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I’ll admit, I do have a few issues with Sombra’s backstory in a way but in an odd “Two-minds” manner. I will concede it’s certainly not a bad backstory that he had, but…in a way it kind of ruined what made Sombra sort of interesting to me.
What I found interesting about Sombra is he was just a pony. Not a shape-shifting bug monster, not an Alicorn or a chaos spirit. Yes, he was a Unicorn, but originally he was a normal pony just like Twilight and the others were. A regular pony who turned to darkness for reasons only he really knows.
It was a reminder that Ponies all carried within them equal capacity for good and evil, that sometimes you didn’t need to have some cursed artifact or be brainwashed to become a monster: Some ponies, just like with us mere mortals, could do terrible things through their own free will.
Turning him into an “Evil shadow monster Pony” kind of ruined that. Like I said it wasn’t a bad backstory, but I always felt it was more interesting back in the days when he was a mortal turned evil y’know?
One could argue Sunset and Starlight are technically proof of this line of thought but…well, redemption and all.
Ah, you were presenting the argument in the form of a theory. My mistake, then. ^_^
Aha, and there you have me. Indeed, I don’t really have answers for any of that, well argued.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that though. Though Nightmare Rarity/Nightmare Forces clearly see themselves as a different being than Luna now, that doesn’t mean it was always the case. The Tantibus (though far less sentient) was also a separate being from Luna, yet was entirely her creation (and dependent on her fears to exist).
It could still just be a similar creation, that is simply getting uppity with it’s creator.
The only reason why I didn’t bring this up is because such a thing should be hard to miss.
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Yes, you’ve said that before. However, you’ve not yet provided proof corroborating your claims.
derail in the commentstag? (Not that I’m complaining…)Also, her anger and depression. If they do that thing we’ve all theorized for seven years, it’d not be too hard to tie in her decision to join an unknown force of darkness with her downed emotional state at the time of Moon’s birth. It’s also not a bad idea to keep Moon her own creation, speaks to the mysterious and unpredictable nature of the breed. Any way’s good. :3
My best guess? Luna made unwise bargains with some dark force, because she knew she could not match her sister otherwise.
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Sounds like you are over complicating it her horn is glowing when the mist “arrives” she’s creating it with her magic.
Except there is no contradiction at least not an obvious one that can’t be easily explained through other means, so saying you “shouldn’t have to point it out” as if it’s obvious is just condescending because people don’t agree with your theory.
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And there’s also the thing about Nightmare Rarity talking about herself as if she and Nightmare Moon were one and the same being; the logical implications of which don’t even have to be mentioned.
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I always just thought the black mist was the essence of NMM that Luna created leaving her body and going off to do something else, the show had a lot of weird open ended endings that didn’t go anywhere.
But yeah I personally think Luna created NMM with her own magic out of hatred and that magic manifested itself into an entity that can survive outside of her like the tantabus.
That, combined with the Anugypt imagery, and the black mist, tells me that Nightmare Moon existed before Luna was born, and Anubis was its vessel. But then Baast, taking Sweetie’s advice to heart, manages to defeat Anubis, probably not knowing that he was possessed, and exorcised him. Baast and her friends notice the mist and try to contain it by sending it where very few organisms can reach: The Moon. However, at some point, Nightmare Moon reached out to Luna, who was in turn tricked into breaking the seal (hence why the solar eclipse we see looks very sinister), and later possessed (explaining the black mist that engulfs Luna). How some people fail to piece this together is beyond me.
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Actually the fact that Nightmare Moon corrupted the Nyx to create the Nightmare Forces is explained (something a LOT of people seem to misunderstand), but it’s never confirmed that Nightmare Moon itself is a creation of Luna. It’s all still a little vague, though that is the most likely explanation. “A Royal Problem” seems to imply that at the very least.
Luna created Nightmare Moon in the same manner as the Tantabus or Starlight’s Anger Magic: her powers ran amuck during a time of emotional distress and developed a mind of it’s own. One can say the mist surrounding Luna is basically Tantabus-Moon.
The comics then went with the interpretation that afterwords Nightmare Moon created the Nightmare Forces who possessed the Nyx. The show kind of alluded to something like this with the Pony of Shadows folk tale but didn’t really commit.
The Anugypt trip felt to me more like a “history repeats” kind of deal. As in the sense that “There’ll always be an evil monarch, and there’ll always be 6 color coded heroes that’ll stop him, etc.” Other than Sweetie Belle’s remark I don’t think there was anything to connect NMM to Anubis.
No idea what any of that’s supposed to mean, but yes, Luna created Nightmare Moon herself.
your current filter.Also, explain this.
your current filter.Your statement also begs this question: How can a demonic entity create itself when that feat it pretty much impossible without time travel shenanigans?
The blueblood friends forever is the main one for me