Ooh la la!

This is why I love this site. On an image like this, a discussion about unicorn physiology springs up.

….. O.o

@Poptard
 
Yeah, I’m just as surprised as you are, honestly XD

Okay, I stepped out for a few hours, and this discussion just went crazy.

Head-canon: Unicorn Horns have velvet, like a deer’s antler. But unlike a deer’s antlers, unicorn horns are not shed, and they do not lose velvet.

@DrHorse  
Implying wings are the reason for sonic rainbooms (aside from the speed of course) somehow making my point moot…yeah because that’s not a blatant assumption. RD is the fastest flyer, and the only one who can do a sonic rainboom (save Twi’s magically created one), the difference is not wings, but speed, hence the term being soo close to sonic boom.

@Techy Pony  
Of course, lift is what causes sonic rainbooms. Why didn’t I think of that.

Naruto could explain it, I assume. :j

I’m… Pretty sure that’s not called petting.

@DrHorse  
In both cases the wings are there to create lift. In case of horns, for most animals they are for fighting and thus being solid bone and strong (and lacking feeling) is a necessity. For a horn whos purpose is to channel magic (or whatever it does), I think it’s safe to say they’re quite different.
 
However, pegasus wings are quite different from normal bird wings, especially given they act as quite nimble appendages.

@Techy Pony  
Do you find it strange that people would compare pegasus wings to bird wings?

@DrHorse  
Don’t know what you mean by that.
 
 
@Deft Gear  
How did anything I said sound like some conspiracy theory argument?

@Twifan  
Or maybe it’s me that is making them think that they make me think that  
EVIL MANIAC LAUGH

@Deft Gear  
Or at least, that what they want you to think…

@Techy Pony  
It was a simple headcannon, not a conspiracy theory about the government of USA

@Techy Pony  
Do you have the same reaction when people talk about pegasus wings?

@Deft Gear  
We are dealing with vibrantly colored magical ponies. It’s really not a far fetched head canon when you think about it. I just find it funny when people talk about unicorn horns as if they’ve studied unicorn biology or something. Horse =/= (equestrian) pony, so why would (bull, narwhal, rhino etc.) horn = unicorn horn?

@Jackarunda  
Well yeah, but most people headcannons is that horns have a layer of skin and that’s why is sensitive

@Jackarunda  
fyi, there are nerves in your teeth.

[magiculation intensifies]

I agree with Poptard. A unicorn’s horn IMO is closest to a bone or nail, like a tooth. Feelingless, but still connected to the skeleton and/or rigid supporting tissue.
 
[but they feel pain] Yeah but so do your teeth, and they don’t have any nerve endings. You can not feel something touching your tooth, but you can still feel when it receives any great force, like when something hits it (biting down on a steel lugnut definitely hurts)

I’m hope she pops :3c

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@anonymous-pony  
Only one problem, howcome when Sweetie Belle hit Rarity’s horn, Rarity rubs herself in pain?
 
Some fic writers have hypothesized that unicorn horns are sensitive when infused with magic, but otherwise insensitive.