I just checked. This was commissioned by a guy who did an alternate reality fic where Rainbow was Celestia’s student. It was not supposed to be a faustiholic wet dream.
The comments here make me want to commission more “Cadance as a regular unicorn” art out of pure spite. And I say that as someone who didn’t even really mind her being an alicorn that much.
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that and I believe her original design was a Pegasus until Hasbro said Alicorn (I don’t know who made that decision I am just guessing, I am not blaming Hasbro)
True-Faustian ideal? Hmm. Well, I think if you’re going to change Cadance into a non-alicorn, she should be a pegasus, because isn’t that what she was according to the Crystal Heart Spell or whatever it was?