@The Smiling Pony  
Citation needed.
 
I can easily provide my own: Rarity clearly pedestalized Blueblood in her fantasies, was self conscious about making a good impression and not seeming so needy, her body language was that of a follower, and the same pattern repeated itself (albeit much more exaggerated) with Trenderhoof.
 
Kindly marshal the evidence for your side.

@Whatevs  
pfft.
 
Rarity expected Blueblood to spend his time adulating her. To sacrifice his goods for her sake, to pay for her treats. Blueblood did nothing more than reverse the roles; expect her adulation, expect her to sacrifice her dress for his sake, and her to pay for his treats.
 
If Rarity had gotten her way Blueblood would have played the socially expected role of a carpet and no one would have thought it out of place. The roles were merely reversed, and that’s enough to make him a villain, and somehow her a heroin for refusing to play along.

@The Smiling Pony  
Not quite.  
There is a level of asymmetry at play.  
Rarity did expect chivalrous behavior, but she kept up her traditionally female end of the bargain by being deferential and even worshipful (at first of course) of her would-be provider

@Whatevs  
Rarity expected Blueblood to lay himself at her hooves and cater to her every whim. Blueblood expected Rarity to lay herself at his hooves and cater to his every whim. Rarity wasn’t expecting someone to play her own role and lost it.

@The Smiling Pony  
I didn’t notice. Elaborate kindly?

@Whatevs  
Yes.

@The Smiling Pony  
He did?

@C Money  
Gobbledygook

WOW!

@PonyPon  
Because Sunset was a student (before twilight) who left Equestria on a faulty universe-traverse portal and is now my apprentice (in a fic I’z iz makin’), and Twilight contained power that exceeded Celestia’s own. Sunset now contains a Demon within herself (that I’m teaching her to control), and Twilight has increased the amount of power she can use at one time but not all of it. If Twilight fully unlocked her potential, Tirek would’ve been vaporized.

@Starswirl  
That’s a good point, imagine being the palace staff and seeing this colt running around playing pirate and stuff. Gifts, treats, spoiled rotten.
 
There is a good story there I think

@Killian_Joy  
Not just one pony.
 
Look at how adorable he is here. If you’re a pony whose special talent and destiny is waiting on royalty, and you had this little blue-eyed bundle of a prince in the castle, wouldn’t you spoil the boy absolutely rotten?

@PonyPon  
Lack of imagination. I bet his idea for a backstory involves at least one, “haunted by the death of…”
 
Honestly, I have tons of fun ideas involving Blueblood, in fact one of my current projects has him as a big character.
 
But why not have him just be the result of being doted upon by a pony who can give him anything he wants?

@C Money  
Why? it works for Sunset and Twi.
 
And that could totally fit.

@toxicitzi  
A hero gone corrupt by alien knowledges and revenge? Yeah, that’s gonna fit a royal family member.
 
@Killian_Joy  
I hope not ‘cause that’s a terrible backstory.

Guy behaves like Rarity.  
Is demonized forever.

@C Money
 
I was asking if princesses take on young wards to spoil. Blueblood dosnt look like a total tool here… He looks like pip. Is it possible that he was once in a similar situation to pip and Luna? Will pip end up like blueblood if that is the case?
 
@Scrounge  
See the above, although you do pose a good point. Tia pip could make for funny banter. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM NOT YOUR FAVORITE?!”

:/
 
this makes me very sad, once I realized that was Prince Blueblood. If only he were more like Handsome Jack.

@Killian_Joy  
When’s the last time you saw an artist have Pip hanging out with Celestia? :)

@Killian_Joy  
That’s Blueblood, dingus.

Is this a thing? Will pip grow up to be Prince Pipsqueak? Will he suck?

@Scrounge  
Friends. Other family. Outside social influences.

How did he go from such a cute kid to such a stuck-up twit?

@PonyPon  
Crap! Thanks, I didn’t think of that.

@C Money  
“How can we make the original cut of At Your Service more cruel?”