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Nyronus


Greetings World. You may call me Nyronus. I write stories, among other things. My hobbies include existential ennui, being Princess Luna, and Saving the World. Feel free to hit me up on Steam to chat!

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This story is a sequel to The Sun Shines High, and Alone


Celestia and Luna have been many things to each other. Siblings, Allies, Comrades, Rivals, and the bitterest of enemies. Despite this, as they move forward they know they will always be one thing to each other.

Friends.

(The final story of the Moon, Sun, and Dusk trilogy. Reading the prior stories is recommended)

Preread by Taggerung, Pwnego, and Lord Destrustor.

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Comments ( 16 )

Hmm, not sure what I think of this.

The ending didn't feel like it addressed the issue of fear of Celestia very well., but the latest installation was good in almost all other regards.

What would a "contingent disjunction" spell do?

Detach Twilight from Celestia in case she clung too tightly?

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It's a bit of a DnD joke. Basically a REALLY powerful counter-spell.

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Oh yeah, good old disjunction. I used that to kill a campaign once.

5159946 A.K.A. the fail-safe spell. Celestia would have used something similar in Lesson Zero.

I like it. Now that I've read all three, I changed my mind - they do work best as individual stories and not as chapters. Would give more in-depth analysis, but too tired right now.

By themselves, each story has earned the like. But together, they are greater than the sum of their parts. :twilightsmile:

A hat-trick of favorites is earned by these tales. :pinkiehappy:

Ok, I've read after appreciating and quite liking the first two in the trilogy and...how is this a sequel? :rainbowhuh:

I mean, I kinda understand where it's going, but it seems...intentionally obscure.

Seriously, could the author please explain what happened and what he meant? :pinkiesad2:

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The final words of the story are thus: And so we sat, chatting late into the evening as the stars burned and the world moved toward a dawn more glorious than the last.

And... that is the take away I wanted people to have of the vignette. Things are getting better. For Luna, telling the stories of the constellations allows her to be artistically expressive, gets people interested in her night sky, appeals to her sense of tradition and history, and makes people happy. Celestia's relationship with Twilight has improved (hence her trusting Twilight with a secret and with artistic expression), she gets to be honest with people in a way she normally can't, she relishes a new challenge, and she gets to have fun doing what she loves doing: helping ponies.

Are things perfect? Not from what we can infer from this story alone, but have they gotten better? Well, I hope so. That was kind of the goal.

I struggled a lot with the conception of this story. I was pretty much worried from the get-go that people wouldn't "get" it and almost scrapped it several times. Since people seemed to really dig the last two stories I was really hoping to finish this little exercise off as best I could for you guys, but given how quickly excitement about this story faded compared to the other two, and half the comments are questions... I guess I failed.

Sorry guys.

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Ehh...dealing with things that the reader may or may not "get" is always a risky proposition. I don't blame you for how it turned out.

Have you heard of the Rule of Three? Because that might help.

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Forgive if I'm missing something, but just what are they expecting Twilight to do upon reading this that they need to whip out Maredenkainen's Disjunction to stop? It doesn't look like there's anything that would set her off... unless discovering that Celestia is an author makes her squee so hard she bursts into flame.

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Well, failing to find a friendship problem caused Twilight to enchant a doll with a seemingly permanent Symbol of Insanity.

Girl gets creative when she's anxious.

This trilogy is one of my favorites. Taken as a single narrative, I think they do a wonderful ho of showing what gradual recovery and change can look like. I wish I could manage Celestia as easily as you seem to!

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