Starlight: Oh, it is on
Sunset: Sorry, it had to be this way
Starlight and Sunset have been very similar
characters from early on.
Both were bad guys from the beginning, but due to Twilight pointing out the error of their ways
they started becoming better and then everything is good-
Look at that!
Their next appearances focus on them developing their characters
so they start accepting friendship and becoming bigger assets in the series
And you can buy toys of them (YAY!)
They're the ones that changed the most in future appearances because they have the most to grow
I guess besides Discord.
One of the biggest differences between them is just how much friendship has affected them
before the initial cast finds them.
Sunset didn't even have any friends until she like, had to have friends to recover socially from like, being a demon.
Starlight had her own fallout over her friendship
with one of her close friends,
and that was the decision that affected how she saw others
Friendship played opposite parts in their development.
In some regards Sunset had both the runtime and more of a reason to drastically change.
Let's go into the cons a little bit more.
For one early Starlight seems to go to extremes to understand and control friendship,
and has the most time developed in series
Sunset has some short movie run times to change
Which was more at first but can't compete with like a bunch of seasons.
After the fact though both seem genuine about their changes
But Starlight can be a little sarcastic sometimes that it makes you question how deep it goes
Starlight: Alright, I'll change him back!
Sunset on the other hand offers more of a blind eye going into friendship because of her setup.
It's implied she never really had a clue about it.
I guess we can count Princess Celestia as friend or mentor thing, but that relationship
Isn't really explored that much
Outside of the comics and that one thing, that one time.
Starlight on the other hand has the high ground
Obi Wan Kenobi: I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!
No!
Cause being in the Main series she has access to a bigger cast to make friends with
By season 7 everyone that comes to Twilight's party is her friend at some level
Starlight also has ties before introduced to the series and even joins her former slave
Glorious free ponies and did becoming friends with her themselves
Starlight is better at friendship because she has both the time to shine,
it's her main goal for a certain amount of time
And because she has more resources available to her
There's a big hap from Sunset didn't notice another student and she feels hurt by it
But would Starlight have done the same?
Possibly?
Another is to compare how each character has faced specific challenges
Sunset has to win back a whole student body
who's hated her, and just has five girls to help her
She only wins the respect back after learning a lot from Twilight
But she does so on her own
How they interact because we can study that as well, is something else to consider
Starlight is more curious when sunset is actually the more level headed one.
What's leadership for something?
Sunset: I know my friends and I have been given special powers for a reason, and I wanna be ready for whatever is gonna be thrown at us.
So it seems like even though two characters follow similar arcs.
They are very different characters.
Starlight, I think is the curious one with a smart head on her shoulders
While Sunset seems the more rounded but warm one
At the surface it seems like these characters though have a similar plot drive
And serve similar roles and their stories
But if we look closer we can see that they have different personalities
Different advantages and disadvantages
And overall different time periods develop
In my opinion
although Starlight has the upper hand with the better understanding of friendship
Sunset learning from the ground up and slowly winning this to be plotted
Back is a little bit more relatable story to people
How many of you inslaved a group of horses to go back on that one guy who never texted you.
My personal choice is Sunset.
Boo this man! Boooo! *Assorted booing noises*
But, as always
it depends a lot on what you see in these characters
And what they symbolize
Do we want a character who got off on the wrong start and slowly
relearning through the help of some magical Pony princess
Or someone who has to fight a stigma with a group of friends
I guess by default the high school setting is again a little bit more relatable
Depending on how your high school experience or
Secondary school or whatever you went
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