My theory on how the Alicorn Amulet corrupts people.

[Never2muchpinkie 211]

I have a fanfic planned where Sunset Shimmer, the villain of the Equestria girls spin-off, returns to Ponyville, trying to start over, but stumbles on Zecora and eventually the Alicorn Amulet.

 

My view on the AA's effect is something similar to Pinkie in Party of One. It can read your mind, and can bring forth your most prominent negative thought and expand it, by being a voice in your head. When Pinkie first started going crazy, holding her party for all the inanimate objects, she's at first defending her friends, but as Madame Leflour, rocky, and the rest all put down her friends and talk about how they let her down, her resistance to their words quickly crumbles, and she starts agreeing with them, to the point that she thinks all her friends are jerks and doesn't want anything to do with them.

 

Trixie, the only one who's actually been shown wearing the amulet in canon, seemed to have a similar effect. She was humiliated by Twilight, because of Snips and Snails. Her initial intention was probably simply to return the favor by humiliating Twilight in a contest of magic. After beating Twilight, she spends most of her episode also going after snips and snails, whether it was by magic, or making them pull a cart without wheels.

 

After chipping away their resistance by getting them to get their revenge for the biggest slight the feeling probably intensifies, seeing more and more reasons to go after people, even if it's for little things, like what happened to Fluttershy in putting your hoof down.

 

In my story I also explore overcoming the effect of the amulet. Since the opposite of evil is good, and the opposite of anger and hate is love, I believe if you can fill your heart with love and be reminded of your goodness, then the corrupting power of the amulet can be kept at bay, at least for a short while.

 

So, thoughts?

Edited September 22, 2013 by Never2muchpinkie

[DippyOryan 6]

 Your theory basically hits the nail on the head in my opinion. It seems that the "Alicorn Amulet" feeds on the weaknesses of ones psyche. I say this since Trixie only had one thought for coming back to Ponyville, and that was revenge on Twilight Sparkle. Doing so however shows Trixie's one true weakness and that is losing. So I think the Alicorn Amulet was using Trixie's bad sportsmanship and turned it into cruelty and expressing the desire that lies deep inside her. I feel the Amulet also shows the little part that hides in all of us, regardless the person and that is hate.