@Cirrus Light  
Yeah, I was using the term “mind rape” reeeeeally loosely. ;) But it’s only not if the motives are pure, otherwise it gets…sketchy. Making your nemesis love you by going back in time to raise them from fillyhood is kinda very manipulative from certain viewpoints.
 
But I’m sure Twiley’s motives in this comic are coming from a place of pure goodness. <3
 
Actually, earlier seasons would probably play out basically the same. My reasoning is:
 
Young Twiley still was tutored by Princess Celly and sent to Ponyville to make friends to stop Nightmare Moony (yes I nickname everypony, sue me :P) and make her into Princess Lulu again.
 
Older Twiley, being a good mom to little Glimmy, would make sure to keep well out of the way of her younger self and the others of the Mane 6, to avoid contaminating the timeline any further and avoid the risk of UNsolving problems she knows her younger self managed to solve without her (as she was her younger self previously). She and Glimmy would likely only make their first appearance in the timeline after S6-Princess Twiley went back to raise filly!Glimmy.
 
EXCEPT
 
In this timeline, S6-Princess Twiley wouldn’t have any reason to go back and stop Glimmy, as she never tried to take over Equestria and have that time-travel battle with Twiley anyway. So they’re just there one day, solving friendship problems when…Glimmy shows up, and introduces them to her mom - an older Twiley from the original timeline. This timeline would have two Twileys (different ages), whilst the timeline that Twiley left when she went back to stop Glimmy and save Equestria would have…none.
 
^{%(Conservation of identity across multiple timelines. Two timelines = two Twileys. But both in one timeline and none in the other).%}
 
…I love to think too much about time travel stories. xD

@Yet One More Idiot  
@chucklefarts  
Eh, not really. That’s saying she fabricated memories by actually doing them.
 
Either you actually did those things with filly Starlight or she fabricated the memories, can’t be both.
 
And if she didn’t, she just earned her love the old fashioned way. Same way a mother earns it from a daughter. That ain’t mind rape.
 
Though going back in time to make it so she loved you since Fillyhood is a bit unusual, perhaps manipulative if the motives and intent aren’t pure. But they were, so it’s not even that. It’s just weird.
 
But that ain’t mind rape. That’s like mind… BDSM? XP
 
 
@Dr_Osaka  
I wonder how earlier seasons would go! Keep in mind all those events would still happen in that timeline, but they’d unfold at least a little differently, if not very.
 
But Twilight may have been a diaper-age foal at the time, since Starlight is about as old and seems even a bit older.
 
But current Twilight will need to actually go through with raising Starlight for those memories to exist, since the age difference is there…
 
Ugh, it’s kinda a mess. Doesn’t work logically, actually, but that’s time travel in general :q
 
Causality, man, causality.

@chucklefarts  

 
Yes, but it is technically the best kind of mind rape…
 
…yes, I’m aware how that sentence sounded. It wasn’t as creepy in my head. xD

Well, that certainly would have been an interesting way to end the season. I wonder how the later seasons would go if Starlight became Twilight’s daughter

This is basically mind rape.

@DragonBoi471  
No, because adult Twiley goes back in time and raises Glimmy to be good. Young Twiley, meanwhile, still grows up in Canterlot under Celly’s tutelage and eventually heads to Ponyville to face Nightmare Moon as before.
 
All this means that adult Twiley went back to face off against Glimmy and then comes back the long way around. She returns to her friends in Ponyville, moments after she left, and probably about 10 years or so older. :)

@DragonBoi471
 
This wasn’t some kind of mental time travel. She physically went to the past meaning there would have been two Twilights. The past Unicorn one that lived the rest of her life and the future Alicorn Twilight.

The ending to this comic, while being heart-meltingly cute, feels a bit weird to me.
 
If Twilight went back in time to adopt Starlight and raise her to be good, then doesn’t that mean she and Spike never went to Ponyville to meet the Mane 5, which means that Nightmare Moon was never defeated by the Elements of Harmony, and thus Equestria was plagued with an Eternal Night?
 
Great job, “Mama Twilight”-you created a Time Paradox (But as long as Starlight is happy, you probably don’t give 2 craps).

@Beau Skunky  
Pony will reboot and auto repair. Just give her a few minutes while her brain accepts the fact that this is kinda actually what happened.

@Beau Skunky  
Well, you could try to fix the broken pony by going back in time to become her mommy and always showering her with love…but I feel like that’s what got us in this situation in the first place. xD

@Cirrus Light  
The pony is broken? Can’t you fix it?

@Beau Skunky  
Wait…
 
 

@chucklefarts  
Isn’t that what she kinda did in the show?

Defeating your enemies by becoming their mother and brainwashing them with kindness. Adoracreepy

I love the world with Princess Trixie. For maximum amusement I like to think that one went even better than mainstream Equestria, but Twi changes it anyway.

@Jarkes  
Like I said, it could stand to see more use. And I’m fairly certain there’s more where it would fit (this is Derpibooru after all).

@Scrounge
 
This is still the only image that even uses it.

Also, the “cuweird” tag needs to be used more.

@Yet_One_More_Idiot  
That about sums it up.

This image seems to be broken for me…

@Yet_One_More_Idiot  
Thanks! :)

@mrjohn-eggman  

Fix’d. :D

This is so fucked up.

Isn’t this the Gwenpool plot?