#SunnyPippBow

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I wanna touch on season 2, episode 4 in this au even more than the episode does. Sunny literally comes home and has a small breakdown because the ponies of Maretime Bay only care about her when she’s an alicorn. Opaline made this worse of course, but it was honestly largely the fault of the town. And It baffles me. This is the pony who saved magic with her friends. This is the pony who had the sole guts to leave her home and befriend someone her entire hometown feared with their lives, this is the pony that quite literally saved Equestria.

And they don’t give two single shits about her attempts to better their society unless she unleashes her god form. And she can’t control that form that well. It’s not a constant thing.  With the fact that in this au Izzy, Pipp, and Sunny end up dating early on (some ponies said it was wayyy too early into their relationship to date, but they just had this feeling, and it’s working out super well!!), I gurantee that Pipp would be a little ticked off that ponies said those things to her girlfriend.  Hitch is like her older brother AND he’s the sheriff. He’d defend Sunny with his life and have some words for the Filly Four.

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AOUGDHFDIOJFD IZZY AND PIPP BONDING. PIPP COMPLIMENTING IZZY. THEM PLANNING TO FIX SUNNY’S LANTERN AND DOING THE HOOF TO HEART THING THAT SUNNY INTRODUCED THEM TO.....

GAY PEOPLE.....

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Sooo here’s a list of all the little traits for my rewrite au that I have so far:

The actual plot of the story stays, I liked it a lot in all honesty.

Izzy, Pipp, and Sunny are all three polyamorous and in a relationship.

Izzy is nonbinary and bisexual. She uses they/them and she/her, they prefer to have her pronouns switching up constantly, but sometimes might like only a single set being used. It depends on how they feel.

Zipp is a trans lesbian, no questions asked.

Pipp was born wingless, but still born of pegasus blood. She has prosthetic wings that are sorta mechanical? (And no, when they get their magic back she doesn’t magically get wings, she’s just able to control her prosthetics with her magic)

Sunny and Hitch are still quite close, and have a brother-sister relationship.

Sunny gets to keep her wings and horn she had at the end, but they stay like how they were shown, glowy magic that is physical, but doesn’t entirely look physical. It’s very cool and only a tad bit confusing.

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I so desperately wanna write a fic about Sunny buying her partners their own sets of roller skates and teaching them how to use them-

Like, skates are obviously this mare’s preferred mode of transport, so I feel like she’d love to teach her partners how to skate,

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Izzy is a very good emotional reader/judge. She knows when sunny is starting to get overwhelmed and distracts her with talk over her latest art project or how cool this one large pendant feels and how she thinks it would make for a fidget. She longed reading various things form pinkie pies old journals, along with rarities- though those she shared with Pipp- HB

Ahhhhh I love Izzy sm!! They're super caring towards her gfs, reading journals with Pipp is always in a cozy little cuddle spot with some hot drinks. They may not be a naturally aggressive pony (or be that good at acting scary), but she's still gonna look out for their gfs, even if it's just guiding Sunny away from a overwhelming situation or nudging Pipp away from somepony who might make a comment about her wings.

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Hitch had a stutter as a child. Everyone big brother. Will text everyone to get the heck to bed. If sunny is having a bad day, he knows a variety of ways to cheer her up. Once had a crush on sprout growing up- it crashed when sprout endorsed a particularly cruel "unicorn trap" his mother's company made (think bear trap). 100% housed sunny while they fixed her house. Has kicked someone across the face (applejack apple bucking style) for a comment they made abought sunny and her girlfriends -HB

Hell yes!!! Big brother Hitch!! I also like to think he was a huge comfort to her back when her dad had passed away, it absolutely sucked and she was in ruins. Hitch loved her dad as much as she did, he was a really kind stallion, so it hurt him a bit too. He remained strong, for Sunny.

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If we stay in sunny's town for a while, sunny would get "concerned " comments for the elders, but most everyone else either saw her grow up along side them/their kids and (if we keep her dad dead and not just off on a research trip/archeology dig) know she was left alone too young and are more worried for her recovery after almost dying to sprout. - HB

Poor Sunny's been through a lot just to bring magic back, just to bring the other ponies back together, but even that's a work in progress. Hitch is concerned for sure, he takes time off to visit her if he doesn't see her in town, he worries about his 'sister'. If he's not visiting, he's at least sending a text to Sunny, or texting Pipp or Izzy. She's doing okay, there's been better days, but she's not the worst she's ever been. Things are alright, it can only get better from here. It's a relief to see Sunny out and about, like she was before. Now she's bouncing off rooftops with fluttering wings....it's new, but really, what isn't at the moment?

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Okay well... sunny clearly will have trauma from almost getting killed in her own home/lighthouse. She also was altered into a pseudo alicorn without any mentors to take cues from. Her town (and the other pony based civilizations) will have to deprogram themselves of a long ass time racial bias. And we only encountered the issues with the pony races, what abought hypogriffs, merponies, changelings etc?? Hell where's the crystal empire in all of this??? - HB

There's a lot of questions to ask, but for now it's best to focus on what we have to work with so far, it's a lot simpler and easier to work through than just going so broad so quickly.

Sunny's whole ordeal....now that's a lot to deal with. She suddenly has two new body parts that she's learning to use, which means Pipp and Izzy are over quite often, trying to help her out.

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Actually I love the addition of technology because that means the mane 5 totally have a group chat and Hitch made Sunny and her partners make a separate one for just those three, because half the chat was Izzy telling Pipp and Sunny how much they love them.