high_seas | Kiss Kiss Eat Some Meat

If that's so, then I'm sure they will be fine. My world may have many faults, but people are stubborn enough to forge their strength and endure anything together.

[What's inside of her? She loved Anna, she had always thought of Anna, she didn't want to harm her, or her parents, or her people. She wanted to love them and to be loved. She wanted to protect them all from everything, from the ice and coldness inside of her. But she was just fooling herself.

Her actions did nothing but hurt everyone. Her parents, Anna, her people, all of them were dragged down by her, by her powers. A country that barely saw their king and queen, that never saw their princesses, left alone, shut out just like Anna had been shut out by Elsa. Anna didn't know about true love, but she was right in that neither did Elsa, no matter how good her intentions were, she did all wrong. She only caused pain and damage. And there was nothing good in her to be brought out, at least not in Arendelle.]

Endure? Or overcome?

[The question is fairly pointed, because the distinction is massive on both a global and a personal scale. Enduring hardship is easy, overcoming it much harder. And the difference is between surviving and thriving.]

[Fairly pointed, and fairly shocking because Elsa hadn't even considered that. For her if one endures something it may come a time in which they overcome it, it was her hope all those years she locked herself in her room... It wasn't true for her, but that didn't mean it couldn't be true for others.]

Overcome, of course. I meant to say that they could endure anything in the sense that they wouldn't crumble to it right away, but of course after that comes overcoming it. I'm sure they will be able to do so.

[Anna isn't like her, she has big dreams, she longs for the world. All that Anna had to endure came because of Elsa, not because she couldn't overcome it, she tried but Elsa never let her in. It's logic to think that she will be able to overcome it all, as well, being suddenly in charge of the kingdom, discovering that her sister is a potential danger... It will be nothing for Anna now that the gates can remain open.]

[Someday they must compare backstories, because Elsa might change her tune just a little when she hears that Celestia had to banish her own sister to the moon...]

The way you think about these things will influence how you act, you know. If you think only in terms of enduring, you will forget to overcome.

But sometimes to overcome something one must first endure it even if it's for a short while, don't they? The strength to overcome something doesn't always appear right away at the moment it's needed.

That is true. But enduring has a tendency to become a goal, not a journey. Sometimes the enduring takes so much strength, the one who endures forgets that eventually, they must find a way to overcome.

[She doesn't know Elsa's situation or what drives her. All she knows is what she can sense from the woman and what she can guess or intuit from what she says and what she does. So Celestia can't give her specific advice. Nevertheless, her words are pretty blatantly directed at Elsa, along with a meaningful look to make sure she's listening to them.]

Maybe, but I trust that won't happen to the world I come from. There are people there who won't forget about overcoming the problems ahead of them.

[No matter how much Anna endured, she wasn't satisfied with that, she wanted to overcome it. She overcame their parents' deaths on her own, the feelings of solitude, and longed for a better life, a life more full than what she was forced to endure. Indeed, Anna would overcome the crisis caused by Elsa, it should be even easier when her in another world, totally out of the picture.

She knows that the same can't be said about her. She wanted to overcome her problems, of course, she wanted to stop being dangerous, to stop living in fear. That's why she had decided to have hope once more and follow Luffy, despite so many years of failures.]

If nothing else, being here will certainly give you a lot of interesting things to learn.

[Well, she tried. But now she senses that continuing to make the point will accomplish nothing, and quietly backs down from it. Perhaps in time.]

That's true. I didn't know one could survive being eaten by a kraken, for example.

[She smiles though there's some tension behind it, she can't help it, her talk with Celestia has make her realize some things -most of them completely wrong- that she hadn't ever considered. Still, she's not going to make a run for it, not right away after joining them, not after promising to trust Luffy. At the very least, she will give herself this one last chance.]

It does seem implausible, doesn't it? But then again, this whole experience is so incredibly unlikely that I've stopped questioning it. I think I'd go mad otherwise.

[Celestia has quietly determined that Elsa is a nut in need of cracking, but not today. This calls for time, and patience, and the alicorn has both in levels most people cannot dream of.]

I hope you don't mind me taking your example in that regard. It sounds like a very solid tactic to deal with this world... And our captain at times.

[Then again, can he really do something that will surprise her more than being eaten by a kraken? That's quite a challenge.]

And certain members of my crew... Pinkie Pie being not the lowest among their ranks, I must admit.

[Pinkie Pie makes some of them seem downright normal. ]

Pinkie Pie is adorable, so excited and cheerful. Does she get in trouble often? Or is just that her mind comes with special ideas?

[Luffy also seems to come up with "special" ideas at times.]

I'd call it the latter. I can only imagine what led to her joining Luffy's crew...

[And yet whatever she imagines, she still suspects it's much tamer than the actual truth.]

I would say it probably was Luffy finding her interesting and inviting her, and her accepting for once.

[She can't see Pinkie Pie refusing at least. Not the way Elsa had or how Sanji had hinted that some of them did.]

His standards... seem deeper than that. He took some time to consider before he invited me aboard, despite Pinkie's insistence. [Of course, this is 'some time to consider' as relative to Luffy, so anyone else would have likely considered it a snap decision.]

Did he?

[She would have thought that Luffy would have jumped at the idea of having another talking pony around.]

Hm... I was told that, despite appearances, he doesn't just invite anyone and everyone to his crew. But I don't know if that means that his standards are deeper than what it seems or what. I suppose it's like with his attention span, something hard to study and predict.

Perhaps. But then again, his crew seems to have a certain overarching theme... which, admittedly, I don't seem to meet. [Insanity. Not that she knows Elsa well enough to judge her sanity, but knowing that Luffy had been driven to bring her aboard makes Celestia wonder.]

[That makes Elsa curious, it's impossible to not want to ask after hearing that.]

Don't you have a dream you want to achieve?

[Because as far as Elsa is concerned it seems that is the theme they have is that of having a dream to achieve.]

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To make Equestria a safe, happy, prosperous land. That dream has very little relevance here. [She lifts her wings slightly, something of a shrug.]

Don't all dreams have little relevance here? I doubt that Luffy's dream to be the Pirate King can be really fulfilled here and even if it could, I don't think he would be satisfied unless it's in his home world. Sanji's dream as well, while maybe possible here, won't have the same meaning unless it's back there.

[Elsa, however, doesn't really have a dream. At least not a possible one, though if things go indeed well with the crew... This adventure would be the closest she could ever get to said dream.]

That's up to them to decide, isn't it? Their dream is only tied to their home if they wish it to be, as opposed to a dream that is focused on one specific land.

They certainly don't seem unhappy or frustrated with their presence here, at least.

I believe that in Sanji's case, it is definitively tied to his world. Technically it could be possible here, but practically I don't think it would.

That said, I understand what you mean. I suppose that there's nothing in here that could further help with your dream back home with it being so specific and clear. Unless the whole land of Equestria was brought here, which, I expect isn't possible at all.

[It's one thing to bring people and ponies from different worlds, almost one by one. But bringing a whole land with all its people? That would be too much.]

Nor would I want it to be. [The very idea makes Celestia shiver and her wing feathers flare.] Let it remain where it belongs. I will gladly enjoy my vacation without worry for it.

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