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Anonymous
#160835
1 year ago
how is this trollestia?
Strat
#160838
1 year ago
Just to set the record straight?
Coquette
#160839
1 year ago
/THANK YOU/
Anonymous
#160841
1 year ago
Anon1: Because it's what most Luna fans don't want to hear.
Princess_Luna
#160850
1 year ago
Well it's a lot easier to draw me ON the moon. It's also a lot more cute/sad/meaningful/funny.

So, deal w/ it~
Anonymous
#160863
1 year ago
meh... the details are fuzzy
AdrianBrony
#160877
1 year ago
the nightmare moon thing can be handwaved as it going dormant. and the detail of her being in the moon can be ignored for the sake of it being awesome.
TBTabby
#160889
1 year ago
But you have to understand, it would be harder to demonize you for your actions if we acknowledged that.
Skipta
#160895
1 year ago
Yeah, no, it's MORE of a Body Horror if you consider her existence as infused with the rocky surface of the moon while still trapped inside NMM. Also it makes for shitty artwork, so no one cares about your pedantic policing.

You also have absolutely no information on how the relationship of being torn between NMM and Luna was playing out on the Moon and how active NMM was prior to getting her chance of coming back (such as the planetary/galactic alignments empowering her enough to break free) so you're just making shit up too. Don't pretend to be speaking from Lore when there isn't much of it.

Just sayin'.
Sound_Mind
#160899
1 year ago
The Nightmare Moon thing can be handwaved a different way: Not completely sseparate. Nightmare moon as a corruption of Luna, but not a totally different entity.

And well... Trapped within the moon? That makes it better? Sure, she would not have to look upon the world she was banished from all the time, but what of the soul-crushing darkness and silence? At least being on the surface, she could try to retain her sanity by observing the night sky.
Anonymous
#160906
1 year ago
Some of you bronies haven't played enough D&D or watched enough anime to understand how this imaginary magical claptrap is supposed to work.

Imprisoned in the moon means that it was more of a "spiritual sealing of a magical creature thing," not a literal, "body encased in the moon" thing.

Note how "the mare in the moon" was actually a visible portrait on the face of the moon that vanished on Nightmare Moon's escape: that's not walking the surface of the moon, not being stuck inside the moon, but altering the moon itself with a spiritual seal.
Skipta
#160910
1 year ago
^ I do believe you mean a Seal of Friendship!

After all: Magic = Friendship.
Anonymous
#160945
1 year ago
Sure, why not? She was sealed by the "Elements of Harmony," after all.

Now, whether or not Nightmare Moon had any awareness while she was sealed on the moon is pure fanon speculation right now.

For that matter, a lot of fanfic will be invalidated if it turns out Luna isn't the shy 1000-years-behind-her-time alicorn they imagine she was.
Jackalovski
#160948
1 year ago
maybe it's be like... nightmare moon was trapped IN the moon, fuesd with it so that she became the moon, looking down upon the world that scorned her for a thoursand years, but, luna was her soul, jumping and leaping about on the moon lonely and longing for more, you know, like a propper princess.
Jackalovski
#160952
1 year ago
weather she was in limbo in the moon or congnative makes no differance, she'd still be 1000 years behind everything, on a related note, i actually found a wooden abacus in an anteques shop the other day.

if she had been awake fully for all that time she'd be insane, but saying that, nightmare moon was aguably insane so maybe she was 'awake' but luna was not, pushed to the back of nightmare moons mind, reduced to nothing but a dream.
Anonymous
#160973
1 year ago
The story outright states that she was Nightmare Moon when she was sealed away. The 'Luna Crying on the Moon' stuff is pure fanon, unless you're claiming to have more authority over the series than Lauren Faust.
Skipta
#161006
1 year ago
@Anon973: See Skipta895. We have absolutely no information on how Luna's situation was on the moon. I agree that the stuff that shows her alone up there as a lonely sad filly is wrong (but hey, artistic license. Not the first time an irrelevant-to-the-point element isn't included prominently). She'd still have to struggle with NMM. But we have ZERO information on how assertive the NMM-side was when there was no point to it (why would she sit and angrily wave her hoof at the world for a 1000 years? She already needs significant external energies just to get off the moon). Again, you're pretending like there's more lore than there actually is and Lauren hasn't said anything about it (AFAIK. Please show me otherwise if so).

>states that she was Nightmare Moon when she was sealed away.

Yes. A thousand years into the past and no one pretends it was Luna that was banished by Celestia. You do realize people are JOKING with the "Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!" stuff, right?
Anonymous
#161155
1 year ago
Whether Luna and NMM are completely different entities or NMM is just a 'powered up' version of Luna is also up for grabs at this point.

Remember how Celestia asks Luna if she's willing to set their differences aside? I'm thinking there's a lot more Luna in NMM than some might think.

Trapping NMM in the moon isn't any less of a dick move by the way, even if she is a completely separate personality.

and you do realize people are joking with the writing Celestia-is-a-bitch on the surface of the moon thing, right?
Anonymous
#161214
1 year ago
attention all fan artists please save this image macro and reference it repeatedly as needed.
Anonymous
#161335
1 year ago
I just figured Nightmare Moon was Luna's villainous secret identity, not a separate personality. The Superman to her Clark Kent, if you will.
MetalHooves
#161349
1 year ago
I knew I wasn't the only one having that thought, dammit.
Anonymous
#161474
1 year ago
But that's not as much fun for fanon.
Anonymous
#161685
1 year ago
It seems more like NMM is the corrupted version of Luna. The best parallel that comes to mind is Pirates of the Caribbean in the case of Davy Jones. "Him was a man once..." Indeed, before he got an octopus for a head, he was a man granted immortality and charged with a task. When he felt he had been betrayed, he strayed from his task and became corrupt, pursuing his own agenda.

Is that not EXACTLY what happened to Luna? Charged with the task of ushering in the night, yet she felt betrayed and embittered by the fact that no one enjoyed or appreciated her work. As such when the corruption of anger and jealousy hit, her "octopus head" took the form of NMM.

As for the question of whether or not she was conscious of the 1K years on/in the moon...I'd say she probably was, at least in some way. When she battled Celestia, she was on full rage mode, fueled by jealousy. When she returned, she was still angry of course. But deep inside her there was the mark of loneliness that had grown for 1K years. I believe that'd be a good answer to "Well...why didn't Celestia just turn NMM back into Luna when they first fought? Why is it that this time when the Elements were used against her she turned back into Luna rather than getting sent back to the moon?" I'd say it's because this time there actually was a cute lil lonely Luna deep inside NMM that was wanting to return, where as during the first fight there was no cute lil Luna...just an angry and jealous pony.

:P Obviously this, like everyone else who isn't specifically quoting the show, is nothing but my speculation and thoughts on the matter. Makes the most sense to me. :3
YenaMuffin
#163051
1 year ago
@#161685
THANK YOU. I'm serious, thank you so much for stating something I've been having trouble wording out properly.