>>5187
And there my fic ends. This started as a idea to see if I could use only comic edits for an illustration of a fic and I became fixated on a certain implication that I had seen at the very start of the show. The stars will aid in her escape. https://youtu.be/xDBExPJtlzc?t=101 Though I abandoned the effort of comic edits the star theme was extended as I thought more into it. The stars as mentioned in the prophecy and as show for their brief part of screentime appear to be the ones that free Luna. What does that mean? It suggests that they are some kind of entity and not a far away glowing ball of gas out far away. They are stars in the classical sense I suppose in a heliocentric model of the universe. It also suggests that they have some kind of subservience to Luna. This little aspect has been often overlooked in the fandom. With the most I've seen being them being distinct entities or creatures in some fics. A popular fan theory is that that whole line of the prophecy is symbolic for Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark (which is symbolic for her and the other elements). While I think the symbolism argument possibly stands to some degree as some of those subtleties in season 1 are one of the things I do agree had some more thought put into that can be read into at least a bit, this is still season 1. They still clearly portrayed four stars slowly close in on the moon while heavily implying that the stars themeselves were the ones aiding in her escape and possible symbolism aside with season 1 it's best to stick what is directly told onscreen till proven otherwise (well, in most cases). Have haven't really seen such a other celestial bodies mentioned much and outside of dreams Luna has mainly show mythology associated with the moon. Where does that leave us? Canonically they barely exist and a conservative approach leaves us with both a lot and a little. Can we really say much other than that they are some kind of that may have a bit of autonomy? No.

This is one of the ways Cosmos arc interested me with the showing of her being split up into stars in a classical sense and sent up into the sky. Though it's not her natural state it still gives a tiny thread to the idea of stars being a distinct other entity from a far away sun. It, unless there was something in a previous arc I was not aware of or some other spinoff work, was the closest we ever got to this concept. If Cosmos was a constellation in the sky and those stars would be her neighbors and so the fic was made. Do I claim this as a canon theory? No. It's just below that. Me toying around with what is there as an idea to see what it could be like.