Quote:robkelk wrote:Magic. :VQuote:I briefly recognized the one that showed the Elements of Harmony healing Nightmare Moon and restoring her back into Princess Luna.Somebody works fast.
Really, though, it would not surprise me one bit is there were several unicorns in Canterlot that are master-level artisans in various fields. That, and I figure that it's been at least one month since Luna was restored.
Quote:ClassicDrogn wrote:I really do need to make that a bit more clear, don't I?
Still late, if not as much as my reply in your other thread, but I agree the new version feels less overdone on the angst and misery, while still showing how hard the situation is hitting Garrick. Just one specific comment:
Quote:“It strange you have many bride,” said Twilight as she set about to tucking a more-tired-than-he'd-admit Spike. “But not unheard. Among pony, we call such family 'Herd'. Fall out of practice recent century. This despite gender imbalance. Ratio one colt, two and half filly.”Of course she is, Twi, that would be why she set about making a big cultural change by quietly arranging a social campaign through arts and media that took centuries to work instead of passing down a royal decree and declaring that it would be obeyed or else. It probably wasn't even anything more than deciding which authors and productions she would support through patronage or just being seen attending the show and letting people draw their own conclusions. This way, no one got hurt and any direct changes were a matter of the ponies involved deciding to make them for themselves.
“Why did it fall out of practice?” I asked.
Twilight shrugged. “Not know certainly. Think culture shift to monogamy. Many book and play of monogamous romance start two-hundred year ago.”
I thought about that for a second. “Might have been Celestia. It's a clever method of gently influencing the populous to control population growth.”
Twilight gave me a shocked look. “How can say thing like that!?”
“Twilight, my Grandmother is a master manipulator, and I find her methods admirable. If this is what Celestia did, then she's not any different from my Grandmother. Hell, I bet Seto would love to spend an evening with Celestia. I can only imagine the debauchery those two would get up to.”
“But.. Princess is proper ruler!”
Anyhow, I had been hoping to garner at least a little more attention, but oh well. Right now I'm just trying to work out the meeting between Garrick and Celestia, and I think I just figured out how to do it.
A place like Canterlot Castle has to have a Servant's Hall - a common area and dining hall for all the servants in a great house or a castle. And Princess Celestia strikes me as the type that engenders enough familiarity with her staff that she occasionally takes her meal with her staff if she's not entertaining the typical stuffed saddle types.
And then he runs into Luna... Upon whom he makes a huge impression.... "Has Moon Princess hear of sleep disorder? Is being called... how you say.... Delay Sleep Phase Disorder."
Yep. Luna learns Garrick is pretty much prone to nocturnal behavior and that he loves staring at the night sky.