Friendship is Magic.
The world is full of innocence and balance, if only one is willing to open their heart and see through the eyes of another.
This a gift given by a innocent filly, and her unique outlook on the world.
Written for Bicyclette's A Thousand Words contest.
Briefly Featured On 4/29/22!
Praying you win something!
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That cover art is beautiful <3
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Coverart sauce: https://www.deviantart.com/rocket-lawnchair/art/Gravity-Hog-ATG-X-Day-2-844315107 (SFW)
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Thank you, I could only trace it back as far as Cheeseburger.
11226165 NP. Derpibooru has a neat reverse search thing you can use to find (generally pony) images, or you can always use saucenao.
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Isn't it?
The moment I saw this, I was inspired to write sister fluff.
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Need to use derpibooru more then, the art showed up when I searched mlp art, lol.
A lovely look at both the young diarchs and Star Swirl's... unconventional teaching methods. Though Luna dropping the cutest "r = w" voice after one line bothers me. I just wish it was consistent one way or the other.
But that's a minor quibble. Overall, a good lesson for Celestia with a nice undercurrent of impending tragedy. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
hehehe so true
aww, Luna is so mean it's so cute!
ehehe, love the contrast between Luna and the older and grumblier Celestia
hehe, she's so easy to amuse!
oof, foreshadowing!
auaugh this is extremely heartwarming i love it
augh that is just too cute
ehehe, Luna is just the age to be so rudely blunt without even considering it!
augh, the folded-back ears are the perfect touch. and yes, the contrast between Celestia's aloofness and Luna's emotion stretching back to their fillyhoods is a great thing to explore like this
and this Starswirl is just so warm and wise! very fitting to be Celestia's mentor
augh, that is such a cute mental image! a tiny moon rolling around!
and that is the world Celestia spent her long reign doing her best to build for her little ponies! argh.
this was a lovely mix of heartwarming adorableness and heartbreaking future tragedies foreshadowed, joined by the strife and terror of a world at war far in the background. what a contrast to the Equestria of the modern age that we see, underscoring the gulf of time that separates the Royal Sisters of the present that we know, and the vastly different world that they grew up in.
and augh, i am so impressed with just how much personality Celestia, Luna, and Starswirl have here, and how perfect they are as the younger versions of the much older characters we see in the canon. i can imagine perfectly how they grew up from this point to what we saw, and how time has changed them. amazing work!
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XD, went back and added more lisp speak on Luna.
Didn't expect for that bomb to be dropped so early. Suerly there was more to that than this one small exchange of sentences to give a spark. The rest of fic is pretty good for what it is. I like it!