The Ultimate Fate of Nightmare Moon · 3:38am May 16th, 2014
The Rainbow of Light has been shown to be pretty damn unpredictable in what it decides to do with bad guys.
-Killed some old G1 villains
-Turned Discord to stone
-Turned Discord into stone again in round 2
-Sent Luna to the moon
-Pretty much left Luna alone in round 2
-Took away Sunset Shimmer's god-powers (totally counts)
-Sent Tirek to Tartarus in round 2, when it killed him in round 1
Celestia reached out to the sky with a soft weave of magic, even though after so many weeks of trying she knew that it was a meaningless effort. She had called upon both new techniques and ancient powers, but however she begged the sky to reveal its secrets, the sky would not respond.
It seemed that there might never be an answer to the question: When Princess Celestia used the Elements of Harmony to save Equestria, what became of Princess Luna?
I wrote this as part of a story that connects the pilot and the season 4 opener with the idea of a citizens' uprising calling themselves the Lunar Republic. WAIT NO DON'T UNFOLLOW ME YET. I'm just saying that I wish I had been a little more heavy-handed with the bit that I quoted, because the implication is actually pretty interesting.
Celestia didn't know what she was aiming at her sister. There are plenty of fanfics about how lonely it was for Celestia after the banishment--but how many fanfics address the idea that Celestia had no idea what she was about to do? Or worse--what if Celestia had no way of knowing for the next thousand years whether or not she had just killed Luna? This also applies to when she sneakily pointed Twilight toward them in the pilot, and when she asked Twilight to use them on Chrysalis.
Now I'm gonna go back to thinking of fanciful traditional pegasus names for stuff, and figuring out how to deal with the changes introduced by the s4 finale.
That... is amazing. Like so many solid ideas, it's blatantly obvious... once someone has pointed it out! I am so stealing this.