Forte
Adventures in Homeownership with Sunny Skies and Dusky Sparks: Forte
Celestia found her where she always did, in the Canterlot Archives… shelving.
Luna was already there, doing her best to quell the panicked librarians who’d fled the hurricane of books and scrolls. They spoke briefly, sharing a heartfelt, if rushed, reunion after nearly a year of being apart for the first time since Luna’s return.
Then Celestia journeyed into the storm.
She became as a second eye, her magic overtaking Twilight’s and setting order to the chaos around her. By the time she reached her wife, she had a library’s worth of tomes hovering behind her.
She wasn’t crying, which Celestia wasn’t convinced was a good thing, sitting ramrod straight as her magic continued to manipulate fully half the archive’s books. Nor did she react as Celestia sat behind her, wrapping her in wings and legs until only her head was visible through the wall of white.
“It was a stupid idea.”
“It was a wonderful idea.”
“It was selfish.”
“You thought only of me.”
“Our neighbors hate us.”
“We’ve brought them entertainment and laughter.”
“It was all a lie.”
“We’ve never been more true to ourselves.”
“We abandoned our duties.”
“We gave others a chance to shine.”
“Stop disagreeing with me.”
“Stop speaking nonsense.”
Twilight finally moved, turning her head so she could see Celestia. Only for Celestia to cut her off before she could speak.
“I am fluent in fifteen languages, three of which are long dead. I have learned to play every instrument equines have crafted, and many that they didn’t. I can paint and draw and sculpt. I have written more than a hundred novels—no I won’t tell you which ones. I am an inventor. I keep up-to-date with every field of study. I have acted in plays and directed them too. I knit and sew, and forge iron and steel.
“None of those things are my forte, My Love. They are things which I have learned, many through struggle and strife, over the course of my many, many years. It took me a year of trial and error before I made my first edible cake.
“When you found your talent, you pursued it with the same eager passion that every pony does. Now that you’ve mastered it, you find yourself looking out from your high plateau to see all those others, the chefs and artists and carpenters, and you see them doing the things they do and thinking, ‘I should be able to do that too’. And you can, but just like everypony else, you have to start at the bottom and work your way up.
“You will fail, Twilight. You will stumble and fall… and then you will stand back up and continue on. And one day you will reach the summit, only to see another plateau you have yet to master. It is a never ending road we walk, My Love, but you do not walk it alone. Come home, and let’s begin our journey.”
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Intriguing.
D'aww.
You've got quite a roller coaster of emotions here! Nice little snapshots of everyday and not-so-everyday life. I think Chapter 4 was my favorite.
"Good evening. Have you ever felt the love of Celestia in your heart?"
"Funny thing about that. I've been TRYING for the last FOUR HOURS …"
This is the sweetest little thing going on here. You deserve all the upvotes!
Life is best served in slices.
This is heartwrenchingly adorable.
Was wondering when this would get its own story.
Yeah, chapter four was the best. But all of the other chapters were the best, too.
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Enigmatic.
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"May Celestia bless your house."
"Oh, we did that the first night. Every room in fact. Took hours. Still haven't fixed that ceiling fan..."
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Thank you.
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Thank you for the corrections.
Brilliant stuff, HM! You have an amazingly accurate pen for these two characters. Loved these in Sun & Stars, even better to see them collected here where they belong. I keep encouraging other authors to do the same.
Good show!
Small amount of words, large amount of meanings and feelings
Celestia is wisest waifu.
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Celestia and Luna were born alicorns, so it is written.
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Thank you.
4978548 Well then.
...Let it be so.
4978548 Spinoffs are non-canon. Otherwise, this would need to do some impressive mental gymnastics around the Sombralestia and Flashlight pairings. And nobody wants that.
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Except that was written by Amy Keating Rodgers.
4979807 EqG was written by Megan McCarthy. Doesn't change its being non-canon.
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But it's the book the journal that Twilight reads in episode 3 of season 4. Thus it exists within the canon of the show and is therefor canon itself.
Or at least that's my take on it... plus I have no issue canonizing most of the comics and EqG. Even Sombra could fit in before Twilight and Celestia's relationship started.
It's canon until it interferes with my story.
4979929 Well, if you say so.
I'm really enjoying these short stories. There's a place for long, drawn-out romantic novels, but the little ones such as these, where you just get glimpses of normal, every-day occurrences? They can be pretty enjoyable.
Looking forward to more.
I like it, simple yet effective, I hope you continue the over-arching narrative.
omg sunny skies is my GFs OC. thief you stole her oc!!!!!!
4980588 welcome, you must be new here...
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Very new here.
4980633 no just new to your page
Oh nice, you published these on there own. This has been, I think, the longest series in the Twilestia collab that we've had.
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No you're pretty new. Sunny Skies has been the name of Celestia going 'incognito' and posing as a mortal for years. Ever since Season One. So, either your supposed girlfriend had the same idea, or she's using the name that the fandom's been using since 2011, for herself. Which would make 'her' the 'thief', not that any of us give a damn.
For your sake, I hope you were trying to make a joke. As a man of several decades who has been in and out of a number of relationships, your post's very existence seems to belie a certain amount of immaturity reserved for those who are likely under the average dating age. Thus making this girlfriend very unlikely.
4981411 i was joking about the theiving part and i didnt know that my friend sugested the name for my GFs oc not knowing that
these are lovely and make me happy :D
Ack, right in the feels!
I think this fic is converting me rather firmly to the TwiLestia side.
This chapter is sweet, but it also makes Celestia look like an ass. Twilight is depressed that she can't do anything around the house, Celestia tells Twilight about all this stuff that she's learned over the centuries she's been alive, and it didn't occur to Celestia to teach some of these things to Twilight so that she could have something to do?
I love this chapter
Good save Celestia 👍 I was wondering how she was going to fix her mistake from the last chapter
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Well Celestia didn't think that was an issue until that moment in the last chapter. And the point of her telling Twilight about all her accomplishments is how LONG it took for her to master them. "Rome wasn't built in a day", as I believe the saying goes. There will always be something new to learn, to do, and Twilight has all the time in the world to master them.
But that's just my take on this chapter 😅