Friendship is Dragons

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Newbiespud 28th Sep 2021, 6:00 AM edit delete

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.

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17 Comments:

FanOfMostEverything 28th Sep 2021, 6:01 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Darn it, Spud, now I'm imagining the Smash Bros. "Challenger Approaching" siren over that scene. Presumably Twilight's invitation is in the journal.

Digo 28th Sep 2021, 7:25 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Last panel: Celestia is about to show off her fanfiction.

ANW 28th Sep 2021, 8:56 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Hey, it has to be better than Twilight's.

Winged Cat 28th Sep 2021, 10:02 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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.)

TheCorporal 28th Sep 2021, 10:24 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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.

RuBoo 28th Sep 2021, 5:16 PM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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.

Obviously 29th Sep 2021, 8:26 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Is obvious, Celestia is the King NPC that send the Hero to take care of the Dragon/Demon King at the beginning and never move from the throne

Balrighty 28th Sep 2021, 7:42 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

And now I'm imagining Celestia just slowly walking forward doing the Kill Bill whistle.

Staren 28th Sep 2021, 9:56 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Dang, now I'm imagining Utsuho's WARNING banner from the fighting game when Celestia approaches

Makes sense with the sun theme, too

Staren 28th Sep 2021, 10:00 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Wow that was surprisingly hard to find on youtube -- seen around 2:48 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6FT3o7O9I

Staren 28th Sep 2021, 10:11 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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...

Winged Cat 28th Sep 2021, 10:05 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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).

Ariamaki 28th Sep 2021, 4:30 PM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

I imagine that with a specific shmup flavor to it, like one of those gigantic screen-covering boss crawls and a bit of just-slightly-off text.

WARNING WARNING WARNING
The colossal white wingading hornse approaches with malicious intent!
WARNING WARNING WARNING

Torquelift 28th Sep 2021, 5:06 PM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

I read this to the same rhythm as "The Doomslayer has entered the building" from Doom Eternal.

Wulfraed 28th Sep 2021, 6:36 PM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Re: panel 4

Hopefully before C and L split for the hills, dumping rulership on Twilight ...

Final Boss Incoming 29th Sep 2021, 8:24 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

Celestia, The Alicorn block your way

Celestia destroy [Mercy]

You are too scared to move

Celestia destroy [ACT]

You try to [Attack] but Celestia Evades

Celestia [Attack] 999999999999999

Game Over

Winged Cat 29th Sep 2021, 9:31 AM edit ⇗ delete reply ⇗

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).