solstice 𖤓

(Part of this was written in August so if my thoughts seem jumbled give me some grace 😭)

Recently rewatched ‘The Return of Harmony’ and I noticed a few things. First of all, Discord wants to flirt with Celestia soooo bad… he’s annoyed the entire time the mane 6 is there. Like, you cannot convince me he didn’t bs that riddle just so they could go to the garden and leave him and Celestia alone LMAO. “Did you miss me, Celestia? I missed you.” yeah okay bro get a room.

On a more serious note though, he makes himself smaller and more comfortable when speaking to Celestia. Why? I’d assume he seeming doesn’t want to spook her, which is weird because we know he can fight her head on and he’s stolen the elements at this point so why’d he be trying to avoid scaring her? No reason, besides maybe the fact that he doesn’t want her afraid of him. We know he isn’t afraid of scaring the others because he takes amusement in the mane 6’s fear later on and becomes big in the window to scare them specifically but yknow could always be a coincidence 👀

But also, it made me realize that Discord is kind of obsessed with her. Discord is the only villain who tends to avoid using her title. And when he does bring up her title, he either doesn’t really seem to take it very seriously or he’s using it while talking to other characters. He also has no respect for her personal space whatsoever—which you could argue he does with other characters as well but even with Fluttershy, he’s not nearly as handsy as he is with Celestia. If he needs to hold on to something or grab someone, she’s his first choice. The comic snippet I put of him and Celestia together while talking to Twilight really got me because there is no contextual reason for him to be intertwining his tail with her leg in that scene. Literally all he’s doing is watching Celestia talk to other ponies—he’s not trying to intimidate her or reaffirm their friendship or anything, he just wants to hold her.

He’s constantly thinking about Celestia, whether it be in his dreams or just mentioning her when she’s not apart of the conversation at all. Celestia has no role in the DND episode yet he still manages to talk about her! One of his most thoughtful actions ever is when he genuinely tries to figure out what to get Celestia for her birthday and spends a whole party (that could be spent being chaotic) thinking about it and stalking her the whole time. When he’s evil, he always keeps it day. And I know the comics aren’t canon, but they push the two together so much!! He singles her out so much!

And this part might be a stretch but when Cosmos takes over the princesses’ bodies, the only one she uses as a vessel for her romantic feelings towards Discord is Celestia. Maybe she knows that Discord would be most receptive to flirting from Celestia, who knows 🤷‍♀️

I’ve always loved the headcanon that Luna was part bat pony. I mean come on, the horse goddess of the night plus ponies who are only active during night?? This was mostly a quick piece to get the thought of it out of my head. I spend too much time think about drawing ponies and then NOT drawing ponies.