@Octavia’s lover  
Makes you wonder if it was something like this that set everything downhill. I mean their fallout, not the turning him to stone part.

by the 4th part he’s saying that he would destroy the world rather than be with her and after that even if she becomes perfection itself there is no hope for them together

The one duel that Celestia never wanted to win.

Nice detail with her expression morphing to sadness panel by panel.

is this new pic? is weaver here :<

This reminds me of a battle of whits between Morpheus (The Sandman) and Chorozon (a demon) in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics… that went like this:
 
Choronzon I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.  
Morpheus I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.  
Choronzon I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.  
Morpheus I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.  
Choronzon I am a snake, spider-devouring, poison-toothed.  
Morpheus I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy footed.  
Choronzon I am an anthrax, butcher, bacterium, warm-life destroying.  
Morpheus I am a world, space-floating, life nurturing.  
Choronzon I am a nova, all-exploding… planet-cremating.  
Morpheus I am the Universe — all things encompassing, all life embracing.  
Choronzon I am Anti-Life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds… of everything. Sss… and what will you be then, Dreamlord?  
((insert dramatic pause))  
Morpheus I am hope.

She turned into god herself.
 
She’s got a lot of believers, so that’s that.