With the defeat of Tirek and all of Equestria once again saved, life seems to return to normal. However, despite her best efforts, Princess Celestia has come under intense scrutiny for her decision to trust Discord into capturing Tirek before they go on a mad spree and deviatate the land. Now locked away in her room, she feels all the guilt of her failure as a ruler come back to haunt her. These doubts though are about to be corrected however by the same three alicorn princesses that she feels she had failed the most.
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Your shirt description says four alicorns help Celestia. Go correct that.
Oddly enough, I had far less trouble with Princess Celestia deploying Discord to apprehend Tirek than other factors contributing to her apparent character incompetence. Had Discord done the job successfully, the threat of Tirek would have been resolved quickly and without loss or damage; so it was worthwhile for both the risk and the opportunity for Discord to irrefutably prove himself reformed to Princess Celestia.
No, what made not only me, but even my daughters, /facepalm for plot-writing was Princess Celestia's actions in Twilight's Kingdom, part 2/2.
First being Princess Celestia telling Princess Twilight to conceal knowledge of the magic-transfer from them. Having Princess Twilight NOT trust her friends? The same friends who had repeatedly stepped up to save Equestria upon multiple occasions against equally or more dangerous threats, through friendship and trust? {My middle daughter looked at me when we watched the episode and said, "What, is she serious...?"}
Second being the plan itself. Transferring all their alicorn magic into Princess Twilight in order to hide it from Tirek. Neglecting the giant stained glass windows in the very hall they are discussing their plan, depicting the last four years of Twilight Sparkle's life and accomplishments, including where she lives....
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The unfortunate nature of Princess Celestia's character is that she suffers from two tropes: 1- the Worf Effect, and 2- having to occasionally carry the Idiot Ball.
In one hand (the Worf Effect), Princess Celestia must appear to be strong and competent, yet ultimately is overshadowed by the Big Bad (Guy) in order to show the audience that said Big Bad (Guy) is a major threat that the Hero/Protagonist must overcome.
In the other hand (carrying the Idiot Ball), Princess Celestia must also help move the plot along, regardless of how it ultimately makes her look for character competency (or more accurately, IN-competency), as well as avoidance of the dreaded Deus ex Machina in telling a story (in any media format).
It is a testament to Nicole Oliver's stellar voicing and portrayal of her character that most fans still love Princess Celestia despite these inherent character flaws due to her role as a plot device, and why we keep forgiving her.
This story really needs to be looked over by an editor or something. If only there was somebody to take the job *cough cough, sputter, throat clear*
4737130 Does it? Oh fiddle sticks. Thanks for the heads up. ^^;
4738397 Subtle. :p If you're offering the task, go a head. I'm always looking to get feed back to improve. :)
4739020 okay. I'll take a copy of it. I'll get back sometime
Honestly, I'm surprised that there aren't more fics dealing with Celestia having to face the repercussions of her actions. I mean, she has put Equestria at risk at least 5 times since FiM had started.
Don't worry Celestia, none of your failures have ever been your fault. You're simply a victim of disgustingly, shamefully bad writing at the hands of a writing-staff who doesn't have an ounce of respect for your character or even an inkling of what a plot without holes looks like.
Of course, knowing this won't stop you from being raped up the ass again in the pilot and finale of season 5, but hey, take comfort in knowing that we know it's not your fault, it's the pathetic show staff, and more precicely McCarthy, who doesn't have a clue how to handle your character or write something that comes even close to resembling a decent plot. You also will never get your own episode, because the show staff hates you and the fandom doesn't care about you unless they can make you a Xenophobic tyrant, a troll or a sexual molester.
Regardless, however, you'll always be my favourite Princess, and I weep for the endless suffering you must endure.
A very interesting and probably correct portrayal of Celestia's feelings. But as far as I'm concerned for the season 4 final, Luna and Cadence didn't give any resistance to Celestia's ideas, From sending discord ( I don't think they were there) to giving all the magic to Twilight. I think one of the brony analysis commented on equestrian games that all the princess chair were equal height to simulate equal status, yet if you go by their heights from tallest to shortest, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilgiht. Celestia would be considered the highest ranking and twilight the lowest, which she seemed to be treated as in the episode. Cadence I think really should have said something against Celestia's plan, I always thought of the crytal empire as a seprate kingdom or nation then canterlot, so Cadence should have changed or atleast argured against giving up her powers. But I'm rambling now.
Good job on the story.
Sorry, Black Kyurem still despises Celestia and sees her as the worst character in the series.
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I feel the same.
4759224 Dude? She tries and succeeds in making almost everyone love her.
5224593 And Black Kyurem is entitled to his own personal opinion. Don't like it? Then don't talk to me.
even if it's a family of princesses it's still a family to love the most and there's nothing more heartwarming than family
5224688 I'm sorry
4741514 That does make me sad knowing that there will never be a Celestia-centric episode, and that she has to be written like a plot device. At least there's fan fiction.
5224776 No prob. But I did notice a lot of people here disagree with opinions.
5224766 I agree with that much.
Some few errors:
"...a known trouble making former tyrant"
This could probably be reformulated a bit; it's not really hard to read but it looks weird.
"...a known troublemaker and former tyrant"
“We have heard about the vial slander"
Vile, not vial
"Luna though she held no further grudge against her sister for her actions,"
Missing comma.
"Luna, though she held no further grudge against her sister for her actions,"
"the Crystal Kingdom empire"
Just the Crystal Empire.
5235418 Thanks for the feed back. :)
It needs some editing, but it's a good story and fleshes out Celestia by showing us a side of her that I'm sure must exist, but that we never see in the show.
5646848 Speak for yourself. You just despise me as a human being, I know it.
Awww this is so sweet