Twilight has just become an alicorn, a ruling Princess of Equestria. For a brief time, all seems well. But when both the reality of her new station and a dark secret behind Equestria's history finally confront her in full force, Twilight is forced to make decisions that could change the face of the Kingdom and ponykind forever. Now, nothing will stand between her, her friends, and finding the truth, not even the Princesses themselves. Alicorn Twilight cover art by Esipode.
After a long time letting it lay dormant, I've decided to give this story a complete reboot. Much of the original plot will be kept largely intact, but the focus has changed completely from the alicorn immortality itself to Twilight discovering its true nature and the history behind it. The clunky old wording and dialogue is being updated and improved as well.
I just got really depressed. Poor Twily...
Good story though.
I think it's time for Chessmasterlestia. She can go to each of Twilight's friends and offer the right nudge so that they will perform on intervention on her, explaining that they are happy for her, but do not wish to be immortal.
Psst!..........You!..........You with the interesting story...
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You should continue this.
8 up and 4 down? Looks like this story is going to be controversial. Hmmm...
This is looking interesting so far. I'm surprised other stories haven't gone this route. I've seen a hundred sour-grapes "I'd rather not be immortal" stories, like Twilight's initial emotional outburst, but I've never actually seen one that takes the much more sensible route: "Great, that's four deaths averted, and all of Equestria to go, starting with my friends".
Now I'm just hoping the "Tragedy" and "Sad" tags don't mean she ends up treated as the villain of the story for doing the sensible thing. At least it isn't tagged "Dark".
"I'll outlive my parents!"
Um... pretty sure that would have happened anyway. So would your friends getting old and dying.
Seriously, this whole 'not all my friends are immortal' thing is one of the stupidest objections to immortality I've ever heard, and I've heard it over and over and over.
'I'll just have to make THEM immortal too!' is at least a halfway reasonable response. Unless she decides that there's some hurry and she has to turn into a villain to do it.
2963476 "I'll outlive my parents!" Come to think of it, that was a rather stupid error on my part. Editing now...
I like this fic.
Mostly because it addresses the problems that the cannon show now has because of Twilight now being immortal.
Keep going.
Also, the hint to what you said in the AN is not as subtle as you may think.
Also what is your stance on the immortality deal?
I don't want it. watching all your friends slowly die is to much pain for me. Also family members.
3025028 My stance is: were I an immortal, but can make others immortal, I would stay immortal.
If not, I would actually choose to stay immortal. In the time available to me, I could possibly find a way to make others immortal as well through research or magical means. Even if it failed, well... sacrificing one's immortality could potentially make the now mortal person hopelessly insane, thus making the whole point of mortality void.
That's my take on it anyway.
Please update this already I really want to know what happens!
Darn it, Twilight is an interesting type for the fallen or inadequate hero role.
I WANT MORE.
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One thought I've had on "sudden onset immortality" is as follows:
In any immediate family group or any long-lived group of friends, someone will be the first to die, and someone will be the last. The only one who doesn't suffer the loss of a member is the first one to die, and at least one member will suffer the loss of all the rest (assuming everyone doesn't die at once in an airplane crash or some similar disaster). Becoming immortal merely cements one's position as the latter instead of it being left to the vagaries of fate.