Halcyon - The Land Of Friendship

[Night Sky 938]

So much of the commentary I see online about Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle seems to revel in missing the whole point.

Yes, these two characters had an arc. 

That arc led them somewhere, somewhere good. 

Without Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer would have remained nothing more than a small town tyrant of a cult leader.

And without Starlight Glimmer?

All would have been lost.

The Changelings would have won. 

Trixie Lulamoon might have died, that "Moonshot Manticore Mouth Dive" was basically a

Spoiler

suicide attempt

.  

Stygian would have been wrongly banished, again.  

Equestria needed some pony to remind them that even good ponies can have bad days.

Starlight Glimmer needed one good day, she couldn't give that to herself, she needed to learn how to receive gracefully. 

In checking each other, Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle checked themselves. 

What followed on, what did they achieve together?

Maybe it can't quite be summed up in words. 

Yes, we can talk about the defeat of Queen Chrysalis' evil plans, or the fact that the School Of Friendship was saved, but maybe all of those things don't quite capture the entirety of it. 

I've tried to capture something of it in the image above.

Whatever it is, we need it in the worst sort of way, here in this human world. 

We don't check ourselves, and we're never going to be able to check each other correctly until we do.

We don't do that, we should do that.

It's a shame that so many ponies only like to fixate on the fact that Starlight Glimmer and Trixie can be foils for Twilight Sparkle some of the time. 

That part of the relationship is based upon something else. 

Something good. 

I won't presume to name it, but so help me, I will point to it. 

MLP FIM is about something, so I try to make MLP fan art that is about something.    

Edited Friday at 05:57 AM by Night Sky