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I wanted to practice with light and shadows, so I made this. And while I'm at it I might as well share my opinion on something fans have been discussing for a while now: Sunset's element.

The Elements of Harmony have been out of the picture for a while now, but it's still nice to speculate what Sunset's element would've been. A lot of people seem to go with "Empathy", which I totally get. It suits her personality and the role she has been playing and it matches her mind-reading powers. But I think we can go one step further. Sunset doesn't only understand the feelings and problems of others, she also guides them to a solution.
If we think back to everything she's done after the first movie: she was the one who got the Rainbooms to stop fighting and unite against the Dazzlings, she brought Twilight back from the dark, she helped the Rainbooms understand and use their new superpowers and she's guided pretty much every "villain" they reformed to a better life.

So a fitting element would be "Guidance". Which doesn't only suit her, but also matches her demon/phoenix/fire-thing she's got going on.
"Guiding light in the dark" and all that.
Symbolism.

However, the creators of the show have made some pretty good arguments for her element being "empathy", and I like that one as well, so let's go with the "official" version.

Description
I wanted to practice with light and shadows, so I made this. And while I'm at it I might as well share my opinion on something fans have been discussing for a while now: Sunset's element.

The Elements of Harmony have been out of the picture for a while now, but it's still nice to speculate what Sunset's element would've been. A lot of people seem to go with "Empathy", which I totally get. It suits her personality and the role she has been playing and it matches her mind-reading powers. But I think we can go one step further. Sunset doesn't only understand the feelings and problems of others, she also guides them to a solution.
If we think back to everything she's done after the first movie: she was the one who got the Rainbooms to stop fighting and unite against the Dazzlings, she brought Twilight back from the dark, she helped the Rainbooms understand and use their new superpowers and she's guided pretty much every "villain" they reformed to a better life.

So a fitting element would be "Guidance". Which doesn't only suit her, but also matches her demon/phoenix/fire-thing she's got going on.
"Guiding light in the dark" and all that.
Symbolism.

However, the creators of the show have made some pretty good arguments for her element being "empathy", and I like that one as well, so let's go with the "official" version.