Welcome to the Show

[Rares]

I finally got an idea for a new fic! I'm really excited to start this one because I think it's a great idea, so I'm mainly going to organize this thread to keep track of where I intend to go with it.

"Welcome to the Show" is a working title, and it's a story about the origin of the Dazzlings, from the perspective of Adagio. Since this is all being developed, I'll spoiler my info for anyone who genuinely wants to read it when I start putting stuff up. But you probably know how it's going to end anyway.

Spoiler

Adagio will be a unicorn jeweler, who is constantly doing things for Sonata, who sees her as a close friend despite Adagio really feeling mostly indifferent towards her. Sonata is an earth pony singer who, despite her talent, never really picks up in popularity, and in her mind, Adagio is her only friend. Sonata one day purchases a necklace made by Adagio from gemstones she couldn't quite identify. The truth is, the gems contained the trapped essence of the windegos, the creatures that fed off of pony conflict.

For the first time, Sonata's songs start to increase in popularity, and Adagio catches wind that it's something related to the gem. She fashions her own necklace, and subtly experiments, discovering that the conflict of ponies fuels her magic, but she can't figure out quite yet that through song is the way to harness it. Sonata meanwhile is completely oblivious to any magic going on and thinks she's genuinely becoming famous without any help, she considers the necklace good luck. Aria, a pegasus, starts to snoop, and by the time Adagio discovers music is the way to harness the power of conflict as opposed to just feeding off of it, Aria demands in on it, or she threatens to expose everything.

Begrudgingly, Adagio lets Aria hang out with her and Sonata, but Aria becomes a bit more headstrong about being "evil". Whereas Adagio attempts to keep subtle to avoid getting discovered, while still furthering selfish desires, Aria becomes a bit more obvious. Through this behavior, Aria reveals to Sonata that it was never her talent that caught the attention of others, merely the magic. This effectively breaks Sonata, but rather than saying "I don't want to be famous like that", she really just adopts a mentality of wanting to be liked no matter what, so she sides with Aria, and they both start causing far more obvious havoc together, which finally attracts the attention of Starswirl.

During this conflict, Adagio finally rejoins up with Aria and Sonata and actually manages to turn the tables on Starswirl. Starswirl was the one who originally imprisoned the windegos, but bonded with ponies, in the form of sirens, it proves too much for him to handle. He opts for a last ditch resort where he uses a powerful spell to trap them in the land of EQG.

I figured this would be a good thing to work on, considering how hard it is for me to work on something Rari-related, feeling as if I can't do her justice.

I do look forward to developing this.