@Background Pony #D2DF
It’s time travel, there are no answers, only more questions XDI did say if she actually does adopt little Starlight after all, otherwise the memory feedback loop Starlight is experiencing doesn’t even connect to itself XD Though, Twilight adopting Starlight also means she probably never had a reason to study time travel as a means for revenge in the first place, so the universe either has paradox absorbing crumple-zones, or it’s about to collapse on itself shortly.…and this is why time travel is my most hated science-fiction trope XDYou could have everybody’s memories change, so that NTL Twilight raised Filly Starlight to adulthood and then vanished, one way or another (use this new reality anchor where necessary for the next few events). Starlight, distraught at the loss of her mother, researches time travel to see what happened. When OTL Twilight becomes an alicorn, news travels slowly (if at all, nobody ever seems to notice she’s a princess for some reason), so it takes Starlight a few years to hear about it. She doesn’t make the connection between “purple alicorn” and her mother, but in her research discovers that the Map can greatly amplify her time travel spell, and tries to break in, only to get caught by OTL Twilight and get submitted to friendship. Such friendship includes time travel shenanigans. When they finally get back to her origin story, she realizes it was OTL Twilight who was her mother all along, and many d’awws ensued. She then travels back to the present, determined to find out where NTL Twilight is, and embarks on a quest as the new Element of Magic with the Mane Five to search for her lost mother, resulting in much adventuring.
@Cirrus Light
I think then there will be two timelines. One in wich Twilight is Starlight’s mom and the first two and the last two episodes of season 5 never happend, and the other timeline where Twilight (and maby Spike) never returned. Her friends must now protect Equestria without her.
They should make a fanfic about this.
Twilight stays in Starlight’s past and adopt her as a filly and raises her.
She creates a new timeline with two Twilights. One saving Equestria many times with her friends like in the original timeline, and another and older one as Starlight’s mother, making sure she have a happy life and S05E01/02 never happend.
