@Background Pony
What Celestia is saying in this picture is that she would lose all her friends not once, but time and time again. Surely that would be more damaging than what a normal person must go through. But no, this was never an intrinsic problem with immortality to begin with.
@Vasan
Yeah, that’s something most don’t get when they point out that “problem” with immortality. It’s terrible because you’ll watch all your friends die? No, that’s actually likely in real life. Twilight’s got a good chance of outliving everyone anyway and in that case the only comfort she’d have is to wait for death or memory failure to take away the pain.
Oh, come on. Who said that if Twilight will remain unicorn she will die sooner then her friends? Rainbow can crash to death tomorrow, Flattershy can be killed by less domestic hydra, dragon or other. They all are at risk. They are not going to live long and die all in one day. So even if you want to twilight to die first (so she doesn’t see how her friends die), do you think about her friends being in same trouble with Twi’s death?
I don’t understand this point at all.
PS: Who said that alicorns can not be killed? They not grow, so could not die of old age. But nobody said us that alicorn without head is still alive. So Twi can go out her life anytime when she wants to.
I just had a thought, if turning Twi into an immortal princess as a punishment, does that mean Tia and Luna were punished in a similar fashion? Since they are both immortal princesses and im sure they watched their friends die also.
