Explanations
After a moment of silence, I look down to the two ponies who’s charge I’m in. “Well? Did she?”
They both stare at me unwaveringly before the unicorn -still hard to believe they actually exist- speaks. “Perhaps it’d be best to ask her yourself.”
“And why can’t you tell me?” I ask annoyed.
“We could, but I know there would be follow up questions that we can’t answer; wouldn’t be our place to. Better to just start from the source.” he says simply.
Sighing in defeat, I start walking back in the direction I came from. We re-enter the throne room, which is still empty minus various guards, and the two princesses themselves, both of which were talking about something. I couldn’t tell what, because they stopped almost immediately as soon as they noticed me, which was pretty quick.
“Is there something we can help you with, Kaia?” the white one, Celestia, asks. I stand there for a moment, not exactly sure how I should act, considering they are the rulers here. After a brief moment, I take a deep breath and let it out. “I wanted to ask you some questions about Jace, if that’s alright with you?”
They exchange a glance with each other, then look back at me. “That sounds reasonable; though if I may ask, why is he not with you right now?” the darker colored one, Luna I think her name is, asks.
“He… ran off. I upset him, and that’s sorta what I wanted to ask you about him.” I say while pointing at Celestia.
She nods, but says nothing else. “Why was he turned to stone? He said there wasn’t a reason, but I just can’t imagine that being true.” I ask.
They exchange another glance, then Celestia sighs. “The blame would fall with me for that one, I'm afraid; His story is an unfortunate one, and not written by himself.”
“You really didn’t have a reason?” I ask, backing up a little.
Celestia’s wings shift around on her back apprehensively, but Luna speaks first. “We had a reason, but it wasn’t a very good one. Around two thousand years ago, back when Equestria was first being founded, your brother had a run in with The God of Chaos, Discord. They had a small altercation, leading to Null being time warped a few days into the future, right where my sister and I were combating him, trying to free the land from his cruelty. He was caught in the middle of a conflict not his own.” she explains.
I stand there looking up at them, listening intently to their story.
“It was a difficult battle. We nearly lost, even with the elements of harmony. We were young, rash, and inexperienced. We were also tired, fearful, and not thinking properly afterwards. Out of fear, I had convinced my sister to use the elements of harmony with me on Null after seeing his eye, turning him to stone.” Celestia continues for Luna.
I furrowed my brow in confusion. “You turned him to stone… because of his eye?”
Celestia nods. “Unfortunately, yes. In hindsight, we should have at least tried talking to him. But you must understand, that eye has a history. The Left Eye is a mark bearing great power. A long time ago, well over two thousand years, another human with the Left Eye nearly wiped out all life in existence. He was only narrowly defeated, but the circumstances of which were unknown. We… I didn’t want to risk the potential end of the world, especially not knowing how it was circumvented the first time. Though it seems in my haste, I have put the world at risk of just that.” she says with a downtrodden look.
Luna clears her throat after a moment. “Yes, your brother is a delicate subject that needs to be handled carefully. It was through no fault of his own that he ended up the way he is. He has the power to rival my sister and I, but isn’t actively trying to. He genuinely just wants to live his life.”
“He also genuinely wants to kill me…” Celestia said somberly. “Yet he knows to do so would ruin any chance he has at the life he wants.”
Luna nods. “It’s an unfair predicament he has found himself in, but he is trying to make the best of it.”
I take a moment to digest this information, but then something stands out to me. “Hey, why doesn’t he seem to hate you? You had an equal hand in what happened, so why would he want to live a normal life?” I ask, pointing to Luna.
She smiles a bit, looking proud of herself. “Well, we’re friends, to put it simply. As to how we became friends, it’s, a bit embarrassing admittedly, but as my sister said, we were young, rash, and inexperienced. That applied to alot of things. Suffice to say, I was upset one night, and ended up seeing his statue as a means to vent. It’s silly, but I started seeing him as a friend. Even if it was all in my head, as I had no way of knowing if he was conscious at all during it, I treated him like a pony. Er… Person, in this case.” She sighs and smiles a reminiscent smile.
I tilt my head at the oddness of that, but shrug it off. Kids latch onto the weirdest things... I know I did.
“One thing led to another, and I started researching a way to undo what the elements did to him with the help of Starswirl the Bearded, a prodigy wizard who tutored even my sister and I. however, there were numerous setbacks. Even after roughly seven hundred years of off and off research, we were unable to free him.” she says.
“It took you almost two thousand years of research to turn him back?” I balk at how complicated magic must be.
She sighs again, with a wistful look in her eye. “Unfortunately, no. roughly a thousand and three hundred years ago, I met a shadow. One who deceived me, and took advantage of my own anger at the time to corrupt me. She helped accelerate the process, but in the wrong direction. Had I cast the spell we were working on the way she designed it, Null would have been a mindless puppet to control. Around two hundred fifty years later, I finally lost control of myself. I was banished to the moon by my sister for a thousand years. When I returned from my banishment and was freed from the shadows' grip, I quickly noticed what she did to the spell, and had to scrap it all. Two hundred years of spellcraft, wasted. Well, almost all of it seems to be, since we do not know how he was freed, as I didn’t do it. But it’s the thought that counts, and Null seems to agree.”
You were imprisoned as well? For a whole thousand years? I’m starting to sense a theme here… but I guess it does make her more relatable for Jace...Null… Fuck that, I’m still calling him Jace.
I must have been silent for a while, because Celestia speaks up again. “While we promised to try to find a way home for you, I cannot say whether or not your brother would want to go back, though it seems unlikely. From what I gather as well, magic and eyes of power are not normal where you are from. Am I wrong?” she asks.
I shake my head. “That’s… a good point… I don’t know how others would react… the government would probably try and capture us too if the stereotypes are true.” I shudder. “Not something I wanna try and test… is there any way for you to remove the eye? And ya know… replace it with a normal one?” I ask, unsure how to feel about the eye one way or another.
They exchange another glance with each other. “We… are unsure; It is of unknown origin. We can look into it, but we recommend against it, as doing so could have a wide array of repercussions, potentially even killing you. Even normal surgery would be risky, as we don’t know your anatomy. Not to mention I don’t think your brother would be too happy to hear about us researching a way to take away his power, even if it is meant for you.” Celestia explains.
My heart sinks at that news. I can understand their reasoning, but it's still disheartening. It’d probably slow their research on a way home as well…
Luna clears her throat after another silent moment. “I’d also suggest you take some time to figure out what your eye is capable of when you can open it, and get the hang of it; lest you not be able to control it, or worse, it activates itself when you don’t want it to. And if you feel it’s trying to influence you, please, tell us. Null claims his Left Eye isn’t trying to control him, but he can’t speak for yours. The last thing we want is for you to lose yourself.”
I mull over what she’s suggesting, and admittedly, she is right. We don’t know what this thing is capable of…
“If it’s as dangerous as you say, where would be a safe place to test it out?” I ask, not wanting to endanger anyone or anything like that.
“The dueling circle would be a decent place to do so. Ciauss and Aria can direct you there. It’s where your brother practices as well. Perhaps he can help you figure out how to use your eye as well when you see him again.” she suggests.
“...You seem a bit unconcerned about him running off.” I say with a raised eyebrow.
“To be honest, it does worry me. But considering the topic, it seems best to let him air himself out. He wouldn’t have gone very far, assuming he keeps his promise to stay on the castle grounds.” she explains. “Besides, if trends are anything to trust, he’ll seek you out to apologize when he calms down.” she tacks on at the end with a smile.
I nod, and Celestia continues. “Is there anything else we can help you with?”
“Not that I can think of at the moment… thank you though… “ I say, and motion for my two guards to follow me as I leave… God it feels weird thinking that I have personal guards…
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going to be intresting what her effects might be
Glad to see this back!
She can't just forgive them just like that.
It happened to someone she cares about and sometimes people feel more anger towards the one that caused the pain than a victim itself does towards that person.
If that was a court case I would imagine these would be accusations :
-They attacked him unjustly
-They imprisoned him without giving him any means of defense against sentence.
-They imprisoned him unjustly
-They imprisoned him for thousand years without any proof requiring that long sentence.
-They imprisoned him using complete restriction of movement.
-In imprisonment, he wasn't given anything that a normal prisoner has access to.
-Imprisonment was part of mental torture.
-Imprisonment caused mental and memory damage to the victim.
-After the release and reveal of the truth, the ones accountable for his sentence didn't face any prosecution, impeachment for their actions.
And in any way didn't face repercussions for their actions.
Glad things are going better for you, and this is a good chapter
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If she does then she has no meaning of loyalty to family. If you mess with one you mess with them all, family stands together.
Wow, I am utterly disappointed that the sister didn't even get angry or tell Celestia that she is walking on a thin line to her, cause if I found out that a member of my family was encased in stone for well over a thousand years, was mentally tortured by that imprisonment, lost memories to it as well, and then the person who did it got away scot free, I'd be demanding blood and a pound of flesh from her and from anyone else that dares to try and defend her actions.
This is what pretty much happened.
Sister: Why did you imprison my brother in stone?
Celestia: Cause I was too hasty and didn't want to hear what he had to say.
Sister: *One Punch Man's Okay*
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you gotta understand this from HER perspective and how i chose to write her as a PERSON. her personality and behavior obviously isn't gonna match up with your own beliefs of right and wrong.
from her perspective in her own words, she doesn't know how to feel about null/jace. a person she never met, but always wanted to/wish he was never gone. the implications behind that aren't something you can realistically gauge, as one implies a complete rewrite of personal history, and the other is just alot more difficult to pull off socially (considering he was missing for 18 years). when confronted with the unrealistic (i mean, who the fuck would expect to go to equestria with a magical eye?) opportunity to actually meet her brother, he's a completely different person from whoever he would have been had he been gone for an ACTUAL 18 years on earth, not the 2k he's been gone in equestria; it could potentially be different, as he'd have aged. but no, she has no ties to this person. he didn't even know she existed.
second, I personally, along with Kaia (but not null, also sorry, spoiler!) am of the belief that blood doesn't instantly make you family. "family" isn't the be all end all of support. if you had a "family" member you don't know show up and expect help just cuz they're family, would you care about them? i wouldn't. not to say I don't care about my family, or that kaia doesn't care about hers. but family is just a word. family is who's close to you, and who sticks with you. anyone can be your family. but I care about my family because they care about me, not because of a bullshit obligation like "family comes first always". cuz be honest, some people aren't lucky enough to have a caring family. mine is broken, and I've met so many other people who were unfortunate to have a shit family, people i hold dear to my heart and consider family myself; it's impossible not to see things from their perspective and agree. but, that's my own morality (and one i'm choosing to share with kaia (no, i don't shove all my beliefs down my characters throats, kaia just happens to fall into that slot because of how im choosing to decide of how she was raised))
null is in a weird spot regarding that, cuz he doesn't have any family to latch onto, so he's willing to accept anyone (who deserves to be) as his family, but as soon as he saw he had blood family, latched onto it like a hobo on a ham sandwich. he did so for different reasons from "family comes first" however, because it was a heavy implication for him. someone like him. someone who can relate to him as a species. not as a likeminded tormentee. (luna).
lastly, she's still shaken up. shes been in equestria for more than barely an hour or two, and is scared, confused, shaken up from a neardeath experience, scared again from having a potential hazard lodged in her head, and rattled from being in a whole new world with the implications of possibly never returning home weighing a bit heavier on her mind than what her brother (a man she still doesn't know how to feel about) went through. that, and I feel that their explanation sorta answers why they can't do anything about it, and with the way she grew up, understands that sometimes things are just unfair. and willing to give them the benefit of the doubt; they admit fault, and one admits to actively trying to free him afterwards. (the other never explicitly saying they were against it either.) is it hard to believe that a pair of two thousand year old godess's can make a mistake? from Luna and Celestia's perspective, hindsight is 2020. but at the time, they had no idea of what they did, or what could have happened because of it. but even with that aside, she's still shaken up, to repeat my first words of this paragraph. unsure of how to feel about everything and anything at the moment. she may not feel anger at the moment, and she may not in the future. but to her, with how the princesses handled it, and how they were honest about it, she doesn't feel an immediate reason to be hateful/vengeful towards them. hell, they could have straight up killed him, or he'd be dead and not lived long enough for her to meet him. catch 22, but she's got reason to even be grateful towards them, as fucked up/selfish as that is. though that's not to say she exactly forgives it either.
i apologize for this rant, and I'm sorry if my world view is that much different from yours that you're unable to at least accept it, but that's my opinion and im sticking to it. a friend of mine wrote in a blog that we should steer clear from doing everything the comments say, because then it's less of "your story". have a good one ya'll.
Something i really love about this is that the characters are all rather sensible. They realize the situation is shit and all do their best to improve it, or keep it from getting worse instead of pointlessly esclataing.
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Don't forget their situation: They were fighting Discord. The fight isn't necessarily quick nor clean. Discord is doing all sorts of shit to distract them and keep them too occupied to focus upon him. And then Discord drops in just one more thing right before he finally gets petrified....
Not all that much different from a couple of police officers dealing with an active shooter situation when--BANG--someone just pops up in the middle of the action literally from nowhere without any warning!
That "someone" is getting shot!
Yeah, it's a bad thing, but it happens, and it happens all too frequently, and it still happens even with experienced LEOs.
Now, recall the situation: Celestia and Luna are still inexperienced!
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Those are some very good points that you make... IF she had the perspective that we have, as outsiders to this story looking into it.
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not only as outsiders looking in, but we are all people of different backgrounds with different opinions and experiences. I can understand they're complaints, but I don't have to agree with them. man, and I wonder why it's like I get less and less viewers every day lol
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Yeah, true.
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sorry cant help myself. ive read lots of fics where celestia is not exaclty the villain, but as you put it a horrible person.
its not like i really hate celestia, but how writers portray her on their personal perspective also gives me perspective on how much i really dislike the "self righteous" "no harm shall come upon my ponies" stint shes doing and being narrow minded, if i could i would punch her in the face for being like that.
love the fic btw!
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hehe, thanks, glad you enjoy it. though to give celestia some credit, i wouldn't call the "no harm comes to my people" approach to be narrow minded, but i do know some people write her like that, especially when they barely give her any emotion/character beyond just being the princess. i got more i could say, but imma hold my tongue. either way, i hope to continue to please.
Nice chapter, but I noticed a little inconsistency here.
Previously, you said that her eye was a total unknown, and that nobody had seen it before.
Otherwise, I look forward to seeing more. Congrats on the new job.
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hm... i can see it. i meant it in a different way, but lookin back at it, i can see easily how it doesn't portray what i meant. thanks m8! i simply removed it, but i meant to imply something with it. simply put, their current running theory was that the right eye was always with the left eye, and just not documented or something. either way, too much to change, too much to imply. yeet!
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The way the characters act feels very nice, and natural. Out of all the different aspects of this story, the characters themselves are one of the better ones.