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Hub Welcome to the Twilight Sparkle Fan club! Twilight Sparkle is the faithful student of Princess Celestia who is tasked in studing the magic of friendship. She holds magical powers unknown to e

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I love Twilight Sparkle so much.   I think we can all relate to her a bit when we are in school.   We want to learn so much, but we can also have our nervous breakdowns when they are too great.

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Who doesn't love magic and the ability to fly?!?! Plus, I love to read and I obsess about giving everything my all, just like Twilight.


 

 

Quote Warning: long thought-fueled post ahead. While on my walk, I was thinking about just how special and unique Twilight Sparkle is, due partially to something we see her do in this episode, specifically, her use of teleporting magic to teleport Spike independently of herself, something we've never seen her do before--an event which happens rather often. Her doing something we've never seen before with her magic, I mean. She's the Element of Magic--an element which for reasons I will explain could just as easily be called the Element of Love--for very good reason. She's the most powerful unicorn alive, at least in terms of raw talent, and she has a tendency to display explosive accelerations her magical abilities everytime she's exposed to a large amount of magic related to the Elements of Harmony. She's also probably been watched by Princess Celestia since a very young age, long before her entrance exam to the School of Gifted Unicorns when she got her cutie mark, for this very ability. Why do I say that? Because of the nature of the entrance exam itself. Passing an entrance exam to be able to attend such a prestigious school for young unicorns makes sense, but her entrance exam was unique. First, we see that she's expected to obtain a familiar right off that bat. And yes, I am calling Spike a familiar, because that's what he IS for Twilight. We may not see familiars very often in Equestria but they do obviously exist for unicorns that practice magic on a significant basis. While we don't know enough about the subject to say how familiars work in the universe of FIM, I think we can assume that choosing the right familiar isn't something you can do from a brief assessment of somepony. You'd have to get a feel for their magical talents, where they lay, how the pony in question can use his or her talents effectively, and so I would assume that most unicorns who attend the School obtain a familiar only after attending the school for a year or two. It would be a significant event, and an important one, but for it to serve as an entrance exam? When the only way they'd even know what kind of familiar would suit her best would have been from whatever brief aptitude test/questions/essay she did as part of her application to the school? I don't think so. That alone shows that somepony knew more about Twilight than Twilight herself realized. Second, the nature of the familiar. As we saw in the most recent episode, without proper care and knowledge, raising a dragon can be difficult. Dragons are also already sapient, and since what usually happens with familiars is that they gain sapience upon becoming a familiar, having a dragon as a familiar probably gives them a boost to their intelligence on top of what they already had, making it odder yet that a dragon would be chosen. Perhaps even odder STILL is the fact that she wasn't expected to obtain a familiar after the familiar was already alive, but actually give BIRTH to one--or, in this case, force the familiar to hatch, something that if not done properly would probably have killed Spike before he had even taken his first breath. The nature of an entrance exam to a school like the School for Gifted Unicorns isn't one about requiring you to succeed at a task so much as it is supposed to demonstrate you have the appropriate talents to be able to attend the school. It's a vetting process, not a process where you're expected to ace a test. So to choose a dragon as her familiar, and expect her to hatch said dragon WITHOUT KILLING HIM is...bizarre beyond belief. Even more bizarre is trusting such a powerful and dangerous sapient being to such a young foal as Twilight was at the time. Someone, most probably Princess Celestia, manipulated that entrance exam in order to serve as a much more important test than Twilight probably realized. Princess Celestia was more than aware that Nightmare Moon's return was imminent. She NEEDED the Elements of Harmony. She needed the Element of Magic. So she set up this test for Twilight. Twilight passed with flying colors. Literally, in this case, due to the Sonic Rainboom from Rainbow Dash, and the first case--that we KNOW OF--where Twilight experienced a sudden and almost catastrophic acceleration of her magical talents. The Sonic Rainboom was directly connected to the Elements of Harmony. It's not a coincidence that all the Elements of Harmony obtained their cutie marks due to the same incident--one which in and of itself was a demonstration of just how remarkable Rainbow Dash is, something I will get to in a future post. Something about that Rainboom was already connected to the Elements before it happened. That's why Twilight experienced her sudden explosion of talent, talent that allowed her to hatch a baby dragon, allow him to survive to become her familiar, and that gave Princess Celestia the chance to step in and make Twilight her protege. Princess Celestia was waiting for that happen...I think even she was surprised by just how explosive the talent Twilight demonstrated was(and probably scared as well--look at how Spike nearly grew to full adult size in a heartbeat and how her parents were almost permanently transformed into plants!) I mean, isn't it strange how she was able to calm Twilight's magical outburst almost as soon as she showed up? I refuse to believe she wasn't prepared for that, with appropriate counterspells and all. Twilight went on to grow as a pony and as a person under Celestia's tutelage, becoming a mother to Spike in the process, since Spike, as a sapient being, was not just a familiar, but more like her son. She grew to love him--while she calls him her "number one assistant" that's more of a pet name, because as Spike's jealousy from Owl's Well That Ends Well shows, there is a strong connection there, and it went hand in hand with her talents coming under control and her growing stronger in her magical ability. The show is called Friendship is Magic for a very, VERY good reason, as we saw during the events of the pilot episode, which demonstrated again the (positive) manipulative nature of Princess Celestia as the Princess played a careful game of chess to maneuver Twilight into making friends with the other Elements(whom I have no doubt Celestia was keeping on eye on as well). Without that friendship--without the LOVE that grew between them, Twilight would not have been able to manifest her Element of Harmony. That's why I consider the Element of Magic to also be the Element of Love, because the Elements of Harmony are, in possibly every way, the most powerful magic of all, that of love. Love was what finally banished Nightmare Moon and returned Princess Luna to sanity(freeing her from what I believe to be the remnants of Discord's influence, something I will again get to in a future post.) Love is what sealed Discord away, hopefully for good this time. Love is what enables Twilight to be as magical as she is. I said before that Twilight experiences significant accelerations in her magical talent after being exposed to the magic of the Elements of Harmony, and I meant it. We see it twice in the series. Shortly after the first usage of the Elements, her magical talents shoot through the roof, no more so than in the events of Boast Busters. At the beginning of the episode she's running through new spells like crazy, and at the end of the episode she performs a feat of magical talent, especially when it comes to levitation that is unbelievable: she disarms an Ursa Minor through music, then floats him who KNOWS how far into the Everfree Forest to get the Ursa safely away from Ponyville. We see how hard this is for her too while she's doing it. While I think she was able to do some of these things already before she came to Ponyville, by the way Spike was acting during the episode it seems obvious to me that these feats are, for the most part, new. In other words, an acceleration of magical talent. After the second use of the Elements of Harmony, she demonstrates this again, coupled with what are obviously the effects of this process on her psyche. I speak, of course, of Lesson Zero. Prior to that point, while she had demonstrated organizational skills, especially during Winter Wrap-Up, she hadn't shown that much OCD. While it appears to have come out of nowhere(and has, to the show's credit, stuck around since, if slightly more subtly) the truth is that I think it was the result of another magical acceleration. She was, unconsciously, attempting to gain control over her new talents, through the only way she knew how: more organization, to an excessive degree. And she paid for it by experiencing a psychological break-down, one that could have easily ended in a much, MUCH worse situation than it did. She showed a spell that, while obviously preexisting, was new to us. What's important about this spell isn't so much what it did or when it was developed, but how powerful it was. She was clearly surprised. She didn't expect to have the whole of Ponyville suddenly going after her foalhood doll as if it were the most valuable thing alive. I suspect the spell was developed for and supposed to show a much lesser effect, one that would have caused the CMC's to like the doll and be willing to argue over it, but not to cause them to go absolutely nuts. During the episode we also saw her teleporting abilities reach new heights--notice the way she teleports into the ball the CMC's are hitting around. She doesn't just appear inside it--it physically inflates over several seconds, implying she had actually SHRUNK herself and was then growing again. Granted, this might be how the teleport spell works to begin with--shrink yourself to a microscopic level, open up a wormhole, shoot through it, then regrow, all on a timescale of microseconds--but the fact that it happened much more slowly than any other teleport we've seen before or since makes me think there was something more going on with it. She continues to demonstrate her talents growing throughout Season Two. Mare Do Well has her REBUILDING A DAM with her magical power, and probably strengthening the dam in the process so it doesn't collapse again. Then as I mentioned at the beginning, there's her teleporting Spike independently of herself--over a very short distance, yes, but I cannot help but think that teleporting something independent of herself is much harder than just teleporting on her own. Teleporting is in and of itself a seemingly unique talent--apart from Discord we've never seen anypony else doing this, the Princesses included. (Though I have no doubt that both Celestia and Luna are capable of it, it does appear to be unique to her as a unicorn, at least among unicorns currently alive.) What this may mean for her in the future is uncertain. To be honest, I'm a little worried about her. The fact that she not only develops an excessive level of OCD on top of her tendency towards it already and then unhinges in a psychological breakdown shortly thereafter, all of this occurring not long after the usage of the Element of Magic makes me wonder if she doesn't start risking insanity each time she uses her Element. Nopony else has really demonstrated this either--granted, both Applejack and Pinkie Pie suffered psychological breakdowns of their own during the events of Season One, but neither of those can really be attributed to their own use of their Element, because Applejack's only happened over a much, MUCH longer period of time, hard work, and little sleep, and Pinkie Pie most probably has Borderline Personality Disorder anyway, so it's only natural that she'd suffer a depressive spiral after feeling like her friends abandoned her. Twilight's breakdown, on the other hand, was fast, hard, and could very easily have resulted in her causing serious, permanent harm to other ponies, had it not been stopped by Princess Celestia. She is a very unique character. Her talents in magic are only going to grow over the course of the series. And while I do worry for her sanity should some other threat force a usage of the Elements of Harmony, I think the love she's built with her friends, with her mentor, and with her familiar/son will carry her through anything.
MIND... BLOWN! Holy frickin crap.

Personally, Twilight is my favorite. Magic, flight, smarts, and a born leader-type instinct; she is probably one of the most unique ponies in all of Equestria. Of course she's awesome.

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Loved Twilight is my favorite out of Mane 6 (as for ponies, joint with Derpy & Snowdrop). I was happy for her when she become a Princess and Alicorn. One of the Princesses I will bow down to.

Hi there and welcome to the forums :lol:!!! love to see new faces around here!

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