Forget not that I am a derp.
This story is a sequel to What Shy Did on Her Summer Vacation
"When you wander probability space, you notice some trends. Trends like Sunset and her friends getting the same summer jobs in a lot of worldlines. Well, ours isn't exactly close to baseline. It turned out a little differently for them."
Part of the Oversaturated World. Reading the prequel isn't required, but provides context for some parts.
"Wait, prequel?"
Shush, Ditzy.
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Hey look, I got here early.
Twilight is at her best when she is either adorkable or badass. The Embodiment of Magic is just what the doctor ordered.
In a vaguely coherent timeline of this universe, should I simply place this after What Shy Did on Her Summer Vacation? Is there anything it definitively comes before?
It's for a friend who still has about 20 stories in this universe to read.
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I's assume yes, since that story is a Prequel...
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Wait, so that 5th Sunset is a Capsumon Gym leader, with her other 6 as Capsumon?
... Wow, I assume that universe is pretty far?
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So, what happened when Coriander drew parallels between Vishna and Sunset?
If nature didn't want us to eat spicy food, it wouldn't have made our endorphin generators so easily hackable.
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By my reckoning, What Shy Did On Her Summer Vacation is chronologically the 10th story in the universe. I'm just asking whether this should be 11th, 21st, or somewhere specific in between.
Sunset as Vishnu...you have to admit, it's a more valid comparison than most. I'm actually more interested that she refers to Him as 'a different guy'...
I've seen an evolutionary biology argument that we like hot food because most spices are preservatives.
And Fluttershy, you goose, you should know you only DRINK with your feet. You eat with your leaves :p Admittedly it would probably feel more like eating drawing things through the roots, but still.
Yep, time for a talk about how aspect doesn't define you any more than your icon and that in a world this crazy and diverse we have to look at individuals.
Sunset may SAY being a pokemon gym leader isn't an option. In fact she should again. Louder. The Incarnation of Irony does so love having good material...
(It'll happen a good few years after this world's version of Tron)
Making Twilight keep some working class mortal perspective is a good idea. Even if it didn't seem to quite work out that way.
Pinkies comment worries me. I do hope she has a good talk with Maud about it. Definitely Maud: Limestone would probably smack her upside the head with a newspaper a few times and go into a rant about how of course we really love each other you idiot! Whack whack whack! *ahem*
Also too bad Pinkie missed out on the skate place, it really is perfect for her.
Rarity clearly knows nothing at all about football, and any insinuations otherwise will be severely reprimanded. She also definitely will never bond with Applejack over this.
Was this partially my fault? I feel like this was partially my fault. Regardless, this is a supremely comedic take on the job hunting plotline.
I know about football. Everybody laughs at the Buffalo Bills for losing the Superbowl 4 times in a row.
And yet in the history of the NFL, no other team as ever accomplished four consecutive years with phenomenal seasons. Just that they lost the Big Game.
This is probably going over the head of anyone that wasn't born in the 1990's.
I have no idea if they have to file Sunset's employment in their next taxes, but if they do, it will be hilarious. And, I suspect, Coriander will do it with a joyful glee in his eyes. My father would.
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Heh. You KNOW every spy in the world wants to be on Sunset Shimmer Duty, keeping an eye on what the Divine Bacon Horse is up to. No danger, lots of material to work with, and global reprecussions. You think that regular world leaders activities get overanlayzed, wait till you see how they treat a genuine not-goddess. Who only has the 'not' there out of a frankly misguided sense of humility.
I wonder how many overzealous and/or misguided spies The Wholesome have taken to messing with, just to keep Sunset from having to think about it and getting annoyed.
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Considering the Capsumon Gym thing was apparently a summer job I assume she was posing as one of the
overconfident bratsgym proteges you need to defeat before you reach the leader.Or maybe she was doing gym trap design and maintenance. Maybe each of her friends was in another gym planting flower clocks, setting up sliding puzzles, charging electric fences and calibrating teleporter pads.
And now I kinda want to know why Ditzy was called to that Capsumon timeline and if they provided her with a trainer pass.
So, who did the sushi place hire instead of Sunset? I'm now imagining the Sirens slinging sushi...
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My apologies for not keeping the timeline maintained. This slots in immediately after What Shy Did. Indeed, it could go earlier, but there are some spoilers in that last scene.
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Huh. I'd never considered Sunset having the Bearer-Analogues as her team. Though given the resulting type mix, I'm pretty sure that Sunset would be a regional champion. 9327795 has the right of it; she's one of the XP sacks you beat up along the way to the leader. (And to answer Road's question, the local Palkia had filed a complaint about some rather nasty wormholes.)
Likening Sunset to Vishnu came uncomfortably close to establishing a memetic link between her and someone with orders of magnitude more worshipers. Thankfully, one of the ways Sunset isn't a god is that she's not defined by her devotees, but she's close enough that she had to fight off the conflation.
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As I like to say, we're smart enough to be dumb enough to enjoy it.
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Various shorts have established gods that aren't worshipped anymore as somewhat extant. Seems only fair—if a bit more risky in terms of the audience—to include ones that are.
Hey, soil nutrients still count.
Pretty sure Sunset's closer to Arceus.
To be fair, the only thing Sugarcube Corner's missing is roller skates. (And her family issues will out in time.)
Clearly not. There is absolutely no chance of the most fabulous Super Bowl party ever in their future.
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I've actually been putting this one together for months; the timing was pure serendipity. Glad you enjoyed it! I honestly wasn't sure how you'd feel about this.
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There isn't much that brings joyful glee to any part of Coriander Cumin, but I imagine that that would do it.
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At this point, Canterlot's spy population has increased several dozenfold.
(Of course, that implies a nonzero population to begin with...
)
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I didn't have anyone specific in mind, just that Sunset's dithering had lost her the opportunity. You can pick your favorite background human and put them behind the counter.
It's quite the comedic story, to be sure! Being a god (or at least the consciousness of some kind of deity) would, at the surface, seem like this very other experience from everyone else, although I myself am not sure about the nature of Sunset's and Twilight's divinities here because this is my first Oversaturated outing.
Still, it was fun to see Twilight try to be an "I wanna do stuff on my own" kind of teenager even with all of that power backing her up. Also fun to see Sunset try to get a normal job and having Coriander be so calm and collected in front of a god. At least we know he won't be fazed at pretty much anything.
Temporarily becoming Shiva for the win.
Wait... or is it Vishnu?
Ugh it’s been over a decade since world religion class.
Shiva destroys. Vishnu preserves and Brahma maintains.
It says a lot about this universe, that's for sure
Dammit FOME, why do you have to write so good? All your Oversaturated stories are instant favorites to me. Shame we haven't got more of them
Poor spies, though. On one hand, they have the extremely important job of watching the actions of pretty much Goddess. On the other, said goddess is just a teenager doing teenager things and trying to be the straight woman to the entire universe. And also a cuddly pony.
That's bound to make for some confusing and hilarious reports.
Ah, that one time Hasbro stole my OC. Thems were some good times.
Still, Coriander Cumin and Saffron Masala are great characters, and it's good to see them used more.
I'm a little disappointed that no actual Herculean labors actually showed up, though.
More like Krishna, I'd think. But so long as Sunset doesn't multiply herself to dance with all the
milkmaidssummer part-timers at the mall, she'll probably escape that dharma.In this life.
"Capsumon Gym. Not exactly an option."
Darn those copywrong issues.
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Sunset remains staunchly opposed to the "god" label. She thinks of herself more as the superintendent of the universe, with more than ninety-nine percent of her power and awareness currently working overtime to patch up the cosmological equivalents of leaky pipes, loose shingles, and dry rot. Shimmerism kind of sprung up around her while she wasn't looking. At this point, she's pretty much accepted that there's no putting the congregation back in the bottle.
Meanwhile, Twilight either bears or is Sunset's Element of Magic. It's not clear which is the case, or even if there's a meaningful distinction between the two. What this entails for Twilight, especially in the long term, has yet to be determined. For now, she isn't worshipped in her own right... though Sunset's devotees most certainly ship it. Fortunately, so do the shipped.
And yeah, Coriander Cumin seemed like one of the few people in either universe who'd be able to handle the idea of a god waiting tables for him with nary a blink.
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See 9327982's response.
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Rest assured, I have several ideas in various stages of development. And everyone's welcome to contribute.
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I don't know, Twilight putting up with computer-illiterate customers for three months without atomizing anyone might qualify as a feat of patience on par with killing the Nemean Lion.
And yes, ersatz Amber Spice and her father are very fun characters to use. Especially when I channeled a bit of Amber in Saffron reclaiming her domain.
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I was going more for "preserver of the universe" than the "god of compassion" angle, but I see where you're coming from. And I'm pretty sure the only way to get Sunset to replicate herself for dancing purposes is if the Rainbooms need eerily similar backup dancers for their next music video.
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I did notice that bit of channeling.
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So, technically, she is a god but she doesn't want to be called that. OK, then! It'd undoubtedly be difficult for a teenager to have a huge cult around her...then again, she is maintaining the universe, and that's no human feat.
As for Twilight: So, Elements of Harmony but somewhat different? Alright. That just goes to show how deficient I am in this re-visioning of the universe. Still, what about the others? Is Applejack Sunset's Element of Honesty or is she just Applejack?
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Oh, each of the girls bears/is her appropriate Element. There just haven't been nearly as many flare-ups on their parts as Twilight's, given what happened to her during Oversaturation. That said, AJ does get headaches if she spends too long in the same room as 24-hour cable news.
This one is probably my favorite out of the series.
I think I noticed something you seem to have forgotten in the "Oversaturated" verse.
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And that would be?
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Neither Twilight nor Sunset are Alicorns despite fitting the requirements.
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Sunset currently has a "no alicorns" rule in place for this world until it's stable enough to handle that high a magic density. Even Princess Twilight gets turned into a unicorn aspect when she visits, and it took a few months before she could visit! The universe should be able to withstand Cadence a few years after the Saturation Point, Luna about a decade afterwards, and Celestia in just under two. And that's assuming they visit one at a time. (Sunset's stance on Flurry Heart is "When she stops surging, and not a second earlier.")
Sunset herself chooses to manifest her earthly avatar as a unicorn aspect partly because of this restriction and partly to reduce the reasons people might worship her. Meanwhile, human Twilight hasn't actually achieved anything truly ascension-worthy on her own. Being possessed by the magical will of the universe doesn't count, nor does anything her body did during that possession. And that assumes that alicorn ascension is even what happens to the worthy when human magic gets involved...
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.....Huh. well nobody told me before.
So is capsummon-Sunset the fire-type gym leader, or the psychic-type gym leader? I could see it either way.
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Well we might jailbreak the gym leader types to shake things up, but I'd make her Psychic. My general thought is that Sunset would LOVE to be an in your face combat type with fire or fighting or something, since it matches her personality. But despite that she's actually just really good at working with psychics and doing support stuff, so she sticks to her strengths.
Not sure why, but the little section with Suri caught my attention and had me thinking about it days after I first read this.
At first I was thinking it was rather brassy, then occurred to me it was more of an absolute lack of shame. But if she'd really been aiming for a position there she could at least have tried more deceptive or manipulative tactics to get her foot in the door, so maybe it was just dropping by to hassle Rarity on her way somewhere else?
In the end I suppose she just might not have had any better ideas.
Hilarious!
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Does that mean that super powerful beings from other franchises like Primus aren't allowed yet or at all?
Me thinks that my OC would probably have traces of what he can turn into if he enters in this universe.
Alright, I came here from Oversaturation, I think I was linked by a comment from a reader.
It seems that I just skipped 9 stories getting here, so ... whua?
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That's more or less what happened. You may want to follow the chain of sequels from Oversaturation instead.
Probably my favourite Oversaturation sequel so far. Not that I don't like more outlandish adventure-y stuff too, but I like how (comparatively) grounded Sunset's problems are here, which only makes it all the more humorous that she has to deal with this kind of thing in the first place. I also like seeing the ways this universe mirrors and diverges from canon, which this one did in all sorts of entertaining ways.
This brings back memories. I was a computer technician in the late '90s. And yes, this happened.
Well, that's a pleasant way to wrap this up. :)
I must demand an explanation for why you did not use "Chevralet". Also, "Benefacteor"??
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Hey, working in the occasional goat or other non-equine ungulate pun is good for variety.
As opposed to Patreon.
So, this was my first Oversaturated story. I was confused, but entertained. Having reread it with actual CONTEXT this time, it makes a good deal more sense. Fun read. Thanks, FOME.
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...Okay, that second one was a bit of a stretch. <.<
Oh, the joys of technology. I feel your pain, Twilight. As the tech savvy member of the family, my social distancing means tech support remotely with details like "the square one is stuck" and "reinstall windows? But the ones I have are energy star rated." On the plus side I occasionally get dark, blurry cell phone pictures of the problem.
Scary stuff, considering... 😆🤣🚑💻⚰️
Jesus, right in the feels
You were saying Twilight?
five more of these things to drop off!*
That was... weird?
I'd hate to get on her bad side!
I'd only count that if there was singing involved as jigglypuff is known for its song that makes people sleep and then draw on people's faces.
I'd hate to meet someone who'd think that.
Hahaha, oh dear. Here's to summer jobs and all the strange experiences they give.