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Philweasel
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@hironakamura
That would just make her another Discord, and one’s more than enough.
Nah. Discord’s chaotic. My vision for Starlight is a lot more of a sociopath. Y’know, the one that wanted to spend eternity in a time loop just to mess up Twilight’s and her friends lives.
I want ponies to be afraid of her maniacal laugh and I want her to over react on the most mundane things. To top it off, I want her to be shown taking advantage of the ponies infinitely forgiving nature mostly for comedic effect. And then underneath all that grime, sharp and rough superficial exterior, there is a tiny but bright “glimmer” of a true friend that comes out whenever it needs to.
That’s what friends are. They’re not perfect people. They’re people that you like even if they piss you off.
 
So Trixie then?
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I feel I should show more empathy for people who no longer enjoy the show due to changes they don’t agree (e.g Starlight,changedlings etc)  
Usually I don’t give a damn but maybe I should :x
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I have no problems with people who no longer enjoy the show as long as they aren’t dicks about it to the people who do still enjoy it. And this of course goes both ways: the people who do still enjoy it shouldn’t be dicks to the people that don’t.
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It really pisses me off, Chrysalis is evil and I love it, too bad the show hasn’t done anything to show the better side of a mother.
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The show couldn’t get away with death if it tried
 
 
actually this one really is too old
 
@gingerninja666  
I’m still not feeling how Starlight is a clone of Twilight
 
She’s a powerful Unicorn who isn’t Twilight Sparkle from 2012 and refuses to just go away and stop existing– that’s all it takes for her detractors.
 
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trixie is as real as it gets
 
I thought this was as real as it gets.  
Philweasel
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@Philweasel
Elaborate.
 
Aw, I was just messing with hironakamura.
 
…and possibly throwing a tiny bit of shade Trixie’s way, sure. Come on, the mare touts a personal philosophy of never learning from your mistakes, has exactly one friend (and even she wants to deck her half the time), and puts way, way too much effort into being a gigantic dick at all times.
 
She’s not a sociopath though. I honestly think that ultimately Trixie just feels it’s all a bit of laugh, and never really wants anyone to get hurt or upset. She’s likely got a backstory that would make you weep, and a whole bucketload of personal demons that she’s still running from. And though she might wet herself every time danger looms it’s head, she’s still without fail placed her skinny, magic deficient rump between it and her companions twice now.
 
Which is why she’s #6 on my best pony list, and Discord’s right beside Angel Bunny and Svengallop.
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@Marx  
Let’s also not forget the fans who unfortunately couldn’t get over Lauren Faust’s departure or Alicorn Twilight. Even though I still heavily enjoy the show, I too feel bad for those that no longer can.
 
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How is it that the censors were OK with that scene in HAHD, yet objected to a Call of Duty reference in the form of COTC originally being called Call of Cutie?
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@Philweasel  
They better not. The more Trixie gets shat on, the more pissed I become. I mean really fucking pissed. I’ll start another shitstorm if that happens, I’ll do worse.
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@hironakamura
That would just make her another Discord, and one’s more than enough.
Nah. Discord’s chaotic. My vision for Starlight is a lot more of a sociopath. Y’know, the one that wanted to spend eternity in a time loop just to mess up Twilight’s and her friends lives.
I want ponies to be afraid of her maniacal laugh and I want her to over react on the most mundane things. To top it off, I want her to be shown taking advantage of the ponies infinitely forgiving nature mostly for comedic effect. And then underneath all that grime, sharp and rough superficial exterior, there is a tiny but bright “glimmer” of a true friend that comes out whenever it needs to.
That’s what friends are. They’re not perfect people. They’re people that you like even if they piss you off.
So Trixie then?
 
Why not? Trixie has the more colorful personality than Starlight. That’s what they did in one of the LoM comics. They gave Starlight Trixie’s personality because that type of character matches well off of straight man types.
 
I always thought Trixie should have been Twilight’s student. She was introduced since season 1. She was the original rival. She should have been the one that’s reformed. She should have had the missing friend back story which I always thought that fit well with the reason why she traveled everywhere.
 
My theory is Starlight was created because Sunset was created for EqG. They were running out of ideas with the existing characters so instead of fleshing out an already existing character like Trixie, they created a new one instead. Y’know, like Fairly Odd Parents did. Instead of using characters like Tootie, Chester and AJ, they made Foop, Chloe and that terrible fairy dog.
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@hironakamura  
Starlight is much better than atrocities like the dog and Chloe. Trixie is the rival Twilight. And she wants Starlight teaches her interesting spells…to defeat Twilight. That’s because Trixie isn’t Twilight pupil, because the comedic relief Trixie and Twilight always are rivals.
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