Anonymous asked: [bq]I read through Steamquestria today – I loved it. I just want to ask why Luna needs her Batteries? I mean, Sombra’s more Augmented than Luna is, and Celestia must be nearly as augmented, and neither of them were wired up.

watsonian answer: Celestia’s actually pretty light in comparison to them both! she’s just down an arm and a couple of legs, while Luna and Sombra both had almost their entire bodies replaced. the main difference between those two is that Sombra’s augmentation was done gradually, so he was able to chop bits off and replace them as it spread. whereas Luna’s had to be done all at once, not to mention after a couple decades of her being science-frozen and also covered in evil gak. I think one thing that got a bit lost in the drafts vs in practice was that I meant for Luna’s situation to be totally unprecedented – no one had ever been successful with someone in such bad shape, and they were basically winging it as they went. if it’d been anyone other than Celestia and Twilight working together, they wouldn’t have been able to pull it off. so…maybe it’s not as elegantly-done as it could’ve been if they’d had the luxury of more time and a better idea of what they were doing.

some of it can probably also be chalked up to the difference between the Nightmare and Sombra’s goop, that it just had different effects on their bodies and/or required different things to fix. had it continued, I had some ideas about how she still had some of the Nightmare in her system, and they were trying to make more Magic (Twilight still has not approved that name) in order to flush that out. maybe there might’ve been something involving Tantabus? 🤔

I did want to have her be a bit of a work in progress for a while, as they figured out more about Magic and how to improve her augments. ultimately she may have stopped needing the batteries, or at least nothing quite so dramatic (but Luna does love her theatrics, so maybe not).

doylist answer: …..honestly I just wanted the bats in there. :x and if I could stuff them in with a bonus terrible pun, all the better

#i hope you’re okay with ~2000 words of dithering about steam because here you go#i’m still fond of this silly au.[/bq]