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It's less that Celestia wanted to rule, and rather more of her wanting to shape the future even further when she planned to step down. When she had selected Twilight Sparkle; she had unknowingly pulled off the same sort of mistake that Urgence Evergreen from Adventure Time had created in his own apprentice by refusing to teach his disciple in the field of Magic that he was shaping the young dinosaur to fulfill, and at the critical moment when Gunther was needed most to defeat a great calamity to save their world which Urgence said could only be powered by an individuals' greatest wish: all Gunther did with that power was become what he had thought Urgence was as a great Wizard, only it was a twisted mirror of what the dinosaur thought he had perceived Urgence as: a frost sorcerer that constantly slung frost spells all the time and screamed one particularly tragic reprimand that his master kept telling him all his life: ["Gunther No!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOhu2vB18s)
Much like with Urgence, Celestia is also guilty of withholding information and holding Twilight back in fields that she had hoped to have the mare exceed her in. Celestia made the tragic misstep of forbidding her previous apprentice from accessing greater powers on her own that would have naturally seen Sunset transform into an Alicorn had she been allowed to continue. However after forbidding her student access to this knowledge and seeing Sunset run away, she instead turned her attention to a replacement: one that would have no recalcitrance to authority that would never try to talk back to her in any way. But in doing so, Celestia had lain the foundation for Equestria's demise at the very beginning due to the simple fact that while Twilight would never disobey her; she will never criticize or contradict her in any respect: less of an individual and more of a smaller twisted mirror of herself. No more is this made apparent than in three separate instances:
Where Celestia had voiced her previous concerns over Twilight and held her back thinking that she would not be ready; having already scouted out the other members of The Mane Six and had sent Twilight to Ponyville at the very last minute instead of having her go out and make friends with them entire months if not years earlier. It had stunted Twilights' emotional growth by having Twilight constantly at her side which was slowly broken away as the series carried on for two seasons.
When Celestia had transformed Twilight into a Princess after completing a spell, but at the same time offer her no such guidance or even having Luna or Cadence go down to offer their own insights into Twilights' new position as Nobility, having her flounder with half-doubts for months if not a full year trying to figure out what she is supposed to be. Then offer a set of very poignant words that would have seemed comforting at the time; only to now take on a more ominous meaning with the mindset of Celestia being a control freak: *"You Will Play Your Part".*
And lastly, Celestia and Luna stepping down from power in order to pass on all control over Equestria to Twilight. [I believe I had already discussed why this is a terrible decision in itself that had inevitably led to Equestria being plunged into chaos that Gen 5 is now suffering in the aftermath of.](/images/2559359#comment_9617534) Celestia never bothered to have taught Twilight anything at all on how the government should be ran: failing to bring up the existence of the Equestrian Education Association until Season 8, refusing to inform Twilight about the importance of the Nobility before the events of "From Dusk To Dawn" which would inevitably result in many darker members of parliament now seeing Twilight not as a competent leader but as a Mark that can be manipulated to their own ends, and not informing Twilight ahead that she could have easily moved the Governments' Seat-of-Power to Ponyville instead of just taking up roost in Canterlot (where she is now extremely vulnerable to the manipulations of those very same Nobles)
And on that note, I shall end this paragraph with the same poignant and prophetic words from a man that saw the rise of a tyrant and predicted the aftermath of their envisioned world when that leader fell.
> *"“The Legion Ddies with Caesar. What follows now is the last steps of a man wthoat does not yet realize,… that he is walking dead."”* - Joshua Graham, *Fallout: New Vegas*
It's less that Celestia wanted to rule, and rather more of her wanting to shape the future even further when she planned to step down. When she had selected Twilight Sparkle; she had unknowingly pulled off the same sort of mistake that Urgence Evergreen from Adventure Time had created in his own apprentice by refusing to teach his disciple in the field of Magic that he was shaping the young dinosaur to fulfill, and at the critical moment when Gunther was needed most to defeat a great calamity to save their world which Urgence said could only be powered by an individuals' greatest wish: all Gunther did with that power was become what he had thought Urgence was as a great Wizard, only it was a twisted mirror of what the dinosaur thought he had perceived Urgence as: a frost sorcerer that constantly slung frost spells all the time and screamed one particularly tragic reprimand that his master kept telling him all his life: ["Gunther No!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOhu2vB18s)
Much like with Urgence, Celestia is also guilty of withholding information and holding Twilight back in fields that she had hoped to have the mare exceed her in. Celestia made the tragic misstep of forbidding her previous apprentice from accessing greater powers on her own that would have naturally seen Sunset transform into an Alicorn had she been allowed to continue. However after forbidding her student access to this knowledge and seeing Sunset run away, she instead turned her attention to a replacement: one that would have no recalcitrance to authority that would never try to talk back to her in any way. But in doing so, Celestia had lain the foundation for Equestria's demise at the very beginning due to the simple fact that while Twilight would never disobey her; she will never criticize or contradict her in any respect: less of an individual and more of a smaller twisted mirror of herself. No more is this made apparent than in three separate instances:
Where Celestia had voiced her previous concerns over Twilight and held her back thinking that she would not be ready; having already scouted out the other members of The Mane Six and had sent Twilight to Ponyville at the very last minute instead of having her go out and make friends with them entire months if not years earlier. It had stunted Twilights' emotional growth by having Twilight constantly at her side which was slowly broken away as the series carried on for two seasons.
When Celestia had transformed Twilight into a Princess after completing a spell, but at the same time offer her no such guidance or even having Luna or Cadence go down to offer their own insights into Twilights' new position as Nobility, having her flounder with half-doubts for months if not a full year trying to figure out what she is supposed to be. Then offer a set of very poignant words that would have seemed comforting at the time; only to now take on a more ominous meaning with the mindset of Celestia being a control freak: *"You Will Play Your Part".*
And lastly, Celestia and Luna stepping down from power in order to pass on all control over Equestria to Twilight. [I believe I had already discussed why this is a terrible decision in itself that had inevitably led to Equestria being plunged into chaos that Gen 5 is now suffering in the aftermath of.](/images/2559359#comment_9617534) Celestia never bothered to have taught Twilight anything at all on how the government should be ran: failing to bring up the existence of the Equestrian Education Association until Season 8, refusing to inform Twilight about the importance of the Nobility before the events of "From Dusk To Dawn" which would inevitably result in many darker members of parliament now seeing Twilight not as a competent leader but as a Mark that can be manipulated to their own ends, and not informing Twilight ahead that she could have easily moved the Governments' Seat-of-Power to Ponyville instead of just taking up roost in Canterlot (where she is now extremely vulnerable to the manipulations of those very same Nobles)
And on that note, I shall end this paragraph with the same poignant and prophetic words from a man that saw the rise of a tyrant and predicted the aftermath of their envisioned world when that leader fell.
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