@Background Pony #801B
Blinded her into doing…what? Not encouraging her to socialize at all in canterlot and not sending her to ponyville sooner…making her completely hyperdependent and easily manipulated
just like Celestia wanted?
Yes, emotions can be irrational, but they also reflect the person and the person it’s directed to. Pick a personality. Is she the ‘overprotective type that constantly worries about being important to twilight’ that she wants twilight to believe, or is she the person ‘obsessed with Twilight and has manipulated her countless times into pursuing a certain course of action because she knows perfectly how over reliant she is’?
Only Celestia’s word points to the former, words we already know is constantly manipulative, and the shows canon suggests the latter.
Celestia didn’t reject luna’s council when the crystal empire returned because she was so concerned with staying in twilight’s life that an inane test risking thousands was a logical step in making her a princess and ensuring they were close. That’s insane. She rejected luna’s council because she was completely obsessed with the idea of making twilight the perfect princess that the trial and all the lives risked _felt necessary in her mind_ , and Celestia RELIED on twilight’s obsession to follow her’s orders to the point where it actually was a struggle/trial to choose lives over obedience.
The same level of reliance and closeness that she supposedly is so insecure about losing is the same level of reliance celestia constantly manipulates to become a perfect princess with incredible ease? Celestia can’t be two people, dude. She has no motivation to tell the truth, the same way she will never tell twilight she’s unhealthily hyperdependent.
Which brings Celestia’s manipulations to their inevitable FAILURE. To push so much praise and responsibility on twilight, she thought she’d gain some selfdriven confidence after so much forced achievements. Instead of a natural leader, she’s still a completely expection reliant wreck.
@Sunset’s Minion
Exactly. She tried to mold her and mold her into a perfect princess, but it never occurred to celestia that the process would result in twilight becoming an eagerly moldable person for good.