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Near the ending of the show, Lauren Faust published the following tweet implying that Celestia herself released Nightmare Moon. A lot of fans of the show seem to doubt this though, because later when Discord is revealed to be Grogar, she admonishes him saying, "You have made a grave misjudgement". This means that her releasing Nightmare Moon without a decent backup plan must have not been a misjudgement. To the audience, though, it seems very risky. But was she really taking a risk? From what we know, Celestia all by herself was not powerful enough to defeat Nightmare Moon. And with just the Elements of Harmony, all Celestia was able to do was banish Luna to the moon. As long as Celestia is wielding the elements and attacking her sister, Luna would view her as a threat, not as a means to reform. Theres no way Nightmare Moon would revert to Princess Luna all by herself. So I believe that Celestia's hypothesis was that if someone else powerful enough to wield the elements with powerful enough magic to weaken Nightmare Moons state, then she would be able to reform her. Now, at this point in time Celestia doesn't know very many powerful ponies who can help her. She has enough magic to raise both the sun and the moon, theres not many ponies who have that kind of magic. The only ponies who she can ask for help from are The only other alicorn known at this time, Princess Cadence. However, Cadence doesn't seem as magically gifted or knowledgable as Twilight is, and Twilight is more likely to overcorrect a problem she's not even sure about. Leave it to Twilight to freak out about something that likely shouldn't concern her. Now put that together with what Celestia later told Twilight about Sunset Shimmer when she thought that she would have to send Sunset away. Celestia said that she chose ponyville for Twilight because she saw a very promising group of 5 other ponies in ponyville, ponies that were good friends. Considering how easily Twilight figured out how the remaining Mane 5 corresponded to the Elements of Harmony, I'm sure Celestia also realised this at some point. But did Celestia even know what the 6th Element of Harmony was? Did she know that it was magic? Or did she just know that she had 5 of them, and that because she was an alicorn, she'd probably have the 6th one as well? Now this brings up more and more questions. Did she just leave out the 6th element of harmony because she wrote the book and thought that naturally curious Twilight would only understand if she came upon that conclusion by herself? Or knowing her mentor Starswirl the bearded, did she simply not know what that element could have been? I believe that Friendship is more like the glue that bonds the 6 elements together, the spark, if you will. It jump starts the elements so that they work properly, but it does have its own kind of magic, because when these ponies work together, and grow their friendship, by the end of the series they don't even need the physical elements, because they embody the elements enough to the point that the differentiation between the physical amulets and the spirits of harmony is no longer necessary. Their friendshp has grown so much that its magic has surpassed even the Tree of Harmony and, ultimately, the final villain group. What do you guys think? Does this theory hold up? Any holes that i haven't covered or that would keep this from being possible? Let me know! :33

Recently I was explaining to my non-pony loving friend about the Applejack treatment: how Hasbro didn't do much promotion for Applejack because, well, she was the most plain lookign pony in the lineup.( Her mane and skin?coat?fur? kinda blend in together, she's not very colorful, she doesn't have pretty interesting hair like rarity or fluttershy) She just looks like a very plain pony that doesn't look like the other colorful toys mainly aimed at young girls, which is part of her whole appeal but not very helpful for selling dolls. I showed my friend this picture of the Mane 6 and she immediately said "She looks so interesting, look she has a funky hat!" And that got me thinking. Because most people who like applejack like her for her character, probably. And in the show, her hat and little hairtie is part of her identity. Do you think the applejack problem would still exist if they included Applejack's hat in her doll kits? From a simple google search it seems like its almost never included, and that seems like the main appeal of her character. Also, regarding G5, do you think that Hitch is also being advertised less because he needs a different pony mold all for himself or they can't figure out his pony hair or something of the sort?

I think maybe they're still figuring out Hitch's hair and how to do it properly

yes, yes, i see your point, i see your point :3

I think that the worse problem was that by the end of G5, it was clear that not only did all 3 types of ponies live together, but also many other types of magical creatures lived together as well. It established ponies as their own race. Its more curious to me where the other creatures like yaks and hippogriffs went. The divide between the 3 ponies seems too unbelievable, a very very grave catastrophe must have happened, one that's very surprising especially taking the series finale into consideration

I really want to see where Discord is in all of this, if he's there at all. Also i'd love to know what happened to the Windigos, in the series finale of G5 it was clear it was a really big threat so in a world without magic this seems very interesting

ooh that's very interesting! makes sense to me, thank you!

This is just a general question for people who's favorite character is Twilight. Now i don't dislike twilight, I think she's a very intelligent pony who's very curious. But I'm interested in knowing why she's the favorite for some people. I think its interesting because usually in shows like mlp people really dislike the main character (e.g. bloom in winx club). What makes Twilight Sparkle different?