princess of dawn & dusk.

"We learn to live with the pain"

"I remember it all too well"

"I read you should never leave a fight unresolved"

"You had it figured out since you were in school "

"You said you’d be here"

"Call a cab"

"Everything you say is right"

"You never did give a damn thing"

"Our daddies used to joke about the two of us"

"Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart?"

"It’s a love story, baby just say yes"

"I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairytale"

"No one here to save me"

"I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain"

"You said forever and always"

"Every time you smile, I smile"

"I don’t know what else I can say"

"There’s a drawer of my things at your place"

"You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye"

"All you’re ever gonna be is mean"

"I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone"

"Sophistication isn’t what you wear or who you know"

"You’re showing off again"

"I know people change and these things happen"

"But this love is brave and wild"

"You taught me about your past thinking your future was me"

"I’ve been loving you for quite some time"

"Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool"

"There’s one thing missing"

"Lose my number"

"Nothing made sense until the time I saw your face"

"Every smile you fake is so condescending"

"You stayed outside till the morning light"

"I want to ask you to dance right there in the middle of the parking lot"

"They’re trying to tell me how to feel"

"Maybe I was naïve, got lost in your eyes"

"I’m sick and tired of your attitude"

"He’s close to my mother"

"Don’t know how long it’s gonna take to feel okay"

"I like the way your hair falls in your face"

"What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know?"

"We got nothing figured out"

"I don’t wanna grow up"

"I’m just another thing for you to roll your eyes at"

Discord gave the princess of friendship an indignant huff.  “Well, I never!  Here I was coming across a friend in distress and deciding to extend a paw to help, and the moment I do they slap it away!”  

He floated down to where they were eye level with each other.  The look of utter outrage on his face was replaced with a cheeky grin.  “Luckily for you, I’m a forgiving soul, so I’ll look past this moment of rudeness from you.

He snapped his eagles talon and from the ether came two root beer floats.  He placed a straw in the one closest to him and took a sip.  “So, you still don’t want to talk about it?”

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

               “...Oh! I’m sorry, Discord.” 

              It didn’t take her long to blink and realize she’d turned to old habits           with the draconequus, reverting back to quick judgement and fired           up tempers. 

              She decided to sit down, taking the float down with her, though her           magic ended up just playing around with the glass, rotating it in mid-air,           fidgeting with it.

              “...It’s nothing really, just me being a little petulant. Mom’s wanting me           to go back home and visit and I’m just---” 

              Not looking forward to the visit? That’s not right. She loved her family.           Missed them. 

              But she was still running away. Even with this conversation, she was           running away. Didn’t want to admit the crux of the issue. 

              “I don’t know. I guess I’m being childish. I don’t want to go to           Canterlot just to visit.”

              It held too much of her truth. Showed her in big broad letters who she           was to other ponies, the nobility of that town. What the last name of           Sparkle meant, what her crown meant now. 

Mmm.

She nods.

I take it by that reaction, you were knew but were unable to understand the meaning.

Twilight, you have done so much in the years of being a ruler, starting out as the loyal and aspiring student of Celestia, eventually becoming the bearer of the Elements of Harmony alongside your friends, and then ascending to becoming the Princess of Friendship.

Even then, you continued to go and help spread the joys of friendship and harmony across Equestria alongside your friends, and to others outside Equestria.

You are the living example of magic itself, and in time your powers grew, to the point you would surpass even Celestia and Luna themselves. You ascended even further beyond that, having magic that would now be considered to be near my own standards, that of harmonic magic.

You are not just the living embodiment of magic, dear Twilight. You are the living example of harmony itself.~

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

                “...How can I be?” she whispered. “How can I be the---the example of           harmony, when my own head is in such a jumble?”

                Her nerves tingled, her magic vibrating in her hooves. They resonated           with Harmony’s words, knew of their truth. But Twilight Sparkle still held anguish           within her. Felt her grief and the weight of it all. 

@dominatingfriendship | ask.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

              “Oh, you are most welcome, Cozy Glow!” 

              She couldn’t help but feel emotional about this moment. Her first          generation of students were doing well, and Cozy was a shining          example----the little filly’s quick learning and work ethic reminded          Twilight of herself as a young thing. 

              For the first time in a while, the princess felt justified in her title as          Princess of Friendship. Things were finally settling.

“Oh golly, Princess! You don’t need to worry about me!” Cozy sets the warm cup near Twilight for her to take. “Nothing pleases me more than being your Friendship Assistant!” She looks up to the Princess with gleeful eyes and a bright smile.

“What are you doing anyway? Is it anything I can help with?” She seems eager to be by her side and help out even more.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

              “Oh, this is just the usual letter correspondence,” she replied, taking a sip           from the newly set tea. “I’ve been able to get through quite a few letters now           that we’ve gotten the school’s paperwork up to date, with your help. Now it’s           strictly royal duties.” 

              Another sip, and the feather quill was set down for a moment. She couldn’t           help but wear a proud smile on her face. The young pegasus had continued to           exceed her expectations at every turn. Despite the hiccups at the beginning,           Cozy seemed to blossom in her school, and under her tutelage especially---           always eager to help.

          °☆.。 ❛ i  know  .  of  course  i  know  that  .  you  know that  i  know  that  .  i  just  —— ❜  words  ,  for  not  the  first  time  in  twilight’s  life  ,  failed  her  .  every  reasonable  explanation  ,  every  feasible  EXCUSE  she  could  give  DIED  on  her  tongue  ,  and  with  them  the  hope  of  articulating  just  how  GREAT the  loss  of  her  former  student  burdened  her  shoulders  .  °☆.。          °☆.。 out  of  HABIT  ,  the  younger  of  the  two  turned  away  when  her  vision  swam  &.  the  back  of  her  eyes  pricked  away  .  even  with  HERSELF  unable  to  admit  the  struggle  of  keeping  it  together  .  but  then  ,  of  course  she  knew  .  she  had  already  lived  this  .  every  word  ,  &.  every  painstaking  moment  spent  swallowing  down  the  tears  that  welled  in  her  throat  ,  ready  to  BURST  .     °☆.。

            °☆.。 ❛  is  there  not  SOMETHING  we  can  do  ?  that  i can  do  ?  something  that  can —— change  her  fate  .  that  can  HELP  her  ?  anything  at  all?  ❜ twilight  asked  ,  turning  to  meet  her  own  eyes  ,  her  own  face .  knowing  it  surely  was  FOOLISH  to  ask  .  POINTLESS  ,  even  . ❛  what  did  YOU  do  ?  ❜  °☆.。

        ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

              “I’m sorry.” 

              It never felt like enough, those words. And so they were spoken quietly,           somberly.

              “----I can’t---you shouldn’t be thinking about what I did. My time is yours.           Remember that. It has to be you to process, to decide. It has to be.” 

              She crossed the floor between them, put her neck over her younger’s.           She knew of the tears flowing down cheeks, and so she brought them close           together, embraced her. Because words never worked well enough, and her           own heart ached for her younger self, knowing, remembering.

@adara-of-the-flame | cont.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

              A glare was sent the woman’s way, but there wasn’t much time for a retort,         the glare quickly turning into panic, Twilight lunging her head down to the toilet.

              The retching was less than stellar of an experience. It didn’t help that this         was a public washroom. It was one thing to end up with a stomach bug, but for         it to come down so quick on her while she was out in public? Really?

@discord-trolls​ | ask.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

               The beast of chaos appeared before her in a flash, and the princess         hadn’t the energy to repress a sigh. 

               The stars were twinkling late that night, but Twilight was neither in her         study nor her bedchambers. No, she was simply looking out at the sky on the         balcony, like some morose poet. 

               An opened letter lay on the desk, the wax still freshly pressed. It had been         abandoned, unlike the rest of her papers, an orphan amongst its organized         brethren. Its contents held yet another invitation back to Canterlot from her         mother, but not without some scoldings for avoiding her hometown for so long in         the first place.

There was no way you could’ve anticipated Cozy turning out to be that kind of pony… nobody could.

What happened during that time happened… She was stopped by me, I am namely responsible for her being sent to Tartarus. Pains to say that if I wasn’t as merciful, then I would had to unfortunately eliminate her. She attempted to disrupt the balance of Equestria by draining her of all the magic and tried to send it to another world…

That would have had serious repercussions to the natural order of the world, and even if she was a filly at the time, I would’ve had to do what was the right thing in order to maintain the balance, as much as it would’ve pained me to do that.

Her being sent to Tartarus… she was able to get off easy that way and still live.

But that has all passed for some time. You can still open your heart to your pupils, while still guide them with certainty. You care about the well-being of those you taught under your wing, just as much as I care about your well-being as my Bearer of Magic… as my living incarnation of harmony.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

              Harmony’s words had always been a balm to her heart, and yet this time           she couldn’t shake that feeling of guilt and pain. A foal was in Tartarus           because Twilight hadn’t noticed, hadn’t seen Cozy Glow’s intentions.

              She was miserable, and her visit to the Forest was an attempt to try and           ease her heart. Alas, grief gripped her chest with iron claws. 

              That was why, perhaps, she had nearly missed Harmony’s last words, a           lead nearly buried. 

@discord-trolls | ask.

         ✶ | 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉  —

               “—You think?”

              Her, and Discord? On the map? The table clearly pointed the two of them          to the next mission, but the princess was having a hard time believing it.

              What in Equestria could need Discord’s friendship advice? And why with          her of all ponies?