I am 100% on board with the mlp way of redeeming villains that were cartoonishly evil: just bring them back as a relatable, down-to-earth anxiety ball and the fandom HAS to like them. I project it in my vers of redeemed Tord
I’m not going to check to see if I’m misremembering, but doesn’t Sunset see an evil version of herself in the mirror? I’d become obsessed with it, too. She was a CHILD. It’s literally the Luna problem all over again, and once again, it’s completely Celestia’s fault. Just explain what the mirror is to her and tell her she can know more about it when she’s older. EXPLAIN to her why making friends is so important in Equestria. Clearly she wants to know.
I loved the whole equestria girls but the one gripe I had was like, there could have been a human sunset, like how there was a human Twilight already there but wherever that worlds sunset was, and they never did anything with that, I just wonder whatever she was mine tbh
Okay consider: Sunset Shimmer was evil when she first arrived in the human world right. I say on day 1 in human world she found human Sunset Shimmer and killed her and hid the body and nobody ever found out and she never told anyone.