#prays that this post doesnt fuck up praaayys so hard and good

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can we ask what the rebellion au is about? :U im very curious abt it

u can have this smile

jk lol This is gonna be a long one and im just copy pasting it from a group chat so sorry if anything repeats or its clunky and messy in places :P

okay SO

evil queen celestia for this one, rules with an iron hoof, super corrupt and all that ponies in like the upper class mostly those who live in cities are clueless to this like ahhh our beloved majestic queen can do no wrong she is so loving and poggers<333 while regular on the street lower class ponies are struggling to live theyre being like run dry but no one really has any power at all to do anything about it. no one but princess luna. luna had spent her whole life looking up to her sister in the same way the upper class citizens have but one day her eyes were opened to the squalor and shit that ponies outside of those spheres had to endure and she was outraged. she tried to talk to celestia about it convince her to do something, to Change something! help the poor ponies who were suffering below! but celestia shut her down quickly. so luna, faced with no other choice, began to sneak out under the cover of her dark nights, get to know the common folk, and eventually begin to light the spark of rebellion within them. eventually gaining enough support cobbling together a sort of army of her own and with her at the head a war starts between celestia and luna

flash forward however many years maybe hundreds idk i haven't decided lol maybe like however many moons bc moons are ambiguous lol, but throughout equestria its become unsafe to just Live bc. uknow. theres a fuckin war on. the ponies that live in richer areas are safer, places like canterlot and manehattan are still under celestia's rule and are 'protected' and 'kept safe' under her while everywhere else is dangerous to be, these heavily fortified places are Rife with anti-luna propaganda, to the point where shes only known as nightmare moon and they believe The Princess Was Stolen From Us By A Curse Or Whatever That Turned Her Into A Beast!!! lol

celestia has made life miserable for towns and lower class areas, the places are patrolled by her soldiers and Anyone who shows even a glint of disliking the queen theyre punished or hauled off to jail so luna's ranks wont continue to grow

to combat this, hidden villages im calling 'forts' start popping up where ponies can go to hide and live in relative freedom, places where ponies can be recruited into luna's ranks, or sent back to if theyre wounded and unable to keep up the fight

the mane 6 (except twilight) live in the Sweet Apple Fort, founded by the apple family hidden just on the edge of the everfree forest, its set up right by where ponyville would be, applejack and big mac run the place, dash is the head of the guard, pinkie works under her as one of the scouts to keep eyes on perimeter, fluttershy and rarity work in the infirmary, rarity as a surgeon and fluttershy as a nurse, they take in anyone whos running from celestias forces (ive also for some reason got it in my head thats theres an illness running rampant and fluttershy along w the other nurses are overworked from having to take care of any ponies that catch it while also working for a cure, zecora is the head nurse of sweet apple) also trixie and flim and flam are wandering traders they all know the routes of where all the forts are, they trade goods and also information from place to place, for the right price of course..

twilight at the start of the au lives in fortified canterlot with her parents and spike, shes studying in the hopes to become a high ranking scholar under the queen, and celestia definitely keeps her eye on twilights work/progress

the main base of luna's operation is cloudsdale, a lot of the pegasi fled and left the place pretty much abandoned when the war began, but luna managed to take it over right from under her sisters nose and a lot of pegasi returned to help with the rebellion effort, parts of it have been magically altered to allow non winged ponies to get around the important areas up there (uknow like the runway on the race track in the time travel episode that spike was able to stand on its that lol) many pegasi stayed on the ground to keep supporting the forts that took them in though, hence why dash is still on the ground lol

the crystal empire has been completely cut off from the rest of equestria, the amount of refugees fleeing there to escape the war was getting too much for the kingdom to handle so empress cadence reluctantly was forced to shut it off (but dw her and shining do end up together in a side plot me and a friend hav just come up with >:])

because luna and celestia raise the sun and moon, luna has taken to using having the moon out as a sort of like? calling card i guess? that the rebellion is like on the rise like a We're Winning Kind Of!!! thing to let all of equestria know but celestia twists the meaning of it and uses it against her, like i said the cities are Full of anti-luna propaganda and because when luna is winning she makes it night/brings the moon out, celestia tells her citizens that luna wants to bring about an endless night, and thats sort of how the nightmare moon image comes about

the scenario in my head for the first "scene" i guess goes smth like twilight and spike are out late like at a market and theres a security breach, since canterlot is fortified any unauthorised entry causes the city to go into a tiered lockdown so say the exterior wall is breached, theres like 2 layers of walls and the castle that get shut down, and the market that twilights in is p much on the furthest exterior section so she ends up getting shut out and shes like !!!! UHHH!!! but just as shes like LET ME IN PLEASE PLEASE PLE and sees a form overhead, she sees wings, she sees a horn, what alicorn would need to be sneaking around.. oh shit. thats Nightmare Moon. they make Sudden eye contact and twilight and spike are like AAAAA and BOLT in the opposite direction Away from and out of canterlot

from there i think twilight thinks canterlot is under attack so shes like aw fuck i dont think we can go back there for now lets try and make our way to manehattan but they get completely turned around and end up in the everfree where theyre found by a sweet apple scout(pinkie) and brought back to the fort

if youve made it this far thank u sm have some image lol

twilights discovered in rhe everfree by pinkie, i think i might give her a necklace or smth that shows shes like. allied with the queen?? and pinkies like uhhhmmm okay come with me ^_^ and twilights taken to the fort and straight to rd and shes like i dont have Time for every random pony who wanders in pinkie! and pp is like mm. Looks at the sun thing and dash is like. oh. hm.. come with me... and takes her to aj and aj is like well hi what can i do ya for stranger :) and dash is like uhh boss... Looks at the sun thing and aj is like oh. and twilights like Can Somepony Please Tell Me Whats Going On Im Very Tired My Leg Is In Pain (she broke it lol) and Im Very Far Away From Home Please Please Pl and aj is like. Okay. (thank god she doesnt know what/where this is) UHHH Dash! can you take our guest to the infirmary get her leg looked at and give her and her. uh. lizard? a place to lay down for a while <:) n dash is like. for real? and aj whispers (just until i figure out what to do with her....) n dash is like okay Fine

twilights stuck at the fort for a while cus she broke her leg in the everfree like a dumbass and has to heal so she has to just sit there like haha im surrounded by nightmare moons forces Thats Fun but then realises that. none of these ponies r under an evil spell or anything theyre all just trying to survive.. :( and then she meets luna and shits it a bit until luna is like... wait i recognise you... and she apologises for scaring her and spike and getting her into this mess etc and twilights like oh. this is. shes just a pony and nightmare moon really is just a lie made up by big celestia lol

twi at first once that scene up top happens is like bro we Have to leave and spike is like. your leg is BROKEN we're staying here until its fixed and.. idk these ponies dont Seem to be under any spell... n eventually twilights like FINE fine but as Soon as my legs fixed we are getting directions to manehattan and fucking Right Off but then yeah eventually shes like oh okay being here is fine actually fuck celestia

aaanndd i Think thats all i have so far?

NO WAIT THE CMCS

because aj and big mac run the whole operation they probably go into protection overdrive over applebloom but since shes like entering her teen years its getting harder and harder to keep her safe bc she just wants more independence but they r so scared of losing her :( but she just thinks theyre treating her like a baby and that they dont trust her with anything so she keeps sneaking out and around to try and help out so she feels useful theres a whole big dramatic thing about it where her and aj are yelling at each other and its like "I AINT NO MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYPONY ELSE IN THIS FORT!!" "WELL YA ARE TO US OKAY?" kinda soap opera bullshit uknow you knooow

anyway its on one of appleblooms little outings that she finds and brings in Scootaloo who was wandering all alone, once shes in the fort they found out she was actually really good at figuring out ways of fixing things so they let her be just a full mechanic around the place (applebloom is mad about it lol but theyre still besties <3) whenever scoot has downtime she goes and talks dash's ear off and in this au dash is kind of a hardass bc shes head of the guard in the fort n stuff but w enough chat annoyance eventually becomes endearment Eventually and they do become sister figures :]

dearest sweetie belle... shes kinda fucked in the head lmaoo, bc rarity is a surgeon and she doesnt like to leave her side she basically grew up surrounded by like. ponies that have been Through Shit and she just is around gruesome stuff All the time so shes a bit kooky but shes entertaining for the injured soldiers n stuff

this basically sums her up lol

also aj and dash are married Get mad about itt lol

if you read all that im Kissing you on the mouth thank you so much lol, im drawing more stuff for this au as we speak so, keep an eye out for that :P