This lead to both young mares getting their Cutie Marks and becoming Alicorns. One day, however, two Unicorns named Celestia and Luna, the young apprentices of Star Swirl the Bearded, stepped up and was able to use their power and single handedly moved the Sun and Moon respectively. This process took six powerful Unicorns combined with Star Swirl the Bearded himself to accomplished, and left the group exhausted each time. They are said to be a mixture of all three pony types in Equestria, Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns, with the strength and nature manipulation of and Earth Pony, the flight and weather manipulation of the Pterippus, and the magic and mentality of the Unicorn.įor the longest time in Equestria, because of the celestial bodies small size and distance in relation to Etheria, the Unicorn inhabitants had to use their magic to maneuver the Sun and the Moon, bringing on the day and the night. On February 16th, the season 3 final episode, "Magical Mystery Cure," aired, which featured Twilight Sparkle turning into an alicorn.Because of their rarity in Equestrian society, it is hard to pin-point where the Alicorn came from or what an Alicorn truly is. The developer of the series, Lauren Faust, has implied in tweets that the current course of Twilight Sparkle doesn't match her original intentions for the character but noted that she has no intention of undermining the show's current writers. Creator ResponseĮpisode writer Mitch Larson and Twilight Sparkle's voice actor Tara Strong responded to the online reaction by publishing tweets directed to fans joking about the controversy (shown below). By extension it also makes them fear for the series' direction, with this event representing the peak of character and plot development. When Twilight Sparkle does become an alicorn, various fans fear that her new position and abilities will seperate her too much from the regular cast and that she will become over-idealized, in a similar vein to the Mary Sue phenomenon. Although Twilight Sparkle already has an exceptional skill in magic compared to the average pony on the show, she still maintains no function as either a deity or royalty. Within the show's canon, alicorns commonly fulfill roles of deities and royalty, maintaining abilities that often far exceed regular ponies such as controlling the sun and moon. In less than 3 days, the thread garnered more than 80 responses. On February 1st, a thread was created on The Round Stable Forum, featuring various "Thanks, Obama!" GIFs edited to include My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic writer M.A. Within five days, the post received 1,900 notes. On January 30th, Tumblr user bronychilensis-gwain published an animated GIF pointing out that 4chan's /mlp/ board was relatively calm regarding the Twilight Sparkle news in comparison to the websites DeviantArt, Equestria Daily, Ponychan and Reddit. Following this, numerous fans changed their avatars to include the button to show their support for the show. Larson being the writer for the episode in which transformation occurs. On January 27th, DeviantART user PixelKitties created a badge reading "I Believe In M.A. An Equestria Daily poll was posted on January 20th, 2013, which indicated that a majority of voters were ambivalent toward to the transformation (shown below, right). Shortly after the announcement, the header of 4chan's /mlp/ (ponies) board was changed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW" (shown below, left) while playing the Metal Gear Solid 4 Love Theme in the background.
On January 29th, 2013, the entertainment news site Entertainment Weekly published an interview with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic head writer Meghan McCarthy, who announced Twilight Sparkle's transformation into an alicorn, noting the character "was set up from the very beginning to be on an important journey." The same day, the announcement was reblogged on several brony news sites, including Equestria Daily and Derpy Hooves News. On November 1st, 2012, a poll was posted on the MLP Forums, to which over 43% said they did not approve of Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn (shown below). Many felt that changing Twilight Sparkle into an alicorn could severely damage the character by over-idealizing her, similar to the Mary Sue phenomenon in fanfiction. The news was met with a variety of responses from the brony fandom. The same day, Redditor Lusht submitted the photo to the /r/mylittlepony subreddit, where it received over 490 up votes and 200 comments within the next three months. On October 17th, the licensing convention Brand Licencing Europe shared a picture on their Twitter with a poster featuring Twilight Sparkle with a pair of wings (shown below, right). On September 30th, 2012, the plushie manufacturer Funrise posted a picture on their Facebook page with several My Little Pony plushies in an office, with one Twilight Sparkle plush toy wearing wings (shown below, left).
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