I love this design -- the mane looks like a whirlpool of stars! And interesting that the name "Celestia" still works with a night theme -- the sun and moon are both celestial objects, after all.



That actually ties into something I've noticed with Luna and Celestia's... call it spheres of magic. The premiere and "Luna Eclipsed" both made a pretty big deal out of their day-night duality theme, but that's not really something I've noticed having a lot of emphasis in post-Season 2 episodes. For all the emphasis they put on Luna's feelings of underappreciation for the lack of attention the night was getting, the way it's been coming across since Season 3 is that Luna's truck is with the dream world first and foremost -- and, conversely, it really does seem that Celestia has a great deal of power over the celestial bodies in general, between her name, her having apparently overseen both heavenly bodies for the past thousand years and the bit in "A Royal Problem" where she said that raising the moon was even easier than raising the sun (and incidentally in that same episode it really came across that dreams play a much bigger part in Luna's duties and magic than the moon does by itself).



... in case it didn't come across, I really on't think that the whole business with Luna, Celestia, Black Snooty and the celestial bodies was FiM's best example of wordbuilding or continuity, really. The show's done a stellar job with a lot of other things, but that particular bit's always been a tad lacking, in my opinion.