Well, you have to admit her mane color scheme works well for it.

that is so cute.

I want one now.

She DOES have an impish sense of humor, and chafes at the elaborate propriety force on her by her station. She DOES do things now and then deliberately to amuse herself, or to deflate someone's sense of pomposity, and that CAN be seen as "trolling".

But ... really, it makes her more sympathetic for me. She's TRAPPED in being The Princess, Regina Ultima Equestria, and she has been for more than a thousand years, much of it spent completely alone. Those letter Twilight sends are as much for Celestia's benefit as anything else. Nopony can or will treat her as an equal -- not even her own sister, anymore, who's still recovering from a thousand-year prison sentence of her own making (trapped as Night Mare Moon, far more than trapped IN the moon). The one pony who came closest was Twilight Sparkle ... and those letters are Celestia's way of living vicariously through her student, living an ordinary live with the good, close friends that she'll never have again, if, indeed, she ever did.

So I'm willing to cut her some slack for a few gentle little pranks.

True.

It just bugs me when fans think it's soooooo funny to call her "the biggest troll in Equestria" and depict her doing cruel and nasty things to her subjects, her student Twilight, her own sister, etc.

My theory about Celestia is that she's a maternal figure (especially to Twilight), and how fans react to her speaks to how they relate to their own mothers. My mom is awesome, which allows me to see the awesomeness in Celestia.

(I think that's why it bugs me so much; when other people depict Celestia as nasty, it subconsciously feels to me like they're insulting my mom.)

Ha! It's disturbingly adorable!

And thus begins Equestria's first "My Little Trollny" collection!

Here I was anticipating her hiding under a bridge and harassing Iron Will's goat workers.

Heh. My bro-in-law took one of those troll dolls once and smoothed its hair straight back. "Look!" he said. "Michael Bolton!"

"Why should I have to change my name? He's the one who sucks!"

Oof, don't remind me. You get bored out of your one-horned skull, play a few pranks (making sure nobody really gets hurt, of course) and people start saying the most unkind things about you...

Someone made a suggestion that Trollestia was someone separate from Celestia and was the queen of an actual species of troll.