Okay… admittedly, while he self-identifies as a pirate, you don’t have any real proof of actual wrongdoing…
 
Still… it’s not exactly a great idea for an alicorn princess to potentially join in shenanigans like this for the sake of her own hubris.

Blargh

dat Pirate got skillz

@ALIS  
Not just an armed criminal, but an armed criminal who is pathetically easy to manipulate.

5 minutes as a princess and she is already an armed criminal operating in international waters.
 
Good job on that one Celestia…

stroking egos… heh.

@DoomPony  
This is kind of a razor line because I agree that Twilight’s title shouldn’t be front-and-center in every episode. Yet completely ignoring it doesn’t feel right either.
 
I’ve already scratched my head at how often the Mane 6 are disrespected after they saved the land several times over. Are ponies really going to talk back or insult a princess?
 
@Masem  
Similar thing going on here. I’m glad her friends are treating her any differently. As for this pirate pony, I get that he wouldn’t care to show reverence towards an authority figure. Kinda undoes that whole pirate theme.
 
I’d just like for a quick exchange. Something like:
 
“Fair warning, highness, this ship’s not for the pampered.”
 
“I’ll be fine, thank you.”

And here comes the MLP/OP crossovers.

@DoomPony  
Ah, gotcha, my fault.
 
I do agree that if they randomly throw “Princess” Twilight around in stories and episodes and do nothing that addresses her new responsibilities, that’s a problem. So far I don’t see that here - this is Twi hanging with her homies.

I for one, love Twilight’s mane design with the little curls. :3
 
I hope she keeps it for the comics.

@Masem  
What? No. Wings are physical properties, that’s not going anywhere and I love it. I meant her title/crown/social status/job. Sorry, I wasn’t clear.

@DoomPony  
So what, take away the wings for an episode?
 
Should we take away Fluttershy’s wings if she doesn’t fly during an episode?
 
IDW’s editor says they’re trying to stay consistent with the show and since winged Twilight is the new reality, she’s going to be winged, whether she flies or not.

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
I’m all for the new story avenues, but if her being a princess isn’t necessary for some stories then I think not shoving it into those is a pretty safe move.

@RIG  
I hope not. Drama aside, I think Twilight’s new role opens up some story avenues. If it gets ignored 90% of the time, then it’ll feel like a waste.

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
Well, he only has one eye.

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
that stuff if for the first two episodes of season 4, outside of them no one in universe cares about she having wings.

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
It would have taken her another two pages to get up there.

I’m not unhappy that Twilight is behaving like her usual self, yet is nopony going to mention the wings and horn? Alicorn, anypony?
 
Either this pirate has very poor powers of observation, or Twilight will have wings in this story but will never acknowledge them. In fact, why isn’t she flying on to the deck?

@RIG  
Yup, that’s what I mean, in that case it is being pressed up against her neck to look higher. A Mebberson example I’d come to is this:  
 
where you can see that her mane and hair’s given a lot more curl than on the show (and having vectored her enough, it’s glaring obvious in the difference for me :)
 
What ‘‘is’’ odd is that her mane is showing on both sides in some panels (eg last one on middle row), as in show, it always drops to one side. It’s justified in the first panel as it looks windswept, but not in that 5th one.

@Masem  
if you see harder, part of her hair is being covered by the pirate hoof.

@Lathius  
I think it’s not so much a “bang” like in her coronation hairdo, but just that the loose ends of her mane are being drawn more curlier than normal (Amy Mebberson did that in the Nightmarity arc for Twilight, and Brenna Hickey, drawing here, may have picked up on that).

@Lathius  
what? her hair looks no different.

@Lathius  
Clearly, they’ve yet to make up their minds about that aspect of her design.

Huh interesting, Twilight’s hair here is curled as though it was styled like it was at the end of MMC, but the S4E1 spoilers have Twilicorn with her old hair.

this guy…HE HAS JACK SPARROW “making you work for me!” SKILLS!