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Let's see if I can identify the voices.
Zalgo text is Warrior Luna, ready and willing to kill the threat.
Pseudocode text is Logical Luna, making decisions based on cost versus benefit with no regard to emotion.
Strikethrough text is Panicked Luna, always expecting the worst case scenario.
Pink text is Hopeful Luna, believing things will work out in the end.
Ellipses text is Nihilist Luna, completely given up on anything that matters.
Italics text is the Nightmare, natch.
Normal text is Lucas.
The previous chapter also had a couple of others that didn't show up this time. There was Bright text, which I think is Dutiful Luna, putting Equestria above herself. And alternating italics/normal text, which I think was Luna on the verge of a mental collapse.
Poor terrified luna
Was lucas shot? did celestia lie about comming alone or was she decived too. i wonder if next chapter will be luna captured and forced to talk with celestia and argue her case to the authoritys
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I think Luna is getting anxiety induced hallucinations and not proper DID. If it is supposed to be DID, I think all the old chapters would need to be rewritten to make it realistic
At some point I hope to see Celestia be confronted with just how monstrous she seems from an outside perspective.
In Celestia's mind, she made a horrible mistake, spent the next 1000 years trying to make the best of the situation she created, and immediately went to find Luna when she detected her in order to hopefully patch things up and bring her home.
From an outside perspective, she betrayed her sister and fellow Princess, throwing her into space where she couldn't be reasonably expected to survive. She then ruled Equestria alone, as was her stated intent when she initially turned on Luna. She also lied to everyone about the nature of their fight, claiming Luna was possessed and turned on Celestia. This leads to her going from celebrated hero to folklore villain.
1000 years later, Celestia is ruling a prosperous nation whose citizens actually worship her to varying degrees. Then she suddenly detects Luna's magic coming from another solar system. She then assembles a group of soldiers to accompany her to Luna's location. Regardless of her stated reasons for doing so, from the outside this looks like she's trying to finish the job because Luna can challenge her rule.
In other words, Equestria is what it is today because Celestia subdued her only competition to the throne by force, then lied about it for 1000 years. She's not an inherently good ruler, she's just the villain who won and got away with all her crimes. Regretting her actions doesn't change that.
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That is what I wondered as well. But the hunter either did it intentionally, in which case that person is likely dead meat, or accidentally, which makes me wonder how poor someone's eyesight must be.
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i mean lucas was using smoke from a cabin to accend unseen if i read that right. so he could have both bad eyesight and have seen a spookey shape in the smoke
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Well, I mean, she stayed at a doomsday preppers shack, and was heading in that direction, who do you think is the most likely to have a gun at hand?
I think the the owner may have swung by if anything...
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To play a little devil's advocate here...
I still think it's wild how much protagonist bias we've all got. Yes, Celestia fucked up big time and may not deserve forgiveness by Luna. Yes she basically killed her own sister and did so out of fear and distrust, but let's not forget the multiple genocides that Luna has committed by now. Yeah sure, maybe it was the circumstances that led her there and perhaps some of her killings can be excused because the people that she killed were "bad people", but I think it's pretty clear to say we're biased with how much we're letting Luna get away with, while lambasting Celestia's every breath and step.
Neither of the two Sisters are without Sin, nor are they entirely to blame. Both hold accountability lest we forget, despite whatever split between them they may hold of it.
Besides, we still know nothing of how Luna is perceived back in Equestria, what little we have to go on is what sunset mentioned and what Celestia said at the public speech. Assumptions aside, Sunset knew both Luna and Nightmare Moon. The official story went that Nightmare Moon kidnapped Luna, so to speak, but does that mean that Luna is painted in a bad light? Would it not instead infer that it is a cover story to retain some of the honor and good will that her sister Luna had, while giving all the bad deeds she committed an Alternate persona that could be blamed?
I can't tell you what's true, but I do think that we've an easier time twisting the tale so that all Celestia's actions appear evil, despite having little evidence of that being the case. While also excusing Luna/Lucas of every life they've taken. Sure it was government security/mobsters/literal neo-nazis, but I'd wager that perhaps excepting the nazi's, there may have been some of those people that didn't deserve to die. Like Security guards who were just in the way and were eaten alive by literal fucking shadow demons.
It seems we've really reached the zenith of Luna and Lucas' merging.
It's been fascinating to watch it happen proceed as it has. I remember thinking to myself in prior chapters before they went complete box that it seemed like they had arrived at place of Identifying as Luna, but with more of Lucas' personality, interspersed with Luna's quirks. It is continuously leaning towards Luna though, which makes sense, considering the larger sum of memories, hell they even referred to themselves as she during the search of the attic in the shack.
Now it would seem that they identify as almost a 3rd sort of entity, born of the two others, but distinct from them as well...
Regardless I look forward to what comes next! I'm guessing it may either be them coming face to face with a load of dirt and the owner of the shack she's been "Borrowing" or perhaps with such a loud gunshot, maybe her sister hears and comes running to help. Either way, I doubt Luna will enjoy it... but I certainly will
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You're not wrong about the protagonist bias. Both sisters have serious crimes to answer for. There are a couple of other factors, though.
While Luna's encroaching insanity has only become obvious these last couple of chapters, this story began with a human named Lucas discovering he's an alien pony princess. The identity crisis, the stress of the Nightmare's heckling, trying to survive while unable to go out in public, and reliving Celestia's betrayal as Luna's memories come back? While I can't say Luna's crimes are forgivable, it's at least understandable that she'd snap under the stress, and subsequently reach her breaking point more and more easily.
Whereas Celestia betrayed Luna knowingly, if under false assumptions. Then, rather than admit what she did, she spun a tale about Nightmare Moon, despite Luna successfully impressing on her that she was not possessed. Celestia went on to rule Equestria as its beloved sole princess, which was explicitly her plan. Unless we learn otherwise, we can only assume that Celestia didn't snap under outside pressure when she betrayed Luna, and that she received no comeuppance besides guilt and loneliness.
I can imagine a best case scenario, where Celestia only kept her crown because Equestria would fall apart without her, and lied about Nightmare Moon to prevent civil war. But if she does manage to open a dialogue with Luna, she's created a situation where she has to either confess her crimes to her subjects as part of restitution - which would cause social upheaval on every level of Equestrian society, maybe even civil war - or keep everything hidden, which would be implicitly stating that any and all apologies she offered to Luna were lies.
Celestia being faced with this dilemma is what I want to see. Luna's already suffered, and is still suffering, her crimes only being committed under the pressure of that suffering. Celestia has no such excuse, but deeply wants to make amends. Not only are her current attempts making things worse, I don't think she realizes yet just what it'll take to get Luna back.
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No, it is not DID. More like... Stress induced fragmentation.
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Meeting of the main characters is always exciting.
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Good guesses all! But if they're correct or not remains to be seen.
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There is only one way I can respond to all of these theories.
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I try not to go full DID, because A, I don't have it myself, and B, I don't think I could write living with it it's proper justice.
That said, there have been times when I've undergone "stress induced fragmentation", on the small scale, and that's the experience I'm trying to capture.
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The way I had intended that part to be read, was that the canopy was too thick for Luna to fly through, but the space above the cabin would be open to the sky.
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I'm normally okay with cliffhangers, because usually they get resolved in the next chapter or two. I like the anticipation of the next chapter, and I like trying to guess at what might happen next. However, I looked at the chapter list and saw that the next 71 chapters (at the time of writing) are all memories. Wat.
So, we've got a major cliffhanger and then a longer-than-the-current-story-length flashback? Wat.
The entire time I am reading the memories my thoughts will be constantly tainted by "when does this get back to Lucna? When do I get to see the resolution of the cliffhanger?" And I don't know if I can actually follow through with reading the rest of this story because of that. I'll definitely try because I've liked the story quite a bit so far, but... I just... Wat?
All of Lucna's actions and emotions have been building to this moment, what seems to be the climax of the story (or at least very near to it), and... Let's just put it on hold for a long while, yeah?
I'm sorry if I seem aggressive in this comment, I am just so confused. A 71 chapter long (and possibly counting) cliffhanger, right at what seems to be the climax of the story...