Sister’s lack of trust is… understandable. Even I cannot impose such ignorance on myself as to believe otherwise. It is not just her I have betrayed but the whole of Equestria. As a sister she has pardoned me for my crimes but as a ruler even she cannot offer forgiveness so flippantly. She speaks for the whole of Equestria, thousands of ponies that remember me only for the day the sun did not rise.
The position of princess is one of immense trust between me and the ponies I would rule. How can they trust me when all they know is stories of, among other atrocities, cannibalism to scare foals? How can I ask them to trust me when I know that these stories only mask a darker truth?
I turned Equestria against itself. Tribe against tribe, city against city, and even brother against brother. There was a stallion, I do not even remember his name, I made him kill his brother in front of me to “prove his loyalty.” He knew that his life would end painfully if he did not. He was a single pony amidst a war, his loyalty was of no consequence. He killed his brother, not for justice or loyalty but for fear and in my madness I made him do it for nothing more than a momentary diversion after a lost battle.
How many lives did I destroy? How many ponies have I worked unspeakable cruelty on without even remembering their names? A thousand thousands years’ imprisonment would not be enough to atone for my crime. I must be a petty sight indeed as I wallow in self-pity. I demand trust yet I have earned less than nothing.
-L
hopefully this will help you to understand this version of Celestia a little better. keep in mind this is written from Luna's point of view and she sees her interactions with Celestia through the lens of their still damaged relationship.
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Your grammar.....I just read all chapters so far, and the atrocity that is your sentence structure and punctuation hurts to read.
Better, better...... this chapter was longer but NOT LONG ENOUGH!!!!
Hmm... This is starting to sound like bipolar disorder from her continual leaps from fury to despair and from glee to guilt.
Listening to Pink Floyd and reading this is a true experience.
This is another case of authors overdoing it. We saw the canon; Nightmare Moon was born and fell in a single night. There's no need to load up on excess slaughter to try and drama things up.
4773633 There kind of is a need for drama, as it is a driving force behind this fic. If not for the fact that the war took place over a long period of time, Luna could not commit unforgivable atrocities. And if she did not commit unforgivable atrocities, then she would be completely forgiven by now. And if she was completely forgiven then this fic would not exist. And if it diverts from canon slightly to spice thing up, so what? The readers, for the most part, enjoy it, and I'm fairly certain the author enjoys it because if he was doing it only for the readers he'd work harder on the grammar.
Ooooooohhhhhh THAT'S WHY!!!! Sorry that I flipped out before....
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You are being silly. The canon glosses over things and does not go in depth. If we did not modify canon there would be no fanfiction.
Sometimes I desire to have words with Celestia about her idiocy, and then I remember that fictional characters do not, by definition exist.