Facing His Father
Shining Armor stood in front of the mirror inspecting the final touches to how he would be presenting himself at the wedding, the real wedding of him and his bride to be, Princess Cadence. It was however, a wedding that was almost ruined not just because of the Changelings that had invaded Canterlot, but because of his own undoing. Shining Armor had nearly barred the pony who had made his wedding possible to begin with: his own sister, Twilight Sparkle. The young captain of the royal guard was now carrying the burden of his actions deep on his shoulders.
Twilight was all that mattered to Shining Armor, the sister who would always look up to him with great affection while also caring for his own safety. He specifically chose her to be his Best Mare and when did she try to protect him from a devious monster like Queen Chrysalis, how did he repay her? By stripping Twilight of her Best Mare title and barring her from even attending the wedding. Yes, Shining Armor did realize his grave mistake and made amends with Twilight by asking her to be his Best Mare again, but he never told his parents about it, especially Night Light, his father.
However, that was all about to change. As Shining Armor finished getting ready, he heard a knock at the door.
"Shining Armor," called a voice, causing the unicorn to stop adjusting his uncle's heart chestplate. "Are you almost ready? I'd thought I come visit you before the ceremony."
"Um, sure, dad," stuttered Shining Armor. "Just give me a minute."
Adjusting his chestplate, Shining Armor walked away from the mirror and headed over to the door. Opening it, he saw Night Light standing in front of him, wearing a nice white shirt, yellow tie and black jacket. Shining took an enormous gulp as he stood in the prescence of the pony who had raised and taught both him and Twilight to be the ponies that they were today.
"Son, is everything okay?" asked Night Light, raising an eyebrow slightly. "It seems like you are nervous about being married to Cadence. Everypony gets nervous before their wedding, it's perfectly normal. Or is there something else that is on your mind? Something that happened at the rehearsal."
Shining Armor's heart sank when Night Light said the words "Wedding Rehearsal." It seemed that Twilight had already told both him and their mother, Twilight Velvet, what had happened. For a moment, Shining Armor felt like he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him to an early demise. But, he knew better than to hide secrets from anypony, especially his parents.
"Look dad," sighed Shining Armor. "I know that what I did was wrong and that I apologized for my actions."
"And I am grateful that you did, son," replied Night Light as Shining Armor let him into the house. "You know how important it is to your mother and me that your sister is your Best Mare. But, this didn't have to happen, you know, Shining Armor. I can't help but wonder why you would do such a thing?"
"I was only trying to be protective of Cadence," replied Shining Armor, trying to defend his actions while also not cracking under the pressure because of his father's prescense. "When Twilight accused her of being evil, I thought that, she disapproved of the wedding. How was I supposed to know that it wasn't really Cadence that I was going to be marrying?"
Night Light and Shining Armor made their way over to a sofa in Shining Armor's living room and sat down at it. The two colts then looked over for a moment with Shining Armor showing eyes of regret and his father showing the eyes of somepony who wanted answers for what happened to his young daughter.
"Chrysalis fooled us, dad," said Shining Armor, lowering his head in shame. "Even Princess Celestia was fooled. When Cadence found out what we had done to Twilight, she warned me that she was going to call the wedding off if Twilight was not my Best Mare. After all is said and done, I was the one who ruined the wedding. Not Twilight, not the Changelings, me."
"I do commend you for owing up to your actions, Shining Armor," said Night Light. "But, as much as I don't want to say it, this all could have been prevented. Your mother and I have never seen you and Twilight ever fight together. At the most profound moment possible, you turned on her. Why didn't you listen to her?"
"I told you dad that I was only trying to protect Cadence," cried Shining Armor. "If it was Cadence that was really there, then I wouldn't have done what I did."
"But you did, son," remarked Night Light, a hint of disappointment in his voice. "I want you to remember what was at stake here. The Changelings invaded Canterlot and you did try to protect us from them, that's admirable. But, turning your sister away is something that I will not tolerate ever again, do you understand me, son? I want you to remember that if Twilight ever has something important to tell you, you will listen to her. Understand?"
Shining Armor took in all that his father had told him and realized the gravity of the situation. After all, he wished greatly that he could all that he said at the Rehearsal back, but he couldn't. This was something that was done and could not be erased, no matter how he would try.
"Son, I've always told you to live and learn from your mistakes," advised Night Light, slight tears forming in his eyes. "But, from now on, from this moment on, that if Twilight or anypony for that matter has something important that they need to tell you, you will listen and not do anything rash like what you did at the rehearsal. Do I make myself clear, Shining Armor?"
"Yes, dad," sighed Shining Armor, seeing the pain in his father's eyes. "I do understand my actions and I can promise you that I will never cause you, mom and especially Twilight the pain that I inflicted upon this family. This was my mistake and I will never, ever doing anything like this ever again. I swear on my life."
At that moment, both father and son came together in a brace that lasted for a few good minutes. Once they had embraced, the time had come for Shining Armor to meet his bride with Twilight standing at his side as his Best Mare.
So, they left and now that it had been aired, the pain of the wedding rehearsal was behind them…
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Wasn't Shining Armor's reaction to Twilight's accusation at least in part a result of Chrysalis' spell on him? That's how I always thought of it.
7510770 The same here. Heck he is the least at fault. Celestia and the other mane 6 have ALOT to answer for.
7510770 Oh no it wasn't. And even if it was, what about Twilight's friends. I'd say they looked like they intended to hurt her real bad and they showed no remorse for it in the end.
7511244 I'd put Shining Armor on the same level of blame as the others if I were you. This is the guy who put his wedding ahead of everything that was more important. His well-being and his own sister. If I was getting married and something like this was coming up, I'd choose my family first because I for one would be royally pissed off if my wedding was nothing but a sham.
I can give you props for admitting that Celestia and the other Mane 6 have a lot to answer for, but Shining Armor deserved to suffer a lot too.
Why should anyone have believed Twilight?
Episodes like It's about Time and Lesson Zero established that she loses her grip on reality, and makes very poor choices when she's stressed out.
She failed to present any compelling argument for why anyone should distrust Cadance, when she had everyone's attention.
She established herself as obnoxiously jealous and possessive of her brother from the moment she got her wedding invitation.
In short, she demolished her own credibility.
The fact that she was right in the end, well even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Not as bad as I thought this would be, but everyone seems to forget Shining Armor had a right to get mad at Twilight for what she did. As a husband to be his loyalty was first and foremost to his bride, and Twilight did not present her arguement in the most compelling or believeable way. Even stripping her of the title of best mare was understandable, it was kicking her out of the wedding all together that crossed the line.
This just unfortunately seems to be another case where Shining Armor has to stand and get heckled for stuff that wasn't completely his own fault. He harbors some guilt for what happened during the rehersal, but it's not like Twilight was an innocent saint. There were other options to barging in during rehersal and just shouting "Evil!".
7511358 This, so much.
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You in no way refute the possibility that Shining's actions might have been the result of Chrysalis' mind control.
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7511287 He gets a by though. MIND CONTROL. We have seen him affected by it, the others nope so he can take less blame then most.
Though dick move by not telling Twilight for months
Very good story, I enjoyed reading it.
... But just straight up walking out on her like that. Like, can they just use lesson zero and its about time as an excuse just to cast her aside during what they assume to be one of her "episodes"? Sure they have no reason to believe twilight, but jeezus its like they just gave up on her. Shit like that would've grew into a major problem later on anyways, and even if she came up with evidence they would've been skeptical.
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Dudes
She didn't mind control him, she merely gave him a spell that he feels comfortable around her. Everything be said to her was from him not chrysalis
8742919
Nope it was mind control
8743042
The Same excuse EvErYoNe trying to defend the imfamous 7 give.
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Except it's true here. we see him under her full control later.
8743101
YeA, LATER, not when he disowned twilight.
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likely then two considering what she saw before confronting them.
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You just really want to defend shining dont you.
This story is made for people that hate the infamous 7 not like them.
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No just being fair. the Mane 6 minus Twilight and Celestia need to take the blame for that issue. he is the only that gets a by from the mind control.
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No he doesnt. Yes Twilight should have brought proof, they just would have made another excuse.
Being calm? Her friends and mentor were ignoring her claims all day, you would lose patience too.
Her friends are once again being retarded idiots.
Celestia, always not listening to Twilight whens shes right.
And Shining being so easily mind controlled. Didnt no weak-willed unicorns can become a Royal Guard Cpt. Even if the RG are useless
And dont even try and say its because she was with him for months.
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well we don't know how long Chryssy had influence on him or how long it would take. and look at the situation. A threat made agaisnt Canterlot, yet still going forward with a wedding. Someone close to the Bride is saying that she is evil and note this person hasn't seen the pony in person for a while yet Celestia has seen her at least every week. An issues that would crop up Shining is forced to ignore.
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And yet Celestia thought it a good idea to have a wedding during a threat, all because *Cadence* wanted to?
That doesnt raise any alarms? Other then for the Plot?
And lets not forget, their just assuming shes jealous, the mother of all fuck ups.
Seems being a hero makes you stupid then.
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The wedding is badly written, hence the multiple entries on the accusations page.
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Hence why theirs stories like this on it.
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but it should be fair to the one guy least to blame.
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Im sorry but i will never ever see Shining being the least to blame.
Mind-Controlled or not.
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What little evidence she had was explained away as wedding stress and a healing spell.
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Ok I did mature since then and had plenty of time to think it over. Wedding Stress? Only for Applejack(and maybe Rarity) could that be argued. With Rarity and Pinkie, it was *Cadence* being a dick. But a healing spell? A healing SPELL? And Shining(more so Hasbro fucking up) has the gall to say that to the wielder of the Element of MAGIC?
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Yeah I admit it was a lame excuse especially considering there was unknown enemy who was planning an attack. The girls were too wrapped up in the wedding to pay attention to the bad behavior so twilight just looked nuts. And the lame excuse without someone besides twilight saying something was up worked. Blame Celestia for thinking about a wedding more than possible danger. Plus it would have taken 5 minutes for her to check that he was fine.
No way it wasn't shining armor's fault for pushing twilight sparkle out Queen Chrysalis hypnotic shining armor so she can keep anyone from foiling her plans.