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>you will never share in the secrets of immortality with Nightmare Moon
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>you will never get banished with her when she betrayed her sister and you fought alongside her to keep her safe
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>you will never both find a way off the moon and travel together to a new, distant planet
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>you will never start anew and and slowly bring the planet to life, turning a barren dust ball into a vibrant place full of life and fantastical flora and fauna
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>you both will never decide to make a new and better mixed race of ponies and humans together
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>you will never lay in a meadow with her you both made long ago, looking up to the stars and seeing the distant planet Equestria resides on while your literal brood of ponies frolic and play around you
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>you will never both be happy and content things turned out the way they did
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>a massive, self sustaining magic generating monument located at the equator of the moon projecting a massive life sustaining field around the celestial body
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>surrounded by beautiful gardens and temples teaching the new breed of ponies the art of bringing life to barren places so one day they can join their progenitors in gardening the moon
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>1000 years pass after the banishment of NMM and Anon
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>The stars align and the bonds holding Luna captive on the moon are weakened enough for her to escape
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>Celestia has been preparing for this moment for nearly the entire 1000 years
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>She stands at the ready, preparing for the absolute worst...
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>...and nothing happens
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>Luna remains on the moon with her beloved Anon and their happy society of ponies
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>Luna probably hadn't even noticed that 1000 years had passed
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>Even if she did, she probably didn't care that she was free to leave
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>Nightmare's most loyal followers we're banished as well.
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>There are just enough ponies with you and Nightmare to start a small hamlet on the moon.
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>Even in her defeat, Nightmare still has enough power to sow small amounts of plant life and conjure water.
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>A few small families start without the luxury of choice RGRE normally has, fueled by the maddening isolation being stranded on the moon invokes.
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>It's not long before you and Nightmare conceive too.
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>And that marks the birth of The Loneliest Generation, the Moon Village's first foals.
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>They would be the first glimmer of hope for the tiny settlement, that something can grow from the nearly dead rock into something resembling a real society.
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>Celestia is none the wiser of the hardship she's forced onto a budding civilization.
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>Moon society has normal gender roles
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>Even after 1000 years, Luna still cannot stop herself from doting over Anon and trying to protect her lover like a good mare should
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>Her subjects roll their eyes and view her as eccentric
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>Anon and Nightmare's children interbreed with the follower's children.
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>By the time the banishment is up, all the living moon ponies can trace their ancestry back to Nightmare and Anon.
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>By then Anon and Nightmare have long since stopped having foals of their own, as burying children is something parents can only do so much before they break
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>Anon and Moony are revered by their colony as the All-Mother and All-Father
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>But a sort of quiet reverence, as living legends who live mundane lives among their people
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>The moon ponies all call Nightmare and Anon "Mama and Papa" and treat them as such. It's a tradition that just stuck and refused to go away.
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>The feeling of family and unity that comes from living common ancestors keeps conflict between moon ponies minimal. And rarely are laws broken. Of course no one wants the punishment for breaking the law, but Mama and Papa's disappointment is infinitely more damning.
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>But why break the law anyway? That would be distant family you're hurting
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>since all are distant relatives one way or another and nopony wants to hurt anypony
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>the cruelest of the cruel just find ways to annoy the ever living FUCK out of their target victim
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>its not in anyway illegal, everpony just shakes their head and chuckle
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>while the victim in question just grinds her teeth in annoyance then plots revenge
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>like putting ketchup in pizza in front of them
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>Each year, on the day that the last of the first finally passed on.
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>The moon ponies come together at the humble gravesite of the loyal followers and the first foals.
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>With magic guiding them, they all sing a quiet hymn in the all-father's old tounge, honoring the ones who suffered the difficult first 100 years.
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>As they sing, each one lets a little paper pegasus charmed to float up go. On the paper pegasus is writen thanks for what the first generation did for them. The paper ponies supposedly fly up to the afterlife.
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>With the solemn duty done, the gravesite is decorated and the moon ponies return to their home towns. Parties celebrating how far they as a race have come pop up all over the moon. They live it up and enjoy all they have just as the first generation would have wanted.
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>Luna has a constellation for each and every one of the first foals so everyone can look up and feel grateful and know how far they've come
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>Be Ticket Punch, Train Station Employee of the Month six months in a row
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>You looks up from you booth and jump a little at the sight
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>Damned Moonponies, coming down and stealing all your stallions with their flowing manes and pointy teeth
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>You shift on your ample flank, suddenly jealous of their waif stature
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>...
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>You should probably go jogging more often...
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>None of them even have the proper decency to at least make a little noise when they move about!
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>You crane your head to the side and check the line behind the first one
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>Damn, where'd they all come from?
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>The clunk of the amulet around the neck of the first mare hitting the booth as she lays down her ticket brings you back to the task at hand
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>You eye it for a moment, admiring the fine gem surrounded by silver filegree
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>Weight loss must be terribly easy for them when a necklace alters gravity's hold
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>You take the ticket and punch it
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"Two plus luggage, car five. Near the end."
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>"Thanks!"
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>Well, somepony's in a good mood today
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>This next one has a strong-looking earthpony stallion leaning against her
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>Of course he's talking her ear off
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>"Oh honey, I just can't wait to see the ceremony!" he coos
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>She smiles, bearing her fangs at you.
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>Her stallion keeps talking
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>"I'm so excited, this only happens once every few generations, and we get to see it!"
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>Your professional discipline keeps you from wincing at the sight, so you do your job
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>You take her ticket and punch it too.
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"Two plus luggage."
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>You notice out of the corner of your eye the extra stamp.
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>You definitely wince this time, but you hide it with a cough.
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"Pregnant seating is in the middle, car three."
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>She smiles and nods, bumping the poor earth stallion
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>The succubus victim just walks past
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>It continues on like this, for another half an hour
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>You catch bits of conversation here and there while they file through
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>Nothing but moonpony mares and stallions, carting off with their catch from Equestria
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>All heading to the same place:
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>Lunar Lasso Landing
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>You can't take it anymore
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>You check the clock inside your little booth
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>You have enough time to get them all through and ask a couple questions
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>Oh, the last one is here already
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>Just a couple unaccompanied moon-mares
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"Excuse me," you start, holding their tickets in your hooves
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"I can't help but notice there's a lot of moonponies getting on the train today, all talking about something going on."
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>She smiles and nods a little too fast
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"What is it?"
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>Both her hooves come up to her mouth before she starts talking in that semi-ethereal voice
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>It's like listening to somepony whisper and talk normally at the same time
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>"Oh, you don't know? Tomorrow is the Night of the New Moon!"
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"And that is?"
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>She looks way too excited to explain this to someone who's never heard about it before
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>"Well, once every couple of generations, Mother Moon and Father Anon decide to f-"
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>The mare beside her, who seems to be a little more collected than the other, shoves her hoof in the first one's mouth before she can finish
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>"What Minoris here was going to say," she starts in a much more somber tone
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>Her voice almost sounds musical, but an octave or two deeper than her friend here
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>"Is that once every few generations, when the stars align again, Mother Moon and Father Anon decide to give birth once again..."
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>Her voice starts to rise
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>"When the moon is shrouded from all light, there in the safety of the darkness, the Eternal Family begins the ritual once more..."
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>A strange grin forms on her face, her eyes slowly widening as her voice grows louder as well
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>"And in the light of a New Moon, surrounded by their posterity, the All-Mother and All-Father gift unto the universe new life from the Forever-Fertile Womb!"
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>The hoof that was in her friend's face is now resting on her head, the other foreleg clenched near her own
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>Her wings are spread wide, and the pony beneath her looks up at her with eyes sparkling more than normal
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>"A new heir will be born, and another House begins its rise, displaying to the uncaring universe our unbreakable will, and our rightful, eternal place AMONG THE HEAVENS! CARVED FROM THE BARREN VOID ITSELF AND BENT TO OUR WILL!"
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>She begins to cackle loudly, followed soon after by her friend below her
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>You can hear the other moonponies in the train joining in
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>You couldn't sink lower in your seat if you tried
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>For the first time in your life you actually believe the stories
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>They really are the descendants of Nightmare Moon
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>The first one jumps up and puts her hooves on your booth
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>"It really is exciting! You should definitely go see, it's a once-in-a-lifetime event!"
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>She...is this sort of thing normal for her?
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"U-uhm..."
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>You try to find your voice
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"I a-already have plans..."
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>"Aww, what a shame! Well, WE have plans, and that's the ceremony!"
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"Train two..."
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>You watch them depart, feeling somewhat comforted by the safety of your booth
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>...
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>Damn moonponies.
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>This is all Celestia's fault.
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>The moons gender roles reversed back to normal thanks to slightly more even colt/filly birth rates.
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>It's not just Nightmare who is impregnated during the festival.
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>A rare few moon mares are selected by a secret, impartial council to be hybrid mothers as well so the slowly diluting human genes in the population get a boost.
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>The small number of mothers live in the capital as well pampered and loved concubines, and the foals are practically national treasures.
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>Although not mandatory if chosen, it's an immense honor that none have ever turned down.
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>But when one of the rare Equestrian immigrants is chosen, the entire colony is shocked and some are even outraged than an outsider was selected for such a sacred duty.
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>The moon colony gets it's first taste of conflict over the radical selection, and the Equestrian knows she has no real choice but to reluctantly accept her new lot on the odd reversed reverse gender role moon
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>Anon's and Luna's direct foals are pegacorns (not alicorns), and are considered "nobility".
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>Unlike the Upper-Crust in Equestria, however, they're not complete assholes/snobs.
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>Every generation descendant from a pegacorn is either a normal "Moon" (Earth), "Bat" (Pegasus), or "Quillin" (Unicorn).
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>All are dark-coated, have bat-like wings, and dark manes.
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>Slitted, glowing eyes of various colours, too.
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>Moons inherited their father's stamina, meaning that, while not as strong as normal Earth Ponies, they are far better at endurance, like running/hunting.
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>Bats are... well, bats. Their eyes are more sensitive to light, even when compared to their brothers and sisters' eyes, but they see better in the dark.
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>Quillins are unicorns with spiraled, yet jagged horns. They are more adept at using cold-based magic, shadows, nature, and dream-magic, inherited from their mother.
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>The Moon Civilization founded by Anon and Luna isn't more technologically advanced than Equestria, but their technology/magic development followed a parallel path, as their interests (survival etcetera) were focused in different areas.
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>Moon settlements and cities are mostly carved underground in gigantic chasms (on Earth, there are caves so large you can fit an entire modern American town in them!).
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>Themed around Norse/Valhalla and pseudo-D+D Lich architecture (Gothic designs, etcetera).
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>The biggest shift is society: while some legacy elements of RGRE remain, it's mostly equal: birth-rates and a need for "everypony to pitch" in guided development.
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>On marrying Anon, Luna took the name Selena, to both mirror Celestia's name as both a tribute and a mockery.
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>Luna is still Luna, but a thousand years of unretarded growth have left her looking like a darker equal of her sister in stature.
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>And, in Anon's eyes, his wife has gotten hotter with age.
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>Elements of how she looked as Nightmare Moon were passed onto their foals, however
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>Being around and mating with an alicorn so often has left a large magic charge in Anon's body.
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>But with no outlet or focus, the enegry expends itself the only way it can.
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>Buy empowering the body it's trapped in.
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>As an antithesis to Nightmare's magical might, Anon slowly turns into a physical juggernaut even if his appearance dosn't go beyond "athletic". It fits well with his role of patriarch on the normalized gender role moon.
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>There is no ammout of blood and sweat he would not shed for his ponies, no barehanded toil too great.
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>There are few threats on the moon as it is, but the rare few things that the guard can't handle are easily delt with by the All-father.
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>If Nightmare is the cool and nurturing mother tempered by 1000 years of caring for those smaller than her, then Anon is the unyielding pillar of strength who would carry the world on his shoulders if one of his children so much as asked
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>Celestia expected Luna to still be hellbent on conquering Equestria and causing an Eternal Night when she returned from her 1000 year banishment
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>She didn't expect Luna, now calling herself Selena, to drop by just to grab her remaining belongings and abdicate her right to rule beside her.
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>She didn't expect to find a whole civilization on the moon, populated entirely by Luna and Anon's children
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>She DEFINITELY didn't expect Luna to be so calm and content with ruling her little Moon Kingdom
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>Celestia isn't sure whether she should try to get Luna to return to Equestria or simply let her sister be happy on the Moon
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>Bat-mare walks into the palace gardens with her lover.
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>All-father's calmly polishing a lumber axe.
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>Starts chatting nonchalantly with the couple while splitting logs bigger than the stallions barrel without breaking a sweat.
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>Bat stallion walks into throne room with his lover.
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>All-mother embarrasses him to hell and back by being all motherly.
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>Tries to bait the mare into defending him so as to embarrass him further while also seeing if she has a big enough backbone to contridict her
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>All-Mother is unimpressed by the mares she sees
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>Spineless cowards under her scrutinizing gaze, all of them
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>None of these pathetic girls have the teats to court one of your great great great great great great great grandsons
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>Luna gets punished for going crazy.
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>Anon and Luna's followers refuse to leave her side and gets zapped too
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>It tears Celestia up on the inside that she just banished her sister and probably condemned her brother in law and a number of ponies to death.
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>She lives with that knowledge for 1000 years on top of the burden of being the sole ruler of the world superpower.
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>Finally the 1000 years are up.
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>She finds out that Luna is okay, Anon is alive, and both run a tightly knit family-like kingdom of their own decendants with zero competition from other races or kingdoms.
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>On top of that, the little kingdom runs itself well enough that the king and queen can enjoy a sedate life with the occasional important meeting conducted via cuddle pile, because all business is family business, and family is meant to be close.
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>And the icing on the cake?
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>Luna firmly refuses to come back. Why would she? To be on a throne all day listening to yammering nobles and attending pointless meetings? The moon mare has much more important things to do, like playing with her latest child and spending time with her husband as the decendants she's so proud of govern thenlmselves.
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>All Celestia gets is a teleported greeting letter and a token alliance offer.
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>Celestia's face through it all
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>Anon and NMM influence each other over the centuries
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>Anon is more strict, and NMM has picked up Anon's habit of picking up ponies and cradling them in his arms when he's talking to them, because they're so much smaller than he is
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>Moonpones seeking audience with NMM do so knowing that she'll pick them up in her magic and hold them up
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>Cradle being the original settlement where Luna and Anon set up home.
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>Over the centuries, as the settlement expanded to become the capitol, the city became known as Elysium but the core, where Luna and Anon's thrones are, is still known as the Cradle
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>Cities are mostly carved into the rocks and caverns.
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>Natural holes and carved entrances allow for uninterrupted views of the cosmos/Luna's night.
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>In areas where that's not possible, however, natural veins of jewels and precious ores are left to marble the cavern roofs or are ornamentally-carved, to symbolically represent the night.
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>Moon Ponies lament to visitors that while not as beautiful as the night sky, it's the second-closest thing
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>Anon creates magitech on moon to reduce magical consumption
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>They use them to power their biomes
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>Along with all sorts of other tech Anon comes up with because he used to be an engineer
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>No tech exports allowed, since Anon knows the danger of letting non-pony mudspecies getting their hands on that kind of power
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>Twiggles has an aneurysm when she learns she can't import and study their magitech
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The initial cities could be in underground chasms and caverns, to reflect what the moon was originally like.
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As it became more terraformed, subsequent cities had more above-ground elements.
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Pandora-like luminescence is pretty awesome, though.
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>Moon same as Equestrian's sun aren't really similar to ours.
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>When Celestia uses her magic sun moves immediately so it must be a lot closer than ours
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>It can't really be star, it's some kind of artifact created by someone a lot more powerfull than ponies or maybe some magicall construct
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>Same with moon it's actually not just a chunk of rock
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>It's still mostly wasteland, but it has it's own fauna and flora, some atmosphere and bigger gravity than our moon.
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>Moon ponies live actually quite comfortable lives, with a lot of natural resources and lack of any competitors they can create something great
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> That actually negates the early hardship thing going on
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> Moon still pretty desert, just not unlivable
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>Nightmare moon banished with anon.
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>Gradually calms her tits with his help.
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>After one hundred years or so, decides that "Nightmare moon" isnt appropriate.
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>But "Luna" isnt who she is anymore either.
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>Decides to change her name to reflect her new attitude (Selene or something?).
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>As they've simply been calling their young civilisation "the moon kingdom", with the actual satilite itself not having a proper name.
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>Anon suggests the simple solution of giving it the name "Luna" in memory of the pony she used to be.
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> NMM being able to make plants etc from magic, but it's difficult
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>it becomes a revered tradition among their descendants
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>once she's collected enough magic and she's physically able to do so again, she molds a new species of plant from her reserves, new life to add to the moon
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>it is then reverently taken by her servants and carefully planted and cultivated so it may spread far and wide and one day help turn the moon into a paradise all can live comfortably in
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>Initially, it was just to make the Moon more habitable (or even habitable) for herself and Anon.
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>A trickle of water and grain a day eventually expanded to become a well/pool, and a tiny field using their, uh, "leavings", moon soil, and magic.
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>After a few decades, they have a self-sustaining, fragile oasis.
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>Luna eventually falls pregnant, due to her forgetting birth-control spell or being too tired before physically and magically to support a life in her womb.
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>This snowballs over the centuries, like a game of Civilization II.
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settled craters and crevices having domes of air over them. Going from settlement to settlement requires either a moonicorn or an escort of Chirops (bat pones) to work the magic that turns sunlight and dust into breathable air. Chirops venture further and further from settlement, trying to find ice they can bring back for clouds and drinking water.
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>>No mares adorably moon-jumping over to Anon
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>No mares adorably moon-jumping over to Anon and missing
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>they go through a Baroque phase, creating things like dark arches with sculptures of moonponies with scrunchy and aghast expressions from eating moonlemons
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>"These sculptures are so captivating and beautiful! The expressions are so haunting and dreadful, they capture emotions so piercing, the symbolism is simply divine!"
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>"Yeah, I had Archie constantly lick a moonlemon while I worked on the face. I made sure to work real slow."
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>Anon occasionally messes with both the peasants and Nightmare by going full Conan, and being the stereotypical half-naked 'stallion' draped across her throne/legs.
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>Half the fun is seeing how long she can keep a straight face while holding court
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>All of anons outfits have been heavily modified with pockets.
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>almost always has at least one of kids with him no matter the situation.
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>sat in throne room during important business, calmly petting one like a supervillian while another chews his hair
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>Celestia and 'Selene' form a tentative alliance, Selene having matured over the thousand years she has ruled her own Queendom.
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>Celestia understands that she has to let her younger sister, Luna go for her new, more equal sister Selene.
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>Both excited and bitter that Selene has made a new life without, she is still incredibly proud for what her sister has done in her banishment.
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>Now, if only she could ignore Anonymous, the alien stallion who while initially quite handsome has reached a godlike, ethereal form.
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Disclaimer for you, and you know who, you fuck. This isn't cuckshit. Anon is not cucking Luna for Celestia, he is in a loving marriage with Luna. This isn't marital problems, as the marriage is working and it is only an outsider pining for Anon
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>Celestia meets with her sister and Anon for the first time in 1000 years
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>A nervous sweat is dripping down the back of her next
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>The doors to the throne room open up...
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>...and Anon is laying on his back and happily playing with at least 5 foals, who are squealing and whooping happily
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>All-Mother and All-Father may be their titles, but all the moonponies have fond childhood memories of playing with Anon and Luna.
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>It's far from uncommon to have foals just call them "Mama" and "Papa"
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>Of course, they still have their own parents, but Mama and Papa are always there if needed.
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>And behind closed doors, a number of adults still call them that
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>The dark magic that powers Luna's transformation into NMM is fueled by negative emotion
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>Having slowly let go of her jealousy and hate over the centuries through the love of her husband and foals has been causing her to weaken.
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>NMM is aware of this, and is scared that when the transformation finally wears off it might make Anon and her children see her differently.
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>To prevent this, she decides she needs to be evil again for the sake of her husband and children.
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>She sees an opportunity when her banishment finally ends.
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>Puts on an act about still wanting to conquer Equestria and make the night last forever.
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>NMM starts feeling her power return, and keeps it going
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>She didn't expect those six random ponies she was messing with to actually WIN and defeat her with the Elements of Harmony.
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>Is now even weaker than she would have been had the dark magic simply worn off
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>Celestia and the Mane Six are confused when Luna starts going into panicked rants about what her husband and foals will think of her
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And that's how Nightmare Moon still shows up at the start of Season 1 with everybody remaining in character
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