What exactly is Cadance' Princess role?

[Azureth 687]

I know she helps to rule the crystal empire but that's not exactly her princess role. She is the princess of love but what exactly does that mean? It certainly isn't just forcing ponies to love each other as that would be wrong.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

Another political office created as a favor. The system is corrupt, I tell you.

[IrishBrony716 89]

I would believe when we first met her she was known to be the Princess of love? 

[Total Lunar Eclipse 516]

Love is what keeps the Crystal Empire safe to my understanding, she's like a guardian of her kingdom. 

[Will Guide 21,360]

1 minute ago, Total Lunar Eclipse said:

Love is what keeps the Crystal Empire safe to my understanding, she's like a guardian of her kingdom. 

Exactly. 

And in the defictionialized Journal of the Royal Sisters, a young Celestia declared that she and her sister, Luna, would be less like Rulers and more like Guardians of Equestria during its early years over 1000 years ago about Equestria's Founding that we saw in that play (S2's "Heartswarming Eve")

[Justin_Case001 4,888]

11 minutes ago, BronyNumber42licious said:

Another political office created as a favor. The system is corrupt, I tell you.

Ha!  I like this explanation.  I imagine it going something like this:

Celestia: "We totally gotta make Cadance a princess."

Luna: "Why?"

Celestia: "Y'know, cause she's got the square princess muzzle, like us."

Luna: "But there's really no 'royal' duties for her to do."

Celestia: "Eh, we'll just stick her somewhere out of the way and give her a bogus title."

[RDDash 19,172]

She is the Princess of Crystal Empire, I thought it was obvious what her role is. 

[Nyactis Mewcis Catlum 672]

While Twilight focuses on platonic love (friendship), Cadance focuses on romantic love.

A better question is what Flurry Heart will be the princess of. 

[Will Guide 21,360]

9 minutes ago, Justin_Case001 said:

Ha!  I like this explanation.  I imagine it going something like this:

Celestia: "We totally gotta make Cadance a princess."

Luna: "Why?"

Celestia: "Y'know, cause she's got the square princess muzzle, like us."

Luna: "But there's really no 'royal' duties for her to do."

Celestia: "Eh, we'll just stick her somewhere out of the way and give her a bogus title."

Actually, according to a Chapter book, "Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell" (published 2013 by G.M. Berrow) Cadance was originally a Pegasus, until she did did something incredible that earned her her Unicorn horn and Alcorn Status.

Please you have the MLP Wiki. Just look up how she become one.

Chapter books

Princess Cadance is featured in the chapter book Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell. The book tells the story of Twilight Sparkle after she'd been made an Alicorn and seeks advice on being a princess. She turns to Cadance, who tells her life story, how as a baby Pegasus she was found in the woods by Earth ponies, who took her to their village. When she grew up she reversed a love-stealing spell cast by a pony called Prismia. Prismia wore a magic-enhancing necklace that amplified her evil and jealousy, but when Cadance confronted her, the necklace amplified Cadance's love. Once Prismia changed her horrible ways, Cadance was surrounded by magical energy and transported to a strange place where she met Celestia, who adopted her as her royal niece. (Princess Cadance, MLP Wiki, Under Chapter Books)

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[Ginger Ale 723]

For my assumption, Princess Cadance might represent the love that was already existed, right now I see improvement in this love. Although the lack appearance in the show, I see Cadance as the princess of the mothership as being a royal mother. She shows the bond between mother and a child in love really well. 

As we all know, love is not only for flirt or with whom you feel romantical. Love can be to nature, to anyone... Cadance is there to make these bonds stronger. 

As you may remember, two ponies were fighting at the cafe and Cadance didn't make them fall in love like Eros, she made their feelings stronger again if those ponies didn't love each other why would they be sitting together. Cadance, for me, is the reminder and power supporter in love, since even in friendship love exists. So she can't create love to make people fall into eachother.

                                       

[Thrond 3,263]

Increasingly, princesshood seems to be symbolic more than anything. Like Twilight, I assume she was given an arbitrary title entirely because she became an alicorn at some point. In other words:

Celestia: "Hey, this random pegasus from the country just got a horn for some reason. I should make her a princess, probably. Uh, she has a heart on her butt, so princess of love, I guess." 

[Will Guide 21,360]

11 minutes ago, Ginger Ale said:

For my assumption, Princess Cadance might represent the love that was already existed, right now I see improvement in this love. Although the lack appearance in the show, I see Cadance as the princess of the mothership as being a royal mother. She shows the bond between mother and a child in love really well. 

As we all know, love is not only for flirt or with whom you feel romantical. Love can be to nature, to anyone... Cadance is there to make these bonds stronger. 

As you may remember, two ponies were fighting at the cafe and Cadance didn't make them fall in love like Eros, she made their feelings stronger again if those ponies didn't love each other why would they be sitting together. Cadance, for me, is the reminder and power supporter in love, since even in friendship love exists. So she can't create love to make people fall into eachother.

                                       

That's exactly my thoughts. After all, her true, genuine, mutual love for Shining Armor is what snapped a brainwashed him out of it and made his Protection Spell against the attacking Changelings powerful enough to send them flying.

6 minutes ago, AlexanderThrond said:

Increasingly, princesshood seems to be symbolic more than anything. Like Twilight, I assume she was given an arbitrary title entirely because she became an alicorn at some point. In other words:

Celestia: "Hey, this random pegasus from the country just got a horn for some reason. I should make her a princess, probably. Uh, she has a heart on her butt, so princess of love, I guess." 

Read my post. The real reason is right there, for goodness' sakes,

20 minutes ago, We. said:

Actually, according to a Chapter book, "Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell" (published 2013 by G.M. Berrow) Cadance was originally a Pegasus, until she did did something incredible that earned her her Unicorn horn and Alcorn Status.

Please you have the MLP Wiki. Just look up how she become one.

Chapter books

Princess Cadance is featured in the chapter book Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell. The book tells the story of Twilight Sparkle after she'd been made an Alicorn and seeks advice on being a princess. She turns to Cadance, who tells her life story, how as a baby Pegasus she was found in the woods by Earth ponies, who took her to their village. When she grew up she reversed a love-stealing spell cast by a pony called Prismia. Prismia wore a magic-enhancing necklace that amplified her evil and jealousy, but when Cadance confronted her, the necklace amplified Cadance's love. Once Prismia changed her horrible ways, Cadance was surrounded by magical energy and transported to a strange place where she met Celestia, who adopted her as her royal niece. (Princess Cadance, MLP Wiki, Under Chapter Books)

 

Edited April 1, 2018 by We.

[Thrond 3,263]

9 minutes ago, We. said:

Read my post. The real reason is right there, for goodness' sakes,

I'm aware of that. I don't think one heroic act (or even several, in Twilight's case) necessarily constitutes a "role" which warrants a royal title. I am dying to see what Cadance does every day, but until we do, it's really hard to say what being the "Princess of Love" entails, whereas we at least now know Twilight regularly goes out to evangelize friendship to folks mysteriously pointed out by a confusing mystical artifact. 

[Will Guide 21,360]

Just now, AlexanderThrond said:

I'm aware of that. I don't think one heroic act (or even several, in Twilight's case) necessarily constitutes a "role" which warrants a royal title. I am dying to see what Cadance does every day, but until we do, it's really hard to say what being the "Princess of Love" entails, whereas we at least now know Twilight regularly goes out to evangelize friendship to folks mysteriously pointed out by a confusing mystical artifact. 

Fair enough.

[Ginger Ale 723]

27 minutes ago, AlexanderThrond said:

Celestia: "Hey, this random pegasus from the country just got a horn for some reason. I should make her a princess, probably. Uh, she has a heart on her butt, so princess of love, I guess." 

 

I disagree with that, you gain cutie mark with what you do or what you gain. Twilight wasn't decided to be princess of friendship neither her butt was a friendship cutie mark. It was a star representing her power of magic where she got in front of the jury. Cadance might have done something and she must have a story that influenced or effected Celestia to make a decision that important.

What I mean is, what they establish create their princess story that is why Twilight gained her castle after realizing her purpose. If the story wasn't inspiring for us than Celestia would make everyone Princess that she felt sorry for.

[GreenGreenWhirlWind 161]

She might be something like a magical marriage/relationship counselor, or maybe she's supposed to spread the word of love just like Twilight does with friendship, or maybe she just helps ponies find the right partners for them, could also be all of those things. 

Or it might be that she's mastered love-based magic, so that's why she gets to be the princess of that.

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10 hours ago, Ginger Ale said:

I disagree with that, you gain cutie mark with what you do or what you gain. Twilight wasn't decided to be princess of friendship neither her butt was a friendship cutie mark. It was a star representing her power of magic where she got in front of the jury. Cadance might have done something and she must have a story that influenced or effected Celestia to make a decision that important.
 

I disagree with your disagreement. When a spell caused the Mane 6's cutie marks change, they start doing what their cutie mark says their special talents are. Seems to me that the talent doesn't decide the cutie mark, but the other way around!

[Thrond 3,263]

16 hours ago, Ginger Ale said:

I disagree with that, you gain cutie mark with what you do or what you gain. Twilight wasn't decided to be princess of friendship neither her butt was a friendship cutie mark. It was a star representing her power of magic where she got in front of the jury. Cadance might have done something and she must have a story that influenced or effected Celestia to make a decision that important.

What I mean is, what they establish create their princess story that is why Twilight gained her castle after realizing her purpose. If the story wasn't inspiring for us than Celestia would make everyone Princess that she felt sorry for.

I've explained myself in a prior post. I don't think individual acts of heroics necessarily equal a royal title. 

[Hierok 11,831]

17 hours ago, Scootaloved said:

A better question is what Flurry Heart will be the princess of. 

The princess of souls.  Or merchendize. Or princess of the princesses. 

[kaiser5578 340]

okay call me an awful bird hoovy for thinking this but since in the comics (if the chapter books count so do the comics) Celestia is well aware of the changelings. Who feed on love. my guess is that as the princess of love she is like a beacon of it. so where better to have that beacon than out in the middle of a Siberian wasteland far from any actually important cities. we saw the issues when she was in Canterlot.

[cmarston1 5,959]

I think Twilight here just said it best.

 

[FizzyGreen 909]

I think it's like.. spreading love... the power of love! That is important cause like... how can u maek baby good without love?

Spreading magic of love i mean, what does twilight do??!!?

"Princess of Fwiendshwip", are you freakin' joking?!?

But what she does is important! I imagine the same for cadence. Aaaand also protecting the CE.

 

Okay, OR just the CE because it's powerful and shit

[Veil 260]

So think of it like this. To understand Cadence we must first understand what "love" is.

"Love" is a form of energy and/or magic that seems to be conjurable by certain entities in the world of ponies. Not too much is explained about what "love" is, but with some guessing it's mostly just an energy that is created by other ponies then is transferred and stored within a rock called the Crystal Heart. The energy is then somehow processed within this artifact to create a barrier around the Crystal Empire that wards off entities that don't possess "love" energy. Every pony seems to produce a small amount of this energy when they feel more upbeat. Another way to better explain this is how when we humans breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants then absorb the carbon dioxide and produce more oxygen. So let's think of this "love" energy more like that. Crystal ponies make this "love" energy which is absorbed into the Crystal Heart then it is dispensed into a "barrier" energy which I believe the crystal ponies also absorb into themselves by becoming crystal like then dispensing that energy which is of course "love" energy and so on and so forth.

So what does all this have to do with Cadence? Her magic and alicorn powers seem to be able to react to and make use of the "love" energy in some way. This can seem more complicated than one would think, but it is actually much more simple than that. She's not able to create more "love" energy, just simply manipulate it when it's around her. There might also be some sort of link between Cadence and the Crystal Heart artifice as she and Shining Armor were able to explode the changelings out of Canterlot in a similar manner to how King Sombra exploded in the Crystal Empire. So to better explain this, Cadence seems to simply be a living version of the Crystal Heart artifact. Being that she can store the "love" energy into her horn and then unleash it as a powerful attack against those that are evil or made of a form of evil or dark energy if you will.

In conclusion, Cadence is not "love" as much as she is able to take energy which is known as love and use it to dispense evil entities from their world. Also, that love is just a source of energy or "power" used to fuel certain weapons which are used to defend Equestria.

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Hey, the fandom wants a princess, so let's pick a random pony and make her an alicorn!

[SharpWit 2,647]

Princess Cadence is a reminder of what really matters in relationships, and that's our love for one another. We see this in a flashback of one of Twilight's memories with her when she casts a spell on a couple having a petty argument out in the open. Whereas Twilight and her friends mostly create friendships, Cadence would help maintain the more personal/intimate ones, before her assignment as a proper ruling sovereign.