your fears! are real! don’t you see this is your mind! and here you’ll stay forever nothing you’ll find! so beware the NIGHTMARES!

Now it is understood why the rarity of this alternate reality became cruel and stopped being generous due to the death of sweetie belle that happened in the arena of the stage at the end of the battle of the bands and that it is obvious that this Sunset shimmer for its stupid action of attacking adagio due to the blow that sunset I remember and left a purple eye to sunset

@Background Pony #F6FB  
Ptsd for sure. Rarity will no doubt need a vice or two ;)

You know that this will scar rarity, and blame it on sunset

@TheAbridgenator  
Stay tuned then my friend ;)

@Malcontent  
That already puts you head and shoulders above 50% of the long term comic writers for the fandom. XD My genuine appreciation for Sunset’s character arc might also be coloring me a bit.

@TheAbridgenator  
Understandable n.n
 
This is an alternate dimension and we know that magic behaves differently here according to canon sunsets research.
 
The magic and explosion is really a metaphor to the wholesome image of mlp vs the massive twisting we as fabrication and artist do to it in general. But I totally didn’t want to just say that xD as that has no bearing on the story ;)
 
Overall I promise I sit down and think these things over way way too much with my Skype group I run ideas by. So I’m not just throwing this together the day before I submit it to the artist xD it’s all about pacing and building a new universe from the launch point I’ve given. I’d be remiss if I just laid everything out all at once;)

@Malcontent  
Perhaps sentience was the wrong word; what I meant was that canonically, the power of friendship is usually able to distinguish good elements (Luna in Nightmare Moon) and isolate them without destroying them, hence why this magic response seems off.
 
In either case, I’m willing to give anything a chance. :3

@Background Pony #B43D  
More like this isn’t how Celestia would conduct herself on the standard.

Again I can’t tell you how much it fills me with pride to see my story brought to life AND know people are enjoying it! :)

@Background Pony #B43D
 
The next page indeed did throw Deanna she told me ;)

@TheAbridgenator  
@TheAbridgenator  

 
If Celestia’s appearance isn’t just a dream/hallucination on Sunset’s part (possibly due to guilt of seeing two sirens die and Pinkie get electrocuted (not sure if Sweetie plummeting to her doom is real or more dream-consequences, but the publisher at the source link does say the next page threw them.)), would you say this moment isn’t pretty, clean, or neat?

This @TheAbridgenator
 
Of course. Keep in mind that perhaps that’s not even Celestia? There’s a lot going on in a short amount of time.
 
I can tell you this. Celestia, our Celestia, has had elements of this conversation with Sunset before. These aren’t new words of wisdom or chastising remarks out of no where. I do agree: Celestia has forgiven much worse. It’s very out of character for the Celestia we know ;)
 
I encourage you to keep reading. Page 13 will explain your primary concern n.n
 
In response to your concerns about magic: keep in mind that magic, even the magic of friendship in this case, is powerful. It’s not sentient nor does it really pick sides. Couple that with Dark Magic which the sirens are using and mixing the two on such a massive level as I’ve had portrayed so far, would more then likely cause a volatile reaction.
 
I reckon the idea of fire and gasoline. Both can be used for purposes bit combined at the wrong levels, they are destructive. :)

See, I think this is the point where the comic’s premise kind of goes off the rails. Having the friendship magic cause a gigaton explosion because it’s not used for the right reasons is one thing…even if that magic has displayed sentience in the canon and can react according to the needs of a given situation without going off the cuff like this.
 
But to have Celestia, the show’s resident divine figure, pop in without knowing thing one about what the Sirens have been doing, and knowing what they were like back then, and chastise Sunset for something that wasn’t really all that clear even in this comic (any display of anger and rage she shows isn’t really all that evident and could be explained as intensity) just seems like overkill to me.
 
Let the narrative explain your lesson; don’t preach it at us using a character that has forgiven ponies for doing much, MUCH worse than this as a mouthpiece.