Repeating Repetitions

by Uncr3at1ve

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1225

History repeats itself, so what then is the use of immortality?

All my life I've been constantly changing history but it still ends up repeating itself, so why bother with immortality when nothing new ever happens anymore?

Published 2013-08-22 12:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-22 12:20:02 UTC

Repetitious Repeats

It's relatively common knowledge who I am, insofar as that I am a princess of Equestria. I never believed Celestia when she said that all of my accomplishments would be for naught, oh, how I should have listened then. For history has a nasty tendency to repeat itself, not in any way that makes living an immortal life seem redundant, but so that familiar patterns begin to emerge from the woodwork. It's no surprise to me now how Celestia could remain calm under any circumstance: as the saying goes 'You see one millennium, you've seen them all.' Events just stop being surprising.

Discord forgets why he gave up chaos, nothing wrong with that, he has chronic chaos disorder. Not as uncommon an illness as one would think. Although it does get frustrating from time to time, but now he'll make a nice statue until another pony as kind and thoughtful as Fluttershy comes along. Not that it'll work a second time but so that he'll remember it working the first time... so I hope, chaos can be tricky. But it's always nice to know that there will be something interesting to look forward to in the coming centuries.

Though predictable it's always interesting to see who embodies the Elements for the next couple of centuries, after extensive research it appears that they are inert until such a time as there is a pony to represent each Element engaged in friendship with each other that they become active. The longest period of inertness coming from the period of Nightmare Moon, at least the recorded period, who knows how they were created or how long Celestia's group took to discover them. Speaking of which, apparently alicorns come from the embodiment of harmony which is only present in high enough quantities in the Bearer of Magic. Of course not every set of elements gets an alicorn Magic; otherwise we'd have more goddesses than wolf mythology within just a couple millennia.

It's not like it matters, I've seen too many groups of elements to care anymore about getting to have a little sibling of my own. The only one I remotely cared about was Silver Skies, the first male Element of Magic... that'd I seen anyway, history is too predictable for him to be the first. But no matter how many hints Celestia dropped he couldn't seem to see the true magic of friendship, and after twenty years I believe it was Loyalty who perished first, an unfortunate accident involving fire and a distillery. Nonetheless the Elements became inert once again, and time took that which mortals are renowned for.

But now there is Starlit Night who, thanks to history repeating itself, reminds me of myself. Always studious, never stopping to consider that life is short. It's not that I'm completely sure but everything ends up the same anyway. Though, with Celestia's warning, I cannot tell Starlit of my suspicions or else she will never be able to fulfill her role. But I can feel Discord's hope through my chamber walls, a rather unpleasant sensation. However, it's been far too long since the last national crisis, so I'll soon see if my suspicions are correct within the next several years.

It's sad really, how little time changes things, there's nothing left to understand and just to keep things interesting every couple millennia the Immortals change the written history of Equestria. Not anything drastic of course but just a few changes to the timeline and then everything is different, all knowledge of Starswirl is rendered obsolete because now he's a mare who instead of learning the secrets of the world through observation, learned through divine sources from before even Celestia's time. The fun part is that it's a cautionary tale to those who seek to learn more than they should as she went insane at the end of her research.

I've asked Celestia about the truthfulness of my knowledge several times, but she always answers cryptically that knowledge and information is just perceived and derived from fact, an interesting theory as how do we know we exist if we can only view the world from our pathetically lacking senses. The knowledge remains the same even if the perceived facts are different, just another game that the Immortals play. Some millennia we're at peace, others at war, but at the end of the time period we all sit around and literally change history. The only constant being the Elements of Harmony, to which all of us have intimate knowledge of, even Discord. Although that's the only truth I've gotten out of Celestia, that the elements were made before time existed, that they were the driving force behind creation, and that they control everything.

Morality is such a petty thing when it comes to eternity, the elements gave us the powers the elements can take them away, in all reality they should be the true gods. I'm not yet bored of my existence but I feel my time growing short, all that I must do is ask the elements to take me away and they will. To where, I haven't the faintest clue, just the fact that I'll be finished will be reward enough for me, nothing was meant to last forever and the fact that history has already erased my time from existence leaves little to be finished. I'm not needed anymore, not in the woe is me sense, but in that everything I do was done before me.

The names on everyone's lips are not the Elements of Harmony I was a part of but the names of the Elements far past my time, why even remember Rainbow Dash when you have Flash Fire fulfilling the role of Loyalty? Why Pinkie Pie when Gilded Truffles? Rarity when Snappy Suit... Why Twilight Sparkle when you have infinite others to remember? When Celestia said my accomplishments would mean nothing, that's exactly what she meant. That with time, no one will remember me, no one will remember that I chose to move on from the mortal realm when the next alicorn was created, because in just another six-hundred seventy-two years, history will be rewritten once again.

There will be nothing left but the fact that history will repeat itself again and again and again until the end of time. I just hope that when I get to the afterlife I'll be able to finally have a break from the grand scheme and just sit with my hooves in the sand with the only ponies I've learned I ever cared about; those who taught me the virtues of Charity, Compassion, Devotion, Optimism, and Integrity.

Author's Note

Well, here it is, my first story. Something I should have gotten around to writing a long, long time ago. Nothing too impressive or ambitious I just wanted to get something out there to give me a benchmark to grow from. I basically sat down and streamed my conscious so hard onto the page that it probably looks more mangled and pointless than a fine powder of sawdust... Oh I also find that I write best when exhausted so there's probably a couple thing that I forgot to wrapped-up but again benchmarks. (and yes I realize that doesn't truly count as an excuse) Also, do any of you think this warrant an AU-tag?