This started on a random doc on how Luna turned into Nightmare Moon because when I was planing my other fic Growing in Time I thought a LOT about it.
The idea that Luna, the element of LOYALTY, betrayed her sister? What fun thing to chew on. Did Celestia see it coming or was she shocked? Was it a slow betrayal or sudden?
So yeah this is how I thought it went down, seemly slow but sudden to Celestia and her alone tbh
PS this does take place in the same AU as Growing in Time which is why the timeline won't make sense if you try and place it in canon. You don't have to read GiT for it to make sense (because I haven't gotten that far )
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This was a sad story. It’s a tragedy partly of Celestia’s own making, as her focus on ruling resulted in her losing her only family for a thousand years. Though the nobles themselves also caused it, their arrogance allowing Luna to become entirely isolated. That said, Luna herself did not hurt, her own stubbornness contributing to her fall.
The only issue I found with this story is that for some reason “foresight” is constantly misspelled as “forslight,” which is not a real word. Typos are nasty things, aren’t they? Also, I think “hindsight” might have been a better choice in a few instances. But then, hindsight is what this story is about. Poor Luna. Poor Celestia.
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Yeah, I'm dumb and totally got foresight, when I even spelled it right, mixed with hindsight. How I missed that after editing this thing three times I have no idea. Thanks for pointing it out
I really wish we could have seen more of Luna's fall in canon, I really want to know how bad it got that the element of loyalty betrayed her sister
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Don’t sweat it, I have this problem with my own story’s updates. I read over it aloud several times, fix lots of typos, and then send in my chapter updates. Then I see it online a few months later and suddenly spot dozens of typos. So annoying!