#Why Celestia and Luna are needed

[proffydumb]

GUYSSSS LISTEN HEAR ME OUT. What if I said that I was working on an aftg fanfiction but its a my little pony au should I keep their names as Neil josten or like Twinkle Red or something help

[beastwhimsy]

a project I finally got around to finishing!! the mane 6, inspired by their earlier generation counterparts, within a medieval fantasy style setting. please don't repost without permission! you just need to ask.

some fun facts:

fluttershy is half unicorn here!! that's why she has the deer-like build and slightly long tail.

rarity is half horse

applejack is fully just a horse.

pinkie and rainbow are the only true ponies

their jobs (in the order shown in the lineup) are royal messenger, royal jester, royal menagerie keeper, royal tailor, royal orchard farmer and Queen Celestia's Most Specialest Student.

in this au, they all met due to working within the castle grounds.

in this au, celestia is queen, luna is still banished, and twilight is discouraged from making friends as it distracts her from her studies. she is celestia's heir and grew up in the castle.

they are all marekissers. lol. also rarity is transfem and rainbow is bigender.

[appleshy-king]

with few exceptions i don't ship any of the m6 with any of the princesses but I wanted to challenge myself and do exactly that; I combined a bodyguard au and an arranged marriage au and came up with this! - an au where bearing an element of harmony comes with a union to one of the princesses, and serves functionally as both a spouse and/or adviser, and a bodyguard.

been calling this either the harmony marriage au, or the elements of marriage lol

Rainbow immediately addresses the elephant in the room and all but volunteers to form a union with Luna; something she does partly to prove she isn't afraid of anyone or anything, but also because… look man she said she was sorry and she's gonna start her new rule with everyone against her - someone has to be there for her. Celestia especially approves of this union, as, even if these marriages are largely political, the element of Loyalty would make a true companion for a pony like Luna. Despite that, I think their start would be difficult, given all the ways the two are opposites… but ultimately flying by moonlight is just as nice as flying during the day, and the long stretches of peaceful nights give them plenty of time to get to know each other.

Cadance solves the unbalanced issue and forms a union with both Pinkie and Fluttershy. There's no limit to virtues that are compatible with Love, but Laughter and Kindness just have that little something extra that catches her attention, nevermind how stinkin cute they are. All three take to their new marriage well. It’s especially helpful that Pinkie and Fluttershy have a pre-established friendship that could easily remain platonic, or turn romantic or queer-platonic; there’s also the fact that Cadance herself was once a humble pegasus raised by earth ponies before being thrust into this royal life, which could be why they caught her eye in the first place. 

(Shining is still here, as someone needs to train these girls in the art of guarding, and their relationship is still active (although PinkieShy would not be considered his wives); bc if there’s one thing I’m going to do with the princess of love, it's show off some poly pride!)

Twilight would, at this point, ““have her choice”” between Generous Rarity or Honest Applejack; either would be fitting for her new title as the princess of Friendship, and both are good ponies who she could rely on. However, given just how much Twilight’s life is about to be upended with new, well, everything - ultimately Rarity turns out to be her best match. She’s generous with her patience and tact in a way AJ isn’t quite, and more importantly she understands the ins and outs of the high class, making her a real asset in Twilight’s transition to royalty. Nevermind that the two were maybe already a little smitten before their union even took place…

This leaves Applejack sort of “auto-paired” with Celestia. At first Applejack seems like a horrible choice for a princess who is practically a queen, given how very little she knows about this life, and the way the upper class look down on her, but it ends up that her more open/harsh honesty that would have maybe been too much for Twilight in her new role is actually perfect against Celestia. It takes Applejack a bit to learn how to hold her tongue in royal public but she learns to play the game in her own way, and her willingness to speak openly and bluntly with Celestia - in private - is so refreshing to Celestia, who hasn't had a pony tell her like it is in ages. That said, i think this learning curve takes quite some time to even itself out, and in the beginning they spend a lot of their marriage clashing with each other, though ultimately i see Applejack as a respectful enough horse that her southern charm does just that, charming the princess in a way she couldn’t expect.

The six are still all friends with each other, although given the sister pairs some of them see each other more often; Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy are a bit closer in that sense, while Applejack and Rainbow consider each other best friends. I’d be willing to say maybe something is going on between them, if i didn’t think that went against what the element of loyalty stands for, but there’s definitely rumors…

[beanjang-draws]

Plague Ponies - Duty-Bound

CONTENT WARNING: Blood (minor), violence, body horror

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Summary:

Shortly after recovering from the Plundervine attack, Celestia is readjusting her methods of protecting Equestria...

Having grown increasingly distrustful of herself and those around her, Celestia has taken to running things on her own again. She needs to remove any risk, even when it might take a familiar shape. In the midst of this process, things are breaking down at Canterlot Hospital and the guards stationed there have requested intervention--immediately.

Transcript below:

Title Page:

Plague Ponies Episode 6: "DutyBound"

Shortly after recovering from the plundervine attack, Celestia is readjusting her methods of protecting Equestria...

Content Warnings: blood and violence, body horror, disease mention

Comic Start

Celestia, thinking: What a quiet morning..

As she is lowering the moon and raising the sun for the day, Celestia is startled by the fiery arrival of a letter.

Celestia, thinking: Another letter...

Seeing Twilight's mark on the wax seal, Celestia's expression softens.

Celestia, thinking: Oh, it's from Twilight! Certainly a welcome change of pace...

Twilight's letter reads:

"Dear Princess Celestia,

I have begun preparing Ponyville for mass contagion as you have instructed. Construction of the experimental facilities are nearly complete, and I am gathering information on pre-existing infrastructure historically used in Ponyville in times of health crisis.

Granny Smith has shared with me an account of past protocols used during times of sickness. I intend to continue to work with the insight of everypony here.

We now have confirmation that a majority of Ponyville harbored an early version of the sickness. Although we assume that the wave of magic from The Tree of Harmony cleansed most of the residents...the small amount of remaining infections remain yet unaccounted for.

Participants to undergo observation have been selected, and testing is expected to run smoothly. Will an official statement be made soon? I believe patients may cooperate more readily when presented with more information.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle"

Celestia lets out a sigh as she finishes reading Twilight's letter. She sends out a pre-written response letter and heads to the throne room. Upon entering, she uses alicorn magic on the throne to reveal a spiral staircase descending far below the castle.

Celestia's reply to Twilight reads: "Dear Twilight Sparkle,

For now, continue as you have done and keep the peace. In the wake of the recent Changeling invasion and the return of The Crystal Empire, keeping the peace is our priority.

I leave the continued care of The Elements of Harmony and The Tree of Harmony to you. I wish your princesshood had started during more peaceful times, but I know you and your friends are well-equipped to handle them.

Yours,

Celestia"

Celestia, thinking: Twilight, at least, can be trusted. What dark times these are, that nopony can be trusted--not even those dearest to us...

Celestia hesitates before entering a lit room at the end of the underground passageway.

Celestia Hello "Luna".

Luna stares up at Celestia from low on the ground. Her front legs and wings are restrained by chains. Black anti-magic crystals grow from her primary horn.

Luna: Sister, you must release me! Think of our subjects!

Celestia: Luna would understand that is precisely why I do this.

Luna: Sister, you are unwell...you cannot continue this way on your own--

Celestia: Silence.

Celestia uses her magic to raise Luna up. It seems to cost her a lot of effort as beads of sweat roll off of her body. She does not notice the dark curls of magic slinking by Luna's legs.

Celestia: I have been the sole guardian of Equestria for a thousand moons. I will not compromise the safety of my ponies. Not even for this. Changeling.

Luna hangs limply in the air, held up by the restraints on her wings.

Luna: It is you who are compromised. Your judgement grows hasty.

Celestia: Enough--

Luna: The gazes of your subjects you so thrived beneath...have become a burden to your addled mind.

Celestia: How dare you...

Before either of the sisters can say more, a letter arrives in a burst of flame.

Celestia: A letter from The Royal Guard...

Sunburst and Moondancer are in a storage closet. There is banging coming from the other side of the door.

Sunburst: I'm sure help is coming soon...we've just got to sit tight and stay calm!

Moondancer: You've said that for the past hour and a half now at least.

A particularly loud "CRACK" startles both ponies.

Moondancer: Can't I get one second to think?

Moondancer leaps to her feet and braces her hooves against the door, lighting her horn. Sunburst watches in both fascination and alarm. There's a flash of light, and a pink bubble now covers the door, blocking out all the noise.

Sunburst, thinking: To think, she'd cast a sustained spell just for some peace and quiet...

Moondancer: I know it's a little excessive...but I really needed a break from the noise. I'm normally on the analytics team so I'm used to...quieter environments.

Sunburst: I don't think any of us are used to hiding in a storage closet during a biohazard breach...but your barrier is definitely helping.

Sunburst: It's funny, we've been in the same project this whole time and I had no idea you were such a skilled spell caster! Silencing spells are so complicated, and this one is so stable--

Moondancer: It's not that hard once you've done it a few times. But um, thanks.

Moondancer awkwardly adjusts her glasses to brush off the praise. Sunburst doesn't really know what to say.

Sunburst: Ah, anyways, Moon Dancer, right? How are you at layering spells?

Moondancer: I've been doing it since I was a filly, why?

Sunburst: How familiar are you with magnetism spells?

Celestia and two Royal Guards are flying to the hospital. The guards are Flash Sentry and Cirrus Cloud.

Celestia: Report!

Flash Sentry: The quarantine zone was overrun at around sunrise. We were forced to lock down the laboratory.

Celestia: "Overrun"?

Flash Sentry: The patients have become...aggressive. All but two of the researchers have been evacuated.

Celestia: Contact with patients must be a last resort. Retrieving the researchers is priority.

They arrive at the hospital and find flashes of light coming from the windows.

Cirrus Cloud: That light...! It must be the researchers. None of the patients are able to use magic in their current state.

Celestia: I will lead. Avoid coming to blows if you can. I would like there to be little harm inflicted here today.

Both guards: Yes, your Majesty!

Celestia looks grim. She is still sweating quite a bit, clearly not at her best.

Celestia, thinking: I should never have entrusted this project to external facilities...I'm sorry for endangering you, my little ponies.

Celestia: Prepare to--what...

Celestia looks up in bewilderment to see the two missing researchers floating in pink bubbles. Sunburst is putting a haggard looking Fancy Pants to sleep.

Moondancer, whispering: Princess!

Sunburst, whispering: Please, ah, watch your step!

Moondancer: We've been putting patients into a magical sleep as we find them.

Celestia: And the two of you are alright?

Moondancer: It's been a strange day in the lab for sure...luckily Sunburst here had the idea to combine bubbles of silence and a gravity reversal spell so we didn't have to stay trapped in a storage closet. Who knows how long it would have taken for us to be discovered!

Sunburst: It wouldn't have been much of a plan if there weren't a spell caster capable of pulling it off!

Moondance: Oh please, this isn't much--Woah!

Moondancer and Sunburst are surprised as something zooms by.

Flash Sentry: Princess, watch out!

Lyra Heartstrings slams into a wall close to everyone. Flash Sentry moves instinctively to shield Celestia. Before anyone else can react, he has a spear pointed at Lyra.

Flash Sentry: Halt! You are charged with unruly flying in the presence of the princess. Put away your wings and come with us quietly...

Lyra Heartstrings: Run!

Flash Sentry looks over his shoulder to see an unrecognizable Fleur De Lis contorting herself through the halls Lyra had just flown from.

Lyra Heartstrings, quietly: Stay silent...she can't see us.

End transcript.

[mirtash]

a lil bit of lore: Princess Luna had to banish her sister on the Sun for 1000 years  Luna doesn't have enough power to hold the sun on the sky for long enough because Celestia being in her nightmare form (it's not a Day Breaker but I don't have a name for her yet eeeee like Supernova or smth???) weakens Luna's connection with the sun (and also Luna holds less magic power than Celestia in general) what's more Nightmare Celestia cursed Luna's ponies to be "the creatures of the darkness where you belong", turning them into Bat Ponies. most of the ponies in Equestria are bat ponies. Pegasy Unicorns and Earth ponies only comes from ancient pure blood families like Apples, Pies, Glimmers, etc some as Rainbow and Rarity mostly look as regular pegasys and unicorn but they can hold trates of the bat ponies (fangs, ears, sometimes wings) Bat ponies and the hybrids don't feel good enough during daytime (their eyes works so much better in the dark, they flies faster during night time and prefer lower temperature) and that's another reason why Princess Luna has to hold moon at the sky longer than sun Apple Jack

- She puts flowers in her mane in the memory of her mother. In this AU Pear Butter is a very cool genetic. She died when Apple Bloom turns 5 and Apple Jack (who just turned 15) left absolutely heart broken. However this tragedy made Apple siblings much stronger and they've become closer than ever. That's when Apple Jack finally gets her cutie mark, representing her bond with apple family (three apples represent Apple Bloom, Apple Jack and Big Mac) - Apple Jack is one of the ponies who doesn't really enjoy Luna's reign mostly because she is a farmer and it's hard for her to take care of the various apple trees during longer night time. - The Apple family is VERY conservative they are one of the very few families in Equestria who still grows original sorts apples (and other crops), including a super rare Zap Apples and that need extra care due the lack of sunlight. - one of the Apple family ancestors happened to be the leader of the earth ponies rebellion that happened in the first years of Luna's reign. Luna's spirit was broken after she had to banish her sister and things didn't go very well in her kingdom. Hundred of angered ponies led by the "iron mare" Red Delicious broke into the Castle of the two Sisters. The guards didn't even try to stop them.  When ponies entered the throne room they saw The Princess of darkness, crying over her sister's broken throne. The room was filled with blooming Sunflowers, favorite flowers of Celestia. Then Luna turned to them and she spoke to them as a princess and they saw the power she holds and they realized she can destroy them all with a single spell. But she didn't. Red Delicious who was determined to fight "the princess of darkness" till the end finally saw the real Luna and she wasn't scared or angry anymore but started to feel the compassion for her. - Red Delicious herself helped Luna to make a plan on defeating hunger. Ponies were starving due the lack of crops and Red Delicious worked hard alongside with Luna to invent plants that would be able to grow effectively in the dark on the shortest time. Ponyville became the first night farmers city (very close to the Castle of the two sisters). 

Rainbow Dash - Her full name is Rainbow Stormcloud Dash. - Her mother and father are both pegasy and her grand grand father is a hybrid bat pony (she likes him sooo much he is super cool) However, she doesn't have any trates of bat pony except of the ability to see in the dark and flying at night. - Rainbow mane in different varieties is a very rare gene that only exists in her blood line a very long time ago one of her ancestors tried to save his friend from a dragon and flied so fast he broke the laws of physics and a Sonic Rainboom happened.  After that his mane turned rainbow colored. Pegasus with a rainbow mane was born once in a generation since then but a very few of them were able to perform a Sonic Rainboom. - Rainbow Dash is the first pegasus in Equestria history who was able to perform the Nocturnal Rainboom. - Her dream is to become a Shadow Bolt. They are the best flyers in Equestria!!! And most of them are bat ponies because it's hard for a pegasus to perform bat's tricks. Not for Rainbow though! 

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Sleepwalker Infection

Twilight knows something, but what?

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Twilight Sparkle 1-31-20xx

Log #1

I can’t believe this is happening. Luna said she took care of it. I was so vigilant, but I never thought it’d appear this way. Stupid! Stupid! Why did it spread to Rarity though? She said Luna visited her in her dreams, but is that really enough for it to spread from Luna? Luna should have never gone to handle it herself. But if she hadn’t… things could have been much worse for us all by this point.. I worry for Celestia. Luna is in such a bad state.. Please please tell me it’s just these two.. please tell me we did end up avoiding disaster. I need to find a way to cure them.

Hearing Rarity’s screams and pleas stabs me deeper and deeper in my heart every time I have to cast that spell on her. Please don’t let me lose her.

I can’t look my friends in the eyes.. I wish they could understand. but I’m sworn to secrecy…

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[sharkdoughnutz]

it might've taken me over 3 months, but i've finally finished my own designs for the mane 6

my main thought process for designing them was to use a color from the rainbow! i had to look up colors and their meanings to determine which color should go to which pony

rainbow dash is red because she's the most fierce and bold. sidenote: her mane and tail color is actually white but she finds that boring so she dyes it, not her tail because i didnt like how it looked there

fluttershy is green because of nature and animals, pretty basic i know lol. also her pelt pattern is supposed to look like a deer's

applejack is blue only because i felt orange would fit rarity better, and yellow and purple were going to the other two remaining girls, so apple got stuck with blue but i tried my best to make it work for her. i think blue also means like maturity or smth similar so it works out anyways

pinkie pie is yellow because she's like the embodiment of happiness and joy so it made sense (also i had to use the pink color cuz there is no yellow color for the font)

twilight is staying purple mainly because of her previous life surrounded by royalty and the such, and also because purple is a main color in a twilight sky - orange is secondary so thats why she now has orange too

and finally, rarity is orange because of her creativeness, especially when it comes to fashion design; i think her design is my personal favorite.

i also tried to come up with creative cutie mark designs and i think i passed. though, the only one that isnt super obvious what its trying to represent is probably twilight's. basically i was going for a six pointed star (each point representing each girl) then it comes together in the middle by the white part to symbolize they all need each other or smth like that

i might get around to celestia and luna because i feel like they'll be fun to redesign, and maybe even spike or the cmc

[dapper-lil-arts]

Do you have any unpopular opinions about mlp fim? For instance, "Newbie Dash" is probably my favorite Rainbow Dash episode since I think it's the only episode that actually had her suffer some consequences due to her own hubris.

Oh, I have a few. For one I think Fluttercord as a concept is misogynistic as hell and a huge disservice to Fluttershy's character if not downright fuckin creepy. I used to be neutral on the ship but it's only gotten worse and worse with time. Another is just. I don't think Starlight Glimmer shoulda gotten all that screentime. I like a lot of the eps shes in, especially with Trixie, but I really didn't need her to be permeating through so much, feels like a strange self insert

One more for the road: I think the finale is kind of awful on a thematic and lore level. Like, emotionally wise, they reach all the high notes they could have ever wanted off the show, thats for sure, but like;

1 - I'm ideologically opposed to the idea that Cozy Glow is an irredeemable monster that belongs turned to stone or in tartarus. she's a fucking child and the writers think she's irredeemable. 2 - Generally Chrysalis Cozy and Tyrek are all a weird choice for ultimate trio for final bosses. Any of them have been their own world ending threats, I woulda preffered something new. Hell, I still think the mean 6 or at least anti Twilight coulda been a more interesting finale.

3 - If racism is THAT easy to bring back, then clearly theres an enormous systemic problem with all of the goddamn society, and oh, look at that, bc of g5, canonically we know that Equestria falls, and bc of the comics we know it falls on the lifetimes of the main 6. It's almost genious foreshadowing, how much Twilight's kingdom was built ona house of cards tbh.

4 - Celestia and Luna lose to Cozy Glow. Cozy Glow, a child alicorn, 1 v 2s them. That's unforgivable, insane, really fucking stupid.

5 - If the solution is friendship power, just like it has always fucking been, then why wasn't it the first choice to deal with the fucking problem, at this point the 38 minutes that build up to 'oh shit my friends are my power' feels completely superfluous man. Its lazy

6 - The final problem has that vibe of JKRs 'all was well' thing that glosses over some major damn problems, and well, considering the canon, even when i watched the first time I couldn't help but think I was watching a bunch of naive ass ponies trying to enjoy their final years together before Equestria fell to the damn brink. It's more bitter than sweet. Twilight Sparkle will watch all her friends die of old age hooray...!

[ywraa]

I tried redesign the timeskip design for twilight :0

Left is my ver while right is my attempt to make it show accurate

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Some change I did:

- I decide to give twi cadence’s body type since the timeskip is like 20 years or something I don’t remember and not like hundreds years so it won’t make sense that she would become as tall as celestia

- I decided to give her normal mane instead of wavy one, idk how magic hair work in mlp but I feel like it would take a long time for her hair to go wavy like Tia and Luna (I think it also need a lot of magic)

- Her hair is inspired by her crystal design and I add some tiny star as well cause why not

- Since her crown is a fusion of celestia and luna’s crown, I try to add some ref of the sister to the crown like the moon and the sun

- Instead of gold accessory, it’s silver and blue cause I think it suit her more

[my-little-pony-theories]

MLP:FIM Theory: Green Element of Harmony

A theory created by DRWolf001, suggesting that there is a hidden 7th Element of Harmony that is Scorpan/Spike's.

Watch his videos before reading this.

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Scorpan's Past

Canon: Tirek and his younger brother Scorpan first traveled to Equestria in the hopes of conquering it. Scorpan fell in love with the ponies and they're way of life, and became friends with Star Swirl swirl the Bearded.

Speculation: Scorpan finds Spike's dragon egg by itself just on the outskirts of the pony nation, and he decides to keep it.

Reasoning: Scorpan finding Spike and bringing him to the ponies is a reference to their G1 counterparts, where a similar thing took place.

Canon: In Princess Celestia's narration, she says Scorpan went back to his homeland after Tirek's imprisonment.

Speculation: Instead of him immediately leaving after Tirek's imprisonment, in actuality he stayed in Equestria for some years.

After Stygian brought the Pillars together to defeat the Sirens, Scorpan became friends with them too.

Canon: When Stygian turned into the Pony of Shadows, the Pillars create the seed that would grow into the Tree of Harmony by fusing their magic into it.

Speculation: Scorpan was the one who inspired Star Swirl the Bearded to create the Seed. During the spell, Scorpan was in the room with the Pillars, so his magic unintentionally was added to the spell.

After the Pillars sacrifice themselves to defeat the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan decides to go back home.

Where did his element go?

Speculation: Before Celestia and Luna used the Elements to defeat Discord, Scorpan had returned to Equestria to see if the Tree had grown. He finds the Elements and removes the branch containing his Element. The branch he took is turned into the Staff of Sacanas after he removed the gem within it.

Reasoning: This is based on an unused concept for the movie, which would've shown that Scorpan was the original owner of the Staff of Sacanas before the Storm King stole it from him, and that the Staff was made from a branch of the Tree of Harmony.

Because his Element wasn't originally a part of the spell, the other 6 Elements work completely fine without it. However, with the combined power of all 7 Elements, they can do much more.

Scorpan and Spike

The Mane Six each share elements with the Pillars of Equestria. Spike and Scorpan are not only connected by the past, but share similarities with each other as well:

Scorpan was Star Swirl's first and closest friend, and Spike is Twilight's first and closest (non-blood related) friend.

Scorpan is the only non-pony member of his group of friends, and Spike is the same.

Scorpan is friendly to ponies, appreciates their way of life, and enjoys living with them, just like Spike.

Castle of Friendship

The Castle of Friendship was formed from the Chest of Harmony, which served as the seed that planted it. The Chest itself was a sprout from the Tree of Harmony.

When the Castle formed, it created a 7th chair for Spike, which it technically didn't need to do if he wasn't connected to the Tree of Harmony in the same way the Mane 6 ponies were. Spike's chair is closer to Twilight's.

Although, it's possible that since the Tree is somewhat self aware, it knew Spike was Twilight's assistant/best friend, and lived in the Castle as well, so that's why it created a 7th chair for him, closer to Twilight's.

Unknown Green Element of Harmony

Throughout the franchise, when images of the Elements of Harmony are shown both within the show or other material, sometimes a green element is shown, usually in the place of a different Element:

It could simply be an error.

However, there are some cases where the green element is shown with the other 6 Elements:

Each Element's color represents a part of the character's design that shares the same color:

Magenta: Twilight's cutie mark color

Orange: Applejack's coat color

Red: Part of Rainbow's mane and cutie mark color

Purple: Rarity's mane color

Pink: Fluttershy's mane and cutie mark color

Blue: Pinkie's eye and cutie mark color

Green: Spike's eye and spine color

Element Chart

Star Swirl the Bearded = Sorcery | Twilight Sparkle = Magic

Rockhoof = Strength | Applejack = Honesty

Flash Magnus = Bravery | Rainbow Dash = Loyalty

Mistmane = Beauty | Rarity = Generosity

Mage Meadowbrooke = Healing | Fluttershy = Kindness

Somnambula = Hope | Pinkie Pie = Laughter

Scorpan = Respect | Spike = Acceptance

BTW, Sunset Shimmer's Element is Empathy!

? = ? | Sunset Shimmer = Empathy

Stygian is meant to be Starlight Glimmer's parallel, so those two aren't Elements.

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There is a lot of glaring evidence here to suggest that this theory could be true. So much so, it makes me wonder if it's actually what they were foreshadowing and building up to... until Hasbro had them do the School of Friendship storyline instead.

The storyline for Season 8 would've been completely different, it instead being a continuation of setting up the Pillars in Season 7.

[musenilla]

'You were never king.' Felt like drawing some king sombra, ramble on his story belowww,, ___

Once an ambitious and cunning soon-to-be future leader of the crystal empire, turned into one of the most corrupted unicorns in all of Equestria. Sombra was never actually royalty, and the Crystal Empire's beginnings lacked a true hierarchy. However, due to his exceptional talent and mastery of magical arts, the residents noticed his power and decided to consider him as the next in line for the throne, 'King of the Crystal Empire,' under strict monitoring. This continued until he discovered that Princess Mi Amore Cadenza was given the title to rule the entire Crystal Empire once her training was completed. Sombra questioned why she was chosen over him; was it simply because she was an alicorn? Surely, that couldn't be the only reason, although it was what Sombra thought at the time. During his training, Celestia and Sombra were once students together, delving into forbidden magic as it was deemed necessary for future leaders. They supported each other, reminding themselves of the importance of maintaining balance since such magic was forbidden for a reason. It then became evident that Sombra delved further into this magic in secret, a path one should never tread alone. Upon discovering that he used dark magic to manipulate decisions, they stripped him of his royal title and banished him from the Crystal Empire. Nevertheless, the years of training were not in vain, as he turned rogue against the empire after that. In a fateful confrontation, Sombra learned that it was Celestia who had taken Princess Cadence under her wing, making her as a potential future ruler of the Crystal Empire, thanks to Luna. The revelation further fueled Sombra's bitterness and resentment. Celestia attempted to reason with him, seeking to make amends, but his exposure to dark magic had irreparably corrupted him.

Believing that he had been next in line for the throne and feeling betrayed by the influence of an alicorn, Sombra reached his breaking point. His ambitions and sense of entitlement ultimately led him down a path of darkness from which there seemed to be no return.

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Yeah don't know if this would be 100% headcanon but I just needed to get some story out, enjoy!!

[mylittleponyauprompts]

An AU where there’s a common myth that twins have a great chance of ascending into alicorns. This myth was created when Celestia and Luna ascended into the alicorns of day and night, being non identical twins.

What happens when twins are born in the modern era, and so far only one of them has ascended into an Alicorn? Many ponies have been looking at Shining Armor with very expectant eyes ever since Twilight ascended. He’s been feeling a lot of pressure from those around him.

Optional addition: Twilight sparkle is the Alicorn of harmony. That would make her brother of disharmony right? But Discord already holds this title. But for how long? As a being of pure chaos being hit by the elements of harmony full blast twice must have been pretty hard on him. What if his time on this planet has been drastically reduced because of this? What if he’s been hiding something from his friends. Slowly, steadily, and painfully turning back into stone. He needs someone who can inherit his powers. Why not make fun of these ponies little myths and legends about Alicorns, wouldn’t that be fun?

[theslackercorner55]

“ Twilight is autistic!”

“ No No pinkie pie and Maud”

How about fucking Princess Luna, one of the most fucked characters alone just by the fact that all of her shit wasn’t just caused by emotional instability. But instability caused by the people around her especially her own sister!! And even when she’s in the show like in the vacation episode, she interests and happiness is ignored because Celestia wants to do what she personally wants

Sure it’s a lesson about finding a middle ground, but one after not seeing your sister for so long why would you be so picky? because she canonically ever since they where younger has been treating her sister like shit like everyone did around her causing her to be overwhelmed/overstimulated and crash out how she did

If any pony fits autism, its fucking princess needs compensation for her mistreatment Luna!!!!!

Let her do her dance and talk about the postal transit system in peace

[cheemscakecat]

MLP Redesigns/Rewrite Pt 1: Twilight Sparkle [And a Starlight Glimmer Rant]

When Celestia made Twilight an Alicorn, it didn’t make her immortal or taller. Other than a small magic boost and a pair of regular Pegasus wings to get used to, Twilight stayed the same.

That was until she and her friends answered the call to investigate Starlight Glimmer’s cult. Instead of having an ugly magic table map to tell them where to go, the elements themselves created a star that led the group to the secluded wasteland cult.

Twilight had always been very studious, even to the point of self isolating from classmates. After all, she had Spike, and could write to her brother, her old babysitter Cadance, her parents, and her mentor the Princess. Why did she need more friends? Even someone semi-likeminded and ambiverted like Moondancer was not given the time of day.

When Twilight got her Alicorn wings, it took her a very long time to learn to use them. Physical activity was never her strongest subject in school, she only took the class because it was required. However, she now had help from Rainbow Dash and the whole Apple family in training up her new wings. The Apples helped her increase her physical endurance, she learned to run farther and kick harder.

At the same time, Rainbow dash and her Wondercolt teammates taught Twilight how to exercise her new wings. It was very important for her to build their strength before even trying to hover: untested wings could not carry the weight of a Pegasus foal, much less a grown adult who was not born with wings.

Twilight began to travel back to Canterlot more often, both to study and to reconcile with old classmates. After she earned Moondancer’s forgiveness, she set her sights on Princess training. This time of course, without neglecting friends. Twilight realized that Luna and Celestia were not being honest with each other about their true feelings, and she and a visiting Fluttershy managed to get them to open up.

Discord warned Twilight that if she ever obtained immortality, she’d better pray for the mercy of having at least one immortal friend out of her main group. Twilight however, managed to come to terms with it after realizing her friends would not become immortal unless blessed with Alicorn status while wielding the elements. Even if the rest of her friends didn’t live forever, she’d still have Celestia, Luna, and him for company. And hopefully she’d be on good terms with future immortals who wielded the elements after her friends passed.

Twilight’s future job would be to teach morality, friendship, and respectfulness to pony kind, and to protect against invading kingdoms that may take advantage of a pure-hearted Equestria. If she didn’t obtain immortality, her writings would still be preserved and her ordinances and laws kept in effect unless something warranted an edit.

But referring back to the cult incident:

Starlight had been keeping tabs on the new developments in the world, without her cult victims knowledge. After all; she would have to make sure nobody could foil her plans for taking over Equestria and reshaping it to match her vision. Unlike the canon show, Starlight was not overpowered enough to steal the princesses cutie marks. [Seriously, why was she able to do that, and why was she able to get off Scott free?]

Anyways, Starlight had studied the history of the Elements of Harmony, and realized that they were capable of bestowing new powers and altering a user’s appearance. When powered up through frequent use, the elements would eventually gift their users a very valuable power up.

Discord wielded the Elements in the age of Draqonequus, and they both made him immortal and warped his appearance. His being able to keep his powers despite turning against the will of the Elements proved that they were unable to take back power once given out.

Princess Celestia and Luna were granted Alicorn status by Starswirl the bearded, but were at the power level of Twilight or Cadance until the Elements of Harmony gave them the trademark power boost. It turned their hair into some strange, ever-moving substance, gave them power to assist the movements of the sun and moon, and granted them immortality.

The problem was that the elements would not work for just anypony; Cadance had been expected to be the next user, but the gems did not respond to her attempts to recover them. Starlight couldn’t just summon them or steal them to obtain their power.

But if the Mane 6 were allowed to get their supercharged magic and new forms, she’d miss her chance. She wanted all 6 power boosts to overpower the two ascended princesses and take the kingdom for herself. So she came up with a very devious idea.

If she stole their cutie marks and managed to put them on herself all at once, she would theoretically be able to dupe the Elements into thinking she was their chosen users, and steal all that magic for herself. She just needed to lure the Mane 6 in and take the marks before they tried to fight her.

Starlight Glimmer began abusing her cult followers more and more, knowing that enough injustice would draw the Mane 6 to her hellhole “village” to fix whatever was going on. And at first it seemed to work.

Fluttershy became very ill, but that wasn’t such a big deal in Starlight’s mind. It was a good bargaining chip for getting the Mane 6 to grovel for help, and she could always just keep them locked in the solitary confinement bunker until the illness passed.

But then Fluttershy’s symptoms became more concerning, and word of it spread to the streets of the cult. She was suffering random and violent mood swings that led to her snarling, lashing out at the others, endless pacing, and charging into walls and random objects. The other Mane 6 members began to get early symptoms too, leading to fears that the village would be overtaken by this disease.

Starlight saw this as a wonderful opportunity! She could use it to gaslight her followers into seeing the outside kingdom as a terribly compromised, disease ridden hovel that they should seek to “fix”. After all, if their greatest warriors/envoys were so susceptible, what did that mean for the poor, unwashed masses of Equestria? The princesses were not able to help them, but they in their town had the medicine and the work ethic to save the world.

Starlights heinous plan backfired when the Elements sensed their users in danger and the great injustice taking place at her hooves. They appeared in front of the cutie mark-less Mane 6, healed their illness, and violently took their cutie marks back from their containment, alongside all the villager’s cutie marks.

Then every single Mane 6 member got their power up, and as Starlight had feared, Twilight got the most power of them all. Immortality and the power to influence the stars.

It had all gone wrong! She was supposed to win, she was supposed to prevent this! But that was a mistake she did not intend to repeat. The hunt to arrest her would soon reach a fever pitch, especially as the Mane 6 figured out how to work their new powers and her victims revealed details about the cult. The traitors. How could they do this to her, after all she had done for them?!

Starlight’s only hope was to reverse time and prevent these 6 ponies from ever getting their cutie marks and from ever meeting. She was not strong enough to take them as they were now, not even with the finest dark magic the criminal underworld had to offer.

She didn’t care who got hurt in the process of rewriting the timestream. After all, an Equestria pockmarked and weakened by multiple successful villain attacks was ripe for the taking. How would the ponies not get disillusioned with the Princesses for their failure to protect everyone? If not by storming the castle, she’d take control by campaigning for a government role and filling the cities with her empty promises.

So yeah, I didn’t like how Starlight was just… allowed to walk free after everything she did. She manipulated and abused an entire village and kept them in strict seclusion for years. Over a guy. Who didn’t even do anything heinous to her, he just left to study [as a child] and they fell out of contact.

Then she stalked the Mane 6 for months, so she could learn their weaknesses. She went back in time to prevent Equestria’s current defenders from getting together, with no regard towards the threat of villains they had defeated. Or the fact that she was erasing decades of pony lives over the 6 people she had a vendetta against. Think about how many lives she would have rewritten, even without the villains as a factor.

Starlight had to have heard about Discord, Tirek, Nightmare Moon, and Crysalis after studying the Mane 6 and wandering the cities of Equestria; she had to have known she was risking it all.

No Starlight, you losing a childhood friendship does not give you a pass for being a manipulative, isolating cult leader, trapping the Mane 6 in your cult with the intent of keeping them there indefinitely, and especially rewriting the timeline over getting defeated for it!

And the kicker is that Twilight knows this, she knows she hurt Moondancer, and she never became an abusive villain over it. She also knows Sunset Shimmer wanted power, but even she wasn’t this bad. She was manipulative, but the mind control gloves didn’t come on until she was corrupted with Twilight’s crown. She also didn’t confine people against their will in a random desert.

Starlight should have been placed in Tartarus with the likeminded Tirek. If they ever got back out and teamed up, it would either be the Mane 6 and Discord, or Twilight and Discord who defeated them. But that’s a story for another day.

Instead of Starlight raiding the changeling hive with Discord, Trixie and Thorax, a mix of old allies who didn’t live in Ponyville came.

Coco Pommel realized Rarity had missed an important deadline yet was radio silent about it.

RaRa noticed Applejack hadn’t written to her in a while, and they hadn’t had another falling out.

Maude sensed something was wrong.

Spike failed to visit Ember, something he would never do, not without sending a letter via dragon fire.

Gilda happened to be in town wanting to visit Rainbow Dash, but she was acting very… unloyal. Like they didn’t ever meet, and that wasn’t the kind of prank Rainbow would pull.

Moondancer was sent by the princesses after Twilight put off a visit to Canterlot that she wouldn't have wanted to miss.

Might make a future post about that event, but that’s all for now. More redesigns coming soon.

[hugsandchaos]

You know, I’ve been thinking… What if Danny wasn’t a human halfa when meeting Luna, but a halfa pony?

I think it’d be interesting if Luna just went for a walk late at night because she was feeling upset, but instead finds a very distressed foal stumbling around and trying to find his bearings.

He absolutely freaks out when she approaches because he doesn’t know who she is or what’s going on, and in his fit on panic, transforms and reveals that he “shouldn’t be in a pony form”, hinting that he’s a different creature who was transformed into a pony.

Luna manages to calm him down and comforts him, and after, she starts helping him learn to get used to his new pony body. She’s still confused and baffled by this much information in so little time, but this… child really needs help.

And that’s why when Celestia went to see Luna in the morning, she was talking to a young alicorn about how to start his lessons in magic and flying!

Also, I think it’d be cool if after an unspecified amount of time, Danny is painted as the alicorn of the stars or space since he loves it so much.

Celestia = The Sun

Luna = The Moon

Danny = The Stars/Comets/Planets (which one???)

[astramyr]

my friend thought of something HILARIOUS for my mlp rewrite and i need to share

what if celestia and luna's parents were just regular ass ponies. and then they had a god baby (celestia) and they were like "oh shit that's crazy" and then they had ANOTHER god baby (luna). no idea why or how this would happen. but what if it Did.