Day 7, Part 2
Starswirl mind raced, there had to be a way to clear up this misunderstanding, there just had too! Shooting Celestia a quick glance, he realized it was futile, she looked like she was having way too much fun. Still, Starswirl had to try, for the sake of his reputation if for nothing else.
“I'm not that old!” he blurted out. No you fool! What are you doing, sounding all defensive?
“Hoho,” Celestia’s smile grew even wider, before she turned back to Twilight. “Would you agree with that statement my little pony?” she asked sweetly.
Twilights covered her head with forehooves, her blush deepening, “I’m sorry.”
“Sorry? You don’t have to be sorry,” Celestia said, making no effort to hide her amusement, “We feel that this should all be put into verse... wouldn't you agree Starswirl?”
Starswirl felt sweat at the back of his neck, this was rapidly getting out of control, and Twilight wasn’t helping. He needed to derail Celestia and quickly before this got any worse.
“She's actually... my apprentice AND a relative of mine,” he lied.
Celestia lifted an eyebrow, clearly not believing a word of it, “Really?” she said with a chuckle, “Then, what was she doing hiding in the supply cabinet?”
Starswirl had to quell his first impulse to claim that she had been gathering supplies. That wouldn't work and would only serve to make the situation completely unsalvageable. Think Starswirl! There has to be something you can work with… Suddenly he had it, he could use her vanity against her.
“Well the truth is that my apprentice is a huge admirer of yours,” Starswirls said, feeling a bit smug as he noticed Celestia's ears twitch.
“Is she now?” Celestia asked as she turned back to Twilight.
“Yes,” Starswirl replied, “But she's also very shy. So when she heard the trumpets she panicked and ended up hiding in the cabinet. The reason she's blushing like that is because she feels unworthy to be so close to your esteemed presence.”
For a brief moment Celestia seemed unsure what version of events she wanted to believe, the one that would make for excellent gossip or the one that meant she would have another fervent admirer. Her vanity proved stronger than her inner sadist however and she gave Twilight a kindly smile, “Is this true?”
Twilight simple whimpered that she was sorry again.
This seemed to confirm it for Celestia and she scooped Twilight up in a warm hug. “You don’t have to feel unworthy, We love all our subjects equally.”
Twilight, her eyes wide, looked over Celestia's shoulder at Starswirl, who was doing a small victory dance.
Lol
don't worry twilight its not like you've drastically changed the future in some horrible way that'll erase your ponyville from history or anything no. quick thou you could change history..Luna spending more time alone Twi you of all ponys know what that means.. thou past Celestia might not like you telling her her sister is going to become an evil nightmare who almost kicks her butt if not for the Elements of Harmony.
Ah, Twilight has now Evolved into Fluttershy.
When she goes back to the future, she'll be living in Griffonville, with her friends Rainbow Dish, Blarity, Kluttershy, Binkie Nie, and Cherryjack.
And that's why you don't screw around with time travel. Just because you want to deflower the Virgin Queen doesn't mean you should.
I wonder if some weird time-paradox will happen when Twilight manages to somehow get pregnant and give birth to her own line that will inevitably lead back to Twilight herself.
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Is this criticism? Are you saying; I pushed Twilight too far out off character despite the situation? And now you think that all sense of cohesion has been lost? And you simply can't go on anymore?!
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Fool! That's exactly what you should do! And reap the horrible temporal paradox while screaming 'WORTH IT!" all the way down!
4655136 Yeah, but now one of my favorite painters is considered history's most brutal dictator, and you can't get decent haggis outside of a few Scottish specialty shops. AND I'm stuck raising a kid who won't stop calling me 'peasant'. This is bullshit, man, I'm going back to stop myself from ever inventing this damn time machine.
I don't know what twilight is worried about. She's already proven that with this spell she can't change the future. Everything she does in the past had already happened in her time. In other words Celestia already knew Twilight had time travelled. So Celestia is just waiting until she actually does it. All Twi has to do is keep it secret in the future and the Princess won't do anything.
4655192 Not necessarily, we never saw how the loop started, but that doesn't mean there isn't a start to it. For all we know we just saw the altered timeline.
All she really has to do if she wants a terrible paradox is to kill Starswirl the Bearded -- then the time spell would never have existed and she couldn't have gone back into the past...
Yay! Got more
4655101 XD, No, i was just thinking that was amusing, that her behavior seemed very fluttershylike.
That, and the whole meme of "Twilight has evolved into Rapidash"
MUHUHUHAHAHA
And that was how cake and cupcakes were invented
I like this.
Also, Twilight should totaly visit him in alicorn mode. I really wanna see him freak out.
Oh my god, a comedy fic that got featured and looks like it's actually worth reading? :V
4655192 I'm betting Celestia knows exact ally what's going on and is gonna yell at Twilight a ton as soon as Twilight comes back... I can just picture Twilight coming back to modern times to see a furious Celestia yelling about cake and her waistline...
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Awww stop it, you are making me blush.
4655377 That isn't how it works, what we saw was the start of the loop. Think about it, why would Twilight have time tralled without a reason to.
4659896 Given the example that we have for this spell, Celestia certainly knows what is going on. However she couldn't know what exact point Twilight is travelling from in her time. Not to the exact day anyway. She may be able to figure out what year based on how old Twilight appeared to be in the past but that's about it.
4660395 Because of all of the disasters they prevented because Twilight met her future self.
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I fully second that idea
I am respectfully requesting some kind of .gif of Starswirl's victory dance. Unless it looks like this:
fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/003/d/1/dancing_twilight_animation_by_3luk-d4l83vp.gif
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Fool! It should look EXACTLY like that!... Well, maybe minus the dress. NO! ESPECIALLY WITH THE DRESS!
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No, see, that's not how a stable time loop works.
There IS no beginning.
It just exists.
It's an event that leads to itself- there is no start or end to it, it just exists. Twilight didn't change anything, and never did.
>looked over Celestias shoulder
*Celestia's
4655087 Or, you know, trousers of time. If she can return to the same starting place, she changed nothing
4704732 It can work either way -- either destiny just has a loop in it from the start, or you start with an unstable time loop that eventually stabilizes. There's no real way to distinguish between them because the unstable loops end up never having existed.
And then Twilight blurts out everything she knows about Nightmare Moon, causing Celestia to stop neglecting her sister, thus preventing the Nightmare Moon incident from happening, thus leading to a chain of events wherein Twilight was the assistant of Spike, Celestia's faithful dragon student
4791875 dont say that, you might get pinkie on the weather te-OH GOD COTTON CANDY CLOUDS.
Starswirl has a victory dance?
The thing with time travel is that you have to also be able to pop between alternate universes, unless you plan on staying in the altered timeline.
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Unless it's closed-loop time-travel and it's all already happened but you don't know that.
4661566 Particularly if it looks like that.
4655157 A child who calls you peasant? STORMAGEDDON!
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She can become her own grandfather...
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No she CAN NOT become her own grandfather. However, SHE CAN become her own grandmother.
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I mean, she could become her own grandfather... actually, the technical challenges in that are likely a lot more trivial than time travel 🤔