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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.
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So, when it comes down to it, both characters are generally well written with their own separate strengths and weaknesses and flaws that they live with.
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Also, glad to see Twixie as the featured image.
 
I wonder if other Twixie pics where previously featured?
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I still think Snips and Snails where the ones to blame.
 
I mean, boasting that you could beat a dangerous monster when you can’t is dumb, but having someone actually bring in said monster is even dumber.
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@Background Pony #52F4  
Aren’t those just weak excuses? At least @The Smiling Pony is telling it as it is.
 
Trixie’s style of showmanship is quite traditional in visiting showmen and show-women visiting old towns, the boastful style is what her introduction was based on.
 
Twilight “fucking up” normally implies feeling guilty about that on a moral level. Twilight is the type of person who has removed herself so completely from natural empathy not overwhelmed by hyperdependeny…that she actually couldn’t hold her head high for giving the crystal heart to spike and thus saving everyone, and just accept the consequences.
 
This is not a one time thing, it’s constant in many episodes with her, and it was acknowledged in Amending Fences that finally empathizing nearly gave her a self acknowledged emotional breakdown. She only knows how to be civil, but not so deep beneath the surface twilight is messed up. S6 celestia is getting sick of it, and even Pinkie of all people has pointed it out at least once. The moral and empathetic side of her brain simply shuts down.
 
Trixie is sort of the opposite. While twilight almost literally lives a barbie life, trixie lives in a poor and undeserved hell. She constantly displays rude and false bravado to keep her confidence intact, but when shit hits the fan she is quite sane and quite moral, especially when she’s found something valuable in her life.
 
Trixie, for all her barely responsible huge mistakes and getting blamed and judged for all of it, unlike rarity in the inspiration episode, is a far more empathetic and healthy person then twilight.
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@The Smiling Pony  
Hardly. Boast Busters had Trixie running a free public show as a “strongman” character that the M6 thought would be OK to heckle
 
If somepony comes to your town, sets up a stage, and tells you your talents are shit, it’s going to elicit a predictable response. If that same pony talks a big game, it’s going to make foals fawn over her. And in this case those same foals tried to get Trixie to display her skills by trying to recreate the act. Maybe not directly her fault, but those idiots weren’t out looking for space bears on the regular. They did it to see their hero in action. And yes, there was some collateral damage, but Trixie didn’t offer to stay to help rebuild, and if she had, I bet those same hecklers would have helped her. Her pride fucked her, plain and simple.
 
Magic Duel was her under the influence of a cursed item, same as Rarity in Inspiration Manifestation; her motivations ostensibly goes as far as showing up Twilight, not what happened after as the show made clear multiple times; and how magnanimous of Twilight to forgive someone under mind control that tried to make amends afterwards.
 
While it was clear she was under the influence, it was also clear once the amulet was removed that Trixie fully intended to blast Rainbow with a pain ray. I’ll give her some credit for being under mind control, but she still showed up looking for revenge.
 
No Second Prances immediately started off with Twilight forgetting the “forgiving” part and hating on Trixie, and her grand plan, once again, was only to show up Twilight, nothing sinister remotely involved. And no, she wasn’t forward with either of them.
 
There is a difference between forgiving somepony and forgetting they have a tendency towards causing trouble.
 
Meanwhile Twilight’s “noble motives” for brainwashing an entire town,disintegrating reality, or nearly getting her entire city (and possibly everyone in it) eaten have revolved around her personal fear of not being the Little Miss Perfect the show’s been insistent on telling us she is.
 
Yep, she fucks up because she panics. But she’s still trying to do the right thing. Lesson Zero is the closest she’s come to an ill-intentioned action and that was her trying to get three fillies to fight over an old doll, then getting the whole town to fight over it. Nearly getting the town eaten was her trying to save the town’s food supply. Midguided, dangerous, but hey, good ponies make bad decisions.
 
None of this, btw, is intended to say Trixie is bad. She’d not. She’s got a chip on her shoulder and pride that is bordering on insanity, but she’s not bad. What is she is very, very prone to causing strife. And its pretty easy to see why Twilight was a little worried about her hanging out the barely-reformed Starlight.
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a lot more pure
 
Hardly. Boast Busters had Trixie running a free public show as a “strongman” character that the M6 thought would be OK to heckle; what happened with the Ursa can’t be considered her fault, and the show made clear to reward Spike, Snips, and Snails, destroy Trixie’s only known property (and home and livelihood) and call it garbage. Magic Duel was her under the influence of a cursed item, same as Rarity in Inspiration Manifestation; her motivations ostensibly goes as far as showing up Twilight, not what happened after as the show made clear multiple times; and how magnanimous of Twilight to forgive someone under mind control that tried to make amends afterwards. No Second Prances immediately started off with Twilight forgetting the “forgiving” part and hating on Trixie, and her grand plan, once again, was only to show up Twilight, nothing sinister remotely involved. And no, she wasn’t forward with either of them.
 
Meanwhile Twilight’s “noble motives” for brainwashing an entire town,disintegrating reality, or nearly getting her entire city (and possibly everyone in it) eaten have revolved around her personal fear of not being the Little Miss Perfect the show’s been insistent on telling us she is.
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Intentions mean a heck of a lot, and Twilight’s intentions whenever she messes up Ponyville are a lot more pure than Trixie’s were (nor has she done so since like, season 2). That’s not even counting the fact that Trixie continues to be an asshole towards Twilight even after Twilight forgave her and let her off scot-free in Magic Duel. Twilight was understandably wary about Trixie when Starlight first mentioned her (due to Twilight not having seen her in a long time), and then Trixie reinforced it by immediately talking to her mockingly and vandalizing her property.
 
Twilight DID bring her reservations up to Starlight, but she just blew them off as Twilight being overprotective and mistrusting h er. While Twilight didn’t go about it in the best way (trying to push “other” friends onto Starlight, and then abandoning Celestia in her castle), she was trying to do what was best for Starlight’s stunted growth in the area of friendship, and was correct in her worries about Trixie, given what Trixie’s original plan was.
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I’ll always prefer Twixie over Startrix, seeing as I don’t much care for Glimmer, and the first Trixie image I ever saw way back in 2011 was Twixie (and this same artist, but not this image) I’ll always have a soft spot for it.
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Hey, noone said Twilight was perfect either. But intentions count for a lot in this world, and Twilight’s are solidly on Paragon. Trixie seems to favor Renegade. Plus, when Twi fucks up a town, she stays to fix it. Trixie makes an exit.
 
Honestly, I firmly believe Trixie should have been properly redeemed. I’m more than a little miffed that it was Glimmer who got that treatment, but… frankly I think Glimmer was too powerful to ignore. She needed to be turned, or jailed.
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@Background Pony #52F4  
Twilight kinda wrecked Ponyville more times and worse than Trixie ever did. But of course, perfect pony princess can do no wrong and it’s perfectly acceptable for her to undermine her supposed friend behind her back rather than just be upfront about her reservations to either of them.
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@Background Pony #1652  
Honestly, it’s not even distaste. It’s wariness. Twilight asked Starlight to go make a new friend, and Starlight brings back somepony who has made trouble for Ponyville in a fairly major way (both unintentionally and quite intentionally.) It’s not so much that Trixie is bad as that she’s bad for Starlight. A bit like a recovering alcoholic making friends with a former meth addict. They might support each other, or they might end up on a drunken meth fueled rage one night.
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Twilight doesn’t have a grudge against Trixie; the only distaste is because of Trixie’s continuing jerkassery towards her.
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