What If Twilight wasn't A unicorn?

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Twilight Sparkle, hard-working, scholarly, smart, among many other great character qualities  makes her who she is. Oh also the fact that she is a unicorn is strangely enough a big part of her character. If you think about it a good deal of things that happen to her happen mainly because she's a unicorn. Her becoming Celestia's star pupil, mainly because she's smart and dedicated but also the fact that she could actually do magic. And being Celestia's star pupil in the long run made Twilight the princess she is today.

So as the subject title suggests, what would happen if Twilight was never a unicorn?  

[Mesme Rize 15,692]

Are you racist against unicorns? jk

 

Well, she can also be hard-working, scholarly and smart, without being unicorn. Pretty much every pony race can have the same quality she has. But yes, she has magic and she is very good in it, since princess Celestia also saw that.

 

The question of course is: Could she have become an Alicorn, if she wasn't a unicorn? The answer is...maybe? If we take some of the books in account (which you can decide for yourself) cadence was a Pegasus before she became an alicorn. I don't exactly how she did it again, but she has.

 

I don't really know what would have happend with twily. But there is a chance that she could still be an Alicorn.

[Melon Blitz 423]

Hard to be the element of magic if you can't use magic.

[SolyWack 482]

Hard to be the element of magic if you can't use magic.

But Friendship is Magic

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But Friendship is Magic

 

 

So is the element of magic just suppose to mean friendship or is it suppose to mean magic? Because if friendship is magic... there are several characters who can use magic who don't have the friendship aspect and there are plenty of friendly characters who don't have magic 

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

She probably wouldn't be the star of the show

[MLPFanatic34 3,241]

She probably wouldn't have come as far along as she did being Celestia's student and everything, while I do like her as a unicorn, I also don't hate that she's an alicorn.