My last romance I swear!

So.

They say write what you know. I don't know romance. Sure, I've had crushes, but that's all physical, and my mind is a black box.

Seriously, I open the freezer to try and decide what I want to eat, but it's like I feed parameters into a box and it deliberates and sends the answer back. My decision making process...isn't.

Maybe a Magic 8 Ball would be a better comparison.

Anyway, I don't understand romance, so I swore that none of my stories would have it. I made this resolution after stumbling upon this.

Course, this was AFTER I wrote Eventide as an April Fool's joke, so...well, I just won't write any romance from now on!

Thanks to this my resolve was hardened for all the time it took me to wikiwalk to some other blog i can't remember, or maybe was a comment of why Twilestia doesn't work.

It got me thinking:Why?

Typically the question revolves around either the whole "Practically raised her" which should really stop being a thing given that Celestia has watched the moon rise for about 1200 years, or "Twilight only sees the Princess", which can make sense.

Lesson Zero was a terrible situation for a number of reasons, but I realized that I had never seen a story tackle it from Celestia's POV. How badly would it crush her to realize that Twilight didn't know her at all? That was my inspiration, and it would not leave my head or several days until I said, "OKOK I'll write it...if I can get an editor." Again, much thanks to totallynotabrony for his help.

Twilight's response almost canned the whole thing though, and I'm still not sure it works. I left it alone for 2 days, playing killing floor 2 and other things hoping for an idea.

The cake thing...yea.

I intentionally left any romance beyond Twilight's confession extremely vague. If anyone wants to explore what happens after, feel free.