#but what good is an alicorn that can neither fly nor use their magic?

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Dark Cream Week Day 5: Reward

MLP just because<3 Dark Cream Week by @zu-is-here

them alone bc I like the way I drew them

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Here's my G4-G5 connection head cannon

Gen 5 movie spoilers obviously

Inspired by two drawings from maximasmac and REDXBACON on Twitter.

So in this scenario, Twilight outlives her friends and takes it really hard. Years and years go by until everyone she once knew has gone accept for spike and the other alicorns. The sisters still have each other and Cadence has her daughter but Twi, being the princess of friendship, misses her friends dearly. She begins to resent Celestia for turning her into an alicorn in the first place, realizing it was never something she really agreed to but just a way for Celestia to has a successor. Because of this, she does not do the same and reigns over equestrian for a long time on her own. She makes new friends, but outlives them again and again. A lot about the geography in Equestria changes over this time, cities rise and fall...

(just a quick note: the station in the movie has both a wonder bolts poster and a stained glass of the crystals, meaning magic was around at the time of it's creation since the wonder bolts could fly. Thus both the crystals and magic existed at the same time. I think the crystals were originally created as just yet another set of magical artifacts like others in the show, maybe used by the thee ponies depicted in the stained glass.)

(second quick note: the three shards all have depictions of parts of Twilights element of harmony, possibly hinting that they were made from them. Like they were recreated to represent these new bearers of the element,, but that's neither here nor there)

Eventually Twilight breaks and blames magic it's self for her suffering. She decides to take magic away from Equestria for the greater good. Because no magic means no evil can use it, and no evil means you don't need friendship to stop it, and no more friendship means no more suffering. But she can only think of one way to get rid of it. She begins on a crusade to take all the magic from everywhere in Equestria, the same way Grogar did. Every pony, creature, the other alicorns, discord, the tree of harmony(turning it into a regular tree), all the artifacts, she get's it all. She then plans to seal herself away in limbo or something and erase the memories of the ponies of her and the other alicorns so no one thinks to try to get magic back.

Her pupil at the time (for the sake of ease, let's give her a fake name: Start Bright) Tries everything to stop her but is unsuccessful. She does manage to get away with only these three crystals without twilight knowing. She hides them in her lighthouse. She knows the artifacts are not strong enough to stop twilight but they might have enough magic in them to release her, if and when the ponies using them discover friendship. With the last of her magic, she casts a spell on the artifacts meant to release twilight and the magic when they are activated. This way, she can make sure true friendship is present in Equestria before releasing Twi, because they'll need it if they're gonna face her.

Finally, Twilight has almost accomplished her plan, finishing with taking Start Bright's magic who gives herself in to keep Twilight from the lighthouse. Twilight seals herself away and erases the memories of all of Equestria using the memory stone and her now enormous power. And she locks herself away. I also like to think Spike tried to reason with twilight up until the end, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Star Bright wakes up, not remembering the crystals, not remembering anything. Equestria moves on magicless, never remembering what happened to it. As time goes on, tensions rise as the tribes blame each other for their being no more magic. The crystals are found and exchange hands [hooves] over years. Memories of Twilight are gone but ancient records of her and her friends remain, fading into legend and written off as folklore. The artifacts sit, waiting for the day they'll be exposed to friendship to activate the spell to free both magic and one angry Twilight.

And just a few random notes:

- no magic means no wendigos

- maybe twi put celestia and luna's magic into the sun and moon respectively, given them enough battery to keep moving. Or even trapped them up there lol.

- Spike is probably hibernating somewhere, missing someone but not knowing who

- Maybe she poofed away the crystal empire somewhere else, knowing they can't survive without magic protecting them. bc she's really not out to make ponies suffer, she wants them to live without magic. Or maybe, without magic, they became normal ponies and got out the the hekin' arctic lol.

- Kirin, gryphons, hippogryphs, changelings etc. are probably just chilling somewhere

Yup that's it thanks for reading