I Can't Survive Alone
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“How is she?”
Luna was staving off collapsing from her own wounds as she slowly rekindled her magic, having regained it and exhausted it all with little time spent in-between. After waiting for the doctor’s to finish surgery on Trixie, Luna had approached her now resting apprentice to see just how she fared.
Little of Trixie’s body was visible underneath the various bandages and medical instruments holding her together, the sight of which caused Luna to cringe.
The doctor she had addressed when entering the room, specifically set aside for Trixie, responded with a heavy voice, “Comatose, but stable. Some of her wounds were infected and we are treating them the best we can.”
Luna nodded while reaching into her partially replenished magic pool. Now it was her turn to help Trixie and repay the loyalty she had given.
“Now that I am rested I can lend what little power I have…”
The healing magic Luna had was for physical wounds and trauma, and as such Trixie’s condition improved drastically as the magic washed over her body. Despite this improvement, she did not stir in the slightest even as the medical readings improved of the machines Luna had little knowledge of.
Luna looked down to Trixie guiltily as she approached her bedside. All of this because of a bad bag toss…
“There…I cannot make her wake with just healing magic, but she should be better off now.”
Before she even realized it Luna was reaching a hoof out to touch Trixie as her apprentice rested, but she stopped herself before her hoof managed to reach the bandaged mare.
Bag toss…
There was something she had to do. Luna would worry about her own wounds later especially since they were not something beyond the capabilities of her healing.
“Where are you going?” the doctor called to Luna as she proceeded to turn around and head for the door at a brisk pace.
“I have something I must take care of. I will return later.”
Searching through the Canterlot records about families did not take long for Luna to do at all. Her sudden arrival and wounded appearance caused many ponies to gasp in shock before scampering off to go tell someone about what they had seen.
Luna was done before anypony could confront her about what happened to her, and she wanted it that way. She had no time to waste with the imbeciles of Canterlot, at least not the ones she was researching.
While rummaging through the records, Luna came across something she was tempted to peer into. She had only taken a cursory glance at Trixie’s official records when she took her in, but in light of recent events she was tempted to look more into them.
Nopony had taken Trixie in and supported her when she was down on her luck for so long. Did she even have any family alive to support her? If not, that would help explain the way she had been so taken by her teacher.
In the end Luna decided against doing it, seeing it as an invasion of privacy of somepony she cared for. For the same reason she did not often bother Loki’s dreams, she would hold off on peering into what Trixie had never brought up. Trixie could tell her if she ever felt ready or felt it was necessary.
The other files granted the information Luna needed though, and after taking what she needed she went outside the castle to where she had left two very large piles of flesh and fur.
Now she only needed to track down the ponies she was so interested in.
Being a princess had its advantages obviously, and among them was easily tracking down a trio of ponies who were lounging in one of their private estates in Canterlot.
The three judges of the Canterlot magic team stopped their lounging around their outside pool when their Princess of the Night landed her flight right in front of them. Two yelped while another dropped the drink they were holding, the glass crashing on the well maintained grass.
By the time any of them could find their voices Luna had already beat them to the punch. Her horn had been glowing when she landed, but the glow disappeared as two large objects dropped from the sky and crashed into the pool behind Luna.
“She did it. By herself my student slew both an Ursa Major and an Ursa Minor,” Luna threw her head back to the giant bear paws she had just dropped in the pool, “At the same time. Happy now?”
The first of the Canterlot elite to recover from the surprise did so with a scoff, “Oh come now, you cannot expect us to believe such a fraud did something so impossible. Why, who is to say you did not slay it yourself?”
Luna had kept her own wounds not inflicted by the Ursa visible this long just to show off at this particular moment. She turned her side to the judges where the collapsing parts of the cave slammed into her and scraped off fur.
The princess’s eyes narrowed at the unicorn who dared question her, “I was unable to use my magic at the time, foal. I almost died just by watching because of how the cave collapsed as collateral damage.”
One of the others sat up in their lawn chair, ignoring the expensive glass they had broken, “And where is your student now, the supposed winner of this fake fight?”
Luna had to restrain herself from blowing away a second monster that day with her magic. Her impulse control might not have been what it once was, but it was just enough to spare the lives of these three.
For now.
“She is comatose and undergoing medical treatment. One might even say because of you three,” Luna snarled, taking a threatening step towards them.
“Wh—what do you want from us?” the last of the three choked out, scared by the way Luna advanced towards them.
Luna continued approaching towards the three until she was face to face with the closest one, glaring directly into their eyes with as much vitriol as she could muster, “You will instate her on this team of yours. You will give her the highest available position on the team for when she wakes. Not doing so will result in the termination of your position and revoking of your citizenship to this nation.”
“Celestia would never allow such—”
With her magic Luna lifted the terrible excuse for a pony up into the air by their neck, using her magic to constrict the judge’s throat to the point where breathing would be difficult, not to even mention talking.
The other two gasped while Luna growled, “Because of your repugnant behavior my student almost lost her life. And believe me, if for some reason she never wakes I will inflict upon you three the same fate Celestia be damned.”
As suddenly as she had grabbed the competition judge, Luna let them go. The Unicorn dropped to the ground with a gasp, drawing in as much air as they could to counter the suffocation they had been subjected to.
Knowing that she had their full attention and fear now, Luna continued, “For now though, I have the full support of my sister to discipline you all to the full extent of my power as Princess, should you not repent and do everything in your power to set right what you have caused.”
The three seemed indignant and scared both as they looked at Luna, none of them saying a word. Seeing that she might have to play her trump card of coercion, Luna sighed and shook her head. She had no love for nepotism when it was not also a case of merit.
“If you do not think Trixie worthy now, then let’s see how your nieces and nephews fare against an Ursa. I would not mind making a second trip, and I know where their other caves are.”
Their eyes all went wide at that, or rather wider given their previous state of fear. Luna could tell she had struck a nerve.
“You would not dare,” one of the judges growled back at Luna, something in her causing a backbone to arise.
Luna rolled her eyes and smiled at the sudden change, “Oh, I’m sorry. It was your child, not nephew, that tied with Trixie. Funny how in a competition of precise, accurate measurement that a tie could happen. An almost impossible feat, like a single Unicorn defeating two Ursas.”
The Unicorn who still had a voice to speak with jabbed a hoof angrily in Luna’s direction, the allegations Luna was raising making them even more uncomfortable than before, “I will not let you say these slanderous about me and my son—”
She stopped her threat when everything around the four gathered ponies grew to be pitch black. A complete void of detail surrounded them as darkness enshrouded everything within their sight.
They were in Luna’s domain now, who had disappeared into the dark only to reappear in front of the Unicorn who had been speaking. A dark tendril extended from the void to wrap firstly around the Unicorn’s throat and then mouth, silencing them completely while the other two shrieked in horror.
Ignoring the other two, Luna focused her fury on this one. However, her fury was bridled, and instead of shouting Luna was only seething.
“As you protect your family, I will protect mine. And that begins with preventing arrogant foals such as you three from driving her to do something as suicidal as this. Trixie never did anything to you, yet you and the others of this city treated her with such disdain that she nearly died.”
“You—you weren’t the kindest to her that day either,” choked out the one who was prone on the ground where Luna dropped them.
Their rebuttal was not as wounding to Luna as they likely intended, for it was already an open wound. Luna knew she was yet another reason for Trixie doing what she did, and being told that did nothing to change how she already felt.
“And who are you to judge?” Luna snapped, “Are you there when I bring her the dinner she forgets to eat because she is working so hard to impress me? Or when I bring her to bed after an exhausting day of work?”
Luna shut her eyes as she thought about how close Trixie had come to dying, “I made a mistake the other day, one I will never forgive myself for or forget, but I know and accept my blame.”
With a bright flash the pool, grass and other parts of the surrounding area returned to view with the darkness Luna had summoned disappearing. The Unicorn choked by the dark tendril gasped as they managed to get more than a sliver of air down their throat, while the other two looked around in a panic.
While the three readjusted themselves to the real world once again, Luna narrowed her eyes at them all and continued her previous threat, “I once was not above murdering my own sister. I’ve gotten better from then, but keep that in mind as you reconsider things. This is your second chance. Be fair, be kind, and maybe I will forgive you. I have had enough with the toxic culture in this city and this is where I draw the line.”
With that, Luna spread her wings to prepare for flight. She had gotten her point across, and the day was beginning to segue from afternoon to night. Luna had a very important night ahead of her, and she had no more time to waste here.
“Good night, citizens. I hope you can sleep well with the nightmares sure to plague you until your conscience is cleared.”
No two regular dreams were alike for any one pony, and the variation grew even more between different ponies. Still, there was a common theme to most ponies given their personalities and mindsets.
Luna generally only tended to those who were suffering in their dreams in some way, as they were the ones in need of help and guidance. Still, the number of those who suffered in their dreams was quite grand and Luna could not tend to them all. She was lucky to get to a few dozen a night, as some required more time than others.
Fillies were simpler to handle than full grown adults after all, and Luna preferred tending to them anyways. Because of this dilemma though, Luna had not visited Trixie’s dreams prior to taking her on as an apprentice. After taking her in, Luna had mostly let Trixie be. Her apprentice was active during the same time as her anyways, so it would be difficult to tend to her sleep irregularities as other ponies.
So, when stepping into Trixie’s dream, Luna found herself both surprised and not.
The setting was a stage, like one might find at an opera hall or theater, only instead of singers and actors there was a single pony center stage. Looking weak and alone, a blue mare in torn purple garments sat in front of pony silhouettes.
The idea that Trixie was still envisioning herself in front of a crowd was what surprised Luna. What, sadly, did not surprise the princess was that some of the crowd was laughing uproariously at the mare on stage. Others were yelling at her and throwing things at the magician.
None of them seemed to notice or care that she was crying there, looking completely alone and miserable.
Not able to stomach this uproar and humiliation for longer than the second it took to observe it, Luna dispelled it and silenced the dream. Similar to what happened earlier with the three judges, darkness replaced everything in the dream leaving only Trixie and her teacher.
Instead of fear though, this darkness was there to act as a sanctuary for Trixie. Taking away what was disturbing her rather than removing what makes one comfortable.
The silence did not stop Trixie from crying, and since the young mare’s eyes were shut to hide her from the horror that was her sleep Trixie could not see that they had left. Luna felt her heart pang at the quiet, sobbing mess that was her apprentice. The pony who looked up to her like a mother and needed her.
Despite everything Luna had tried to do for her, Trixie still had no sense of self worth. Luna had hoped that defeating the Ursa’s would help to cure that, but it seemed that her recent feat had not conquered her personal feelings of inadequacy.
Luna took no time to rush over to Trixie’s side, not burdened in the dream world by the exhaustion and pain that had resulted from their recent cave dwelling.
When Luna reached her student she quickly brought a hoof to her face, wiping away the imaginary tears dripping down her face, “Trixie?”
Shocked out of her reverie by the physical touch within the dream, Trixie blinked rapidly while looking around before realizing that Luna was in front of her.
“P—princess?”
Like many other ponies, Trixie was slow to the uptake with realizing just that she was in a dream. The complete void around her did not worry her, but it did raise her suspicions.
“What happened?” she questioned, still taking in the situation while wiping away her own tears now. Even in the dream world she did not want to look weak in front of her teacher.
Luna brought Trixie into her chest with a tight hug, preventing her surrogate child from wiping any more of her own tears away. Luna did it to show Trixie that she cared, while Trixie did it to exhibit strength she did not have. Luna did not like weakness, but she could accept it in those she loved.
She brought a hoof up and down Trixie’s back, stroking her softly to console her, “You are asleep in the real world. I have entered your dream to check up on you.”
Trixie appreciated the comfort, though the revelation that she was sleeping rested worryingly upon her. Luna had only said she was sleeping, but Trixie had the feeling that given their shared damage that it might not be the whole truth.
She brought her hooves around Luna to return the embrace, feeling warm even if it was only a dream, “Oh, I see. That would explain the never ending laughter…”
Luna nuzzled her own forehead with Trixie’s, taking care to avoid her horn despite how it wouldn’t hurt. Luna felt kind of silly, having not done something like this with anyone who was not Celestia, their mother, or Loki, but that was not enough to give her pause. After all, what was a little affection going to hurt?
After a moment of this not public display of affection, Luna pulled back. With a hoof she rose Trixie’s head up so that they could meet their eyes. Luna wanted Trixie to be able to see the pride in her teacher’s eye, “No one will be laughing at you soon enough. You’re the best Unicorn there is.”
Instead of a verbal response, Trixie dug her face back into Luna’s chest and wrapped her front legs around her tightly. While she had been dying earlier Trixie had been worried Luna would rebuff her, but having Luna return the love she felt made Trixie feel secure for the first time in years.
Luna could sense Trixie’s mood beginning to shift for the better, so she thought about how she might be able to continue that trend. Given their setting, a perfect idea came up to the dreamshaper, “Tell me, what would you like to be dreaming of?”
Trixie’s face flushed as she thought of how her dreams used to be like as compared to how they were then, “Promise you won’t laugh?”
The embarrassment Trixie was feeling gave Luna some…ideas about what her apprentice might like, “Why, do you have particularly embarrassing preferences?”
“No, of course not!” Trixie pouted as she shook her head exaggeratedly from side to side.
She looked down to the void below her with her blush remaining beneath her blue fur, completely embarrassed as she thought about how to phrase it.
“I just…my good dreams are about being with somepony who appreciates me.”
Luna rose a brow as she tried to interpret Trixie’s meaning.
“A lover?”
That made Trixie turn red like a tomato, knowing instantly that she had misspoke.
Her head shook again as she tried to dissuade her teacher’s interpretation, who was now laughing, “No…I’ve never really been that interested in that kind of thing. Just somepony who is there for me and understands me…”
Luna pulled Trixie back into a tight hug, whispering into the young mare’s ear.
“Then do I need to change anything?”
Trixie’s ears drooped down as she thought of how that reality had slipped right past her. Luna was the kind of support that she always wanted in many ways.
“No, I’m fine.”
Something struck Luna that she had never considered before, something that she actually considered to be quite important. Just as Trixie knew little personally about Luna, Luna similarly had not learned too much about Trixie personally.
“Do you not have friends to support you?”
Trixie’s ears fell even more and Luna could feel that Trixie had shut her eyes against her chest. A nerve had been struck, one that Trixie might have hidden behind with her prideful facade in real life but now was too open to hide her true feelings.
Luna knew the pain of not having anypony to be there for you quite well. Once upon a time not even Celestia was there for her, her sister too arrogant and blind to notice how Luna was suffering underneath her shadow.
Luna returned to stroking Trixie’s back dotingly, “It is okay. External companionship is not necessary for happiness, even if it can help. I know how loneliness and isolation can feel quite well.”
Trixie rubbed her face in Luna’s fur as she quietly asked, “Does having Loki help?”
That made Luna smile. At least Trixie was thinking of her caregiver’s success rather than her failure, displaying a small tinge of optimism in her otherwise downtrodden views, “Yes, to some degree. Another isolated, lonely soul to share my woe with. I prefer the time I spend doing more constructive and fun activities with him.”
Given that they were still in Trixie’s dream and that she could make things happen without Luna’s permission, a sudden flash of Luna and Loki explicitly kissing under covers appeared as a wallpaper to the dream to reflect the sudden imagery that coursed through Trixie’s mind. Luna laughed at the change, while Trixie wanted to shrink away and die as the imagery faded.
“Sorry.”
As Luna’s abyss returned she laughed at where Trixie’s mind went, “No no, I had that coming. I actually meant, for example, the time I spend learning magic with him. Not that you are wrong. I enjoy that as well.”
The imagery returned again, but this time with a variety between Asgardian Loki, Asgardian Luna, pony Luna, and pony Loki that Trixie had seen in a tabloid. Trixie quickly silenced these thoughts by punching her face with her own hoof, growing more and more embarrassed with every passing moment.
Luna rolled her eyes as she telekinetically stopped Trixie from further striking her own face, “Oh don’t be so flustered. And to answer your question, yes, shapeshifting is useful.”
“I wish I had somepony like that…” Trixie pouted, not at all meaning what her words made things sound like.
This time Luna could not help but roar in laughter, thinking that Trixie had just outed herself as a complete pervert. Trixie realized her mistake almost instantly and hastily went about correcting it, even shoving Luna gently in the chest.
“No, I meant to learn magic with! I already said I’m not looking for that other kind of companionship!” she calmed down with a deep breath while Luna’s laughter did the same, “I have you and Loki to learn magic from, but not with. I can only imagine what the discovery must feel like.”
“If you say so,” Luna snickered, “Though I suppose it’s another thing you have up on Twilight. I hear that the first stallion she began dating in Canterlot turned out to be a jerk. Thankfully she listened when Celestia told her to dump him.”
Glad to move off of her own lack of a love life, Trixie’s ears perked up completely, “Who was it? Blueblood?”
Luna shrugged, not really caring, “Oh no, some random guard. Flash Simply or something like that. The guard we regularly mess with.”
Trixie’s embarrassment completely left her as thoughts of fun pranks came to mind, as well as the irony of how Twilight would date the stallion they pranked jokingly all the time, “Oh, him! No wonder Twilight likes him. She probably pities the fool. So you’re telling me we were justified in doing that to him?”
Luna nodded back to Trixie, “Yeah. Complete and total arrogant foal. I for one am glad Twilight took Celestia’s advice and ditched him. Probably a cousin of Blueblood come to think of it. Ponies that I am quite sure the world would be better without.”
Trixie’s self-consciousness returned to her with Luna’s words, “We’re not that humble ourselves.”
“I manipulate the forces of nature to my very whim, and you are my aspiring champion. We have our reasons to exude confidence,” Luna smiled down at Trixie brightly, “When he moves a moon, let me know and I’ll give him slack. Or slays two Ursas by himself.”
The highest of Trixie’s self conscious fears came to the forefront of her mind as well, with the Alicorn Amulet that she once used to rule Ponyville glowing as the backdrop to her dream, “Are we evil?”
Luna noted that recovering Trixie’s self worth should be one of their shared major goals in the coming months, although Luna already had a major plan in motion to do just that, “Again with the self doubt. You are not evil, even with your Alicorn Amulet stint. A case could be made for my own morality, but I do care for Equestria and the ponies in it.”
“But you hate them all.”
Luna was the one to shake her head this time, “You misunderstand. I despise Canterlot’s population, as well as the general ignorance Celestia has cultivated across the nation in these many years. I would go so far as to fight my own lover to protect them all though, despite my reservations.”
Luna sighed as she thought back to her conflict with Loki not all too long ago. A conflict she did not wish to ever have to endure again. She dispelled the trance the memory put her under so she could continue with her moral lesson for her pupil.
“Tough love so to speak. I am critical of them all because I care. I know we can do better, yet we do not. Similar to how I love my sister despite her faults.”
Luna separated from Trixie so that she could bring a hoof to her own chest.
“For all it’s worth, this vigilance extends to myself. I once was where you were in self-confidence because I couldn’t get over how inferior I was to Celestia in so many ways. I still am in quite a few.”
Trixie looked down again, thinking firstly of the parallel between her and Twilight. Twilight was known for being good at everything she set her mind to, being far too perfect a pony to be considered fair to everypony left. To have such a mare as a counterpart was enough to fuel one’s envy endlessly.
Still, Luna had heard about Trixie’s “everything you can do, I can do better” attitude. A view Luna herself once held centuries ago, when she still wanted to triumph over Celestia in every way and prove herself the superior sibling. A feeling Loki had felt when he suffered underneath his brother.
Living her own life and observing those of kindred souls, Luna had come to a conclusion. She could excel at what she was good at, but agonizing over what she would never surpass others in was not healthy.
Luna took Trixie’s face with her front hooves to lift the mare’s gaze, “You don’t need to be perfect, or the best at everything or even anything.”
“Princess…”
Luna wordlessly took Trixie back into her hooves, not wanting to let her go again.
Trixie had meant every word she said in the cave, and found her feelings of adoration both vindicated and returned. She felt appreciated, just as she desired to beneath her natural haughtiness that she could not bear to bring out in front of her princess whom she owed so much to.
However, Trixie had a feeling that given everything that had happened, this might be the last time they spoke. The way Luna was coddling her mentally meant that she was not able to do so physically…
Trixie could tell she was comatose, and with that knowledge she could not help but fear that she might never awaken. To earn Luna’s motherly love only to not be able to fully experience it saddened Trixie greater than any of the insults that were thrown at her these past years.
Still, she appreciated that she had earned it. Her teacher cared for her in the same way.
Trixie felt herself crying into Luna’s crest. Even if it was only imaginary tears it was her mind, “If I don’t wake up…thank you. Thank you for everything.”
Luna too was crying, a part of her angry and bitter over how her manipulation of dreams did not extend this far. She could not simply wake Trixie up, nor could she heal her enough to rouse her.
“Don’t leave me.”
Luna stayed like that until Trixie’s mind drifted off, not dreaming but still alive. She made sure that she was with her as long as Trixie could think, and would return the next time Trixie’s brain went to dreaming.
She would just have to hope that Trixie would pull herself through this like she had the Ursa encounter. Having grown a place in her heart for Trixie, Luna could not bear to live alone without her.
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its so fluffy!
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O.O HOLY ACCABAR ITS A TRAP OF FEELZ
Huzzah! The comeuppance has arrived! Take that self deluded jerk judges! I was waiting for something like that, this judges treat Luna with literally zero respect. You should always be repectful of someone with the power over your nation. It shows celestias lenience in that respect. I'm not saying Celestia and Luna should be feared, but they shouldn't be treated like pushovers because they don't normally punish ponies.
Judges get what they deserved, mostly. Even more glorious flashabuse and of course lots of feelz between luna and trixie, even if im mostly immune to the mood changing power of feelz i can appreciate them when well written.
And if all else fails they could bring trixie into the marvelverse, important or well liked characters don't stay dead for long or just never die in the first place.
They should ask dr strange for help he's amazing.
Great chapter, rather touching how Luna became somewhat motherly. The judges should have been kicked around a little more just to get the idea across more firmly. I wonder if Loki has gotten worried over Luna's absence yet, it would be interesting to see his reaction on the whole ordeal.
Wonderfully written as always
Good to see Trixie is ok.
You know, I would say I don't like your flashabuse, but I did it in my own story 'A different Sunset', so I would be a hypocrite if I did so.
And Twilight is far from perfect...If anything, she really needed to see a psychiatrist during season 2. She was kind of off hinged a few times that season. She also has other flaws and quirks that regular ponies have, so Luna is wrong in that remark. {She's also quite hostile to the first pony who tried to reach out and be her friend....Beside Snowdrop that is.
(Snowdrop is best pegasus, tied with Lightning)...Though, do you consider that canon or not in this verse?}
Still, it's nice to see some bonding time between Trixie {who's steadily becoming one of my fav characters...Seriously, I've seen some authors play with her character brilliantly.} and Luna.
Good work. (Though, given how you seemed to have quit my story because it got dark, I kind of have to call you out, since this story has gotten quite dark in some places...I'm just saying.)
Heh, for some reason I'm expecting Loki to pay a secret visit to Equestria. Maybe on his way back, he'll take a detour to see a few friendly judges.
Just like my hamburgers.
the judges are allowed to have children try out for the team. Come on Celestia you can do better than that. and the way luna got revenge reminds me a little of luna eclipsed. it was too bad I was already asleep by the time your comment came in or I would read this sooner.
4197516 The so called “flashabuse” is actually me relaying a recent happenstance in the comics where Flash Sentry acts like a jerk, slams a door into a guard, pisses off Celestia, and then tries to drag Twilight off with him while Celestia warns her to drop him at the very first opportunity. Want proof?
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It's not me for once
I am very grateful for this moment in the comic. Keep up on your facts!
Luna's hostile towards everypony here, as Trixie took note of. And of course she has an issue with Twilight, because Celestia pulled her "you're an Alicorn now" thing and Luna hasn't resolved that issue with Twilight yet. One moment of offered friendship does not negate entire sibling rivalry and issues spanning longer than Twilight's lifetime.
Snowdrop is a terrible character, but I've already done my rants on her before and don't care to go through the whole mess again. It'd require me to watch the awful video to pull specific facts anyways, and that's not something I care to ever do again. Snowdrop does not exist in this story the same way Nyx does not and never will.
Just now getting dark? Let me bring you back to the very beginning of the story where I made it very clear this was no pure-fluff-fest: Loki being attacked brutally by Timberwolves on his first day, Luna threatening him after sensing his power, having Loki be mind-raped by Thanos and 'The Other' over the course of many chapters, having Canterlot be invaded by the Changelings, actually having Twilight KILL a Changeling...
The list goes on. I stopped reading yours for more reasons than just how it got dark, but one's writing preferences do not always equal their reading preferences so the point is moot anyways. Besides, I haven’t gotten so dark as having a character (ahem, Celestia) think about committing suicide with a gun that is half there just to be a reference.
Don’t get me wrong, I like you because you offer good opinions even if they sometimes are dissenting ones since you don’t stoop to throwing a fit over everything that isn’t 100% your way like someone else who once commented, but this repeated dragging of your story into this one is quite irritating. You had asked my specific opinion on a story I told you I likely would not enjoy, especially since it is about a character I have no love for. I’m sorry I didn’t give it high praise, but would you rather I lied? Not read it at all?
Please stop bringing it up, for it has no place here. If you have further issue private message me, but whatever bitterness you hold really isn’t being productive for anyone on this story. The comments here are supposed to be about this story, not Snowdrop, not another author’s stories, and not anything else completely irrelevant to this. I know you can do comments that aren’t like this, since I’ve seen then, and I really hope I can see them again.
4196224 Very fluffy
Trixie has very soft fur now that she has the amazing resources of Canterlot to groom herself. 
4196259 It's Ackbar, but yeah, that's the plan and point
4196375 Canterlot as a whole treats Luna with zero respect, with the citizens either fearing her or not respecting her authority. The way I see it, ponies outside Canterlot are more on the fear end of the royal sisters while those in Canterlot who are stuck up snobs with entitlement issues are sometimes too dumb to fear them if they even tried.
Luna is sick of the treatment and ignorance they have, as she mentioned here. She's drawing the line, and expect her to keep it
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...Have I been that annoying?...
Geez, I should just shut my mouth...Sorry.
4196584 Mostly? They still have two Ursa paws clogging up and bleeding into their pool
The Flashabuse is actually not of my own doing, I am merely reporting the abuse the COMICS gave him or rather had him inflict on others:
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See? I'm not the only one who messes with him. In the comics Luna's pet possum scares the hell out of him as well, so when I retcon that little guy in during my future rewrite we'll have quite a good time.
From what you said it seems you liked the Luna and Trixie feelz, which means mission success
That was the whole purpose of this chapter, as well as arc, not that it won't continue should Trixie wake up.
And yes, bringing Trixie to the marvelverse could help. I mean Coulson gets to live after all. Though, come to think of it, there is this place in the afterlife that would fit perfectly into the story and help with the dead characters thing...
4199597 It's okay, I just felt I needed to address it after all this time. Seriously, I enjoy hearing from you, as you don't go ballistic like a certain someone else did when I dared to not pick a fight with them over a meaningless issue. You've been around a long time with this story, so you are valued. It's just been irritating recently to have non-story issues brought up so often.
4197013 Don't know enough about him to add anything in, so I have no idea what you're referring to as well. There are other Marvel characters waiting to be introduced though, so patience.
4197016 Thanks a lot! Luna's become as motherly as she can be while still influenced by Nightmare Moon. Mama bear Luna extreme mode basically, take no hostages. And we all seem to love her for it, so I think it's a step in the right direction for her.
The judges got scared witless, threatened with being deported, threatened with death should Trixie not wake up, got attacked by shadow tendrils, and now have Ursa paws laying in their pool. I think they'll get the point addressed to them
If not, Luna's going to make them not exist in every way, shape and form.
And funny you should mention Loki, given how next chapter's slated to start out
(I have the dialogue script 80% done already, having done it before this chapter's)
4197379 Why thank you
Wonderfully stated as always 
4197424 I know, right? Trixie is okay for now, but still not awake. May we wish her a speedy recovery!
4197585 Ehhh, maybe, maybe not...we don't even know if he's found out yet. We'll know next chapter though! It'd be nice for him to deal with the judges, though I am more looking forward to a scene a couple arcs from now where somepony gets their comeuppance...I had so much fun writing the script for it today.
4198175 Funny, I'm just about to eat one!
I like mine medium-rare usually. Used to like well done ones until I tasted too many burnt ones and well done was forever ruined for me.
4198215 No, no she can't because Celestia is too lenient on her own. This is why Luna is putting her hoof down and making sure this behavior is no longer tolerated! All Hail Luna!
Luna's revenge isn't even over
She wasn't just mentioning that they MIGHT have nightmares, she was promising that they would forever until they either died or repented for their crimes. Luna's awesome like that. Nopony messes with her 'cub'.
4199643 dr strange is a doctor well surgeon who gained magic powers he's the sorcerer supreme of earth he would be the best help for trixie. He's also an avenger.
OH and dc or Marvell
4199696 Well Asgard has magical healing tanks, and Luna actually knows them
Thanks though. I know the DC Doctor Strange because Batman but not the Marvel one. Still, I have a few important players to introduce in the Marvel Universe so Strange might have to wait a long time. I mean, we haven't even finished the Asgardian characters!
4199733 do you mean dr fate?
4199766 And who the heck is doctor Fate?
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Hehe, well....I kind of liked talking to you and...since I didn't have much to say about some chapters...Yeah
.....So how about that Frigga.
{Obvious derailment is obvious.} Pretty awesome mom.
dr fate a guy who wears a helmet called the helm of nabu the spirit of nabu (an all powerful wizard) live inside the helm when some body puts it on the spirit of nabu enters them and they gain nabu's power.
4199804 Frigga is going to be even more awesome soon enough
Frigga is best mother. For now. 
She'll have some competition, as well as an opposite counterpart. But that's a bit away.
I enjoy these talks as well.
4199814 That explains basically nothing, but thanks anyways. He won't be showing up just about, uhhh, ever.
4199664 Yes the judges got the point, it is just that it would be funny to see them get slapped around a bit. Both figuratively and literally. Nothing says comedy like an old fashioned bitch slap. Good to know about the upcoming chapter and good luck with writing, hope to see more soon.
4199827 I admit it would be funny to see them slapped around, though it was everything Luna could do to not kill them
There might be some bitch slaps down the road though for some ponies and people!
And yeah, next chapter is technically like 30% done since the dialogue isn't finished and everything inbetween the dialogue isn't done. I just have it all 100% planned out
Still, it'll be out relatively soon. Just gotta get schoolwork done first this first half of the week.
4199677 Curse thee and your preparedness! How are us reader's supposed to influence the story if you're 10 steps ahead?!
4199937 Friend, I have the entire main story planned. The only thing left to do is pound out the specifics/details
That is where people contribute. I can alter things at certain points, but it's not always the chapter after people say something. For example, I had this chapter planned because I anticipated people thinking Luna was only using Trixie like a tool (which people were angry at Luna for). Now people are dawwwing at Luna and Trixie's lovely bond, because I played my cards right. I added in more fluff to help make sure things tilted the way I wanted because of what people commented before, and now we're all happy
4199960 Did I say 10 steps? I'm sorry, I meant 10 miles. :P
4199979 Only 10 miles? Friend I am way more than 10 miles ahead of the game. People kept complaining that "the story's ending!" but I'm not even like half done with all these chapters...even less to be honest. I can't say just for certain given that I cannot estimate the length of future arcs for the life of me. I thought I'd be on Thor The Dark World by chapter 25...but, uhm, we're a full year or so away from that chronologically. So yeah, it's gonna be awhile! Imagine all I can do in the meantime! I'm glad I created a whole new arc that fits in to account for this...
I mean, like Hel, I am way ahead of where people think I am
4200013
Show off! Now I'm going to go cry in a corner as I've barely managed to write 10K words for a little project I'm tinkering with. Sometimes. ish.
4200043 Oh don't worry, I'm nowhere near as productive for my first original story/novel. I try and try, but I can pump out 10 times the amount of writing here in less effort than it takes for there.
If you ever need tips or a hand in being productive, feel free to let me know
4200049 lol, will do. My big problem is... I guess motivation. Or maybe it's cause I really don't have an idea of how it's going to end. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's it.
4200065 Oh I'm the opposite. I always start with the end goal, since I love happy endings! Then I work back from there and find a way to arrive at my destination. For example, I was thinking of the sadness both Luna and Loki feel and then came up with a solution! This story was born shortly thereafter. I really do like me my happy endings, even if they have to be earned through the sweat and blood of the characters involved. The very worst ending for anything I'd write is bittersweet, and even then it's got the "sweet" part in it.
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Yeah, That'd be great if I can do that. I sort of give myself a start, and a part where it's going to end up, and use dynamic risk assessment to get them there. I try to plan, but I always screw them up anyway, so I don't even bother anymore xD
4200106 I am always thinking about stories, so I get a lot of the planning work done as I am trying to sleep at night or while doing something else that requires little to no physical effort. I can basically think of the major pieces of an arc within a night before I fall asleep, then rinse and repeat. Do it enough times and finalize details, then I can start committing the whole thing to "paper". I don't do very much spontaneous writing, though it's not totally uncommon for me to.
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I'm a heavy gamer, so a lot of times that ends up taking most of my time, so I only write when I'm in the mood. Which basically means a week or two once a blue moon.
I have no words, this time.
But I just felt the need to not break my chain of comments on every chapter
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4202194 You're a meanie face. Or "evil!" as Twilight would say.