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Techy Pony

@Background Pony #65CC  
She won’t “outlive her friends” because we’d never see a story arc that goes on long enough to have her friends pass away, in fact we’d probably never see that happen to anypony. Besides saying she won’t outlive her friends implies she will die before them…that’s not any better really. As far as we know, somewhere in some future episode she will cease to be an alicorn (hopefully with some descent reason behind it) in which case she may have been immortal but that was taken away and now she’s the same as her friends again. That would keep the writers words true, cancel out the saddening truth of immortality and be less contradictory with however Celestia and Luna…work in terms of lifespan.
Background Pony #E07A
@Techy Pony  
It was one of the writers, not a fan, who said she won’t “outlive her friends”, meaning that Twilight isn’t quite the same thing as Celestia and Luna.
 
Of course, the only reason they said that is because it’s embarrassing to say the lead character of a kid’s show is going to watch her friends grow old and die.
 
In short, they aren’t keeping any of the mythology straight.
Techy Pony

@Lathius  
Is it canon that Luna and Celestia are immortal and Cadance and Twilight are not? As far as we know Luna and Celestia came to be alicorns in the same way, as in alicorns are not born but some magical force decides they’re worthy of being an alicorn. We have no reaso to believe Celestia made Twi an alicorn, she may have just known it was going to happen. The thing that transformed Twi didn’t seem to involve Celestia at all but rather came from Twilight, as if it were her “destiny”…which Celestia said. She said it was her destiny not that she chose for it to happen.
 
Anyway I agree, the whole “she’s not a real alicorn” stuff is all crap and speculation made up by people who just don’t want her to be an alicorn.
Lathius

I exist, probably.
Thing that bothers me about ‘Twilight is not a real alicorn’ is that the whole ascension thing seemed like it was showing us how Luna, Celestia and Cadence came to be alicorns, only for them to take it back saying ‘oh but she isn’t REALLY immortal’ makes no god damn sense.
Techy Pony

@Mayojar77  
Spent too much energy on saving those people, was not able to “revive” because of that?
 
I should’ve used Data from Star Trek as an example as it’s far less abstract and difficult to imagine.
Techy Pony

@Mayojar77  
I haven’t seen all the episodes but I distinctly remember him dying. Dying at all, aside from maybe due to the universe ceasing to exist or heat death of the universe (in which case you’d eventually cease to be able to do anything due to maximum entropy) is still death and thus not immortal. The definition of immortal is never dying or decaying so even maximum entropy would be death. Point is if someone does not age, in a suitable environment they will never die, however in practice something is exceedingly likely to die from some accident at some time or another. The FOB is not immortal as he CAN die just as I assume the princesses CAN die. Just because they haven’t in a long time doesn’t mean they’re immortal.
Techy Pony

@Mayojar77  
Well it’s apparent that the FOB isn’t immortal, just damn near it. Celestial and Luna aren’t exactly normal ponies either. They are alicorns, far more powerful then any average unicorn and at the very least have longer life spans.
 
Besides we don’t know if Twi and Cadance are immortal or not, it’s all purely speculation.
Mayojar77
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@Techy Pony  
The difference is that the Doctor isn’t by any stretch of imagination ‘normal’, and that the only remarkable things about FOB are his immortality and his legendary promiscuity.
Mayojar77
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@Techy Pony  
He once clung to the side of the Tardis during one of it’s warps through time. A normal person would have been burned just looking at the inside of the time-tunnel thingy.
Techy Pony

@Mayojar77  
I am by no means a database on doctor who (I’ve yet to watch many episodes), I assume though that if he can revive it’s not from death but just from damage or sickness? (So not immortal but damn close)
Background Pony #E07A
I wanted to get in before people start over-analyzing the joke, but oh well.
 
>banana phone  
roffle
Techy Pony

@Starswirl  
I think Celestia and Luna show negligible or non-existent senescence and thus will not die from old age, but a powerful enough attack or a bad slip in the shower on their neck and bye bye. (Similar to the Doctor or the face of boe)
Starswirl
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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Don’t worry, Twilight Sparkle! You may not be immortal, but neither are Celestia and Luna! So, everypony you love will ultimately perish and crumble to dust, forgotten!
 
Cheer up!
Techy Pony

It’s not necessarily that she’s a princess because she’s an alicorn, it could be that she was to become a princess due to her power, knowledge, leadership, showing traits of all the elements etc. and then she was made into an alicorn (immortal or not) to symbolize her becoming something more.
Mayojar77
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It’s called ‘Competitive Balance’. Earth Pony and Pegasus derived Alicorns get immortality, Unicorns just get a significant power boost.