Fourteenth Starfall [visual, dated after Native!Luna's post]

[stormbroken]

So, hey. I've got a question, now that th'world is back to what passes for "normal" 'round here.

What do you do if it turns out that you've been livin' a lie all your life? Not, like, in the Mayfield sense, but... what if you thought you were a hero and you turned out to only be hurtin' people, or...

[Flare goes quiet, and glances away.]

...or what if you believed you were cursed, only t'find out it was all in your head, and you were only holdin' yourself back? What do you do when you find that sorta thing out?

[Private to Zetta]

Hey. Overlord. I wanted to apologize for not believing you and assuming you were the one who let Grand Lord Suckface out of Tartarus. Seemed like the sort of thing you'd do in order to get his power for your own, or t'create a threat so that you had your own personal army at your beck and call.

I was wrong. In order to make it up to you... well, I ain't about to become your minion or suck up to you, but if you wanna take Rarity someplace fancy sometime, just lemme know and I'll work out all the bullcrap with getting you some spots. Your drinks are covered for the next month if you want to come down to the Decanter, too.

So... sorry.

Comments

[Visual]

[foolish_seal]

You work to make amends. That's what I did, at least. Wish I could give you a specific answer, but these things are different for everyone.

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[bornoflove]

When you find it, you unleash your full power.

[UH.]

[Private Visual]

[cruel_kindness]

Ya know what? There was once a time where I thought I had to be cruel and malicious and all-around malevolent. Then it sort of faded away as I started to want to fade into nothing. I became The Alicorn while I forced my mom to become The Steed for a few hours.

And then I lost it all. My mom and my life. What you need to do is just live. Now that you know the truth, don't bucking squander it. It took me fighting my way out of Tartarus to get back everything I had.

All you need to do is live.

[saint_sami]

You pick yourself up and you keep going. You know you are fine, now's the time to find out what you can do.

Eh-heh. I... Had something like this happen...

[Visual]

[namedforcat]

In the end, it is not how you dealt with the lie that is the important thing, but how you instead deal with your new truth. That lie...it was true to you, even if it was not true to others.

As for holding yourself back, well, that is also something you can explore in the future.

Do not make the mistake of getting stuck in your actions of the past. Yes, if they effected other people you do have some work to do, but the past itself can not be changed. Only the future can be.

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[crapfully]

...or if you thought you were the bad guy and that spreading fear and misery was awesome, except it's...not always?

That kind of thing?

[He's spent a lot of time thinking about this, so it'll be another couple seconds before he speaks again.]

Look, all you've gotta do is pick up and keep going. Hang with your friends or whatever it is you do. Yeah, maybe you wasted twenty years kicking puppies or rolling monkey barrels or something, but the worst thing you could to yourself do now is waste even more time moping about it. It starts to permanently disfigure your face after about a week.

Keep doing your thing, being awesome at whatever, and you don't have to hold back anymore. Or restrict your awesome to just one domain. And if anybody's got a problem with it, they can shut their face.

[Visual]

[keaton_mask]

[Wow, what a complete turn around from her last appearance. If she's been living a lie, it was definitely a convincing one.]

You get really drunk and then try again tomorrow.

[Not all advise has to be good advise.]

[Audio]

[ceasetoexist]

You keep moving. And you do what you can to work the opposite direction you were going.

Sometimes you look back. But only so you can remember what that road looked like and you know what to avoid, and never too far.

Otherwise you become a sucker, and get your dumb butt stuck on tht road again.

[Visual]

[firstofthefallen]

You become reborn.

[Audio]

[bigsoftie]

[That's a good question, Leatherhead knows this dilemma well.]

You must right what you have done. Even if it is only saying sorry...it will help.

But it is not your fault...the head is strong...when it fights you.

[anonymous text]

[discorderly]

Do something else!

[action]

[millionbitpipes]

You wanna talk about it?

[Look he's not gonna sit here and do the cryptic scroll thing.]

[visual, private]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

[The Overlord nudges the scroll open after a moment, and... yeah. Wings. But that's not important right now, right?]

Look... I can't actually blame you for thinking I did something I already actually did once before. It's fine. Just forget about it, okay? We're good.

[visual]

[bluesuit_hoofy]

You begin again. [Easy enough to give out advice when it's someone else. Andrew furrows his brow at her, a thoughtful frown tugging at the corners of his mouth.] What's this about, Flare?