Lightning and Cutie Marks

[Naught Important 434]

I thought of something last night...

 

I've been told that when someone gets struck by lightning, their mind set can be altered drastically, assuming they survive.

Would this happen to ponies?

If so, would their cutie mark reset or be replaced?

 

I mean, we have seen many ponies get struck by some kind of lightning bolt in the show and weren't really affected at all, nor were they really hurt. That kind of leads me to believe that lightning created by Pegasi isn't really as afflicting as the lightning that might happen naturally. Lets just say for now, maybe, in the Everfree Forest, lightning bolts that are as powerful as the ones we all know of can strike.

 

So, if a pony were to be struck by a powerful bolt of lightning and lived, would their mind be altered? I am not exactly sure, it may just happen by chance.

 

If it did happen though, what would happen to their cutie mark? (Assuming they have one already; fillies probably wouldn't be able to survive the blast, anyway.) Either whatever magical force created their cutie mark just reverses and removes the cutie mark, or it stays there like a tattoo and is just overlapped with a new, different cutie mark. If neither of those happen, the old cutie mark might just fuse with the new one, or it just wouldn't change, and the pony would have a misleading mark on his/her flank. 

 

I don't know if this would even happen. It probably wouldn't happen to unicorns, since their horn supposedly would act like a lightning rod. Or, maybe it would. I don't know.

 

What do you think?

[SoarinBlue 202]

You could apply the same concept to a traumatic brain injury as well. Mlp lore seems to indicate that its more of a "destiny" than a personality though, and presumably it wouldnt change in that case as that would be part of their destiny

[Rainbow Skywalker 642]

Their memory would be altered or destroyed by the lightning, but Twilight even said something about how she altered "Destinies" when she switched up her friends' cutie marks.  So I would believe that CMs wouldn't be changed by a change in memory, but instead the pony would eventually regain their sense of control of their special talent.

[RrVPfX9cPtw59FpC 1,304]

Well, i suppose even amnesia would do that, but I think cutie marks are permanent. They appear when somepony finds what they were destined to do, and if they get amnesia I don't know what that would mean.