DELIVER US/RIVER LULLABY

❝  Can you hear your people cry? ❞

❝  Help us now! ❞ 

❝  Remember us, here in this burning sand. ❞

❝  There’s a land you promised us. ❞ 

❝  I have nothing I can give. ❞

❝  But, this chance that you may live… ❞

❝  I pray we’ll meet again. ❞ 

❝  Hush now, my baby. ❞

❝  Be still love, don’t cry. ❞

❝  Sleep as you’re rocked by the stream. ❞

❝  Sleep and remember my last lullaby. ❞

❝  I’ll be with you, when you dream. ❞

❝  Such precious cargo you bear. ❞

❝  Do you know somewhere s/he can be free? ❞

❝  You’re safe now and safe may you stay. ❞

❝  I have a prayer just for you. ❞

❝  Come back someday. ❞ 

ALL I EVER WANTED/QUEEN’S REPRISE

❝  All I ever wanted. ❞

❝  This is my home. ❞

❝  Now I am home. ❞

❝  Here among my trapping and belongings I belong. ❞

❝  If anybody doubts it, they couldn’t be more wrong. ❞

❝  Surely this is all I ever wanted. ❞

❝  This is your home, my son/daughter. ❞

❝  Now you know the truth. ❞

❝  Now forget and be content. ❞

❝  You don’t ask why it was sent. ❞   

LOOK THROUGH HEAVEN’S EYES

❝  How can you see what what your life is worth? ❞

❝  You can never see through the eyes of man. ❞

❝  You must look at your life through heaven’s eyes. ❞

❝  Has s/he truly lost his worth? ❞ 

❝  How do you measure the worth of a man, in wealth or strength or size? ❞

❝  The answer will come to him/her who tries. ❞

❝  That’s why we share all we have with you. ❞

❝  There’s little to be found. ❞

❝  When all you’ve got is nothing, there’s a lot to go around. ❞

❝  No life can escape being blown about by the winds of changes and chance. ❞

❝  You never know all the steps. ❞

❝  You must learn to join the dance. ❞

❝  How do you judge what a man is worth, by what he builds or buys? ❞

❝  You can never see with your eyes on earth. ❞

PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS NOW

❝  By the power of Ra! ❞

❝  So you think you’ve got friends in high places? ❞

❝  Well, forgive us these smiles on our faces. ❞

❝  You’ll know what power is when we are done. ❞

❝  You’re playing with the big boys now. ❞

❝  Oh, that’s pretty. ❞

❝  Every spell and gesture tells you who’s the best. ❞

❝  Stop this foolish mission. ❞

❝  Watch a true magician! ❞

❝  Pick up your silly twig, boy/girl. ❞

❝  By the might of Horus. ❞

❝  You will kneel before us. ❞

❝  Kneel to our splendors power. ❞

❝  You put up a front. ❞

❝  You put up a fight. ❞

❝  Just to show we feel no spite you can be out acolyte. ❞

❝  But first, boy/girl, it’s time to bow. ❞

❝  It’s your own grave you’ll dig! ❞ 

THE PLAGUES

❝  Thus saith the Lord. ❞

❝  I send a pestilence and plague. ❞

❝  I send the swarm, I send the horde. ❞

❝  Once I called you brother/sister. ❞

❝  Once I thought the chance to make you laugh, was all I ever wanted. ❞

❝  I send the thunder from the sky, I send the fire raining down.  ❞

❝  Even now I wish that ___ had chose another. ❞

❝  Serving as your foe on his/her behalf is the last thing that I wanted. ❞

❝  This was my home. ❞ 

❝  All this pain and devastation, how it tortures me inside. ❞ 

❝  All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride! ❞ 

❝  I send the locust on a wind such as the world has never seen! ❞ 

❝  I send my scourge, I send my sword. ❞ 

❝  Let my people go! ❞ 

❝  You who I called brother/sister, how could you have come to hate me so? ❞ 

❝  Is this what you wanted? ❞ 

❝  Then let my heart be hardened. ❞ 

❝  Never mind how high the cost may grow. ❞ 

❝  This will still be so. ❞

❝  I will never let your people go. ❞ 

WHEN YOU BELIEVE

❝  Many nights we’ve prayed. ❞

❝  In our hearts a hopeful song, we barely understood. ❞ 

❝  Now we are not afraid, although we know there’s much to fear. ❞ 

❝  We were moving mountains long before we knew we could. ❞ 

❝  There can be miracles when you believe. ❞ 

❝  Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill. ❞ 

❝  Who knows what miracles you can achieve. ❞ 

❝  When you believe somehow you will. ❞ 

❝  You will when you believe. ❞ 

❝  Hope seemed like the summer birds too swiftly flown away. ❞ 

❝  Yet, now I’m standing here ❞ 

so here’s some Discord rambling about my current thoughts / the direction i’m going in. 

lines taken from various characters and events found in  american mcgee’s  game  ,  alice : madness returns  ( 2011 ) .  feel free to change pronouns   ( he , she , they , i , etc )   &  tenses as you feel necessary .

“ another day  ,  a different dream perhaps ”

“ i know what’s real ”

“ i know i’m guilty of something ”

“ punishment hardly ever suits the victims of a crime ”

“ you’ve used me and abused me  ,  but you will not destroy me ! ”

“ i want to forget ”

“ it’s not a dream  ,  it’s a memory ”

“ how is one to find her way ? ”

“ i didn’t kill my family ”

“ i’ve not come back here looking for a fight ”

“ i’m not afraid to die ”

“ when you’re not on edge  ,  you’re taking up too much space ”

“ threats  ,  promises  ,  and good intentions don’t amount to action ”

“ every picture tells a story .  sometimes we don’t like the ending .  sometimes we don’t understand it ”

“ delusions  ,  too  ,  die hard with memory ”

“ only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth ”

“ forgetting pain is convenient  ,  remembering it  :  agonizing ”

“ a secret is only a secret when it is unspoken to another ”

“ different denotes neither bad nor good  ,  but it certainly means not the same ”

“ how fine you look when dressed in rage ”

“ is our situation not dismal ? ”

“ every adventure requires a first step ”

“ only a few find the way  ,  some don’t recognize it when they do — some don’t ever want to ”

“ everything’s a nail  ,  is it  ,  miss hammerhead ? ”

“ forgetting’s just forgetting  ,  except when it’s not ”

“ a good guest does not overstay  ,  a perfect guest stays home ”

“ who benefits from your madness ? ”

“ what you claim not to know is merely what you’ve denied ”

“ authority must be obeyed  ,  or it must be overthrowned ”

“ you shouldn’t ask questions you know the answer to ”

“ make your survival mean something ”

“ memory is more often a curse than a blessing ”

“ the past must be paid for ”

“ you’re as randomly lethal and entirely confused as you ever were ”

“ return to whatever hovel’s home to you ”

“ your presence here is unwelcome ”

“ everyone here has an excuse for doing nothing ”

“ this world is not so either  /  or ”

“ what’s true of the living is often true of the dead ”

“ this life is full of random death ”

“ death is the ultimate equalizer ”

“ all have the right to be eaten ”

“ you’re not that good a liar  ,  and i’m not that stupid ”

“ your madness will be punished ”

“ come to receive your punishment then ? ”

Nightmare Moon putting a spell on the castle or wherever the battlefield was ( or through ponies’ dreams, even ), that forges a false scenario into their head. So now those who witnessed the confrontation think it was Daybreaker. 

That the public story is that Luna essentially transcended into Nightmare Moon in response to Celestia turning into Daybreaker. The world, although wary, thinks she is still their benevolent ruler of the night, completely in control of the power she called upon. Nightmare Moon is playing nice, using Daybreaker as scapegoat while she grows her influence throughout Equestria, further influencing everyone through their dreams. 

This also opens up the possibility for a rebellion in the shadows, from those that left before the spell hit them. They’re trying to spread the truth, but are marked heretics and hunted. And things just… overall get more unfriendly as a whole, which only works in NMM’s favor. Especially with that Kirin Empress closing in. 

consider: the nightmare parasite returns and goes for either Celestia or Twilight, and in an attempt to save her, Luna takes it into herself once more. Except she’s too late and it kills its previous host during the change, and whoever is left looses their battle with Nightmare Moon.