#twirek

au where Twilight tries to redeem her villains but fails to upkeep her reputation as a "Good" princess and eventually just says "buck it. Fine. I'll be the Evil princess if it gets me the results I want". She figures that if she's being painted as evil anyway she might as well make some use of it. So...

Celestia and Luna get to hear some gossip when they leave their castle under disguises. Turns out Twilight spun the gossip wheel to make herself look like a mage who wields dark magic, and that inadvertently snowballed into "Twilight Sparkle is actually an ancient evil mage who planted the Nightmare in Princess Luna's head and later pretended to be a unicorn scholar to have access to Princess Celestia's restricted libraries 😦😦😦" ...

Her strange reputation DOES work to some extent: her villain students are more likely to be receptive to a princess who tells stuffy nobles to piss off, who talks crap about Celestia sometimes, who is so unashamedly real, and compassionate, and interested in them... but it really doesn't last long, because nopony wants a monster princess anywhere near their country (because the nobles can't control her, or FEEL like they can control her. At least Celestia knows how to make them feel like they're playing her).

I wish this tale had a nicer ending

Maybe I'll get back to this one day

Assuming one is all evil and one is all good when they met, they touched eachother and balanced everything out. Twilight had been giving giving giving ever since she got her dang wings, while Tirek had been taking taking taking ever since he learned how to use his magic. Now Twilight gets to be selfish sometimes for the sake of her sanity and Tirek gets to be selfless for the sake of his very few loved ones. And it makes me so happy

Twilight's morality was already "waning" by the time she met Tirek, but very very slightly. She was indeed looking into dark magic, but purely for scientific research purposes and never with actual intent to use it for her own gain. Tirek on the other hoof was also on the brink of accepting friendship -- this IS post S9 Tirek after all so he went through the Frenemies episode. So they taught and learned from each other and it feels so nice dude AUAUDHEHHEH

the real "i can fix him/i can make her worse" LMAO

Lonely fools holding hands, that's the ship. It makes me so happy. And it feels a bit different than Fluttercord to me because Fluttershy influenced Discord more than the other way around; you never see Fluttershy messing with people for giggles but you do see Discord making an effort to be kind to others. That kinda thing. But Twirek? Now you get to see Twilight returning to her sassy, sarcastic nerdy roots of s1 but amped up to 10000x. Hard "no"s, the occasional "buck off", purposely doing things she wants despite it making others angry ... and you get to see Tirek playing a supportive role rather than the bullheaded "I need control all the time" guy he used to be.

RAAAHGHHH they make me SO . HAPPY .

They just match eachother so well and it's GREAT dude it's GREAT. Both of them can be temperamental and both of them can be level headed, so they balance eachother out (whenever one is being too emotional, the other can compensate by being more logical. See Twilight's anxieties/"Twilighting" vs Tirek's straight forward solutions to anything; or Tirek's explosive temper vs Twilight's extremely high emotional intelligence)

I kill for these guys. I love them so much. And they're SO ride or die, they would rather follow their partner onto hell than not; if Twilight antagonizes all of Equestria, Tirek will ask IN PRIVATE: "is this what you really want?" and if she says "yes" then he's the first to offer her the Total Annihilation spells he'd been cooking in secret; if she says "no" he'll be the one pulling the silly emotional regulation books she gave him so they can figure out what she really wants to do about it (Also some "royal etiquette" and some "how to apologize to like 27 noble houses you've insulted" books HAHDHSH). And god FORBID you say ONE bad thing about one of them while the other is within earshot. That's unironically how Neighsay the 17th was petrified for an evening ("Hmpf." "Twilight. He's going to snitch to his family and they're going to rally up against you." "Hmpf." "Twilight...")

Gosh man. EHEHEE.