Overanalysis: The Effects of the Season 5 Finale on Starlight Glimmer

WARNING: I WILL BE SPOILING THE SEASON 5 FINALE OF MLP:FIM! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT, GO OUT AND SEE IT AND THEN COME BACK HERE.

You saw it? Or at least the Bronies React? Cool; now let's get this party started.

So the episode revolves around Twilight's attempt to stop Starlight Glimmer from changing the past and keeping the Sonic Rainboom from ever happening. We go to Sombra, then Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, Tirek, Discord, and the Flim Flam Bros. Finally, Twilight ends up just dragging Starlight Glimmer with her to a future that looks like either there was a massive war OR Donald Trump got elected. (Man, I hate him.)

Anyways, this got my brain working, which is bad news for anyone around me. Just ask my family and fellow students. I'm the Nerd of Crossovers and Overanalysis, dangit! Something I've seen several of the people in the Bronies React episode was that the different ways the Rainboom was stopped dictated which villain would be in charge in the next timeline that Twilight and Spike get sucked back to. Notice though, that Starlight herself is never pulled back until the last timeline. This is what I want to focus on with this blog post.

I want to argue that the way the Rainboom is stopped is not the only variable that defines the outcome. Rather, the fact that Starlight stays behind means that she chooses which villain comes on out. The fact that the last world is the only wasteland and is the only outcome that Starlight didn't choose supports this in my mind. But this isn't the main reason I wrote this. I realized that there's a good 15-20 years between the events of the Cutie Mark Chronicles and the pony present. Again, notice how Starlight is still present in the timeline when Twilight leaves. And their ages didn't change when they went back to the past the first time. (Ha, you though I'd make a BttF reference. Sucker.:P) This happens six times. Assuming that her age is the same as Twilight's, which my buddies at My Little Brony: LEGO is Magic, a closed topic on the LMB, speculated that she's around twenty, possibly a year or two younger. It's not really clear. Anyways, if Starlight is that age, then having a rough estimate of Twilight starting this at 20 and a 15 year gap between the cutie marks and the first episode, then Starlight's age after the entire thing is through with, then she'd be around...

110 YEARS OLD!

Seriously girl, you need to retire! And that's a low estimate. Considering how much older she sounds, she may be around 40 or even 50. That adds another 20-30 years to our estimate. I know this is a place filled with pastel colored ponies for little girls, but there's no way a pony can live that long and look that young!

Unless, she isn't.

I just had this thought. She's been in universes with King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon present in one of them. There's a pretty good chance that one of them knew an anti-aging spell. Heck, NMM is Celestia's freaking sister! She probably knows some sweet spells, including anti-aging.

So, did I just waste everyone's time, mine by writing this and yours by reading it? I hope not. I want to expand the knowledge of this universe. I want to learn the lore, I want to hear more about the pre-princess era. I want to figure out what happened to all the alicorns. I want to learn how magic works and just how big Rainbow's ego is by now. And most of all, I don't want this stuff explained in some haphazard, hamhanded way the way midichlorians were introduced into the Star Wars Universe. I want us as a community to add and explain what happens in this universe.

To put it into the words of Commander Firebrand/joshscorcher, I want this community to take pastel ponies too seriously.

Man, I'm longwinded. This is the Nerd of Crossovers and Overanalysis, encouraging to think outside the box and go nuts with the headcanons.