Twilight was currently holding a meeting in the map table with Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Trixie. She didn’t talk with Trixie much but she knew having one of Starlight’s best friends around might help her with her plans, and Sunburst was busy being a Crystaller and she doubted Maud’s monotone personality would be helpful.
“Thank you all for coming here. I feel like this issue concerns all of us. I think all of us but Trixie have noticed something’s wrong with Starlight.” Twilight told her friends.
“I’ll say. I heard from Silverstream that Starlight was acting less sweet and helpful than normal.” Rainbow Dash said, still kinda shocked from even saying this, “I literally had to make sure she was talking about the right pony and yeah, she’s changed.”
“I absolutely agree darling. Those glasses don’t really correlate with her normal personality and today she went to my boutique to buy a black tux.” Rarity spoke in agreement.
“Wait. Trixie is confused, what is going on with Starlight?” Trixie asked with a raised eyebrow.
“She’s become super serious and cold.” Pinkie Pie explained with a roll of her eyes, “She’s acting so boring now.”
“She’s always been serious and sometimes she can get annoyed. I don’t get what the problem is.” Trixie rolled her eyes.
“She’s basically less eccentric and enthusiastic like she used to be. Sorta like a business pony.” Applejack explained.
“She reminds me of how Discord acted when he tried to change for me, only Discord just lost his will to be chaotic.” Fluttershy added, “Starlight’s lost her will to be bubbly and empathetic.”
“Okay… Trixie knows THAT is something to be concerned about.” Trixie admits sheepishly.
“How’d this all started anyway? Starlight was acting normal yesterday.” Rainbow Dash asked curiously.
“Yeah, that is a good question.” Applejack said in thought, “Twilight, Spike, do you know how Starlight became like this?”
“Well… I do know how she did this.” Twilight admitted sheepishly, “She cast a spell called Normalcia on herself so she can become completely normal, therefore turning her into the pony she is now.”
“What?!” Trixie asked incredulously.
“Why in Celestia would she wanna change her entire personality? She’s already reformed, she can’t really change more than that.” Rainbow Dash asked, clearly puzzled by this.
“Um…” Twilight said nervously which Applejack caught onto and immediately furrowed her eyebrows, “I know that look, you're guilty of something. Do you have something to do with this Twilight?”
Twilight sighed sadly before saying, “Actually I do. Starlight was studying a new spell to form a bubble around herself she could walk in and shield herself from magic blasts from what Spike told me.”
“Ooh. That sounds really useful!” Pinkie Pie smiled proudly.
“Unfortunately, Starlight lost control of the bubble and started bouncing around the castle, until she made it to Twilight’s room, accidentally scrambling all of her notes and destroying the figurine of the old library I made.” Spike added on.
“Oh my.” Fluttershy gasped in shock, “I’m so sorry Twilight, I know it meant a lot to you.”
“It’s okay Fluttershy.” Twilight sighed before confessing, “I was so mad at Starlight, what with all the stress of making those notes and I ended up saying how she can be so annoying and reckless and sometimes I wish she would act normal.”
“So you basically told my best friend that she should change her entire personality over a stupid figurine?!” Trixie asked in fury.
“Hey hey hey. It meant a lot to her.” Rainbow Dash flew in front of Trixie to defend Twilight.
“It doesn’t excuse what she said though. And now thanks to our beloved princess, Starlight’s now a shell of her former self.” Trixie argued angrily.
“The two of you arguing isn’t going to help Starlight!” Fluttershy immediately got in between the two of them.
“She’s right. How do we fix this?” Applejack asked in determination, “I doubt Starlight’s gonna be fully happy in this persona she’s putting up, especially if she did it by magic.”
“Well, the only way Starlight will turn back to her real self is if she willingly accepts herself again. That’s why I called all of you. I need all of you to spend some time with Starlight doing something fun so that she can start returning to her normal self.” Twilight explained.
“And why can’t YOU try doing anything? You’re the one who made her feel this way in the first place!” Trixie asked furiously.
“We figure that Twilight will probably just backpedal the healing process if she tries hanging out with Starlight.” Spike admitted, “Starlight hardly wants to listen to Twilight about her wanting Starlight to return to being Starlight again.”
“Fine. I guess you do have a point.” Trixie sighed before smiling, “I should go first. Starlight is my best friend, so having her go with me first is the best way to help her.”
“Okay.” Twilight sighed reluctantly before adding, “Oh and for future reference, she calls herself Glim Glam now.”
“Yeah I’m not doing that.” Rainbow Dash muttered to herself.
Soon Starlight walked in the map room wearing her glasses, old manestyle, and now in a black tux.
“Who are you?!” Pinkie Pie asked in horror.
“An excellent question, Pinkamena Diane Pie.” Starlight smirked haughtily, “Overdramatic as it was.”
“It’s like she’s a different pony.” Fluttershy whispered to Rarity who nodded.
“You all have once known me as Starlight, well that mare is gone for good.” Starlight said formally.
“You mean you killed her?!” Pinkie Pie’s eyes widened before yelling into Starlight’s ears, “NO! Starlight! Come back! Don’t be like the Pony Of Shadows!”
Starlight soon used her magic to levitate Pinkie and muffle her voice, “I’m terribly sorry but she was starting to make my ears bleed.” She not so remorsefully apologized.
“Anyway, to answer that. I am very much the same pony but I am born anew as Glim Glam, a perfectly normal pony who is less silly and crazy than my foolish old identity Starlight Glimmer.” Starlight explained in a neutral tone as she dropped Pinkie Pie and allowed her to use her voice again.
Rarity gasped dramatically and began to faint and Pinkie immediately zipped to her side to catch her as Fluttershy began using her wing to fan her, “Look what you’ve done to Rarity! You know she can’t stand surprising news and bad talk about her friends all in one go.”
“Apologies, but it needed to be said. She will learn to accept this as you all will.” Starlight rolled her eyes neutrally.
“I don’t think we’ll be accepting this new Starlight anytime soon. We prefer the real Starlight.” Rainbow Dash said sternly.
“It is Glim Glam now, and I am the ‘real Starlight’.” Starlight scoffed.
“No you’re not. You’re just hiding behind your hurt feelings by using magic to pretend to be somepony you’re not.” Fluttershy said, showing a rare amount of anger.
Starlight seemed to falter a bit before regaining her composure, “I merely pushed myself to become better. Now if we’re done with this nonsense, I came to inform Twilight that I have completed her notes for her next lecture.”
“Wait? Really?” Twilight asked in shock.
“Of course. It was the least I could do after my…” Starlight began formally before she began to stutter, “disturbance to you last night.”
“Starlight, that’s really nice of you.” Twilight smiled gratefully, “but I feel like you should try and do the things you used to do again. So I arranged for you to spend some time with our friends and your best friend Trixie tomorrow so you can try and be familiar with your old self.”
“You all are seriously not giving up on this are you?” Starlight asked with a roll of her eyes.
“No way Jose.” Pinkie Pie shook her head with a smirk.
“Very well.” Starlight reluctantly agreed, “Tomorrow is the start of the weekend. I shall entertain your attempts to ‘fix’ me, useless as they will be.”
“We’ll see about that.” Twilight smirked confidently before whispering to Spike in worry, “I hope.”