Chaff in my Head Cannon: Fancy Pants

There was a lot rumbling around in my head today.

Anyway, this will be short.

So, I was thinking about Fancy Pants a while ago and I was trying to reconcile why he was so successful, rich, and well connected yet still kept himself friendly and approachable.

I think it's his special talent.

The three crowns of his cutie mark pretty heavily imply wealth, power, status, and/or royalty, but I think they point towards quality as well. And I think that's what his special talent actually is - he has the ability to see the value/worth of things. (This also explains why he's so rich and why everybody else wants to be in his good graces.)

Given the show's core traits of friendship and acceptance I think that his ability to see the value and worth of things goes beyond the financial and includes things like their value as a person.

He's part of the Canterlot high society elite, so he's used to those personality types and that way of speaking and presenting himself, but from the way he talks to and about Twilight and the others (I'm intentionally excluding Rarity) shows how he's not snobbish like Jet Set and Upper Crust are, he just enjoys keeping with the refined things of the world.

I excluded Rarity because he doesn't see her as something outside of his normal world that he can still see the beauty of (e.g. Twilight's dress), but instead sees her as an equal or peer.

But that attitude of his that I've tied to his cutie mark is why I like him so much. He very firmly has his own world, passions, tastes, and all that, but he still acknowledges and even admires the quality outside of his own interests. He might not ever want to join in on one of Pinkie's parties, but he'd probably give a genuine smile and have half a dozen compliments in mind when he looked at one.

To pull off that kind of attitude requires a well developed empathy, and that's a great trait to base a character off of.