Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-24585407-20140518054445/@comment-26973802-20140521024241

Lauren Faust has said "Luna was no longer present, jealousy buried her inside Nightmare Moon". Either way Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon as shown in Princess Twilight Sparkle contradicts the way Nightmare Moon works in the comics (since we saw her possess Rarity). Also you can't think Luna and Nightmare Moon are the same while taking the Nightmare Rarity arc as canon; in the episodes there's nothing to confirm Nightmare Moon is separate from Luna while the comics specify she is. They also said the nightmare "came back to life" through the cycle of the new moon, meaning she was destroyed but was revived.

Either way you look at the Nightmare Moon transformation, we see shards laying around Luna when she is restored. If Nightmare Moon is separate, she was shattered to pieces; if not, all the evil and bitterness inside Luna was.