Time to READ. Sunset Shimmer demands it. We've got the best fanfics starring Sunset here. For older stoies, go check out our post from last year.
Get the Sunset Shimmer fanfics below, and thanks to Whisper Key for digging them up!
Slice of Life
A Fine Night for a Rogue by The Red Parade [3k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
One cold winter night, a rogue meets a Royal Guard cadet in the middle of the forest. Neither wanted to, but sometimes in life you don't get a choice. Years later, Sunset Shimmer would meet Shining Armor again.
A Holiday With the Sparkles by The Chronicler [4k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle have now been college roommates for a semester following their graduation from Canterlot High. With the rest of their friends busy for the holidays, Sunset decides to join Twilight and her family for Winter Break.
Good Will Towards Man by TheLegendaryBillCipher [2k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Visiting Sunset, Starlight learns that sometimes all it takes is a little hope - and the right moment.
Late-Night Phone Call by Stagehands [4k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset calls Rarity at a frankly unreasonable hour one night. Things go from there.
A Dazzling Snow Day by TheNewYorkBrony [2k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
A blizzard has hit Canterlot, and because of it, schools out. Sonata uses this as an opportunity to show Aria and Adagio just how fun winter can be.
Comedy
Plug at First Sight by FanOfMostEverything [6k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset Shimmer hates the magicless world of mutant apes she's been trapped in for the last four moons, but at least she's making some progress on improving her situation. Now if only the short-sighted fools surrounding her would stop getting in her way, she could show them. She'd show them all!
Note that this particular Sunset has yet to encounter the concept of the "mad scientist." Not until later today, anyway.
Into the Light by SockPuppet and Samey90 [1k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sci-Twi tests the entire electromagnetic spectrum on Wallflower Blush.
saving private montage by Bookish Delight [5k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Caught in the midst of a heated conflict between two armies, Pvt. Juniper Montage fights the most brutal, intense and realistic battle of her life.
Sad/Dark
A Flash In The Pan by eemoo1o [5k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Flash Sentry has gone missing. Sunset is desperate to find out what’s happened, and contacts Twilight to ask about the Flash in her world, but it seems as though nobody else really cares.
Embrace Your Demon by EileenSaysHi [2k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sgt. Sunset Shimmer is dying. Struck in the stomach by a bullet during the heat of combat, she now lays helpless on a deserted battlefield, the conflict having moved on without her. There's not a living soul around to help her... or so it might seem.
Until she's approached by a being from her past, one that she'd desperately hoped never to see again, a creature to which she has given much and owes much more... and one that might be able to save her life.
Choices, choices...
Live Forever in My Dreams by Mockingbirb [1k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Spike the dog is dying. Sunset takes a desperate gamble to save him.
Midnight Call by King of Madness [2k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Have you ever felt like Death was following you?
Sunset Shimmer receives a call from Rainbow Dash in the middle of the night. Rainbow Dash is lost and something feels wrong.
Shaking Off Bad Memories by EileenSaysHi [13k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
It's been a year since Wallflower Blush tried to purge the memory of Sunset's reformation from the entire student body of Canterlot High. But despite Sunset's initial effort to steer the lonely, embittered girl onto a new path—and, indeed, Wallflower has developed a reasonable social life with several new close friends—the two of them remain haunted by the events of those three days, each embodying some of the darkest moments of the others' lives, and spend their school days at a stark distance from each other.
But as graduation looms, threatening the possibility that they might never get over their anxieties, the two decide it's time for a real, genuine conversation about what happened, why things still hurt and how they can move on—if it's even possible.
No Hiding Place Down Here by Mockingbirb [2k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
In the Everfree Forest, Wallflower and Fluttershy try to become trees.
"I ran to the rock to hide my face,
The rock cried out, 'No hiding place.'"
Ave Sonata by Majin Syeekoh [1k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sonata Dusk plays in the park under the watchful eyes of Aria and Adagio.
Shipping
If Not Christmas... by Mindscape [6k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset Shimmer is excited to spend Christmas with her friends, until Twilight tells her that she'll be leaving to visit her extended family this year. Thankfully, talking to a distant friend, Sunset realizes there is another celebration she can think of before Twilight leaves.
In the Small Moments by Pascoite [32k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Adagio Dazzle has a real penchant for showing up at the wrong time in places special to Sunset Shimmer. The school, the PostCrush concert, and now her favorite music cafe. Adagio doesn’t seem to be causing any trouble with her singing yet, but sirens only sing for one reason. When Adagio sets her plan into action, Sunset will be ready to stop her.
Long-Distance by Bicyclette [14k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Destabilized by Equestrian magic, Wallflower’s world is dying. For its sake, Sunset had to leave forever. All Wallflower can do is hold on to the last connection they still have: the journal Sunset left behind.
Audio Therapy by Bookish Delight [5k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Lemon Zest is under a dark cloud. Literally. Nothing's gone right for her friends today, and there's nothing she can do to help.
Or so she thinks. Just when she's at her lowest, Canterlot High's premier DJ shows up at Crystal Prep to lend a hand, an ear, and the perfect song.
Drama
A Christmas Shimmer by applezombi [5k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset Shimmer wasn't sure what instinct took her up on the roof of her apartment. She only knew that it was important that she follow it.
She didn't expect to drink a beer with a legend. Or even get a chance to fulfill a forgotten Christmas wish.
Don't Go Through. You Can't Stop Me. by daOtterGuy [1k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Celestia tries to stop Sunset from leaving.
Love Me Like You by Scampy [41k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Eight years have passed since Wallflower Blush was rescued from a life on the streets by Sunset Shimmer. Learning to cope with the traumas that put her there—along with navigating a new relationship—wasn't easy. The life Wallflower lives now isn't perfect, but she's proud of how far she's come. With a loving relationship, a fulfilling job, and good friends, Wallflower is content to enjoy the stability offered by clinging endlessly and desperately to the present.
Then, she finds something Sunset has been keeping secret from her, and everything changes.
Now Wallflower is determined to stop Sunset from making the biggest mistake of her life—asking Wallflower to marry her.
Scifi
Ruin by RB_ [4k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
The magical land of Equestria is no more. Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, and Starlight Glimmer just want to know why.
And if that means Sunset has to go back to Equestria, an Equestria she doesn't even recognize... then so be it.
Adventure
Freeport Venture: Blood and Iron by Chengar Qordath [39k words]
https://www.fimfiction.net/
Sunset Shimmer had grand ambitions upon becoming Freeport's only magus, most importantly helping out the citizens of Freeport itself. When she hears of an outlying farming community in danger from a horde of undead, she knows she has to help them. Even if they can't pay her fees, it's the right thing to do.
However, this new challenge might be too much for her to handle. These zombies are unlike anything she's ever seen, and an old enemy is mixed up in the middle of all of this. Sunset has no idea what dark secrets the undead horde hides, or the danger posed by the necromancer behind it.
