It’s actually Human!Sunset, tossed through the portal as part of Pony!Sunset’s plan to take her place. She was so freaked out on arrival so hard she flared and teleported herself across the continent. She just now found her way back to Equestria and wants revenge/to go home.
Yes I have been wanting to write a fic like this, why do you ask?
@TheOtakuX
Sunset Shimmer’s backstory was kinda rushed without being given further detail. In layman’s terms, she just sprouted like a mushroom and like many one-episode wonders in the cartoon.
It could still work if she just went up there after already being back to get a full glimpse of the town for the first time in years, seeing how much it’s changed (just like herself).
@Registered Anon
That still wouldn’t work, because she’s coming from the South (you can see Canterlot to the North). She’d have had to have intentionally gone around Ponyville to approach it from that direction.
I know, but at least it happened in some form, which gives me hope for the future.
Except it didn’t. Not in this way.
Yes I have been wanting to write a fic like this, why do you ask?
sigh
If only.
@TheOtakuX
Sunset Shimmer’s backstory was kinda rushed without being given further detail. In layman’s terms, she just sprouted like a mushroom and like many one-episode wonders in the cartoon.
A second mirror portal, built by Human Twilight. FOR SCIENCE!
There’s also no evidence she’s ever been to, or even seen, Ponyville before.
Dude it’s a pretty picture you don’t have to nitpick at it
That still wouldn’t work, because she’s coming from the South (you can see Canterlot to the North). She’d have had to have intentionally gone around Ponyville to approach it from that direction.
Maybe there’s both a mirror in Canterlot and at whatever Twilight’s castle is called.