Twilight Sparkle,
Once more, I thank you and your friends for saving Equestria from Discord. That frankenstein madman received his comeuppance for messing with my ponies, and thanks to the wonderful power of friendship, he slumbers once more in stone. And thank the gods for that.
He's being relocated back to the gardens, more specifically in the restored hedge maze. Why he wasn't placed there sooner to decrease the chances of this event happening in the first place is a question I'll be asking the designers shortly, because this was a major oversight for all of us, myself included.
That's right. I, Princess Celestia, accept partial blame for having a sealed chaos spirit statue placed within the vicinity of the most chaotic creatures in the world besides him: children. Luna also accepts blame for cracking the back of his head prior to his release.
Speaking of Luna, during the incident, Discord got to her. No wild Nightmare Moon appeared, thankfully, but something far worse stood in her place.
She walked into my room wearing a classy business suit, half-rimmed reading glasses, and her once-flowing mane was replaced with a beehive. Gone was her goofy, playful expression and cheerful gait, replaced with a steely stare, firmly planted hooves, and a clipboard hovering in her aura. Serious Luna had arrived.
And I hated it. I would rather deal with Luna's dodginess of tasks than Serious Luna's strict adherence to them. Thanks to her, day court managed to become boring in a way I never thought was possible before now. I couldn't even make any witty remarks or thinly veiled sarcasm. This boredom also applied to responding to foreign dignitaries, bathroom breaks, and even lunchtime became as formal as the Gala before you and your friends changed that.
Granted, her actions freed up my whole week. She's definitely onto something with this, but I still prefer my sister instead of a mare machine with my sister's appearance.
I suspected Discord did something similar to you and your friends. He's never direct with who he considers a real threat, and that's what makes him dangerous. Considering he knew of the Elements and moved them elsewhere, he must have figured out how to nullify the elements through your friends, and through them, you.
So how could I possibly remind you of how great friendship is to refocus you on your goals? With your own letters, of course. Because let's be honest, if I wrote you a letter trying to convince you of doing something you didn't want to do, it would fail on principle. The best thing I could do was simply return your letters in the hope that you wouldn't possibly ignore your own words.
Extend my apologies to Spike, by the way. I didn't know how many letters it would take to get through your thick skull and snap you out of Discord's trickery, so I sent them all. Send them back at your leisure, just not today. Spike needs a breather, and maybe some antacids.
No need for a friendship lesson today; the mere fact you put another great evil to rest is more than satisfactory.
I look forward to your next lesson, however. It should be one that won't disappoint me.
Love,
Princess Celestia
Oh, Luna. I'm so happy you're back to normal.
Don't worry, nothing happened. You didn't do anything to mess with me. You were just a bit more... serious than usual.
Okay, you reamed me for using the wrong fork for my salad at lunchtime, but it's not a big deal!
Luna, don't cry, okay? It only happened once. I'll make sure it never happens again.
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Poor Luna. ; ;
That very last line sounds vaguely threatening.
I kind of want to see a picture of Serious Luna now. And maybe an episode.
I find it hilarious that Discord is released, and Tia's immediate reaction after sending the elements is to resume her day court duties while ponies around her are discorded.
BOOO! HISS!!!! BOO! BOO!!!!!! THE DAMN 'DON'T REMEMEBER WHAT I DID WHILE TAINTED BY EVIL' CLICHE HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH! BOO! BOO!!!!
Plus one for serious Luna pic. That would be shight to behold.
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Those Discorded don't have a clear recollection of events and actions they committed while under his spell, so forgive me if canon actually supports me on this.
...
I chuckled.
5642752 Could work, if they ever give the Sisters a more central role. Even without Discord, it could be Luna trying to earn her subjects' love and admiration by acting more like the serene Celestia and failing miserably, and the lesson could be about staying true to yourself and such.
Wow. Celestia has been pretty nice in the past few chapters. I bet she won't be so happy in the next one, though.
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Then how the hades did AJ remember she had been lying?
5643068 There's a difference between not having a clear recollection of events and not remembering generalities of what happened.
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I'd say it's a matter of debate.
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The degree of recollection is dependent on how easily the ponies were tricked.
In order, the ponies with the strongest and weakest minds to mold to his trickery are as follows: Fluttershy, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie.
Fluttershy required direct physical contact to be tricked, and therefore the strongest dose of his hypnotism. She claimed she had a bad dream, which is hardly a clear recollection of events.
Twilight hardly had the exposure her friends did, so her memory isn't shot.
Applejack took the most effort for Discord to trick with words because of her doubting nature. As such, she has the clearest recollection of what happened to turn her into what she was, but I contest she did NOT know about all the lies she spewed while she went full Discord.
Rarity barely resisted, but just like my portrayal of her, greed snatched her up like a cute puppy at an adoption center, so only the sheer shock of her carrying me on her back is the most she remembers about the ordeal.
I'm still sour about being dumped like that, but that's neither here or there.
Rainbow Dash needed to be put in a rather simple Catch 22 to break, so of course she remembers absolutely nothing of the ordeal.
And yes, Pinkie is dead last on this list because she was the easiest to trick through nothing but mean-spirited laughter, but her recollection of remembering how everyone was gray is exempt because she's goddamn Pinkie and knows everything.
5643159 This bit here is one of the reasons I actually liked Discord more BEFORE he got more screen time. In these episodes, Discord absolutely DOES NOT LIE. He represents the perfect "devil" figure to me. Legalistic, specific, and utterly honest. The fact is just that his ancient intellect and grasp of wordplay allowed him to trick and deceive ponies through implication and suggestion. However, later episodes allowed him to outright lie to accomplish his pranks/schemes. Fluttershy was actually the only one he hypnotized that I disapproved of because he resorted to actual compulsion rather than misdirection and guile. Even Twilight gave in of her own accord out of loss.
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It's not the same, but I think it's close enough....
5642798 I really hoped to see THIS Serious Luna deal with the nobles.... Coooouuuuuurt!
5644183 Seriously.
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I really need to stop reading in class, this is so good.
Good job, man!
5642945 How about we boo you instead?
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Works for me.
Serious Luna eh?
Are you sure Discord's effects on her didn't linger a bit? Cos outside Luna eclipsed them writers might as well have replaced her with a boring ass block of wood in the shape of her that shows up once a season if you're lucky...
Okay it's not as bad as all that but Luna's still criminally underutilized!
I'll just asume that was the joke you were making with the whole serious Luna thing
Except Luna remembers, because Rarity clearly remembers. And Fluttershy wanted to brush it off as a nightmare. And Applejack explained why she had been doing what she was doing. It makes it seem more like Rainbow Dash was FAKING IT. Typo on you. But I shall forgive you.
Luna shouldn't have faked it like that, but then again, Rainbow Dash faked it too (Twilight, AJ, Rarity, Fluttershy, all made clear they remembered what they were doing before, even if Fluttershy wanted to pretend it was a nightmare). The evidence is in favor of remembering.
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I disagree. And it makes for a much more interesting story if the pony remembers.
Fluttershy wasn't tricked at all, she was brute forced, and she clearly remembered, otherwise she wouldn't have tried to brush it off a nightmare.
I admired the writers for their GUTS to NOT go for the 'protagionists don't remember' cliche.
And my disgust for 'Rarity and Trixie both got be-deviled by an magical artifact that brought out their worst traits, in fact, Trixie acted LESS LIKE herself, while Rarity acted like a exaggerated version of herself' Trixie remembers because she's an antagonist, Rarity doesn't remember because she's a protagonist.
What got me to love MLP as much as I did, was the writers actually having the guts to let the heroes remember what happened, instead of diving for the inane and insane "I don't remember anything" cliche that writers have come to see as holy scripture, when in reality, people REMEMBER what they did while under hypnosis or mind control UNLESS explicitly given instructions to not remember. And is what inspired me to write pony fan fiction in the first place was the writers not going the cowardly cliche of the characters not remembering.
So I am happy we are able to agree to disagree. And I'm happy we can just move on with our lives.
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Naw.
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Which is a symbol of Fluttershy's true inner strength, and why Celestia would give Fluttershy the task of growing Discord a conscience. (The idea Discord was just a misunderstood prankster who didn't understand what he was doing before his reform IMHO undermines the accomplishment Fluttershy accomplished by getting the devil himself to grow a conscience!) Discord COULDN'T WIN against Fluttershy, so he had to CHEAT. Which underlines Discord's immaturity underneath his eons of experience and his vast intellect.
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It makes much more sense that Rainbow Dash simply doesn't want to remember. And Discord ONLY WAY to break Rainbow Dash was to set her loyalty against himself. He couldn't convince her that loyalty was worthless, he couldn't convince her that being a backstabber was better, he couldn't tempt her. He had to set two loyalties against each other, in other words, that was the ONLY WAY Discord could do it. That makes Rainbow Dash's the strongest behind Fluttershy's. (Twilight as magic is strongest WITH her friends, but the weakest WITHOUT her friends).
Rather like the ponies during the invasion of Canterlot who go from cowering in terror before changeling invaders to happily going about their day in split seconds at the end. Ponies like to simply block out their problems.
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And I think the characters remembering was a brilliant piece of artist guts by the writers by not falling back on the misinformed cliche that you automatically don't remember what you do while under mind control (you do, you have to be conditioned explicitly not to remember, it's not automatic). And why Rarity and Trixie both being twisted by an unholy artifact, and Trixie remembering everything she did, while Rarity doesn't, what was a step BACKWARDS and a bad case of bias towards the protagonists. Now that Trixie is squarely in protagonist category, if that plot happened in the CURRENT season, Trixie wouldn't remember a thing. And if Rarity had been a returning 'jerk of the day', she'd have remembered everything.
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It doesn't. It's an interpretation. Mine is ultimately as valid as yours. So let's agree to disagree and move on.
8193115 I'm hoping the timestamps are wrong on my end (somehow...in two different browsers), but if they aren't then here's a little tip:
Don't spew out hundreds of words in reply to some old comments in order to force your headcanon before urging them to "move on". You'll just end up annoying the people who have moved on... 2 whole years ago.
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There is no past for me, there is only the present. Something that happened ten years ago, might a well happened today. That means if someone turned me a favor ten years ago, I'll feel grateful today too. It's the way I am, it's who I am. I can't change that. And I shouldn't have to, BECAUSE it's part of who I am. And I shouldn't be scared of it or ashamed of it. (Yeah I did watch today's episode.)
The devils and hellcats scream, I can't take off the mask they burned to my face, but the real friends I have, still know the real me.
Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Spike, thank you.
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I didn't say anything about changing who you are. As much as I disagree with your attitude, it's not really any of my business.
I simply suggested that you keep other people's feelings in mind. Telling someone to "move on" when they already have done is annoying. Being rude ("BOO!!! HISS!!!") is...well...rude.
There will be no more comments from me, as I doubt a Tired Old Man would appreciate us dragging out this conversation on his story page.
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BUT THERE WILL BE ONE RANDOM AND COMPLETELY UNRELATED COMMENT FROM ME (insert evil, manic laughter as well as a bit of coughing)