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gingerninja666
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@Villain Pony
 
Then what about TWABA, where Starlight had a little breakdown when her town started trying to give her authority again,because she knew how awful she was. Or All Bottled Up, when she used magic on herself because she knew that her anger might make her do bad things to Trixie? She’s not a sociopath. She’s aware when she does things wrong. She’s just stunted.
gingerninja666
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@Josh103
 
Yes, she’s very stunted. But I really do think she’s getting better. She’s moved from being consciously oblivious of wrong doing to it being more of an instinct that she’s gaining a bit more of a hold on.
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@Background Pony #8F00  
fair enough she was actually portrayed as power hungry, but even that was just used as a tool to make her into a bully.
 
@gingerninja666  
i dunno dude. this checklist of how to spot a sociopath? a lot of these apply to starlight. not all, but quite a few:
 
Superficial charm and good intelligence  
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking  
Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations  
Unreliability  
Untruthfulness and insincerity  
Lack of remorse and shame  
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior  
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience  
Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love  
General poverty in major affective reactions  
Specific loss of insight  
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations  
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without  
Suicide threats rarely carried out  
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated  
Failure to follow any life plan
gingerninja666
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@DanielTepesKraus
 
I feel like those only apply if you’re trying to read starlight in the worst possible light.
 
Like, she definitely thinks irrationally and jumps to all sorts of conclusions. In fact, the things people lambast Star for are things she does as a result of her irrational jumps in logic.
 
She had nam flashbacks just thinking about seeing a childhood friend again. She’s definitely neurotic.
 
Her showing remorse is entirely down to interpretation. Like, if you’re watching already disliking her, then obviously you’ll interpret all the times she feels crap about what she’s done as acting. You’re primed for it.
 
I’d argue she IS learning from experience, as her approach is slowly evolving. It’s just a slow one.
DanielTepesKraus
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@gingerninja666  
honestly, it’s too bad there aren’t psychosomatic meds in equestria. they’ve been lucky so far with their scheme of “set the lunatic / sociopath / psychopath with reality-warping abilities loose and just hope everything works out in the end.”
 
you know, that’s something i’d love to see. they attempt this with chrysalis and it fails miserably. she takes full advantage of this to pretend to be reformed only to catch them at their most vulnerable, and nearly take them down.
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@Dustcan  
Tempest is one of only four characters introduced since The Crystalling to have 1000 images (the others being Flurry Heart, Ember and Thorax)
 
On the tag list, she’s on page 3. The next Season 7 character is Pear Butter, at the bottom of Page 7. Those are the only two characters introduced this season to have more pictures here than Philomena. Remember her? No?
 
Next movie character is Capper, who is #2520 on most populous tags. There are more pictures of Tom the Rock than there are of any TWABA characters besides Tempest and Pear Butter. Tom. Fucking Tom.
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It’s a real shame, I legitimately think the seaponies/hippographs (particularly Princess Skystar) have a lot of potential that the fanfic writers seem rather disinterested in exploring.
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@Josh103  
But then Shining Armor, Twilicorn and Equestria Girls came along, Faust left, Derpy was changed because 99% of people don’t know it’s even an offensive word (I’m absolutely certain Super Mario Maker blocks “Thunder Palace” as a level name) and Fighting is Magic and Button’s Adventures were shut down. Now all people care about are the Mane 6 and fucktoy OCs. I wonder if there’s a statistic set for what gets uploaded daily on average… Maybe the admins can think of something…
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@Dustcan  
You might be thinking about OCs/fan characters. I get those mixed up all the time :D
 
I’m just joking with ya.
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@DanielTepesKraus  
Superficial charm and good intelligence  
Yes, very much.
 
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking  
Debatable. Starlight’s not outright schizophrenic, but she’s highly irrational at times.
 
Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations  
Holy CRAP is this not the case! Starlight is a BALL of neurotic manifestations!
 
Unreliability  
Oh yes.
 
Untruthfulness and insincerity  
Oh yes!
 
Lack of remorse and shame  
Hell no. In fact this is how she’s defeated in Cutie Remark, she’s shamed into giving up.
 
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior  
I feel she’s always got motivation, her antisocial behavior is more to do with her irrational thought processes.
 
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience  
A little, though her character development demonstrates this isn’t particularly true of her. (and some of the other mane 6 are considerably worse)
 
Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love  
Hardly. In fact again, a desire for affection and meaningful relationships is a major motivation for her. She clearly loved Sunburst for instance. Her main issue is being unable to inspire love.
 
General poverty in major affective reactions  
Again, HELL NO! Starlight’s biggest problem is being wildly emotional, to the point of it overwhelming what little logic she has.
 
Specific loss of insight  
Oh yes.
 
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations  
Again, very much no. Starlight is pretty affectionate.
 
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without  
Oh yes. As I said, Starlight’s problem is that she desires love and affection, but her behavior is off putting and weird.
 
Suicide threats rarely carried out  
Well obviously not on the show, but she does seem the type.
 
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated  
…I feel I might jump down the rabbit hole answering this one. NEXT!
 
Failure to follow any life plan.  
She’s actually a fairly organized person actually. Not to Twilight’s level, but then she’s over organized.
 
 
In conclusion… no, she doesn’t actually fit the majority of categories. In fact Twilight and Rainbow Dash would score considerably worse.
 
If I were to diagnose her, I would say she had a Borderline personality disorder.
 
feel very worried about people abandoning you, and would do anything to stop that happening 
have very intense emotions that last from a few hours to a few days and can change quickly (for example, from feeling very happy and confident in the morning to feeling low and sad in the afternoon) 
not have a strong sense of who you are, and it can change depending on who you're with 
find it very hard to make and keep stable relationships 
act impulsively and do things that could harm you (such as binge eating, using drugs or driving dangerously) 
have suicidal thoughts or self-harming behaviour 
feel empty and lonely a lot of the time 
get very angry, and struggle to control your anger. 
When very stressed, sometimes you might:
feel paranoid 
have psychotic experiences, such as seeing or hearing things that other people don't 
feel numb or 'checked out' and not remember things properly after they've happened.
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