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This is just a little thing that I felt like I needed to write because it’s one of my favorite aspects of the show, and also one of the few that are actually inspiring in my opinion. We all know why Twilight is the princess of friendship, sure, she has saved Equestria, defeated monsters, and finished an ancient spell with the power of friendship alone. She’s also very knowledgeable in the matter, and her bond with her friends is really strong, so strong that it was even a product of destiny. She’s basically an authority on the field because of what’s she’s done and what she knows; however, I think the reason she’s suited for that role isn’t that she’s too good compared to anyone, but quite the opposite, that she’s not hesitant to admit that she actually isn’t when it’s necessary.

 

Twilight isn’t a character I like as much as I admire, that’s why Celestia’s ballad is my favorite song of the show, because it was inviting me to feel proud of her, and I did and still do indeed feel proud of her. Twilight’s greatest strength is definitely her humility, and that quality of hers has gotten to shine in two episodes specially: Amending Fences and The Cutie Re-Mark (both of which are in my top 5). In the former she had to admit that she screwed-up, and even though she tried to set things right through the whole episode, what really resolved the conflict is that she accepted that she couldn’t. “You’re right, this party can’t make up for the way I hurt you, but please, don’t let my mistake be the reason you can’t be friends with anypony else”. That’s a really mature lesson, when you want someone else to accept your apology, it doesn’t matter what you do to get it, it’s all about you feeling better about yourself, not about the other person moving on, in fact, that can be a pretty selfish act. You have to accept that the damage is done, and if you can make it up to them then do it, but you shouldn’t expect anything from them, since you’re just attempting to fix your own mess. Any other character would’ve kept trying to get Moondancer’s acceptance of their apology, and that doesn’t make their intentions bad, it’s just that only Twilight would be wise enough to understand that not getting one doesn’t mean you failed to do what you had to do. Of course in the end she was forgiven because otherwise it’d been a pretty sad ending for the episode, but just the fact that Twilight did it is good enough for me.

 

Now let’s talk about The Cutie Re-Mark, being more specific, the Starlight reformation scene, which is my favorite scene of the whole show. I know a lot of people find it rushed and confusing, but I think it’s one of the scenes with the most genuine and believable emotions of the show, but if you see don’t see things from Starlight’s perspective it probably won’t feel that way. She lost any chance at making friends because of the cutie mark incident, which made her grow up totally alone, then she came up with the idea of creating the village so that she, and anybody else, wouldn’t have to feel that way ever again. After so many years she finally had friendship (even if it was fake) and wasn’t miserable, and then Twilight came to take that away from her, all because she had been as lucky to get her cutie mark at the same time as her friends whereas Starlight hadn’t. When someone who had it easier than you comes to lecture you on how to live your life based on the opportunities they had and you lacked, it’s very likely you won’t want to listen, that doesn’t excuse her actions, but makes them understandable in my opinion. What I really love about the reformation is Twilight’s speech, because she had to admit that she didn’t have the right to judge what Starlight had been through, which gets Starlight to listen to her. The lesson is also very reminiscent of Amending Fences, that the past can’t be changed, but how much it affects your future can. Twilight does a really great job delivering the message, I really like the way it was worded, and combining that with seeing her philosophy of life being proven wrong and opening to Twilight about her past, I don’t find it hard to believe that Starlight would just accept Twilight’s help in the end. As I said, Twilight is the princess of friendship for a reason, and I think these scenes are the ones that show why she’s the one that holds that title.

 

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I think she is the princess of friendship because being entirely friendless she knows exactly what its like to not be with a friend, that zero to hero transformation in relation to friendship enables her perspective her other friends may not have.

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