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Hello, everyone! Today, I got a pretty lore heavy post for y'all! But I tried to condensed the information as much as possible while still being descriptive. But with that being said, I won't touch on EVERY little detail. So, if you have any questions, feel free to ask! Also, making this illustration and story made me realize that I should've posted a timeline YEARS ago. But, oh well! Since this post is quite relevant to the timeline, I will link it right here:
Star Au timeline: https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-The-Timeline-of-Equestria-PT-1-1194396215
Anyways, let's get into the description!
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1.) Vladimir (or just Vlad) met Luna through Starswirl the Bearded. Starswirl had created a team of six special and talented ponies and creatures. The six were Luna, Celestia, Terrain, Northern Star (who is Celestia's biological sister), Vladimir and Pollux (Discord), and they would all be known as the Forgotten Six or the Royal Six. When the team was just starting to get established, there was nopony that looked like Luna's species. So, naturally, although Vlad was a blood-sucking vampire, she would hover around him. Sometimes even hiding under his big wigs beside him, without detection (she would scare him sometimes, but he got used to it, lol).
2.) Luna was biased to winged creatures/ponies because Luna, like the rest of the six, were born during a depressing time, known as the Great Divide. The Great Divide brought famine and conflict amongst the pony tribes. Even Vlad, in his Underworld realm, his species were warring with the others for resources and dominion. Anyway, before Starswirl adopted her, Luna's life during this time was frightening and terrible. She had lost her parents, which she assumed was by the savagery of the unicorns. She's not entirely wrong, as it was her dad that was speared by a unicorn. But her mom, on a mission to find food for her babies after her husband passed, merely died from starvation and exhaustion. So, now you can understand why she was scared of Starswirl, Celestia, Northern Star, and even Terrain because some earth ponies at the time weren't exempt from having a barbaric nature. She avoided Pollux/Discord for obvious reasons, lol. So Vlad was her only choice to befriend.
☆ More context here:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Unicorns-are-scary-TwT-926715502
3.) Like I said, because Vlad was a winged pony-like creature, she became familiar with him first before she got out of her fear.
4.) Eventually, Vlad gained interest in her and would protect her willingly. He thought it was ironic that she picked him out of all the other normal ponies available in their group until he figured out the reason why she favored him more. Anyway, besides Starswirl, she was the only other pony that wasn't scared of him and treated him normally with respect.
5.) The battle against Concord (or Castor. Discord's brother) was the first trial the six had to face to prove their natural strength and worthiness. Although the six came out victorious, sending him to Tartarus for 1,000 and some years, Luna was fatally injured. Not only that, she was extremely exhausted from the fight (I mean a miniature pegasus can only handle so much).
6.) Luna was dying, but before she could pass on, Vlad turned her into a bat-pony so she could be resurrected and live a long vigorous life. However, unfortunately, now fully a bat-pony, she can only exist at night, now that the Sun hurts her now. But, she can combat this weakness with an enchanted artifact/piece of jewelry or clothing that can allow her to exist during the day.
7.) You can see my versions of Nightmare Moon through these links:
☆ https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/We-could-rule-the-world-if-we-wanted-to-1150044374
☆ https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/MLP-NG-Star-AU-Nightmare-Moon-Redesign-872017315
8.) After centuries of growing old together, they fell in love. After all, Luna owed her love and life to him because he saved her.
9.) Luna would now become the Queen of the bat-ponies.
Sidenote: So when she became Nightmare Moon, the bat-ponies were the only ones that were loyal to her, supported her, and fought alongside her when she needed them most. Over time, some migrated to the Overworld/Equestria in Canterlot so they could become her guards.
Another note: You notice that Vlad is slowly aging, which shouldn't be right since he's a vampire. Well, bat-ponies aren't 100% the typical vampire. Yes, they share some powers and attributes, but not all. I believe that they're more “bat” than “vampire”. So, I believe they aren't “dead" like a vampire and can still age, but very slowly. They can also bear children. Also, the unique power the bat-ponies possess is the ability to “turn” dead ponies into one of them. But again, unlike a vampire, when the bat-pony that turned a pony dies, the turned pony doesn't die along with them, nor does their curse fade away. They are a bat-pony forever once turned. Lastly, bat-ponies won't die in the sun, but it will violently sunburn their skin. So they made enchanted artifacts and such to wear so the sun won't harm them.
10.) The six continued to help fight any battles Equestria faced, even while Starswirl was with the Pillars of Old.
11.) King Terrain had a vision up north where the Crystal Empire is. During that time, the Crystal Empire was very much shut off from the rest of the Equestrian land. So ponies didn't travel there often. Therefore, if something was going on up there, it would typically be resolved amongst their people. Whatever business they had, they resolved themselves. But, Terrain's special powers sensed when a great danger was imminent or festering. So, King Terrain desperately wanted to go check it out with the others, but they didn't believe him. Yes, they are used to Terrain's foresight, but usually, his visions are only a hunch but not the absolute truth. Anyway, his wife, Northern Star, and Luna were both expecting children. Celestia wanted to stay and aid the future mothers, and Pollux/Discord was acting kinda suspicious and untrustworthy, so they didn't even bother with him. Therefore, that left Vlad, who was actually the only one that was willing enough to go help him and believed him.
12.) Thus, they went but weren't expecting to come across the calamity they arrived at. It was terrible. King Sombra, with the assistance of his wife, Queen Chrysalis, was ruling over the once beautiful Empire. Chrysalis had her changeling army as well, so the two kings were greatly outnumbered. Therefore, they fled from the scene. They wished they could do something about it but couldn't. Not now, at least. King Terrain did cast a spell of prophecy on their bloodline to end their reign of terror once and for all and to have them defeated completely, whether by death or reformation.
13.) They came home to find out that they were cursed by Sombra. They didn't know it at first until they started having night terrors and visions of doing horrible things to themselves or their loved ones (kinda like in the movie “Smile” 💀).
14.) No unicorn, witch doctor, not even Starswirl knew how to reverse the curse.
15.) Therefore, the two spiraled until they ended themselves, so they wouldn't risk hurting their loved ones, especially their newborn foals.
16.) Sadly, both Luna and Northern Star were left husband-less, leaving them to raise their kids alone. The poor foals won't know who their fathers were and wouldn't know how great they were in person.
17.) Luna and Vlad's son was named “Erebus Nocte” or “Midnight”.
18.) Once Midnight was old enough, he was tasked to become the Prince and the Warden of the Underworld bat-pony kingdom.
19.) Luna wouldn't have robbed Midnight of a childhood, only if her people in Overworld Equestria didn't desperately need her and Celestia's help.
20.) She hated to leave her son in the Underworld. But she felt like he was safer there. This was still a time when ponies alienated any species or creature that wasn't a unicorn, pegasus, or an earth pony. So, she wanted to keep him away from those inevitable conflicts. Hell, at the time, Discord was terrorizing Equestria, all because he was taunted and treated horribly by the ponyfolk, although he was being a hero to them all this time.
…Thus concludes the untold tragedies of Luna, Vlad, and Midnight.
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Phew! That was a lot! And I still tried to condense it as best as possible!
Even though it ended on a sad note, I hope y'all enjoyed my story! As you can imagine, it took quite a lot of time to make this! But I'm surprised I was able to get it done with the amount of work I put into it!
Anyway, I also hope y'all have been liking my new work so far! If not, that's totally fine! I'm just here to share my thoughts and creativity while I have the freedom this summer! >w<
Thank y'all for the support, regardless! I appreciate it! Love y'all! Take care! And as always, bye for now!
~
《RELATED CONTENT 》
☆ The Forgotten Six:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-The-Forgotten-Six-Designs-Briefs-921622963
☆ Luna:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/MLP-NG-Star-AU-OLD-Young-Luna-870800585
☆ Midnight:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-She-s-the-Moon-to-His-Darkness-1192118999
Star Au timeline: https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-The-Timeline-of-Equestria-PT-1-1194396215
Anyways, let's get into the description!
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1.) Vladimir (or just Vlad) met Luna through Starswirl the Bearded. Starswirl had created a team of six special and talented ponies and creatures. The six were Luna, Celestia, Terrain, Northern Star (who is Celestia's biological sister), Vladimir and Pollux (Discord), and they would all be known as the Forgotten Six or the Royal Six. When the team was just starting to get established, there was nopony that looked like Luna's species. So, naturally, although Vlad was a blood-sucking vampire, she would hover around him. Sometimes even hiding under his big wigs beside him, without detection (she would scare him sometimes, but he got used to it, lol).
2.) Luna was biased to winged creatures/ponies because Luna, like the rest of the six, were born during a depressing time, known as the Great Divide. The Great Divide brought famine and conflict amongst the pony tribes. Even Vlad, in his Underworld realm, his species were warring with the others for resources and dominion. Anyway, before Starswirl adopted her, Luna's life during this time was frightening and terrible. She had lost her parents, which she assumed was by the savagery of the unicorns. She's not entirely wrong, as it was her dad that was speared by a unicorn. But her mom, on a mission to find food for her babies after her husband passed, merely died from starvation and exhaustion. So, now you can understand why she was scared of Starswirl, Celestia, Northern Star, and even Terrain because some earth ponies at the time weren't exempt from having a barbaric nature. She avoided Pollux/Discord for obvious reasons, lol. So Vlad was her only choice to befriend.
☆ More context here:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Unicorns-are-scary-TwT-926715502
3.) Like I said, because Vlad was a winged pony-like creature, she became familiar with him first before she got out of her fear.
4.) Eventually, Vlad gained interest in her and would protect her willingly. He thought it was ironic that she picked him out of all the other normal ponies available in their group until he figured out the reason why she favored him more. Anyway, besides Starswirl, she was the only other pony that wasn't scared of him and treated him normally with respect.
5.) The battle against Concord (or Castor. Discord's brother) was the first trial the six had to face to prove their natural strength and worthiness. Although the six came out victorious, sending him to Tartarus for 1,000 and some years, Luna was fatally injured. Not only that, she was extremely exhausted from the fight (I mean a miniature pegasus can only handle so much).
6.) Luna was dying, but before she could pass on, Vlad turned her into a bat-pony so she could be resurrected and live a long vigorous life. However, unfortunately, now fully a bat-pony, she can only exist at night, now that the Sun hurts her now. But, she can combat this weakness with an enchanted artifact/piece of jewelry or clothing that can allow her to exist during the day.
7.) You can see my versions of Nightmare Moon through these links:
☆ https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/We-could-rule-the-world-if-we-wanted-to-1150044374
☆ https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/MLP-NG-Star-AU-Nightmare-Moon-Redesign-872017315
8.) After centuries of growing old together, they fell in love. After all, Luna owed her love and life to him because he saved her.
9.) Luna would now become the Queen of the bat-ponies.
Sidenote: So when she became Nightmare Moon, the bat-ponies were the only ones that were loyal to her, supported her, and fought alongside her when she needed them most. Over time, some migrated to the Overworld/Equestria in Canterlot so they could become her guards.
Another note: You notice that Vlad is slowly aging, which shouldn't be right since he's a vampire. Well, bat-ponies aren't 100% the typical vampire. Yes, they share some powers and attributes, but not all. I believe that they're more “bat” than “vampire”. So, I believe they aren't “dead" like a vampire and can still age, but very slowly. They can also bear children. Also, the unique power the bat-ponies possess is the ability to “turn” dead ponies into one of them. But again, unlike a vampire, when the bat-pony that turned a pony dies, the turned pony doesn't die along with them, nor does their curse fade away. They are a bat-pony forever once turned. Lastly, bat-ponies won't die in the sun, but it will violently sunburn their skin. So they made enchanted artifacts and such to wear so the sun won't harm them.
10.) The six continued to help fight any battles Equestria faced, even while Starswirl was with the Pillars of Old.
11.) King Terrain had a vision up north where the Crystal Empire is. During that time, the Crystal Empire was very much shut off from the rest of the Equestrian land. So ponies didn't travel there often. Therefore, if something was going on up there, it would typically be resolved amongst their people. Whatever business they had, they resolved themselves. But, Terrain's special powers sensed when a great danger was imminent or festering. So, King Terrain desperately wanted to go check it out with the others, but they didn't believe him. Yes, they are used to Terrain's foresight, but usually, his visions are only a hunch but not the absolute truth. Anyway, his wife, Northern Star, and Luna were both expecting children. Celestia wanted to stay and aid the future mothers, and Pollux/Discord was acting kinda suspicious and untrustworthy, so they didn't even bother with him. Therefore, that left Vlad, who was actually the only one that was willing enough to go help him and believed him.
12.) Thus, they went but weren't expecting to come across the calamity they arrived at. It was terrible. King Sombra, with the assistance of his wife, Queen Chrysalis, was ruling over the once beautiful Empire. Chrysalis had her changeling army as well, so the two kings were greatly outnumbered. Therefore, they fled from the scene. They wished they could do something about it but couldn't. Not now, at least. King Terrain did cast a spell of prophecy on their bloodline to end their reign of terror once and for all and to have them defeated completely, whether by death or reformation.
13.) They came home to find out that they were cursed by Sombra. They didn't know it at first until they started having night terrors and visions of doing horrible things to themselves or their loved ones (kinda like in the movie “Smile” 💀).
14.) No unicorn, witch doctor, not even Starswirl knew how to reverse the curse.
15.) Therefore, the two spiraled until they ended themselves, so they wouldn't risk hurting their loved ones, especially their newborn foals.
16.) Sadly, both Luna and Northern Star were left husband-less, leaving them to raise their kids alone. The poor foals won't know who their fathers were and wouldn't know how great they were in person.
17.) Luna and Vlad's son was named “Erebus Nocte” or “Midnight”.
18.) Once Midnight was old enough, he was tasked to become the Prince and the Warden of the Underworld bat-pony kingdom.
19.) Luna wouldn't have robbed Midnight of a childhood, only if her people in Overworld Equestria didn't desperately need her and Celestia's help.
20.) She hated to leave her son in the Underworld. But she felt like he was safer there. This was still a time when ponies alienated any species or creature that wasn't a unicorn, pegasus, or an earth pony. So, she wanted to keep him away from those inevitable conflicts. Hell, at the time, Discord was terrorizing Equestria, all because he was taunted and treated horribly by the ponyfolk, although he was being a hero to them all this time.
…Thus concludes the untold tragedies of Luna, Vlad, and Midnight.
~
Phew! That was a lot! And I still tried to condense it as best as possible!
Even though it ended on a sad note, I hope y'all enjoyed my story! As you can imagine, it took quite a lot of time to make this! But I'm surprised I was able to get it done with the amount of work I put into it!
Anyway, I also hope y'all have been liking my new work so far! If not, that's totally fine! I'm just here to share my thoughts and creativity while I have the freedom this summer! >w<
Thank y'all for the support, regardless! I appreciate it! Love y'all! Take care! And as always, bye for now!
~
《RELATED CONTENT 》
☆ The Forgotten Six:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-The-Forgotten-Six-Designs-Briefs-921622963
☆ Luna:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/MLP-NG-Star-AU-OLD-Young-Luna-870800585
☆ Midnight:
https://www.deviantart.com/theartfox2468/art/Star-AU-She-s-the-Moon-to-His-Darkness-1192118999
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