The new mouth to feed. · 7:52pm Nov 28th, 2015
Well, that happened, didn't it? The Cutie Map seemed to show Starlight just enough horror to make her stop, listen and TALK about her real problem: a collapsed friendship. While I'd thought of her as being the victim of a perfectionist mother who warped her mind, having her blame the cutie mark for its results is just as good an excuse (and just as dumb) as trying to police the world so that one can placate Monster Mommy.
What this leaves us is somepony meant as a stand-in for another character: said character has just been told about the weird time-warp dealie that kept Twilight from answering her urgent requests to do something about Abacus Cinch and SciTwi. That's right. I went there and I brought stuff back: Starlight's 'job' is to 'be' the 'Sunset Shimmer' of the pony world. We'll be spending Season Six watching Twilight and the others do for her what the Humane Five did for the person she's a tribute to. We can count on Double Diamond and the others to show up every so often to try to bond with her, we can count on Sunburst to stand around lamenting the lost years and we can count on her doing pretty much the same stupid things Discord does. By this time next year, she'll probably have a nifty necklace to show off.
ETA: Boy, that ALSO happened. He's not the big deal she thought he was. That made her feel dumb knowing that he thought of her as the bigger deal.
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