Well, I'm glad I could inspire the spread of that observation.

Celestia describes the first thousand years of her reign without Luna:

"Vodka. Vodka and slight regret."

edited 10th Nov '12 10:23:19 PM by Steventheman

Watched the episode and skimmed through the rest of the thread afterward. No one played Lemmings Revolution? I did. ;~;

Then a scotch, because she needed a change.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:26:56 PM by edvedd

That sounds like a mixed drink.

Now I want to find the image with all those character-based drinks. I want to try to make one sometime, even though none of those things really go into proportions...

@Blueeyedrat: I didn't, but I played the original and my older sister played Revolutions.

I can't imagine how much time Fluttershy would burn on Lemmings trying to save all of them.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:28:14 PM by AceOfScarabs

Do I have to bring up my "Celestia can't get drunk anymore; she's built up a tolerance over the millennium" headcanon again?

If I remember correctly, the original Lemmings was the first video game I ever played. Good times, man. Good times.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:29:09 PM by Blueeyedrat

Celetia puts herself through magical detox every decade or so so that she can get drunk again.

On the subject of games Fluttershy would burn an enternity on, I can imagine that, if someone got her to play a Fire Emblem game, despite the premise, she'd spend hours trying to get through each mission without anyone dying.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:30:57 PM by Enlong

I hate Hearth's Warming Eve, primarily because it kicks the show's own canon in the face - "Celestia and Luna, practical demigods have been responsible for handling the sun and moon. Oh, I'm sorry; did I say that? I meant plain old unicorns with god-like powers.

Nah, Celestia would just have to break out the good stuff.

While Tia gets drunk, Luna's chilling with whatever guards and servants were closest, with a ton of weed and a copy of Bio-Dome.

Luna doesn't have great taste in movies.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:33:10 PM by Steventheman

@Veni: It implies the entire Unicorn kingdom had to get together to raise the sun.

Veni Vidi Pony, Hearth's Warming Eve showed us that, prior to Celestia and Luna, it seemed to take the whole of the Unicorn tribe in tandem to pull off that trick.

The fact that Celestia or Luna are capable of doing it on their own says a good deal abou their power.

Still doesn't explain Celestia and Luna.

They got a permanent upgrade from the Elements when they defeated Discord, of course. They got their Epic-level feats and bonuses and all.

I can imagine the alcohol thing being Celestia's best way to elicit information from someone— inviting them to a private meeting, sharing some wine, and waiting for them to get drunk before they notice that she's unaffected. Then she just sits back and lets them tell everything.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:36:43 PM by Blueeyedrat

did it ever posit to?

We still don't know where they came from. They could have come from anywhere. That wasn't the POINT of the story. IT wasn't the origin of the princesses, but of the country. It didn't explain discord, either.

Yeah. Discord's reign happened some time after the heart of fire was created, and Celestia and Luna came about sometime around then.

it contradicts noting because we didn't know anything for sure to begin with. We don't know what Alicorns really are, how they came to be, how besides long life spans they are differentiate from other ponies.

Another race? Deities? random mutations? The result of ordinary ponies harnessing three Elements of harmony each? We don't know and so saying X contradicts anything about them is just wrong.

heh reminds me of one of the several fics named Slice of Life, this one, Celestia goes on a diet. apparently Equestria's ponies get a bit upset if their Princess gets to big to move under her own power, something that was found out after, as she put it "A century or comfort food following that whole Nightmare Moon incident." Oh and the decade when ponies invented the potato chip.

Is there any fanfic where it's just the Royal Sisters chilling, with Celestia getting drunk and making stupid decisions and her continuous pleas to Twilight to find a good hangover cure and Luna getting high and her employees reporting a 100% job satisfaction because Luna's nice enough to share?

If not, I'll have to make one.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:43:41 PM by Steventheman

I'm pretty sure there's one fanfic were Celestia and Luna get drunk off some special wine Luna herself brewed that's aged for 1000 years...

Oh, the one about Luna's Moonshine.

As much as we are constantly reminded of Celestia's Fae-level power, she lacks their omniscience. She doesn't know everything that's going on in her domain. Otherwise she wouldn't need messengers.

I don't think she knew exactly what awaited Twilight in the tower, nor where the heart was hidden. Her orders were thus: You are going to the Crystal Kingdom as reinforcements. Your mission is to reactivate the shield protecting it. Your friends need to distract the inhabitants and make them happy. In the meantime it is you that needs to find the heart and bring it back. Only you can search, because I need everyone else on the "propaganda" campaign.

I don't think it was duplicating a spell as much as it was channeling nagative emotions into generic "magical burst".

Besides, we don't really know how their magic works. It might be just "channel emotion through horn, picture what you want to do", in which case duplicating a spell you've seen is only a question of finding the right emotion(s) and having enough power.

edited 10th Nov '12 11:13:20 PM by Sinclair

Dark magic must make a comeback in some way.