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“You have no idea how much I resented my followers as they kept on putting their ideals onto me and expecting me to be what they think I should be. Taking liberties with what happen and making it into something else, saying that I can grant life back to the dead. Which we gods can’t do. Once you die you are dead, what I did was restarting the heart like how doctors use those defibrillators when someone’s heart stops, or when someone drowned I got the water out of their lungs and got them to start breathing on their own again. If I could bring someone back to life why aren’t I bringing back my daughter and her friends for those listening on in. Don’t bother asking me to bring anyone back or raise their souls as I would be doing that already. And I am not looking to have followers ever again,” Celestia said.

“You don’t want to be worshiped?” Holly asked.

“No as I refuse to be worship and place on a pedestal with standards that no one can ever live up to. Before I abandon my followers and their planet, I had to act like a prime and proper lady doing everything in a refine and elegant way. The only time I could be myself was when I return to Equestria,” Celestia said opening up to Holly as they continue with their interview.

“From Twilight’s book you lived on another planet but would return to the realm of the gods, Equestria?” Holly asked.

“The worlds of the gods are a higher realm then this one you mortals live. We gods come in different types and races like you mortals, just that we have powers and are immortal as long as we’re not killed and take care of ourselves,” Celestia said. (1)

“Take care of yourselves?” Holly asked.

“A god with poor health or allow themselves to become out of shape or become sick can die like you mortals. Ancient gods while powerful most have health issue as even we gods aren’t wholly immune to the effects of time. And no even the most ancient gods have no idea how they came to be. The best we can figure we gods are evolved like you humans from apes. Just that we had powers,” Celestia said.

“So you gods have no idea how the universe began?” Holly asked.

“None that I heard of. And if there is a creator to everything, there be no way it would choose this one planet and create only one race in its image like how many of your human religions believe,” Celestia said.

“What about the meaning of life?” Holly asked.

“The answer to that question is many. Everyone has different values and beliefs. I for one believe its what you do with your one life is that matters in the end. Which I have wasted,” Celestia said.

“Wasted?” Holly asked.

“Instead of caring and treating my child as the most important thing in my life. Instead I pushed her away and lost her, as I cared more about my followers then her. And that’s not even getting into what I did with my student Twilight. After they left and I had time to actually reflect on my life, I found how empty it is. My personal life had nothing outside of my work as the goddess of my followers. The lesson that my daughter and friends reached of making friends, is what I been teaching them but I had none myself, just followers. And when I actually look at my followers, I saw them expecting me to do everything for them and live to their ideal of what I should be. When I stop the act and just be myself and told them they need to be independent and handle things themselves. They turn on me claiming that I should be taking care of them, while giving little in return. It’s like taking care of someone who never show you respect and want you to always act and behave as they expect you to behave for nothing in return. I tried to explain that I would no longer act like how they think I should act and no longer do everything for them. My followers rioted and attacked me as they couldn’t believe that I their goddess would no longer care for them but expect them to be independent. I left them and haven’t looked back since,” Celestia said.

“You never went back?” Holly asked.

“I heard from other gods I met in my search that my followers have become savages living in ruins of what use to be thriving cities who make blood offerings in my name to get back their goddess who will take care of them. They’re nothing but children who once they’re on their own couldn’t survive. I left them the infrastructure, with running water, power, farms, transportation, knowledge, and other things they needed to be able to survive without me. And they still ended up wasting what I gave them, expecting me to always be there to take care of their needs. And why I abandon them to their fate, they are just a lost cause” Celestia said. (2)

"Really?" Holly asked.

"Why bother helping people who won't help in anyway when they can? I was doing everything out of my good will alone. Like someone helping others asking for nothing in return, but if you treat that person badly they won't be willing to help anymore. Which is what happen with me. And might have happen with the old gods of this world," Celestia said.

"Some of the old gods aren't that good," Holly said.

"The Greek ones being rape happy and petty. Sadly that is how some gods are, as you know that not all humans are nice the same goes for gods. And that goes for demons as not all demons are evil as not all gods are good," Celestia said.

"Demons are real?" Holly asked.

"Both gods and demons come from the same family tree like how dogs are related to wolves. Depending on the gods and demons they're either at war or living together. Also you humans really need to make sure you don't judge by appearances, from your standards a race is horrifying to look at but the same for aliens seeing a human. Here let me show you an alien I have met in my travels. And be prepared by your human standards this will be shocking," Celestia said as she waves her hands and the image of an alien appeared.

The alien stood several shambling inches taller than seven feet, with broad shoulders. Its hair straggled down either side of its face, lank and matted with glittering streaks of orange ooze. One lidless eye, weeping a colorless liquid, was roughly in the middle of its left cheek. There was no nose, just a semicircular hole above the chin, fringed with tendrils of pale skin that trembled in time with the thing's breathing. It didn't have a proper chin. The lower jaw was missing, and a row of jagged stumps protruded from the set-back upper jaw. Where it moved it left a trail of thick, jellylike slime, like that left behind by a gigantic snail. The thing had two seemingly ordinary arms that ended in crooked fingers. Beneath the normal arms it had several sets of paddle like, residual arms, becoming progressively smaller.

"What's that?" Holly asked staring at the thing.

"This is Frankie a Taro from the star system of Rocae, on the 5 planet Hae. Her kind are a race who managed to create a advance culture with them settling the planets of their star system. They're a very nice race when you mind your manners with them and not go scream and attack them because how they look like to you. You humans will have to really learn not to just attack and scream because of how someone looks if you humans ever go out and meet other races. I stayed with them for awhile and found them very friendly once they gotten use to how ugly I looked to them," Celestia said.

"You ugly?" Holly asked as Celestia is simply beautiful.

"Different standards of beauty," Celestia said as she made two images appeared. One is basically a beautiful woman with long red hair, cute little wings, and a pair of antennae. While the other is a horrible cross between a termite queen and a human woman.

"Different races?" Holly asked.

"Good guess but they're twins and one is born hideously deformed. The first is Princess What's-Her-Name and her sister Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt," Celestia said.

"What?" Holly asked.

"I know a long name but that's how their planet does things. They are from a insect world and Princess What's-Her-Name was born deformed. While her sister Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt is a true beauty among her kind. With her being the only one who doesn't recoil at the sight of her sister," Celestia said.

"And why haven't there been more aliens visiting Earth?" Holly asked.

"Earth is like the only waterhole in a desert for hundreds of miles around or like a small island in the middle of nowhere. There is really no reason to visit and I'm not going to lie your world and you humans are utterly insignificant to the rest of the galaxy and the rest of the universe. The only reason why anyone stops by is when they have no choice," Celestia said.

"We're really that insignificant?" Holly asked.

"You humans are doing well for yourselves but if you actually want to be special and known for something. You humans have lots to do before you're ready for the the rest of the galaxy, seeing how primitive you humans are still," Celestia said.

"We're really that primitive?" Holly asked.

"I have been listening to Earth's radio and watching this world so that, I would know enough of it before I came here. From what, I learn you humans are still primitive in so many ways," Celestia said.

"It does depend on the country," Holly said.

"That's not true. The country of the United States, holds itself up as the example for the rest of your species when it cannot even govern itself. Holding the high morel ground while people who aren't the right skin color, don't have the same rights. A government that covets what does not belong to it, and chases shadows of threats with utterly reckless paranoia. The same goes for the Soviet Union, that is the same in how they do things. I do not think your specie are primitive, I know it," Celestia said.

"So what should we do?" Holly asked.

"I'm not going down that road again. I'm not going to be a goddess ever again to anyone. It cost me too much and nothing to show for it," Celestia said.

"Then don't be a goddess, be a teacher instead," Holly said.

"For what?" Celestia asked.

"There is a reason why your daughter and her friends choose this world to make themselves home on. The city of Rome has stood even as the rest of the empire fell around it. They built this city to last, many of the things they built are still standing and still in use today. Why not stay and see what your daughter and her friends saw in us and teach us like they did," Holly suggested.

"I know what you're doing but I have been searching for a very long time and now that, I have nothing better to do. I might as well stay and see if there is anything worth staying for. You humans aren't special, not the chosen, if you humans never travel beyond the stars you all just die and the only one who will even remember you is me. The only way to change that is by doing something that will make you special. Life is meaningless and pointless, only if you never do anything with it. I will stay and see how you humans do, till you either show me why my daughter and her friends stayed or I just grow tried of you and leave," Celestia said.

"And then what?" Holly asked.

"Go back to the realm of the gods or just drift around the universe till I find meaning to my empty life," Celestia said. "That's the problem with being immortal. The utter boredom when there is nothing in your life to give it meaning." (3)

"Then let us humans show you some entertainment and give you meaning to your life. You might even make some friends," Holly said.

"I would like that," Celestia said.

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1 - The gods in this universe are like the ones in Marvel and DC, or like in Dragonball. They're powerful and immortal but they're not completely all powerful and can die.

2 - Sometimes there are people and things that no matter how much effort you put in, its just a lost cause or a waste of time. Like wasting time and resources on someone who no matter what refuses to change till at the very last second where it's too late to do anything. Or on something that is so broken that it's best to just start over.

3 - That is a big problem with being immortal. Boredom when there is nothing that gives them something to do and that they can't die.