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What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thread)

Shànwàng

Lavender Scented
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I don't think ponies evolve like pokemon.
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Odds are it's just magic.
Either way this would totally answer what sort of character I would be in equestria.
The pony version of Professor Hojo from FF: crisis core.
If alicorns come from just magic I'd just become a professor and under the premise of "magic studies" pump a couple of the unicorn students so full of magic that it'd artificially make them alicorns If it was genetics I'd find unicorns carrying the gene and artificially create alicorns.
Is there any canon about what came first, pony or Alicorn? (besides the play, where there is ponys before Celestia's reign)
If it is Pony's then Alicorns, then the Ponys could have "created" the first Alicorn via magic to have a neutral ruler, that is sure to keep peace without favoring any race (since it is equal parts earthponie, pegasus, unicorn)


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yeah, but "magic did it" isn't as much fun as talking about theories
Well seeing as how in the winter carol episode neither celestia or luna were in it then chances are ponies came first. Which would give credence to it being a genetic mutation.
I don't think ponies evolve like pokemon.
Technically we're talking about genetics.
 
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Shànwàng

Lavender Scented
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I guess. There's nothing to measure Celestia, Nightmare Moon, or for that matter, Discord by if we were to think there's some kind of ascension available. If anything, Twilight will just be a powerful magician which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
http://cghub.com/files/Image/227001-228000/227471/151_max.jpg
Buckin Starswirl the Bearded!
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I guess. There's nothing to measure Celestia, Nightmare Moon, or for that matter, Discord by if we were to think there's some kind of ascension available. If anything, Twilight will just be a powerful magician which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
http://cghub.com/files/Image/227001-228000/227471/151_max.jpg
Buckin Starswirl the Bearded!
I wasn't thinking of a ascension thing. I was thinking more along the lines of like x-men. The difference being that gene is far rarer and regressive and has to be actually triggered for a unicorn to become a alicorn.
 
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Conker

Destroyer of Nazi Teddy Bears
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yeah, but "magic did it" isn't as much fun as talking about theories
I remember once I brought something up and everyone just went "lawl it's magic," so it's my turn to piss on this parade >:[
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I remember once I brought something up and everyone just went "lawl it's magic," so it's my turn to piss on this parade >:[
I agree with you, I don't care if it's magic you still gotta explain shit.
 

CrazyLee

Biggest buttplug ever
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Hmm. the con brony panel was kinda crappy, at least compared to the awesome brony panels I've been to at anime cons where 1000 people are packed in a small auditorium. This one had only about 50 people, and the guy showed off brony-made pictures, played songs from the show (no PMVs or brony-made songs for some reason) that no one sang to because no one knew the words, and a few fan-made videos...

Also, he started a MLP role-playing game in the lobby. It's pretty hard to roleplay fluttershy when her default action is "hide under shit".
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Hmm. the con brony panel was kinda crappy, at least compared to the awesome brony panels I've been to at anime cons where 1000 people are packed in a small auditorium. This one had only about 50 people, and the guy showed off brony-made pictures, played songs from the show (no PMVs or brony-made songs for some reason) that no one sang to because no one knew the words, and a few fan-made videos...

Also, he started a MLP role-playing game in the lobby. It's pretty hard to roleplay fluttershy when her default action is "hide under shit".
Which convention did you go to?
 

Heimdal

has a sexy learning disability
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I remember once I brought something up and everyone just went "lawl it's magic," so it's my turn to piss on this parade >:[

Twilight already established that magic is a technology to them. She stood up on a soapbox and essentially explained it like that to Pinkie Pie. If it was magic, given all the magic and magical books and studies, there would have been a lot more alicorns. If it was genetics, there would also be a lot more alicorns. So I'm gonna go with them being a near-mythical rarity. Maybe a sort of demi-god or god-like creature.

Twilight is a unicorn. I'm gonna say that unicorns are mythical enough that she doesn't need to become a goddamn alicorn. She may become more powerful than Celestia, but she doesn't need to grow wings to do that.. and what kinda lesson would that be for the wee chidrens?
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Twilight already established that magic is a technology to them. She stood up on a soapbox and essentially explained it like that to Pinkie Pie. If it was magic, given all the magic and magical books and studies, there would have been a lot more alicorns. If it was genetics, there would also be a lot more alicorns. So I'm gonna go with them being a near-mythical rarity. Maybe a sort of demi-god or god-like creature.

Twilight is a unicorn. I'm gonna say that unicorns are mythical enough that she doesn't need to become a goddamn alicorn. She may become more powerful than Celestia, but she doesn't need to grow wings to do that.. and what kinda lesson would that be for the wee chidrens?
Actually my theory was that it's a regressive very rare gene or group of genes that have to be activated by a crap load of magic that very very few unicorns ever attain that level of magic. It would also explain why Starswirl the bearded didn't become a alicorn; he didn't have the gene. It would also explain why Celestia, Luna & Cadence all are alicorns; they all carry the gene and it's active.

So I don't think it's magic and I don't think it's genetics, but both contributing.

If both and under extremely very rare cases then that would explain why there's only three known alicorns.
 
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Heimdal

has a sexy learning disability
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Actually my theory was that it's a regressive very rare gene or group of genes that have to be activated by a crap load of magic that very very few unicorns ever attain that level of magic. It would also explain why Starswirl the bearded didn't become a alicorn; he didn't have the gene. It would also explain why Celestia, Luna & Cadence all are alicorns; they all carry the gene and it's active.

So I don't think it's magic and I don't think it's genetics, but both contributing.

If it is both that makes a alicorn it would explain a lot cause even if you are ungodly powerful of a unicorn as long as you don't have the gene/s you'll never be a alicorn and if you have the gene and suck at magic and/or not a unicorn you'll never be a alicorn.

tl:dr; if it's both magic and a very very very rare gene then that would explain it.

I think Pinkie Pie is the most likely to become an alicorn. To hell with magic and genetics... if Pinkie Pie wants to, she'll make it happen.

EDIT: She won't though, because she's already Pinkie Pie. What a step down that would be!
 

Shànwàng

Lavender Scented
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I think Pinkie Pie is the most likely to become an alicorn. To hell with magic and genetics... if Pinkie Pie wants to, she'll make it happen.

EDIT: She won't though, because she's already Pinkie Pie. What a step down that would be!

With all that power, she wouldn't even need a party cannon. How boring that would be!
 

Yago

Ambered Amaranth
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

ZOMFG IT'S HAPPENING!?!

I'm starting to watch the show, and the more I watch the more I'm starting to appreciate it.
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

ZOMFG IT'S HAPPENING!?!

I'm starting to watch the show, and the more I watch the more I'm starting to appreciate it.
What episode are you on so far?
 
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Yago

Ambered Amaranth
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What episode are you on so far?

Almost finished with 4.
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Almost finished with 4.
Whatever you do don't try and watch all the episodes in one sitting.

Make sure to eat plenty of water and drink enough food and such.
 

Yago

Ambered Amaranth
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Whatever you do don't try and watch all the episodes in one sitting.

Make sure to eat plenty of water and drink enough food and such.

My ass won't support that(quite true, actually I have a messed up tailbone and so it gets quite painful if I don't move around a lot) , plus I've got to log off about now.

The shows interesting. It's amusing. Not the best thing I've seen, but it's definitely reasonable enough that I wouldn't change the channel away from it and there's few shows like that for me.
 
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Twilight already established that magic is a technology to them. She stood up on a soapbox and essentially explained it like that to Pinkie Pie. If it was magic, given all the magic and magical books and studies, there would have been a lot more alicorns. If it was genetics, there would also be a lot more alicorns. So I'm gonna go with them being a near-mythical rarity. Maybe a sort of demi-god or god-like creature.

Twilight is a unicorn. I'm gonna say that unicorns are mythical enough that she doesn't need to become a goddamn alicorn. She may become more powerful than Celestia, but she doesn't need to grow wings to do that.. and what kinda lesson would that be for the wee chidrens?
That would depend on the level of magic it is,
if it is like "need a buck-load of ponies in harmony that want it (and ofcourse an unicorn actually channeling the magic)" that wouldn't be as easily achieved as levitating a book.
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
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^If it was JUST magic then there'd be more alicorns and unicorns like starswirl the bearded and such would have become alicorns.

If it was JUST genetics then there'd be a couple hundred alicorns running around.
 
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

^If it was JUST magic then there'd be more alicorns and unicorns like starswirl the bearded and such would have become alicorns.

If it was JUST genetics then there'd be a couple hundred alicorns running around.
Not talking about simple magic you can do by yourself (no matter how powerfull you are), but more along the line of the pony people acting like harmony (just instead of 6 friends who got elements of harmony it's the pony population being united under the want of peace, PERMANENT peace, since they are fed up with war)
 

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

^If it's a combination of all three then it would be so rare that it would explain why there's only three alicorns.

However if it's all three then that means twilight has a decent chance, rarity might have a slim chance. However the rest of the mane6 don't stand a chance.
 

Conker

Destroyer of Nazi Teddy Bears
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Gawd, are we now trying to discuss the laws and properties of magic? It's bloody fucking magic!

Even Harry Potter sort of left some of the plot holes open with "it's bloody magic." (that pissed me off :V)
 

Shànwàng

Lavender Scented
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

I consider the sisters existence to Equestria as the Olympians were to the greeks in mythology. They perform the functions of gods without being labeled as such for whatever marketing reason. Another alternate explanation is that they were created. How and for whatever purpose. Who knows. It's not like we have an origin story or a family history of the sisters anyways.

If Cadence and Shining Armor produce offspring and they're alicorns then I guess that'll answer whatever this conversation is.
 
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