In my early days in the fandom (2014), I absolutely adored this fic. It's one of the things that made me fall in love with this fandom. It was a great rendition of Kilala's next-gen universe.
Back in 2014/15, I had different feelings compared to now. I used to think that Shining Armor wasn't under any control during the wedding rehearsal. While Chrysalis didn't use the mind control spell directly on him, he was still under too much influence from the spell, which made him turn against Twilight. It really wasn't Shining's fault in that case. My interpretation now is, if Shining was
After struggling (yet again) on what to put in next for my chapter, I have decided that I will split it. I'm just going to figure out what to rewrite until I finally get it published. Thanks for the patience!