Talk:Reflections/@comment-26973802-20140329154438/@comment-26973802-20140408051015

The way Celestia talks about Luna "getting darker" or "becoming more distant" is as if her transformation to Nightmare Moon, or transition to the way she was when she moved against Celestia, was more gradual, exactly the way I see it as if King Sombra or somepony else cast the curse to slowly make her jealousy grow stronger.

While the way the Nightmare Rarity arc has it, Nightmare Moon is not Luna in any way shape or form, but a force of darkness from the moon who takes advantage of Luna's jealousy and convinces her to let her possess her. So what would have happened was, Luna has a nightmare, the Nightmare Force takes Luna to the nightmare dreamscape, gets her to "say yes" (if you've seen Supernatural), and, as Nightmare Moon, would immediately move against Celestia. ...then again that last part would be contradicted by Princess Twilight Sparkle too.

And of course there is no mention of Nightmare Rarity. Then again, this was a different writer than that arc, back to Katie Cook