More Fanfiction Foresight · 1:34pm Oct 11th, 2015
Warning: Spoilers from the latest episode, Crusaders of the Lost Mark, abound. Proceed with caution.
Forgive me if this blog post is incoherent; I figured this out just now. We pretty much know that the Cutie Mark Crusaders's destiny is to be life coaches, yeah? They have their individual talents beyond that (as evidenced by the Coat of Arms on each of their shields), but that's their angle as of this episode. Well, I already have two stories where they are doing just that. Those stories are The Do Dilemma and Deserts and Dragons. I'll link them both here because I can't tag multiple stories in a blog post. Also, in case you haven't read either of them, there will be spoilers for those stories involved.
In The Do Dilemma, Scootaloo takes the knowledge she learned from the episode Sleepless in Ponyville and imparts it onto Tailspin, Daring Do's bumbling student. And in Deserts and Dragons, the CMC helped the dragon desperado Needles discover what it means to be a Dragon Mage. Couple that with the foreshadowing everyone missed in the episode Appleloosa's Most Wanted, and you definitely see a pattern emerging. Before anyone asks, this is completely accidental. I honestly had no idea that's the direction the writers were going. Then again, all of my fanfiction foresight can be chalked up to massive coincidences.
I-I just can't believe I was inadvertently contributing to the CMC's journey through my own stories. It's almost inspiring to think that I'm so in-tune with the show's canon that I can predict this kind of thing without even trying.
Then I remember the whole retcon I had to do with Daring Do and the Tiny Tornado, and I'm grounded back in reality. Still, neat coincidences are neat. 
Oh, and don't get me started on my headcanon regarding Cutie Mark mechanics which I introduced in my story Social Confinement. Everything I want to say about that can be conveyed through the story itself. I'll tag that one below so you can make the comparisons.
