When the idea for this story came to me, I only had two ideas. The first was that Twilight would want Rarity to recreate the sleepover from their youth as a way to regress away from the stress of actual leadership, which turns out to be far more difficult than Celestia had made it seem. The second was the backstory of how pre-Celestian alicorns had concubines, and how Celestia had abolished the practice, but Twilight resorted to it because the alternative was to be like Celestia: celibate and

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