#mlpheadcanons

Sunset Shimmer is a kirin in my redesign! I wanted more diversity within the mane 7, and so I went with a kirin!

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Sunset's family moved to Sire's Hollow when she was just a filly. Her father left a little after the move, no one has seen him since. Sunset has one younger sibling, Sunburst. The two spent most of their time together trying to outwit each other with new spells. Sunset Shimmer always had a knack for magic and strived to be the most knowledgeable about magic in her town. After she left for Canterlot, Sunburst picked up where they had left off in their studies and continued to be the bookworm that he is.

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When she found out about Celestia's Academy for Gifted Unicorns, she wanted nothing more than to study under Celestia. For her entrance exam, Sunset had to hatch a phoenix egg, paralleling how Twilight had to hatch a dragon egg. And much like Twilight, Sunset was allowed to keep the legendary bird, naming her Philomena. Celestia saw potential in Sunset and took her under her wing. She had never met a kirin before and was definitely intrigued. Kirin magic was not researched, and so Celestia took this apprenticeship as an opportunity to get to know Sunset and kirin magic.

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Sunset befriended Twilight throughout her time at the academy and they became friendly rivals. Despite how antisocial Twilight can be, Sunset was always at her side and they were rarely seen apart. That is, until Sunset realized how powerful Twilight was.

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This is where my headcanons definitely steer from canon. I don't consider the Equestria Girls movies to be canon. For my Sunset, the portal to the human dimension has never existed and will not exist.

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Sunset Shimmer's downfall began when she realized how powerful her best friend was. Twilight's power made Sunset Shimmer insecure with her own and that led her to search for more ways to gain more magical power. Sunset went against Celestia's rules about the library and snuck in late one night to explore the restricted section beneath the castle. She found a spell that could harness her emotions to bring her more power, but at the time, her emotions were anger and jealousy. Had her emotions been different at the time of finding the spell, the outcome could have been much different.

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This spell caused Sunset Shimmer to shift into her nirik form and accidentally set a sectiom of the library ablaze. This led Celestia to finding her and attempting to capture her for trespassing and damaging the library. Celestia's guard soon arrived to attempt to capture her, but were not successful. There was a momentary showdown between Celestia and Sunset, but Sunset's magic became increasingly difficult for Celestia to handle. Celestia was able to stop her for a moment to try and understand what was going on, but Sunset got even more upset over the fact that her mentor was seeing her in such a state. Sunset fled Canterlot and retreated to the Peaks of Peril.

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She returned to Canterlot a few years afterwards and was treated as a threat to Equestria by Celestia and Luna. Sunset never meant to hurt anyone all those years ago, but she let her emotions get the best of her and the dark magic consumed her. She tried to explain this to the queens, but Celestia insisted that Sunset's use of dark magic is enough to deserve her a place in the Canterlot Gardens. Celestia was furious with Sunset for disobeying a very important rule. She was going to turn Sunset to stone for her crime of weilding dark magic.

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Twilight was in the castle at the time, on their way to a meeting with the queens. They entered the throne room to find Celestia preparing a magical attack and Sunset on the ground, pleading for forgiveness. Luna was standing behind Celestia, looking away in shame. Twilight ran to Sunset's side and deflected the blast, sending it crashing into the wall behind the queens. The queens stood in utter awe and Sunset shakily stood next to Twilight. Although the kirin was much larger than her pony friend, she felt so much weaker than her. Twilight stood in front of Sunset and insisted that the situation was unlike anything she had ever seen out of Celestia.

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I haven't really thought about it much past that point, but let's just say Twilight helped Sunset become more comfortable with herself and taught her about how powerful the magic of friendship is. Sunset ends up moving into the Golden Oak Library with Twilight and helps Twilight with her research about magic. Sunset still has a piece of the dark magic with her, but Twilight does what she can to keep Sunset's head high. Oh yeah, and they're dating BAHAHDH

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Sunset is bisexual and demiromantic. She uses she/her pronouns.

First I'm going to start with the simple thing, and the biggest discourse with them.

I'm still of the opinion that Twilight was super young when she hatched Spike. Around 3. So the age difference between them is incredibly small.

Spike is older than he looks, but that's because he's a dragon, and we've seen that they have both regular and irregular ways of aging.

Everyone knows this of course.

Surprisingly their relationship is never quite clean and easy though.

Spike was obsessed with her for a long time, because she was his first real crush, and his species gets obsessed and its not something that lets go.

Rarity wasn't any better, as she would often lead him on during their early years.

She's always cherished him, but it was almost always as a friend. Or at least on the outside, but she does have feelings for him that she has a hard time coming to closure with.

It's only when other individuals outside of their core friend group start to show appreciation for him. That she realizes her own feelings for real.

Especially with how actually good he is with diplomacy and making friends with other species, like Ember, and Thorax, and Gabby.

When they finally get together, if they do, depending on if I'm going with something sadder or not. They become incredibly close. Rarity, who is known for generosity and has fully established this at this point, finds herself wanting to be selfish.

And Spike, finally able to put back on those instincts is very much a want to be around her all the time.

Spike's instincts arent' the real reason he fell for Rarity. Of course it was purely a beauty aesthetic early on, but he learns to love who she is rather quickly. And, he wont' say it outloud. But he can see her faults pretty easily too, sometimes she's just a wee bit Vain, and can go a bit overboard. But so can he.

As Spike gets older, this is definitely a differ from main canon, he becomes quadrupedal. So he's closer to Mac in size, but lankier, and far more dangerous looking.

This isn't a Rarity specific thing, but there are instincts in them that just... really like that sense of danger.

For the kinkier part, Rarity's a bit on the masochistic side.

As well as having a bit of my Pyrrha and Weiss in her, if you know, well you know.

Spike's generally friendly, but he does mess up alot, and he tries to learn from his mistakes. Also he has to be careful with her, and just about everyone else around as he gets older.

Sunset saying goodbye to her lil bro Sunburst and heading off to Celestia’s School of Gifted Unicorns

Our Celestia and Luna Series

This series describes the fall of Celestia and Luna’s homeland, Vana, a city of alicorns. They were two of the three to survive the attack of the draquonecquii, the other being their personal guard, Pierced Dawn. Pierced became a mother to them then.

Pierced Dawn was very protective, even though the first creature they ran into on the ground was a puny, skinny unicorn.

Celestia raised the sun for the first time.

The two sisters became the rulers of Equestria and Pierced Dawn headed the army/soldiers. Luna is beginning to feel the pull of the Tantabus and feeling left in the shadows.

Luna began to feel the Tantabus take hold of her and fell to its will in certain situations. Celestia ignored the signs.

Finally, the nail in the coffin for Luna was Pierced Dawn’s death. Dawn was very much a mother to them and Celestia was older than Luna and found herself not needing Dawn as half as much as Luna did. Luna gave over fully to the Tantabus after Dawn’s death.

Luna visiting her pen pal in his cell in Tartarus. She has grown quite fond of him. His story is not what it seems...

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Sombra made mistakes. He knew he deserved to be jailed like he was. His actions caused the terror and enslavement of an enitre race. He closed his eyes, straining to look back at the past. He wished he had never been born. He wished he had been born different, at least. He thought, if he had been born normal, flourescent pink or blue, with a brightly colored mane and light eyes, he would have fit in. He would have sparkled like the rest of his peers in the warmth of the Crystal Heart's love. He would have never had weaker magic if he had been born normal. Maybe then, he would have never wandered into the Library of the Crystal Empire Mage, scouring the shelves to find any book that would help his young horn grow and become more powerful. He never would have met the Mage himself and never would have latched onto the father-figure he saw in him with such vigor. Maybe then, the Mage never would have handed him the book about dark magic and led Sombra to the day he could only stand by and watch as the older stallion enslaved the entirety of the Crystal Empire. Maybe that never would have happened. He wished he had been born different. "I like you just the way you are." Luna whispered through the bars of the cell. "Only you, Moonbeam." Sombra sighed back wistfully.

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