Friendship isn't easy; but it's worth fighting for

How long had she been hiding behind these bushes? How long would the tiny pony sit there staring at a book? Or reading? Was she reading? Kimber took the risk and peeked around the shrubbery.

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who wakes up first in the morning

Does Luna even sleep.

Twilight wakes up ridiculously early and on time every single morning without fail. When Luna returns from her night duties she’ll almost always find Twilight waiting for her with a steaming cup of tea or hot chocolate, and it’s become something of a morning ritual, since early morning is one of the few times they can talk uninterrupted before they have to go do their princess things. Even when they actually do have coinciding sleep schedules Twilight still wakes up first, because Luna is a mess and will sleep until noon if given the chance, which Twilight complains about all the time. Really though, seeing one of the royal sisters curled up and soundly asleep is too adorable for her to interrupt. She’ll even sometimes make Luna breakfast in bed if she’s had a really hectic night.

who’s the first to fall asleep at night

DOES LUNA EVEN SLEEP.

It varies from night to night. Usually Luna leaves for her night duties after watching Twilight head to bed and wishing her good night, but it’s not unheard of for Luna to return and find Twilight passed out on a pile of books in the library, and the older alicorn will either gently levitate the other into bed and tuck her in, or honestly just curl up and join her. At the same time Luna will sometimes work for days straight until she literally plops down in the middle of Canterlot Castle for a nap. Twilight has memorized all her usual (and unusual) napping spots, and if she can’t get the other princess back to her room, she’s stowed emergency blankets and pillows in each spot and casually instructs the guards to avoid making noise in the area so Luna can get some sleep.

what they playfully tease each other over

Twilight is smol laughs. Luna has lived for over a thousand years as the shorter of two sisters, so she constantly teases Twilight about being the shortest princess (she really finds it adorable though). She also teases Twilight a lot about her obsession with books and history, and especially when it comes to the ponies she knew like Starswirl, she’ll often tease Twilight with ridiculous facts she claims are true and that the books have it all wrong. Twilight on her part teases Luna about her sometimes over the top decorum and how unfamiliar she is with modern Equestria, even if she’s ultimately more than happy to teach the older alicorn (and by teach I mean write her a hundred page essay on the microwave). That and they both tease each other about being huge nerds, but the jokes on them because they’re both huge dorks and they know it.

what they do when the other’s having a bad day

Stargazing. It’s one of their favorite activities to do together, and if one of them is having a bad day, or even if both of them are, they’ll drag each other to an empty field or a balcony and spend the whole night watching for shooting stars and charting the night sky. Nerdy? Very. But it relaxes them both, and by the end it’s very likely they’ve talked through whatever problems were going on anyway. Otherwise if Twilight is having a bad day Luna will sometimes surprise her with a new book (possibly stolen from the Canterlot library) or just throw her at the spa while covering for her princess duties (which doesn’t always end fantastically but). On Twilight‘s part she’ll buy Luna her favorite kind of cake or cupcakes (space themed of course). She’ll even sometimes humor Luna by playing video games with her, which Luna finds super endearing, but usually ends up with them picking up something else to do together after Luna breaks down laughing trying to teach Twilight how to play.

“I love you Twilight but you’re awful at this.”

how they say ‘i’m sorry’ after arguments

After they’ve both had some time to cool off Twilight is usually the first one to apologize, and she’s generally pretty good about just straight up saying it to Luna. She might be nervous and a little awkward about it depending on what went down, but she knows she needs to clear the air and do it honestly. If it was a really bad argument she also sometimes grabs apology sweets (Luna physically can’t resist star shaped cookies). Luna…takes a little longer to get there. She’s short-tempered and stubborn and it takes her some time to calm down and even longer to own up to her fault in the argument, but when she does Luna tends to feel awful about it. She has a harder time outright approaching Twilight and will usually leave her little apology gifts instead, and in the end it’s usually Twilight who ends up confronting her directly after Luna’s avoided her for a good amount of time. It’s something the older alicorn is trying to work on for Twilight’s sake, but Twilight is patient, and she knows that Luna means well in the end.

which one’s more ticklish

Twilight by far. She’s not overtly ticklish, but Luna accidentally discovered her weak spot one day and the world was never the same again. Luna on her part finds it cute as heck, but Twilight is just mortified that somepony found out, and that pony being Luna of all ponies, and it’s another thing that the moon princess teases Twilight about. It’s also another thing she uses if she see’s that Twilight is having a super bad day, and while it usually involves a frantic Twilight running away, Luna has longer legs laughs, and it’s a quick way of getting a smile on the younger alicorn’s face and enough of a prompt for Twilight to let Luna know what’s wrong.

their favourite rainy day activities

Things that are nice and relaxing, since most of their days can get pretty hectic. They’ll usually prop themselves up near a window with a nice collection of snacks and a good book apiece, (or, if we’re going super headcanon, Luna just spends the whole day playing video games while Twilight reads and backseat games the whole time laughs). Twilight also occasionally helps Luna catch up with her paperwork (and by help I really mean she forces Luna to sit down and actually do it), and really they sometimes just end up talking for hours on end, enjoying each others company for longer than 20 minutes at a time for once.

I’m laughing though because Luna has weather manipulation magic so she could technically be just like “nah no rain today”, but if it means being able to spend more time with Twilight she probably low key annoys the pegasi by making it rain even longer.

how they surprise each other

Luna pranks Twilight like at least twice a week. While Celestia is basically infuriatingly immune to all pranks Twilight falls for like the simplest ones in the book, and Luna capitalizes on this so much. She means well though and just does it for a bit of fun, limiting herself to simple gags mostly, but occasionally takes a prank a little too far and peeves off Twilight. Said peeved off Twilight then goes to Celestia for help getting back at Luna, leaving the moon princess to walk into a castle full of pranks and traps and ends up completely dumb founded how prank weenie Twilight managed it all. And she still hasn’t figured it out.

their most sickening shows of public affection

It’s drafted

My mood doesn’t fit

I’m trying to equal your perfection

I’m brain-dead

I lost the reply

I’m easily distracted by something else

“But I’m afraid a pony can be both tall and wide, and Celestia has certainly proven herself on both accounts. And is it petty to tell the truth, Twilight? Is not one of your friends the Element of Honesty? Would you call her petty? I never insisted that I was superior to my sister, only that she was superior in size. It was her choice to escalate the matter.”

       Her ears dropped backwards, holding her head lower and glancing up at the other mare. “I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just...well...” She needed to choose her words carefully and it was making her anxious. “Nevermind. It’s nopony’s fault, per se. It was a small kerfuffle that got out of hoof, but you need to realise your words aren’t truth and they can be taken as hurtful to somepony else. Even Princess Celestia.” She paused and ruffled her wings uncomfortably.