
| Anonymous #112976 1 year ago |
Thats so sad. Celestia knows that she is sending her sister away...shes hating it too. Man thats sucks...loosing someone that close to you. |
| Sound_Mind #112984 1 year ago |
This is something we don't see enough of...
Everyone depicts Celestia as a tyrant and a bitch for what she did to Luna, but so few think of how it must have tore her up inside. Kudos to the artist. |
| Anonymous #113104 1 year ago |
Another point of view. I love such works.
Good work. |
| Anonymous #113176 1 year ago |
They need to make an episode about this. No an hour long special. I will not be satisfied until that happens. |
| YenaMuffin #113177 1 year ago |
This one image undoes the number of assumptions people get of Celestia from the intro of the first episode. |
| Anonymous #113386 1 year ago |
;_; |
| Anonymous #113447 1 year ago |
I did notice in the first episode intro that Celestia appears to be significantly smaller than Nightmare Moon. Maybe back then she was closer to Luna's size. I like this picture; while I enjoy claiming Celestia is a tyrant, that's mostly a knee-jerk reaction to her being the god-empress of a theocracy. This is probably closer to what happened if the story at the beginning is true.
I do wonder about Celestia's use of the Elements of Harmony. Did she need five friends to help, or could she do it alone with her god powers and intact orbs? |
| Anonymous #113449 1 year ago |
it would appear in the opening that she used them all herself... she is the god-queen of the universe after all. pretty bad-ass. |
| Anonymous #113607 1 year ago |
I generally assume that Celestia started out like this, and generally stayed with it (she's a bit trickster mentor on occasion, but it generally works, so...)
I think the Troll-/Molestia picks are funny because they aren't true. |
| McGack #113639 1 year ago |
Trollestia is purely a fandom joke like RD wingboners and 4th wall pinkie |
| McGack #113736 1 year ago |
oh man, what if season 2 brings us back into the past for an episode or two? |
| Anonymous #113790 1 year ago |
They did say in the beginning that she had to releunctantly(sp?) send her sister to the moon. She really did not want that to happen. |
| Anonymous #113968 1 year ago |
You know, Celestia DOES apparently enjoy messing with people's heads without them knowing (see: tricking Twilight into taking action against Nightmare Moon herself, playing a trick on the Cakes, Philomena, bringing the mane cast to the Gala while misleading them in the hopes they'd fuck everything up and make things more fun). I generally see her as someone who has a sense of humor, and wishes she could have more fun with her position, but knows she can't and has to stay regal and respectable, so she amuses herself by playing with people. Trollestia isn't malicious, but she is canon, to a degree. |
| Ponita #114452 1 year ago |
@McGack: I don't think 4th wall Pinkie is just a fandom joke, although some fans naturally take it to extremes.
Also, like the anon above pointed out, Trollestia does hold a grain of truth as well. Certainly not in the sense that she enjoys hurting anyone, but she nevertheless can't help but tease people a bit from time to time. As for Molestia, I think that polar opposites of all beloved characters are bound to pop up. |
| Eclipse #114527 1 year ago |
I think Celestia had enough magical power and enough qualifying personal attributes to use ALL of the elements...but not to their full potential. That's why she could not banish the specter of Nightmare Moon from her sister the first time.
The Nightmare Moon form made Luna stronger then Celestia, but the Elements of Harmony made Celestia stronger still. So with all that, Celestia had three options: 1. Let her sister send the land into eternal night. 2. Slay her sister using the Elements of Harmony. 3. Banish her sister away to the moon with the Elements of Harmony. One would doom her kingdom, so that was out. Two she didn't have the heart for. So she banished her in the hope of saving her later. She would have to wait for the true heirs of the Elements of Harmony to come forth and save her sister from herself. ...but she knew she would have to wait a thousand years to do that. |
| Anonymous #114543 1 year ago |
Ponita, Anon 607 here, I think we can agree that she was mucking with people in all those occasions, I'm just not convinced it was just for fun and games. A lot of it seemed to have an underlying logic.
As an example, can you imagine how Twilight would have acted if she was told that making friends was critical to saving the world? Twi would try so hard that it might have scared everyone off, and Twi might have gone through the motions without really befriending anyone ("It's my duty to be your friend" almost never works, and even when it does it takes more time than they had). I'm going to go re-watch those episodes, see if they change my mind, I just didn't want to wander off and then comment three hours later. |
| fixman88 #114782 1 year ago |
Oh wow, this picture is incredible (and poignant!)
I never thought that Celestia would have been that little when she was forced to banish Luna. Finding herself faced with a very grown-up (and very mean) Nightmare Moon would have left her with no alternative. I concur with Eclipse's assessment in that she had no choice but to banish her for 1000 years to wait for the true bearers of the Elements of Harmony to appear to restore her. |
| Anonymous #395070 11 months ago |
I go with the interpretation that Banishing Luna was all she could pull of. Keep in mind, the Elements of Harmony are meant to be wielded by a group a friends. Celestia used them by herself. Even her power was not enough to purify Luna. |