>>7973
What happens to Nightmare Moon? We don't have a clue about the alternate one. As for Luna, we have to keep in mind that she can use her Canterlot voice at anytime and she admitted to find joy with it >>2219. She fully embraces her dark past and creates a character called Starry Night Terror with a new armour.

We might not see the current Luna with the Nightmare Moon look. However,I think that Luna hasn't been absorbed by the darkness because her NMM look represents her dark side. Or more like her dark emo side,her childish side of taking over Equestria that reveals her inner bitterness and revenge towards her sister.

Luna could actually adapt the Nightmare Moon form but what truly changed her was the realization that she had to cooperate with her sister and realize how devastating her actions can become for considering such plans. It could be summed up with this sentence: she just grew up and matured >>2630, >>3663. She realized how careful she must be with her duties,not to mention that she would make her sister happier by standing alongside her instead of just fighting all the time.

The Nightmare Knights arc simply serves as a proof of her maturity. She doesn't reject who she has been over time but rather,she acknowledges what she has done throughout her whole life. Such acceptance of her whole life and her track record would make her imperishable.

She views the whole picture of morality and her will is founded according to such experiences on both sides (aesthetically and morally). She reflects maturity that would be proper of Celestia…but she takes it on a whole new level because her Nightmare Moon past was more infamous among Equestrians and thus,she has carried that psychological weight on her shoulders since her reformation in season 1.

Luna,no matter how she looked,holds her actual behaviour because of her special context and she,surpassing the duality of being a hero or a villain,is depicted as a grown up character that acknowledges what is right to do. Instead of delivering a NMM look,her armour replaces said infamous appearance (even though the whole squad was roleplaying with said costumes)

I needed to explain how to portray this with a more contextualized perspective.