SilverStarApple

I saw a video of someone pulling this off using a 2d model. It was a generic white-coated grey-lined pony, but it worked. The eye movements, the mouth, everything worked. It was weird. That head-bobbing thing is weird, too. Still, it works.

The only way I could think of to make this work... is if they pulled a Legendary Super Saiyan Broly, gave her incredible magical power on top of her stupidly huge wings, made her super over-the-top, and subtly made her a metaphor for mental instability and embracing who you are.

The underwater fire was lampshaded. It was a joke. This Alicorn's existence? Unless it's revealed to be one massive April Fools gag, it's one of the show's stupidest moves. The only thing that made Alicorns 3 and 4 ok was the idea that you could earn Alicornhood, that it was something that had to BE earned. And that 3 and 4 had done so. But this pony... She's been born, and she's already an Alicorn. That's like being born with money and power and fame and everything you could ever want in life, already given to you, simply because you were lucky enough to be born into this world by the right people. I never understood why people liked Nyx. Did people just love the first five OCs to be made during the fandom's early days, and develop their anti-OC bias when the sonic fans started joining?

They average from five feet to seven. Certain ponies are far larger or smaller.

Yeah, the Human Five are pretty much just walking props. Then again, Hasbro likely have the writers in a chokehold. "You can't write these characters in a different direction! I don't care if these are humans that grew up on Earth and would be forced to grow up very differently. It'll confuse the little girls! You're lucky I let you get away with Sci-Twi!"

You have three days. How would you go about befriending Rainbow Dash?

Too... harsh? TOO HARSH? That non-monstrous Unicorn with not even the excuse Tirek or Discord or Sombra or Chrysalis could have used... went on a psychotic cult-forming rampage, putting her townsfolk through the kind of special hell George Orwell would be disgusted by. She planned on hypocritically using Twilight's Cutie Mark (And possibly the others, if her end goal was to put all Cutie Marks on herself and become a Cell/Freeza-ish creature) to FORCE and SUBJUGATE... ALL OF EQUESTRIA. And when THAT failed, HER OWN TWISTED BELIEFS GETTING SHATTERED AND PROVEN WRONG IN THE PROCESS... She decided to mess with time, creating worse timeline after worse timeline and subjecting hundreds, thousands, millions to death or worse after a life not worth living... And at the end of it all, Twilight changed her mind. Starlight didn't redeem herself, she was shown love and immediately turned good, without suffering any negative consequences at all. And why did this petty womanchild do all of this? Because her best friend left her upon finding his power and destiny. ...I didn't think I'd ever say this. I thought Obito Uchiha was the worst villain ever on every possible level. But Starlight Glimmer... manages to be worse than Obito Uchiha, and with an even stupider motivation. She should have died in the season five finale. She should have died in that episode. After Twilight tells her why Starlight was wrong, and pathetic, breaking her spirit and focus, Starlight's attacks would be weaker. Twilight would gain the upper hand, and they could resume their fight for just long enough for whatever caused Wasteland Equestria to arrive and let the one who caused all of this know exactly what she thinks of her. My headcanon says Wasteland Equestria was caused by an utterly broken and tortured Celestia (As one of her lines would say... she's no longer a Princess. What would she be a princess of?) who was forced to kill Luna/Nightmare Moon, had Discord stoned, shattered, and spaced after defeating him, killed Tirek, and killed so many more, eventually getting to the point where obliterating all life on the planet with the sun was the best possible option to deal with Changelings, angry mobs, Luna fans, and everything else she'd fought to protect and was betrayed by. Seeing Princess Celestia, whether perpetually in her own Daybreak Doom (I came up with that name myself) transformation or simply coated in ragged, damaged clothing, mane and tail aurora dulled, in canon... that would be a powerful image. And what she'd do to the one who caused all of this, the one who turned one of the show's nicest characters into... this... I want to see that. I'm not sure if Daybreak Doom trying to kill them both, Starlight giving up her life so Twilight can escape... would be a better ending than Starlight getting utterly worfed by Celestia, forever putting an end to the "Celestia is weak" jokes, followed by Celestia sparing Twilight and telling her to go back to her own timeline and make sure things don't go how they went here. It's unclear whether knowing a better timeline exists out there is enough for her, or if she's hoping Twilight going home will erase all of this. Either way... Seeing Twilight fills her with hope. And Starlight gets what she deserved. I'm putting this on my list of fanfics to write.

Pretty much, yeah. Remember how their removal completely fubar'd Equestria in five different ways, thanks to Starlight Glimmer and the alternate timelines? While friendship across Equestria is important, these ARE the main characters. Would you still like them if they sucked? I've read the "She's too good at stuff" accusation sent at Twilight or Rainbow before, but all at once? That's not a first. Still rare though.

Yes, it's incredibly stereotypical and cliche. Rainbow Rocks did what it could to salvage the setting, but it feels like one of MLPFIM's rare instances (Which sadly, are becoming more and more common these days) where profit was placed over story or characters. Still, the brony fandom of that era has itself to blame, with their constant stream of uninspired HiE and PoE fics.