Since banishing her sister to the moon, Princess Celestia has fallen into a state of depression that she seems incapable of escaping from. Plagued by guilt and reoccurring nightmares over the role she believes she plays in her sister's downfall.
To try and alleviate these concerns, Princess Celestia decides that she needs to take on a student, somepony to wield the Elements of Harmony and ensure her sister's freedom from the forces of evil. There's just one problem, not many ponies are able to mentored directly by a princess.
But one night, Celestia has a chance encounter with a little filly that will change her life forever. A filly with a destiny that nopony can see, and the potential for something greater than what she currently is. Even if what that is is unknown.
Ah - I wondered if that was a concidence! Although Sun Spot seems to have a lot better relationship with her daughter than Sunbeam did. (Which sadly, makes me fear that she and her husband are probanly deceased by the time Sunset goes through the mirror.) Also, shouldn't she make it a tale of three suns?
All in all a much sweeter tale than mine, as suits your style. I am ambivalent as always with certain ideas (Sunset being her nearly-first student and her already having the Elements in mind) but the hint you gave of a single previous student was intruiging.
9865910 Considering the thousand year gap I doubt Celestia settled on a personal student with Sunset Shimmer first. But I imagine most were informal at best, Sunset was the first one she tried to tutor personally.
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Well I don't see any reason to hold back like that (except to make Sunset more special) so I don't.
LOVE this spin on Celestia and Sunset's time together. :-D I especially liked the touch of Celestia having the flashback at the time she was looking at the mirror Sunset JUST went into as well as the details of Celestia and Sunset's first meeting.
All in all, really good job on the exchanges and characterizations.
REALLY good job on this second chapter. Greatly enjoyed the bits with Sunset and her mother and Sunset showing a bit of her natural talent.
Again, the exchanges and characterizations in this short story were quite well done.
Feels incomplete.
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Yeah. A very interesting title... ahem
Adorable but sad
Have to wonder what Sun Spot’s reaction would be to the mirror.
I always loved that comic and the dub. It really hit hard especially when thinking about what happened with her and Celestia.
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A bit confused as to this response... it seems unrelated to what I posted. (Plus, it's been like more than a year and I'd kind of forgotten about this,)
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Sorry wrong fic I was thinking about lmao
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I just finished an 8 page paper im very tired my bad
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...any reaon this lead into amswering old fic comments?
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I'm tired as shit bro don't ask.
Liar!
She DIDN'T let her down
She just made mistakes in life but she's grown