It's been ten years since Celestia was forced to exile Nightmare Moon, and her guilt has only grown ever since. Dealing with greedy nobles hasn't helped at all. So she takes a few days off, keeping only her duties of maintaining the night and the day, and in so doing finds out the true nature of the world... and she also experiences something that makes her able to smile once more...
This reminds me of something Picard said: "Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table."
Oh god, Knight you did it again!
Dat feel of nostalgia!
This stuff doesn't belong in the beginning of your story, and it looks terrible there.
Okay... I was going along with it pretty well, right up until Celestia started playing with GI Joe dolls for no explicable reason. Then you lost me.
5297871 Really? I've been putting my disclaimers at the top for years now...
*shrugs* Ah well. Sorry you didn't like that scene. I just felt you couldn't put a character in a room full of toys, give her permission to play with those toys with no consequences, and then not have her play with said toys.
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Well, depends on the character.
Pinkie would definitely play with the toys.
Celestia, though... The millennia-old ruler of a nation... She'd be more interested in finding out where these toys came from and how they got there.
I was smiling almost all the time while reading this. It's a really cute story. Also seeing Celestia playing and mixing the toys was so funny and cute and it reminded me of my childhood when I could spend ours making ponies and other dolls fight Disney villains or turning my Barbies into Pokemon Trainers.
5299260 Which misses the point of the story, but I digress. Anyway, I've greatly enjoyed your recent one-shots and look forward to more.
I had tears in my eyes when I read this. Bravo.
This is so beautiful...
The Keeper of Stories, a room of innocence and delight, and a being integral to their world in desperate need of hope. Sounds like a core aspect that Dr. Suess would thoroughly enjoy. Very well done.
Man this story is great. I wish it had a squeal.
This was beautiful. I was smiling all the way through when she got to the room of toys. I really needed to read something like this
Honestly, it is very refreshing to see a no-bullshit Celestia. The thousand years tempered her quite a bit, but I wouldn't say 'no' to a return of this, from time to time...
Also, it's depressing what happened to the Blueblood line over the centuries... Truly, verily depressing.
... well... ;]
I think this particular story is going to have a new chapter at some point... Featuring Twilight, maybe?
I can't wait.
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