Answering

Celestia: “Perhaps not a daughter. She does have her own parents who love her very much and could never be replaced, not that I’d ever want to usurp Twilight Velvet’s place in her daughter’s life. But even as a foal, she did feel like some degree of family.

“Besides, how could anypony NOT want to protect, nuture and cuddle a filly as adorable as Twilight?”

Image is a remake from a VERY old drawing of mine. I don’t want to even link it it looks so bad to me now.



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