Epilogue
How do you go back to living a normal life after something like this? How can your boring, humdrum, every day existence do anything to motivate you after an incredible experience like that?
Simply, it can't. All you can do is focus on the day to day. And the ponies, of course. If I had thought I was obsessed before, that was nothing compared to how I was after Celestia's visit. I bought playsets. I bought shirts. My friends thought I was crazy when I finally came out of the "Brony closet". Well, except for my friend Paul, who turned out to be a Brony himself.
I even tried my hand at art. I tried to draw Celestia as I remembered her. My art skills are... not good.
I was kicking myself for not grabbing my camera and asking if I could take her picture. Or, even better, recording the whole interview. How many hits on Youtube would that have grabbed me, I wonder?
As the weeks went by, occasionally the thought would creep into my head, insidiously, that maybe I had dreamed the whole thing. Or that it was a hallucination. At those times, I would go into my study, into my locked fireproof safe, and I would delicately remove the feather that Celestia had given me. Longer than my hand, a delicate dusting of pink at the tip.
My wife, however, didn't take kindly to my near-evangelical Bronyism. It was only five days ago that we got into an argument over it, actually.
"I don't understand," she told me, "how you can be this obsessed with a children's television show?! Do you know how embarrassing it is that all of our friends know about it?"
"I don't care, because it's all real," is what I did NOT say. I also didn't say, "You know, Celestia came to visit me, and we had a lovely talk, and I found out all sorts of things that would make a physicist cry." After all, my only supporting witness was our cat Nadine, and she wasn't talking.
What I said instead was, "I'm sorry, dear. I'll try to curb it back in the future."
"Well, I sure hope you do! At first, it was kinda cute, but now it's just getting a little..." There was a pop in the air behind me, and my wife trailed off. I was watching her face, and I saw her eyes nearly bug out of her head. I turned around to see what was behind me.
"Greetings, mortal human! I, Princess Luna, have arrived at the request of my sister, Princess Celestia of Equestria, to inform you that we were able to deal Discord a sound defeat, in no small part thanks to the information that you have provided! When he freed himself from his statue, he found a contingent of Royal Guards, my sister and myself, as well as all the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony arrayed before him! The battle was over in mere seconds."
There was a slight groan and a soft "thump" behind me.
"Also," Luna said, "It appears as if your companion has fainted. Is she quite well?"
"Welcome, Luna," I said. "May I offer you a glass of lemonade?"
By the way, my wife was fine. Just a slight bump on the head. And a complete shifting of her concept of reality, of course. But I'm pretty sure she'll get over that. I've already ordered her some custom-made Luna hoodies for Christmas.
~THE END~
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And there we go. I know the final chapter was pretty heavy on the talking, but this fic is called "Interview with a Princess", after all
I hope I managed to end it in a way that you all find at least satisfactory. Once again, I want to thank everyone who reads this, and thanks again to everyone who took the time to comment. This is my first fanfic, and I am stunned and humbled by the overwhelmingly positive feedback I've gotten. Thank you all, sincerely.
*standing ovation*
Oh, Luna...
that was epic........why do we still not have a luna emoticon really...
Brilliant!
She had it comin...
Love and Tolerate. Though, in this case, just love. That was really good.
I love this ending! I just have one problem, it ENDS! While a great story it was too short for me. I loved it so.
I just have one thing to say... START THE SEQUEL NOW.
T_C
I wish there was a six star voting system instead of five. You've earned the extra star, no doubts about that.
Unexpected twist ending is unexpected.
Bravo, sir!
A very nice story with a few interesting twists. A little short for my taste, but not everyone has the patience to write a 1000 page novel. Well done.
YES MORE!
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HHNNNNNGGG! LUNA!
Sorry, had to get it out of my system.
I really enjoyed this fic, hope you write more.
Wether its on this or a new story is irrelevant
My reaction at the end was actually to shout out "WOHO! LUNA!" xD
This was awesome =D
And, if you don't mind, I will be stealing the idea of "Realms" for my headcanon. As a physicist, I have had trouble accepting the whole "Sun orbits around Equestria" thing, because, well... The laws of physics doesn't work that way. They just don't.
However, the "realms" idea is pretty nifty in that it proposes different "realms" in which the laws of physics are different, allowing for example the above "sun orbits around a planet" situation to occur.
I usually don't have much trouble simply accepting that "it's a different world, deal with it!" when it comes to fantasy worlds (I'm a heavy reader of sci-fi and fantasy, after all xD ), but MLP is actually surprisingly difficult to chew in that regard. xD
So thanks for a good read and a little epiphany on how to make Equestria work properly! =D
So when is this getting submitted to Equestria Daily?
I... still want this to be real... Reality's crashing on me... ...real...
so cute
LUNALUNALUNALUNALUNA YESSSSSS
that was awesome.
Not sure what's up with liming123, a spam bot or whatever, but I'm deleting those posts. Hopefully, nobody actually wants a "wholesale designer bags brand loud"
Luna...Omigosh. Best bit, that was before Luna Eclipsed. She still hadn't ditched her Royal Canterlot Voice.
I'm a bit upset that we changed their timeline, but it was probably for the best. More disappointingly, Screwball never came to exist.
Luna must have been...Beautiful. Celestia as spirit of the sun, sure, she'd be beautiful, but Luna? She's just...The Night.
all of this leaves me with just one question:
what if nothing we dream up is fictional, but just one of us having a brief look into another "realm" ?
oh well, we'll be too busy with putting people on other planets for the foreseeable future, but there's nothing we can't do given enough time
oh before i forget.... damnit no way to edit a post
anyway: this
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell
Excellently written! Quite probably my new all time favorite dimension hopping work of fiction from any story realm. Y'know, it's stories like this that make me want to drop what I'm doing, and just drive to New Mexico to find the Cleft... Find the Cleft, you find D'ni. Find D'ni and you can eventually learn to Write. Learn to Write and you can create linking books to any and all alternate realms you can think of, including Equestria. I guess it's just another case of hoping it's real and knowing it's probably not... yet a very strong hope is still there. One of these days...
64600Because FIMfiction is -sadface- against the one true overlordess of the night.
i dont even think pinkie pie has a reaction big enough to describe how good this story was. This is tired for first place in my books, right next to past sins.
You know, this story actually gave me quite a bit of material that I can use in this one story that I'm plotting out at the moment. I won't use any blatant plagerism, but I just might take the more worldly outlook on magic and how harmony was used to bring it under control into it. I also loved your portrayal of Princess Celestia. Not only was it (in my opinion) a completely unique and viable interpretation on her character, but it also had a lot of elements from the way I like to see her. In times of peace and tranquility she's a loving and kind ruler, possibly even somewhat trollish (
) every now and again, but able to put on a mask of authority if the situation called for it.
Bravo sir, bravo!
This was a very interesting story. I enjoyed how you used the episodes as a guide for Celestia's answers but acknowledged that, as a (primarily) children's show, they are obviously a simplified version of events. I also very much enjoyed your description of magic as it pertains to the Equestrian realm and Nightmare Moon's creation. The "realm" concept reminded me (fondly) of the Dungeons and Dragons "Spelljammer" campaigns and the Crystal Sphere barriers. Luna's arrival at the end was priceless. Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of written art.
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And with that comment, you now need to write an Uru/MLP:FIM crossover fic.
I was doing what i do normaly (nothing). When i stumbled upon a post in Equestria Daily, Interview with a Princess. Being a very curious one, I looked at it. Read the links and saw an additional tag of "Celestia on a couch" this caught my attention. Not being a fanfic reader at all, I figured my as well just take a look at this. First chapter in, not bad. Continued reading to when you started describing Celestia, and I delighted of how clearly you described her. Once you got to talking about magic and the Realms, my mind exploded. Not being past early adulthood, memories of me and my best friend playing out our realms. And how our justifications for differences in universal law, were a bit more vague. But I digress, I loved this story! I am very thrilled this was my first fanfic of any kind i read. If you ever create more content, ill be absolutely positive to give it a read. Thank you. But now i need to find a fountain pen and make a fire pit.
I want a custom made Luna hoodie
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*starts the chanting* SEE-QUEL! SEE-QUEL! SEE-QUEL!
Dear god..... They SPAWNED CAMPED DISCORD! I LOVE IT!!!
great bit of writing dude very good.
Very well done. I was quite Skeptical of reading this but I enjoyed it quite a bit and I am thankful for the story. Keep up the good work!
Almost I am tempted to write up a letter to the Princess and burn it just to try to get this to happen, because you wrote this so WELL! This totally is not my normal type of fic, but wow, this was amazing. All of it.
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I like to imagine that might be true.
This demands a sequel with Pinkie Pie braking the rules of the Realms
This fic has to be one of the better ones I've read! Brilliant!
I join with the rest in singing your praises for this. Truly a delightful story.
The ending: At "pop", I expected a scroll to have appeared. Your choice was MUCH better (and hilarious). Wonderful from start to finish.
Now I really wonder: how many bronies are immolating letters to Celestia/Luna/anypony after reading this? Because I know I am damn tempted to...
You my good sire, control the MLP universe!
Now make up some fake lies about evil In Equestria or make them do something stupid...
Quick, give her spoilers for the other episodes!
very nice :) i rather enjoyed the end but i feel it was a bit short
I admit, I was getting a bit bored during the Answers chapter. I even went so far as to tl;dr the last few paragraphs. Then I read the ending and laughed my head off. That is all.
My word, that was good. It made me feel all funny inside when Celestia showed up. I hink the term is, in fact, HNNNNNNNG.
Seriously, whoever wrote this needs to write more. I am an insatiable fanfic reader.