Seriously - at least the trio that was turned into stones isn't _conscious._ If they wake up, it'll be like waking up from sleeping. Meanwhile Opaline is going to die of thirst at best, or be immortal in there forever at worst.
Opaline simply let herself be carried away by her own discord and never tried to get close enough to the Alicorn sisters to become their friends. She and Celestia are so similar but while Opaline only saw her attribute as a form of power and domination Celestia saw her flames as a way to give life and warmth to defenseless ponies. She surely tried to explain but Opaline didn't listen, closing herself off and seeing herself as the victim of everything. This great ego made her destroy Celestia's work and consequently Twilight's, but she was defeated by forces that she doesn't have the head to understand. Opaline has now reaped what she sowed, the tree of harmony took away her cutie mark and her power. If she already suffered a perpetual confinement in her tower now she is much worse than before. And being an immortal Alicorn she is in a living hell.
Knowing how twisted Opaline’s concept of friendship was, she likely never wanted to be genuine friends with them but rather use their “friendship” as a means of getting noticed since Luna and Celestia were the golden girls back on Skyros. Basically the equivalent of someone wanting to be friends with cool kids at school so they themselves can climb up the social later. It’s consistent with her character when you realize all the people she considers “friends” were just ponies and creatures she used and manipulated and would be willing to toss them aside when they no longer served any purpose.
Opaline uses the light as a metaphor for attention and glory yet ironically enough, light itself is always fleeting as eventually even stars burn out. She had her fleeting moment of triumph only be left alone in the dark.
If only she was shown guidance and love, things could have been a lot more different. Also that fight scene reminded me a little bit of the "lullaby for a princess".
I’m somewhat reminded of Kars from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure by this lol she might eventually just stop thinking which would be the worst possible outcome
Will she return? Will she try to do revenge? Opaline was . . . A silly villian with a suspicious back story. If we meet her again someday, I hope we can meet her as a friend, Not a fiend.
She's the most wasted potential among villains. Literally the oldest one who knows the backstory of how Equestria was made and knew Luna and Celestia before G4 started. She should had been the last final boss in G4 as she had more gravitas than Grogar or Pony of Shadows, especially since she ACTUALLY succeed in destroying G4 Equestria.
THE LULLABY FOR A PRINCESS REFERENCE AAAAAA🤩🤩 And everything about this, from the storyline and song choice, to the dialogues and 2d animation. Its giving such a nostalgic feel, kinda like what i feel after watching a disney movie🥹 Eitherway, keep up the wonderful and gorgeous work!
Once again, Makaryo, you continue to blow me away with your incredible animations. It really lends a lot of additional context to Opaline’s backstory, and I just LOVED that fight scene between her and Twilight. As others have said, it seems very Lullaby For A Princess-inspired, and if that was your intention with it, that was an excellent homage. What else can I say other than keep up the awesome work. This kind of stuff is exactly what our community needs right now, and really shows the power of G5’s story. I will never not be impressed by the work you do. :) P.S: Is it wrong that I feel kinda bad for Opaline here, the way you depict her imprisonment in the Together Tree? I always assumed she just became fused with the Tree itself when it grew, but imagining her actually inside it, trying to get out, but never being able to? Dang, that’s a fate worse than death.
The parallels between Celestia and Luna And Twilight and Opaline here But instead of banishing Opaline to the moon, Twilight banished magic itself I love that kind of story
In pursuit of power, when you deem no cost too great, you'll find yourself paying for it more than you ever thought possible. Opaline got burnt in the fires of her own ambition, and now, she only has the consequences of her actions to keep her company. ...I kinda want to hug evilbutt here >.>
Opaline is a great villain in my opinion. A little flawed but overall great. She vile, cruel and most of all irredeemable. If she ever comes back, I hope she comes back stronger than ever.
It’s not so much her character that people don’t like, it’s just the way she is shoehorned into the story of G4 without any prior appearances. And yet the writers just expect us to go along with it.
I see what you mean. In a show about friendship, seeing a villain like Opaline is like a reality check for Twilight; sometimes, friendship isn’t enough.
@@SillyDartPony It honestly depends on the villain; unfortunately, this means that nothing is enough sometimes, like with Opaline, and you have to defeat the villain one way or another, even if it means killing the villain. I know it’s morbid, but things like that happen in real life. Take the police and SWAT team in standoffs for instance; they do try to talk the suspects out of it, but if the suspect in question has a weapon and is actively trying to hurt them or others, then they do have to take drastic measures.
This was a phenomenal animation with a great story that was really heartfelt and you could really feel the emotion for the character you should be writing for Gen 5.
I’m kinda 50/50 with Opaline getting what was coming to her. She didn’t try to get close to Celestia and Luna to become their friends, especially after almost burning down someplace, let herself be consumed by jealousy and hate and yeah, she went unchallenged for awhile, but her actions eventually came back to bite her. Now she’s trapped in a tree left to think about what she’s done to get to this point. In short, I feel bad for her, but not in the pitiful way, more like “you got what you deserved and now look where you are” kind of. Though, I will say, being trapped inside of a magic tree is probably just as bad if not worse than being turned to stone in my opinion. Because Opaline IS an alicorn, so unless she find a way out of there, she’s basically left with her thoughts and her cutie mark to think about her actions for the rest of her life.
I wish we get more backstory to her life at the time she was living in Skyros before she left and went to live in Equisteria. What were her motivations to want to rule equisteria. Was it to prove to herself and all the other Alicorns back home that she can be just as capable as Celestia, or she was viewed by her fellow Alicorn as a commoner and Celestian and Luna were the golden girls at her day. Who knows what sparked her interest at that time at her youth.
My theory of when she gets out is, the tree of harmony might reversed her age back to the time when she was at the age when she and Celestia were kids and would have to start growing up all over again, and this time she would have to learn "True Friendship" from Sunny and the rest of the gang starting from basics of what a friend trully is. She would give her a redemption arc in the series by interacting with the current ponies of this generation and learn important life lessons from them which would change and improve her view on ponies. And if the show still wants her to pursue her interest in ruling Equisteria like Celestia, then she would learn to do that the right way. My ide theory is that maybe Queen Haven would adopt young Opalline as one of her new daughters since both Zipp and Pipp have moved out of their homes and Zipp does not have any interest in becoming Queen, and Queen Haven is the perfect mother figure that would help guide and nurture Opalline to be a good Queen because she has some skills in ruling a nation that would be be beneficial for Opalline to learn from.
The mlp community is gettin stronger, every time I see soenthing incredible like this. I still prefer G4. But G5 fans are getting more impressive like this. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Another spectacular and phenomenal animation as usual Maka, I absolutely loved every second of it! Everyone did such a marvelous and fantastic job bringing this masterpiece to life make no mistake about it, Truly outstanding work guys!!!
Very smooth animation. I really enjoyed this song. Everyone involved did a fantastic job. Keep up the good work. Have a wonderful day Makaryo & Friend’s.
This actually is very sad, Misty and Sunny tried reaching out to Opaline, but she never listens. I dont know if this my heavy sympathy talking but I actually hope she returns. She may have deserved to be defeated but maybe she needs to think what she's done. Worked for Tai Lung when he was defeated.
That ending, she maybe dying by suffocation soon. All it remains in that tree, even if destroyed by the critters that caused her castle to collapse, it'll be her skeleton.
Opaline is seriously an underrated villain like I can get sometimes she’s dumb when it comes to her plan but she has a good backstory being drawn up all that is left is misty to see that and help opaline join the side of good and have a redemption we known she was alone for thousands of moons so it’s understandable why she grew so bitter and distrusting over time 😢
damn. i love celestia. also dont know much about g5 but from the title and the thumbnail i thought itd just be a fighting animation but i didnt expect the music to be sad or make me feel so much sympathy, i think opaline got trapped in the tree? thats sad
Darkness represents self esteem issues Fire represents pride it's important to take care of yourself but don't make yourself the number 1 priority when we be prideful it keeps us safe...safe from pain,trauma and problems but in the process we're hurting other people with our pride.
I have an idea for your next project. How about a video of Allura taking control of the mane 6 and Comet saves them, as they save him from her before? I think it would be a nice way for comet to return the favor.
I live the animation and how the beginning uses a fire as a representation of what Opaline feels. It's definitely interesting and i love how history repeats itself and Twilight uses the crystals as celestia had used the harmony gems. 😭😭 so beautiful! What if Opaline was also the cause of skyros falling?
Nice animation, the sequence 3.00-3.60 is very interesting and something that could actually be canon, because we know from the IDW covers when the Discord arc was underway, that Twilight had fought an unknown opponent and was about to lose. Right up until the end of MYM, when Opaline had stolen the dragons' magic, no one was able to believe that the fire alicorn could become a fearsome opponent. As soon as Opaline was strong enough, she had become a very serious threat on the same level as Tirek. The only way for Twilight to defeat Opaline was to use the Unity Crystals that Opaline had ironically helped bring about when she had sown magical chaos among the ponies before the first attack. It is canon that she was the first pony to have her magic taken by the Unity Crystals. But Twilight failed to capture Opaline who managed to escape despite the loss of her magic. And the aforementioned sequence showed that the final showdown between Twilight and Opaline may have happened in Zephyr Heights rather than Canterlot. An alicorn is immortal, we just don't know what kind of immortality it is, is it only against aging or against all possible death scenarios? Their immortality is possibly because they can be immune to the effects of time even though they "age" very slowly. Opaline was trapped in the Together tree which seemed to pull her down into the underground, along with her cutie mark which prevents her from using her talent - and elemental magic based on fire. Now she is in a prison - once again. For many centuries she had isolated herself in the dark castle without being able to get away because she needed the together tree in the castle for some unknown reason. But this time she is trapped with no way to escape. Opaline might show up in future G5, because I don't think she's gone for good. The question is - will she learn from it?
Hope you make a fan made episode about opaline and her past and the battel with opaline and twilight and how twilight made the bubble around equestria and opaline being send away from the land all alone that be so cool and feel for opaline more as well and cute video. Spike being part way with twilight be sad part I think
![[MLP] Princess Celestia, Luna & Queen Opaline Arcana - Tribute - Paradise (What about us)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/R6nOrgIxSGU/mqdefault.jpg)
i think i miss opaline guys U_U
Don't worry, you'll see her again soon.
You're not the only one 😔
You saw something in Opaline most people didn't
Me too :'v
❤
Getting trapped alive inside of a tree is probably the darkest fate we’ve had for a villain aside from just straight up dying.
Fr, some people complain about the statue stuff, but at least those were essentially frozen, right?
Seriously - at least the trio that was turned into stones isn't _conscious._ If they wake up, it'll be like waking up from sleeping.
Meanwhile Opaline is going to die of thirst at best, or be immortal in there forever at worst.
I þought she got eaten and killed by þe tree
Her magic might keep her alive for years without needing to eat.
@@MrConredsX what makes you þink þat? If þat’s þe case þan þats creepy
Opaline simply let herself be carried away by her own discord and never tried to get close enough to the Alicorn sisters to become their friends. She and Celestia are so similar but while Opaline only saw her attribute as a form of power and domination Celestia saw her flames as a way to give life and warmth to defenseless ponies. She surely tried to explain but Opaline didn't listen, closing herself off and seeing herself as the victim of everything. This great ego made her destroy Celestia's work and consequently Twilight's, but she was defeated by forces that she doesn't have the head to understand.
Opaline has now reaped what she sowed, the tree of harmony took away her cutie mark and her power. If she already suffered a perpetual confinement in her tower now she is much worse than before. And being an immortal Alicorn she is in a living hell.
Why didn't starlight glimmer help twilight sparkle?
Knowing how twisted Opaline’s concept of friendship was, she likely never wanted to be genuine friends with them but rather use their “friendship” as a means of getting noticed since Luna and Celestia were the golden girls back on Skyros. Basically the equivalent of someone wanting to be friends with cool kids at school so they themselves can climb up the social later. It’s consistent with her character when you realize all the people she considers “friends” were just ponies and creatures she used and manipulated and would be willing to toss them aside when they no longer served any purpose.
That "around the beam" dodging is so iconic that it took me less than a second to say "Oh, A Lullaby for a Princess reference. Nice!"
And the breaking through the window thingy
Ikr 😼
Opaline uses the light as a metaphor for attention and glory yet ironically enough, light itself is always fleeting as eventually even stars burn out. She had her fleeting moment of triumph only be left alone in the dark.
Time to become a neutron star
If it's any consolation, you're right, Opaline.
It's a lighthouse. Not a "brighthouse."
If only she was shown guidance and love, things could have been a lot more different.
Also that fight scene reminded me a little bit of the "lullaby for a princess".
When a fire grows to large, Opaline, the first to suffer is often the one who lit it.
another sweet work of yours.
reference to lullaby for a princess was unexpected but very welcome
it’s amazing to see the twilight edit i did used for something so incredible-
absolutely phenomenal maya 💚
Opaline has all the time now to think about her mistakes and what she did, she is alone with only her thoughts
I’m somewhat reminded of Kars from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure by this lol she might eventually just stop thinking which would be the worst possible outcome
Alone when she dies too
She thought only of herself.
Now her _self_ is all she has.
I almost felt bad for Opaline. Then I remembered how she treated Misty.
Will she return?
Will she try to do revenge?
Opaline was . . . A silly villian with a suspicious back story.
If we meet her again someday, I hope we can meet her as a friend, Not a fiend.
She's the most wasted potential among villains. Literally the oldest one who knows the backstory of how Equestria was made and knew Luna and Celestia before G4 started. She should had been the last final boss in G4 as she had more gravitas than Grogar or Pony of Shadows, especially since she ACTUALLY succeed in destroying G4 Equestria.
If not join the dark side Opaline, then i will happy. But Hasbro please, return her please
THE LULLABY FOR A PRINCESS REFERENCE AAAAAA🤩🤩
And everything about this, from the storyline and song choice, to the dialogues and 2d animation. Its giving such a nostalgic feel, kinda like what i feel after watching a disney movie🥹
Eitherway, keep up the wonderful and gorgeous work!
This is amazing bravo 👏 I loved the Lullaby for a princess reference.
This is a really fantastic and beautiful animation. I think you perfectly captured the essence of Opaline as a character here
Once again, Makaryo, you continue to blow me away with your incredible animations. It really lends a lot of additional context to Opaline’s backstory, and I just LOVED that fight scene between her and Twilight. As others have said, it seems very Lullaby For A Princess-inspired, and if that was your intention with it, that was an excellent homage. What else can I say other than keep up the awesome work. This kind of stuff is exactly what our community needs right now, and really shows the power of G5’s story. I will never not be impressed by the work you do. :)
P.S: Is it wrong that I feel kinda bad for Opaline here, the way you depict her imprisonment in the Together Tree? I always assumed she just became fused with the Tree itself when it grew, but imagining her actually inside it, trying to get out, but never being able to? Dang, that’s a fate worse than death.
I agree. Incredible work Makaryo😊
Not at all Hawk, I feel the same way.
She’s evil 😈, but seeing her like this is just tragic to me 😢
@@MaxstralousTheAlmightyI'm sure she's still alive and probably somewhere else
@@ronaldpagar6513 I appreciate that.
Where do you think she could be?
@@MaxstralousTheAlmighty she could be somewhere else since the tree is destroyed and hiding in the cave
@@ronaldpagar6513 Maybe 🤔
Best fan MLP animated short yet!!!!
I wish Hasbro did something like this in Make Your Mark!!
Bravo Maka, Bravo!! 10/10!!!
Opaline was just a jealous alicorn who needed someone who understood her, not to be locked in a tree to starve.
She still doesn’t care.
I could had fixed her
This explains why Opaline is the fire alicorn. Her obsession with fire magic and not being liked by others caused her to become an evil villain.
Beautiful animation as always, but I can't really feel bad for Opaline here. If anything, she brought it upon herself.
The parallels between Celestia and Luna
And Twilight and Opaline here
But instead of banishing Opaline to the moon, Twilight banished magic itself
I love that kind of story
The great Alicorn War…😨
In pursuit of power, when you deem no cost too great, you'll find yourself paying for it more than you ever thought possible. Opaline got burnt in the fires of her own ambition, and now, she only has the consequences of her actions to keep her company.
...I kinda want to hug evilbutt here >.>
OPALINE IS FIRE! This was absolutely fire.
2:50 the parallels to Lullaby for a Princess here are incredible
undoubtedly one of the best songs of Opaline
And the truth is that I miss her a lot :(
Opaline is a great villain in my opinion. A little flawed but overall great. She vile, cruel and most of all irredeemable. If she ever comes back, I hope she comes back stronger than ever.
So were **all** the villains. Until they were redeemed. That’s why friendship was so magical.
It’s not so much her character that people don’t like, it’s just the way she is shoehorned into the story of G4 without any prior appearances. And yet the writers just expect us to go along with it.
I see what you mean. In a show about friendship, seeing a villain like Opaline is like a reality check for Twilight; sometimes, friendship isn’t enough.
Then what's enough?
@@SillyDartPony It honestly depends on the villain; unfortunately, this means that nothing is enough sometimes, like with Opaline, and you have to defeat the villain one way or another, even if it means killing the villain. I know it’s morbid, but things like that happen in real life. Take the police and SWAT team in standoffs for instance; they do try to talk the suspects out of it, but if the suspect in question has a weapon and is actively trying to hurt them or others, then they do have to take drastic measures.
you've just combined 2 of my favorite things ever, brilliant
Wow. This Animation is Amazing, Beautiful,, Magnificent, Meaningful, and Powerful.
Opaline had so much potential... Only to be yoinked by a tree... At least she lives on in Maka's universe.
This was a phenomenal animation with a great story that was really heartfelt and you could really feel the emotion for the character you should be writing for Gen 5.
I’m kinda 50/50 with Opaline getting what was coming to her. She didn’t try to get close to Celestia and Luna to become their friends, especially after almost burning down someplace, let herself be consumed by jealousy and hate and yeah, she went unchallenged for awhile, but her actions eventually came back to bite her. Now she’s trapped in a tree left to think about what she’s done to get to this point. In short, I feel bad for her, but not in the pitiful way, more like “you got what you deserved and now look where you are” kind of. Though, I will say, being trapped inside of a magic tree is probably just as bad if not worse than being turned to stone in my opinion. Because Opaline IS an alicorn, so unless she find a way out of there, she’s basically left with her thoughts and her cutie mark to think about her actions for the rest of her life.
More than a decade after G4 launched and this fandom is still cranking out absolutely AMAZING stuff! Bravo to everyone involved!!
I wish we get more backstory to her life at the time she was living in Skyros before she left and went to live in Equisteria. What were her motivations to want to rule equisteria. Was it to prove to herself and all the other Alicorns back home that she can be just as capable as Celestia, or she was viewed by her fellow Alicorn as a commoner and Celestian and Luna were the golden girls at her day. Who knows what sparked her interest at that time at her youth.
Lullaby for princess reference look pretty awesome
I GENUINELY wished Opaline had redemption, and had become a real mother to Misty...
I feel bad for her and Misty
When Opaline escapes, she'll go to... THE MARETIME BAAAAAAAYYY!! Dah duh dah!!
Bro... this has to be one of the best animations i have seen this year! Amazing work dude 💜
My theory of when she gets out is, the tree of harmony might reversed her age back to the time when she was at the age when she and Celestia were kids and would have to start growing up all over again, and this time she would have to learn "True Friendship" from Sunny and the rest of the gang starting from basics of what a friend trully is. She would give her a redemption arc in the series by interacting with the current ponies of this generation and learn important life lessons from them which would change and improve her view on ponies. And if the show still wants her to pursue her interest in ruling Equisteria like Celestia, then she would learn to do that the right way. My ide theory is that maybe Queen Haven would adopt young Opalline as one of her new daughters since both Zipp and Pipp have moved out of their homes and Zipp does not have any interest in becoming Queen, and Queen Haven is the perfect mother figure that would help guide and nurture Opalline to be a good Queen because she has some skills in ruling a nation that would be be beneficial for Opalline to learn from.
Nice work dude, keep it up as always.
this looks incredible!! it looks so professional
The mlp community is gettin stronger, every time I see soenthing incredible like this.
I still prefer G4. But G5 fans are getting more impressive like this. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Was it worth it Opaline
Another spectacular and phenomenal animation as usual Maka, I absolutely loved every second of it! Everyone did such a marvelous and fantastic job bringing this masterpiece to life make no mistake about it, Truly outstanding work guys!!!
THIS is just…
* chefs kiss *
*BEAUTIFUL* ❤
She finally opened her eyes and saw what she done
Opaline is one of my favorite mlp villains
Very smooth animation. I really enjoyed this song. Everyone involved did a fantastic job. Keep up the good work. Have a wonderful day Makaryo & Friend’s.
In all honesty, it's nice to see these animations. It gives a very relaxed feeling. Thank you
I feel more invested in this Opaline than in the official show's
This actually is very sad, Misty and Sunny tried reaching out to Opaline, but she never listens. I dont know if this my heavy sympathy talking but I actually hope she returns. She may have deserved to be defeated but maybe she needs to think what she's done. Worked for Tai Lung when he was defeated.
Opaline is just the BEST ✨💖💎
That looks awesomeee!!!
That ending, she maybe dying by suffocation soon. All it remains in that tree, even if destroyed by the critters that caused her castle to collapse, it'll be her skeleton.
Opaline is seriously an underrated villain like I can get sometimes she’s dumb when it comes to her plan but she has a good backstory being drawn up all that is left is misty to see that and help opaline join the side of good and have a redemption we known she was alone for thousands of moons so it’s understandable why she grew so bitter and distrusting over time 😢
Waaahhh 😭😭😭💖💖💖
“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!” Such inspiring words
Loved this!
So pretty :3 I'm glad I stayed in a fandom
Opaline did hurt everypony but her childhood and her history is sad
Damn. DAMN. DAAAAMNNN.
I almost feel bad for Opaline now. If only this was canon.
She was actually inside a tree in make a mark but not by twilight since she’s hiding away
beautiful
Holy smokes this is an awesome atamtion
damn. i love celestia. also dont know much about g5 but from the title and the thumbnail i thought itd just be a fighting animation but i didnt expect the music to be sad or make me feel so much sympathy, i think opaline got trapped in the tree? thats sad
Making me tear up over Opaline of all characters, god damn...
I know.
Darkness represents self esteem issues Fire represents pride it's important to take care of yourself but don't make yourself the number 1 priority when we be prideful it keeps us safe...safe from pain,trauma and problems but in the process we're hurting other people with our pride.
"I miss my wife Tails, I miss her a lot."
"If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you seek darkness, that is all you will *EVER* see."
Dang, incredible! I wish the show was on this level of storytelling. Also, what that a "the moon rises" reference?
Amazing work
i Think I'll call this MYM Special 0. The hidden one.
Lots of references to Lullaby for a Princess in this
Oh…I feel emotion regarding something from G5.
Wasn’t expecting that.
Poor Opaline 😢
This really hit a hard shell 😢💔
-Holly
that was a beautiful animation ty
I have an idea for your next project. How about a video of Allura taking control of the mane 6 and Comet saves them, as they save him from her before? I think it would be a nice way for comet to return the favor.
When a fan animator makes a character more interesting than in the canon series.
poor twilight got cut up but yeah poor ophaline too she didnt deserve her childhood to be that way but still she is evil
If this were canon, I can see why we saw filly Celestia and Luna shun Opaline in Make Your Mark.
2:29 - Opaline Arcana, during the final days of the Great Division
BRO THIS IS SO COOL HELLO??? I GOT MAD CHILLS FROM THE FIGHT SCENE OMGG!!!!
The Loop continues
just like fire, beautiful and dangerous
Oapline we’re really sorry 😞 that you turned evil a long time ago 3:15
"This is Kino" ~ Martin Scorsese
I guess that the mane 6 are still looking for makaryo to that day.
Look awsome 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Oh lullaby for a princess reference! :D
This gives her a better back story unlike how show just threw the story off to the side. This also makes you sympathize with her character better. 😢
Fandom just keep the fore burning, huh?😊
Great work on the visual storytelling
Was that fight scene a refrence to WarpOut's Lullaby For A Princess animation? Because I swear I recognized the exact same beats
OMG its so great works!!!!!!
so so great I rlly miss Opaline
4ra with Aaron Finch onboard means serious business his presence spells quality and trust
I guess that "opaline" got turned into a tree basically.
I live the animation and how the beginning uses a fire as a representation of what Opaline feels. It's definitely interesting and i love how history repeats itself and Twilight uses the crystals as celestia had used the harmony gems. 😭😭 so beautiful! What if Opaline was also the cause of skyros falling?
Bro this is canon you can’t change my mind
Nice animation, the sequence 3.00-3.60 is very interesting and something that could actually be canon, because we know from the IDW covers when the Discord arc was underway, that Twilight had fought an unknown opponent and was about to lose. Right up until the end of MYM, when Opaline had stolen the dragons' magic, no one was able to believe that the fire alicorn could become a fearsome opponent. As soon as Opaline was strong enough, she had become a very serious threat on the same level as Tirek.
The only way for Twilight to defeat Opaline was to use the Unity Crystals that Opaline had ironically helped bring about when she had sown magical chaos among the ponies before the first attack. It is canon that she was the first pony to have her magic taken by the Unity Crystals. But Twilight failed to capture Opaline who managed to escape despite the loss of her magic.
And the aforementioned sequence showed that the final showdown between Twilight and Opaline may have happened in Zephyr Heights rather than Canterlot.
An alicorn is immortal, we just don't know what kind of immortality it is, is it only against aging or against all possible death scenarios? Their immortality is possibly because they can be immune to the effects of time even though they "age" very slowly.
Opaline was trapped in the Together tree which seemed to pull her down into the underground, along with her cutie mark which prevents her from using her talent - and elemental magic based on fire. Now she is in a prison - once again. For many centuries she had isolated herself in the dark castle without being able to get away because she needed the together tree in the castle for some unknown reason. But this time she is trapped with no way to escape.
Opaline might show up in future G5, because I don't think she's gone for good. The question is - will she learn from it?
Hope you make a fan made episode about opaline and her past and the battel with opaline and twilight and how twilight made the bubble around equestria and opaline being send away from the land all alone that be so cool and feel for opaline more as well and cute video. Spike being part way with twilight be sad part I think