So, my knowledge of alicorns and how they are born were pretty much clear until Flurry Heart is born. Once that little foal was born, everything I thought I knew became irrelevant. All because of a quote by Celestia: "This is the first time Equestria has witnessed the birth of an Alicorn." This seemingly insignificant and innocent quote just told us that Celestia and Luna, as well as Cadence, were not born as alicorns, but they were transformed. This to me makes no sense, and could just be poor editing, but it makes me wonder: How do pony genes work?
So, in season 2, when Shining Armor is marrying Cadence, we see a flashback of Cadence where she seems to be an adolescent, but she is still portrayed as an alicorn. And going off of what happened with Twilight, a pony becomes an alicorn once he/she does some kind of deed or action that reflects their true purpose and makes them a princess (i.e. Twilight solves Starswirl the Bearded's spell). And Cadence, who is the Princess of Love, must have done some kind of deed that brought out love in others. I doubt that a pony of her age could have done such a task, which leads me to believe that she was born an alicorn, but she was obviously not, according to Celestia. Once again, MIND FUCK.
SO, this also means that Celestia and Luna were born as a normal unicorn/pegasus and performed some kind of important deed to gain their wings, horn. It was much easier to think that alicorns are a royal race that have special powers, and that they were born when two alicorns had a baby. Pony genes are like season 3 of "The Flash;" just one big mind fuck.
What are your guys' thought? What do you make of this? Do you have any explanations or can explain it better than I can?
Thanks,
Jayson