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TwiwnB


30 years old closet brony from the center of Europe. Just happily doing my thing in my corner of the internet.

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Starlight has a question: why is it ponies do all that they do? She goes to Twilight who doesn't have an answer, but maybe a way to find out.
in the name of exploration, she will have to go to the end of the world and find out what the existence of her world is leading to, what the purpose of its existence is.

She does find out an answer, even if it's not the one she would have first expected.

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It's okay. I'm guessing the writing on Celestia's shadow eventually became Luna. Who was the creator, though?

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Oh, yeah, the identity of the "creator" of the pony world (I made sure to use the "alternate universe" tag). In the very first concept, it was Laurent Faust and that wasn't really much fun at all. It just asked more questions than I could care to try to answer.
So I chose to have Pinkie Pie to take the role of the creator, as a call back to a very old story of mine ("the last pinkie promise"). I tried to put hints here and there (pink water, Celestia being pink, mane and tail with shapes of clouds, giggling, the use of the word silly, hugs, emphasis on being friends with everpony, the fear of being alone and so on, a party in the distance...).
The identity doesn't change much, but I couldn't state it clearly because it would just confuse most people. She is just a pretext to write about the overall concept of purpose in a light manner.

I just wanted to take the scene where Celestia asks Twilight what she would have done in her place out of my head.

The drawing on Celestia's shadow is Luna in this context.

... yeah, I've got very little excuse for that one. I just felt like it...

It's very interesting to think about what twilight would think about the whole situation. Ponies have such a strong idea of destiny and fate due to things like cutie marks telling therm what they were "destined to do". When she learns that the guiding force/pony in the universe has left, and there is nothing that has a bigger plan for them, how would she feel. How would this change her outlook on life when she learns that no more is there a force above all guiding life along.

I really did enjoy reading this fic.

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Thanks :yay:. Glad you had fun opening the idea.

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