It had been a simple, simple question. A natural one, even. One she was surprised she'd never asked before. So naturally, once she'd realised that she'd never asked it, Twilight Sparkle had to do the most logical thing and ask.
In her, relatively speaking, not too short life, she'd always thought that no question wasn't meant to be asked. No answer, no matter how life changing it could be, should have not been given. Truth was a principle above the needs of the individuals, and it was always the right thing to know more of it.
It was in those spirits that she went to Celestia and asked that questions. And once she received her answer she realised she'd been wrong. Very, very, very wrong.
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Shameless Dio Brando insert aside, this is interesting. Not sure Radiant ever was Celestia's student. Last I checked she never was.
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That clears it up for me.
You just summed up everything I, as an astrophysicist, despise about conspiracy theorists and science deniers.
If you listen closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment that pedestal in Twilight's mind shatters.
Some trippy head cannon. If it were true, you'd think Celly would have noticed and stopped taking student decades ago.
Hmmm... I like this idea. It makes Twilight feel more unique. She is quite literally 1 in a million.
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Yeah I see that, but just imagine Twi's mathematic side going statistical on those numbers. In the more than 1000 years that Celestia has been teaching individual students only '1' Twilight herself did not turn evil, and the thing is she almost did with the want it need it spell.
So Statistically the only reason Celly doesn't have a 100 % evil student rate is because of dumb luck and circumstance.
Or maybe it something about Celestia who brings in these power hungry students.
Really didn’t see the JoJo reference coming.
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Ya they all have the same unvoiced reply " Don't confuse me with facts! My minds made up.'
huh. Interesting. Let's see what Twilight does with this.
so what we should have had was
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but instead we got
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which led to
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does that about sum it up?
H’oh boyo here we goes
Well what did Celestia expect to happen after she tempted fate so hard. I hope Twilight will be able to redeem some of them like she did Sunset. Then again she could use Sunset’s help.
... damnit Celestia! Look at the mess you made that Twilight now has to clean up!
I am sort of amusingly wondering what Starswirl and Luna's reaction would be to the revelation that twilight is Celestia's only student that didn't go evil at some point well as long as you exclude that lesson zero business...
Also that a whole bunch of them had just escaped.
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Isn't that what always happens? Celestia seals someone away and Twilight has to be the one to actually convince them to not be evil anymore? Luna, Discord, Sunset Shimmer, Radiant Hope... Hmmm and Starswril taught Celestia and Twilight has had to cleanup his messes. Ahh so it's all Starswirl's fault for not teaching Celestia to finish the job and now Twilight is stuck doing clean up!
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I feel that's the jist of the plot for most of the show. Someone f**ks up and twilight being the only competent one has to fix it.
Hah
you know what i think 'might' happen?
Like only a few of them are any real threat, but all they each want is something so mindlessly petty or nonsensical that Twilight will have to wonder what the fudge made Celestia put them in the box in the first place.
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Also i FREAKING love how, in my mind, Celestia Slaps the box like she would a brand new car stating how amazing it is just to break it.
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Not really.
People just love putting everything on Celestia, alone.
There’s the incompetence we all know and shudder at.
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I know it's a comedy fic, but this Celestia is portrayed as an insane, serial abuser: breaking her students into monsters, and getting rid of them when they are too problematic to be useful anymore like discarded toys (save the ones who managed to escape, as Sunset did). After that, she just pick another.
She doesn't bother trying to reform or even talking to them because "they aren't worth the effort", unlike Luna or Discord.
Also, Celestia counts Twilight as her only success. After watching her adventures and the lack of useful assistance from her mentor, I would sat she didn't ascended "thanks to" Celestia, but in spite of her.
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I’d view it as more that her methods will only work with people with a neurotic obsession for her approval. Anypony else will just go mad and aim for revenge.
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Or maybe Twilight wasn't a neurotic mess before her period under Celestia.
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Also a distinct possibility.
pandora's box :)
Wat?
God dammit Celestia
I'm not usually one for comically inept Celestia, but I'll keep an eye on this story.
Welp... this can be a good material to use in Sunst shimmer stories.
Now I don’t know what in The World the Diode Branding reference is to... but I think I can understand Twilight’s trepidations upon discovering that failure was hard coded into her training regimen. This begs the age-old question we’ve all been asking since the early seasons: Is Celestia merely incompetent, or is she a mercilessly evil troll?
This makes me think she was training challengers to keep herself amused... leading me to award her: one point evil.
At first, I thought this was going to be a; “no, silly, I didn’t turn them to stone and shatter them! I disintegrated them!” But instead we got her storing evil to be released later, which results in: one point incompetent.
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One more point for incompetent.
Well, best 2/3, puts this Celestia at incompetent. At least that’s better than evil, right? Right?
Fun story so far.
Technically he didn't. He reformed NMM. Which is actually more impressive.
Wow, Celestia.
Just... Wow.
You'd think after all of this time she would know better than to tempt fate by striking a container that imprisons hundreds of villainous high-level tier Unicorns.
Oh,s***! Was that a muthabukkin Persona reference!?
You know, a good number of them might well have been salvageable. Who knows what this particular Celestia considered irredeemable. The issue now will be in sorting out the benign or indifferent ones from the destructive ones.
And then, differentiating between the truly malevolent ones, and the ones that simply wish to pursue an entirely justified grudge against Celestia in particular. Can anyone else hear the words "class-action lawsuit" on the wind?
I do not think Celestia is going to grow much from this experience. Now Twilight and her friends have their work cut out for them stopping the more violent ones and dealing with what appears to be a very indifferent Celestia. Discord must be thoroughly enjoying what is happening.
Step 1: Summon Discord.
Step 2: Threaten Discord with an angry and/or crying Fluttershy.
Step 3: SNAP
I guess somebody saw Return of the living dead.
"This thing was made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers!"
I think it’s time for Twi to learn the family honored tradition of alicorn tossing.
And the student becomes the master.
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Leading to an Equestria (or at least an education system) ruled by an oligarchy of solar students, while Celestia is left to do the jobs she can actually handle. I like this idea.
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The sun goes up and down according to the timetables, and she gets a nice stipend along with a cozy cottage somewhere. I've seen a fair few Celestias that would jump at a deal like that.
I'm excited to see how Twilight deals with this.
Celestia just keeps proving that something was watching over Equestria until Twilight came along.
How did anything function before Twilight came along?
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I love that udea Celestia gets Sue, and Luna supports them. Say Celestia is locked with the worst ones as she so incompetent to rule.
Oh,PuBG here...
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My guess is the reason most of Celestia's students turn "evil" is they realize how catastrophically idiotic she is and decide to take over and fix things. Then they get trapped because she's still insanely powerful.
Question for Celestia: