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I still don't understand exactly why was Adira so closed off about telling the main characters all the important info straight away, and why she got mad at Cassandra for calling her out on it

Actually since the first scene they interact you see Adira playing, and eventually Cassandra gets mad because she's mocking her etc but also leading them to places they don't know, for reasons they don't understand. Everybody goes with it, nobody considers the danger. Cassandra acts like "hey so... lady who puts us in constant danger and omits information... I don't like the day you act and I don't trust you, you put me down as well, apparently because I questioned you (cause I'm the protector of this group), so that's another reason I don't really trust you here and I don't like you" And this somehow makes 45+ year old Adira call her a servant...? "Oh I though that's what a handmaiden was"... what??.... why...

In the end it seemed like she was hiding the info cause she was leading Rapunzel to a death trap, it wasn't with cruelty but rather because it "had to be done to fix the problem". I feel like that's why she held back the info from the start. But when you look at this whole situation, she was so wrong for hiding information, guiding the characters with no explanation to dangerous places, and turning those who question this (Cassandra) against the group as if they were in the wrong for calling her out and not trusting her. Cassandra is doing her job and you seem like a dangerous unreliable person!!!

This part stratched Cassandra's ego as a warrior and that was mainly Cassandra's fault for holding grudges cause of a fight she lost. The almost kick in the face was pretty embarassing for Cass, it probably made her feel like she was humiliated, and Adira tries to say "hey no bad feelings" through offering her hand. I get why Cass wouldn't want it, and I get why Adira would dislike her for it cause in Adira's pov, Cass was acting like a brat with no title to do so, cause Rapunzel and the others were on Adira's side. Thus the "servant" comment. Like, "you don't order people around here, Rapunzel does, so stop acting so entitled cause you're not all that" - at least that's what I get from this scene.

I think both were in the wrong but ultimately Adira should have recognized that she was in no place to get angry at Cass for doing her job and for getting angry for being demoralized in front of her crew - and being angry with Adira hiding information and guiding them to dangerous places with little to no explanation why, or warning. Mind you, this is a 45+ year old beefing with a 24 yo, she could have communicated, seen through the whole situation and get honest with Cassandra, or say she didn't want hard feelings etc, but what she did was mock her further with the "servant" comment.

I don't remember an apology scene but I could be wrong.

So!!!! It's not like I dislike Adira but I really don't get why people get on Adira's side of her beef with Cassandra. And I never see this being mentioned as well, like, actually discussed. Recently I even saw someone pointing out that Cass rolled her eyes upon the mention of Adira when she was reconciling with Rapunzel in Plus Et En Vous, cause she had mind controlled Adira not a long time ago and should have shown a bit more of regret... but I'm in the fence on this one.

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MLP Villain Timeline- Nightmare Moon

1. Foreshadowing and Seeds Planted

In the mini-series comic, Legends of Magic #1, a teenage Luna magically opens up a portal to the alternate Pony of Shadow’s dimension where she was kidnapped and almost turned into Nightmare Moon earlier. She opened the doorway because she wanted to practice a harder spell so that she could stop Celestia from taunting her because of Luna being less skilled at magic than Celestia. Once she opens the portal and hears voices telling her that she’s destined for greatness, wanting revenge on her sister, and having dark magic inside of her. But she vows that she would never turn on her Celestia.

So Nightmare Moon didn’t make her debut in the main timeline, but the seeds were planted from Celestia’s taunting to Luna opening the dark dimension, so indirectly Celestia is responsible for Nightmare Moon.

The Second Kidnapping

Celestia and Luna get kidnapped again by the minions of the alternate Pony of Shadow and taken to the same dark dimension and the alternate Pony of Shadows wanted to corrupt them with shadow magic turning them into Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, but the Pillars managed to rescue them in time and was saved.

2. 1,000 Years of Inner Resentment

After the Pillars from the main series banished themselves and Pony of Shadow, Celestia and Luna were left with Equestria as their kingdom. Over that time, the sisters ruled Equestria and stopped many threats and were celebrated. But internally, somewhere along the line she started to grow jealous and resentful over the attention and praise that Celestia received and how ponies played in the day and slept during the night. This led to the downfall of Luna and the rise of Nightmare Moon. But some of the impacts of Luna’s life before her resentment towards Celestia were:

Defeating Tirek and banishing him to Tartarus and befriending Scorpan alongside Celestia

Despite (losing her memory) helped Celestia, Novo, Aspen, Discord, and the King of Abyssinia banish Cosmos to the stars

Celestia and Luna use the Elements of Harmony to defeat Discord and turn him to stone

Celestia and Luna gather the Elements of Harmony from the Tree of Harmony and stored them at the former Castle of the Two Sisters

Celestia and Luna got word from Radiant Hope, a former student of their’s and was informed that Princess Amore was turned into dark crystal and shattered by Sombra, and the two went to the Crystal Empire and used their own magic and turned him into shadow

Although, Sombra was defeated the sisters suffered a huge loss with the Crystal Empire being lost for 1,000 years and their friend Princess Amore being presumably killed

3. The Rise of Nightmare Moon

Some time after fall of the Crystal Empire, Luna started to be distant with Celestia as ponies played in the day her sister brought forth, but shunned her night and slept through it. One day in the Castle of the Two Sisters Luna bitterly went on about being in Celestia’s shadow and having her night overlooked by Celestia’s day and vowed that she would be the only princess in Equestria. With that, she rose the moon which eclipsed the sun, and that darkness mixed with Luna’s bitterness and jealously, turned her into a wicked mare of darkness proclaiming that she will bring about night time eternal and destroy Celestia, this was the birth and rise of Nightmare Moon.

Note: I want to headcanon about Luna turning into Nightmare Moon by tying in the show and comics. So I headcanon that Luna had over 1,000 years of bitterness and jealousy over Celestia and it was strong enough to attract the Nightmare Forces which are the dark counterparts to the Nyx who are the Guardians of Dreams. Both live on the moon but while the Nyx live on the light side of the moon, the Nightmare Forces live on the dark side of the moon. The Nightmare Forces surrounded Luna and enticed her into giving her their dark energy alongside her resentment and jealousy consuming her with that mixture she turns into Nightmare Moon.

4. Nightmare Moon’s Banishment

No longer Luna, Nightmare Moon began to ruthlessly destroy the Castle of the Two Sisters and aiming her sights on Celestia to destroy her, and claim Equestria as her own Lunar kingdom. She battled against Celestia and managed to get a good hit on her but Celestia used the Elements of Harmony to banish Nightmare to the moon for 1,000 years before she could really do any damage, however it was the darkest moment of Celestia’s life…but it didn’t stop Nightmare Moon.

5. Nightmare and The Nyx

In the mini-series Fiendship is Magic Issue 4, Nightmare Moon after getting banished to the moon, ends up finding a castle on the moon where it’s inhabited by the Nyx, creatures who are responsible for creating the dreams of ponies. She manipulates them into showing her how the dream and nightmare process works in order to try and get another jab at Celestia by messing with her dreams, but Celestia’s mind is too powerful so Nightmare goes after the ponies of Equestria instilling fear into them about Celestia and having Nightmare being regarded as a hero in the real world but Celestia puts a stop to it, but leaves her mind vulnerable. Nightmare then betrays the Nyx and corrupts them into serving her and giving her the power to get into Celestia’s dreams…literally. Nightmare ends up getting into Celestia’s dreams and tries to use Celestia’s guilt over losing Luna to the darkness but it only strengthens Celestia’s resolve and she defeats Nightmare and breaks the connection to her dreams from the Nyx so that Nightmare can’t enter her mind, but it doesn’t stop Nightmare from going into other’s ponies dreams and causing fear and nightmares.

Nightmare Moon at this point is able to learn the ability to see ponies dreams and even literally be inside their dreams and interact with things

Nightmare is also aware of the dream process and how it works due to the Nyx

By the last line of the comic it’s implied that she tormented ponies in their nightmares for 1,000 years

6. The Legend of Mare in the Moon/Nightmare Night

Over the 1,000 years of banishment of Nightmare Moon, Celestia continued to watch over Equestria peacefully over the millennia and legends and stories were created one of the wider known legends was the Legend of the Mare in the Moon. Now for Nightmare Moon to have a legend and even a holiday centered around her, ponies must’ve heard about her from somewhere and this comes in form of her dream-walking abilities. If ponies weren’t going to love her, she would make them fear her. The tale of The Mare in the Moon as well as the festival Nightmare Night and The Summer Sun celebration were holidays that were celebrated for 1,000 years to the point where Nightmare Moon became a tale for fillies and colts.

7. Nightmare Moon’s Return and Defeat

1,000 years later at the Summer Sun Celebration on the longest day of the thousandth year, Nightmare Moon was prophesied to return to Equestria and be free from her banishment on the moon and had another chance to bring about eternal night. She escaped via the stars and went after Celestia before crashing The Summer Sun Celebration in Ponyville. She then announced to the Ponyville citizens that night will last forever, but one pony wasn’t having it and her name was Twilight Sparkle. Nightmare followed Twilight to her temporary home and finds out about how the Elements are located in the old castle of the two sisters. Nightmare does whatever she can to stop the six ponies from trying to reach the castle such as:

Creating a landslide

Turning into a thorn to poke a manticore, causing it to attack the girls

Ripped off a sea serpent’s mustache

Scared the six with evil trees

Trying to trick Rainbow Dash with shape shifting

Destroying the Elements in their stone forms

Unfortunately for Nightmare Moon, the ponies that she tried to stop ended up being the spirits to the Elements despite the physical gems being destroyed. The six ponies came together and reconstructed the Elements of Harmony and they used it’s power to blast Nightmare Moon destroying her and purifying Luna back to normal. This was the last of Nightmare Moon and the return of Princess Luna from over 1,000 years.

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melaniesparkle

🩵 "I'm just saying that, you know, you're like a wizard like him" 💛 ---

I had to draw this scene again I'm sorry, I miss them so much 😔🤍Though I wanted to try another artstyle this time. But anyways, hope you like it!!:) 💖

milyoasis

I rewatched this show after 5 years! She has me on a chokehold again despite her arc being... hmm. But she served so much that I can still enjoy it lowkey lolol Real ones might know that I started this art blog with tangled fanart so this is a nostalgic callback to me. I do want to do more fanart, hopefully finished / colored instead of a doodle page, but I don't want to promise anything just in case I backtrack :")

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Why Cassandra blames Rapunzel about Gothel’s behavior???

Well, I am a Cass defender, I love her sm as a character and I can understand her villain arc.

The scene in “A Tale of Two Sisters” where Cassandra blames Rapunzel for Gothel's abandonment and her trauma is undoubtedly one of the most questioned and even controversial in the TTS fandom.

In this scene, many people even came to dislike the character for being rude or feeling that she blamed Rapunzel for her own kidnapping, which I can understand why they think that lol.

In this post, I wanted to explain why I saw the scene as a channeling of trauma rather than judgment.

Cassandra always had problems with being overshadowed by the princess. She was always left out, and even in the second season, we see how everything falls apart because no one listened to her, no one followed her advice, and even Rapunzel herself replaced her after noticing that Cass questioned her judgment. Obviously, Zhan Tiri took advantage of the whole situation, confirming to Cassandra that she was the second choice by unlocking her trauma of abandonment by her biological mother, manipulating her and taking advantage of the fact that Cass was already feeling vulnerable.

After this discovery, Rapunzel becomes the “symbol” of that wound, and Cassandra ends up preferring to go through an ambiguous mourning process since her mother is no longer there, but in her mind she ends up feeling that this trauma gave her identity because it made her believe that she now finally had everything and would be someone with the moonstone.

Gothel’s Relationship

Gothel abandoned Cassandra when she was 4 years old, keeping her memories of who her mother was and why she was rejected locked away. When she discovers that it was to kidnap Rapunzel and leave, in her mind Rapunzel represents the reason why she was not chosen or loved.

Insecurities during the series

Throughout the series, we see different moments of Cassandra living in Rapunzel's shadow.

There is obviously a dynamic of power and privilege between the two, but we won't delve into that.

We will only see that Cassandra feels she loses out to Rapunzel, even when Rapunzel is not at fault.

When she finds out that she also has a connection to Gothel, it reopens the wound of “Once again, Rapunzel got everything.”

Likewise, Cassandra always struggles to find her own identity and discover who she really is. When she learns that Gothel is her mother, she sees it as an opportunity to assert herself. But at the same time, her anger toward Rapunzel and fate makes her believe that she must take away what Rapunzel has in order to become someone.

Cassandra was just projecting her pain.

In psychology, when someone suffers a deep wound, that pain is often projected onto another person.

Rapunzel was not to blame for what Gothel did, but it was easier for Cassandra to blame someone else than to accept that “My mother never chose or loved me”, accept that would cause Cassandra to face a primary wound: never having been chosen.

In psychoanalysis, projection is one of the defense mechanisms proposed by Anna Freud, in which an individual attributes unwanted thoughts or motives to another person. This is generally attributed to being used to protect self-esteem or protect oneself from a threat. In Cass's case, recognizing that her mother was a fraud would not only mean losing a mother but also losing the meaning that sustained her identity. Her obedience, for example, was a desperate attempt to be loved, to deserve a place, and to indirectly avoid abandonment.

From the perspective of trauma psychology, it is argued that unprocessed trauma is not remembered in a narrative way but is relived through action. Cassandra was never able to mourn Gothel and was never allowed to feel vulnerability—ahem, her father's fault, but that's a topic for another essay—instead of mourning, a conflict arose, blaming Rapunzel also allows her to transform the passive wound into an active experience where she is in control, as she can confront and attack. Attachment theory adds another fundamental layer: when an attachment figure is lost, especially during childhood, the emotional system protests, characterised by anger and a search for those responsible. This anger is not always directed at the cause, but rather at those who remain close. Rapunzel, as a living and emotionally present figure, becomes a perfect target.

Cassandra was raised with conditional love, which led her to develop fragile self-esteem, sustained by the need to ‘deserve’ affection. She was taught to serve, obey, and be useful; her value depended on her performance. Accepting her abandonment would destroy her completely and lead her to conclude that she was not worthy of love.

She preferred to create a reinterpretation, where she was not abandoned because she was insufficient, but rather replaced by someone else.

Cassandra does not blame her because she believes she is guilty. The blame arises because her mind needs someone else to bear the burden of that abandonment, which would otherwise destroy her. It is easier to blame the ‘loved’ person than to accept the pain of not having been chosen. That action stems only from pain, not from genuine hatred.

I wrote this essay as a hobby. I researched each topic a little, but I am not an expert on these subjects. Any comments, corrections, or additions would be appreciated.

Thank u very much for reading <3

melaniesparkle

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karmawasheretoday

first time using tumblr… little nervous 😼

Here are some UHH faux VAT7K screenshots I have made 😼 all the backgrounds are from the series itself! I have SO many stories for each of these screenshots I could write so much about each one 😿