Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-28198574-20160413053750/@comment-10390252-20160413094008

Purely IMO, Sunset Shimmer is in about the same situation as Twilight was at the beginning of season 3 - operating increasingly on her own and even teaching her friends and others how to use the Magic of Friendship. Of course, this is largely by way of necessity (Sunset cannot easily call on Twilight for help to handle every Friendship Problem that comes her way, so she's had to learn the same autonomy that Celestia had to patiently teach Twilight).

So, basically, Sunset is an advanced student who is ready to go onto independent study. Starlight, on the other hand, is starting from the very basics and has a huge undercurrent of guilt and resentment that she has to tackle before she's going to be able to do much without Twilight's help.