"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."- J.R.R.Tolkien
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Once Twilight Sparkle asked whether alicorns were immortal. She didn't think too much about it at the time. Now, many years later, this question is becoming more and more important to her, as her friends are aging. When Twilight first asked, she got very little in the way of an answer. But after discovering a secret below Canterlot Castle, she finally gets the information she seeks. And it is certainly not what she expected...
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Cool. Its nice to see one where Twilight isn't full immortal. Even if she outlives her friends by a while it won't be forever.
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Yeah, this is definitely an odd choice. I have no idea where this idea even came from. It was just kinda there, so I wrote it.
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Well I like it. I could live with her outliving them if its just for a time.
9998787
Well, it doesn't seem fair to have her outlive her friends. It only makes sense. Also the fact that she's grown bigger, and Luna's transformation, shows some form of aging.
Personally though, I have no idea where the Celestia clones came from. They just sorta happened.
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Yeah.
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Honestly, I usually don't. But today, my brain didn't agree with me.
I always believed Alicorns have eternal youth, which doesn’t mean they don’t die, they stay at their prime, but can continue to grow powerful if they train and improve themselves, but can die like any living creature, except from diseases
9998828
Yeah, I’m usually in that boat myself. However, you have to write what the story demands, even if it disagrees with your usual opinions.
Also I’m a fantasy and mythology nerd. I understand exactly what ‘eternal youth’ means, and just about any other term relating to fantasy you could throw at me.
9998828
The semantics of "immortal" are confuseing. Does destruction count as death? If so does immortality mean indestructibility? Is ageing considered a kind of destruction, making the indestructible immortal by default?
This was a very interesting take on the topic Imo. I can totally see alicorns having longer lifespans and indeed that's a very interesting decision Twilight has on han- I mean hoofs lol.
9998885
I've always thought of it in the simplest of ways: Immortal means, literally, 'not mortal.' So, no naturally occurring end. Not subject to death or decay. That doesn't mean they can't die or be killed but rather that, without outside influences, they persist.
I like to think of all those Greek myths with gods and titans and the like... great, everlasting beings that have existed since time immemorial, who are summarily killed in battle or when a lowly human has a silly idea like ventilating portions of their anatomy with the, completely unforeseen, use of a sharpened stick or slab of metal. You know... normal stuff. But, given a mountain wreathed in clouds, a few togas, and an ample supply of grapes to snack on at opportune visiting hours, and decent customer service, they can chill and be all immortal forever.
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9998885
It appears we have here the great debate of immortality. Personally, I believe that immortality id anyone who cannot die of age, though the defenitions vary alot depending on what you’re reading. Maybe those that cannot age but can die aren’t real ‘immortals’, but its simply the most practical term to call then.
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Well some examples that are weird come from comics. In Marvel was have, Mr.Immortal a mutant the power of total immortality, but his immortality doesn't stop his ageing it literally brings him back to life whole(physically and spiritually) and unharmed if he does. In fact Mr.Immortal is a terrible superhero, having no enhanced abilities, average intelligence and no fighting skill his most notable victory was acomplished by shooting himself in the head with a plasma blaster causing the nilistic villian to follow suit. By the same token Hulk is immortal, when he has died he was rejected by death due to being just that angry. In the recent Immortal Hulk run Bruce Banner gets killed repeatedly only him to transform into Hulk after.
So is it really immortality unless you can not stay dead? Or is immortality only the inability to die of natural causes?
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It depends on who you ask. I think that you can generally use the term ‘immortal’ to refer to any being that won’t die of old age, but a ‘true immortal’ is one that won’t die of any cause.
An example of this is, at the point that I am at n the story, Rampage from Fallout Equestria: Project Horzons
9999197
<chuckles> Oh aye! There are almost as many versions of immortality as there are characters possessing 'it'. I rather like Dr. Who's version with Captain Jack. CAN'T die... he's alive... a singular FACT. Of course, not being capable of staying dead, he keeps slowly aging... until Time itself runs out... then restarts... and Captain Jack persists... through all of time, through all of my ellipsis, until he becomes the face of Bo.
But yes, Immortal has a lot of variations.