Seven years before Twilight Sparkle, a curious creature arrives in Ponyville. How will they react to each other and this strange new world?
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...Wait...is this how a certain race of black equine bugs manages to do their shapeshifting? Interesting.
There's going to be three times both the solar princess and the lunar princess are unavailable, unable to do their day/night shtick:
1. Plundervines. Result: both sun and moon hang in sky, with an abrupt transition between 'day' and 'night' (even though the sunlight should overpower the night sky)
2. Changeling abduction, kept behind a field that negates all magic except changeling magic. Result: sun and moon work perfectly fine - somehow.
3. Storm King invasion, transformed into crystal. Result: kind of unclear due to cloud cover and the like, but seems to be just fine.
So...how's this explained, Rarity?
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Not the same reality, just inspire in it.
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Re Celestia: ...Yeah, I very much dislike how it's handled in the show. You would think that they would at least offer a handwavey explanation, but nothing. Best explanation, which somewhat fits with what is stated here, is that the sun kept its momentum a little longer than the moon, ending up with both of them in the sky. Perhaps a contingency group of unicorns was set up after the plundervines and they took over for the other events?
The sun and the moon are certainly not sized the same as ours; in one of the early comics (FiM 6), they literally lasso the moon in order to walk onto it. After something like that, it's hard to make too many comparisons to how things work here on good 'ole Earth. Not that I mind the attempt at all! I find it quite enjoyable. In fact, it's part (most?) of the reason I'm writing this. Funny thing, I was reading another story that mentions magical realism compared to fully implemented fantasy - i.e. magic existing and everything else is the same as opposed to the nitty gritty depiction of how actually having magic would affect day to day lives. And the show is much further on the magic realism side than I would (generally) like, but that's because the interactions between the characters are the focus. (And that's not a bad thing!)
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Do the comics actually count, though? Sure, they follow on from the show's canon, but the show has never cared about them whatsoever.
So the 'moon lasso' thing might only apply for that comic, and not the show itself or future comics.
This chapter gave a lot about there world it was awesome.
Very fascinating chapter. 🙂
I just love chapters like this.
Ones that decide to go in depth to the magical system of this universe.
And he can't just say that magic doesn't exist where he's from, and thats why he doesn't have any?
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I've always thought of magic as will manifested in a physical force to alter reality. Or at least that makes sense to non-scientist types. I suppose a smartypants like Twilight could offer a far more detailed explanation that would be guaranteed to put everyone to sleep.
That was great. Really got into the nature of magic from a different angle then magic itself per se. That takes some pretty high level word building skills to pull off properly. And properly you did.
Wasn't the knowledge of Luna missing at this point in the timeline?
Also in the second instance, was Tirek known to any but Celestia? I guess they could have had a history lesson about it or something.
That's a really cool headcanon that Discord's chaotic reign messed up everything so bad that it was the cause of why the princesses need to manually rise the sun and the moon every day.