Communication is Key, Compassion is Free.~
Twilight Sparkle has been reclusive ever since Celestia and Luna inexplicably left Equestria. Her closest friends try to find a way to get her to open up, but their meeting is interrupted by the Map suddenly calling to all five of them to solve a problem. Gathered in the Map room, a flash of light transports the mares to a familiar, yet greatly changed Equestria... far, far in the future!
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nice
damn
fuck harmony
beautiful
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Thank you! I hope you enjoyed it. ^u^
ay who let a Michelin star chef into the kitchen
Kinda feel we need a epilogue where modern day twlight is panicked by the disappearance of her friends and them fixing things in there timeliness, regardless a fun fic,
I don't usually cry reading fanfics, only one other mlp fanfic I've read before actually bought me to tears... This one is the second one that did, maybe the music I was listening to while reading added but the story just bought me to tears, I couldn't help it. It's a beautiful work of art, I loved every line of it even if t hey made me cry. You did magnificent work, my friend.
Very good, enjoyed every bit of it. Pacing was a little fast, but it is a fanfic, not a 300 page book. Got the idea on paper effectively, which is all that really matters.
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That's very fair. I'll consider adding something like that.~
Hmm, the dream looks like a metaphor for Twilight’s friends passing away one by one. Very well written so far, I’m really liking this story
As I predicted. I like the descriptions here and the reactions of the mane 5. I do hope we find out what happened to Discord too
Seconding the need for an epilogue.
This story was beautiful. Perfect. You caught their voices exactly right, and dug straight back to the core of the series: friendship overcoming hardship, as magnified by magical colorful cartoon ponies.
This was not a twist I was expecting! Bravo, you really captured the 5000 years twilight experienced with your descriptions and dialogue.
Prepare Equestria, your apocalypse is nigh
I think Twilight is just tired of Harmony’s bullshit, playing games with her emotions and psyche.
This definitely has a sort of 'Into the West' vibe to it that I like, good addition :)
What a terrible day for a rain.
Immortality truly is a curse.
Poor Twilight... can't imagine having to endure all this pain. To be left alone by the only creatures being able to live for so long, and yet still managing to pull through for thousand years more is pretty admirable.
She deserves to retire the most.
Ya know, if she wakes the next day, she should check if the treehouse is 'still' in shape ...
This was a good story, dude! I have to say, over the other fanfictions of future versions of Twilight Sparkle and the world of Equestria, this is one of the top! One nitpick I had was how future Equestrians simply didn’t take a lot of interest in the Main 5. Like, their statues are there, so it wasn’t necessarily because they forgot what they looked like. Maybe many creatures cosplayed them in the past that seeing another group trying to imitate the original Main 5 wasn’t eye-catching enough or something? Besides that, I think this was a good short story on how Twilight’s friends time-traveled and helped her in her time of need.
May God bless you and your loved ones!
This is so bittersweet! I like it
Who is cutting onions here?!
This was a great read, You did an amazing job writing this, Eternal_Warmth
Omg, I haven't been this emotional since I watched the series finally. Especially since I've been listening to songs from it that made it more emotional as I read. And one was "Hope Shines Eternal" and when I read the last line, it broke the Damm for the water works.
I was crying for like 20 minutes with many emotions going through my mind.
Great job. I hope to read more stories from you.
Why did you name this story after your username?
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I chose my username long ago and quickly came to associate it with the warmth of friendship. When I was writing my fic, I wasn't sure what to name it, but then I realized Eternal Warmth, while also my username, is fitting for the message of the fic. :)
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I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I didn't really do a good job alluding to it in the fic, but after 5000 years even residents of Ponyville would only know the Main 5 as "those ancient statues in the graveyard". Only someone who carefully studied the statues would be able to recognize the living full-color originals. At least, that was my thinking. :)
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I'm really touched that the story moved you and others to tears. :)
Well she is the sole ruler of Equestria, what did you expect?
Time travel.
... Why? I'm curious how far into the future they are in.
That's interesting.
Fifth? Wow this must be over a thousand years in the future then, and the library has been destroyed more than once.
So 5,000 years in the future. With that far ahead I'd expect very advanced technology.
Judging by the year I think Twilight is still ruling.
Her wings, mane, and tail changed? That's interesting. This reminds me of another variant of Twilight but I forget the name.
I love your descriptions of the environment.
But them seeing twilight super easily without effort was kinda a letdown.
Oh that reminds me, whatever happened to Discord in this future?
In the order Twilight's friends disappeared in Fluttershy's dream, is that the order they died or disappeared (in Discord's case) in the future?
It's an understandable reaction. I mean seeing your dead friends? From nearly 5,000 years ago? In that situation I'd think I'm going crazy.
It's Twilight from 5,000 years in the future. Honestly I'm surprised Twilight isn't a tyrant ruling Equestria with an iron hoof. Her acting strangely is not surprising.
Does Twilight know she's the reason why the map sent the 5 there?
There it is.
She's never had time to mourn. Every time one of her friends died is probably her being more and more busy to suppress the pain.
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Discord's fate is left ambiguous, but he did indeed disappear.
I had originally intended for the order of friends disappearing to be the order of death. While the dream order ended up not being what I personally consider the death order, I support your interpretation. :)
Crescent moon above alight scenes encroached the willing eye.
Gleaming rays abound lakes whose flows awash the bed.
Flow forth bore winded chimes, through sounds winded.
Be sticks clatter, ashore stones pamper sands beneath.
Withdrew shone leaves, snaked roots lather surface disturbed.
Blossomed were the petals marked, element etched each.
Miss Author Eternal_Warmth, 'Evening and I thank you.
The tales wrote were thoughts of yours have garner the lot that my mind had seen bore unease, be calmed.
Your claims of a past, thy differ the norm that is.. was pleasant to whom view of the fifth to be most fit.
Wishes aside, a most welcome attribute that best reflect of what may.. what could've be brought life.
Good Night Miss Eternal_Warmth as both a gratitude of an author and viewer.
May the ink dry before the parchment wet.
And nobody else is gonna wonder what the heck is going on? "What the heck was that big rainbow explosion!?" "Why is there a giant arrow in the sky!?"
It's them isn't it?
Huh....
Unfortunately. I was hoping Twilight made new friends in the future, keeping her first friends legacy alive and the legacy of all her future friends she would have made.
Now they understand.
Unless... There memories were erased once they went back.
I don't think so. It's a possibility Twilight forgot which would explain the message at the memorial, but for them all to keep it a secret? That sounds impossible, especially for Pinkie or Applejack.
there fine. The only one who isn't fine is you.
... That sounds cool.
... Yeah that's not surprising.
If you watched that one episode of Season 3 of Invincible, the one with Immortal ruling Earth in the future, this is what is reminding me of that.
.... Are you seriously telling me technology and architecture keeps going up and down? How?
What happened to Flurry Heart and Cadance?
How.
Probably one of the best chapters of any fic I've seen. The Ponyville exploration felt right out of the show and perfectly thematic, and the graveyard scene had me more emotional than I'm going to admit here. I'm not easy to get to like that, so just, well done. Great job. 👍
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I'm so glad you liked it! And that it moved you.
This was the chapter I was most worried about, as I felt like I simultaneously spent too much and too little time one each part of the Ponyville search.
Oh, I'm sad now.
Well now....
Welp you made me cry again. Just a great fic overall. Amazingly well done and a fantastic way to wrap things up. There's mysteries I'd love to know the answers too, but that's not what this is about. You just did a really good job.. It's not easy to do this stuff well, time travel and huge spans of time, but I dunno this is just great. Captured the feel of everypony perfectly and sucked me in more than any fic I've ever read.
I could keep gushing but I'll cut it. I'm glad you did this, hope it was cathartic, and congrats on all the attention.
I've read through a good amount of fanfics that have left me a bit gloomy after finishing, but this chapter has managed to get my eyes a bit watery from how emotional it is. The memorial has so much detail put into it, just like what we know Twilight would do. There's not much I can say about this, other than bravo.
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I'm touched that it moved you. Thank you. :)
A phenomenal conclusion to our book princess's journey. Definitely another story to keep as a favorite. I think I'll take this as my headcanon for Twilight's fate now if she isn't a mortal alicorn like some theories suggest.
Though, I gotta ask, has her story finally come to an end after she falls asleep? Or is that supposed to be left to the reader's interpretation? Regardless, this fanfic has been incredibly well-written the whole way through, so thank you for this wonderful experience.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to read it. :)
I intentionally left things a bit ambiguous, something for the reader to decide for themselves, but personally I think she does not wake up after sleeping by the Tree.
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Ah, so Twilight can finally get her much deserved rest. Seriously, I always hated the possibility that she would have to deal with the curse of immortality , so this pleases me.
Now that that is cleared up, thank you once again for this, I can't wait to see more from you!