How Shining Armor's shield works

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Oone of the thing is that of My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic, which is a kids show, but it also has a deep understanding of human psyche and character archetypes.

Let's see this one. In this episode, Shining Armor, who is the captain of the royal guard and the protagonist's brother, sets up a shield. And when he doe's it, He shoots up with his magical horn. And every time he does that, he has this-this terrible headache. Foreshadowing that there already is something wrong inside the castle. So, the round barrier is his consciousness - his brain. What just he did is keeping the barrier updated to keep it up to his consciousness. And the only ones who can get through it is his friends, family and not hostile guests. In real life, the ones you trust and love can get closer to you. No doubt about that.

Later on, it is revealed that - his own fiancee was the enemy in disguise. She was a Changeling. Witch is a creature capable of changing it's form and feed off love from the others. Early on, when the main protagonist - Twilight Sparkle catches something wrong is going on with her. She sees her brother suffering on headache and his fiancee - Princess Cadence tries to fix him with magic. It fixes his pain immediately, but instead, it turns him into a dummy who follows her orders blindly. She just made him accept her. So, the changeling fooled everyone in this show. And this part is also about how to find your true partner in life.

What Queen Chrysalis - it's a kid's show, princesses are the good ones, queens are evil, there is also a study on literary archetypes about this. it's quite fascinating by the way - the queen of all changelings does is similar to what real manipulative women do to men. She didn't love him. She wasn't what she make him think she was. She used him as a tool but kept him under control so he couldn't even doubt it. It's - it's brutal! It totally is! She reduced his migraine but it was only because she was the cause of the pain. Deep down inside, he knew there was something wrong. And what Chrysalis did was to get inside his consciousness. Get inside his brain. Because when you love someone, It's not just an expression where their souls bonded. They say 'they became one' for a reason. So you get vulnerable to what you combine yourself with.

So, this manipulative woman, is betraying someone who trusts her. Someone very vulnerable. Later on, the barrier breaks. He's defenceless against hostile force both mentally and physically. So the Changelings invade Canterlot. All the good guys, roughly speaking, is captured. what could they do? Well, fortunately, they did find the real Princess Cadence early on. But they are all locked in the room, listening the villains monologue.

What she does is also a metaphor of finding true love. And it's a kid's cartoon and has not much time to explain everything about love, but anyway, she wakes him up. And she helps him find himself. When he wakes up, they confirm their true love and cross horns. There is lots of phallic metaphor about horns throughout literature over history though. And this is not a lustful indiscreet activity. It is a spiritual combination of the two. And a very divine act - almost a ritual. There actually are many, many literature and cultural conception about how a physical combination of two also means that of the souls.

So, they cross horns, and they produce this aura of love. And the aura explodes into a giant light and expels all the changelings. This is way more powerful than the magical barrier we just saw back then. So Shining Armor regained his power to see true love and fake ones. He is now himself again. They did this by finding true love. So the true love of your life would not distract but help you see the truth. Help you see clearly between good and bad. And give you strength.

Edited November 10, 2019 by Sepul-Coloratura