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Not like Celestia has much choice.
 
I guess it’d be hard to notice things happening in between your own eyes.
 
Final piece of the flashback. We will now return to the present and Twilight!
 
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Background Pony #68AD
No, matter. I have an empire to rule, a Queen will rise, subjects kneeling before their new Queen, and Equestria will be a new nation reborn
Background Pony #916E
Seems to be canon in this:  
Nightmare Moon is a parasite that has taken over Luna’s body.
 
Head-canon:  
Luna’s body is mortally wounded and would die without Nightmare Moon.
Fragnostic
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Obsessed with TwiLuna.
Do notice the elements did not turn into stones. They’re… empty.  
Where’s all that harmony gone?
 
NMM in the future has mood swings… Element-induced mood swings.
 
As for this? First panel - ALMOST LUNA.  
The last panel - wait, what’s that glow in her forehead?
Twilestia
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Primo Victoria
@Background Pony #FF53  
Silfoe already said this is a different universe, as we can see from the fact that here Celestia never managed to banish NMM in the first place… since she took control of the elements.
 
In the canon version she banished Celestia after returning from her own banishment.
Spacefrog

The last two can be up for debate, honestly…
 
But she didn’t take out her anger or hatred out on the population, who she blamed in the first place.  
She even raises the sun every morning (even if the day is shorter at least it’s there)
Spacefrog

So the elements did turn her, but did not finish the job.  
They went in like a scalpel instead of nuking her.  
The nightmare still exists, but she is no longer evil/angry/hateful
redweasel
Duck - "someone befriended them, saved them, coaxed them out of their shell, and showed them that sex is nothing to be afraid of. I’m kind of envious of that rape victim"

Fuzzbutt
@NorrisThePony
 
well yes, but to say the elements just nicked her is not doing them justice. she’s just really freaking powerful, so she can shrug off terrible wounds.
 
and who says it healed completely?
Background Pony #E4C7
@Ice Blaze  
She did awake in a similar manner to how Squall did at the beginning of disk 2 of FF8 though, thought difference, I admit, is that where Squall immediately questioned why he was unharmed, Luna apparently either does not notice or disregards her “fatal” head wound while it also almost instantly regenerates. Perhaps it is just OP alicorn healing powers.
 
Nonetheless, I find her whole ‘waking up after I apparently died’ to be somewhat similar to Squall’s own awakening. As much as I’d like to be vindicated with this theory of mine, I can see where I am probably just reaching.
Prince Ice Blaze Winters
Wallet After Summer Sale -

@Background Pony #1523  
Remember though, squall never had any marks, bandages, or blood on his body when he got impaled by crystal magic.
 
Here, night still has all the battle wounds and blood from the fight with her dumbass sister.
 
So, can she really be dead? The conscious mind tries to remove all manner of pain and suffering when you are on dying. If this was an illusion of the mind, she wouldn’t have been on the ground covered in blood and cuts, she’d have been standing tall with a completely clean body.
Stellar Wind
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -

fish schizo
So… she got a scratch? Thats the ‘consequence’ to forcing the Elements into action?
 
Still think this comic would be far more interesting without these flashbacks
 
EDIT: unless the below commenter’s badass theory turns out to be true. Then its pretty cool.
Background Pony #E4C7
I am reminded of the “Squall’s Dead” theory for Final Fantasy VIII.
 
The entire Moonset universe is a dying dream from Nightmare/Luna’s point of view. While she believes she’s succeeded in overthrowing her sister, she’s actually stuck in this alternate reality her mind has created in that slim moment before she dies from the headshot the Elements dealt her.