I'm not going to claim to understand why you made this thread before the old one was up, Trixie, but at least we managed to finish it off before moving here, lest the mods get upset.

Anyway, on the subject of Nightmare Moon, I really like to think of her as a separate being who gave Luna the power to get revenge, and goaded her into truly acting on it. This leaves Luna in the position of being repentant because she acted far stronger than she ever intended, but knows that it was all her doing, in the end.

Welcome back people who I never met that returned in the last pages of the previous thread!

And lastly, In Thin Air is up on my deviantArt now, if anypony cares. And if anypony has a fitting image for when I go to submit it to ED, I'd be in their debt for quite a while...