Understanding The Multiverse
Chapter 1: A Chaotic Sparkle and the Mutliverse Pancake Stack
Previous ChapterA Chaotic Sparkle and the Multiverse Pancake Stack
In today's lesson, we study the mysterious case of one Twilight Sparkle! A former element of harmony and current ruler of Equestria! Assuming you haven't skipped out on the show since season six and have spent the last few years reading fiction about it. What a ridiculous notion! The show has ME in it! Discord! You would never leave me hanging like that right reader?
Anyway, we're not here to discuss the boring and obvious questions regarding our dear Twilight. You know, hinted schizophrenia, an absurd amount of power in regards to literally everything else in the world. I mean, who knew giving a unicorn wings multiplied their magic capacity tenfold, or even her smarty-pants doll! (That deserves its own chapter~ That devious little thing.)
No no no! That's all so quaint and boring! So played out! Even Khaos could do better than that! And I refuse to be outclassed by a pathetic excuse of a god with zero experience in the field of chaos! What I wish to discuss today is the wonders of multi-verse theory!
Now I'm sure you're familiar with it, especially if you're human, the idea that strings of reality branch off making sure each and every possible decision/outcome arrives at a conclusion! Well as it turns out, Equestria is close friends with those strings because every single outcome there does indeed arrive at a conclusion!
Now I can't speak for your world reader, but over here magic is alive! I'm sure you've heard of the tree of harmony. The fancy tree that was destroyed so many times it lost all meaning until nine of the summer season! I'm sure you've forgotten all about it, I know the ponies did. Those forgetful pony brains of theirs really need an upgrade! But the point isn't the tree, it's what the tree controlled, specifically the roots.
Imagine this reader, you have a stack of wonderful syrup covered pancakes sitting before you with a cherry on top and some butter. But you want more pancakes, now pfft. "normally" how boring... Normally you would get up and go to the kitchen, cook some more pancakes and stack them on top of the old ones. But you see reader you're thinking too, hmmm how to say this, mortally! For you see, the tree is not bound by such rules! Instead of getting more pancakes, it chooses to GROW more pancakes. Imagine roots burrowing deep into the ground under the plate bringing thousands upon thousands of astral calories into the trees strong trunk!
And here's where it gets interesting. Even subutt doesn't know this little tidbit~ Magic is alive I tell you! yes, alive! It has its own thoughts, emotions, feelings, goals in life! How? Well, that's for a later chapter, but the point is reader, The tree of harmony is the center of the mutliverse. The roots act as strings tieing each tree of harmony together across the mutliverse. Even when it is destroyed, as long as one piece of it remains the reality will not collapse! Isn't that facinating? And once more the rules are constantly changing! Why I stumbled across one reality where the tree of harmony was never planted! So then how does the reality exist? I don't know! And I love it! See the universe has a sort of course-correction system I've found. If something its rules require doesn't exist but the descrepecny exist by following another rule, it somehow works around itself!
now with all of that explanation out of the way, we can move on my dear reader to how this connects to our dear friend Twilight Sprakle. For you see, magic weaves itself between every decision made! Or in this case, in between ponies decisions. Every action is documented, or rather, the ambient magic-the magic that gives every creature life-in the world leaves a flag or checkpoint at every decisions. Picking up a right, throwing a rock, throwing a rock at a slightly different angle, going home, stopping at a certain point, continuing to move at a certain point etc. And "write" it down or remembers it. It then plays out every single possible outcome from that one decision! As you can probably imagine, this effect cascades quickly, in fact I once found one chain of five-hundred thousand worlds strung together by the action of someone sitting down slightly differently on a chair! But allow me to once again narrow the topic reader.
Twilight Sparkle, for all her goodwill, Is frankly the evilest pony I've ever seen! I mean really! You should see what she gets up to in her other worlds when friendship isn't around to guide her! Falling in love with King Sombra, killing her friends, falling for the dark arts, falling into Queen Chrysalsis's traps, and (more disgustingly) falling in love with ME! Ugh! Those universes make me gag! I can't handle such a vile thought and yet it is a reality! Well, not currently but you know what I mean. I could NEVER spend time with the princess of organization and books! Yet apparently there are some versions of me that disagree with that notion! I've been temtped many times to just delete all those realities but alas it is not in my jurastiction. Surprisingly there are a great many multiverses where Twilight has whisked away to of all places, the human world! And let me tell you reader, watching her antics in those universes is something else!
Our dear book worm, all grown up~ Murdering humans by the hundreds! Saving humanity from a zombie apocalypse, and even helping a version of me rid the Uni of the grimverses! (We'll have to talk about these wonderful bags of MV's in a later chapter ;)). I must admit, I have trouble watching some of the going's on in there. I never thought something worse than death existed, but those timelines... The universe can be a scary place sometimes ready, even for a God of Chaos.
Oh dear, this has taken a rather dark turn. This was not my intention at all! But we must press on like the good scholars we are! Our dear bookworm has MANY grimverses attached to her! It's like a plague, a disease, slowly eating away at her soul! I couldn't believe my eyes either, but between all of my dear pony friends Twilight rolled a one on Universal Presence! The only one who's almost equally as bad as her or even worse is Pi-
Twilight has killed me multiple times in her grim verses, either out of hatred or boredom! Yes, you heard me right, boredom! And what's scary is how efficient she is at it! This isn't just some keep hitting it until it dies affair reader, this is months of planning and preparation, so much planning that she actually tricked ME! The GOD OF CHAOS! Master manipulator! I simply must applaud her in these instances, and I find myself considering moving in with the more crazy chaotic Twilight Sparkles, in fact... Mmmmm, yes that could be a few chapters in and of itself! I must consider this further.
One day we'll go on a crazy Twilight safari reader, but not today. Anyhow, where was I? Oh yes! Twilight is a most fascinating character, well not in the MV, I live in unfortunately... But you can't have your cake and eat it too as they say. Maybe I should go about corrupting her now... No one would notice... Celestia certinally wouldn't... Hm, I'll write that down for later.
Now then, What else is fascinating about Twilight sparkle? Perhaps it's how many times Celestia turns out to be evil in her other worlds. It seems I got lucky only being turned into a stone statue and imprisioend in Tartarus! Celestia when she doesn't restrain herself is terrifying (And it takes a lot to scare me as I'm sure you're aware). Her manipulation is cranked to one-thousand in those worlds. Poor Twilight never sees the darkness coming to swallow her whole until it's too late!
The amount of times I've watched Twilight be thrown off a bridge, accidentally betrayed by her brother, or burned alive by Celestia is ridiculous! I mean come on Celly, give the poor girl a break! I'm surprised Twilight isn't fire-resistant at this point. Her mutliverse counter parts really do have the worst of luck, it's almost like some god out there loves watching or writing about the corruption of the innocent! Perhaps the ponies life are to PG for their taste. Or mayhaps some simply have an edge inside them that they can only show off through the catalyst of poines! Regardless of the reasoning, Twilight gets the short end of the stick all the time. Of course, I can't just shower Twilight in praise, sometimes she is just plain stupid.
In many universe's she is a complete idiot. Some of her greatest plans include. Trying to fight Nightmare Moon in their first encounter! I mean, I understand thinking you're powerful, but power and intelligence don't go hand in hand my dear Twilight! Siding with Queen Chrysalis during the Canterlot invasion and getting burnt to a cripst by a very disappoitned Celestia, accidentally drowing Spike as a child, and trying to cast Starswirls timespell from the Canterlot archives as a filly! There was also this one time she went down the path of necromancy but the council of Twilights doesn't like to talk about it. Maybe I could schedule an interview with them at some point...
Oh dear I've almost run out of notes. Let's see, I've discussed Twilights Grimverse, lampooned her stupidy in battles against Knightmare Moon, exposed Celestia's dirty manipulatory secrets, explained the Multiverse, talked your ear off about the Tree of Harmony, and probably made you hungry for pancakes! The only thing I haven't talked about is her strange attachment to Pi- ah yes, how could I forget? That's for a different safer time.
Author's Note
Oh goodness me I forgot to lay out the vocabulary I started using! Silly me! Here, have a nice compiled list of the vocabulary used in this chapter! Your test will be soon, so make sure you know your stuff! - Prof. Discord
= Vocabulary =
Uni: The Universe
MV: Multiverse
Universal Presence: How many grimverse's are tied to a creature in the multiverse
Tree of Harmony: The center of the Multi-verse
