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Advice from Trixie :P
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I could see Trixie being pushed to such extremes, yeah, but what doesn’t make sense is why she’d suddenly start wanting to screw with Twilight again. The thing about Magic Duel, is Trixie validated herself in every possible way. Not only did she beat Twilight by using “real” magic, but Twilight had to beat Trixie by using Trixie’s “fake” magic AND the help of her friends also using Trixie’s “fake” magic: what did that tell the whole world, if not that Trixie was, all along, the better magician? She’s shown that whole town that one Trixie is a better Twilight than one Twilight, while it takes one Twilight and eleven other ponies (AND one witch doctor magical zebra) combined to be a better Trixie than one Trixie. She had nothing more to prove, her career was restored, the bullies of Ponyville knew not to pester her, time to leave that podunk town behind and get on with her life once more. It barely even made sense that she wanted to come back at all, let alone specifically to dredge up an old fight with someone she barely even knew :P
I agree to an extent, though I don’t think her reaching that point is out of the question, and if you believe that what she did in No Second Prances to be a suicide attempt (which it very likely is), then she already has. And I don’t think that’s out of character for her, everyone has a breaking point, including Trixie. Being alone, octracized, homeless, friendless, and having self-doubt is not a good combo. And to add insult to injury, imagine having The Princess of Fucking Friendship attempt to break apart your first and only friendship. That would fucking sting.
Honestly, I think Trixie’s one of the least flanderized characters post Magic Duel, except for trying to get back at Twilight again in NSP, that was stupid. Even though she may seem selfish at times, she’s shown to be quite selfless as well, her sacrifices in the Season 6 and Season 9 finales come to mind. While they could’ve (and should’ve) done a lot more with her, I’m glad they didn’t just leave her to rot after Magic Duel.
It’s like they wanted so badly to create a conflict to make Starlight the good guy, they forgot that Trixie has, up until now, been a reactive character who really doesn’t start shit but only really acts when she’s provoked or acting toward a specific goal and really doesn’t have a beef with Twilight and her friends, and that Twilight is generally very trusting of others to a fault. It just doesn’t make sense for Twilight, a character who only 4 episodes ago trusted a manipulative lying villain on that villain’s word they wanted to reform, to not trust Trixie, a reactive character who really has no reason to mess with any of them any longer :P
Not to mention how Twilight acts, it put a really bad taste in my mouth. It really seemed like she couldn’t give less of a shit if Trixie offed herself or not. Terrible episode.
I am glad that we got to see a heroic side of Trixie, she nearly sacrificed herself twice to help save Equestria, a place that in her eyes, has done nothing but beat her while she was down. Trixie’s a good person, but I’m disappointed that there’s still people that don’t understand that or just refuse to.
I didn’t like that whole episode though, for how they kind of messed up Trixie’s character. I can’t help but feel like they hammered a square peg into a round hole to make her fit the episode they wanted, rather than making the episode work around her. Like, she’s a character who waited two whole years at least for a rematch with Twilight, and even pointed out the reason she did it was because her career was destroyed and she was being harassed rather than out of some kind of grudge, and then made peace, left on good terms, and had her career back… and suddenly out of nowhere, after another full year of peace, she’s abruptly put her career on pause to come and pull some machiavellian nonsense to fuck with a woman she barely even knows because she suddenly cares about messing up that woman’s personal little parole project? It just makes zero sense, even by kid’s show standards. It’s why I think they should have dropped the whole revenge plot entirely and just had her befriend Starlight without even knowing she had a relationship at all with Twilight: how funny would it have been if she came into the room, saw Twilight, and said “Oh no not you again! You hang out with HER, Starlight?! I should have known when you gave that caterpillar a friendship lecture!” and stormed out? XD
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I mean, there was that one time where she DID give up in No Second Prances. I don’t know if you watched that episode since I know you don’t care for Starlight.
It’s not really my thing. She always seemed like the kind of character who keeps her head up no matter what and spins a loss as a victory. She just doesn’t seem like the type to sulk or give up or try to change for the better; she seems more like somewhere between a free spirit and a cautionary tale XD
This does make me curious, what’s your thoughts on people’s portrayal of her character in stories like these?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/298790/start-of-a-new-life
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/532898/final-performance
@WanderingHolyKnight
I’ve headcanoned that she escaped through the portal, back to Filly Dash time, and now she’s one of several “clones” of Trixie running about :P
your current filter.Ah, my mistake!😅 Granted, I didn’t know where to look for her.
That’s 100% Trixie
your current filter.I looked up the clip in the bad future. I think that was a different pony you saw, not Trixie. Otherwise, you’re right.
Only in the comics, though. We actually know surprisingly little about her in canon, considering she was a pretty major character in the end, and a redeemed antagonist to boot, who had been around since Season 1. Like, she has a dad who may or may not know she exists and that’s basically all we really know about her. I like it. It’s kind of neat that everything we know about her we had to interpret from her personality. An interesting thing that I’ve noticed about her, is she’s strangely protective of others: we saw her teamed up with survivors against the changelings in that one bad future when you’d assume she’d have just ran, she teamed up with Starlight and co to fight the changelings and save ponies who had actually been pretty rotten to her, and she was protective of Gallus toward Grandpa Gruff. It’s cool how they fairly subtly gave her that character trait with no real explanation why :P
your current filter.@The Smiling Pony
@Badumsquish
your current filter.
your current filter.Maybe it’s some sort of boomer “hold herself up by her bootstraps” kind of thing. Like Princess Celestia has outright offered to completely fund her entire operation and she turned it down out of patented Applejack stubbornness.
Princess Celestia: “Applejack. You work incredibly hard for Equestria. You’ve saved this kingdom and her citizens several times over. Millions of ponies are alive today because of you, and their children and their children’s children will thrive thanks to you. Our descendants will sing songs of your heroism. This isn’t a handout; this is a pittance of the debt Equestria owes you. Now please accept this chest of one billion bits.”
Applejack: “AIN’T TAKIN’ A HANDOUT, PRINCESS!!!” XD
They go back to being in financial straits with the Zap Apple Jam episode, iirc, needing the batch to be good “or else”.
@The Smiling Pony
To me, even if she’s not technically “rich” I think it’s a distinction without difference sort of affair. She’s from an at least well-off family in the capital city, attended private school, has been the protege of the country’s absolute ruler since the age of about 6, has casually mingled with royalty since the age of needing a babysitter, is the sister to the leader of the country’s entire military, has served as a diplomat since the very first episode, has all of her domestic needs taken care of free of charge, attends every exclusive high-profile event, has a personal assistant who follows her every order and is essentially a servant, and seems to have complete autonomy to make any decisions she wants and be given anything she asks for. And this was all before she even became a princess. Whether or not she’s “rich” is honestly a moot point since she already has all the power and privilege one would have from being rich and then some: the only difference it would ultimately make is whether or not she had a big pile of money somewhere that she would never need to use anyways. All I know is I would look at someone with the connections, power, privilege, and standard of living as Twilight and think “holy HELL she is rich” :P
:shrug:
Twilight and family are either rich, or absurdly fortunate. And iirc at least one of their rooms is in a palace tower, which I’d feel safe in assuming is entirely theirs.
your current filter.Edited
Twilight’s parents have a massive home in the capital city, got their daughter a literal princess as babysitter, put their daughter through the country’s most prestigious private school, their son in the military academy, who then achieved the country’s highest rank (and later became ruler of a neighbouring nation through marrying into royalty).