A changeling is taken prisoner after being thrown from Canterlot. The ponies don't know much about the changeling, and viceversa... once everything comes to light, what will fate hold for the little worker?
Curse you! I was planning on using this exact title for a future fic... that I will not be revealing any information about.
Oh well, stuff happens. I haven't actually read your story, just had to stop by and let you know that you jacked my title. It's okay though, I forgive you.
Oh, Celestia... Why didn't you realize that betraying the Changelings and messing around with their magic would come back to bite you? You're immortal. It was all but inevitable that something like this would happen sometime by trying to hide them away... but most of all, when you thought the Elements of Harmony were the only chance against Nightmare Moon, why didn't you go to the ones who understood them best: ... Changelings? Why was it more important to keep the secret over having a better chance to save your sister, given what you knew they had done to Discord? ... Iridescence was right--you are an imbecile.
... I like the tragically ignorant Celestia you portray here!
2160895 Hehe, sorry But I think there are like... other three stories with a similar name out there... it's not like I'm that original when it comes to names.
2161152 (I don't know how to work this into the story right now, not without dancing around the subject for pages, so I'll put it here for the time being.)
That's the thing with the secret - first because she didn't understand them fully and feared they could turn them against the ponies in the future, then, after fiddling around with them some more, because she was afraid the changelings would react violently when they found out they were bonded to the princesses (sorry if I didn't make that clear in the second chapter). The immortality just played a different part, letting her plan for them to fade from memory before doing something that would bring the Elements back on public sight... and still in control of the ponies.
As for the resurfacing of the Elements with the advent of Nightmare Moon, besides the previous reason, she found about Twilight first. They have to be used from the goodness of one's heart anyways, and Twilight would go alone to the middle of the Everfree forest just to spare a bunch of ponies she barely even tolerated. Celestia knew she would be hard-pressed to find a better Element of Magic (and it's not like all changelings are potential bearers or even understand the driving forces more than any given pony).
I got the idea for this Celestia from a variety of fics that... sometimes went too far, making her -while still a kind ruler- blindly idiotic in some of her decisions and way too uncaring of the possible consequences, while making her too smart and knowledgeable to make the mistakes she does. I lost the link, but one is called "Upheaval"... I think it might be here on fimfiction, but I dunno. That Celestia comes across as the 'really should have known better and is way too smart to do something like that without some consequtive mayor lapses in judgement and even then really should have grown out of/realized her mistakes by the time the story comes around' type. (Still a good story, though, even if I want to throttle Celly)
2161898 I wasn't actually directing those questions at you, more than I was just voicing my thoughts in question form (I already knew or figured most of what you said)--nor did I expect such a lengthy-ish response!
Beyond that... when I mentioned NMM, I was referring to the first time Cele used the EoH against her as depicted in this chapter. I mean, how dense does one have to be to try to use magic that represents harmony between creatures by oneself, alone! Forcing the EoH was just a really dumb move.
Oh, and while I'm at this, the "binding" of the EoH seems very... weak. The princesses are still alive, after all, yet the EoH are no longer bound to them, so death is not necessary for the EoH to change bearers. In fact, it wouldn't be beyond belief that the Changelings have--or at least had, way back when--some spell or ritual to "unbind" the EoH. Even without that, though, Cele and Luna had been given the EoH by a Changeling and used them to defeat an otherwise unbeatable enemy who was attacking the Changelings as much as ponies. Surely if they explained this, the Changelings would not have reacted violently, or at least been much, much less inclined to do so? Most of all, why would Celestia think such horrible things of the species that gave her the weapon to defeat Discord? -a weapon that the Changelings had (apparently?) never used against ponies! (You don't have to answer this--like I said: tragically ignorant... To think of what might have been if Cele had only approached the Changelings with the truth from the beginning...)
Curse you! I was planning on using this exact title for a future fic... that I will not be revealing any information about.
Oh well, stuff happens. I haven't actually read your story, just had to stop by and let you know that you jacked my title. It's okay though, I forgive you.
Oh, Celestia... Why didn't you realize that betraying the Changelings and messing around with their magic would come back to bite you? You're immortal. It was all but inevitable that something like this would happen sometime by trying to hide them away... but most of all, when you thought the Elements of Harmony were the only chance against Nightmare Moon, why didn't you go to the ones who understood them best: ... Changelings? Why was it more important to keep the secret over having a better chance to save your sister, given what you knew they had done to Discord? ... Iridescence was right--you are an imbecile.
... I like the tragically ignorant Celestia you portray here!
2160895 Hehe, sorry But I think there are like... other three stories with a similar name out there... it's not like I'm that original when it comes to names.
2161152 (I don't know how to work this into the story right now, not without dancing around the subject for pages, so I'll put it here for the time being.)
That's the thing with the secret - first because she didn't understand them fully and feared they could turn them against the ponies in the future, then, after fiddling around with them some more, because she was afraid the changelings would react violently when they found out they were bonded to the princesses (sorry if I didn't make that clear in the second chapter). The immortality just played a different part, letting her plan for them to fade from memory before doing something that would bring the Elements back on public sight... and still in control of the ponies.
As for the resurfacing of the Elements with the advent of Nightmare Moon, besides the previous reason, she found about Twilight first. They have to be used from the goodness of one's heart anyways, and Twilight would go alone to the middle of the Everfree forest just to spare a bunch of ponies she barely even tolerated. Celestia knew she would be hard-pressed to find a better Element of Magic (and it's not like all changelings are potential bearers or even understand the driving forces more than any given pony).
I got the idea for this Celestia from a variety of fics that... sometimes went too far, making her -while still a kind ruler- blindly idiotic in some of her decisions and way too uncaring of the possible consequences, while making her too smart and knowledgeable to make the mistakes she does. I lost the link, but one is called "Upheaval"... I think it might be here on fimfiction, but I dunno. That Celestia comes across as the 'really should have known better and is way too smart to do something like that without some consequtive mayor lapses in judgement and even then really should have grown out of/realized her mistakes by the time the story comes around' type. (Still a good story, though, even if I want to throttle Celly)
2161898
I wasn't actually directing those questions at you, more than I was just voicing my thoughts in question form (I already knew or figured most of what you said)--nor did I expect such a lengthy-ish response!
Beyond that... when I mentioned NMM, I was referring to the first time Cele used the EoH against her as depicted in this chapter. I mean, how dense does one have to be to try to use magic that represents harmony between creatures by oneself, alone! Forcing the EoH was just a really dumb move.
Oh, and while I'm at this, the "binding" of the EoH seems very... weak. The princesses are still alive, after all, yet the EoH are no longer bound to them, so death is not necessary for the EoH to change bearers. In fact, it wouldn't be beyond belief that the Changelings have--or at least had, way back when--some spell or ritual to "unbind" the EoH. Even without that, though, Cele and Luna had been given the EoH by a Changeling and used them to defeat an otherwise unbeatable enemy who was attacking the Changelings as much as ponies. Surely if they explained this, the Changelings would not have reacted violently, or at least been much, much less inclined to do so? Most of all, why would Celestia think such horrible things of the species that gave her the weapon to defeat Discord? -a weapon that the Changelings had (apparently?) never used against ponies! (You don't have to answer this--like I said: tragically ignorant... To think of what might have been if Cele had only approached the Changelings with the truth from the beginning...)