The Last Time…
“...And that’s why he’s going to be staying with me, Twilight Sparkle. You think of him as an assistant and nothing else. It's beginning to worry me that a young mare of your age still doesn't have any friends, and I think you use Spike as an excuse not to make any.”
It hurts just to hear that, coming from moth–Celestia. I thought Twilight and I were friends. But just hearing Celestia chew Twilight out like that made me wonder if we were ever truly friends, or if I'm just an assistant to her. Nothing special.
Well, whatever the case, before Twilight left, Celestia asked her to at least try and make friends, to which Twilight finally complied.
"Thank you, my student. And don't worry about Spike or I, we'll be fine."
...If only she'd knew about the future.
It's mother's day. That single day of every year, when mothers and their children would spend the day, making happy memories and treasuring every moments of their love together.
Or so they used to. I used to. I once had a mother. Or at least, someone who's the closest to a mother I've ever had, when I was just a lonely orphaned dragon child, in a kingdom of ponies.
To every pony who see me, I’m just an abomination. But then again, it does seem to come with the territory of being a dragon, living in an all-pony community. I don't expect to get a pony girlfriend anytime soon. I mean, who even heard of a dragon boyfriend and a pony girlfriend. It's as absurd and ridiculous as a pony and a draconequus being all lovey-dovey.
Though, for some reason, she was the only exception.
Unlike everyone else, when she looked at me, it’s like…she sees exactly who I am. I’m just a kid. And more than that, she was like a mother to me.
Before Princess Luna, and before everything was all thrown into ruination, she was my whole world. She was my home, my family, and my friend. Maybe the only friend I had back then.
And in one moment, of insanity, she just…forgot about me. About us. About our times together, when…we were like mother and son.
I still remember like it was yesterday, though it was several years ago, give or take.
After Twilight left to make some friends in Ponyville, I was left to assist and keeping Princess Celestia company with her work. Though, everyday, it was more like taking your child to work day, for her. Compared to Twilight, working with her was more than just an honor. It felt...genuine. Like she really appreciated me for my efforts to make her workload less stressful and the privilege of being by her side, every step of the way.
I felt pretty good with myself. And whenever I made a mistake, now and then, say...sneezing a burst of flame, that burned a book, or a scroll, by accident. She reassured me that it was only a mistake, or an accident, and helped me to fix my mistakes.
She really is a mother to me...or was.
It's still hard to believe that she...Celestia...would do all this. That she would truly go out of her way to murder her own sister and flood the world. I still say this is all a bad dream and that I was just making it up in my head. That I would wake up, looking into those gentle violet eyes, with her loving arms wrapped around me, stroking her hands across the back of my head, comforting me. Just like how she used to do.
But no. This is the cruel reality that I'm forced to wake up to. A tough pill to swallow. The harsh truth that the Celestia I knew may as well be gone for good.
And all the good times I've held onto so dearly...are all just memories. Just memories.
It hurts to think about them. But they're happy. The happiest moments I've ever felt in all my life.
Every hours, we spent together, they live on within my heart. When it was just Celestia and I.
Though she doesn't show, in public, she was secretly very sad and lonely without her sister, Luna. And whenever she had some moments to pour out her emotional heartbreak, I was there to dry her tears. To give her a shoulder to cry on. And a big hug that any son would give for their mother.
And at the end of the days, after work, when we're not a princess and an assistant running the kingdom, we were mother and son. She'd let me ride on her back, we'd go out to the gardens, where we played hide and seek in the maze, and just fool around.
Although, there was this one time when I wanted to surprise her and...I gave her quite the surprise alright. In the shower. She was really flustered back when. But she forgave me and got me back with a surprise of her own.
And I knew that she loved me.
I actually thought it would last for a long time.
So the years went by. I stayed the same. But she began to drift away.
When Princess Luna came back to Canterlot, I welcomed her. I was excited about having an aunt and a mother, together. I thought the fun and love would be doubled.
But instead, it was like Princess Luna's return had flipped a switch on Celestia...she flipped the script. And without warning...they're gone.
I was left alone. Still, I waited for the day when she’d say she’ll always love me.
But she never did. And I was heartbroken to realize, the last time I ever spent Mother's Day with Celestia, was the last last time.
Looking back, I wondered if she ever loved me at all. Sometimes, I wonder if Twilight was really my friend, or like mo—Celestia said, I’m just an assistant. An excuse. A scapegoat for Twilight to not make any friends.
It’s all become a shade of gray. It wasn’t all black and white, as I thought it was, when it was young.
I’m so lost, so confused, and so unsure of my place in the world, with Celestia gone. With Princess Luna gone. Everything is gone.
I just want to have all those times back. I guess, deep down, I'm still hanging onto a faint glimmer of hope that my mother is still there, and that she's calling out for me to save her, somewhere in the shadows of Canterlot. Somewhere dark, where not even Daybreaker's sun can penetrate.
I know the world have forgotten the wise and loving Celestia, and are now calling her "Daybreaker." I just know the Celestia I knew as a mother is still in there. And I hope it doesn't come to this. I wish I knew the answer to end all this madness. To make her come to her senses. To help her be the princess she was again. But if there isn't...
I hope it doesn't come to that.
Mother…wherever you are…I hope we’ll see each other again. Though I'll only see you in dreams, you'll never know just what your memory means to me. Now it's up to me to end this story, with or without you.
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Good comic
Pia-Sama should read this.
Its been awhile since I’ve heard about the comic.
👍🔥🔥🔥
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Agreed
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Agreed
Don’t lose hope spike she is still their but may have to help her bring her back from darkness into the light
Where can I read the comic in the picture?
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Thanks
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Right here.
https://www.deviantart.com/pia-sama/gallery/45524023/rogue-diamond-comic
It's sad to have watched Celestia fall far in that comic, and Spike lost the only other person who cared for him. Even when he escaped her he was still living a nightmare being a dragon in a pony society who cared nothing for him. Especially his former boss who planned to have him eliminated and his secretary who had no qualms with wanting to kill him.
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Your welcome
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They have a Tumblr that they update every few weeks
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does this give off the vibe and scarieness of OPEN UP YOUR EYES for you?
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👍
Sorry to barge in and ask the stupid question, but can someone please give me a summary of what this "Rogue Diamond" story is about, and/or why Tia is "dead" or whatever? I have other priorities IRL at the moment, so I don't really have enough time to sink my teeth into what appears to be a very, VERY long-running story.
Pretty please with whipped cream and a cherry on top?
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Celestia went mad and flooded the world soon after Luna's return.
It's like a post-apocalyptic action comic with strong manga vibes.
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*Cough* Assuming she is even the one currently on the throne.
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... Damn.
Poor Spike. This was a good read.
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Considering all the evidence you are probably 100% right to assume that that isn't Celestia. That is almost definitely Discord using Celestia's form. The only thing not in her form is the removed claw that we see in an earlier panel. Which Discord almost definitely removed himself then transformed into Celestia leaving that claw to anchor his transformation. considering all the other times he's transformed into a normal object or animal that doesn't already dipict him he has to seemingly have one distinct feature of his own that can give it away (typically the eyes) that claw is most likely what that is. Luna isn't dead either she's just sealed underneath the ocean just like Celestia is trapped in the plunder Vines. I've already mentioned this theory on the Derpibooru page that shows the image.
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Rogue Diamond is a setting where Celestia went Daybreaker without the cosmetic change causing perpetual heatwave melting the icecaps and flooding most of the world. At least that's what I remember from the earlier comics.
11579266 that is what I originally thought until I saw the whole thing with Celestia being wrapped up in plunder vines in a panel directly below Celestia holding discords eagle claw. heavily hinting that both of the equestrian princesses are still themselves and this is a Discord that decided to do a Chrysalis. Wrong but I'm almost 100% sure that it isn't
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It's a common use of imagery that isn't meant to be taken literally. If you read the actual full comic series not just the panels you're referring to (btw she's wearing a gauntlet) she went through the same sort of fall due to jealousy as Luna did into Nightmare Moon for similar reasons. You even get Celestia's inner dialogue about it at one point. The panels you're referring to are from Spike's perspective at a later point of the comic representing how he feels about the way Celestia changed.
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I have read the entire series up to the fight with Octavia
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Doesn't seem like it considering the very beginning of it is told with a mix of first person remembrance and omniscient third person view filling in the details showing Luna's return, Celestia's fall to madness leading to the flooding, the resulting fight, and Celestia's inner dialogue which destroys that theory. It is Celestia/Daybreaker not Discord however it wouldn't be farfetched to imagine he somehow influenced her similar to his actions in his first appearance in the show (considering the personality flip) without it coming out quite the way he expected (which would be par the course for him). That type of tyranny is an extreme form of Order which goes against everything that Discord can personally do. Honestly I prefer Discord as the villain as nothing in the show has ever shown him as actually redeemed or reformed, his only regrets are getting caught and revealed to Fluttershy and he still keeps repeating it even after that as everything in the canonic 'season 10' comics is revealed to be due to him again.
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I just realized something a little while ago Luna isn't dead rogue diamond was started after the movie came out who do we know that could save Luna from a watery death by just transforming her and who was introduced in said movie
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Only problem is that ain't Celestia. There is an image that shows the person on the throne and then Celestia down in the caves underneath canterlot wrapped up in plunder Vines. We also see this mad version of Celestia holding a eagle claw and this is well before Gilda was shown to be a thing at least in the canonic timeline. it's quite probable it's Discord who decided to flood the world to cause chaos and get back to ruling it his country with an iron fist (or her country depending on if this version is able to change gender on the fly wouldn't put it past them though) also considering when the first page of rogue Diamond came out it's quite possible Luna isn't dead just transformed into a hippogriff and even if not she survived without oxygen on the moon of course she would survive in a sealed coffin I mean it'd be a wolverine situation with constantly drowning and then waking up but seriously
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... Dude, learn to space and use punctuation. I could barely understand any of that wall of text. Plus, my original post was so long ago that I forgot about it entirely, so I honestly don't care anymore. Yeesh.
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I understand your problems with the way I type. I try to use the correct punctuation but when using speech to text at 4:00 a.m. on 18-hour day I tend to screw up a bit.
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Alright, I'll give you that. Sorry for being rude.