The Weight of a Crown

Twilight Sparkle has faced countless challenges since taking on the mantle of a Princess over five hundred years ago, but none have been so hard as remaining healthy and vibrant while each of her friends has grown old and died. Now, beside the fresh grave of the last of them, she wonders if it was worth it. Teen rating for dealing with death and mortality.
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Comment posted by Neal Wolf deleted Jul 30th, 2016

Neal Wolf

Neal Wolf #2 · Dec 7th, 2016 · · ·

7777554 I don't care what everybody says, this was cool J/k
I would like to make a couple of points, though...

O_O Wait, pegasi and earth ponies can become alicorns!? *Ding*

There are some headcanons that claim Cadence was born a pegasus. Personally, I haven't developed my own fan-verse far enough to cover that... yet...

You know, if you find an artist (if you're not one yourself), you should get a picture of Dawnbreaker and Umbra. *Ding*

I have a couple of commissions for Umbra out, actually; I literally had given no thought to Dawnbreaker beyond the name

*facepalms* Washington, huh? Guess he decided to break the Apple-related name tradition? *Ding*

What, you've never heard of Washington apples? Okay, yeah, I was reaching lol

T_T Wow, how many alicorns are there? *Ding*

That was actually in the story; see below...

Ascended alicorns were becoming increasingly common, though this basically meant she was no longer the only one; there were perhaps fifty in all, four of whom were Twilight's former students.

All in all, I guess 20 isn't too bad; thanks for taking the time to do this and for not spoiling the twist ending, though I'm curious as to whether you saw that coming or not