my theory the time line self corrects, this version of Glimmy hd to be humiliated before she go back on the right track :)
It seems to me that not a single villain has reformed, they just switched sides!
I love this. Hilarity at it's finest.
What happened to Starlight was pure evil and I absolutely loved it!
This was a hoot. I'm glad I read it.
That was hilarious! I'm glad I was't drinking anything or I would've spit it all over my computer and my cat.
I thought Twilight was going to be 'roaring in laughter.' Anyways, this earned its place in my comedy shelf. I loved it!
Serious note re: your A/N - I actually think that everything we see of Firelight indicates a very real possibility that he is the reason Glimglam went the way she did.
He is insanely overprotective and infantilizes his daughter relentlessly. He would absolutely have encouraged her to not make more friends and get hurt again. He would have blocked any efforts to get into Celestia's school in order to jeep her home where she was safe. I coule even see him hiding letters from Sunburst under the logic that "it'll be easiest if they just make a clean break."And
And then he goes and treats quite possibly the single most powerful unicorn in Equestria like a foal, never giving her the space to develop proper coping mechanisms or emotional maturity, his solution to everything being to just lock it down so nothing ever changes.
Yeah... YEAH, that could create our Glimglam all rifht. Maybe not what happened, but certainly possible.
I like to think that when Starlights mother died, he was too caught up in his grief to be there for Starlight to help her over hers then wasn't there for when she lost Sunburst as well.
Which led to her goth phase. Sometime into that, Firelight got over his grief, but became over protective of his daughter, hampering her ability to make anymore friends and refusing to send his precious daughter so far away to Celestias school. (She would have definitely been qualified, so the only way I could see not going is because of her father.)
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That's more or less canon. Unlike another certain pair of overbearing parents, he at least learned to reign his nonsense in.
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And any letters that got to Sunburst, he didn't read and respond to them. This is canon. Probably assumed anything from Sires hallow was from his mother, making Starlights letters collateral damage to this habit.
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Pretty much - or, at least, any responses didn't get to Starlight.I
But, as that comic demonstrates, a lot of folks would rather bypass the pretty obvious implications of Parent Map. Which is their right, obvs.
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...And now I have the image of Starlight stopping the Sonic Rainboom over and over just for the timeline to reset itself with Twilight and Spike watching while eating popcorn, wondering when she'd give it up and just reform already
I'm okay with that image
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That...is more accurate than what I would have thought, for the most part.
Food for thought, but even if it's true, it's still better than them staying villains at least.
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Thanks. and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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I formed the headcanon I do before I formed it after "The Parent Map" episode, but the other scenario you pointed out makes perfect sense, and I even thought about changing my headcanon once "The Parent Map" episode aired. But since the end result of either (in my opinion) would ultimately lead Starlight down the dark path and have her be the way she was, I figured I'd keep the headcanon.
That said, as far as stories go, if it would actually matter to the story itself, I'll use whichever would fit it better. as was the case with this story (with hilarious results to all but Glimglam), or I'd perhaps go with the more commonly accepted or likely answer, even if it's not my headcanon.
Incidentally, I'm not sure, but didn't the comic showing why Sunburst didn't read Starlight's letter come out after "The Parent Map" episode aired? if so, it wasn't so much the comic disregarding implications but rather it just didn't have anything in the show to go by. If Firelight wasn't shown "foaling" Starlight in it, it might be (at least sorta) an example of the show ret-coning something shown/implied from the comics, which I've heard happened a lot. Given that Firelight was smothering Starlight as a filly of course; otherwise, it's not really a ret-con.
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Oh yeah, Rainbow's parents. How all the blame was dumped on her was messed up for sure, but at least the show didn't make that mistake with Starlight's and Sunburst's parents. Starlight and Sunburst did apologize for yelling at their parents, but they didn't submit to how they were treated and/or were guilt-tripped into it, and Firelight and Stellar Flare agreed to try to back off.
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I heard a bit about the comic showing filly Starlight not getting Sunburst's letters, but I never read it. There are very few comics I'm familiar with, so I usually just pretend they don't exist in my stories. The only exception is the Anon-a-miss one (which I'm even aware of, let alone in detail, because of how infamous it is) which was referenced. Even then, it was only because it let what happened in the story work.
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Oh, I hardly ask that anybody adopt my headcanons wholesale. :)
Actually, mine goes a little more elaborate, in that I actually *don't* think that Starlight has a magic cutie mark - it's a stylized kite, which some research turned up as a classical symbol of breaking rules and boundaries. Given that Starlight's entire schtick seems to be telling the accepted rules - be they social, magical, or ethical - to go take a hike, it actually made sense to me. But anywhozleby!
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You're welcome!
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As Awesomo3000 put it:
Cool, fathers would fix everything
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A couple of things with that quote. One is that, if the writer of it would have preferred Sunburst and Starlight not giving any type of apology, on one hand, that might feel good to the viewers that Firelight and Stellar Flare pissed off, thus giving them catharsis. But on the other hand, a "lesson" like this could be like giving kids a green light to yell at their parents, or even take the lesson as more or less this:
On paper, that doesn't sound too bad...if we overlook the chance that:
1: The kids' anger isn't as justified as it was with Starlight's and Sunburst's, but in the kids' minds, it is.
2: The kids themselves were acting like brats, but in their minds, they were purely the victims. This is especially a risk if the kids are spoiled, and could even set the stage for self-entitlement in even non-spoiled kids. Even if Starlight could fall over the "acting like brats" part due to her past actions as a villain, she went back to make up with her dad, so she didn't go on to look at herself as the victim in "The Parent Map". Instead, she looked at herself as a pony that had a point with her dad, but also had enough maturity to not risk getting carried away with it. Even if how she was sent on a "friendship mission" for her own problem and that made her more willing to make up with her pops, it would still be better than if she went "screw this mission, I'm leaving."
3: The kids' anger is justified, but they might go too far with their words which would warrant an apology. However, the "not having to apologize" bit would override it, so the kids wouldn't do it even if they should.
So yeah, even if the show went too far with averting any of that with Rainbow's parents, a too clear a lesson about not apologizing to your parents (or not to anyone) can, in my opinion at least, easily backfire if taken to heart. A more mature person would understand its limits and know when they should and shouldn't use it, but a not-so-mature person or a kid that still has a lot to learn about life, not so much.
The other thing I had about the quote will double a self-correction on my part on my last comment. I forgot about this, but Starlight and Sunburst actually didn't apologize to their parents for yelling at them. Instead, Starlight apologized for avoiding coming to see her father, but also said that he couldn't keep treating her as a foal. Likewise, Sunburst apologized for not telling his mom how much her plans and overbearingness bothered him, but he pointed out that he needed to do things on his own. In fact, going by that, good old-fashioned proper communication could have been sufficient without the need for any (albeit understandable) yelling first.
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Or in this case, do it without even meaning to.
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Speaking of Starlight's Cutie Mark, this is something I didn't notice until someone pointed it out a couple of years ago. It looks like a kite, but if you look at a close-up shot of it (which the show didn't give much, but did in "The Parent Map" episode) it's really not.
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The string of the "kite" is actually broken up halfway, making it look kinda like two air or gas swirls that are close together, but from the show's usual view of it, it looks like one continuous line. Then there's the "sail" of the kite. It looks like an eight-pointed star, or perhaps 2 four-pointed stars with one over the other, so you can only see the second star's points. The "two" stars, if they are two, are even different-colors.
Now here's the more interesting part: Starlight's Cutie Mark, close-up, looks like a star or maybe 2 stars, with two gas swirls. That give birth to another Starlight-related headcanon I have: Starlight's Cutie Mark represents she's a modern-day Starswirl or Starswirl 2.0., and would even explain why she had such natural talent in magic even to the point of being able to rival Twilight.
Although your idea of it not just being a kite, but a symbol of breaking rules and boundaries, and add to how Starlight likes kites, makes a ton of sense too if put the way you did. I'm actually glad you mentioned that, since it's something I never thought about. I might even explore that idea at some point if it would have a place in a story that could use it.
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Kind of why I was hoping Starlight would end up Twilights advisor, kind of like Starswirl was to Celestia and Luna.
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Oh, I recognized the break in the "string." That was actually part of my backup; if it were a kite on a broken string, that would reinforce that breaking limitations was very much part of her deal.
But anywho!
I know that this scenario was 'just for fun' - and it was funny -, but there's one detail that just... irks me? Intrigues me? I don't even know.
It's the 'how'. We have seen several possible timelines.
Nightmare Moon taking over? Maybe, after harboring her grief and regret for a thousand years, Celestia wasn't willing to 'properly' stand up to her little sister again.
Discord taking over? I mean, come on... it's Discord. Chaos magic, for all we know, is basically a 'I can do whatever I want'-card.
Chrysalis taking over? It's an entire race of devious infiltrators. I sometimes wonder if there are stories asking: When Cadance and Shining were getting married, they mentioned the possible danger of an incoming attack... but how did they learn about that? Maybe even that had been a ploy to weaken and distract the enemy. And feeding on his love, Chrysalis grew strong enough to overpower Celestia.
That desolate plane? Probably Tirek absorbing every scrap of magic and leaving that wasteland behind.
Heck, I even get Flim and Flam. It's not quite as dramatic as a powerful villain, but even more devious because of it: Offer a society convenience and they will likely be mollified enough to accept whatever means you use to make (and sustain) said offer. From all the possibilities we've seen, this one is the most horrifying - to me, anyway - because of how realistic it is. We live in a world like that.
But Firelight?
How.
Just... just 'how', in general. The only possible way I can imagine this becoming a reality is if Celestia vanished, one way or another, and even then he would have to use considerable wealth and/or power/influence he wasn't implied to have. I know that I'm thinking about this too much, but... it is just fun to do that?
Anyway. I had a fun time reading this.
Thank you.
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Glad you enjoyed the story!
Believe it or not, this power/influence of Firelight was slightly hinted at in canon, sorta.
In "The Parent Map" episode, he said he wanted to preserve Sire's Hollow's town history for Starlight or, in his words, his "little Pumpky-Wumpkin", and he was on his way to doing it with only Stellar Flare seeming to have a problem with it. Thus this story took that line and how we technically have no idea how strong his magic is (but he is Starlight's father, who can make even alicorn Twilight powerless by taking her Cutie Mark) and milked it for all it was worth, and then some.
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Yes, I know, but it's just... haaaah... I don't want to disagree. I don't even think I am? It's just... the scenario stresses my suspension of disbelief juuust a little bit too much, I think.
Anyway, still a great story. 
Well…
I guess you could say that ending was…
totally worth it.
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Nice one
OOP, Starlight nearly got to die of embarrassment with her dad forever, heh!
Starlight Town or Glimmerville LOL.
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It would have been a fate worse than Tartarus for Starlight.
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XD