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Anonymous
#10889
1 year ago
The stress of controlling both day and night turned Celestia's hair prematurely grey. She's been dying it ever since.
Anonymous
#10899
1 year ago
obviously when celestia became the iron hoof tyrant we know today she took advantage of the situation and stole Luna's powers, giving her even more power to hersel as well as a wider color range to her mane... or maybe just as nigthmare moon is a "powerer up" version of luna, celestia is the powered up versión of the princess
Eco
#10921
1 year ago
The latter is the version I heard. Presumably if Celestia ever decides to drop her elemental form, she'd be closer to Luna's proportions than NMM's.
Anonymous
#11039
1 year ago
Ohh, this is bad. This is looking like one of Dr. Gene Scott's theology lecture diagrams! Please don't do this again!
Anonymous
#12006
1 year ago
Short version: Who the hell is this pony with pink hair and wings?
Anonymous
#12649
1 year ago
Obviously her mane and tail turned rainbow when she used the captain planet powers on Luna.
Eco
#12841
1 year ago
Or when she "took on responsibility for both sun and moon".
Anonymous
#13535
1 year ago
It's simple... well, sort of—you see, in the beginning, they were the essences of the inevitable; the alicorn sisters do not represent 'day' and 'night' so much as the ever-coming magenta 'sunrise' and deep blue 'moonrise'. They raised the sun and moon, respectively, and then their official duties were done...
...that is, of course, until Luna wanted perpetual night. She adopted a midnight black coat and her trademark spangled mane as part of her transformation, symbolic of her desires for a world without the sun's light. The Elements of Harmony that Celestia harbored in order to seal the newly-risen Nightmare Moon are really nothing more than what she aspired her loyal citizens to uphold—in a sense, she wanted to see a world where all her subjects were inherently good, thinking that the darkness Nightmare Moon vied for could eventually stir in her citizens' hearts as hatred and cause a revolt of some sort.

As for why the new Celestia's mane has opalescent qualities to it...? Well, there can be no light without shadow. She had to take on her sister's task in raising the moon after evening light, and her mane resembles that. And you may also be asking, "why are the larger portions of her mane and tail darker" and "what's with the green stripe intermingled in the pink and blue". Well, it can be chalked to one word—envy... or rather, a synonym of envy: 'invidiousness', resentment. You see, Celestia resents the fact that she had to do something so horrible to her only sibling and the fact that it was the only way to stop her, but she also hates that her sister had both the natural ability and the will to carry out her own goals to see perpetual night. Shouldering such a burden as controlling the coming of day and night for the next thousand years, Celestia was scared that she could all too easily lose control of that power and fail in her self-assigned task. Perhaps, at one point, the mixture of 'pink dawn' and 'evening blue' in Celestia's mane and tail were equal, and Celestia's fear in being unable to properly contain her sister's abilities led to the darker parts expanding and overtaking the lighter part, though not completely.

And that is the true story of the 'rise and fall' (both figurative and literal) of the alicorn sisters, at least as I see it.
Anonymous
#15676
1 year ago
They don't have manes in their god forms. NMM's "mane" is a starfield, a projection of her element as she controls it. Celestia's "mane" is a spectrum of light, a rainbow in simpler terms.
When they're not pumping cosmic magic through their bodies, they probably revert to normal pony sized beings.

It is to note, "Princess" Luna is a little larger then Twilight when they're on screen at the same time.
Anonymous
#112696
1 year ago
Come on! Can't the night get equal-billing for once!? XD
Anonymous
#257364
1 year ago
When Luna became evil she began to transform into NMM (I imagine it was probably not an instant transformation like the story told us), which made her much bigger.

1000 years later, when the Elements made her Luna again, she revered to her appearance before she started to become jealous.

Note that in the story at the beginning of the pilot it seems to be that the transformation was instant and soon after she started becoming jealous, but in reality it probably started when she was pretty young, she just didn't become NMM until whatever "something or someone" Lauren mentioned is behind Luna's transformation came along.

And after Celestia used the Elements, her appearance changed as well.

So the answer is: magic! :D

...Basically, what #15676 said. XD