SpaceUnicorn

LOL, I find I like Luna because I am a former member of the New Lunar Republic. So I am a bit biased. But otherwise, she does have an interesting backstory and why did she turn into Nighmare Moon? - Space Unicorn, Former Agent of the New Lunar Republic Space Exploration & Lunar Colonization Project

I like and agree with the implication that magic only manifests for specific circumstances. On the point of abusing magical power, I believe that is up to the morals of the magic user. It may be possible that Celestia is being conservative with her magic as it is powerful enough to disrupt the harmony and balance of Equestria which she dedicates herself to maintaining. I believe that magic only manifests specifically as it has a will of its own. That has been implied by filly Rarity's magic taking her to her destiny and Celestia saying that magic sometimes works in ways they themselves don't understand. Therefore, as magic has its own will, it manifests only when it wants to and it is right to. I would go so far as to hypothesize that a cutie mark's manifesting is when a certain magic of the world of Equestria chooses a certain pony as a life companion for their specific talent. As for magical abuse; I believe avoiding magical abuse is dependent on the morals of the magic user. It is possible for magic to be forced. Celestia has been shown to use Evil Sombra's dark magic, but as she is dedicated to keeping Peace and Harmony in Equestria, she does not do so extensively. The villains of the show have all abused magic; Trixie with the Alicorn Amulet, Tirek with his power grab and Evil Sombra is hypothesized to be a unicorn who became seduced by the power of dark magic to use it to his means. There have been examples of where sufficiently powerful magic has had a detrimental effect on the stability of the Equestrian universe. Therefore what may be them appearing to be weaker might just be them holding back to avoid destroying the world. Well, considering that Unicorns use an active form of magic they can control and Earth and Pegasi ponies have passive magic that allows them to respectively connect to earth and sky, top magic levels of Unicorn, Earth and Pegasi in magic will all look vastly different. It wouldn't be fair to pitch them against each other in magic. A fight for a Unicorn would mean using their magic and Pegasi and Earth ponies would use the physical prowess their race gives them. I would imagine top level Pegasi and Earth ponies would be have taken their physical abilities to their peak. Rainbow dash would be able to do Double Sonic Rainbooms (lol fan ep! ) and Applejack could outright shatter whole boulders with a single buck. It would be interesting if a top magic level earth pony would gain some form of geokinesis or ability to manipulate plants and use that in combat. Remember from Hearth's Warming Eve on the story that before uniting to found Equestria, the Earth, Unicorn and Pegasi were all separate nations? They would likely have gone to war with each other had it not been for how they depended on each other; Unicorns raise sun and moon, Pegasi control the weather, Earth ponies produce food and pay food tribute to the other two races for sun and good weather. If they had gone to war, it would have been disastrous. Likely for physical and political reasons, they would have drawn a stalemate if they went to war with each other. The last time they did the Windigoes almost got them all.

All we need to do is file for a non-profit corporation, worship Princess Celestia as the Supreme Ruler of Equestria and the raiser of the Sun and Princess Luna as the Co-Ruler of Equestria and the raiser of the Moon, convert all the Bronies and Pegasisters, send missionaries with Celestia Chits and Luna Chits, ask for tithes or we'll stop raising the sun and moon, and voila!

I have a thing for bad girls. I have a secret sympathy for Trixie and Sunset Shimmer. Somewhere between a crush and perhaps the feelings a brother gets for his sister when she goes down a dark path. I don't think they are necessarily evil and set that way, they've just been misguided.

I really wish King Sombra's backstory was better explored. In the show, he seemed lacking as a villan because that was his only presentation plus a couple lines. I've seen fan-made explorations as to how he came about and took over the Crystal Empire: http://youtu.be/au46vv9v9Wc That was something interesting I really thought the story ought to have explored. In a way, it was explored by proxy in the MLP comics #17-20 when Mirror King Sombra was presented as the good king of Mirror Equestria. If Mirror Equestria was an opposite reflection of what was happening in Equestria, what was King Sombra doing during that time?