@vaddix
‘Okay’ might not be the word I’d use, but it would be interesting. I think ‘would x be a good princess’ or ‘does x deserve to be a princess’ are the wrong questions to ask, since neither matters unless there is a good narrative reason for the development. So the right question would be ‘would x becoming a princess open up new story opportunities’.
This is also why I like the idea of the Crusader’s special talent basically being “Being Cutie Mark Crusaders”. If they’d each gotten their more bog-standard talents hinted at early on, the “finding our Cutie Marks” angle would have been cut off without anything else filling up the niche. Now we can look forward to stories revolving around them helping others find their Marks and defining what being a Cutie Mark Crusader really means.
Must be the difference between single cutie mark acquisition and multiple, themed cutie mark acquisition. My headcanon is that when that happens–usually to twins like Aloe and Lotus or Flim and Flam–a bigger cutiespark occurs.
I gotta admit, though I didn’t think they’d really make them all ascend, I did think something a lot bigger than cutie marks was happening. The effect for cutie-mark-getting seen in The Cutie Mark Chronicles was a lot less grand.