Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-25205892-20140721035727/@comment-10390252-20140721110702

IMHO, it was the impatience, combined with self-centredness, that was the key to her personality and her eventual descent into malevolence. She wasn't willing to wait and felt that she had the right to do whatever she needed to. Every time she stepped on someone to get ahead, she wore away at the good in her until she had become very, very malign in nature.

What the Element of Magic did was expose to her eyes what she had allowed herself to become in pursuit of selfish goals. Sunset's redemption came because she didn't want to be that pony.