Late-blooming fan with way too many story ideas in his head. Have written before, but this is my first serious foray into the world of fan-fiction.
Princess Celestia is aware of the prophesy heralding the return of Nightmare Moon. She plans to meet the threat herself bearing the Elements of Harmony, and is fully prepared to banish Luna again if she does not relent. No one ever asked the Elements themselves their opinion on the matter.
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Wooah that's a good story, my eyes are watering a bit
Curious, the elements are acting like some kind of XCOM council. Here's a task celestia! All we ask is that you risk your students life and hope that you've trained them enough to make quick friends, survive encountering your evil superpowered sister and bring the right kind of ponies that the elements seem to have set up here.
The elements could use some basic friend ship skills themselves by the looks of it.
That was just brilliant. I wish I could give this ten upvotes.
It still brings up the question about her becoming an alicorn. Wast it always planned from the beginning or was it spur of the moment?
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I suspect that Celestia started considering this shortly after seeing how she handled herself in the Crystal Empire. I doubt it was in her plans from the beginning, though, but that's just my opinion.
Also, thank you everyone for the kind comments! I'm glad my first foray into MLP fan fiction was well-received.
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Mmmhmm. I find the idea that the Elements or the Tree and/or now the Table (or whatever) are acting like some infallible omniscient diety - but one that refuses to actually coherently and sensibly communicate - brings their motives into question.
6533679 Well, her Element did physically manifest itself as a tiara/crown type thing, rather than a necklace, as the others did for the other girls.
So I think that we have a pretty good clue as to the fact that that's what the Elements themselves had planned from the beginning.
I could be wrong, but that's my take on the subject.
This is sharp, and quite smart indeed.
Overall, well done. A clever idea and executed with pretty good finesse!
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Given that Twilight's cutie mark was on the Tree of Harmony, and Sunset seemed to have an idea of what Celestia was grooming her students for, I'd say it's very likely Celestia intended for Twilight to become an alicorn ever since they met.
Thanks again for the continued good comments on the story.
Just to address a popular topic of conversation in these comments, portraying the spirits behind the Elements was the most challenging part of the story. Their dialogue underwent multiple revisions while I was editing the story before posting.
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That's a good point. In light of that, I think Twilight strikes a nice balance between predestination and earning her way to her Alicorn-hood (for lack of a better term)
6534104 an entity with great power dictating to others for a job that endangers the world kind of calls into question the whole free will thing
6534104 I know, right?
Kinda like these guys...
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Wait... Sombra... Dark Magic.. mind control... bug thing... the Shadows are CHERNGELERNGS! OMG!!!
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Actually, yes. The more I look at the Harmony Gubbins, the more like the Vorlons it seems. (Also see Eakin's Hard Reset...)
I'm not suggesting the ponies should necessarily stop following what it puts out - but they REALLY ought to start asking more questions and not follow it blindly.
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Who says that Celestia was the manipulator? The Tree predates Celestia, and possibly Discord. The Spirit of Magic could have been manipulating events for the past thousand years to create Twilight.
6537157 So Twilight can go back in time and steal Ponylon 4 to help fight the Shadow Umbra Ponies to save the Crystal Mimbari!
Which was 1,000 years ago! JUST LIKE IN BABYLON 5!!!
IT... MAKES... SENSE!!!
(Alondro goes on to write the best worst crossover ever... apparently an homage to "Plan 9 From Outer Space"...)
I get to the end of this story, and read what the Elements have to say about Twilight, and honestly, you know what the only thing I can think of is?
Even the Elements of Harmony don't like Moondancer.
An excellent story!
I know I'm literally years late in coming in and commenting, but after reading Pandemic, I needed to check out your other works.
You have an excellent grasp of the characters and their motivations. I daresay that your explanation of Princess Celestia's motivations are a new twist that rings very true.
If I may offer this one criticism, it would be that Twilight was awful with making friends before going to Ponyville; it would make more sense and tie into the story more believably if she had failed Celestia's test. Or had succeeded only because her partner had figured out the trap and gave the gem to Twilight for their team to win.
Thank you for writing this and sharing it with us!