In Mortem Familiaris

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In the aftermath of a violent confrontation with a dark villain, Celestia finds herself staring down at her own bloody remains, and is soon after visited by the Reaper, who tells Celestia that her destiny does not allow him to take her into the peace of Elysium.

It was not the last time Celestia would meet Death.

A/N: Rated teen for mild gore. Because death isn't pretty sometimes. This is a one-shot. No more. I can't handle the feels.

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Smatexas

Smatexas #1 · Oct 28th, 2014 · · ·

I thought her destiny was going to be to destroy the world she helped protect, to fall into darkness, for me it would have made more sense to have death laughing at the irony and laughing at how wrong she was when she was grasping at a hero a warrior and a saviour, for me it would have been way more satisfying to have it end along the lines of feely feels with celestia ultimately understanding that her destiny was not so noble and going over with the reaper that death is always fair where the scales of fate are only equal and push that point across

Tl;dr well written and executed but metric tons of lost potential

Freescript the Bard

Freescript the Bard #2 · Oct 28th, 2014 · · ·

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Sure, that's one direction it could have gone, but here's the thing: having an extreme in either direction of 'noble hero' or 'destroyer incarnate' would have been a detriment. Within the course of the story, the scale on which Celestia is gambling toward the higher end is not one of good/evil, but rather a case of legendary/humble. Because Death told her that her destiny requires the great amount of experience and longevity that immortality would give her, she continually assumes that her destiny is going to be a monumentally influential event. This is one way Death manipulates Celestia into guessing incorrectly until, in the end, she would have to fulfill her destiny to know what it is. That was a huge theme I tried to nail with this story.

Tl;dr... I coulda, but what I actually did was more satisfying to what I was trying to say with the major theme, being that your destiny will only be clear after you have met it, however grand or menial it might be.

Smatexas