My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Idea Megathread

[Aarik]

It's kind of hard when they use the terms Foal, Filly, Mare, Colt and Stallion IN THE SHOW and they all by definition refer to age.

That is, Foal is a horse/pony that's under a year old, Filly/Colt is a Female/Male that's over 1 but under 4, Mare/Stallion is a Female/Male that is over 4.

Until they state something in the show, or at least point out the in universe meaning of those words is different, they're is kind of not much we can do about it.

 

[Souffle]

Yes there is

It's called handwaving

Big deal they have different terms for different ages: humans do too. That's no real excuse to just say that TSparkz is like 5 years old or something. It's a fantasy world, fantasy ponies. What's the point of giving them tiny lifespans in your head?

Foals are babies. Fillies are adolescent, Mares are adults. Simple. If you wanna apply ages, just use human ones because they're humanlike as it is.

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Fluttershy's parents have never actually been seen in the show, you know... My own personal theory is that they're crazy survivalists who would make Burt Gummer go "wut" who hide and prepare for "The Second Great Dragon War" in the mountains...

 

[scriviner]

... that's disturbing but I'm willing to accept this as headcanon. O_O

Also, have some Spike:

 

[Lord of Bones]

Spike can cook and clean, run a library, has political connections (Hoity-Toity, Canterlot business) and is now revealed to have hidden emotional depths.

Give him a few years, and well...
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"NOPONY MOVES IN ON RARITY'S DRAKE! RARITY SMASH!"

 

[scriviner]

Spike can cook and clean, run a library, has political connections (Hoity-Toity, Canterlot business) and is now revealed to have hidden emotional depths.

Give him a few years, and well...
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"NOPONY MOVES IN ON RARITY'S DRAKE! RARITY SMASH!"

Spike has once again left the house with his swag on. Bad spike.

 

[Aarik]

Pffft, if you think three or four decades is a tiny lifespan, you need to look at mayflies or mice or something, that's still half our own lifespan and we live stupidly long compared to most other things.

Hell, OUR lifespan used to be shorter then that, though more because our bodies are weak ass pieces of shit and we kept getting killed horribly then anything else.

And Twilight can't be five, She got her cutie mark when she was a filly, it happens near the end of Fillyhood, and she said it was years ago, she would be about 8-9 if I had to guess. Putting Fluttershy at 9-10, which was in reference to the idea that was above me when I stated it.

I was pointing out that equine biology itself says that it's perfectly okay and possible for Fluttershy to have a Filly running around.

Especially since Equine Foals learn to walk after an hour or so of being born.

 

[Souffle]

My ponies live for a century ;_;

 

[half baked cat]

My ponies live forever.

They are made out of plastic.

Trollforged plastic.

Some are normal ponies, some are pegasi, some are unicorns, some are alicorns, some are nightmares, some are cthulhu ponies, and one just has bat wings.

They are good ponies.

 

[burnerx7]

Use the apple celebration they reunite each 100 moons so if the year is the same as in our world (heavily implied with the whole 1000 years of Luna).

Applejack has been in two celebrations so about 15 years, and in the first one she was a baby but she talked so 2 or 3 plus years, the mane 6 should be between 16 to 18 years old and they are very young when compared to Granny Smith who was young when the dad of Filthy Rich was an adult.

it's sure to say they live almost as much how we do...

Right..?

Also have you seen all those "human in Equestria" stories? Why isn't there a Finn the human in Equestria story?

 

[half baked cat]

I do not know why there is no Finn the human stories, but I don't really read human in Equestria stories.

 

[scriviner]

I would approve heartily of a Finn the Human story in Equestria. This could be a thing.

 

[whitewhiskey]

I kinda want to say it's because the princesses rarely need rescue, but it could happen from the whole multiverse thing

 

[Lord of Bones]

That would imply the Princesses actually do something.

Season 1: Celestia disappears and never fights Nightmare Moon, or alternatively gets curbstomped and banished.

Season 2: Celestia gets hoodwinked by Discord and never makes another appearance throughout his arc. Then gets stomped by Chrysalis. Luna is mysteriously absent.

Season 3: Celestia gives Twilight a 30 second info-dump and sends her off against pony Sauron. Luna is "wtf sis u mad?" That's about all of their involvement up till Twilicorn. Also, Spike is a buttmonkey.

 

[whitewhiskey]

That would imply the Princesses actually do something.

Season 1: Celestia disappears and never fights Nightmare Moon, or alternatively gets curbstomped and banished.

Season 2: Celestia gets hoodwinked by Discord and never makes another appearance throughout his arc. Then gets stomped by Chrysalis. Luna is mysteriously absent.

Season 3: Celestia gives Twilight a 30 second info-dump and sends her off against pony Sauron. Luna is "wtf sis u mad?" That's about all of their involvement up till Twilicorn. Also, Spike is a buttmonkey.

Season 1: Understandable, it's her sister. I'd suspect she planned the outcome of Twilight getting the elements and removing the Nightmare

Season 2: Luna is mysteriously absent, no explanation for that, but it took both with the elements to beat Discord before, and since she couldn't use the elements, she couldn't do anything. I would guess Chrysalis stomping her was supposed to be some set-up for the "Power of Love" from Shining and Cadance, but it is rather odd. However, we don't know Chrysalis' baseline power level, she may already be somewhat close and the whole love drain thing just put her over the top.

Season 3: It does seem like a weirdly short briefing, but it also seemed like she didn't know exactly how bad the Sombra situation was (Maybe Sombra stopped messages from getting out?). I was also kinda wondering, why no elements?

And Spike is, unfortunately, a buttmonkey. Folks forget his potential and how cool he is, focusing on his faults and making his, as you said, the buttmonkey. It's like Jack Spicer all over again.

 

[Lord of Bones]

The Sombra thing is kind of strange. Apparently he was powerful enough that it took both diarchs to defeat him, but even then he was still strong enough to hurl his empire a thousand years into the future, and coupled it with villainous pragmatism. Then as a demon shadow thing he corrupts Shiny's horn, terrifies the shit out of his Empire and then it's proven that Celly was wrong and that Spike (and Cadance) were the saviors.

Unlike the other villains, who were defeated by the power of friendship/love/Idiot Ball, Sombra was defeated by pure luck and something he couldn't possibly have predicted - Shiny's wife missile.

My new headcanon is that SA's answer to everything is a Cadance missile.

Celestia: Tambelon has returned! The necromancer-king Grogar-
SA: I know what to do! *hurls Cadance at Grogar*
Grogar: The hell - *thwack!*

Celestia: Tirek has broken free!
SA: I know what to do! *hurls Cadance at Tirek*
Tirek: You're kidding, right - *ka-POW!*

 

[burnerx7]

Was thinking more along the line about Twilight summoning a baby Finn in her foal exam for accident (want to see them growing up together) Finn geting his heroics the same way (the whole boom boom montain) except with the help of ponies from another dimension instead of a family of dogs with Spike as his lil' bro.

but a full heroic Finn works for me too.

Also ditto with Spike, hell he could get his own series (the same with Celestia or Luna) so much potential as characters

 

[whitewhiskey]

The Sombra thing is kind of strange. Apparently he was powerful enough that it took both diarchs to defeat him, but even then he was still strong enough to hurl his empire a thousand years into the future, and coupled it with villainous pragmatism. Then as a demon shadow thing he corrupts Shiny's horn, terrifies the shit out of his Empire and then it's proven that Celly was wrong and that Spike (and Cadance) were the saviors.

Unlike the other villains, who were defeated by the power of friendship/love/Idiot Ball, Sombra was defeated by pure luck and something he couldn't possibly have predicted - Shiny's wife missile.

But we don't know if both princesses were needed, just that both jumped in to make him a living shadow and seal him in ice. Maybe it would have been easier and simpler to kill him, but they didn't because, well...Have the princesses ever killed?

 

[ragnarok1337]

Fic idea: When Nightmare Moon returns from the moon, Celestia expects her sister to confront her as a mad tyrant.

Unfortunately, one thousand years on the Moon have had another effect - Luna used that time to think back on her misdeeds and was left to ruminate on her depression and loneliness.

When Luna returns, she's a severely depressed wreck who can't be half-arsed to fight or bring about "Night Eternal". Instead, she just hides in the ruins of the old castle in the Everfree.

An alternative Nightmare Moon idea I had was that, after getting taken down by the EoM, we find out that getting rid of the Nightmare...didn't really do anything to her personality. You see, being locked in the moon, unable to move at all; unable to eat, or sleep, or even breathe for a thousand years causes her to feel nothing but pure, unbridled hatred towards Celestia, and in fact the Nightmare was the only think keeping her from focusing solely on her hate.

Weakened to less than a Unicorn without magic, unable to fly, and practically about to collapse, Luna nonetheless forces herself to walk towards the Mane Six with murder in her eyes, slowly explaining that it is nothing but the power of hate that keeps her going, and that she will make Celestia and the rest of Equestria by extension SUFFER in the most painful of ways, and that the only way they will stop her is to kill her.

Season 2: Celestia gets hoodwinked by Discord and never makes another appearance throughout his arc. Then gets stomped by Chrysalis. Luna is mysteriously absent.

Fan theories range from "Revenge towards Celestia for banishment" to "Trolluna" to "Gamer Luna was too busy playing video games, and was wearing a sound-blocking headset".

 

[whitewhiskey]

Season 2: Celestia gets hoodwinked by Discord and never makes another appearance throughout his arc. Then gets stomped by Chrysalis. Luna is mysteriously absent.

Fan theories range from "Revenge towards Celestia for banishment" to "Trolluna" to "Gamer Luna was too busy playing video games, and was wearing a sound-blocking headset".

My favorite explanation is actually pretty logical, but can't quite remember where it's from, but it's like this.

Luna works at night and sleeps during the day, and she keeps her room soundproofed, both because Canterlot is a lot louder than it used to be, and she spent the last thousand years in silence on the moon, so her hearing is probably somewhat sensitive

 

[Lord of Bones]

Fic idea: When Nightmare Moon returns from the moon, Celestia expects her sister to confront her as a mad tyrant.

Unfortunately, one thousand years on the Moon have had another effect - Luna used that time to think back on her misdeeds and was left to ruminate on her depression and loneliness.

When Luna returns, she's a severely depressed wreck who can't be half-arsed to fight or bring about "Night Eternal". Instead, she just hides in the ruins of the old castle in the Everfree.

An alternative Nightmare Moon idea I had was that, after getting taken down by the EoM, we find out that getting rid of the Nightmare...didn't really do anything to her personality. You see, being locked in the moon, unable to move at all; unable to eat, or sleep, or even breathe for a thousand years causes her to feel nothing but pure, unbridled hatred towards Celestia, and in fact the Nightmare was the only think keeping her from focusing solely on her hate.

Weakened to less than a Unicorn without magic, unable to fly, and practically about to collapse, Luna nonetheless forces herself to walk towards the Mane Six with murder in her eyes, slowly explaining that it is nothing but the power of hate that keeps her going, and that she will make Celestia and the rest of Equestria by extension SUFFER in the most painful of ways, and that the only way they will stop her is to kill her.

I see Celestia teleporting in between Luna and the girls, fully expecting Nightmare Moon to be defeated...and then coming face-to-face with Luna.

Celestia: *shaking her head in denial* No...no...you were meant to be cleansed...
NMM: This is how it ends, sister...
Celestia: *tearing up* No...no Luna...please Lulu...
NMM: Not with a bang...not with a scream...but a whimper. *collapses, the last of her strength gone*

Or, to make things worse...Luna ignores her. Completely.

Celestia: *preparing for battle*
NMM: *simply walks past her and the guards*
Celestia: Nightmare! Face us!
NMM: *looks to the moon dispassionately* *leaps off the balcony...and heads back to the moon*
Celestia: *too stunned to react...which slowly turns to horror*
NMM: *voice echoes in the room* Never again, Your Highness. Never again.

 

[Aarik]

Don't the things that cause nightmare-ification show up in one of the new comics?

Nightmare Rarity and all that.

Are they a deal with the devil thing or what?

I mean, it's nice that we're finally getting some kind of explanation for the Nightmare thing, since you'd figure Celestia would HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE the unmerciful Fuck out of whatever was responsible for that shit.

 

[scriviner]

Season 2: Celestia gets hoodwinked by Discord and never makes another appearance throughout his arc. Then gets stomped by Chrysalis. Luna is mysteriously absent.

Fan theories range from "Revenge towards Celestia for banishment" to "Trolluna" to "Gamer Luna was too busy playing video games, and was wearing a sound-blocking headset".

My favorite explanation is actually pretty logical, but can't quite remember where it's from, but it's like this.

Luna works at night and sleeps during the day, and she keeps her room soundproofed, both because Canterlot is a lot louder than it used to be, and she spent the last thousand years in silence on the moon, so her hearing is probably somewhat sensitive

"No, seriously, dear sister. You SLEPT through Candace's wedding? The Changeling invasion?"

"My alarm did not work. It is bad enough that I missed the wedding, you don't have to keep going on and on about the invasion."

 

[Lord of Bones]

Chrysalis discovers a new way to defeat the defenders.

"Many were the changelings who fell to bring me this secret weapon! Behold!"

"*GASP!*"

"Mwahahahaha! Yes, it's a picture of Princess Luna...cuddling her abacus IN HER SLEEP!"

"HNNGH!"

 

[half baked cat]

Ah, yes, the abacus. Luna and her abacus... Damn dirty mind... The abacus is like her baby... Damn it mind! Stop coming up with ideas involving the abacus being a pimp! Luna is not a prostitute.

Edit: At least Princess Luna isn't... I think. Some other Luna probably is.