What if the Rainboom Never Happened?

[SailorMedamonGirl1 127]

 

Didn't know where to post this....It's still show discussion right?

 

Anyways, I wanted to get everypony's opinion on what would happen if the Rainboom never occurred.

 

I have a few ideas myself.

 

WARNING: These are the WORST-case scenarios I can think of happening to the Mane Six which results in them becoming evil. It is a bit disturbing, so WATCH OUT! These'll also be used in my story, so the full versions will be on my DA account (you know, cause they're so disturbing and all).

 

Fluttershy - She didn't comfort the animals, and her time on the ground at that house made her all by herself. She found an interest in gardening, but she began to hate everything around her. She vented that frustration out on 'other' things, until ponies started going missing. Her Mark ends up being a gardening shovel.

 

Applejack - She stayed in Manehatten, but eventually ran away and became homeless. To sustain herself, she became an assassin that poisons with certain apples she carries around. Her mark is a tube of poison, and the bubbles form apples.

 

Rainbow Dash - She didn't cause the Rainboom, but still found a love for racing. She ended up going so far in training that she went insane, and now has both Insomnia & schizophrenia. Her mark is a race flag.

 

Rarity - She ended up moving away to Manehatten and became a model until she lost her job similarly to how Rainbow went insane. She then ended up on the street as a beggar. She has no Cutie Mark.

 

Twilight - As Spike was never born & she never caught the attention of Celestia, she still went to the school but found she was an 'average' student. So, she decided to study harder until she went insane and developed the same things that Rainbow and Rarity did but on a higher level. Still, she found an interest in writing and to preserve a piece of her sanity she wrote out her thoughts every day. Her Mark is a pen.

 

Pinkie Pie - She never discovered happiness or parties, so she stayed as Pinkamena on the rock farm. She became hateful of everything around her, and still developed her 4th-wall breaking abilities. So, she decided to use this to cause havoc and spread her hate to others. She didn't end up like 'Murder'Shy, and instead just became an almost cookie-cutter villain that has the abilities she does. She has no Mark.

[Smokie-Horse 83]

Those are some pretty profound predictions, friend, I'm impressed. But personally, I don't feel like the lack of a Rainboom would have affected the protagonists especially significantly; they'd still have all their base skills and personalities, they just might have manifested differently or required a different jump-start to get them moving. So they might have ended up in different careers, and probably would never have met each other, but their personalities would probably be recognizable.

 

It is sort of funny to think that Twilight's status as a member of royalty and ascension to become a higher life form all stemmed from how Rainbow broke an egg for her, though. 

[A Black Circle 1,586]

twi would be insane

 

AJ would have a self-identity crisis and become homeless.

 

RD would be obsessive over it and fail, have her dreams crushed

 

Rarity would lose it in the business, become a commoner

 

i think flutters would be sort of bitter.

 

pinkie pie would be pinkamena.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,879]

They wouldn't have abandoned the "team" feel of the show so early on, RD wouldn't be playing god and deciding the fate of her friends a.k.a. being OP, it's likely they could've featured it in a way that was much more evenly distributed and more about "friendship" than RD, and I wouldn't have gone flacid towards an otherwise great episode in the blink of an eye.