There’s a certain thing about Celestia that I’m very surprised no one has touched on. I’ve never seen it mentioned in discussion, in fan fiction, art, or anything. It’s the fact that Celestia has Future Sight. No really, it’s canon. It confuzzles me that people don’t play with this more often. I think it’s fascinating because it kinda justifies a lot of the crazy stuff Celestia does. Like, how could she have been comfortable sending Twilight off on all kinds of crazy-dangerous missions? Future Sight. How did she manage to defend Equestria for 1,000 by herself? Future Sight. Why does she always seem to know more than everyone else and always have a plan? Future Sight.

Although, she definitely has been surprised before, so I suspect there are limits to it. Like… maybe in Twilight’s Kingdom, she just “saw” Discord celebrating with everypony and just figured “Discord is the answer to this problem!” (And I guess he was, technically.) I just feel like there’s so much to explore! Like, did she send the Apples to the edge of the Everfree because she knew Applejack would be an Element Bearer, and would be needed close by for when Nightmare Moon returned? Did she covertly arrange for all the mane 6 to live in Ponyville? See what I’m saying? This is fun stuff here!