Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 3
By TDR
Endor Girls,
Epilogue
[Crystal Empire]
“FUUUUUUU...OOOOFF!” Sunset tried to curse as she fell back through the portal crashing down onto the crystal road with a wince.
“Sunset Shimmer.”
Sunset winced at the voice and pushed herself back up onto her hooves. This wasn't how she wanted to come back to Equestria. She wasn't at the head of some great army or wielding any sort of immense power.
Still she could at least have some sort of dignity in her defeat like this....
“HOLY SHIT, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!!??” Sunset shrieked, back peddling away from the pink alicorn and the black bug looking pony standing next to her. Her escape was quickly cut off as a purple winged form was launched out of the mirror and high speed and impacted her bodily sending them both crashing to the ground in a tangle of limbs.
“I'm okay.” Twilight offered.
“Fuck dignity, I'm just gonna lie here and try to bleed out.” Sunset muttered.
“You're not bleeding.” Cadence sighed.
“That's why I said TRY Cadence, damn it, listen once in a while.”Sunset muttered from the ground. “ Also what the fuck is that thing?”
“I feel I should be insulted.” Chrysalis huffed.
“Don't be she's always been like this.” Cadence sighed. ”This is Queen Chrysalis.”
“That explains nothing.” Sunset grumped.
“What the buck happened to the palace?” Twilight demanded looking up at the ruined mess of a building.
“A god Starswirl threw in the mirror came through and started trying to wreck the place, it's under control.” Cadence explained as Spike tumbled through the portal landing on top of Sunset as well.
“Woah, what happened?” Spike asked looking up at the wreckage.
“A god escaped the portal and wrecked the place.” Chrysalis offered.
“Was any one hurt?” Twilight flinched.
“No, thankfully not.” Cadence stated.
“I am very glad you shrunk back down before you landed on me dragon.” Sunset muttered.
“The names Spike, and I wasn't the dragon over there.” Spike grumbled.
The portal flared and a large blue canine like creature fell through the portal crashing down on top of all three of them with a thud.
“GAAAH!!” Sunset yelped.
“Rahs, GET OFF ME!” Twilight gasped.
“Woof?” Rahs stated looking up at the wreckage.
“Portal Dragon attack, blame Starswirl, no pony hurt.” Chrysalis stated knowing what he just asked.
“Says you.” Sunset whimpered.
The portal mirror flared again and Shining Armor calmly stepped through, stumbling a step as he got used to four legs again.
“Hey hun. I'm home.... redecorating? Can't say I like what you did with the place.” Shining smirked.
He might have commented further, though he was hit from both sides by a pink alicorn and changeling queen with enough force to dent his armor.
“Gak” Shining gasped from between the mares glomping him.
“So any way. It's been a long time Sunset.” Cadence offered crushing Shining into her chest.
“I'm surprised you noticed. Nice to see you're finally off the farm.” Sunset muttered. ”I'm sure Celestia is thrilled about that.”
“She was, though I've been away from there for quite a while now.” Cadence blinked as the Sparkles stood up off of Sunset, Rahs grumbling something as he brushed off his bare chest and arms.
“Seriously? I never understood how you gods kept track of time I guess you're still new at it, so who's this one any way, guess alicorn gods are popping up like a bumper crop this decade? And what the fuck is all this!?”
“Umm. Well this is the Crystal Empire it came back earlier this year, Twilight only ascended about a week ago and exactly how long do you think it's been?” Cadence frowned.
“Oh shit, it's been a lot longer than three years hasn't it? Any time a question like that comes up, the time spent was a lot longer than you think.” Sunset sighed before deadpanning her question.”Alright lay it on me how long have I been gone?”
“Ninety years give or take.” Cadence offered.
Sunset stared a moment and sighed.” Not as bad as I thought, but fuck.”
“Woof.” Rahs stated pulling a small book out of his coat and offered it to the orange unicorn.
“So you've been displaced from time? By Twilight Sparkle?” Sunset frowned reading the cover.
Twilight and Spike stared at their brother, when did he get another coat?
“You wrote a book just for this sort of thing?”Sunset glared at Twilight.
“Trust me it's been very helpful. The Crystal Empire, Discord, Sombra, Luna, it beats having to explain all the history missed, plus each chapter covers a hundred years so all you need to do is read the last one.” Twilight offered.” Though I've yet to do an update past the return of the Crystal Empire.”
“So what are we going to do with her any way?” Shining Armor asked as he pushed his head out from between the two mares sandwiching him.
“Wait for Celestia and Luna....” Cadence stated.
“It was my crown that was stolen, honestly it should be my verdict.” Twilight humphed.
“I TOLD HER NIGHTMARE MOON WASN'T AN OLD PONY TALE!!” Sunset shouted pointing a hoof in the book.
“Ahh we see some one else was taught by our sister.” Luna sighed gliding down to the portal. “Is everyone alright?”
Sunset looked up at the dark alicorn then read further in the book.
“Oh good you're back!” Pinkie Pie cheered pronking up with Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash behind her.
“Seems you recovered your crown and caught the thief, good job Twilight.” Rarity applauded.
Sunset blinked starring at the four. “They're here too?”
“Oop hot hoof!!! Hot hoof!” Pinkie Pie gasped.
“Woof?” Rahs asked wondering what that Pinkie sense meant.
WHAM!!
A large orange missile slammed into Rahs sending him tumbling across the street. When he finally came to a stop Witch-Jack was standing on him.
“Yer alright!” Witch- Jack chimed up excitedly her tail wagging before she noticed everyone staring at her. She quickly hopped off Rahs and helped him up. “Ah mean... welcome back.... yeah”
“Cadence.” Twilight stated. “Put me down for it.”
“Twilight you can't be in that pool.....” Cadence began, cutting herself off as Twilight spread her wings and stared at the pink alicorn.
“Right, I'll mark down your bid.” Cadence sighed.
“Discord was the statue in the garden?” Sunset frowned. “Celestia always let me paint that thing as a filly.”
“Yes, you did wind up with some delightful coloration.” Discord stated popping into being above the orange unicorn.
“GAH!” Sunset yelped.
“Oh calm down, you didn't know any better and I'm in a good mood.” Discord stated waving a slip of paper around in a clawed hand. “Though I really do need to ask, what exactly was your plan for defeating Celestia?”
Sunset blinked and flattened her ears. “I was going to figure that out when I got to that part.”
“You didn't have a plan?”Spike frowned.
“Of course not. A chess master can't counter a plan if there is no plan to counter. I made an outline and I planned to fill in the rest as I went!” Sunset stated.
The Sparkles stared at her a moment.
“You were Celestia's student weren't you?”Spike asked.
“For sixteen years” Sunset muttered.
“Ahhhhhhh” the three Sparkles stated simply.
“ I feel I should be insulted” Celestia pouted as she flew in for a landing next to her sister.
“Not at all, I mean you did finally fix the issues with your school after giving me and all your other students mental issues.” Twilight offered. “Then there was the manipulation and chess master nonsense that you did so often it's like you needed to do it to live..... I take it back, please feel insulted.”
“I apologized for that repeatedly Twilight..” Celestia sighed.
“Right sure, HER you apologize to because she became a freaking alicorn, but the moment I got my cutie mark you decided I wasn't worth your time as much any more and you focused on Cadence while pushing me to what ever idiotic tutor you could, hell there were months were I never even saw you.” Sunset snapped.
“Sunset I went over that before, I was the only ruler of the nation I couldn't spend every moment with you....” Celestia sighed as if this was a very old argument she didn't want to start up.
“Bull shit! You were all I fucking had and you literally started avoiding me. I did everything I could to make you proud of me to have some sort of attention and you barely gave me a smile. “Sunset raged. “I got my damn cutie mark, you showed up for two minutes looked at it said, 'That's nice' and vanished for two weeks!”
“Sunset!” Celestia winced. “I did not vanish I had to deal with a political crisis....”
“Don't you Sunset me, you started railroading me at that point, pulling away my free reign of the library and herding my studies away from the fire and combat spells I was good at, and pushed me towards healing. I suck at healing spells, then when I found a work around for it using blood magic you acted like I broke into your damn cake vault and peed on everything! But at least that got me noticed!” Sunset ranted glaring at Celestia her eyes watering. “You were the only damn thing I had and the only way I could even get to to notice me was to fuck something up so royally that you didn't have any choice but to talk to me.”
“Only thing she had?” Twilight blinked. A quick look around saw a number of other gods sitting on couches surrounding the area eating popcorn including Shining and her friends. Discord was grinning like a fool and Rahs was taking notes on all the drama, the orbs at the tip of his ears glowing far brighter than she had seen them before.
“Sunset. Did... you think you were an orphan?” Cadence spoke up rising off the couch away from shining and Chrysalis.
“Yes..” Sunset sniffled.
“Who told you that?” Cadence moved forward, the glare she was shooting the stunned Celestia would have been enough to melt any one not connected to a glowing ball of fire in the sky.
“No one did, I figured that out on my own. No family, no known relatives, not even any records of my birth until I came to the palace at age two.” Sunset snapped.
There was a few collective awws from the gathered gods and Cadence snorted in anger.
“Sunset you are not an orphan. You're Celestia's daughter.” Cadence stated.
“Yeah I know I saw the adoption papers... why do you think I'm so fucked up over this?” Sunset grumbled.
“No, I mean you're her biological daughter, you're a demigod.” Cadence clarified.
“WHAT!?!” the gathered gods and others around shouted as Celestia winced.
“Whelp. I'm not mad at her any more. Sunset you have my sympathy.”Spike sagely nodded. Rahs and Twilight looked at each other and nodded as well.
“What is this insult Celestia day?”Celestia frowned looking at the Sparkles.
“I'm marking it on my calendar!” Discord cackled.
“Wait. So you're my mother, You're my real mother!?!?” Sunset snapped one eye twitching.
“Alright, now I super forgive her.” Spike added.
“No, she's not.” Cadence singsonged before Celestia could comment.
“Cadence... don't you dare. We promised not to bring that up.” Celestia snarled.
“You promised, I did no such thing, much like a certain farm picture that resurfaced at my wedding. “Cadence grinned. “Celestia is not your mother Sunset, she's your father”.
“WHAT!?!? the crowd shouted again.
Sunset blinked her twitch growing worse. “Then who the fuck is my mother?”
“Don't you dare..” Celestia growled as Cadence grinned wider, stepping to the side as a wrinkled green earth pony mare tottered up.
“What tha heck is with all this yelling?” Granny Smith grumbled as Cadence rose onto her back legs and gestured with her fore hooves in a 'tada' motion.
“GRANNY SMITH!?!?” they all screamed out, and Applejack fainted.
“Of course it's not Granny Smith, she's too young to be Sunset's mother.” Cadence smiled.
“Ah'm not sure where yer going with this or if that was a compliment or not but ah got mai eye on you.” Granny glared at Cadence.
“Granny, this is Sunset Shimmer.” Cadence pushed the two closer.
Granny frowned pulling out her glasses to look over the younger mare before her. “ Well ah'll be. Yer tha spitting image of her....but how..”
“Demi gods don't age the same way normal ponies do. This is the Sunset Shimmer you knew ninety years ago.” Twilight offered. “So who is she?”
“Mai sister.” Granny offered.
“WHAT!??!” the crowd went nuts.
“Well half sister. Back when tha Apples was first given tha land tah settle around Ponyville lil over a hundred years ago we had a rough couple of years at first and we had tah spend a lot of time going back and forth to Canterlot for supplies. Maw wasn't too thrilled with Paw kissing that hooves of tha Princess, so when we had tah get something, she went. From what her old diary said one time she was gonna tah give tha Princess a bit of her mind about vamping on Paw. Well turns out Celestia here's a right smooth talker and managed tah get her way intah Maw's pants. Long story short, Maw spent a lot of time 'reporting' our progress to tha princess after that. By tha time Paw found out, we was busy with Zap Apples and she was heavy with a foal. Making tha story even shorter, Celestia agreed tah look after mai half sister cause we was still struggling tah feed everyone, and ah ain't really seen her since she was a filly. Saw her a couple of times with Celestia, but she didn't come back tah tha farm, seems Paw and Maw didn't really want any leaking of tha infidelities, always sent her a invite tah tha reunions, never got any responses back though. ”
All eyes turned to Celestia.
“By the point they started having reunions Sunset had already left.” Celestia frowned.
I simply thought she ran away.”
“ Really bet you didn't look for me long.” Sunset snorted.
“At least thirty years I had ponies looking for you, I finally stopped when you responded to one of my messages in the journal with the words,and I quote, ' Fuck off and die already', end quote.”
“Excellent.” Luna bellowed, shoving her sister out of the way and zipping up to grab Sunset and crush her in a hug. “We get to be the fun uncle!”
“But you're a mare!” Sunset gasped.
“So is thine father, so we are thine uncle, it only makes sense.” Luna nodded sagely. “ So let us go to place of doughnuts and talk!”
“I don't... “Sunset protested.
“Unless Twilight has any objections, it was she whom thee stole from after all.” Luna glanced to Twilight.
“Nope. I'm good. Having had some bad family experiences and being a student of Celestia in the past I totally get why you would have tried for world domination and revenge. I wrote up a few plans myself once.”Twilight nodded.
“Why do you think I'm such a good DM and Rahs is such a good villain actor?”Spike offered.
“Ummm.” most of the group offered.
“SUPERB, come Sunset let us hear the tales of this other world thee were in.”Luna laughed dragging off the confused and upset looking Sunset with Granny Smith toddering along after.
“Mare were you not married I would propose right now, that was a masterful work of chaos right there bravo.” Discord cheered clapping as he strode up to Cadence. “The tension building, the fake out, the SECOND fake out, and all while screwing with Sun butt. Bravo, just bravo.”
“Why thank you, and it is a pity I'm married, though the relationship is some what open and I've not actually had a chance with anything like you before.....” Cadence nearly purred leaning closer to Discord.
“NOPE!”
Discord gulped leaning back, only for Shining Armor and Chrysalis to each grab a foreleg of the pink princess and frog march her away from Discord and back towards the castle as she blew him a kiss, the bug queen carrying the mirror along with her in her magic.
“Girls please tell me there is a room still intact in the palace.” Twilight sighed.
“I'm afraid all of them are taken Twilight.” Fluttershy offered.
“There's the hotel by the ski resort, I noticed that it had some rooms left when I went to visit their spa yesterday morning, shall we head over there and see for sure?” Rarity pointed out.
“Please, I am a hundred and ten percent done with this day.” Twilight sighed as she, her friends and her brothers head off.
The rest of the gods started heading back to their rooms or what was left of them, seeing that the show is over. This left Discord and the still stunned Celestia standing there.
“Well seems like you really screwed up on this one Sun butt.” Discord chuckled.
“I didn't tell her she was mine because I didn't want Nightmare Moon to try and use her against me, it was only a hundred years until she was coming back.” Celestia blurted out.
“Don't tell me sun butt, tell your daughter. I'd offer to torment you further, but...” Discord grinned looking down at the paper he held, his smirk getting even wider as he looked back to Celestia. “ I've got some shopping to do.”
Discord vanished with a snap of his fingers, the paper drifting down to the ground to land at Celestia's hooves.
Curious, Celestia picked up the paper and looked it over, there was only one sentence on it, written in near illegible scrawl.
'You owe us like … nine thousand birthday presents!'
Celestia looked at it curiously and shrugged, she wasn't even going to try to understand Discord. Besides she had to have a talk with her daughter.
Celestia let out a sigh, this was something she never thought she would be able to do again once Sunset vanished. Embarrassment and shame aside she would accept Sunsets anger, so long as she knew she was alive.
Well this is a good first epilogue. Definitely needs to be more.
After what happened with Chrysalis and Cadence to make Saturnia, I really should have seen the twist regarding Celestia and Sunset coming. Definitely wasn't expecting the Apple connection, though.
That's that big yowsers right there, folks.
So the time over there is a lot faster than here. Hmmm... maybe Sci-Twi might pop out in the next minute or so? Since everything was solved within half a day, so the portal should be opened for about two more days on the other side. Plenty of time for Sci-Twi to do analysis and come in.
One year later...
Sunset: How comes your foal an alicorn while I was not?
Twilight: This calls for SCIENCE! I need sample of you and Celestia to compare with Flurry and Cadance.
Flurry Heart giggles and shot a giant lasor beam through the nursery room.
Sunset: ... ok, I am glad I am a normal unicorn.
So Sunset is a part of Apple Family? Does this also mean she is Pinkie's cousin as well?
Pinkie: OMG! I need to introduce Sunset to my family, STAT!
WOW! What a way for tia to loose respect points
9989183 Were any of us expecting the Apple connection? Seriously, there's a body check to give a story a new twist and then there's the sledgehammer to the temple. Though we should have figured things would get very interesting when SunnySet got back.
Wait. If Sunset is Granny Smith’s half-sister, wouldn’t be she the Apple siblings’ graunty? Welp, I’m glad this is an alternate universe.
*reads, re-reads, takes my paws and rubs my golden eyes, then re-re-reads, then just falls over onto my back LMFO*
So Ponyville's latest resident is a combat-trained unicorn, who's also a demi-god, a princess, and a member of the Apple Family? Tuesdays just got slightly more interesting.
I presume Sunset ends up in Ponyville after this. It's really the perfect place for her.
Are the Sirens also her daughters?
Or are they Discords daughters?
Both?
Time will tell!
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I mean, Cadence had to learn it from somewhere...
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Siren's parents are Discord and Aqua, goddess of water. It was hinted numerous times.
I loved how all the gods were eating popcorn like this was a day time soap opera. Wonderful detail.
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It would be nice if Sunset, Sombra, and Blueblood ended up in Ponyville beginning with season 4. Sunset to get away from her father and fun uncle. Also to find out about her mother and get to know her half sister. And grand nieces and grand nephew.
Technically this would mean if Twilight, Spike, and Rahs marry into the Apple family she would be their great aunt in law…
That’s a headache for another story.
Sombra as part of his sentence (and to also get away from his mother). Yes, the royal guard contingent would be increased slightly. But only slightly since the Sparkle Family are his real wardens while he learns some social skills.
Blueblood to spend more time with the love of his life… and also because his mother disowned him.
This might actually be the weirdest chapter ever
9989271 Got a feeling we're not into the weird stuff yet
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agreed
I'm confused more then pleased. Like, Edgar Allan Poe leaning in to the paper to try and understand it more meme, confused.
More drama than a telenovela episode and confirmation this Celestia is kinky as hell.
O this is a grate roast chapter i love it.
i wonder what roasted Sun but taste like.
That... went sideways fast. I have some whiplash.
Yes she can, she's got wings now
It makes a lot of sense
Wait, they're orbs again ?
I am Spike in this scene, and seriously, the buck Celly
Mark It in every calender
https://m....did not see that one coming
Makes sense
So the sirens really are the daughters of Discord and Aqua, that's nice
Pfffff hahaha omfg you glorious ingenious hilarious b******d no one saw this coming and the fact twilight just openly admits with spike and rahas they have been known to make multiple take over the world evil plans to f**k with sunbutt is hilarious and then you have cadence hitting on discord as both shiny and chrissy drag her away the revelation sunsets half god and half apple with the revelation cadence is not the only mare to have that particular spell luna just going with it and being a uncle despite logic throw in the fact sunsets granny Smith's half sister and by extension the entire immediate apple family in pony ville are technically royals with witch Jack still hitting on rahas and the sirens are going to show up soon and pfff haha I'm just imaging sunset and sombra in a room talking to each other comparing who had the most rotten childhood then the weirdest parent revelation to the more likely to happen of sci twilight poking through the portal at the most inappropriate moment between the 3 way marriage of cadence trying to convince shining and cadence to let her have a go at discord and noping out of there or getting thrown out while CHS are all just trying to process what's happend as well as how there going to explain that to the city and government how a over egear theater troop caused damage like that and the panic
Holy damn Celestia fucked up BIG TIME. Her own daughter whose mother apparently abandoned/died - how the flying fuck did sunbutt manage to convince granny' sister not to talk to their daughter about family's one heck of a question to ask. Dead, maybe? - relegated to the background, left without contact for weeks at a time... That's bound to create some HEFTY abandonment issues. Let's hope Uncle (my sides!!! ) Luna can help mend her heart with her experience in dealing with asshole Celestia.
I honestly hope we see more of Sunset in the story, love her. Maybe she does go live in ponyville (doubt Canterlot would survive her now that it's out that she's the legitimate heir. There's a coronation and A REALLY pissed of Royal demigod with one heck of a earned chip on her shoulder in it's future) and Rarity has a new shot with Prince(ss) Charming?
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Dude, my sides hit the stratosphere with that
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Why thank you I do try my best but i still fell short of orbit though at least shes not the apple that's under the definition of obliterated now
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I’m surprised that Pinkie isn’t about to vibrate into another plane of existence at this point…
Okay that was great thought the implication that it will be thirty years this side before the portal opens again is troubling. Still not sure how this could affect those geodes at Everfree and the other shenanigans.
If one day there is a month here, there could be some serious lag should help be needed. Also did Sunset leave her journal behind? That could still act as a means of communication if anyone knows where it is on that side. And figures out how it works. Sci-Twi might be able to, she has detection gear.
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tastes like ass...
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Thank you for spelling that out. I didn't understand who he owed the presents to.
Rahs, god of drama, everybody
He would
/shouldBoy that spell sure got a lot of use
So, how long till Twi ends up being a father? All the alicorns are doing it.
I love this family
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the epilogue to the season will explain some things, it's bad , but not THAT bad. Both of them are idiots
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From what I remember the timing of the mirror portal changed for some reason after the first EQG movie.
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I don't think it changed so much as Twilight invented a work around using the journals to force open the portals
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I think a more appropriate word would be yet, we should all drop the assumption their is any kind of cap on how strange anything can get...
I don't think I've ever said how much I love that you wrote a at least partially comedy story
Can we just add a minor portfolio to celestia as "goddess of bad interpersonal connection"?
I don't think there's like, a single interpersonal relationship she didn't fuck up. And like, sure, we all fuck up sometimes, but with this much consistency and with how HARD she does it when she does it's worth noting.
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Supposed to be full comedy, but i have to keep reminding myself of that
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Geeze TDR, throw enough curveballs this chapter?... oh, who am I kidding, of course you didn't.
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Which would make that the reason.
You know I'm pretty sure Discord is just loving greatly that he honestly doesn't have to do a thing to cause chaos. He can't be blamed for it and can just sit back and enjoy the show while things spiral around in anarchy for a while until everyone decides 'F**k this s**t I'm out'.
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Ah, forgot about that ...
I still bet fife cupcakes he's up next. No chance TDR passes on that big red plot point
So Sunset will eventually get along better with ‘Uncle’ Luna first long before she ever does her mother... while Sombra does the same with Aunt Celestia as he still has very good reasons for being angry with his own mother.
Sounds legit.
....I just realized. With Sunset being a member of the Apple Family and it now being known that she is both a Demigod and Celestia's Daughter, and thus a Princess, that means by relation the OTHER Apples are now Royalty which means none of the nitwits in Canterlot have a hoof to stand on should they try going after Twi and Mac again as Big Mac now officially outranks them in terms of Nobility.
She didn't tell her that she was her daughter in fear of Nightmare Moon... What about the forcing her to study healing and forbidding her to learn about fire magic?
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She didn't forbid her from learning fire magic, she just tried to find her a more creative outlet before the fire repair bills got too high
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Meh, she could had made everything fire-proof like with Spike, that is a excuse, is like asking a flier with a flying cutie mark to be rock farmer
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No one ever said it was a good idea
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1. Sunset being a princess doesn't extent to the Apples, since Celestia never married Sunset and Granny Smith's mother.
2. Twilight is now a Princess and a god, and thus outranks everyone but the other alicorns.
3. Anyone who takes on Twilight is due the Equestrian equivalent of a Darwin Award. And after that last time, everyone knows it.
I suspect if Twilight doesn't already have a 'Victims of Celestia's Chess-Mastering' support group going, this information will probably cause her to start one.
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Except Spike and Rahs are both Adopted into the Sparkle Family and all of them became considered Royalty due to the parentage/ Luna Shenanigans for those two. Sunset is a Direct Blood Relation. That is a bit more Solid than Adoption.
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Big Mac is dating Twilight, thus making him almost a prince by marriage. Also, Spike is a demigod, and thus probably a prince (not sure if the rules apply for dragons), while Rahs isn't quite as heavily connected with the Apples as his siblings.
Blech...more apple family connections, and more Rahs getting crapped on with that particular ship-tease.
At least the rest of the story is still good....though with how bad this Celestia keeps getting shown as being at just about everything, it's getting a bit unbelievable that she could hold a country together for a millenium.
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Not quite. Had Celestia married Sunset and Granny Smith’s mother, then yes this would be correct. However she did not, so the Ponyville Apple family is not royalty… for the moment.
Right now Equestria’s line of succession is probably this:
1) Celestia & Luna <== Ruling Diarchs
2) Sombra <== First heir to throne (the eldest surviving child of one of the Diarchs)
3) Sunset Shimmer <== Second heir to throne (the youngest surviving child of one of the Diarchs)
4) Rahs Sparkle <== Adopted Grandson of Princess Luna. As such Sombra is his Uncle. (First non Blood Relation to be in line for the throne following succession laws).
5) Sweetie Belle <== Adopted Sister of Princess Luna Technically aunt of Sombra and Sunset. (Second non Blood relation to be in line for the throne following succession laws).
6) Princess Cadance <== Adopted niece of Celestia and Luna. same generation as Sunset and Sombra. (Third non blood relation)
7) Saturnia <== Eldest daughter of Princess Cadance.
8) Princess Flurry Heart <== Second child of Princess Cadance.
9) Twilight Sparkle <== She’s an alicorn Goddess, therefore she is a Princess in the minds of the public. Irregardless of what she wants.
Dead last) Prince Blueblood <== He’s never going to see the throne.
Spike is a Dragon Prince of the Dragonlands. However big brother Dragon Lord Torch is currently in charge. And we’ll see how that line of succession pans out next season.
So Big Mac and Applebloom are both dating Royalty (admittedly for two different lines of succession). AJ is trying to nab Rahs as her BF (along with three others). So if any of the Apples marry, they will be royalty by marriage.
Speaking of Big Mac, I wonder if Sci Twi will date the human version of him.
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Yes, Spike and Rahs are adopted into the Sparkle family. Twilight Velvet and Night Light adopted them into the family. That adoption alone wouldn’t make them Equestrian royalty.
Rahs being adopted by Luna made him Equestrian Royalty.
Spike still needs to get a means into the line of succession… which he is probably going to get once he, a citizen of Equestria, single handedly conquers the Dragon Lands. If he’s really smart, he’ll install Ember as his regent after he’s folded the country into Equestria (and brings the same sort of technological and financial assistance to it that the Crystal Empire is receiving).
Especially since we know Spike wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to fold the military might of the Dragon Lands with the EUP Guard.
This of course means The Storm King’s Army won’t know what hit them the second they invade.
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Twilight wouldn’t be the one to start it. And neither would Spike or Rahs. If anyone would, it’s Discord for one simple reason:
It would screw with Celestia.
Especially if it comes to light that Starlight Glimmer is also one of Celestia’s former personal students.
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If that ends up being the case, I seriously hope someone calls her out for using that naming convention for her personal students.
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I hope we get a moment where Sunset meets her cousin and they start comparing notes about their parents.