World Building 110 Rules For Amicitia

Since as Nightmare Eclipse, Twilight Sparkle brought so many worlds to a bad end, as Amicitia, she's chosen to bring about many happy endings in grim dark worlds as possible. She did MUCH MORE work than we ever saw.

However, there are rules to Amicitia's abilities, since the Blank Wolf is created to deal with outsiders and inserts who try to twist a world to that outside's whims, and Amicitia is no exception. She must be like a ghost.

First and foremost, Amicitia can NOT override someone else and control their actions like a puppet. After what she did to Discord for so long, this is IMPOSSIBLE for her to do even if she WANTED TO!  

So she takes the role of a pony's conscience in story or their voice of reason, or their inner strength, as she did with Big Mac in Sweet Apple Acre's Massacre verse. She brought Big Mac back to his senses.

Since vast majority of Grim Dark fic rely on the ponies acting out of character, (Rainbow Factory, Cupcakes, Massacre), this normally proves very effective. Because a pony's character is NOT just their quirks, traits, or style of speech or attitude, it's in their ACTIONS.

When she healed Nightmare Diva by getting her to remember how she once told Vinyl how silence is important to music in its own right, she didn't perform a memory spell. She instead assumed Octavia's form and danced as Octavia herself would.  This was enough to snap Octavia back to reality restore Octavia from he artificial Nightmareification.

She was able to do this because within the story itself, it could be passed off as, and was vague enough, Octavia just saw something that reminded her of her real self. Or she was just having a flash back.

That is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY important for EVERYTHING Amicitia does! It must be like she wasn't truly there at all. And thus not earn the ire of the Wolf.

When she adverted the Little Miss Rarity timeline, she couldn't ORDER Sweetie Belle to visit her sister at that precise time, all she could do was give the suggestion in her head that checking on her sister was a good idea. And she couldn't STOP Rarity from killing Opal, but she could give Rarity the inner strength and clarity not to slaughter Opal for clawing her face.

She basically acts as the 'other me' that we sometimes talk to inside our own heads so she doesn't cross any lines since she CAN'T use any information or experiences that pony wouldn't logically have. Since she IS Twilight Sparkle, she and the Twilight who became . . . well, take your pick of the 'mad scientist' Twilight Sparkle fics out there, were able to have a much deeper discussion.

She can speak more directly with the mane six's pets (as when she had Gummy squash the parasprite infested cupcake that would infest Pinkie Pie's brain and result in the Cupcake's verse), but again, their actions have to come across as in-character, and not acting as if they have out of character knowledge or acting smarter than they actually are, nor can they communicate information to their masters that they wouldn't logically have.  It can be justified that Gummy SAW the parasprite infest the cupcake, and then squashed it to protect his master.

Her abilities to nudge events is not infinite, if she pushes things too far, it gets the attention of the Wolf and undoes EVERYTHING she did and making it impossible for her to try again. This is why she had to pick and choose in Sky's The Limit.

She presented herself PURELY as a logical argument to CelestiAI in the optimal verse, and the actual debate lasted a VERY long time (from a computer stand point at least). Something the super AI could logically realized for itself given the right circumstances.

Her best work of you not being able to tell if she was present at all was the aversion of the Cheerilee's Garden timeline when Berry Punch and Ruby Pinch chose to visit her the same night as her break down and save her from going mad.

Amicitia can NOT change the laws of physics of a world, thus why, in the Rainbow Factory verse, if Celestia had to split her power to control the sun and moon, that's what she had to do, and had to commission rainbows to the pegasi. And thus the existence of the rainbow factory. She was able to DELAY IT by a few centuries by sublimely supporting Celestia, but she couldn't give more than Celestia could give herself. But she WAS able to give filly Rainbow Dash the courage to tell the truth to Celestia when the truth as revealed to her. And giving Celestia a few dreams about trusting Rainbow Dash.

Which is what brought down the Rainbow Factory. And even she couldn't stop the economic and diplomatic damage this reveal and ending of a institution that employed so many and keep the pressure off of ever having to support the unwanted (at the cost of endless foals who were basically declared to not even be alive, ponies, or people) inevitably did to Cloudsdale. And this weighed heavily on her.

Though the countless foals this saved I doubt would complain (well Scootaloo did, until RD pointed out she'd have been on the chopping block if the factory was still open at the time).

She also played the 'voice of conscience' in Pattycake, to Fluttershy.

As for the Shutdown (which is a fanfic on fimfiction.net) verse were Amicitia gave the virtual ponies a happy ending, well, she STILL had to do it in a way that made logical sense in that world. And since it was a human world, there might not have been a wolf, allowing her to meddling a bit more, but the local deities likely wouldn't have liked it if she hadn't been able to make changes that couldn't be passed off as INTERNAL. It's possible she fudged things so their deleted files could be retrieved, and inspired someone to begin a G4 MMO project with a patron account. Unlikely, but not IMPOSSIBLE.

The one time that Amicitia 100% meddled, 100% interfered, was when Ispita, who was ALSO an outsider goddess to that universe, was ALREADY meddling. This is an important note on Amicitia's abilities. When a god who is NOT native to that reality has already manipulated thing to take a different turn, she had MUCH MORE liberty. Thus why she was able to enchant Trixie's scepter at that exact moment to banish the outsider goddess. Basically, Ispita was NOT a goddess native to that universe, like Amicitia herself, and thus why Amicitia was given more freedom in way she could help steer the story to a better ending in countering Ispita's own meddling.

This applies to a lesser extent to forces that not native to Equestria or not native to the Pony's planet.

Amicitia inspiring Applebloom and Scootaloo to find the Elements of Chaos in the Friendship is Oppression verse is decidedly the most Amicitia had skirted the line, and come VERY VERY VERY close to earning that world's Wolf's attention! She was only allowed to point them in the right direction, not physically help them AT ALL or give them any information beyond "they can be saved" and the existence of the Elements of Chaos (which is normally a big no-no, giving two ponies information they couldn't normally have). So yeah, it's safe to say Amicitia can NOT visit that reality again least she find a shotgun waiting for her on the other side of the celestial front door. (Much like how Rota Fortuna and the Wolf barely tolerate the Interviewers meddling in the Reharmonized Verse.)  

She was ABLE to inspire Applejack a way to help Applebloom in the world where she became Nightmare Mirror after Applebloom became a Sunnytown zombie, but it still had to be within Applejack's own abilities and had to be an idea she could come up with on her own given time.

This is similar to giving Starlight and Bright Eyes the realization they needed to creating a G3 world that didn't allow for self-contradicting wishes (which with Rota Fortuna's help would spit in multiple versions of G3, each one self-sustaining, and a world where the wish spell wasn't conceived of at all, but the Paradise Ponies DID become major magical and MORAL teachers to ponies).

I hope this gives a proper understanding of Amicitia's power to grant happy endings to grim dark stories on what she CAN and CAN NOT do to create a new ending for a story. And I hope that others are willing to show more of her work in other stories if they ever feel like it. She brightens the grim darkness.