Princess Celestia and Luna's Parents

The majority of the things that I'll be talking about are in the episode, Hearth's Warming Eve, Season two episode eleven. Obviously, this will contain spoilers for this episode, so if you haven't seen it, I highly suggest watching it. It isn't, however, required for you to have seen it to know what I'm talking about as I'll be explaining the references as I go.

So this is the first of my head canon posts, and I feel like it will be one of the most important. So while watching the episode a few days back, I noticed something that probably not many Bronies have taken into consideration: the flag placed by Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

In the very first episode, the very first scene even, we see this image in the book that Twilight is reading to us:

Then, at the end of Hearth's Warming Eve, Rarity and Pinkie are helping set up this flag:

See how the second one can be mistaken for the first?

Most Bronies don't take the time to actually look at the COLORS of the alicorns, just the sun and moon, and their positions that resemble the first image. But I did. So here's my head canon:


In the episode, Spike never specifies WHEN this took place, but I'm going to suggest that it happened several thousand years before Luna and Celestia, given how barbaric the writers made the ponies seem. It was also before Tia and Lulu controlled the sun and the moon, because the unicorn tribes did that. Because we see the two alicorns on the flag, we know that they still exist. So I think that they are left to deal with other matters. But that really isn't the point of this head cannon, now is it? No, I'm suggesting that, given the similar coat and mane colors, the ponies on the flag ARE Celestia and Luna's parents. Want more evidence? Fine. On the first flag, the sun is above the moon. Same on the second one. Because we knew that Tia controlled the sun, and Lulu the moon, it's not unreasonable to guess that the teal-maned alicorn controls the sun and the purple-maned one controls the moon.

Now, take a look at their coat colors. Tia has a white coat, has a pink mane, and controls the sun. Luna has a dark blue coat, a light blue mane, and controls the moon. The second sun-controlling alicorn has a white coat and a teal mane. The second moon-controlling alicorn has a dark blue coat and a purple mane. It seems that Tia and Lulu inherited their parents' coat colors. I'm just going to guess, but I'm willing to say the the teal-maned alicorn is their father, and the purple-maned alicorn is the mother, but there really is no way of knowing. So Luna inherited a lighter colored mane from her father, and Celestia a lighter colored mane from her mother. -Prismatic Light (By the way, this is one of my older HeadCanons, from the original blog.)