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Day 6 of @deathnotetober : Roleswap

YES! Thank you for answering my call!

Tomco was my shit when I was watching star vs. It was like the only thing I shipped from that show. When I first saw them interact I thought their relationship had tons of potential.

I don’t really ship brumira. Like aesthetically they look nice but it just doesn’t grip me. I’m looking for something a bit more spicy.

I don’t really like appledash and it’s mainly because of the two characters involved. Applejack and rainbow dash are my least favorite ponies from the main 6. Also I can’t get myself to ship any of the main 6 together because I have a thing about shipping close friendships. I just can’t do it.

so sunburst moves to ponyville and hes staying in twilight's castle. hes a little disoriented at first, but he gets to spend more time with twilight and starlight so that's nice. starlight especially is REALLY happy to have him there bc shes just obsessed with him lmao. anyway, its all fun and games, but sunburst is there for a reason and that is to learn about friendship.

hes REALLY shy and socially anxious, so initially he kinda avoids Actually doing the lessons? mostly he just hangs around with starlight or even twilight herself, until twi kinda calls him out on it and is like "hey shouldnt we get started on your lessons?"

he kinda tries to use the excuse that hanging out with those hes already friends with counts as him learning abt friendship but twilight retorts by going "nice fucking try but you still need to get out of your comfort zone." so he has no choice.

SO here are some things i think sunburst could do while hes twis student!

-for starters, having twilight acknowledge his insecurities and show him support would be really cute. i think having a conversation between them where he confesses how self conscious he feels and twilight kindly reassures him would be neat. those little moments of support are the sweetest to me.

-sunburst actually starts hanging out with both trixie and maud individually! i think those could be some of the first friendships he forms, since theyre already fond of each other. specifically, i can imagine a moment where sunburst and trixie have a convo abt feeling kinda selfconscious about not being all that magically skilled. like PRETEND this is an episode: sunburst lives with twilight and starlight, two of the most magically skilled individuals out there. that has to make him feel a little strange, right? it probably makes him feel a little jealous. so imagine a moment where he sees them both practicing magic and it makes him feel kinda shitty, maybe he even snaps at them out of bitterness and then he leaves and runs into trixie. wanting to forget what happened, he spends the day with her and they just go around being dorks. eventually it comes up in conversation what happened and trixie's like "yea i get it, i also feel kinda shitty about that." i think it would be a good way for sunburst to explore his feelings on magic and bond with someone over that. its about relating to others <3 ofc he'd eventually apologize to twi and star for being rude to them, but to get to that point he'd need to spend time with trixie first to feel better about himself.

-UM him and fluttershy. i have no idea how a meeting between them would go but i think having them interact would be really fun since theyre both introverted and again, having someone he can relate to would probably mean a lot to him since a big part of his issue is that he feels like he doesnt have much in common with others. i can see those two specifically bonding over their anxieties and liking each other bc they help each other feel calm. and i think it would be cool of fluttershy to help sunburst through some social anxiety he has to show how much shes grown from her own history with that! imagine an episode of sunburst feeling anxious abt something and flutters being the one to help him out of his shell.

-ok. here me out. stygian and him. kinda like trixie, stygian is another unicorn whos not all that magically capable, but unlike her he was more similar to sunburst in the sense that his longing for it was stronger. and i think it would be cool to revisit him since he legit just disappeared! maybe hes visiting twilight for some reason and then he meets sunburst and they click. pretending this is the actual show, i imagine an episode with those two would revolve mostly around learning about stygian himself and sunburst showing him that he isnt judgemental and instead relates to him. sunburst being the one to extend his friendship to someone else would be such a huge step.

-MOONDANCER!!! so lets imagine twilight is going to canterlot for some reason and sunburst joins her. twilight encourages him to go out and try and interact with others and so hes all alone and its kinda intimidating. but he eventually goes to the library and stumbles into moondancer, they have a small conversation over something nerdy or whatever and they IMMEDIATELY click. anyway, i think sunburst bonding with someone who was once as lonely as he was would be really cool and those two would just have great chemistry. and maybe seeing how moondancer managed to overcome her own social issues encourages him even more.

-DISCORD BABEY!! this is based on nothing other than me thinking that they would have a fun dynamic, but i do see it working out in terms of sunburst's "arc" or whatever. since we've already established that he befriends fluttershy, he would OF COURSE have to meet discord. i can see sunburst being very curious by discord's magic and discord would of course just LOVE the attention. they start to spend more time together, and maybe theres some conflict eventually because theyre both VERY different but they work it out. other than me thinking the idea of the nerdy wizard befriending a chaotic entity is kinda cool, i also think this would serve the purpose of teaching sunburst that he doesnt need to have much in common with others to befriend them, even if thats really nice. sometimes your bestie can be a chaos noodle and thats fine!

-him and starlight go on a lot of silly little adventures because now they get to spend more time together. i was always sad sunburst and starlight didnt get to hang out as much as trixie and starlight did, so lets fix that!! they go do stuff, and they have arguments and theyre BESTIES. and bc we've already established him and trixie are also friends lets just make them a whole fucking friend group!! i always wanted an episode that was just those three goofing around and was so sad we didnt get one.

also i think it would be cool if we kinda go back to The Old Ways and we bring back Sunburst reporting to Twilight whatever lesson he learned that day. Both because I miss when Twilight would do that, but also because I think its a neat little way to show shes slowly becoming more and more like Celestia in terms of her role, which is important because she will literally take over equestria in the future.