Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-32827342-20180629233717/@comment-26423071-20180704031630

It's kind of like with Deanna Troi in "Star Trek: The Next Generation": they call it "empathy", but it's actually more like telepathy.

That being said, Sunset isn't the Element of Empathy because she can read minds. She is the Element of Empathy because she can relate to people. She related to Sci-Twi, to Gloriosa, to Wallflower, and it's that ability to truly understand that helped them purge their monstrous forms (Midnight Sparkle, Gaia Everfree and...well, still Wallflower, but a much more vindictive and cruel Wallflower).