As an immortal alicorn, Princess Twilight Sparkle faces eternity alone among the living. This terrifies her. Princess Luna decides to remedy this by showing her that immortality does not mean you have no dealings with the dead...
Written in response to all of the melodrama over Twilight's immortality.
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The melodrama I felt for Twilicorn was drummed up by the butthurt "fans" when it happened who couldn't accept change.
I love the story. But it's six years too late for what it covers.
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I don't know. I feel like it's more applicable now that we know Twilight will very much outlive her friends whereas previously we'd been assured she would not.
Eh...
I really enjoyed your take on the afterlife. It's actually very close to what I personally believe Heaven will be like. But the ability to simply visit it at will just... cheapens it a bit, I guess. Like, it doesn't so much as deal with the issue, just skirts it entirely. Don't get me wrong, I would love nothing more than to see my grandparents again. I recently realized that... I can no longer remember what their voices sounded like. If it weren't for pictures, would I eventually forget what they even looked like?
However, the concept of an immortal being having to deal with the negative consequences of such a life is very interesting. I myself just wrote a blog wherein I described such a scenario. What you did with this story is neat, but I feel it takes the easy and cheesy way around the issue.
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I don't disagree that an immortal dealing with these issues is fascinating. I just thought a different take would be good to write. There are ways to make even this, being able to visit the afterlife, dramatic and have it's own consequences.
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Luna and Celestia being able to visit the afterlife seems quite plausible in this canon. We've seen Luna make a portal directly to Tartarus, after all.
I like the idea. As for
a lot of it is more about being lied to by the show staff yet again.
9959845 I still recall my great-grandfather, who died when I was 5 and I only met him twice.
I do well recalling faces and voices.
Names, however, I'm awful with.
And then there's Discord, who can just summon up dead, exploded evil ponies now, apparently.
Twilight already came back from the dead after blowing up and being reborn as Twilight the Purpler.
So...wait, is the afterlife just them reliving the same happy moment over and over? That's not even the real Shining or Twilight, just memories/constructs of them. That just seems...like another kind of hell.
Brilliant, sir. Have a like, and feels.
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Maybe I should have written this in more time than an hour...
Twas good. However, Luna changed her language from ye olde English to modern parlance.
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In Greek myth Elysium was just reliving the best moments of the life, and never knowing it wasn't the first time around. Being a kind of hell requires you suffer, never knowing it's not the first time or not entirely real means your never suffer.
In Equestria'sI think once your loved on dies it stops being a construct and they relive the memory along with you. And Star made it clear she could see Shining an Twilight in the present too. Certainly means visiting other dead ponies in the afterlife can be confusing as both host and/or guest might find they suddenly are a different age from one moment to the next as different memories are visited. Haveing your body change conditions as the memory wanders must take some getting used to. Think about it one moment Twilight Star is old spending time with her grandchildren, next she's mid life bonding with Twilight Velvet, then boom a Teen with her hubby when they fell in love, then a filly with her mom, and finally back to Grandma age as her mind wanders.
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It wasn't a lie back then. Chances are that changes in staff were the primary issue.
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I don't think it's reliving memories, but rather their ideal eternity. Granted, Shiny and Twily are obviously constructs. But they probably just act as placeholders for loved ones who are still alive. It's unspecific about the grandfather. But I'm willing to bet he's the real deal.
Good solution. I could live with being immortal if this were the case probably.
Hey, is it alright with you if I put this in my fic? It'd be great for the Bearers to know they can visit their loved ones. (In my fic, when Twilight did the spell all the Bearers ascended.).
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Certainly! Anything to end the dismal immortality melodrama.
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Yay!^_^
Alright!^_^
Thanks!^_^
and to those who might not agree with your take on immortality I offer this.
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
"And—every—single—one—of—them—is—right!"
Kipling
This was descriptive, short, and sweet. Immortality has the potential to be a blessing or a curse, but a lot of that transcends the in-universe and is rooted in how the world's idea (or the character's) immortality is introduced to the audience. Twilight's wasn't handled well in the show, and it's tainted views on her/other characters as a result, sadly.
However, any story that still has traces of the myth and magic MLP used to have generally caught my attention. This one did. Not enough stories flesh out pony concepts of Elysium or dead worlds of punishment too. Unfortunately what would have worked even better is shadowed by what this comment points out 9960068. I still liked this, but if you did a sequel or expanded version, that would be even better.
A nice story. It would be nice to visit the afterlife, for an immortal.