Celestia's Views
Chapter 31: Chapter 30: Luna Eclipsed (Luna's View)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterGreetings citizens of Equestria. Thy Princess of the Night shall give thee her perspective of our episode Luna Eclipsed. Our sister had planned on doing this but since we hast banished a couple Saddle Arabian diplomats to the sun recently Celestia decided to go to Saddle Arabia and try to deescalate the situation. Hey, it's not our fault their diplomats called us "Moonbutt!" When somepony makes fun of us, they must be punished!
The evening starts out simple enough as Twilight and Spike are readying themselves for the festivities. We see that Twilight is going as Starswirl....excellent costume choice....and Spike hast decided to go as a dragon. We find his costume choice as most ridiculous. Why would one go as what they already are?
Now some adorable foals show up at Twilight's doorstep to get some candy but much to their dismay, one of Twilight's friends shows up to take it instead. We are most surprised that Pinkie hast not lost all her teeth yet as she seems to not eat anything but sugary snacks. One thing that does disturb us is that Pinkie, nor anypony else for that matter, knows that Twilight is dressed as Starswirl. Perhaps we need to talk to our sister about expanding the curriculum down here, they need to learn some history.
While we find it displeasing that most ponies know not of Starswirl, we do find it humorous how Twilight is getting frustrated over nopony knowing who she is supposed to be. We do like her idea of her starting a history club, it would save the taxpayers many bits and Twilight would get to do what she loves most, sharing knowledge. While they are going along Rainbow Dash decides to pull a most unpleasant prank on Twilight and Spike with her lightning. Poor Spike nearly got choked. Wait a minute, is Rainbow a Shadowbolt? We dost not care for her choice of costume as it brings back too many bad memories for us.
Now Twilight hast been mistaken for a country music singer by Applejack, one of the hardest working ponies out there, the one that we purchased a peddler's permit for at last years Gala which she found most disappointing. We shall admit though, Twilight dost look like a country singer. Now everypony is headed to the town square to listen to the horribly dressed mayor. Come on, a clown wig like that? It hast been a long time since we attended any kind of costume party but she looks downright awful.
Now comes Zecora to inform the foals what this celebration is about and like our sister does, we can listen in from afar. We discover that this is not a normal celebration, it is Nightmare Night. Nightmare Night? How dare they hold a celebration to dishonor thy Princess of the Night. We must head to Ponyville at once to correct this problem!
Once Zecora tells the foals why they must dump their candy at our statue we decide to make our presence be known. We do hope that we will be met with much happiness and open hooves but unfortunately that is not the case. When we arrive in town and disembark from our chariot, everypony is scared of us. Yes, they are scared of us. Why would anypony be scared of us? Certainly it canst be our Royal Canterlot Voice!, canst it?
They are all scared of us so we decide that perhaps we should leave, without even doing the royal farewell. That ought to teach them. While we appeared to be just upset as we left, we were sad, most sad. We just want to feel like we belong, we just want somepony to like us after having been gone for a thousand years. We will let thee in on a little secret, we do still resent our sister for banishing us and allowing such degrading festivities to happen every year but we canst let it show as we do not wish to be banished again.
We are eventually found by Twilight as we were laying at the base of our statue. We must say though, at least she knows we are not evil and we are most happy to see that somepony actually put together a Starswirl costume correctly. We are going to have to have a talk with our sister though, she hast obviously never taught Twilight about the Royal Canterlot Voice. She hast never taught her that we are to speak using the royal we or use a lot of volume when addressing our subjects. Leave it to our sister though, she is the one that abandoned our home in the Everfree Forest and discarded all of the old traditions. She could have just fixed the castle and left well enough alone but sadly, she just had to move on to a new era. If they were here, we are sure that mother and father would be most upset over what our sister hast done.
Twilight Sparkle hast decided that it is our voice which makes us unapproachable so she takes us to see if Fluttershy can help us speak to where ponies will like us. We shall admit, we found it unpleasant that it had to come down to this but decided to give it a try. When Fluttershy opened the door and saw us, she thought we were Nightmare Moon. Luckily Twilight got her to realize that we are not Nightmare Moon. This really displeases us, despite all of them meeting us before, why dost all of Twilight's friends not know we are Princess Luna?
Fluttershy attempts to get us to speak in a lower volume but it is Twilight who helps us in the end yet when somepony flings false accusations at us like Pinkie did, AGAIN, it will cause us to raise our voice. We head back into town and everypony cowers down in fear and we realize that they will never like us. One part of us thinks we should just go back to Canterlot but another part of us wants to win these ponies' adoration. We hast decided we shall stay in Ponyville for now.
When we visit Applejack we learn something new, we learn what fun is. At first we were unsuccessful with throwing spiders into the web we tried again and succeeded. We also found pumpkin chucking most enjoyable but what upset us is that when we saved Pipsqueak from drowning, Pinkie (again) claimed we were going to eat somepony. We are growing beyond most tired of this. If we did not fear any punishment from our sister, we would stay around till dawn and banish Pinkie to the sun for making it impossible for us to win over the adoration of Ponyville.
We hast decided that all this screaming and running around every time this pink pony yells is not acceptable. We decided that the Royal Canterlot Voice wast necessary and used it to let them know that this insulting celebration shall be cancelled forever. We decided to leave town for some solitude before heading home but Twilight would stop us.
We had given up all hope yet Twilight Sparkle still thinks that the town will eventually love us. We are most happy that she finally decided to get Pinkie to know that we are not evil. Perhaps banishing her to the sun shall not be necessary. We approach her to make peace when Rainbow uses her thundercloud to make us still appear evil and scare Pinkie. Do not worry though, she shall get what is coming to her before the end.
Twilight Sparkle tells us a little secret, that these ponies actually enjoy being scared. We are thinking, "Art Twilight Sparkle nuts? Why wouldst anypony have fun being scared?" Despite us finding her revelation as unbelievable we go in with her on our plans, plans which will result in us taking on a form which we hoped we would never do again.
We see the children along with the mayor coming to offer us more candy when we decide to appear as Nightmare Moon. Of course this scared them and disappointed us as we returned to our real form. Suddenly we feel our mane being yanked on. A colt that goes by the name of Pipsqueak told us that they like to be scared. That is when we realized that we were simply misinterpreting their reactions. Then the unthinkable happened, the colt said that we were his favorite princess ever! This made us most happy so we decided we shall allow Nightmare Night to stay and now we are loved by the townsponies.
Before the episode ended we did have one last surprise for Rainbow. She wast going to scare Twilight and Spike with a thundercloud but we used one ourselves and scared her. We along with Twilight had a most enjoyable laugh.
Shortly after the episode we received a message from our sister letting us know that she had got the Saddle Arabians to realize that the rudeness of their diplomats was what got them banished and that our punishment on them was legit. Sadly, we will no longer be allowed to engage in negotiations with the Saddle Arabians alone as we are too likely to banish them to the sun.
Not to worry dear subjects, our sister shall return next time. She apologizes for missing this week but with this episode focusing on us, it was better that we did it anyway.
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