The Backstory of Celestia's True Colors

Little Celestia was exploring the castle with her young sister, Luna; running around, finding places they've never been to, and generally acting like normal fillies. On that day, Celestia had her mane in a wild pink flowing ponytail, and her tail was styled in the same manner. Luna had her mane flowing rapidly in the wind and it seemed that it went with her mood. They were playing another game of hide and seek when Celestia happened to bump into a heavy metal door. On that door was an engraving of an alicorn with defined silver armor. Its eyes glew a bright, luminous green and swirls twisted around the figure of the same color. It seemed to pop off the door. Celestia was so tempted to open it, but she was imagining 20 scenarios that would prevent her from opening the forbidden door. Despite her best efforts, she opened it. In front of her eyes was a real live drakonikiss.

Celestia woke up abruptly.

She was back in her bedroom, safe and sound. It really was all just a dream. She never played that game of hide and see, she never bumped into that door, and she certainly did not find a young drakonici. But she still felt like that event in her head did happen. Suddenly, she looks down at her mane and tail and sees a streak of green in that beautiful pink of hers, simply wrecking her hair; at least, that's what she thought. Celestia began to go in a panic.

"How did this happen to my mane?"

"What's everyone going to say?"

"Am I going to be in trouble?!", she thought to herself over and over again.

Finally, after over an hour of panicking, she calmed down.

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Celestia walked out of her room with very visible streaks of mane color chalk in her hair. She had bags under her eyes, an unkempt mane with the addition of the chalk, three hours late for her routine as a young princess, and a serious look of doubt on her face.

"Sis! Sis! Do you want to play a game with me?", asked Luna, with excitement and an abound of joy.

"I'm tired, Luna. Not right now.", said Celestia, along with a complete lack of enthusiasm.

"You promised!"

"Well I'm sorry, but I just got out of bed and I'm very-"

"What's that in your hair?"

"It's a new thing I'm trying"

Luna plays with Celestia's mane awhile and rubs off some of the pink powder scrubbed into it to find a part of a streak of natural green. The look on both of their faces seemed to stay forever. Momentarily, Luna thought she couldn't move or say a word, but then they snapped back into reality.