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Description
“Alternate Gender Counterparts of Heroes” is my new project! Here, characters switch roles with their soul mates (mares with stallions and stallions with mares).Cadance is the Alternate Gender Counterpart of Shining Armor. She is a female unicorn pony and Flash Sentry’s older sister. Cadance is the captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard.
In hindsight, I could have worded that better.
They way I usually see “what-if scenario” used, it’s in the form of “what if this thing had happened”, “what if this other hadn’t”, “what if this choice had been made differently”, etc. It’s generally applied to situations where the timeline diverges at a recognizable point, as opposed to the type of AU where characters are put in radically different contexts from their original ones (i.e. where you modify a lot of things – race, species, setting, etc. – rather than just one event).
But yes, I can see how my phrasing caused confusion.
>not a what-if scenario
>what if they swapped races
Other pairings include (for example) the pegasus guard Twilight and the alicorn prince Flash Sentry, the chaos spirit Fluttershy and the timid pegasus Discord, the aspiring wonderbolt Soarin’ and the professional athlete Rainbow Dash, and Rarity and Fashion Plate, for whom I could not come up with snappy descriptions.
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well, just retconning the whole “I have no idea how to use these wings” moment in the wedding episode, and the “my special talent’s bringing love into the hearts of others THROUGH UNICORN MIND CONTROL RAYS SEE?” moment. you’re right that not a lot was established, but the story book managed to contradict what little there was. it’s okay though, because the episode contradicted itself many times, f/i when it made cadance both an alicorn princess, and twilight’s dumb babysitter.
Not really retconning if nothing was established, but yeah, doesn’t make alot of sense.
her special talent is a unicorn spell! it’s just stupid and contrived retconning to make her a pegasus.
she was raised by earth ponies and then in a capital town of unicorns.
No time was made for experience with her own base tribe.
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but then why is she so good at magic, and bad at flying?
it fits so well