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oh dear... thats a scrambled brain....
Finally! I had so hoped this would happen!
Merry Christmas to all!
What is going on here? I guess the celestia thing in the last chapter was just a dream then? The sudden DID thing or whatever it is is very weird since this is the first time it's come up. The actual demon living in her head doesn't count for that because that's an actual separate entity she imprisoned in her body.
Personally, I think it should've been harder for Celestia to snap Luna out of her gray box state thing.
Celestia's reasoning is pretty terrible too, but that's just how she's been in the fic. "I thought you were going to betray me and usurp the throne, so I betrayed you first by threatening your most sacred connection to the moon."
It was pretty jarring to read this after the last chapter, expecting to jump right into Celestia encounter. But instead what happened last chapter didnt happen and now here's a different way it goes
It's worse than I thought.
I thought Celestia had simply been tricked into believing Luna was unfit to rule. Instead, whether she was manipulated or not, she believed Luna, the bearer of the Element of Loyalty, was planning to betray her.
This is a vicious cycle. Luna has every reason to stay away from Celestia, but in doing so she keeps digging deeper and deeper into insanity. Celestia wants to make up for her actions, but she can't get closer to Luna without causing Luna to suffer a meltdown. Yet she can't leave either, because Luna isn't safe on Earth.
I seriously hope neither sister's crimes are glossed over. Luna can't stay on Earth because she committed multiple mass murders, and no Earth government has the means to imprison her. She can't be executed because of her connection to Celestia, at least not without starting a war. So the only option is extradition to Equestria.
In the other direction, Celestia has destroyed everything Luna loved. Luna's status as a hero? Forgotten, she's now a fairytale villain, and one without her own agency at that, instead being "possessed". Luna's good faith with the Sarosians? Overridden by Celestia to appease racist nobles, and the Sarosians' fate is unknown. Luna's crown? The last straw was Celestia taking it away, that's not something she can just casually give back 1000 years later. Celestia even, it bears repeating, killed Luna. But by far the most damaging thing Celestia did was destroy Luna's trust in her. That's the thing that's literally driving Luna insane.
I don't see a way Celestia can make up for all of that short of publicly confessing her crimes to all of Equestria, followed by abdicating. And even then that would only get her hoof in the door, at the low, low price of Equestria's national stability.
The difference between the first meeting with Celestia and the current are immense, and I cannot help but notice that both mares are, not really slipping, more like crumbling. Both can't utter more than a few phrases, even if the explanation mostly lies on Luna's side(it is a first person story afterall) but through matching Luna's actions so can the state be transferred in the readers eyes.
Oh, and before I forget. Merry Christmas/happy holidays.
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i mean lucas being snaped out of box mode by celestia makes sense because it was only a thing done to hide and keep hidden. when faced with celestia hiding is lowest priority when she knows you are there so reversing is logical to lucas and the logic brain they are in
Heh, I actually expected here response like:
"I am home, what's left of it. You destroyed Equestria as my home by time and lies: everything I valued crumbled, everyone I valued died, everyone there thinks I'm a foal-eating monster. If I have to build a new life anyway, I'd better do it far away from you. You managed to spoil that too by arriving here, but it is solvable."
Technically, all Luna has to do to evade is travel abroad, then request political asylum(in Switzerland, for example), then make a deal that she teaches and researches magic and they keep Celestia off.
As for Luna's murders... technically everything she done can be argued as self-defense, except maaaybe for killing cartel (murder in state of affect caused by crimes of victims, quite lenient in some states), also Luna can quite plausibly plead insanity. With a competent lawyer she faces innocence to 50 years max, quite acceptable.
Called it, knew there was more to it and Celestia wasn't just a heartless monster. Not that this means she's justified by any means, but still!
Henceforth I shall be referred to as: Lord Told You So!
Merry Christmas to you all
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As a DID system myself, I've been sort of waiting to see if the other shoe drops. We'll see I guess lmao
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Not to mention that even if she were to go back to Equestria, as we've found out it's changed, at least by the little advanced military tech Celestia's forces had come to Equestria. Equestria could be a sprawling eutopia, with vast city structures, and zero resemblance to the Equestria she knows. Even if all the ponies accepted Luna, Luna wouldn't fit in crowned or not.
All these lands, all these happy ponies in harmony? She did not build them, they were built by Celestia and they are hers. All she had ever sacrificed? They mean nothing now, not even in the face of accepting ponies in harmony who couldn't understand what she had given for Equestria. I don't think I could see Luna going back to rule ever if at all. She couldn't simply go back to her old roles, such things effectively nonexistent, not the mention the entity in her head that needed to be fed terror.
Honestly, I don't even think Celestia publically admitting her crimes and abdicating would do much, ultimately I feel like Luna was truly thrown out. She is no longer a part of the great plan, and we remember how distraught Twilight was about being the Princess of smiles and waves during the first EQG movie.
Luna simply isn't part of the puzzle anymore no matter how you try to fit her back in.
At least, that's how I see it so far. I'd get back to finishing up the rest of my binge, but I have to get ready for an event unfortunately.
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It's true that confessing and abdicating wouldn't actually fix any of Luna's problems. But it would demonstrate that Celestia cares more about fixing things with Luna than ruling Equestria.
No matter how much Celestia begs, Luna has no reason to believe Celestia is sincere. Exposing her crimes and giving up her crown wouldn't just be a dramatic gesture of contrition. It would be a prerequisite for Luna to even entertain the possibility that Celestia actually feels remorse over what she did, rather than simply regret at the consequences. It would be a starting point from which they can then talk things out between between them, rather than Luna somewhat justifiably withdrawing from society altogether because it's a society that follows the traitor.