On some level Celestia always understood that a ship could never really love an anchor.
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What do you mean by that?
11787025
I think the author kind of means that a ship at its core, wants to be free, it wants to roam, explore, sail with the wind. While it appreciates it's anchor, it can't truly love it because the anchor stops what the ship's innermost, basal instincts are, it holds the ship back from many things, not discriminating between success and danger. Here she compares herself to the anchor and sunset is the ship. It might be a take on how celestia feels romantic love for sunset but the last line kind of invalidates that, so it might be a more platonic take on how celestia feels that a student can't truly love their teacher, or maybe even the fact that celestia is equestria s actor, and her subjects are her ships, and she feels she holds them back and so they don't love her. I don't know if any of this made sense, but I hope it does.
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The story was inspired by a song, where a parent (the anchor) severs ties with their child (the ship), because they believe the child will have a better life without them.
For my story, Celestia (the anchor) tries to convince Sunset (the ship) to stay in the human world, because, ultimately, Celestia believes Sunset has been, and will continue to be, more successful without her.
11787320
I love the multiple interpretations you had (some of which I didn't think of while writing).
I'll say I didn't envision Celestia and Sunset holding a romantic relationship. Although, I won't yuck anybody's yum if that is their preferred ship (pun intended).
I've always enjoyed viewing Celestia and Sunset's relationship as a complicated mother-daughter dynamic. Ultimately, given her past with Luna, Celestia can't see herself, or act, as a proper mother to Sunset. Better to cut off ties and let Sunset sail to brighter horizons on her own. That's Celestia's view at the time of the story anyhow.
This is a good portrayal of Celestia. I enjoyed it. But, I think the ship metaphor felt kind of tacked on at the beginning and end. It didn’t feel organic to the rest of the story.