Canterlot Castle Royal Gardens
One Minute After the Revelation
Nightmare Moon
It was with no small amount of pain that Nightmare watched her daughter flee, just catching a last glimpse of Twilight’s purple tail as she galloped away at full speed.
Of course, she had expected Twilight to react like this in some form or fashion. One did not just reveal that you were their mother from a thousand years ago over a conversation without some tears flowing.
It still hurt though.
Sighing to herself, Nightmare put her helmet back on and sipped her tea. While she tried to calm down her racing heart, her magic pulled back the discarded Element of Honesty to her side. Sparing a glance at the golden necklace, the element was whisked away back into her dimensional pocked along with the other five elements, a loud ‘pop’ signaling its disappearance.
Keeping the pocket open, Nightmare pulled out a small oak box that was lined with silver. The oak was dark, signifying its age, and yet it was very well preserved considering its age. Setting down the box on the tea table, it opened quietly with barely a squeak from its gilded iron hinges.
Inside was a crown.
It was not her own, nor was it one of her sister’s. This crown had been forged a millennium ago in total secrecy, and Nightmare had only just retrieved it a couple hours ago from a small hidey hole in Twilight’s foal room at the old castle.
It was fashioned with a bright and shining silver, the metal purified of all contaminations and strengthened with powerful magic. It was curved upward in a gentle arc, engravings of moonflowers and twinkling stars dotting its surface. There on the brow was a single diamond. It was simply cut into a round shape and to most would have seemed unfulfilling if it was just the gem by itself.
But it was not.
When Nightmare had first made it, she had intended to cut it into a more regal shape. She had set her project down one night and when she had returned to it, a surprise had been waiting for her.
A star had made its home inside the gem.
To say Nightmare had been surprised would have been an understatement, and she had spent many a night looking for any missing stars in the night sky, to no avail. She never found out how the star entered the gem, or where it came from. She didn’t change the shape of the gem after that, as it was now more beautiful than any cut she could have shaped it into.
Long did she stare at the plaque engraved on the pedestal on which the crown sat. Sitting quietly as the wind rustled her black fur gently.
To my most beautiful flower.
A few minutes may have passed as Nightmare stared at the box, but she did not know how much time had passed nor did she particularly care. Her thoughts were on Twilight and how to proceed.
“Your majesty?”
SNAP
The box’s lid slammed shut, and if had not already been magically enforced, Nightmare was sure it would have shattered.
Looking up, she met the eyes of Knight-Commander Noctis, her leader of the contingent of Lunar Pegasi. He was taller than the average pony but was still dwarfed when compared to her own height. Noctis had gray fur with the tufted ears along with the yellow draconic eyes that were unique to their branch of the Pegasus family.
He bowed formally upon receiving her attention, his muzzle inches from the ground. His thick blue armor clanked as it shuffled from his movement.
Annoyance flickering within her, Nightmare scowled and put the box back into her dimensional pocket before she addressed Noctis.
“What is it Commander? We are very busy.”
“My Empress,” he intoned reverently “there is a dragon at the gate.”
Surprise and a brief spell of alarm coursed through her, her ears flickering and her back straightening into an alert position as she tried to pick up the sounds of a rampaging dragon.
She heard nothing.
Nightmare scowled again as she got to her hooves, and she stiffly put back on her iron horseshoes.
“Do not play games with us Commander, you will find that we have lost our sense of humor after spending a millennium on the moon.”
Still in a bow, Noctis spoke again in the same calm tone.
“Forgive me my liege, it is but a baby dragon. Not a fully grown one. He is requesting permission to enter the castle, claiming to have residency here.”
Nightmare was tired of getting surprised tonight, but she stood up and fanned out her wings anyway. She cast a longing gaze at the doors which Twilight had just fled through, but resolved herself to giving her daughter some time to reconcile the fact of her maternal heritage.
“Very well Commander, let us go meet this…dragon.”
Thrusting her wings downward, Nightmare lifted up quickly into the sky and angled herself towards the castle gates, the wind catching her black plumage. She was dimly aware of the sound of Noctis’s wings beating as he followed her. Nightmare’s eyes pierced though the darkness until she spotted a small purple and green figure next to a small gathering of her soldiers, illuminated by the glowing light of a lantern on the gatehouse. Holding her wings in tight to her body, she dived towards the ground at bone-breaking speeds. The figures were becoming bigger as the ground rushed up to meet her. She fanned out her wings so to slow her descent to where she could safely land without injuring herself.
With a resounding crack upon the stone, she landed in the midst of her soldiers, who gave out surprised cries before they knelt as one in her presence.
The dragon in the meantime, who was only knee-high to her, gaped in astonishment.
Noctis landed silently next her, and approached the dragon.
“Speak, for you are in the presence of her Imperial Majesty, Empress Nightmare Moon of Equestria.”
The dragon said nothing, he merely stared up at her with wide green eyes and a mouth so wide it would catch flies if he didn’t close it soon.
…
“Speak!”
“uuuhhh…” the dragon rasped, never taking his eyes off of Nightmare.
A few chuckles could be heard behind her as the soldiers chuckled. They were silenced by a stern glare from Noctis before he returned his eyes to the dragon, a frown masking his face.
The dragon seemed to come to his senses, shaking his head as if trying to banish the dark figures before him. He rocked on his feet as Nightmare watched him start visibly sweating.
“Oh! Uuumm—I think I..have the wrong address! Yeah! Sorry boys—and her uhm-majesty—but I really must be going! You know how it is, gems to eat, cakes to make, and parchment to buy! So I’ll just be seeing you all later!”
Turning around quicker than what Nightmare would have expected from a dragon, he took off running.
He didn’t get far thought, for Nightmare had grabbed him in her magic. The dragon was lifted off the ground and he floated towards Nightmare, but oddly enough, he kept waving his arms and pumping his legs as if he was still on the ground fleeing.
Nightmare let him hang in front of her while he tired himself out, beads of sweat dropping like rain to the street below. Finally, he fell limp in her magical grasp and beat a claw to his chest, panting from the effort.
“O.K. You got me…(pant)…can you please put me down?”
“Certainly.”
THUMP!
“Oooohhh…that rather hurt you know…”
She had dropped him to the street, and the dragon was now rubbing his tail, which had received the brunt of his fall. He then reluctantly rose to his feet and stared at Nightmare once more.
“We shall not ask again, dragon, for the reasons of your coming here.”
Nightmare’s cold and unyielding voice seemed to prod the dragon into answering quickly.
“Oh! I…uh…well I live here.”
“Your statement is doubtful young wrym. Have you come to pillage the Royal Treasury upon hearing of my sister’s fall?”
“No. I really live here.” Seeing the disbelieving looks on the faces surrounding him, he started to elaborate. “I came looking for my—uh—friend who I live with here in the one of the castle’s towers.”
Nightmare had just about had it with his short answers and his obvious stalling.
“You have precisely ten seconds to fully explain why you are here before my throne room sports a new dragon rug.”
“O.K.!O.K.!TwilightSparklehatchedmewhenIwasandeggwhenshewasafillyandwegrewuptogetherhereinthecastle!TwilightisCelestia’sstudentandI’mlookingforherbecauseshedisappearedandnevercamebacktoPonyvilleandIheardthatNightmareMoonhadcapturedsomepony’scalledthebearersoftheelementsofharmonyandIknewthat’swhatTwilightwaslookingforbecauseshehadreadabouttheminabookIgaveherandsoIgotatrainandcameherewhenIwokeupand PLEASE, OH PLEASE DON’T TURN ME INTO A RUG!!!”
The dragon fell on his knees and panted from all his rambling. Nightmare had listened closely to everything but only one thing truly grabbed her attention.
“Did you say Twilight Sparkle?”
The dragon looked up and nodded, a few whimpers escaping him as he awaited his fate.
Gears were turning in Nightmare’s head as she went over her recent conversation with Twilight, for she remembered Twilight mentioning hatching a dragon’s egg when she was a filly. It clicked together that this was probably the same dragon.
“What do you do with Twilight Sparkle?” Nightmare asked the dragon, leaning down so she could look him in the eye.
“Oh, I’m her—um—Number One Assistant!” He seemed to take pride in saying that, perking up a little bit.
“You are her servant?”
The dragon let out a long suffering sigh, wilting back down again. He slammed a claw into his forward in exasperation.
“No, well, kinda-yeah. I mean I do help her with basically everything, but I’m not her slave or anything. I’m really—“
“If you want to continue breathing, you will amend that statement.”
“Slave is good.” The dragon replied quickly, his eyes frantically moving from side to side as he avoided her gaze.
Nightmare thought it over. It was not hard to come to a conclusion. The dragon was so pathetic that it did not threaten her. And by letting him rejoin Twilight, she might gain a little gratitude from her daughter.
Of course, some precautions had to be made.
Reaching out with her magic, she summoned a collar and quickly enchanted it before snapping it firmly around the dragon’s neck.
“This is to prevent your dragonfire, and also keep you from wandering off from the castle.” A sneer that could carve mountains covered her face, showing teeth longer and sharper than the dragon’s own fangs. “You will serve my daughter faithfully, and if you do anything to harm or disrespect her…”she pulled the dragon right up against her muzzle. “…losing your hide will be the least of the pain we shall inflict on you.”
The dragon nodded quickly, more of his hide glistening with his sweat. But then his scaly face scrunched up in confusion.
“Um…who’s your daughter?”
Nightmare straightened up and turned away from the dragon, looking up towards the part of the castle she knew Twilight had probably retreated to, Celestia’s old chambers.
“My daugh—“
BOOM!!
She never finished, for a roaring thunderclap emanated from the castle, and to Nightmare’s complete and total shock, long lances of purple lightening began shooting across the city. They winked in and out of existence faster than her eyes could track. The magical power radiating from it was unlike anything she had ever experienced. Pain burst inside her head and her eyes flashed different colors as the magical explosion engulfed the city.
She barely heard as her soldiers fell into a dead faint at her hooves from the magical pressure overcoming them. Nightmare looked up to see the source of the disturbance and broke into full gallop back towards the castle when she beheld it.
It was coming from where Nightmare thought Twilight should have been.
Canterlot Castle
One Minute After the Revelation
Twilight
Her world was ending.
Twilight ran at full gallop, falling several times to the floor in the hallway and knocking over the few furnishings Nightmare had left in her redesigning of the castle as she staggered and collapsed. She swayed back in forth in what could have been taken for as a confused stupor.
Her mind was reeling, everything she had held for fact in her life was unraveling at the seams. Everything was thrown into question, her childhood, her family, her life, absolutely everything.
Celestia lied to me…
Though only minutes ago such a thing had seemed impossible, it seemed all too likely now.
Nightmare Moon is my mother…
Nothing fit together anymore, everything she had ever known seemed to burn away like dry wood in the inferno of that one revelation.
I was adopted…
That much was plainly obvious. She did not know why she had been taken in by Night Light and Twilight Velvet, but she now knew that somepony had concealed the truth from her.
Celestia…Celestia knew…why didn’t she tell me?
Since Twilight was Nightmare’s daughter, it only made sense that Celestia was her aunt. And since Celestia was the only pony that had lived here in Equestria over the past thousand years, she had to have known about her true nature and heritage.
And she kept the truth from me…
She collapsed once more in the hallway, and sat up only to raise her hooves to her face, watching them shake as fear and confusion consumed her.
Born of a monster…
Twilight screamed, her despair echoing off the castle walls a she shoved her hooves from her face, no longer wishing to see them.
“Twilight! What’s wrong?!”
Blearily, through the haze of tears, Twilight looked down the hallway and saw her brother—
No, not my brother…
She struggled to lift herself to her hooves and she swayed back and forth dangerously as she made her way to one of the ponies she thought was family.
Will he hate me if he knows who I really am?
That depressive thought consumed her as she staggered across the hallway, knocking over another vase to the floor. It shattered into hundreds of pieces but Twilight barely noticed, as her focus was on the white stallion at the end of the hallway.
“Shining!” She moaned, her voice desperate and afraid. “Shining!” She yelled again, ripping the name out like it was her last hope for survival.
Or her last hold on sanity.
Twilight heard the sound of rushing hooves and felt a hoof land across her shoulder, gently guiding her back towards Celestia’s chamber.
“It’s alright Twilight, your BBBFF is right here—“
At the sound of the silly old acronym they used when they were kids, fresh sobbing wracked her body as she wept pitifully onto the floor, her mane matting her face and her feathers in complete disarray from the force of her distress.
“Cadence quick! Come help me!”
Another sound of hooves, these sounded lighter and more graceful as they approached, and Twilight felt herself lifted onto Shining’s back, and they made their way back to the chamber.
She never stopped weeping.
“Is she injured anywhere Cadence?”
“No, I don’t see anything…”
Twilight heard the doors shut behind them as they entered the chamber. Shining lowered her to the floor gently, much like when he would tuck her in to bed after reading stories before bed-time.
“Twilight?”
Shining’s voice was almost pleading, and Twilight looked up from her position on the floor to glimpse the blurry face of her bro—
Not my brother—
A horrible sense of dread and suspicion rose within her, and she pointed a shaking hoof at Shining.
“D--Did you know?”
Shining looked confused, he looked across at Cadence who looked equally baffled.
“I don’t understand, know wh—“
“T—That I’m…I’m a--adopted. Did you know?!”
Horror washed over Twilight as Shining fell back from her, his ears flicking back and a guilty expression taking over his face.
“You knew…”
“Twilight, listen that’s no—“
“YOU KNEW!” She screamed, her eyes briefly glowing white as anger rose within her.
They’ve…they’ve all lied to me…
Celestia, Shining, Cadence, her ‘parents.’ They had all been in on it. Surely they had been. It all made sense, Night Light and Velvet were nobles so they had close connections with Celestia, Cadence foal-sat her when she was a filly to keep an eye on her. The same with Celestia when she got her mark.
Is my whole life a lie?
Anger coursed through her, giving her direction, giving her purpose.
And she had the perfect target.
With a blinding flash of light, a blazing beam of magic ignited from the tip of her horn and shot out at Shining. It slammed into the shocked stallion and the force of her magic sent him sailing across the room and into the opposite wall.
Cadance gasped and ran up to Twilight.
“Twilight?! What are—“
“GET OUT!” Twilight screamed, her face contorting with anger and sadness. “LEAVE ME!”
Shining grunted as he came back to his hooves, he looked disoriented and stumbled back towards her.
“Twilight please, just lis—“
“NO!! NO MORE LIES!”
She was losing control, her magic was rolling off of her in waves of energy. The bed behind her caught fire, and the whole room was engulfed in red and orange light. Her eyes were flickering white and purple and her mane began to etherealize from the magic running through her. Sparks shot from her horn and the tips of her hooves, and she grinded her teeth as more anger and crushing despair consumed her.
She only watched through pain-filled eyes as Shining and Cadence fled from her, witnessing their flight as their tails disappeared through the doorway.
Magic was pouring from her like a river’s torrent. She had always been able to control her power, but she was too traumatized to try and take back control.
Born of a monster…
With that final thought, Twilight gave up trying to control herself, and let go.
She screamed.
And her world became fire.
No!!!! Please more NOW!!!!!
Dayum u reality
have a feeling that spike could probably greak that collar. if he can eat necronomicons without ill effects he could rpobably break collars too.
still it is kinda intersting overall. though i do feel that you kinda donwplayed cadance. she is not likely as powerful as nightmare mono by far, but her powers harm and repel darkness. positive emotion against negative emotion. she could have at least escaped capture and fled.
4522459 ....... i once read a story where nighmare moon raped pipsqueack to death after forcing him up zecora's vagina till her hipbones shattered.
here she is establishing dominance and only blinded fluttershy because her powers were strong enough to affect her.
More plz
4522459 actually.... why would he? discord does not care about dominance, he cares about having fun. and what is more fun than to see one of the ponies who imprisoned him gone fallen angel and breaking down everything she sought to build?
also i have to wonder how powerful discord acutally is. i always theorized that his threat came from being chaotic. he is difficult to hit and harm and can twist his environment and such. still it seems fairly clear that the power of the regal sisters, at least NOW, could probably match his own if not surpass it. still it would not make him any easier to deal with.
personalyl thinking discord and nightmare moon owuld be at a stalemate if discord would do anything at all.
I think Spike's portrayal was spot on and funny. Caring for Twilight but still has that snarky sense of humor in him. Well done. So this magical surge that Twilight's going through. I it like when she was a filly and lost control? Although, this time she is much older, and an alicorn. Yeah there's a lot of ways this could go bad if she doesn't get herself under control.
I hope it the next chapter will be out just as fast.
"All of Twilight's scene, she was jumping to conclusions, and it's pretty safe to say that she wasn't in the best state of mind."
Well, duh, her world just shattered and all this have place before Lesson Zero so... yeap :) All Hail Nightmare Twilight!
Well, buck me.
Burn baby burn...
4524701 Nope, she just drank some tea.
Still pretty exciting! I'm pleased to see a Twi-is-Luna's-foal that is not only decently written but also continuing to update! :) I'm accepting some of the 'light' characterization of the other characters since the focus is on the interaction and relationship between Twilight and the NIghtmare.
Spike's mashed-together speech was a BIT hard to read, being such a huge block of text, though I suppose my eyes did what the Nightmare's ears did and only picked up the key words. :) Kinda wish Spike had slowed down after the first dozen words or so, but I dunno if it would have the same effect.
Mildly worried about Twilight's friends, but I imagine they'll be okay. Especially if the Nightmare figures out what Twi would do if something bad happened to them.
Ooooooh boy!!!
And now the whole of canterlot is bannished to tartarus
Good god that was epic! Yet... Is Twilight traveling to the dark side? Oh and that whole scene with Spike just made me laugh out loud good job!
Reviews for the chapter: Sincerely magnificent
P.S: Spike is pretty good for me
Yeeesssss..... Fiiiirrrrrreeeee
Ves, Ves this pleases us
Note to the Author: Excuse me for a minute while I talk to one of the characters.
Okay Twilight. Freaking out is fine.
Heck, if this leads to bonding with Mom, that is fine, as long as you eventually get her to undo everything.
Including Fluttershy's blindness.
Especially Fluttershy's blindness.
Actually, as long as Fluttershy gets her sight back, I'm okay with this whole eternal night thing.
I mean, if you can do both, do it. That's awesome. Maybe get your friends out of jail in the process.
But mostly focus on healing Fluttershy's eyes.
That is all. Feel free to go back to your epic freakout.
Note: This comment is what happens when I read an epic fic at 1:00 am.
AND THE WORLD SHALL BURN!!!
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Eh... maybe. That seems like kind of a cop out to me.
Couldn't I make the argument that Luna (if not Nightmare Moon) knows subconsciously that Celestia would never harm her foal?
I think spike should've said Spike is Twilights 1 assistant and adopted brother because they act like siblings in the show.
I see fire...
Spike is more or less in character, no issue there so far. One nitpick:
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"ponies" not "pony's"
You wrote Spike very well, and don't worry. We get that Twilight's jumping to conclusions. It's what she does best, after all. Especially, ya know, when her entire life has been upended. Hope she doesn't hurt Shining too bad.
4525661 A bloody end, as in Nightmare Moon dropping a meteor on them.
I like this story a lot. The way you portrayed everyone in this chapter feels spot on and very realistic. Twilight especially, how would anyone react when they find out that everything they knew was a lie and that the ones they trusted with everything they had were lying to them.
One point... Nightmare Moon is not Twilight's mother in any way that actually matters. Biology matters exactly nothing in the grand scheme of things. Nightmare Moon is (here) an unrepentant villain who deserves absolutely nothing except the punishment due as the consequences for her actions.) I find her sense of entitlement to be... frankly, offensive, particularly with regard to Twilight. Her personal circumstances, unhappy or otherwise, matter absolutely nothing at the end of the day: she doesn't get to play for sympathy. She is not the first, nor will she ever be the last, person to lose a loved one in a tragic way, and most of those do not throw an evil tantrum when it happens. The very moment she made the decision to become Nightmate Moon - whether of her free will of because she was too weak to resist the temptation, it actually doesn't matter - she forfitted any rights to cry about how hard done to she's been. She has zero claim on Twilight.
I am very disappointed in Twilight for not calling that out to Nightmare Moon's face or at the very least realising it.
The Thestrals, if anything, come off worse, either being out right murderers or zealots clinging to a clearly evil monster not afraid to torture to get her way and enslave children, out of presumably some sense of loyalty (read: pride) or entitlement. If they are content to serve under an evil master, then they are just as bad as she is and deserve the same fate.
I would not normally ask for spoilers (and you are quite within your rights to not answer this and say "wait and see" or if you want to preserve the mystery for others, PM me), but I will ask for a general direction: if this story is intended to go into the "redemption" of Nightmare Moon (at least such that she is able to walk away afterwards), rather than her defeat/imprisonment/punishment/whatever, I would like to know earlier rather than later, since I'm afraid I simply could not accept her complete redemption, given her actions to this point.
On a more general note, I also concur with Alondro: when Discord is released (probably EARLY, with all the extra strife comes around), Nightmare Moon is likely in a great deal of trouble. She's probably far worse off, though, when Sombra comes back, since unlike Discord, he's not likely to showboat around and give her a chance to win; and they only stopped Sombra by the narrowest of whiskers. To say nothing of Tirek.
(Assuming that eternal night does not, in fact, cause global exinction before that point due to the death of (the majority of) plants (especially food crops, since Equestria is already at the level of civilisation wherein it cannot be sustained without industrial technology/magic.)
Though Chrysalis, to be fair, is likely to be looking for greener pastures...
We demand more chapters NAO!!
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I just don't get it! Okay Twilight A. Sparkle! You're Nightmare Moon's daughter! I have no problem with you! Even if your mother break both of my future wife's wings! What matters is YOU! Not your mom! I seriously don't get it! Even if met someone whose father is Hitler or Josef Mengele I wouldn't care! Okay maybe frightened but so long as that person doesn't become like them I pretty much don't care! Ponies.... they have a lot in common with humans! I never understood them....
Wow, way to tease.
4525759 partially disagree. Yes Nightmare moon is a spoiled brat but she does have one redeeming quaility. She loves her daughter. And for Twilight. She feels that she's been lied to all her life. IF Shinging didn't know they may have worked through it. Error here was not telling her she was adopted. They may note have known who her mother is but at least tell her she is adopted.
I always had a weakness for Twilight losing control. Seeing someone fling around massive amounts of magic is interesting and entertaining, but to see someone with just as much power lose control? That's even better
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Loving something is and of itself not a redeemingly quality. Especially as with Nightmare Moon as so far she's shown... she kinda doesn't. She can't; she doesn't KNOW Twilight. She loves the IDEA of Twilight as her daughter, the idea that Twilight will give her the love she wants. (It suggest that NMM was not long a parent. Babies are not like dogs, they're very selfish.) That sort of love is possessive, not giving., which leads to jealosy and that nasty sense of entitlement about the possesiveness that is akin to a two-year old shouting "My toy! My toy!"
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To be fair to Twilight, she's allowed a bit of time to freak out over the revelation before she thinks about it rationally.
After all, Luke Skywalker doesn't respond to Darth Vader's "I am your father!" By calmly explaining that Owen Lars is the only father he's ever known and that Vader doesn't have any claim on him.
I'm sure Twilight will make that point once she manages to accept the reality of her situation. Right now, her worldview is being smacked with a hammer repeatedly.
4524734 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qwy9yk1d7Tk
I have no clue how to turn this into a link so copy and paste it lol
4526138 Actually look at the big picture. Twilight is all that remains of her husband. And while the direct cause of becoming NMM in this universe is unknown one of the things that fueled the NMM persona was the fact that her daughter was dead. But she now knows that's not true. That realization put a chinck in the NMM's armor. love can go both ways. redeem or hurt. Right now Twilight feels she has been lied to by everyone she knew. The only people she would have any trust in would be the other mane 6 and Ironically NMM herself. NMM has told her the truth,AS SHE KNOWS IT. Either of them don't have the picture we do. If NMM knew what Celstia did after her banishment and why she stripped Twilight of her alicorn powers would you think she would look at her older sister differently?
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None of which matters, because the moment NMM showed up and started hurting ponies, she lost any semblence of deserving pity, sympathy or redemption.
I am sanguine about in canon, Luna having served her time for any and all crimes she may have committed, and Twilight and co preventing her from committing any more before she got Harmony Lazar'd.
Here... NMM shows right back up, after a millenia of rightful punishment and goes right back to it. Nightmare Moon's feelings - are totally, utterly and completely irrelevant. It doesn't MATTER how hard done to she feels like. It doesn't MATTER how angry or jealous or whatever she is. Her actions - and those of the Thestrals - obiviate any grounds she had to stand on. (It doesn't even matter even if you want to try to argue that isn't fair. Hard lines NMM: LIFE is not fair, and sorry, the unfair should fall squarely on the ones trying to perpetrate more unfairness on other people out of some sort of personal vendetta or entitlement, not on the innocent they're doing it to.)
(Also, I can assure you that if somepony came up to me personally and announced I was adopted and was actually some demigod's child, my reaction would be so simply look them straight in the eye and say: "so what." Though granted, I am probably not a typical case.)
4526328 it does matter. This version has even more reason to be NMM. Her love is dead and she was helpless to do anything about it. SHe is already reviled at this point. YES she has alot to atone for and righrt now Twilight is the best vessel for that. NMM is Vader. simple as that.
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Vader didn't deserve it, either.
4526592 All I'll say is this. He who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Actually, come to think of it, why didn't she do something like that?...
I blame Narrative Causality.
4525187 Fiiiiiiiiire, bow bow bow, bow bow bow OOOWWW!
(cookie if you get the reference)
When does Twilight get mad?
4525759 Considering that NNM wasn't even allowed to even see her daughter's first steps, or hear her child's first words, or even be there for her cutie mark; she has every right to be mad at Celestia. Everyone else however, can get a free pass if they didn't lie to, hurt, or otherwise harm her daughter. Which basicly boils down to her friends, NNM, and possibly Cadence.
4526328 Actually, you'd probably say something along the lines of "Prove it", or make a noise of derision. Someone just saying it to you means absolutely nothing unless you're incredibly gullible. You have no reason to believe them..Someone didn't just rock up to Twilight and say that though. She went on a quest to defeat an Evil Demigod who's been part of folklore as an evil figure, Made her first freinds pretty much Ever, FAILED IN THAT QUEST, thus failing one of the people dearest to her heart who was, consequently, Imprisoned thereafter, as were her brand new freinds. Then the Evil that's been part of the subset of "Things that go bump in the night" for a thousand years rocks up to her and says, "By the way, I'm your mother." while in the middle of a Zone of absolute truth, thus denying Twilight any choice of getting used to the idea.
It'd be less like someone saying "oh, by the way, Cthulu's your dad. Have fun with that" and more like the Slenderman walking up to you, saying "G'day, son" And showing you a Slideshow of your life, Beginning with conception.
Except neither of them have thousands of years of Folkloric backup in a land of magic where one can assume most Fairytales are true to some degree.
We need more of this! NOW
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Amen to that. I hope we get to see more of that throughout the story.
And, you know, Twilight joining her mother in leading an Equestria bathed in Etetnal Darkness. Although that last one might just be me...
very interesting chapter. cant wait to see that happens next