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[friendyousohard]

Twilight Sparkle | friendyousohard | MLP: FiM

Illidan Stormrage | forcefateshand | Warcraft

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[doitrockapella]

What is it about Princess Celestia that Twilight is so hero-worshippy over, anyway? Is it just that she's the ruler of Canterlot or that she's a powerful magic-user or what?

[friendyousohard]

Oh, goodness. Incoming TL;DR!

Now, worshipping Celestia isn't exactly an uncommon thing in Equestria. She's their ruler, she raises and sets the sun every day, she's old and wise and one of those amazing fairy-tale rulers who keeps everything as close to perfect as possible, and she's apparently immortal. So the ponies in general tend to have a viewpoint of her that isn't entirely dissimilar to that of a Goddess.

Twilight wasn't all that much different from the others in this regard when she was growing up. When she went to Canterlot to see Celestia raise the sun, that was the first time she ever became exceptionally enamored with the Princess even by pony standards. Magic on that scale was something she'd never, ever seen before, and she quickly became obsessed with growing her own magical skill, which isn't too surprising as this is, after all, her special talent.

Then came her enrollment into the school for gifted unicorns, and her exam, where her powers went out of control and she hatched Spike, turned her parents into potted plants, levitated the instructors, and generally caused a great deal of unstoppable mayhem... until the Princess came in and calmly brought her out of it. The ruler of their land had just come up and brought her out of her magic-related breakdown, which was amazing (if embarrassing and guilt-inducing) enough, but this was immediately followed by Celestia offering to take Twilight on as her personal protege.

So, as of this point, Celestia was now her ruler, near-Goddess, mentor, and over the course of her studentship, she became almost like a second mother figure to her. Twilight's opinion of the Princess at this point had essentially become about as high as anyone's opinion of another is possible to be. And the events of the show only tend to reinforce this. In short, what is it Twilight's hero-worshippy over? Everything.

[enjoymyatelier]

I'm admittedly mostly canon-blind for MLP, so what's Twilight Sparkle's favorite genre? Has she been reading any fiction in Johto, or is she mostly a non-fiction kind of person?

[friendyousohard]

Interestingly, what Twilight tends to read in her offtime is mostly left up to the readers' imagination. She's mostly seen with nonfiction books, but that's usually because they're relevant to the plot.

She does canonically have an affection for the Daring Do series, which is essentially Pony Indiana Jones: The Book Series. So we can assume she appreciates the adventure genre, which isn't exactly surprising. But beyond that, we can assume she appreciates fantasy, which would be almost like nonfiction or historical fiction for her given the sort of world MLP takes place in, and historical pieces, be they fiction or nonfiction. Really, the only genre I can see her actively disliking is romance, because it's a combination of a subject she's almost completely uninterested in, and characters who she can almost never relate to. At all.

[enjoymyatelier]

...oh gosh, Pony Indiana Jones that's adorable

What does she do if she reads a book and finds out it's really terrible? Is she the sort to just put it down, or would she read it to see how bad it gets?

[friendyousohard]

Depends on her mood and the type of bad the book is. Sometimes a book can be mesmerizingly bad, so much so that she's entertained by the sheer ridiculousness of it. But if it's bad in a way that just offends or irritates her, it's going straight back down and she's moving on to something that she'll actually enjoy.

That said, even the worst books she usually tries to give a fair shake to. After all, some stories really don't pick up until the first quarter or so is past.