Frenzyhero

Ah, I thought you meant that the sauce was used instead of changing their nature. But seriously, they did alter an entire reality without knowing it and just shrugged it all off. Because all in a day's work, right?

I do hope you realize that this was most likely a joke. Ah, the 100ch limit. On the note of the chocolate sauce, if the parasprites were still active, then would the parasprites not EAT said chocolate sauce, thus solving their insatiable hunger long enough for the Mane 6 to come to a more permanent solution?

Oh my god, it all makes sense now. All the unicorns are evil. The unicorns are the obviously superior race. They could solve world hunger, end all wars, and alter reality itself, yet they choose to withhold it. They are, by definition, gods.

It was also established that magic couldn't alter cutie marks, but that kinda did a 180, huh? Magic has proven itself to be fairly unpredictable in the show. Very possible my theory is wrong and yours is right, and vice versa. Thank you for the welcome. EDIT: Not only did the magic alter their cutie marks, it nearly altered the entire universe, what with the entire town being unawares of the change. For all we know, maybe the clones were reincarnated.

Since we can't exactly apply actual physics, such as the laws of matter, I guess the best I can do to rationalize the clones was that they were made of magic. I think that if Twilight had struck the real pinkie pie, nothing would have happened as she herself isn't of magic, or at the very least, of a magic foreign to that of the pond, where they were being sent to. As posted on page 1, the Pinkie Pies were acting with emotion but... perhaps the pond only copies the most basic of a pony's personality? We know that they definitely do not copy the pony's intellect and experiences, otherwise they would have know all of the Mane 6's names. When we come down to it, how would we define life? Would it be defined as being conscious of one's own existence? Animals of our world are, and obviously we are as well. However, as mentioned earlier, the Pinkies only showed one desire, to have fun. Nothing of anything else. Not even the most primal instincts that all living beings as we know it to possess. tl;dr, In my opinion, the clones were magic, and without any primal instincts and consciousness of their own existence, makes them non-living. I believe the magic of the mirror pond was only being dispersed back.