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Between Lines
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Woah.. that was heavy, man. Not sure what to think of this, but it was cool nonetheless.
Wow. That's worse than death.
6594825 Thanks! I like trying to be different.
6594957 That tends to happen a lot with magic and destiny.
lol looks familiar
But good take on this, after all that much power has to have it's price.
Distantly reminds me of this, albeit much darker.
Wow. Scary. Just today on the drive home from work I had a random thought about how Equestria's sun was powered. Did it work like our own sun, fusing a limited supply of hydrogen into helium, doomed to expand into a red giant one day.
Apparently so.
On the bright side: Ponies invent starships ...
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Oh the dangers of wikimedia commons XD
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Pfffft. Yes. Yes I would say this is darker.
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It's like when you learn a new word and start hearing it everywhere...
6595712 Annoying thought: "Why didn't Celestia just move the Sun further away?"
6595754 She's tethered to it. Within lethal distance. Sending the sun away presents the same problem as her trying to leave it. And if she brings it along... well then leaving no longer solves the problem.
6595762 She could leave it on the other side of the planet, 'cause screw those guys at least Equestria's nice?
Don't mind me, I'm just being tongue-in-cheek so as to not be curled up in the fetal position, crying.
First off, I am kind of annoyed at the ponies for not at least keeping in communication with Celestia with all she has done for the ponies over time.
Second, eventually the hot sun will cool and become a white dwarf. At that point things may or may not be better for Celestia.
Third, you do not have to move the planet, just change its spin so that the axial tilt has some places that do not get hit by the sun. Optimally stop the spinning altogether then live past the horizon point in the zone where things are livable. There are places on Mercury that are colder than the coldest places on earth.
Fourth, what happened to Luna?
Fifth, what happened to Discord? He could manage to at least achieve option 3 if he wanted to.
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Because few things are more fun then listening to your starbound children as you boil alive every day. Nobody likes being reminded of their fate in such a case.
For the second, assuming Equestria to be one AU from a G type star... yeah, things are not going to get better. When the expansion hits the planet, the drag from the sun's atmosphere will slow it and cause it to drop inwards. She's on a trip to the core.
For the third, Mercury has no atmosphere. The convective forces mean the whole planet's getting cooked. That, or Celestia has no air left.
Four and five are tales for another story. We are discussing absurdly long stellar scales of time, after all.
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Solitary confinement is worse than having other ponies to talk to. Really though unless the planet were 100% quarantined and policed, rogue ponies would try to communicate with Celestia, send care packages, and the like regardless of what the ponies in power would say. I mean you have an eternal fount of wisdom there. People go a long way to climb hills to find gurus.
As for atmosphere, it would be impossible for the planet to still have a normal one. One of two events would happen. It would either lose its atmosphere, or it would Venus up. It is more likely that it would lose its atmosphere. It would not have anything remotely resembling breathable air at one atmosphere.
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You know, there's a line I'm fond of from a reviewer, and it goes (sarcastically) "Just enjoy the movie by not paying attention to the movie." I like it because it points out the absurdity of asking someone to ignore a plot hole. That said, I think you're taking the story in the wrong context. We are dealing with a pony who is trapped in the truest sense of the word. She cannot leave, she cannot die. Who is to say what transpired between her and ponykind in the ages of her imprisonment? Maybe they did forget her, or perhaps she even drove them off, considering her obvious martyr complex. Considering that the progression of the stellar lifecycle takes billions of years, who is to say what happened? Maybe this is all some sort of terrible nightmare curse, and Celestia is just trapped in a dream without end. Ultimately, it is just a story of a pony coping the best they can with an impossible burden.
As for the atmosphere statement, considering my initial point was that adjusting the axial tilt or orientation would do nothing to make the planet more livable, my point still stands.
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Actually what I see is the ponies leaving behind remote controlled robots and pilgrims syncing with those robots.
6606262 I imagine Celestia would finally die once the star began collapsing as a white dwarf. A star that isn't fusing is basically 'dead'.
Okay, wow, you know it's a heartwrencher when what sounded upbeat.
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I still envision the blighted landscape filled with robotic ponies remote controlled by ponies on ships in orbit around the planet on the far side of the sun, keeping her company in her last days.
I am loyal enough to take a turn at that. And I have the feeling that ponies are as well.
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Tethered as in 'Go too far away and she dies' or 'If you push the sun too far she gets pulled along after it like a fishhook?'
Because if it's option 1, well, I'd think death is preferable. And if it's option two, is she just flat out unkillably unkillable/infinitely regenerating?
Because, well, lobotomy would be a kindness otherwise.
6801413 She constantly grows her flesh back after being directly irradiated XD I'd call that pretty regenerative.
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Well, yea, I got that part out of it, but there's like, degrees. You know, like how with a zombie it doesn't matter unless you shoot them in the head, or your vampire needs a stake through the heart!
Wow forever alone .
Fascinating.
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When Celestia said that she remembered the Ponies that left her, I think she meant that everyone else died. My theory is that they couldn't figure out how to get off the planet before Celestia's sun supernovaed, the charred husks of Ponies wouldn't be there otherwise.
Really excellent. :D
Incredible story, thank you so much for writing.
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It's so surreal seeing people still reading this.
I found some descriptions thoroughly confusing, and I'm not sure if I am supposed to share in Celestia's confusion on those points.
Nevertheless, that was a heartbreaking story. The betrayal, but also the guilt. And at the end, she goes back to the chair with her one rule. Gut-wrenching.
I'm going to come back to this, because I've been thinking further on it, and this story deserves more comments (and views, and thumbs ups).
I've read a LOT of stories about far-future Celestia, many of them well-informed regarding the life cycle of low-mass stars like our sun. Most of them are sad because everybody died, et cetera et cetera. In fact, there's so many of them, and they're all so similar, that they tend to blur together.
But this story is very different. You took a tired old idea (I think it was even old when this story came out) and you made it something more than a sad scene. Celestia isn't sad because stars eventually expand and roast their planets. What Celestia is going through is completely different, because her ponies are alive... because they abandoned her. She's angry, she's guilt-ridden, and she just wants to forget. This was beautiful, hopeful, and haunting, all in one, and you tie the whole thing back together with a bow from the end to the beginning.
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It's so nice to hear this. I'll admit, it's often the stories near and dear to your heart are usually the least successful because their very artistry makes them appeal more to a fringe audience. I'm glad to hear those who have enjoyed it have gotten so much out of the experience.
Excellent story! I really like how Celestia has driven herself to forget. Influenced by the sun or her own self, who knows.
I had a lot of trouble piecing together the shapes and scenery around her. Looking forward to the comments to see what others thought.