Sooo. End of season unpopular opinions regarding the handling of Twilight, her awkwardly written Celestia and Starlight dynamics, and on a related note, The Element of Magic in general, as well as the true form of the Elements of Harmony. OBVIOUS SPOILERS
2 Topics:
(1st topic) 3 groups of harmony bearers powered up Twilight in the finale to create ANOTHER generic Rainbow Light to defeat the 3 final enemies.
And yet half a decade ago….
With 7 elements, including a true new one discovered by Celestia’s wayward first heir, working completely in unison instead of just powering up Twilight whom FiM seems to think is that only one that matters during these situations…
…Creates a force a thousand times more powerful and more impressive looking then anything the Twilight battery gang unleashes.
Thoughts? Headcanons? Did Celestia really have all knowing wisdom making Twilight the center of everything to foster Harmony’s power, after showing such great judgement with young Luna and young Sunset, or was there a reason Friendship power actually evolved with Celestia as uninvolved as possible.
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(2nd Topic) The element of Magic. Magic isn’t a merit, unlike the other 5 elements. Friendship may be magic, but magic is not always friendship. We’ve all figured that little anecdote out well into the series, but is the element of magic….evil? Is an element that is attempting to be a ‘merit’ that is actually just raw magical power evil, unstable or incomplete?
The founder who first represents the element:
The effect of it being used with the others by one person compared to six, even on one’s beloved sister.
Compared to when used by six strangers with collective moral fiber.
And that’s not even getting into real points yet.
Coming into contact with the element of magic turns a mean and ambitious girl but still has standards like not willing to hurt animals/dragons….
…crying and screaming into a ruthless monster with no morals whatsoever, and when freed from it, she comes across as traumatized by the experience, and later, in complete contempt of that form.
And and lets not forget when Sci Twi tried accessing the elements, including a device that mimicked her own, before she properly awoke as an element herself. The results were also sort of…
..evil. Again, forcefully and painfully.
Then there’s Ms. Gaia Everfree. When she had 5 of the geodes, she was actually mentally pretty normal beyond overextending herself via lies and stress. They were for the most part harmless even when someone not worthy like her was actively using them.
But the second she grabs the last two, including the one representing the element of magic.
Shit goes down. Let’s be honest, that’s a…pretty drastic change between holding 5 elements and 7 elements.
And when 7 elements powered up another unworthy person when the elements, the effects were also quite evil.
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One could argue that too much of any energy can corrupt someone. but if we take into account the sordid history of the Element of Magic, its lack of any ‘moral merit’, and its immediate and corruptive effect on the others especially Sunset and Gloriosa, one has to wonder if the Element of Magic was the most ill conceived and corruptible part of such a supposedly incorruptible magic.
Was Pony Twilight really chosen to be an element due to some high potential of moral fiber, if her element doesn’t represent any moral fiber? Even Celestia admitted that a function of the Element of Magic was that she could recieve a nearly infinite amount of magic temporaritly from other donars, and in terms of mental stregnth, the fandom knows how unhealthy her subservient attitude is towards Celestia, and one could easily argue that with the amount of lessons exposed to her, far more worthy people could not only stand up to the task, but surpass and outgrow prececessor expectations instead of living to it blindly.
Even Swi Twi represents being an Element of Magic better because if we interpret Magic as neutral, vast power that could easily corrupt, Sci Twi sort of surpassed Luna’s dark destiny considering how similar Nightmare Moon and Midnight Sparkle were. Luna had to be blasted with magic to reform, leading her in a very unhealthy relationship of living masochistic defeat in her dreams, while Sci Twi accepted Sunset Seraph’s hand willingly, and slowly dealt with her demons with her friends help when she felt doubts and darkness again.
Thoughts? HeadCanons?
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(And one final sidenote.) We are being told very conflicting stories in MLP:FiM. We are constantly being told that the elements of magic in some form will be the solution to everything. Yet the main characters are constantly cleaning up the messes of the people that originally used that magic. The argument that they are simply more worthy of them compared to their founders doesn’t cut it, especially since before the sisters, the founders were 6 ponies who wielded them.
Correction. SEVEN ponies. But Stygian was abandoned out of reckless lack of communication and compassion. Was Stygian supposed to be the 7th element like Sunset?
And we are constantly being told that Twilight Sparkle is the chosen one and the end all be all even by main character standards. Yet one of Equestria’s greatest tragedies, Luna transforming and being banished, was caused by so much expectations being piled onto to so few ponies no matter how talented, and power and envy corrupted one of them and that absolute power that they owned was turned into a weapon of tragedy.
The main characters, especially being lead on by Celestia, never try to surpass the past and its mistakes, but simply continue it for the next generation. Sunset broke the cycle where Stygian could of done from the start.
I don’t even need to mention them turning the villains to stone was just a giant middle finger to lessons learned after how well that worked with Discord and his initial rampage once free.
