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Luna’s banishment. History calls this a victory; Celestia calls it a tragedy.
This took forever, boy am I glad it’s finished. I think this used more layers then any painting I’ve ever done. And I realized decent looking hair is neigh on impossible. I need to find some good tutorials for it soon.
So what art should I do next? I’m thinking maybe some Gravity Falls fanart. Oh or maybe How to Train Your Dragon. Hmm options…
Photoshop CS6 || Wacom Intuos 3 6X8 || ~∞ hours
EDIT: https://sta.sh/0sfolmsli7r version without the saliva if you don’t like it.
EDIT2: Some one has approached me about selling this image at some brony conventions, so to make it more print worthy I have finally changed the background perspective so the whole image’s perspective matches, or at least looks better. That’s my intentions anyway, looks better to me.
Hopefully the season 10 comics would.. addressed some unresolved issues about NMM.
As in I feel like the issues that led Luna to become NMM were not properly resolved. Yes, she’s now got some attention but still felt like she’s still in Celestia’s shadow.
I’m not saying it didn’t. Just making guesses as to why.
Honestly its screwing things up for Celestia and Luna in the process due to that.
The may have thought it was too depressing for a series designed to sell toys to little girls…
…Or it might have more to do with the general reluctance to give Celestia any real focus as a character.
The writers should have touched on that big time.
I suspect the nation’s capitol was moved to Canterlot after Luna was banished. The founding of Canterlot might make for an interesting episode.
Not just dead, but corrupted. All the energy unleashed destroyed Everfree Castle and no doubt ruined the town surrounding it.
Canterlot was later constructed, it would seem.
And Celestia knew the people would seek somebody to blame and try as she might to cover up her sister’s involvement, her people found out and Nightmare Night was born…
I’m going by the opening dialogue of the pilot episode:
“One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one’s heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon. She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon.”
I’m guessing they later found out that the banishment wasn’t going to last forever, hence the prophecy. We were never told how that was figured out.
I don’t know, magic visions or some sh*t.
If that’s the case, how would she have learned that Nightmare Moon’s/Luna’s banishment would only last 1000 years?
Wow, didn’t even think about that. Makes the image that much more powerful.
Many people put ‘Lullaby for a Princess’ right after Luna’s banishment, but as the others here, I also think Celestia was most likely reduced to a sobbing mess for the next few hours.
Now I’m sad just thinking about it. :(
I can imagine her falling into a pit of despair and anger; she’d be angry towards her subjects (for not giving Luna the respect she deserved) and herself (since she was on the same boat). Thus, she wouldn’t let anyone else in emotionally, distancing herself from her subjects, only to perform her basic duties as a princess.
There’s sobbing uncontrollably, and then there’s being filled with so much regret and sorrow that your sense of self shuts down and all that you seem to be capable of doing with your mouth and lungs is scream nonstop, hardly even having willpower to breathe in again.
Looking at this picture, I honestly find this to be a bit toned down from what I would imagine how Celestia would’ve really reacted. Though that could also be due to the perspective making things look a bit wonky.
Grief can make a sloppy mess of
peopleponiesMost undoubtedly.