Inkfeather

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Well, she didn't show any wish to actually harm anyone in the series, yes she seemed to enjoy the evil nature of her actions, but she never stated that she wanted to hurt or kill anyone. She had Celestia overmanned yet she chose to restrain her instead of doing anything worse. I believe she didn't want to hurt people physically because that wasn't part of what she sought.

It's nice to see the discussion going so well! Thereisnospoon, I completely see the points that you make, and of course it would make the most sense if she was just considered ouright evil, however because of personal opinions and the lack of a direct proof, I prefer to believe in the facts that be interpret as her being somehwat of a misunderstood character, since I want to believe in the good of everypony. I would love to see her as a good character of some sort, or maybe be used in a future episode to tackle some lesson they couldn't teach without having to befriend old enemies. The overall reason why I make these theories is becuase of the debate mateiral possible and because I like to believe that everyone is good to some degree. Chrysalis would be an all aorund more interesting character if one were to consider her as misunderstood, meaning alot of fanon ideas can be created from the concept and a lot of actual creativity can spawn. If one were to state her as outright evil, it would destory the opportunity of a debate such as this, and because this is a show with a limited background story and lore overall, it's easy to make wild interpretations as this one, which I love doing. The main reason the thought of her being good occured to me was because of my imagination since I quickly saw her in a ship fiction idea of mine as a misunderstood character. I afterwards made some research to see what material I could dig up from the song and the series to prove this idea of mine and create an actyal concept for Chrysalis instead of a wild idea. Overall, I'm glad the discussion is going this well.

Ponies occupy the most of my mind every day, every hour. By choice, not by habit. I think about them because I want to, not because I can't stop doing it. I love thinking about ponies, and I don't know if it counts as the Tetris Effect if it's willingly moving your mind towards these thought as I do. But yes, ponies is everywhere in my day. Always some pony song played in my headset, always a smiling pony on my laptop screen and always a song and matching scene stuck in my head. It's a joy to think about and they make my life easier, so why not? Though I wish I was able to do more pony in my spare time. I only use about 5-6 hours a day on pony stuff in average. Simply, shcool and work is taking up the remaining time. I often used several hours a day just reading fanfictions, I barely read more than an hour a day now. But well, I'm content with what I have, I think about ponies at every possible moment because I want to, and I enjoy doing so :3

Ginger, I added the TwiCord to my "To read" list for later, it sounds very interesting. I've started on a fiction named "Festival" featuring Twilight and Trixie, so far it's well written and have a nice story going on, I've only read the first chapter but the overall quality of the writing is very nice. Name: Festival Ship: Trixie x Twilight Tags: Romance, Sad, Slice of Life Global rating: 186 up, 8 down. Personal rating: A solid 4/5 Content: Trixie, having recently lost all her possessions during a certain Ponyville incident, manages to find a lucky job as a performer for Equestria's most anticipated holiday. While there, she discovers something precious to her survived her caravan's destruction... and is currently being held by a familiar face Why I like this fiction: I think it's well written and I like the overall pace of the story. It doesn't jump striaght to all the romance and love centered material. It's a story focusing on an actual story line rather than using the love and romance as a focus, meaning it's all the more interesting to follow what ideas the author may have had when conjuring up the plot line. Rated: Everyone on Fimfiction. Status: Incomplete. Link: http://www.fimfictio...y/3846/Festival

Well, you post on this was a work of beauty, you reply eagerly to many of the posts of the thread and actually made a lot of sense regarding her personality. Overall, your post was quality and deserves a brohoof. Something I don't see many people doing is realising that Trixie breaks her illeism (her 3rd person speech) when she's outdone by Twilight. If you watch the episode closely you can see that she's acting humbly towards the mane 6 when she's outdone, she breaks her illeism, hence breaking what I would presume to be breaking her stage persona. She's a showboater, her bragging is part of the act, because as mentioned, magic is a common thing in Equestria. A show such as hers wouldn't be interesting if she was a humble character on stage. She needs the boasting to increase the effect of her show for the most of the crowd to enjoy it, something I feel she's doing quite well. She never did anything wrong in the actual episode, it wasn't her who brought the Ursa to town and she wasn't the one who treated the Mane 6 like dirt. She was onstage, performing her act and she was vocally attacked by AJ, RD and Rarity. THEY were the ones that started the argument between them, they wanted to prove that they would be better than her, they were the ones who set up the challenge. What Trixie did was accepting this challenge, and she did her part. She beat them far and square. She's not the "evil" pony of this episode, it was the Mane 6 who started by treating her like dirt. But, back to the point about her breaking the illeism. I believe this is the stage where her stage persona breaks. She have to admit that she made up the story about beating it to make herself look better, as it being part of the show. She was merely telling a tale, making it appealing for the crowd. She broke her illeism and began to actually sound humble. Her whole tone shifts to a level where she sounds like an overall nice mare. This could be interpret as being her "real" persona, or the persona she would use when actually socializing with other ponies outside of her shows, but in the end, because she was proved as wrong as she was, she became embarrassed and that resulted in her trying the best she could to make herself feel better, by trying to tell that she was still all great and powerful. After this she runs away, and I believe it was because of this embarrassment. This above is what I find appealing in Trixie. That she did as she did, and that she could admit her own tale to be made up. She seems to me that she's actually a very sweet mare when not in her stage persona and that's what I want to believe to be.

It would indeed create a new level of activity in the series if they create more "real life" problems. Using more common problems known to the human society, I can indeed see the benefits of using these areas of lessons to be learned. If they could be able to handle these strong themes in the series without making it into actual fandom satisfaction, but still keeping the style of the show, like you named about an easier rehab or the "substance" that would be a fictional creation, maybe an actual spell that would mentally stimulate themselves in the way a drug would, this would fit in Trixie's case. I would personlly love to see a return of either Trixie or Gilda and have the show turn them around into fellow protagonists of the series rather than the one shot antagonists they really are. I believe show would benefit alot from reintroducing someone like these one shot antagonist and extend their canon personality. The concept of using these themes of lesssons, I think the theme of poverty, drug addiction and alcoholism would fit the best into the series. We have had a semi-related episode towards war, the battle with the changelings, and I don't believe we have that big of a lesson to learn on the theme of war, but rather to learn on the theme of compromising between two opinion, which can be achieved by other means than actual war. Experimenting with the theme of alcoholism could be pretty easy, seeming that we have the fandom personality of Berry Punch and that Pinkie Pie actually refers to "spiking" the punch in a joke where Spike falls asleep in the punch bowl. This means that alcohol have been weakly refered to in the actual series, hence making it easier to introduce the actual theme of alcoholism. Trixie's caravan was broken, she had to flee from ponyville and this could easily be made into a concept of poverty, and I believe that the show would benefit greatly from introducing the more heavy themes of lessons, and making it easier to relate to by introducing it through characters we already know. The theme of death could also easily be introduced through natural causes, old age. We have ponies like Granny Smith, extremely old if you research the lore of ponyville, since she was there at the founding of the village. Though of course I would hate to see her die, she could easily be used to introduce the actual theme of death. Making it a natural death of old age would also make the whole subject a bit easier to handle for the crowd than an accident. Overall great post Kyro, thought provoking theories as always. Brohoof flinged your way.

My OC would certainly git the bill here, even though she's the opposite gender of myself. Her name is Inkfeather and she's a dark purple pegasus with an Grey/Violet mane. Her eyes are a silvery dark blue, in the same hue as her mane. As the OP, her cutie mark is a quill and an inkwell, because her talent is poetry. She would be living in Ponyville library together with Twilight, living there after moving away from Cloudsdale, trying to settle down amongst the solitude that is the nature of a library. Though this wouldn't last long as she's quickly drawn into the cycle of study that is required of her to stay at said library, hence meeting Twilight and her friends on a regular basis and slowly intwining into this circle of friends. I think it would count as a pet when staying at the libriary, to share the company of Owloysius (name taken form the MLP wiki, I honestly have no idea how to spell it) When staying at the library, I presume Twilight would be her best friend, also because of the common love for good literature. This is Inkfeather: This is her Cutie mark:

They whole point of Suited for Success was to make the gala dresses. Rewatch the episode, they discuss what they're going to wear for said Gala, hence that's the episode where she makes their gala dresses.

Let's take this from one end to the other. *cracks fingers* The term of being "truly evil" is something I would interpret when someone hurts other, for the joy of seeing them suffer. They do it regardless of the feeling of their victims and they do it for no other reward that to please oneself. Discord, as you brought up yourself, was someone I would see as "truly evil" for the same reason as the one you posted. He had no greater motive other than to have fun, which is something he achieved by hurting other, maybe not directly but he still brought despair to the lices of many ponies just for his own amusement. This is what I would call being evil. When you act mean towards one or more individuals with no other goals than the one of your own amusement and joy. About the feeding system of the changelings, the only reason we interpret eating as being something physical is because that's the way we convert different materials to energy and resources in out body. My bet would be that the changelings use the consumed magic/love as an energy resource from which they use the energy as we would use the energy of the food we have consumed. I think, as she said that they needed to feed, that this was her intentions and the reason she wanted to "take over" Equestria was to preserve their source of "food". I don't think they ever had any intentions of hurting the ponies, but that they simply used the only method they knew to acquire this magical energy. About my theory of Chrysalis wanting more is because of my interpretations of the song "This Day Aria" simply because I hear her singing not only against the real cadence, but also making double standards against herself. It often sounds like she's trying to disprove herself on the matter of wanting love for the love rather than the energy. I believe the reason she was "enjoying" doing this may have been for several reason. She might have grown power hungry after defeating Celestia, as any other would in a ruse of ecstacy, they would enjoy it. It could also be from the fact that her plan of survival were working out very well, she saw how her species were acquiring this much needed magic of love for their survival. I don't think every story needs an antogonist, and calling the rest of the Mane 6 antagonists in episodes such as Lesson Zero is a bit much in my own opinion. Twilight was troubled, she was definitely the pony in focus, the protagonist without doubt, but she was not up against the rest of the Mane 6, they were not the evil ponies in this episode. If we HAD to name an antagonist of this episode, I believe it would be Twilight herself, because she's the one getting herself overworked on this, she's the one trying aimlessly to find a shortcut by creating a problem, hence being the "bad pony". In the episode of Iron Will, I believe Fluttershy was the Protagonist and with the help of the semi-antagonist Iron Will, he created the bridge for Fluttershy to become the real antagonist of the story. The protagonist seeks help, but instead of getting the help she needed she's turned in the wrong direction and thereby becoming the antagonist against her own will. This is why Iron Will should be considered the true antagonist on this episode because he was the cause of Fluttershy's change. I know right? It's wonderful to see the complexity at work, but think of this: They're more than one writer and when people can discuss various ideas for episodes then it will always create more ideas, new and more intriguing ideas as they bounce these ideas between eachother. It's easily learned, just find something you do, then find someone who does the same, then do this, together. I wrote a pony poem with Neikos once, where we wrote one line each. When we had set the first 3 lines we had the story, together. After that it simply flowed, we knew exactly where we were going without barely trying to come up with an idea.

I think I would feel best when talking to Twilight, simply because of her geeky nature, It would make me feel "at home" to a certain degree. We would have stuff in common, especially out love for good literature.

I will answer this with a counter question, why do you seal away nuclear weapons? All joking aside. I believe it's because they wouldn't want them to be stolen. Sealing away their most powerful weapon, not only because it's a weapon but because it's an acnient artifact. A culture protects its treasures. To know they are safe is to know that they also have access to them when needed.