You are late. Please come inside, we have a lot to talk about. I do not pay you a thousand bits an hour to come to our discussions late.
I see... you had a family emergency. Well, please explain the emergency. If I feel that it is enough of an emergency, then I will forgive you.
Oh, your wife was having troubles with the new foal? She is pregnant you say. Well, congratulations to you. I am sure that another child added to your life will do nothing but make it better.
Tell me about your family. I'm curious. We can get to me in a minute, I wish to know about what I can never possess. After all, that is how you set goals, am I correct?
Despite the rationalization that you provided to me, you are more or less saying that setting a goal for something that is achievable and reasonable is what I should do. Isn't that what I am doing? After all, I am capable of having children. It is just impractical, since there isn't a stallion that wishes to have one with me. I might as well hear about your family to see what it is like.
I see, you have a loving wife by the name of Luminescence. That filly is going to be your first child? It must be exciting. Tell me, what was the first thing that came through your mind when you found out that your wife was pregnant? You were the happiest stallion that could ever live? I could understand that feeling. After all, ignorance is bliss, right?
No, I'm not insinuating anything. I'm just saying that you probably didn't know anything about children, so you were obviously ecstatic about the rewards that come with spawning your own flesh and blood.
We are getting off topic aren't we? Well, what is it that you want me to talk about? Celestia hasn't sent me a letter, again, so I might as well indulge in what I am paying for.
Talk about yesterday? Fine, but I don't see much to talk about.
Of course I got angry. Are you saying that because I got angry before and turned into Nightmare Moon, I am unable to become angry again?
I'm sorry for saying so. Perhaps I am just getting worked up over nothing again. I know that you are being paid to hear my rants, and you wouldn't assume anything negative of me just to hurt my feelings. You are one of the only ones I know that provides me with such respect.
Okay, yesterday. I... I don't want Twilight Sparkle to disappear, despite what I said. I was just angry, I didn't mean those words.
You are right, I'm not Pinkie Pie. Words come out of my mouth for a reason. Tell me what you think.
Jealous of Twilight Sparkle? Thank you for pointing out the obvious. I told you this yesterday. If I wanted someone to tell me what I already knew, I would reread the diary I have been using. No, you may not see it. Anything else?
My interest in your family is not because I wish to engage myself in a bout of self loathing. Can't a princess wish that one of her subjects ends up well off with one of the most important decisions of their life?
Your princess would not lie to you. My job, as well as my sister's, is to make sure that we provide love and care for our subjects. Since Celestia now has all of the other jobs in the kingdom, mine is to tell you that I care about each and every one of you. Don't you trust me? I have no other reason to live, I might as well be honest with my destiny. Let's please change the subject.
Twilight Sparkle? Fine, let's go back to her. I didn't know about her until the two of us faced each other near the fake Elements of Harmony. My Nightmare Moon form was able to sense that there was something inside of her, a magical aura that heated up the parts of me that grew cold as the Mare in the Moon. Her eyes gave off a glint of determination that I saw in my sister when the Elements of Harmony were used to encase me in the moon. Both mares had a job to change the one that was in front of them, and both succeeded.
Twilight Sparkle was given a test by my sister that day, and her determination to pass the test and make her teacher proud changed the foundation of her learning. But at what cost? I was imprisoned on the moon by my sister and forced to live alone for a thousand years. When I finally came back to the world, my personality was once again pulled apart and formed to what my sister and Twilight Sparkle wanted me to be. The hug that my sister and I shared after Nightmare Moon was broken on me was the most sympathy that I have gotten from her. As you can tell from the lack of letters on my bed, this has not changed.
Do you know what it is like, to come back to a world that you loved with all of your heart, and find that none of your friends are alive anymore? To be forced inside of a mould that is too small for you, so that parts of you end up melting off until a different product is created? I'm no longer allowed to preside over the Canterlot courts, especially when it comes to cases that can anger me. I no longer have anypony from the past that I can connect with to share my emotions. I'm no longer bound to the Elements, which means my magic is not as powerful as my sister's. The part that angers me the most is that I'm no longer allowed to be angry.
Here, let me imitate my angry face. See? It's the same face that I greeted you with. There can't be anything wrong with my angry face, because then my subjects would think I was angry at them. I'm not angry at them, they did nothing wrong. Their preference towards my sister is something that I should have prepared for. I had a chance before my imprisonment to talk to my subjects and gain their trust. However, I was young and impulsive, and I ruined my chance.
Despite all of this, yes, I do sit before you on my royal bed and tell you that I am not angry. There is nothing wrong with the position that I am currently in. I should be happy that I am out of the moon. I get to have whatever emotional support I can afford, since you are a decent price. Although to be honest, you are more of a wall to bounce my emotions off of, rather than support.
You don't need to apologize for that, I do not expect you to be much more than what I am using you for. You are a therapist, nothing more, nothing less.
I see that we have reached the halfway mark on our time. How time flies when you are pondering the meaning of your existence.
Don't flatter me, I know that Celestia is your favorite princess. After all, she is everypony else's, except for the few who liked Nightmare Night.
You want to talk about Nightmare Night? If you say so. You would probably get some good information out of it, since that day involves Twilight Sparkle. It started a year ago, the first Nightmare Night that I was a part of with the new citizens of Ponyville.
You were there? Oh, you live in Ponyville? Well, my apologies for making you travel here in the middle of the night. If you were there, then I trust that you know what happened with the children. Pinkie Pie pretended to be terrified and caused a brouhaha with them. In the end, the children ended up enjoying Nightmare Night, and I did as well. I had Twilight Sparkle to thank for telling the townsponies that I wasn't evil anymore.
I wish I could tell you that all the children thought about me from now on, but Hearth's Warming Eve brought their minds back to my sister. After all, it was Celestia that brought all of the ponies together to agree on Ponyville's finding, was it not? I had nothing to do with regulating the day and night, since I was busy with my duty of being the Mare in the Moon.
It was nice though, to have my one day of fame. After all, before I was the Mare in the Moon, I didn't have a single day to shine, metaphorically speaking. I guess I should thank Twilight Sparkle for that day, since she was the only one who understood that I wasn't a threat anymore. As if I was ever a threat to begin with...
Nevertheless, Nightmare Night is over, and it was one of the few days that made me happy after I came back. I wish I could have another, but I suppose that is being greedy. Celestia told me that wanting more than you get is a path to becoming Nightmare Moon again. I didn't know that wanting what I used to have was also being selfish.
So, I'm sure that you can come up with a good reason of why I still manage to keep my emotions locked up after all of this time. Tell me the reason, I'm curious.
... Get out.
This just got interesting.
No offence but im not going to read this.Not beacause i am a bad person,its because i cant handle some pure sad storys.Infact i feel a disturbance in the feels from here.....
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Sorry, that's pretty much all I write.
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I sure hope so, I'm submitting this to EQD.
1675430 Any telling how often you're going to update this?
I'm assuming that should be Nightmare Moon, unless Celestia is warning Luna about turning into a holiday
But joking aside, this is definitely going somewhere. I like how we're left to infer what the therapist said from Luna's replies... and that ending. Damn, what did he say to make her that upset?
I must say I can't help but feel a bit sorry for Princess Luna, surely someone like Celestia should at least try to reach out to her sister a bit more, right ?
Still please do keep up the good work upon such a great tale of an idea.
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Fixed that. Derp.
I wanted to make this third person omniscient, but I decided against it because I would end up using an OC. I felt that this format was better for the fic.
Updates are going to be sporadic, I'm doing a lot of other things in my spare time. Drawing, voice acting, and gaming. I have a little too much spare time, but at the same time, it all gets sucked up.
That last part actually made me jump. She's already made it clear in canon that pissing off the Princess of the Night is a verrrrry bad idea...
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She may be a victim to the Elements, but she is not worthless.
Poor woona.
We all know what you're feeling.
I found this rather interesting. I'm sorry about EQD--I got outvoted, but I don't think you should change what you've got just to get published. I do feel like you should reword some of Luna's rhetorical questions so that they come off more as natural responses rather than obvious stand-ins for the therapist's dialogue, and I believe you can do that without losing any clarity in the writing, or in her personality.
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I understand about the whole EQD thing. At least I'm improving in my writing, for whatever that's worth.
Thank you for the suggestions. I just didn't want every response to remain ambiguous to the point where it was hard to tell what the question was.
Now I'm curious to know what he said to her?
Does Jack have to smack a Colt?
Woona is sad...
Now I IZ sad to...
Great story!
It's long been my position that Luna was getting pushed aside in favor of Twilight.
Well, Twilight, Cadance and Shining Armor. Of these 3
2 owe there social status directly to Celestia.
1 owes his job to Celestia and his social status to Celestia and Cadance.
Celestia is surrounding herself with "yes" ponies. While I'm sure she was happy to see Luna come back, it just never seemed to me, at least, that she was happy enough to share her power. They ARE co-rulers after all. But Luna never seems to get to exercise her birthright.
You're doing a much better job of putting what Luna is, no doubt, thinking down that I ever could.
Keep up the good work.
I'm sorry, but all I can think when I read your story is: "What? Why? How...?"
I know it's just the way you see it, so you aren't doing anything wrong, but I just cannot imagine Luna being depressed because she would feel hated and dropped to a false role in Twilight's favor.
And the image I have in my mind when reading is a whole crowd of ponies coming in the middle of the night, alarming all the guards, and coming to prove their devotion to the princess of the night.
But that's a matter of points of view and, once again, you've done nothing wrong, I just don't understand why you would try and develop the character that way.
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Understandable points. But think of it this way:
Luna has been in the same spot since she was revived in the Season 1 opener. At least, in this continuity. Imagine you see someone that is capable of taking your spot slowly moving up in the ranks while you remain benched at your spot.
And I doubt there would be such a crowd.
But as you said, these are points of view.
I developed the character this way because Luna still remains unused after 2.5 seasons. I wanted to give her some love.
You do a good job at making me hate the Celestia in this story! I want to honestly know how she can still be a total bitch to her sister... .I never like to see Luna sad for it tugs to hard on my feels but honestly in terms of this story I want to see her get to almost a breaking point. Then a confrontation of some sorts.
But that is just me, keep on writing and sorry I didn't read and fave earlier
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Perfectly fine. I haven't updated this in a while either, so it's partially my fault. I need to reread what I wrote and get back into the writing mindset.
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Almost.
become a brony they said, will always be happy they said
great story, your writing is fantastic, the pure emotion in each word makes me tear up a little, please keep writing
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I have no plans to stop.
Whenever I see Luna depicted as the pitiful inferior of the mighty and faultless Celestia, it makes me hate both of them.
Why is this interpretation of these characters so popular? Is it really so interesting?
I don't mean to sound like I hate this story. I don't, but I wanted to strike up a conversation.
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I found it curious that Luna was still denied her ability to shine in the Season 3 opener. That is why I wrote this. The last time that she showed her emotions, she turned into Nightmare Moon. As such, her emotions are usually not used in the show. For example, even her sadness in Luna Eclipsed was small compared to someone like Rarity if she was told that her dresses were terrible. Luna seems trained, pushed into something that she did not want to be. I wanted to explore this.
The therapist, if he's worth his salt, would give her the advice to actually talk to her sister about this and to go down to Ponyville and interact with the ponies there.
1824693I don't mean in this fic in particular. Perfectly dull Celestia and weak pitiful Luna seem like very common interpretations of these characters. I'm just wondering why is that.
I enjoyed a few things about this story
First, I loved how it showed how a sister would feel about her essitanally being upstaged by a newcomer without making her to extreme in the anger direction. I could see how someone, who was once a hero and respected, could feel like Luna. Lost and being forced back into a role. While at the same time, you succeed in not making Celestia too evil, just trying her best.
Another thing I loved was the POV. It gave me a chance to interpit the different lines in different ways and I always enjoy a story like that.
Since Luna is my favorite I am interested in were this Story goes, so far good Character insight why I can't agree with everything especially the obsession on Twilight a deeper insight into the Princess of the Night is welcome.
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Interesting way to think about it. xD
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I felt the story would have been slightly crippled if I wrote it in a different way. I always liked that kind of view, and I wanted to try it out.
I want to know what comes of all of this. I can pretty well understand what Luna's feeling, and if she's anyway a reliable narrator things aren't so sweet about Celestia. Luna's tormenting herself by trying to be what she should have been 1000 years ago, and I want to see her be okay, or at least see someone try to be there for her.
The format is real effective; Luna's the only pair of eyes we see from, the only mouth we hear from. It remains open-ended without being to vague, thanks to the quality writing. It's animated, even without prose; her choice of words lets the reader imagine her tone, gestures, the works. It's slim as well, there's not a lot that doesn't need to be there.
Without much else except for Luna's side of things, I can't really tell if she's just being whiny, or this is actually happening. I'll hold my judgment on her for now, as I eagerly await more.
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It's insight like this that makes me want to keep writing.
First: My English is terrible, so sorry about this.
Second: Reasons to like and favourited your Story:
- your idea is good and new
. i like your interpration of Luna and her emotions
- it is another kind of story
- i like your ... speling style? Yes, yes i think this is the right word-
- Oh, and the point of view style, i like this.
Soooo, i think this is enough to like your story, or?
Luna, I can be that stallion. T_T
Ponyville's finding
it's Equestria, actually. Ponyville was founded by the Apples, Equestria by a union of the three races.
This is...interesting...
Wow, still loving this story. Luna has to be the best princess though. Forget Celestia!