ANIMATION: The Folly of Celestia

[Music] [Music] what princess twilight sparkle welcome who are you the answer to that question is complicated we'll address it in due time but for now you may refer to me as vesper okay vesper why am i here how did i get here where is here why does this place look like the castle of them trust me when i say none of that matters right now here's what's really important [Music] celestia's crown how did you get that did something happen to her did you enough questions all you need to know is that i am not your enemy twilight sparkle if you want to leave this place all you have to do is take the crown and then what and give it to someone else who deserves it more than celestia i thought that was going a different direction i thought that i wanted you to rule equestria no you wouldn't like that would you so much power so much responsibility so little time to spend with your friends no luna would do fine sunset shimmer has proven her worth even pinkie pie would work so long as you're no longer under the strings of a deluded tyrant come again you heard me celestia incompetent evil the former more likely she is not no well then tell me this how many times does she let equestria suffer when she could fix the problem herself how many times has she put your life on the line as a means of teaching you how many of her poor decisions have backed fired and made you suffer i i can't we talk about this celestia is a wonderful ruler and i'm sure we sit down and discuss it i could change your mind that's unlikely i would prefer not to waste time but if you force this on me then you're no better than you claim celestia to be [Music] fine you have a point there oh thank goodness now twilight sparkle let me show you the truth about celestia let's start with something memorable nightmare moon i'm aware she couldn't use the elements of harmony for whatever reason but i find this troubling she sent you a simple unicorn at the time and five other girls on a mission to save the world against an alicorn with unbelievable magical powers and strength instead of an army or even lifting a single hook to help you herself well okay um well she couldn't make an army that didn't work so well the first time they lost pretty quickly no i mean over time preparations build up a large army to take nightmare moon down when she reappears are you sure that's a good idea it took so many ponies to raise and lower the sun and moon in the past and celestia does it with no effort also in my fight with terek the magic of four alicorns evenly match the magic of every pony in equestria with discord included the strongest of us carries more magical power than a quarter of the entire pony population at a minimum what's your point my point is with all of that power celestia still lost to nightmare moon what hope do you think an army would have against a being even more powerful than that sending in an army to face nightmare moon would have been like sending gems to face a dragon and she had the foresight to not allow so many pointless casualties oh i think you underestimate the value of a good plan and some preparation celestia had a thousand years after all but what puzzles me is she felt the need to keep it all a secret even from you surely you would have been able to evade so much of the danger had you been a little more prepared prepared how she could have at least told you about it all first you sure that would have worked back then i didn't want friends of any kind if i were told i had to make friends in order to save the world i likely would have seen them as a means to an end and they wouldn't really be my friends honesty kindness generosity loyalty laughter i wouldn't have recognized any of those virtues if i hadn't experienced them like i did is that your logic or your feelings telling you that [Music] i agree that if it did end up like you claim that would have jeopardized the whole thing that's the problem here we don't really know what could have happened as you said celestia had a thousand years to make a plan and she picked this one i admit it was a tricky gambit that placed me and all my friends in danger but it worked in the end so i can't blame her for that i still believe it was too risky but you're right about one thing there are too many unknown variables i'll concede the possibility nothing more than that however let us move on to celestia shoving her responsibilities on to you what the dragon she sent six ponies off on a dangerous journey to show away a dragon that almost killed you what he wasn't trying to kill us he was just cranky because rainbow kicked him in the face he could have hurt me or my friends with his immense size or his fire breath but he didn't but he was a dragon dragons are dangerous you had no idea if he was safe um that's speciesist excuse you speciesist saying that all dragons are dangerous sure we don't know that much about dragons but judging an entire species based on the actions of a few is wow just wow semantics even so celestia should have done this herself she could have hoofed the dragon away what if celestia dealt with the problem using magical aggression without due process that's no better than her being a bullying tyrant i thought you didn't want that i was being figurative she sent you as the diplomat in this why not send herself maybe she was busy with something else or maybe she didn't care enough what about the local avalanche zones those almost crushed you i don't know maybe she just didn't know they were there she's not omniscient look neither of us are gaining any ground here let's just move on fine celestia could be debatably innocent with the dragon but why didn't she help you during discord's first attack shirley celestia could have accompanied you on your quest to find the elements how could she have helped discord's more powerful than she is and celestia is not connected to the elements and wait a minute she did help me how did oh yes the letters exactly discord liked to corrupt ponies with his manipulation of the truth it isn't hard to assume that he would likely try some sort of ironic twist on me and my friends to satisfy his warped sense of humor he could easily have made us forget about what made friendship special and he did the only way to counter such a thing would be to remind us of what made the things we valued so special in the first place but how could she have known she's fought him before maybe she sent them as a precaution or maybe she thinks heartbreak and corruption are dramatic sadist ah this is becoming frustrating no solid proof of her guilt but none for her innocence either so we just need to look at something where she was clearly guilty how about sombra celestia knew he had returned and still only sent you and your friends to face him without the elements of harmony hold on there celestia never said that she knew somber returned technically she only showed me that sombra existed not my point she had sent you on a likely dangerous trip with just your friends but without the elements of harmony as backup bit of a lack of preparation on her part celestia apparently thought your test was worth risking an entire kingdom over why did she not see the danger um because no one was in any real danger oh i need to hear this well um ah well luna and celestia were enough to defeat sombra the first time if things went sour we could have easily sent a message to them and they could easily put sombra down for another thousand years if they chose and i i would have failed my test hmm with that in hindsight sombra was more of a nuisance than an actual threat how disappointing wait you're agreeing with me i'm not unreasonable when i think about it i'm not even sure what sombra would actually do turn everyone into slaves create more of those crystals that the crystal heart blasted into smoke like last time when he lost please if he had the power to defeat the two sisters or destroy the crystal heart he would have done it a thousand years ago a victory over you and your friends would merely have been temporarily unpleasant huh maybe the only reason he succeeded in that alternate timeline was because luna wasn't there to help celestia possible still either of them could have come and helped drive off sombra when he appeared [Music] well that's kinda my fault what do you mean i kind of misinterpreted what celestia said she did send me to do a task but i thought i had to do it all by myself as part of a test but the problem is if i had to do it myself there would be no reason to send my brother cadence and my friends there too let me guess the reason you didn't contact celestia once you found sombra was you thought he was part of the test in hindsight not one of my smarter moments anyways every time i found myself in over my head it's because i overestimated my abilities not her paraspites diamond dogs all those dangers you mentioned celestia didn't lift a hoof to help me with them because i didn't ask her to if she always swooped in and solved all my problems for me then i never would have been able to rise up to her level i think you're mistaking parental love for lazy neglect suppose you had asked for help do you really think she would have come for you 100 i disagree remember the wedding when she should have trusted her most faithful student that something was amiss in a state of heightened security or were you just not that important to her hey that doesn't count i barged into the wedding rehearsal with circumstantial evidence and slanderous accusations and had the gall to just expect everyone to take my word for it oh now you're being ridiculous it shouldn't have mattered if no one else had seen what you did she still should have acknowledged you all of canterlot my accusations didn't have anything to do with the threat against canterlot no one had even guessed that the changelings were involved at that point all i knew was that i thought my brother was going to be marrying a rotten pony and you didn't go to celestia because you felt like you had to do it on your own yes i never claimed to be perfect i was sad and angry and i wasn't thinking straight i felt alone but i wasn't she was always looking out for me it's not her fault if i forget that sometimes you have a way of blaming yourself for her failings very well and what about tirek what about tirek don't you think that all that happened might have been avoided if celestia had trusted you instead of someone else discord indeed did she not see this plan backfiring celestia ordered discord's reformation he gave a half-hearted promise and she believed it she immediately entrusted the spirit of disharmony with the safety of equestria did it really surprise anyone when he betrayed you again that's my fault and it's probably the worst mistake i've ever made how can you possibly cover for that too do you remember when discord tricked me by pretending to have the blue flu yes a cruel and deceitful trick the fitting of that monster wrong if you think about it discord was forced to fake an illness in order for me to pay attention to him i knew better than anyone that friendship isn't always easy but i still let all my responsibilities fall on fluttershy instead of befriending him myself or at least being more involved than i was i failed my duties as the element of magic and the princes of friendship so badly that discord had to reach out to me instead of me reaching out to him thinking back i was really mean to him only tolerating his presence rather than actually trying to be a friend i should really apologize to him once i get back but how does that justify celestia trusting discord after his reformation celestia trusted discord because she trusted me she trusted me as the bearer of the element of magic and the princess of friendship to befriend discord sufficiently so that his allegiance to us was assured but don't you see this never would have happened if you hadn't listened to celestia neither of you had proof that you could trust discord that's what friends do they trust each other true friends don't need proof for that you don't need proof i've had enough of this [Music] you know what you've proven at the end of all of this nothing you haven't proven celestia's innocence all you've merely done is present another possibility well you haven't proven anything either you don't see the dangers of this mindset you don't see that what you think is trust is an actuality of very dangerous blind faith well with that attitude how can you trust anyone you're missing the point of what i'm saying you need to take control of your own destiny you can't let celestia keep influencing your decisions you're not her pet you need to make your own choices and decisions it's the right thing to do it's what you should do you want me to make my own decisions you want me to carve my own destiny fine then what have you done i chose i chose her instead of you i may forget this a lot and have to relearn it constantly but my friends are always there for me when i need them and guess what my oldest friend is princess celestia and i will never ever turn on her princess celestia princess luna i knew you'd come for me of course we did twilight i would never abandon you oh i see you've blown up my missing crown sorry celestia i felt i had to make a point wait more importantly how did you find me it's a long story of little import at the moment more imperative who is our mystery kidnapper don't bother i already figured everything out what how easy i've been thinking about this through our whole debate which is why i was a little sloppy firstly i had to figure out where i was if this were a dream princess luna would have saved me earlier if i were taken to the actual castle of the two sisters starlight or spike would have noticed i was missing and then they'd find me we aren't in an alternate timeline either the time scroll was destroyed the only thing that makes sense is a different dimension chrysalis wouldn't have such an intimate knowledge of my adventures neither would anyone else who has a grudge for that matter and since you confirmed events unfolded pretty much the same in both our timelines none of this world's villains could have done this either as to who you are i knew you couldn't be any of my enemies but the giveaway was that you somehow knew everything that went on inside my head except for what mattered most and since we're in a different world the only thing that makes sense is you're me no i am nothing like you twilight sparkle i'm so much more than that i'm who you should be all of what you are now it's wrong how dare you allow this tyrant to continue to enslave you and it all will be corrected especially because the liar has come now we can finally see her for the evil which she is what do you mean princess celestia why did you make us a princess without our permission [Music] really you made us us of all ponies into a princess you entrusted powerful alicorn magic in the hooves of a mentally unstable unicorn who thought the wanted needed spell was a good idea you gave the very same unicorn the responsibility of running a kingdom without asking her first are you really that inconsiderate and stupid you changed us forever and you never considered how we might have felt about the whole thing we are not the same pony anymore why did you change us under this flimsy excuse about destiny [Music] well answer me celestia aren't you going to defend yourself twilight do you hate me for my decision what no that's written no twilight i want you to think hard about this twilight sparkle do you feel any resentment towards me over my decision to make you into a princess no no i i don't this is something i've always wanted ever since i first saw you you wanted this for me ever since you accepted me as your student you caused so much good to happen to me and to grow so much i could never resent you but you should feel angry you should hate her excuse you we may be similar but you are not me you have no control over what i feel so what if celestia made me a princess without asking me first let me make this clear for you i don't care [Music] you you puppet you don't deserve your power or your crown you don't deserve everyone's admiration you don't deserve celestia and luna's admiration i actually question things i can see things for what they really are i deserve like go with me let go of me luna don't you know what you need to do no stay away from me i hate you what happened to you what changed here to make you like this nothing was different from your world i just realized the truth about you and i wanted nothing to do with you but why i've only done what i thought was best for you i've given you so many opportunities to find happiness and joy over the years you wanted so much from life and i gave it to you when you earned it every struggle that has come your way has made you better and when it didn't i protected you in any way i could you changed things everything was fine before you did this to me i enjoyed just being your faithful student and just being with my friends nothing had to change why did you make everything change because you were destined for more than that i saw the potential in you to be great and i wanted you to have it i may have provided opportunities but in the end you shined by your own actions it was difficult but you came out of each struggle braver smarter stronger and a better friend every day you made me so proud i did all of this for you because i love you no no that's a lie you can't love me you can't she's evil she doesn't care about me she's tired she she doesn't love me celestia can't we help her sadly no [Music] but i think someone else could come we should leave before they arrive she doesn't love me she doesn't love me she doesn't love me she doesn't [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 30min 26sec (1826 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020