Debunking (Twilight's SUPPOSED Job to help people) · 2:14am Mar 17th, 2021
What is it people and TV-Tropes keeps saying...?
"It's kinda her job!"
So before Twilight became ruler of Equestria (Ugh) Her job as Princess of Friendship (Also Ugh) was to sort out and solve friendship problems-- seek out other ponies and creatures having difficulties, and wanting them to get along and keep the peace and order in Equestria.
That is understandable, and quite fine... it's like being a psychologist...
There are however some things you ought to know about PSYCHOLOGY and the way Twilight handles it.
First of all, a psychologists job is not to CURE you (They're not genies. You don't don't go to them and say "I wish for you to cure me" and then poof, you're cured)
A psychologist is supposed to HELP YOU CURE YOURSELF. It's YOU that's the problem, not them.
They're supposed to help you Understand, realize, and ADMIT your problems so that you can finally start to address them. Then they give advice and suggestions to HELP YOU find the courage and the tools to help you CURE YOURSELF.
Example: (TEEN TITANS: VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF THE EARTH) A fanfic I worked on, but had to stop
Beast Boy has been forcibly sent to therapy by the Titans, hoping he would get over Terra dumping him and move on with his life, but the man discovers that there is much more to BB's trauma than just Terra dumping him (The Titans and their negligence and abuse of him being a large part and making living with them intolerable) So the man suggests BB leave the Titans and the town altogether, and do some traveling and "find a new life for himself" since staying in JC and with the Titans isn't going to do him any good.
That's what a psychologist is SUPPOSED to do...
But there is a trick behind all this... You have to WANT the help! You have to WANT to be cured, and if it doesn't work out... well, the psychologist simply cannot help you, and is free to give up. (it's not their fault... they tried)
The problem I have with Twilight is that she acts completely obsessive when it comes to these things. This also accounts for the alleged rumor that she suffers from OCD (And given the way she behaves at times... I'd say that's pretty accurate)
She does not like to fail, nor does she like it when friendship would fail.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but what IS wrong is the way she may tend to obsessively get in others faces, and constantly harass them until they comply with her or her friends.
Good examples of this are CRANKY DOODLE, and MOON DANCER. Even though in the end, the two of them had change of hearts and turned around, and even Fluttershy managed to soothe Discord into befriending others, and Twilight convinced Starlight Glimmer and Sunset Shimmer to turn around...
...It's WRITTEN THAT way. It's a cartoon, so its destiny is literally written in black and white. No say, no question, no will of their own. (Friendship MUST prevail, and problems MUST be solved, and people MUST be happy)
Well, like I said before... The trick is, you have to WANT the help.
But what if you don't want her help? What if you don't like the help she's giving, and what if you feel you don't need it? What if you don't want to be the kind of person SHE WANTS YOU TO BE because SHE WANTS IT FOR YOU.
My Friendship is Failure focuses on those situations as well as the OCD of Twilight and her friends (Refusing to take "No" for an answer and stalking or harassing the subject at hand until they comply with their ways)
-Some people just don't like friendship. They don't want it or need it. They feel content, they feel they have a good beat on things.
-Some (Like me) would try to prove to Twilight while Friendship is a good and wonderful thing, it's not a necessity.
-You don't have to have friends to have a job. ("The people I work with are my CO-WORKERS, we're not friends. I work to make MONEY not friends.")
-You don't have to be happy to buy groceries or talk a walk, or shoot a basketball at a hoop.
I go for a walk in the warm seasons, and I imagine sad/angry music playing, or that I'm some traveler in rags wandering the world.
(2:38) I love Rokusho's theme (So haunting, so dark and despairing)
-And despite the fact that friendship could lead you to an even BETTER and more comfortable life, it still makes no difference to me.
(especially at 2:25)
You get up in the morning, you do your chores, you go to work, you buy your groceries, pay bills. (That's all that's needed to me. don't need friendship for a lot of that stuff)
-Some people PREFER to be alone, and doing THEIR thing THEIR way, and they DON'T LIKE or WANT to become the kind of person you are and your approach to things.
In my FIF stories, it supposed to be made that Twilight's meddling will only make things WORSE and not better, where all she's doing is making the subjects angrier and more irritable than ever, and she should really leave them well alone.
Heck, she even suggested that to Pinkie once about Cranky...
"Cranky is going be an exception."
Then again, Twilight's mind was already falling apart. Ever since she got her wings and crown, her OCD went way up.
She tells Pinkie to stop bothering Cranky, yet she, herself, stalked Moondancer just as badly.
This also leads me to believe that Twilight cares more about HER IMAGE as Princess than the needs and understanding of others.
The finest example was in MARKS FOR EFFORTS when she banned the CMC from her school of Friendship, blaming them for a crime they didn't commit without even properly investigating or HEARING what they had to say (A lesson she knows very well)
Then there's me, the writer...
Sometimes I WANT the characters to make up, and sometimes (Or rather most of the times) I DON'T
Terra dumped BB on Things Change...
-Don't find him another girlfriend
-Don't give him the old "Plenty of fish" crap (The fisherman would rather starve)
-and above all things DON'T help him find his strength some other way to let go and move on to be happy.
Either... Help him get back together with Terra, or put him out of his misery (Kill him) Because I don't like stories where they actually let go of the past and move on happy with strength to a brighter future... I don't. That's why I have the characters die or get killed unexpectedly sometimes. (I don't want them "Let go of the past and move forward to his future with his best friends" and he can't do that... if he's DEAD.)
Anyway, I'm not saying Twilight shouldn't help ALL the time...
I'm just saying, sometimes... it's not going to work out, especially if they DON'T WANT IT to work out. They don't want your help, they didn't ask for yourself, they don't like your help, or need it.
Still on a finishing Note, Cranky and Moondancer let me down, when they were the closest things I had to the ultimate rejection for Twilight.
So, protocol stands...
The subject was found guilty for violating statures 3-7: "Giving into Twilight Sparkle and friends, turning their lives around and embracing friendship and acceptance in a most intolerable way." and was sentenced to Death.
Execution was carried on December 24, 2020 (Friendship is Failure #20)
The subject also found guilty for violating said statures. Violation of these laws is punishable by Death, or prison for life."
CRANKY DOODLE... awaiting execution in the Fictional Penitentiary."
i agree the way pinkie harassed cranky doodle donkey was unacceptable, but it was admirable how he found his long-lost love matilda from her freaky knowledge of every friend she knew in ponyville as cranky said...
but I agree that ponies like pinkie and especially twilight NEED to take heed that things won't always work out in their favour and they definitely should change their methods. and would it kill for them to prepare security BEFORE a big attack (i mean there was a canterlot wedding with the shield, but that was about it).
i love you, but you got lucky with moondancer, twilight, that time, but not every time.