Thnikkaman said:
This isn't directed at you, but I still don't understand why there's this whole "Celestia is a tyrant" thing going on in the fandom. It's funny on its own but when it became fanon it just annoyed me. The show keeps expressing that there are good reasons for the things she does and in all likelihood her and Luna are happy sisters again. But hey, binary good and evil is for simpletons like me.
I think it's because in the series opener, Celestia manipulated Twilight for the greater good. But the show just washed right over that, carrying on with the assumption that Celestia is simply "good" and her thoughts and actions are beyond question. But if you do question her, other issues arise, like how she probably would have needed to manipulate the entire mane cast to pull that trick off, and might have even needed to manipulate Nightmare Moon's escape, without letting Luna know. To fix a mistake that Celestia was partly responsible for, although the entire blame is usually either dumped onto Luna or some convenient unseen magic scapegoat. Those aren't really bad actions, but more like the questionable actions of a flesh-and-blood leader, rather than some kind of paragon of virtue.
A few episodes have shown that Celestia can inspire fear in her subjects, and her response has usually been "That fear is unwarranted... this time." She's not going out of her way to make sure people
don't leap to these conclusions.
In Sonic Rainboom, Rarity played the part of Icarus flying too close to the Sun, but the Sun she flew too close to was Celestia. Rarity may have faced a small portion of Celestia's wrath in that episode. Of course, it's not official, and the show never said that's what happened, but if you're willing to question Celestia, then there's one more question mark in her file.
And in Ticket Master, a whole episode full of lulz resulted from one simple mistake on Celestia's part. That's the point where people started to suspect that she does these kinds of things on purpose, for entertainment. Later episodes indicated that Celestia finds royal formality tiresome, and she even invited the mane cast to the Gala specifically
hoping that they would bring the lulz. Discord says Celestia is no fun, but I think he's just not looking.
Personally, I don't like the lengths the Internet has gone to in exaggerating these factors. I like Celestia just fine as a paragon of virtue, but I like her more with a few cracks of personality showing through. I also kind of like it when she has plausible deniability for those. It's more fun that way.