>>1488 >it still gave me a feeling of some of the early fics I remember reading from that time. Not that was your intention, but I guess with Season 1 Luna and the subject matter at hoof. This is a compliment by the way. well thanks. I guess the way to tell the story gave those vibes but I haven´t watched season 1 opener since at least a year. I didn´t know the lines from Nightmare Moon. The series opener served to shoehorn the intended confession and put in context and make it coherent to the end of Luna´s banishment.
>She seems more rational with her desires then I have often seen portrayed in other fics. While at the same time feeling child like.Perhaps 'rational' isn't the best word, but she is more reversed and calm and less self righteous and more fearful of her fate. I enjoyed how Luna was in more of silent shock/pain during the celebration at the end of Friendship is Magic (honestly to the point of almost wanting to make it a headcannon). It does fit very well. the fact that she didn´t speak after she got "reformed" could be interpreted in a lot of ways. We didn´t see anything about her during season 1, so inserting that detail of feeling deeply remorse against her sister. Maybe you like the fic because I tried to justify everything with some explanations and ordinary reactions of feeling for such events. I couldn´t put Luna as an over the edge character without having a reason. I guess those little details pretty much help to introduce her logic. She has been in the lead of bat ponies, so she cannot afford to be that childish.
>this is one of the best takes of Luna that I have read. I don't want this to come off as just blind gushing praise but I have read a fair bit of fics involving Luna around the time as Nightmare Moon and this maybe my favorite take on it. thanks a lot, especially the detail that you don´t want to put a blind praise (I love critical and fair praise and it feels satisfying to achieve something by being critically acceptable). I didn´t know you were experienced or had read other fics about Luna of her period of Nightmare Moon. I, like I have said before >>1474, I knew about her overexposure but I cannot compare nor I do know how the quality of her fics are, so my writing is taken by musical influences,thoughts about the show and random thoughts I can have (I didn´t have in mind to say the Saturn line for example, nor describing FiM again at first).
>this fic was the use of the phrases that directly reference the event of Luna's return from the standpoint of it being episode one. Though for me I imagined it as anon telling me it like a storybook, but that context doesn't exist within the fic itself. I know why it could bug you but yes, I had the purpose to narrate the episode and get the rest done quickly. If I had to retell the mane 6 acts, this fic would last 3 or 4 posts more and I personally don´t see it as anything relevant for Luna´s psychology nor the confession I had prepared. The focus was aiming at the royal sisters and just their perspective of the events. It may confuse why I took that but I didn´t feel like writing more than I saw convenient. A few lines here and there and we have the plot device to the confession. I on purpose say: >*And that´s when the non-canon conversation begins. pointing out that this is the main story.
