Cadance's Royal Break Up Chronicle - Snippet. · 2:48pm Aug 13th, 2014
It was a dreary morning.
The sky outside was bleak, pale clouds casting a dull shade over the ground. I was in our…my room, lying on the bed in silence…alone.
It was a little over a week since Alex…since my little snuggle honey found out that I'd tortured Soul Sapphire. He'd come across Aunties' chamber at the time I was explaining what I'd done to Celestia.
I didn't realize that the door was open a crack…I didn't realize that my baby had woken up without me, nor that he left to find me.
And when he did…when he overheard what I had to say, he opened the door.
Celestia looked shocked that he was there to begin with…and so sad. But as for me, as for my emotions, my expression.
I didn't know what to say, the look of utter horror on his face was more than enough to render me speechless. I tried to speak; I tried to salvage the situation but...
…
"Why would you do such a thing?"
"Honey, I-"
"You tortured that mare…"
"I…It was for you sweetie! It was all for you, to protect you!"
"To PROTECT me? You did that to pro- No…No, no more. I thought I knew you Cadance. I thought I…well clearly I was wrong."
I remember running to him, grasping his right hand with my hoof as I desperately willed him to stay, to understand that I HAD to do it.
"Alex, please! It had to be done, I had to do it. Please stay and lis-"
He didn't even acknowledge me…that was what hurt the most.
"Are you seriously going to condone this, Celestia?"
My aunty looked so torn, so stricken…and yet she remained firm in her decision.
"I can't let this get out to the public, Alex. It would ruin the balance. Ponies would doubt, the nobles would conspire and everything would fall to ruin. We can't let this knowledge leave this room."
Alex…he actually flinched at the tone Celestia used. I don't think she'd ever spoken to him with such finality. And the threatening hint in her tone…
"And if I let it?"
Silence, a cold silence filled the room as Celestia's eyes narrowed…and then returned to normal, a smile even daring to appear on her muzzle.
"You won't," she said gently. "You love Cadance, you love me, and we both love you. Letting this knowledge out would hurt everyone here, and I know you sweetie. You're angry, you're not thinking straight, but you'd never hurt us…would you?"
The soft tone, loving tone in which she spoke seemed to make Alex deflate on the spot. He shook his head in response and looked at me blankly, before shaking off my hooves and regarding me…in a way I didn't particularly enjoy.
I couldn't stop myself from blurting out the question as he walked away…I couldn't.
"You still love me right? We're still together?!"
I sounded so…desperate, and I was. Being apart from him is a special torture on its own.
He stopped walking for a moment, but with naught but a sigh he carried on and closed the door behind him.
And that's when I began to cry.
…
I snapped out of my thoughts as yet another wave of despair washed over me. My addiction to him, to my beloved was so strong that the week in which I'd spent alone had truly begun to affect me.
And affect me with a vengeance…with shakes so powerful I had to soundproof the room just to hide my screams and nigh hysterical raving.
Something inside me demanded that I find him, take him, own him, love him until he could not deny he loved me. And it took everything I was to deny it.
But I wasn't sure that I could keep it up.
Alex and I hadn't touched since that moment, and it hurt me terribly. I needed his touch, I needed his kiss and caress, and…I needed his love. I needed him to look at me the way he used to, with such devotion and care in his eyes that it made my heart flutter.
I needed all of this badly, so badly that I…I'd begun to form a plan in order to reclaim it.
To reclaim him.
Your writing touches me so.
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Wow... deep.
Insane cadence is best cadence
This was the thing that sort of pissed me off when I read The Alicorn Instinct. The fact that Celestia knew what was going on with Cadance and she didn't do anything to stop her, not only that she actually helped Cadance with her vengeance. Knowing that she help Cadance totally torture and mind fuck one of her subjects just to teach her lesson that felt wrong with me(although she does that constantly with Twilight.)
dis gon b so gud!
I'm not a expert in psychology or relationships, but this 'sweetie' demonstrates that Celestia shows no respect to Alex's emotions and opinions which are against her own opinion.
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The instinct brings out the darkness in all Alicorns. Celestia explains in The Alicorn Instinct that hers demands that she protects her ponies/non ponies whatever the cost, even from themselves.
So if she believes that acting that way will keep Alex quiet, then she'll do so. She loves him, she loves him like her own son. But like Cadance she believes that he needs protecting, even from his own actions.
This story here is only a what-if, but the actual instinct will be explained further as the series progresses.
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Tell that to Soul Sapphire.
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She can't change the past, so she makes her life better in the future. It's the best she can do when faced with a choice between family and not.
Awesome I can't wait to read the full chapter this is going to be great
Celestia is endangering the lives of everyone by not locking Cadence up. She is putting Alex's life, along with the lives of all of her subjects, in jeapordy by allowing someone who was willing to go to such a great length as torture to go free. It was made abundantly clear to both her and Alex just how mentally unstable Cadence was when she tried to justify her actions as inevitable and saying she did it to 'protect' Alex from Soul Sapphire.
It is also a reminder that Celestia is still a politician at heart, not a mother. No matter how motherly and caring she tries to be, she has displayed to us that she cares nothing for justice or morality when it comes to important ponies, preferring 'balance' over righteousness. And no mother would abuse the emotions of her son or her family to get her way.
Who knows? Maybe one day the hypocrisies of her flawed system will cause her palace to come crashing down on her tyrannical head.