Days Gone By
Twilight sighed happily, she couldn't believe it! She was a princess now! She stretched her newly acquired wings and looked at them, then gave them an experimental flap. She giggled and clapped her hooves together giddily. After the coronation, Rainbow Dash had given her a basic lesson on how to fly and with Twilight being a quick learner, she had figured it out almost immediately. She looked around to see that nopony was in the room with her. She was in her old room at the castle, and it was just as she remembered it. When she was certain that nopony could see her, she extended her left wing and sniffed it.
”My, my, such a graceful creature...” A voice from behind her chuckled. Twilight eeped and hid her face with her wings. A loud cackle came, and Twilight rolled her eyes. 'Discord...'
She turned around and came face-to-face with the intruding draconequus who was floating upside-down. ”What are you doing here?!” She hissed. Discord raised a talon to his head dramatically and choked out a fake sob.
”Oh little princess, you hurt my ancient feelings by saying that I'm not welcome within your domain!” Discord wiped his eyes with his lion paw. ”And I thought we were friends...” He grinned at her. The sheer malice in that last word made Twilight shudder. She gulped.
”You never answered my question.” Twilight pointed out. Discord rolled his eyes.
”Oh you know, I was just on a leisurely stroll around the castle, having some fun with some ponies I met along the way. Don't worry, most of them are safe.” He rolled a talon. ”The ponies here are just so boooring, wouldn't you agree?”
”You haven't told me why you came here yet. I didn't even see you at the coronation party!” She gritted her teeth. ”Not that I expected you to come as it was such a formal event...”
”Isn't it obvious? I came here to visit the newest addition to the royal family, of course!” Discord teleported beside her and held out her wings to their full span. ”Now these are some fun things! They should've been polka-dotted though...” Discord pouted as Twilight snapped her wings back to her sides.
”That's not everything...” Twilight's eyes narrowed.
Discord's face grew serious and he brushed a talon through his beard slowly. Twilight raised an eyebrow as Discord turned to her with an uncharacteristically sullen manner. ”I know that Celestia is planning to talk to you about this, but before she does it I'd like to add some things.”
”About what?” Twilight sat down.
”Immortality and what pains it will eventually cause you. When somepony loses someone dear to them, they usually withdraw to be for themselves... The feeling that you will outlive everypony you know...” Discord sighed.
Twilight's eyes widened. She hadn't really thought about that... Her friends, her family... ”I see...” She looked down at the floor and her ears drooped.
”I am not telling you this to be mean or rub it in your face or anything like that. I am telling you this because knowing that, you will hopefully not lose yourself in your grief. Some ponies like Celestia understood that and accepted it. Some ponies like Luna accepted it, but actually hated the idea of leaving everypony she knew.” Discord laughed, but it was a forced laugh. ”And some... They refuse to see just that and lose practically everything in the progress...” He averted his gaze and his ears lowered.
”Disc-” Discord raised a talon to silence her, and she became quiet. He sighed.
”Point is, some ponies die as heroes and recieve grand funerals held to honor their lives and accomplishments, when some... When some live long enough to see themselves become the villain...” Discord sighed. ”It takes a delicate balance of harmony and disharmony to ascend and become something greater. Don't make the same mistake as I, little princess.” Discord stretched his mismatched wings.
”Discord, I...” Twilight tried to think of something to say, but she couldn't find any words. ”Immortality will not be a walk in the park, but I'm sure I'll be able to pull it off... I'll have the princesses helping me along the way, and Spike is a dragon. He will live for thousands of years.”
”As the days go by, they will turn into weeks, then months, years and eventually decades. An ageless being can have some hard time keeping track of time as well...” Discord chuckled. ”You should enjoy the time you have with your friends. Those wings aren't gonna drop off anytime soon.”
”If your willpower remains as strong as it was when you defeated me a few years back, you will have no troubles of remaining strong against the face of death itself. Sometimes you just have to smile...” Discord smiled weakly.
”Thank you, Discord...” She couldn't think of anything else to say to him. Discord nodded and turned away from her swiftly.
”Now, I think that is quite enough of all that sappy stuff, hm?” Discord grinned. Twilight giggled while rolling her eyes. ”I wonder if the food from the coronation is still around the castle somewhere...” He rubbed his talons together.
”It should be in the castle kitchens, presuming that the cooks didn't throw out the leftovers.” Twilight shrugged. Discord raised a talon to teleport away. ”Discord, wait!” He turned toward her with an arched eyebrow. ”Thank you...”
”You don't have to thank me, princess Twilight Sparkle, I am merely an old kook who has lived long enough to both succumb to my mistakes and rise to better myself.” He looked over his shoulder. ”One day you'll also be an old kook with one too many stories to tell...” He smirked. ”Until then, arrivederci!” With a flash of magic, he was gone.
Twilight considered what he had said. 'One day all of them will be gone, except for Spike... But one day he'll pass as well.' She took a deep breath. 'I'll deal with that later. They're here now, and I will make sure to enjoy every second I spend with them!'
With that, she focused her magic and teleported back to Ponyville where all her friends were.
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Oh my god I just heard someone complaining about an influx of crappy alicorn twilight fics and immortality
2133215 I think i know who you're talking about. Crazy one ain't he?
It's funny because Distrance was just complaining about these "immortal Twilight" fics.
2133215 I've seen crappy, and while not great, I've seen much worse.
Good job.
Damn straight, Twilight.
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Holy... Wow. I just clicked on this because it seemed like an interesting premise.
Liked, faved, and a watch for you good sir!
(Although it COULD use some work, it was done very nicely for something so short.)
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I won't complain about this one though. This is good. I like it.
Also, I'm liking good!Discord more and more.
Very nicely written. Well done.
This is good, surprisingly.
This is pretty good
it would be nice if it was a bit longer though
This should be fucking cannon. If only "death" was aloud...
My Little pony: friendship is magic, despite what we all feel and the quality of the show it self, is essentially a 24 minute toy commercial with a plot. so it would not be unlikely that the other mane sixers will change eventually to, even if they don't i could see twilight using age spells to keep her friends and there families alive, amusing that is what they would want. and if we assume that ponyville was founded hundreds of years ago, as was said in winter wrap up, than Granny Smith is at least 200 years old,as her family founded ponyville when she was a teenager( or the equivalent). she is clearly still kicking, and when you consider that Granny's own great aunt Applesauce is also still alive. that all leads to ponies being pretty long lived, even without magic
Was... there a Dark Knight reference in there? Anyway, I like how this went. It took the concept of what this whole Twilacorn situation will bring (or could; technically, it isn't exactly verified if alicorn=immortality), and it brought a sort of better light to it. It doesn't have a "Sad" tag, and for a reason. She isn't going to mope about it, nor will we see when the days come where her friends leave one by one, but she smiles and is going to take and keep the moments she has with her friends until the end. It's simple, and it's an idea going to be done to death. But I liked it, so good job.
*claps* Simple yet the only appropiate way to express my happiness in this story.
This alcorn twilight thing is going to stick around for ahille so it is good to come across some simple slice of life stories. This was a good story.
Wait, how did this turn out so good...
I applaud
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I slapped this together in just about an hour, and I didn't actually expect that people would like it this much...
Slapped this in an hour? Just imagine what you can write in weeks...
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That would be this...
The opening is confusing:
This sounds like the start of a dream sequence. It sounds like Twilight wasn’t sure where she was before, and only now she realizes she’s in her old room. The problem is that the sentence with the location is in an unnatural place, inserted in the middle of the act of looking around. It would be more natural to introduce the location like this:
I was also confused for a while about how Twilight wasn’t alarmed at seeing Discord out of his statue, until I realized that I had forgotten the episode with Discord’s reform. I guess I have read too much fanfiction in which Discord is still evil.
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To be honest, I wrote this in the middle of the night with no actual idea of what I was doing. I never expected it to get the response it got in the first place.
I appreciate your critique, I really do but honestly I won't start changing up the story that I spent half an hour writing...
Looking back, this fic has some really interesting things in common with canon. You know, along with its contradictions with canon.
You know what I'm talking about, right Symphony?
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Actually yeah, I think I see what you're getting at. Discord is still Discord (du-hu-hurrrrr) but toned down.
Similarities I see between this Discord and the Discord in the now established S4 canon is that yes, Discord can be a dick but he does it for a reason. Like when he sent Twilight back into the forest, he did it in 'his' way but he had good intentions.
Now I'm rambling djlslfkskglfldhfbrj
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Naw, I've noticed that this site doesn't look down on rambling as much as its mainstream peers (twiiter, tumblr, etc). This is a fanfiction site, so we're expected to read walls of text anyway.
Kinda wish the show would take on that but oh well. Nice read here.
3569652 when you live long enough to see yourself become the villain now that would not be a Batman reference now would it