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So I was rewatching the Season 5 finale and noticed something very interesting. Now in one of the timelines, Nightmare Moon had succeeded in taking over after her return. It was most certainly roughly about a year that she had been in control (as the Season 4 Premier took place 1 year after the first episode). The interesting thing comes with Nightmare Moon’s guards. We know for certain that Rainbow Dash was one of them, but it also appears that 2 others (of the 6 we saw) were mares. Given their size compared to the others and how mares are all shorter than stallions, this is the most likely answer to this phenomena. But why bring this up? Because it’s the first time we’ve ever seen any mare guards ever in the show. All of the Royal Guards we have seen have been stallions. Every last one. And these guards we see are most certainly Celestia’s as they do not wear the armor of Luna’s guards (also Nightmare Moon’s). But what does this mean? That Nightmare Moon is an equal opportunity employer. Be you mare or stallion, you can join the guard and defend Equestria. But Celestia only employs stallions. Quite a curious thing for her to do don’t you think? It does make you wonder really if Nightmare Moon’s rule was really as bad as everyone likes to think.
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Of course she has more female guards.
your current filter.Oh.
your current filter.A spy for who?
maybe she didn’t
maybe rainbow dash was serving her all along
maybe rainbow dash was a spy
I wonder what her reaction would be when she finds out that she’s one of the ponies who defeats Nightmare Moon in the prime timeline.
Not sure. Maybe the fight between Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer did something to her psych. Or, like BigBadSeed suggested, propaganda.
“He singed the tip of my tail! I’ve had to hide it in a bun ever since!”
I still want to know. I bet it was hilarious
”He ate my boutique!“
That is a good question…
@BigBadSeed
That would actually make a lot of sense.
Probably Nightmare Moon ran some sort of smear campaign to convince everyone that Celestia was actually evil, e.g. “Destiny was on my side. I won because I deserved to win,” and managed to convince enough ponies to follow her that way. Perhaps her opposers were weeded out not by her, but by her loyal supporters.
Not alot.
You know what dragons are usually like.
I just really want to know what the heck a dragon did to make rarity feel that way.
And that’s the key problem with my presumption. Rainbow Dash and Rarity are loyal to her, and their loyalty seems to be sincere. The question that comes from this is “Why?”
In the canon universe, they wouldn’t have done so, but they also seem like less pleasant ponies in this world. In general, I’m curious about how the different personalities came about for all of the universes. So many variables slowly brought these stories together.
well, dash sure was eager to defend her, without being ordered to.
maybe she was being passive/aggressive?
I also kinda figured she’d impose a draft, but more because she’d have to force ponies to follow her, at first, though I’m sure that she managed to get others to follow her, somehow… Were I to guess, based upon the fact that none of them were starving despite the moon being a poor light source, I would further make the assumption that either what food does grow is largely directed to Nightmare Moon and those on her staff, or that all food is imported, with the rations being unevenly distributed. She would want ponies to praise her, so I could actually picture Nightmare Moon being enough of a tyrant to not care about those who don’t praise her, and especially those who praise her sister. In general, I’d say that many guards were likely– shall we say ‘displaced?’– in favor of those who would follow her orders.
“…so, you’re not here for the tour?”
Yeah but that’s half the fun wouldn’t you agree? I mean they don’t give us much in the shows so we’re left to fill the blanks with what ever we wish really. And only the books give us anything solid that fills in some of these blanks such as the bat ponies and why they serve Luna. So again, beyond that we’re all kinda free to fill the blanks with our own headcanons and so over analyzing is half the fun because it does help us make sense of things that, well, don’t really make sense.