The Smiling Pony
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@Background Pony #52F4
Strongmen-style boasting was a fairly popular act back in the days of travelling circuses and fairs; someone would claim they were strong enough to lift stop a moving train, challenge the locals to arm wrestling and tug of war or the like, make a show out of comedy show out of besting them, and move to the next town. People loved those things, it’s what Trixie’s character was based off, and clumsily tried to be made into a villain. Trixie legged it after she was publicly humiliated and likely thought everyone would blame her for the Ursa; and going by how Rainbow was clearly intending to physically assault her over it, she probably wasn’t wrong.
As for Magic Duel and blasting Rainbow, she’d just had the amulet removed seconds before; I’d assume the adverse mental effects don’t wear off immediately, or they’d have shown her having one of those cartoonish memory-recovery type things after the sudden realization of what she’d done / was doing, given the show had driven the point that the amulet was making her outright insane.
And in Second Prances, Twilight hadn’t forgotten or forgiven. She should have been straight with both or at least one of them from the start. As well, she just kinda sat on a hill watching Trixie preparing to kill herself on stage, then allowed Starlight to try and save her.
And Lesson Zero wasn’t the “closest” to an ill-intended action, it was pretty damn ill intended. She brainwashed some kids in order to break up their friendship so she could write a report on how she fixed it just to avoid getting scolded for late homework. I’m not sure I’d ever want to be around someone who completely loses their moral compass over a minor panic.
Strongmen-style boasting was a fairly popular act back in the days of travelling circuses and fairs; someone would claim they were strong enough to lift stop a moving train, challenge the locals to arm wrestling and tug of war or the like, make a show out of comedy show out of besting them, and move to the next town. People loved those things, it’s what Trixie’s character was based off, and clumsily tried to be made into a villain. Trixie legged it after she was publicly humiliated and likely thought everyone would blame her for the Ursa; and going by how Rainbow was clearly intending to physically assault her over it, she probably wasn’t wrong.
As for Magic Duel and blasting Rainbow, she’d just had the amulet removed seconds before; I’d assume the adverse mental effects don’t wear off immediately, or they’d have shown her having one of those cartoonish memory-recovery type things after the sudden realization of what she’d done / was doing, given the show had driven the point that the amulet was making her outright insane.
And in Second Prances, Twilight hadn’t forgotten or forgiven. She should have been straight with both or at least one of them from the start. As well, she just kinda sat on a hill watching Trixie preparing to kill herself on stage, then allowed Starlight to try and save her.
And Lesson Zero wasn’t the “closest” to an ill-intended action, it was pretty damn ill intended. She brainwashed some kids in order to break up their friendship so she could write a report on how she fixed it just to avoid getting scolded for late homework. I’m not sure I’d ever want to be around someone who completely loses their moral compass over a minor panic.