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Celestia is second best princess, right after Luna!

 

I love Celestia more than I did before, because I read this funny fanfic today where she was trying to catch a laser pointer which kept moving about the castle and it was adorable and hilarious. Turns out Luna was in her room casting a few spells which allowed her to point the laser pointer throughout the castle and she was in hysterics as her sister tried to catch it!

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and in all honesty, I despise Luna, she's my least favorite character on the entire show. 
 

 

I don't mean to intrude here or derail the topic, but...why? I'm legitimately curious what your opinion is.

 

I believe I posted my feelings about Celestia over in her fan club thread. She is, to me, the Yoda of the MLP: FiM universe - the one who tempers her strength with wisdom. Kind, graceful, and motherly, she makes a great princess. Though, I do wish she would rise up and take action herself more often than she has, but the whole one time she has is still more than the zero Luna has. No, I do not count Luna's appearance in Sleepless in Ponyville, because while she did meddle in the affairs of her subjects, she did not outright fix them herself, whereas Celestia went full-on BAMF mode...and lost. C'mon!


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I don't mean to intrude here or derail the topic, but...why? I'm legitimately curious what your opinion is.

 

I believe I posted my feelings about Celestia over in her fan club thread. She is, to me, the Yoda of the MLP: FiM universe - the one who tempers her strength with wisdom. Kind, graceful, and motherly, she makes a great princess. Though, I do wish she would rise up and take action herself more often than she has, but the whole one time she has is still more than the zero Luna has. No, I do not count Luna's appearance in Sleepless in Ponyville, because while she did meddle in the affairs of her subjects, she did not outright fix them herself, whereas Celestia went full-on BAMF mode...and lost. C'mon!

 

I suppose it doesn't hurt to answer this. But, be wary, I'm half asleep so this might not come out that reasonable.

 

I dislike Luna for these reasons:

 

  • I dislike her voice
  • I dislike her color scheme
  • I dislike the way she acts a majority of the time, EXCEPT in Sleepless In Ponyville
  • Everyone's obsession of her isn't why I dislike but more or less just gets on my nerves from time to time
  • Other than going into ponies' dreams, she doesn't really have much of a reason to be important, Celestia managed to raise the sun, moon and stars for 1,000 years, no problems at all.
  • The fact that she went evil just because she didn't get what she wanted
  • Her villain of herself was pretty lame as well, especially in the design department, of course, it was probably hard to make Luna look like Luna while making her appear evil or jealous.
  • How everyone is so quick to defend her at every single minute in the fandom while making Celestia appear as some evil tyrant

 

There's probably more reasons knowing me, but meh. 

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I like her, she has a beautiful voice(Especially for singing) and is very humble and nice, aswell as wise.

 

She also has a pretty nice color scheme, and despite having a pretty limited amount of screen time, still manages to be pretty cool.

 

however i just like Luna a bit more, just because I can relate a bit better to her, and because she has a color scheme i like a little more.

 

However I still like both princesses, I just like Luna a bit more personally.


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Not only is she best Princess, she is just simply best pony, period. Beautiful, talented, majestic, down to Earth, I just love her so much. IMO she is the most underrated character in the show. 

 

She has such an amazing personality, and the fandom often overlooks that entirely.

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There's probably more reasons knowing me, but meh.

 

Different strokes for different folks, I s'pose. The fact that she's treated like some sort of unslanderable (not a word, deal with it) holy pinnacle of Jesus by some is annoying, I agree. As for why she went evil, I just attribute that to her being rash. I like to think of her as the more reckless of the two, and her fall due to immaturity. A child's tantrum, if you will.

 

Yes, Celestia is viewed in a lesser light than her sister in this fandom for some reason. I imagine one of the reasons is because people like to root for the underdog. People also make more parodies of Celestia because she hasn't displayed nearly as many flaws as anypony else in the show - don't quote me on that, absolutes make me nervous. While some I can deal with - I find JJ's Molestia blog to be quite entertaining, see my signature below - I absolutely do not agree that Tyrant Celestia should even BE a thing. That's just playing opposite day for no apparent reason.

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I do like Celestia. Her role as a authority figure is used to much better effect here than in most other kids' shows. She doesn't lecture (except that one time), she doesn't exposit the moral (except that other one time, kind of), and she isn't the idiot in charge who exists so that the underdog can have somebody to righteously rebel against and show up. More positively, she seems very approachable and tones down the formality where possible. But she also manages to have a regal presence. She really seems like it makes sense for her to be in sole charge of a country.

 

More interestingly, we saw her utterly botch things at the wedding. Whatever the mechanics of the situation, she took a side that was wrong and picked a fight that she lost. Which is in stark contrast to her usual depiction as an always-right perfect Mary Sue. We also got to see her rattle sabers with Discord after he outmanuevered her. These kinds of scenes hold more weight when Celestia is normally on top of things. I kind of hope they play with the doubt they create; for all of her hero worship, Twilight has seen first-hand that Celestia's schemes can fall apart and has a reason to ignore or reject her mentor's advice if it seem inappropriate. Whereas with most Yoda-type figures, the advice is always right. Here, there isn't that kind of certainty and it could go either way.

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I think people give her too little credit. Sure there is Luna and she's amazing as a character ,but Celestia hasn't gotten that much attention to really have any character,

 

Clestia is best described as that person who's gone the whole day and at the end comes back and asks everyone "How was everyone's day?" Not much time to really see any of her real character flaws. 

 

I do believe she deserves her own episode as Luna has. A fan fic explained it exactly how I would like a Celestia roled episode and to be honest  I really wouldn't care if the canon series ripped off  some of it.

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The thing about Celestia is that she doesn't fall into the Princess sterotype. Boys, beauty, glamour, and all that other stuff. Instead she has the mindset of a noble Queen and guardian, who also likes to cut lose once in a while.

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I think people give her too little credit. Sure there is Luna and she's amazing as a character ,but Celestia hasn't gotten that much attention to really have any character,

 

Clestia is best described as that person who's gone the whole day and at the end comes back and asks everyone "How was everyone's day?" Not much time to really see any of her real character flaws. 

 

I do believe she deserves her own episode as Luna has. A fan fic explained it exactly how I would like a Celestia roled episode and to be honest  I really wouldn't care if the canon series ripped off  some of it.

Agreed. She needs an episode that carries the same kind of "weight" that Sleepless in Ponyville did. The problem with that is what she actually does. She teaches magic, runs a country... Has meetings? She makes decisions. I don't know if this kind of thing fits an MLP-FIM episode because the series is about the Mane Six. Even if they make an episode where Twilight is following Celestia and Luna around, learning the "princess stuff", they'd be hard pressed to make it work without being too boring or too silly in twenty minutes. It fits better the fanfictions. And they'd probably do it with Cadance instead of Celestia.

 

Anyway... Because I can't think of way to do it, doesn't mean that the awesome people making the cartoon can't. There is hope!

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Yeah

 

I was also thinking more along the lines of just being in the general public without everyone freaking out. Ever since "A Bird In Hoof and Swarm of the Century" The general populace seems to be nervous around her when she's doing casual event's.

 

I'm not sure if that's improved since then but I'd like to see that explored once again.

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Yeah

 

I was also thinking more along the lines of just being in the general public without everyone freaking out. Ever since "A Bird In Hoof and Swarm of the Century" The general populace seems to be nervous around her when she's doing casual event's.

 

I'm not sure if that's improved since then but I'd like to see that explored once again.

I think you just solved the problem. XD

Celestia wants a day off but everypony freaks out. The guards won't leave her in peace, journalists won't leave her in peace and she can't do anything fun. So she runs to the Mane Six for help (or the CMC...), maybe with a disguise or something. And we get a nice slice of life episode where Celestia is trying to hide from her own guards and have fun with her friends. For extra fun Luna is having to handle everything and is pissed at Celestia.


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They could do a story where Celestia uses a shape shifting spell to move about as a unicorn in Ponyville while Luna runs the castle. Her magic is powerful enough to teleport to Ponyville and she should be capable of magically disguising herself.

 

It could go where Twilight and Celestia switch places for the day.

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Though unfortunately Celestia is not my favorite princess(Luna ftw!), I still really admire her and who she is as a character. I like her design and I think it really coincides and fits with her generous and loving ruler status in Equestria. :)

 

She's also really beautiful for a 1000 year old pony.(not as beautiful as Luna though!) :P

 

Lol

 

Anyways, her personality and care for all the ponies is amazing! She makes a perfect leader for Equestria indeed. :D

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Princess Celestia actually happens to be my favorite pony and I think that she is really awesome. SO I want to know if you feel the same way or maybe different and why you feel the way you do. I look forward to hearing your responses.

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Celestia is probably one of the kindest ponies in the storyline, maybe kinder than Fluttershy. Her voice is soft and comforting, making one feel like they are in good hooves.

 

..but she can be a bit of a "troll" sometimes, like giving Twilight 2 tickets to the gala when she knew she has six friends, or when the wonderbolts and Rarity were falling to their deaths and she just sat there and watched the action....which I liked! We all love a good joke don't we?

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Princess Celestia actually happens to be my favorite pony and I think that she is really awesome. SO I want to know if you feel the same way or maybe different and why you feel the way you do. I look forward to hearing your responses.

I feel differently, because although she's a really cool character, the leader in most stories (Gandalf, Dumbledore, Obi-Wan), are almost unbeatable. I don't mean they can't lose, but they wouldn't lose in a way that made them lose their cool. When Chrysalis defeated Celestia, it wasn't a cool defeat. That may just mean it's more realistic, but I'm not looking for realism in a story about magic ponies.


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You all know who Celestia is! The princess of Equestria, the one who rise's the sun! She trained Sunset Shimmer, and then Twilight Sparkle. But let me ask you this: What's your opinions on her?

Do you like, Love, or hate her?

Do you think she made mistake's?

Is she best princess?

Tell me your opinions! B)

Do you like, love, or hate her? I like her.

Do you think she made mistakes? Yes, but everyone makes mistakes. Hers just weren't very bad.

Is she best princess? No, luna is best princess  :comeatus:


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Celestia is my personal number one favorite. Normally I don't choose favorites but I'll let it slide this once. Celestia has potential to be a tragic character. She had to banish her sister, had to hold the kingdom together after discord, and fought as close to evil encarnate as mlp can get. This lady must have some major psychological issues. But its not all dark, she can show she can be fun, caring, and wise. There are other reasons, but I'll stay with that.

 

P.S. that trollestia thing is B.S. Ha! See what I did there?

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Personally i like Princess Luna more. I think Celesta is to perfect, however, i do think princess Molestia is funny, and lightens up her serious character.


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In my opinion i think she is a nice princess, but i don't "love her" nor do i hate her. I don't know. i feel like Princess Luna should have more screen time in season 4. 


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