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There, here I am once again! Since I decided that, at least for a while, I'll stop with the heart-breaking (or -warming) stories, let's get back to my beloved headcanons! Here we have the first of a series of age timelines, Twilight's one in this case :3 I opted for redrawing the old one, which you can find here - dawn22eagle.deviantart.com/art… - because that one looked simply terrible. And, I have to say, I'm very proud of how this one came out, especially in terms of comparison. I mean, look at the difference! How could I ever thinkold thing was deserving of even existing?! ç_ç I'm glad to see I improved, and yes, I'm feeling pretty conceited today u.u xDAnyway, let's go with the headcanon!As said in the show, the little filly never loved playing with other foals very much. She preferred reading together with her mother, or spending time in Canterlot's marvelous library. She had always been made fun of or called names for that, but she never really cared that much. And she noticed the bad things her schoolmates said even less when she became Celestia's pupil. Her parents were proud of her, but they were quite worried about her "social" situation: she couldn't make (nor she looked for) any friend, and she sometimes came back home covered in dirt because she had been shoved on the ground by one of the bullies. But she really didn't care: she only though about not disappointing her mentor, and studying to improve.Things got even worse when the little dragon hatched by the Unicorn herself was old enough to walk around with Twilight. The bullies now focused on the small creature, and they often played stupid jokes on him. The baby dragon didn't understand, and most of the times he ended up giggling at the colts and fillies around him, until Twilight, who was trying to stand for him, picked him and walked away. This went on for weeks, but then something changed: there was a new student. He was a skilled and talented Unicorn who learned fast and studied as hard as Twilight. And the purple filly soon noticed his presence. The bullies tried to beat him as they did with Twilight, but with no success. Instead, he was quite strong and he could defend himself. When he got to know Twilight was victim of the troublemakers, he stood for her every time. One day, however, the kind and loyal colt received a weird proposal. The bullies told him that Twilight was just playing with him and there was no true friendship coming from her. The Unicorn couldn't believe at such words, but he was so naive that he fell in the bullies' trap. He felt betrayed, which was not what had happened, he wanted his revenge. So, one night, he entered the fillies' dormitory and carefully picked up Spike, who was sleeping next to Twilight. In the yard, a large group of bullies was waiting for him and as soon as he threw the little dragon in the air, any of the malicious ponies aimed to hurt him. The creature wailed in pain even before they hit him, and that so frequently heard sound caused Twilight's ears to perk up. She lifted her head and glanced at the door, noticing it was ajar. The sight of the empy space next to her made her stand up at once, but before she could do anything else, she heard another cry. It was her baby dragon's cry. As soon as she approached the group of bullies, one of them surprised her from behind. Without thinking, she bucked him right in the face, drawing the attention of the others on her. Blinded by anger, she started attacking them one after the other, while the others stared at her, incredulous. That day she sure got a lot of wounds, but she regrets nothing and, on the contrary, every time she defends Spike again she thinks of that moment and finds the courage to stand up for him.The Twilight we've known for the first three seasons, the responsible and hardworking librarian and student who loves sorting out problems with the power of science and... rationality (?). The Unicorn that had to go through anything, always supported by her friends, and that found herself as a Princess thanks to them.Thanks to her title, she got to visit every country she had always wanted to see, and she could study foreign cultures so to widen her knowledge. It's now her duty taking care of her kingdom and her subjects, but things couldn't go any better and Twilight is very happy with her life, even though she'd like having a little bit more time for herself, sometimes. Her best friends always love spend time with her, and it's not uncommon for them to gather at the Royal Sisters' old castle. The Elements of Harmony have finally decided to give that abandoned place a new life, so after that first time they put everything in order, they dedicated some time at every visit to clean it up and adjust things here and there. And for Rarity's great happiness, she finally had the chance to sew those beautiful arrases.A few years after marrying the Royal Guard she'd fallen in love with, Flash Sentry, the Alicorn gave birth to a lively couple of twins, the Unicorn Evening Tune and the Pegasus Morning Star, who she loves more than anything else. She still has royal duties to perform, but she definitely has more time for both herself and her beloved family. Her already great knowledge of magic has largely increased and she loves teaching her daughter every trick she knows, starting from the simplest before learning the most complex. Her son, instead, prefers listening to Twilight's history lessons, which he finds extremely interesting and fascinating.Twilight isn't immortal like Celestia and Luna, because she's an ascended Alicorn and she wasn't born as one. She'll reach the age of around a thousand years before passing away in completely natural circumstances. She suffers greatly the death of her beloved ones, from her husband and foals to her best and inseparable friends, and not even the company of Luna and Celestia brings her comfort. Because of this, in the last centuries of her life she spends all of her time enclosed in her now cold and lonely castle.