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This was quite symbolic, it's rare to find stories of this magnetism. I enjoyed it.
...ouch.
She should realize she's allowed some happiness as well.
~Skeeter The Lurker
It is a unique and dangerous pain when one's purpose in life has truly been snuffed out.
Is it truly so hard, Celestia, to find happiness in eternity? Is time that heavy a burden. I wonder how many times you've learned to live life in the moment. I wonder how many times you've re-learned it. How many times you've forgotten to allow yourself to be happy. How often you forget you even can.
You've done far more than enough, Celestia. You can pass in peace and happiness. Perhaps you just need to allow yourself to do so.
I certainly could see that happening. Celestia ruled for a 1000 years by her own, after having banished her sister.
Good story.
This is poetry, Skirts.
Daaammmnnnn.
Well done.
Damn, Skirts. Just . . . Damn.
Decay claims everyone and everything eventually. And yet, entropy can never erase or undo how brightly she once shined.
Saddest part is that it's not marked "Alternate universe"
This was really something truly haunting. What happens when someone decays into old age both mentally and physically. Extraordinarily poignant. Well done.
Roger Daltrey said it best: "Hope I die before I get old."
I prefer the what the leaked synopsis had for the Celestia/Luna vacation episode
Basically the sisters and discord realized their powers were going and their time in this realm was nearing its end. Not just "lets go live in a retirement home lol"
Wow... Just... just wow. This was such a powerful story that it gripped my heart very strongly.
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Why does everyone mix up Silver Shoals and Silver Stable?
Dammit so many stories where Celly and Luna just die
Well this was depressing. But as well as it might have been written I'm no fan of "eternity is sad" fics.
There's waaaaaay too many of them and they're going back in fashion now that the show has ended. And that's not something I like.
Ouch. Finishing what the show runners have been doing since the end of season two, eh?
Does she actually want to know what happened to Celestia? She's the goddamn Twilight Sparkle, after all. If she really wants to find Celestia, she can't hide.
Just how long do Gryphons live, anyway?
Even that which may be considered eternal may be withered and worn down over time....
Dispel and clear out mean roughly the same thing, except that 'dispel' is almost always a positive action (something actively dispels or is dispelled by something else) while 'clear out' can also be a more passive action (the crowd lost interest and cleared out).
The Cabin at The End holds all kinds of Background Ponies.
Princesses and pale blue unicorns alike, when they are to be forgotten.
It is poignant, and it accomplished the goal of being disheartening, but strangely I would never imagine Celestia to be like this.
I've met very old people, 90+ years and still kicking, but to make it through the 100 year mark and still have your faculties and will to live? It takes an integrity and a contentedness with your existence that I feel Celestia will have long ago attained. I don't see Celestia falling decrepit after simply losing her youth. (Unless she develops dementia, but even dementia sufferers can be remarkably youthful and kind) As always, it's written well, I just believe Celestia would be far too strong to reach this point of emotional decay.
This story is well written. Objectively, it’s quite good.
But I hate it.
Oh, there are all the minor nitpicks I could make. Celestia’s lived this long, she has connections, and she’s experienced abandoning and making and remaking them over and over again. She isn’t likely to fall over and die when she’s off the throne. The only thing stronger than apathy is habit, and her hooves have walked the path of the sun for so long that simply decaying is just wrong.
Because she’s been through worse, you see. Discord lived for an era. Anything a pony built would twist into something beautifully useless, or turn on its creator. No one was safe and the only constant was Luna, who was always just a bit off in her own way. But she kept going. And then Discord was gone and Celestia and Luna ruled for some time, until Luna’s neurosis grew and grew and Celestia was left alone. And she still kept going. She’s been stuck in a castle surrounded with work for years and years, likely longing for the day where she can drop the facade and just do things. But she can’t, because she has her ponies to care for, and if she just up and left for a week there might be nothing left when she gets back. So she is always looking, always tutoring, always hoping for a replacement. Luna’s her sister, but she has her problems. The moon needs an anchor, another immortal. She isn’t a naturally happy pony, you see, and there’s no one other than a Princess who can bring her out of her moods when her mind grows dark and shadowed and any mortal who approaches always regrets it. So Celestia always searches for a replacement, and she never finds one who can satisfy the requirements, and she grows older, her well-tread path of habit gets deeper and deeper, and she always keeps going. And now she’s found someone who can do the job, and so she ... stops?
She could explore the seas, finally live within another nation, build that palace on the moon she was always thinking about as a surprise for Luna, investigate the secrets of the mirror pool or the Everfree or the thousands of other unexplored mysteries in the world, things she could never do because she was too important and if there was the slightest bit of risk to her, it could cause a nation to fall.
Celestia was never emotionless, never one naturally disposed to long periods of depression. All around her ponies were doing that very thing, even her own sister, and it never lead to anything good. She’s always been the one to drag everyone kicking and screaming toward harmony, an implacable force that just keeps going.
This story’s characterization of her isn’t just bad in the sense that it’s the cliche “immortality bad” trope we’ve all seen before, the problem is that it’s so profoundly out of line of who she is that everything else just becomes silly. She’s been Luna’s rock, and now she won’t even read her letters? She doesn’t constantly worry about her slightly unhinged sister? Well, I suppose that makes sense if Luna just learned that all she had to do was stop being depressed! Wow, wiping away major aspects of who she is was easy! Let’s do Twilight. Worried about her mentor? Who cares about tracking spells, they could be easily thwarted by a withered husk of a pony whose wards would be like a stiff breeze before the alicorn of magic itself. Let’s not even try! Oh, she’s still receiving letters? Dragon fire is silly, why would the alicorn of magic want to learn where something it sends goes? Twilight’s shown relentless optimism over the course of her life? No problem, we’ll just wash away that disposition and make it so that Celestia thinks she’ll eventually become as apathetic as she is, despite her entire life beforehand being dedicated to finding a pupil who won’t just get bored of living and ruling.
Overall? Not worth reading.
well written, but utterly idiotic in premise
why would Celestia not want to see twilight? they've been repeatedly established to be friends, or even more?
and that's just the first of literal hundreds of problems
many of these problems radiate out from the central point of how you horribly misunderstood and mangled Celestia's personality
Taking it at face value (which shouldn't always be done with Skirt's Stories) I think this is a good but flawed story. A few post have already pointed out the issues I have with it, namely it feels extremely odd that Celestia would let herself go like this so quickly. Gallus is still around so its during the flash forward (though perhaps its another griffon who looks similar?) However at most a few hundred years have past (assuming that isn't Gallus) I think some of the issues could be fixed if you maybe pushed up the time line a bit. Like state or even imply that its taking place several thousands of years later perhaps? Then it would be more believable that she let herself go like that.
It's easy to get so caught up in the insane crack you've been producing in recent years that we forget you're still the author who gave the world Background Pony. And then you make something evocative and haunting like this and we remember.
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Simply put, it's not a story about Celestia and Twilight.
That was depressing and amazing. So well done. I don't think I've seen a 2nd person ever done so well.
To start, this story was amazing and horrifying all at once. It's a look into what can happen to even the brightest stars... If they give up, if they give into the eternal vastness of time, it can become the overwhelming truth that undoes you. I can see how Celestia could become this... gaunt shadow of what she once was. Imagine, for a moment, that you've ruled a nation for over a millenium. Seen millions come and go, loved and lost over and over again.... Just imagine the toll that would take on your sanity, your will, your sense of self. Even your sense of right and wrong. I love this story, and also hate it. Its an insight into the beauty, and the horror of eternity. It is beautiful, and abhorrent.
My dear shortskirtsandexplosions, you have created something amazing. Something powerful. Thank you.