Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-37502141-20190429175218/@comment-25563752-20190430214825

At most, if she does appear in G5, it will be as a character of the day where she's visiting. It's very clear that she wants to stay in the human world. She's built a whole new life there, a home, a job, is workng towards a future, has several friends, especially the Human Six, whom she regards as family, and has even stated that she wouldn't trade them for anything thing in any world, not to mention the strongely implied rekindling of her relationship with Flash. The writers even said that she's the human world's 7th Element of Harmony (Empathy). Besides, she and her friends need to be together in order to make their complete magical girl transformations (not just pony-up transformations, but the one that unlocks all their powers).

And what does she really have in Equestria? Her friendship with Twilight and Starlight, and her mended relationship with Celestia, but that's it, no other friends (except maybe Spike). She completely left her old life behind, gave up on her magical studies, everything. It was eve stated that she was never close to her family and that she had an unhealthy relationship with her parents, who were very negelctful of her and only viewed her as a way to promite themselves since she was Celestia's student. There's nothing for her to go back to in Equestria, but she has a new, better, happier, fuller life and future in the human world, and has finally found her place and purpose.

What they could have done, as I've said in previous posts, is have the human Sunset Shimmer appear and go to live in Equestria, where she can learn about friendship like Starlight did, but also learn to adapt in a strange new world as a unicorn learning magic for the first time. Unfortunately, the writers stated that there is no human Sunset since they wanted her to be her own thing. It makes sense since not everyone has a counterpart, but it feels like a missed opportunity to do something like I stated above.