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Sunny x Hitch is the het ship between Sunny Starscout and Hitch Trailblazer from the My Little Pony fandom.

My Little Pony: A New Generation
In the movie itself, the are no information about how Hitch and Sunny met. However, there are numerous moments of their interactions that can be dubbed as shipping fuel. These paragraphs describing these moments are taken directly from the TV Tropes page Heartwarming / My Little Pony: A New Generation:

- During the scene that depicts their playdates with Sprout Cloverleaf at Sunny's light house, Hitch can be seen willing to play Sunny's way despite not agreeing with her simply because he sees that Sprout's method of play is upsetting to Sunny; he values Sunny's happiness too much to force his way on her, despite all evidence he has access to painting her as wrong.

- One cute friendship moment near the beginning of the movie is Hitch indulging Sunny in a Secret Hoofshake. It's obvious he's not as into it as Sunny, but even when warning her off of her annual law-breaking, he's willing to indulge her. The Secret Hoofshake going along with the following line: "'Up high! Down low! Hitch it to a post! Flip it Sunny-side up and on a piece of toast!'"The sweetest part is that, after the last line, Sunny brushes up against Hitch affectionately, then they both chuckle and smile at each other.

- Hitch never wavers in his friendship with Sunny. Even after warning her about his problem "associating" with her at the start, and all the trouble she puts him through during the events of the movie for apparently no gain, Hitch still comforts her in her Darkest Hour, telling her she did everything she could, and that she can come talk to him anytime. Reading between the lines, his whole quest to track down and "arrest" Sunny is actually him worrying for her well-being and wanting to bring her back home safe.

My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale
Fans tends to interpret it a shipping fuel whenever the two of them stand together, which happened through out the majority of the episodes in the series. However, the series have some notable moments between them, such as:



S1E19: Lost In Translation
The two can be seen helping eachother to understand and resolve the critter's conflict regarding their ownership of a schmugleberry bush. At the the moment 0:33 into the episode, Hitch pushes Sunny back and take out a fork in order to protect her from what he assumes as a danger, along with the line "Watch out Sunny, this bush could be dangerous! Never trust anything that start with schmugle!", which turns out to be a pegasnail and a racoonicorn fighting over a bunch of berries. After seeing the situation, Sunny can be seen offering help to Hitch with the line "Anything I can do?", to which Hitch declined as "Nope! All under control, Sunny!" But still, she still helping Hitch found the solution to help resolve the conflict as "finding what they have in common" and reminds him "There's magic in unity!".

S1E25: Pony Partay
On Sunny Starscout's birthday, the rest of the Mane 5 each has a different idea for her perfect birthday party, which each try their best to make her feel as happiest as possible. For Hitchhe wanted to throw a disco party for Sunny. The duo can be seen dancing in the scence just after Hitch took Sunny out from Pipp's makeover party. They even perform the adorable hoofshake.

S1E46: Sparky's Sick:
Sunny and Hitch making a special smoothie for Sparky together from the special recipe that Sunny comes up with, with hope that it can help Sparky recovers from the sickness. Just after Sparky's first gulp, the two hugged eachother in nervousness when the green dragon's showing sign of throwing off fire burping like the previous attempts. After his condition temporarily stabilized, the cheered "You did it!", potentially for eachother, and perform the hoof shake. However, Sparky immediately interupting their hoofshake just a few seconds later when he sneeze his magical dragon fire into a carriage passing by, turned it into a giant mushroom.

My Little Pony: Make Your Mark:
In the 3D series "My Little Pony: Make Your Mark", the two have several adorable moment together, coupled with two episodes with them getting close together.

C2E5: The Cutie Mark Mixup:
After the disastrous opening ceremony of the Community Garden, Hitch feels he may have ruined the grand opening with the speech he gave, but Sunny assures him it was a good opportunity for Earth ponies to practice their magic. Hitch makes the offhand comment that his job as sheriff is more demanding than Sunny's job making smoothies, Sunny takes offense, insisting she is under just as much pressure being a part-time Alicorn. As they argue over which of their jobs is harder, Sparky Sparkeroni's magic fire breath causes their cutie marks to get swapped. While Zipp goes to confirm her theory that Sparky's fire cause the switch up, Sunny and Hitch decide to switch jobs in the meantime - Sunny as sheriff, Hitch as smoothie seller - to determine whose job is truly more difficult. However, they have some trouble trying to fullfill the role of the other: Sunny try to assist her friends at the Brighthouse (As soon as the community garden is opened to the public, however, ponies excitedly stampede inside, scaring away the animals that have taken up residence there. Hitch asks Izzy Moonbow, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm for help in rounding up the worked-up animals) but the animals do not listen to her. It is determines that even though Sunny has Hitch's cutie mark and personality, she does not have his critter-whispering talent. Meanwhile, Hitch deals with demanding customers and finds that his usual method of strictly sticking to recipes does not work; Sunny frequently goes off-recipe, knows her customers' usual orders, and is known to get personable and ask them about their personal lives.

Sunny and Hitch later run into each other. Realizing each other's job is harder than they originally thought, they apologize for suggesting otherwise. They do the secret "up high, down low" hoofshake they have shared since childhood, and their cutie marks magically switch back. Hitch helps Izzy and Pipp round up the animals running around the Brighthouse, and Sunny appeases her customers at the smoothie stand.

C4E4: Sunny Side Up
After the opening of the the Canterlove Studio, due to the need to attract the townponies' attention to it after they ran away right after the opening ceremony was finished, Sunny suggested that making a TV show to be broadcast directly from Canterlove Studios, and Pipp Petals decides on a cooking show hosted by Sunny and Hitch Trailblazer called "Sunny Side Up". Sunny agrees to the idea, but Hitch is nervous about being on camera. Sunny try to comfort Hitch over the stage fright that he have during the airing of the show, albeit failed: Hicth's inability to overcome the stage fright and awarkness making a mess of the show stage, even knocking Sunny over. However, over the time, Hitch slowly gaining confidence and even start a food fight with Sunny.

In the scence before the rest of the Mane 5 decide to restart the show, Sunny pulls Hitch aside and apologizes for disregarding his nervousness and not encouraging him to do things his own way. Hitch confesses that, despite the day's chaos, he had a great time cooking and having food fights with Sunny and that doing so helped him overcome his stage fright. The two agree to compromise on a show format that celebrates both of their strengths. Then, the Sunny Side Up livestream continues, and Sunny and Hitch conduct the show in a manner that they are both comfortable with. Even though less viewers are watching than when they were goofing around earlier, it is a show that they are happy with and that their friends agree it should have been from the beginning. Sunny and Hitch announce to the viewers that this will be the only installment of Sunny Side Up, but they encourage the rest of Maretime Bay to come to Canterlove Studios and host their own shows.

Fanon
The ship started with the movie My Little Pony:A New Generation. Shipping activity for Sunny x Hitch continued through out the airing of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark and My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale. In the fandom, the ship can be called with multiple names, including: SunnyHitch, Sitch, Starblazer. This is entirely depend on the fans interpretation of the names. Several fan pages have made an official name for their tagging purpose. For example, derpibooru.org call the ship SunnyHitch, while some Instagram MLP Fans call them Hunny.

On AO3, Sunny x Hitch ship has 7 romantic and a couple platonic fanfics. It is fifth most written ship for Hitch and fourth most written for Sunny.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION


 * FAN ART
 * SunnyHitch on Derpibooru.org

Reference
Heartwarming / My Little Pony: A New Generation on TVTropes.

My Little Pony: Tell Your Tell on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Wiki.

Sunny Side Up on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Wiki.