DM: After a few moments of full awareness, you notice another blurry shape approaching you.
Pinkie Pie: Super-Cosmic Final Boss incoming! ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!
DM: ...No. In fact, the figure coming closer turns out to be none other than Princess Celestia.
Rainbow Dash: Oh, yeah, she's definitely the magical horse that knows Resurrection. Cool, that's taken care of!
Twilight Sparkle: Uh, Celestia? Mind telling me what we're doing here? Was Star Swirl's final spell actually a plane-crossing teleport this whole time?
Princess Celestia: Haha, no no. This... is a special place. One day I may tell you its secrets. For now, suffice to say that you're here because you did something nopony else has ever done.
Twilight Sparkle: I did? I just scribbled some poetry beneath the lines Star Swirl wrote. I feel like anypony could've done that.
Princess Celestia: Ever the self-deprecating perfectionist. I'm afraid you're going to have to take credit this time, my faithful student. Though, amusingly, you're right – you're not the first pony to attempt this. But you're the first to *understand.*
Imagining Celestia approaching with a video-game-esque WARNING siren intro put a smile on my face for a few minutes, which, y'know, is all you can ask for sometimes when you're writing.
We've got some Spudventures this week! (Albeit a short one; it's been a long and busy summer.)
The Forgotten Ones, Session 32 - Earthly Delights: Podcast | Video
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Is it reasonable to suspect that, many years ago, Celestia showed Twilight her fanfiction to help cement Twilight's love of reading? (With a side effect of Twilight trying to write works that measured up to works written by an author with hundreds of years of practice, leading to Twilight's self-depreciating perfectionism.)
Alternatively, Twilight took Celestia's self-insert Mary Sue fanfiction literally, giving her the impression that Celestia is far more perfect than she actually is.
I'm not sure a Celestia SI would be a Mary Sue. Worst case, she'd be an Anti-Sue... But that's if she turns the self-deprecation way up, like I tend to.
Celestia starting to greet all ":D Welcome, my little p--" *BWRRRT BWRRRT BWRRRRT* "*sigh* every damn time..."
...Now I wanna see TJ Pones or Jargon Scott animate this...
For any villain protagonist in the many centuries between Luna's banishment and Twilight's rise, any encounter with Celestia would be Super-Cosmic Final Boss grade - usually while the villain is woefully underleveled, with predictable results (which is rather the point, from Celestia's point of view).
Ironically, one of the main differences of her evil side is that Daybreaker might refuse to let you die, giving you torture after torture until you either find a way to fight back or give up. Celestia is more merciful (and more successful, not needlessly giving foes more chances to win).
We've got some Spudventures this week! (Albeit a short one; it's been a long and busy summer.)
The Forgotten Ones, Session 32 - Earthly Delights: Podcast | Video