Too Many Minuettes · 2:27pm Mar 17th, 2016
“…As a young filly in Canterlot, I always wanted to go to the Summer Sun Celebration, where Princess Celestia raises the sun. And I saw the most amazing, most wonderful thing I've ever seen…”
While searching for images I could use as cover art for my next story, I came across this scene from Twilight’s cutie mark story.
Look closely. There are at least five Minuette clones in the crowd and at least four Lyras. Also note that they (and Twinkleshine) are shown as fully grown ponies, although we know they are the same age as little Twilight. What is going on here?
I can think of two possible explanations:
Either:
1. This is a scene from Twilight’s memory. Memory is a fickle thing. We are all prone to imagine faces we know in memories of events where they were not actually present. Twilight’s recollection of this day, from long ago, is a little hazy, and all her attention was on the princess.
Or:
2. Minuette is secretly a unicorn with formidable magical powers. As a young filly, she studied the arcane arts and acquired abilities which no pony could believe possible for a young foal. While attending the Summer Sun Celebration one year as a little filly, she was frustrated by being unable to see over the heads of the adult ponies, so she devised an elaborate plan to ensure she would not be so hindered the following year. First: she studied age spells so she could turn herself into a grown pony. Second: she mastered duplication spells to make enough copies of herself to see the princess from all angles. Obviously it was sensible to first test these new powers, and Lyra and Twinkleshine were recruited as guinea pigs. At the celebration, Celestia noticed the young prodigy and approached her to offer her a place at the School for Gifted Unicorns. Minuette enthusiastically accepted and set out to learn all she could from the princess, quickly progressing through elementary studies. In due course she discovered the most powerful magic of all—that of friendship—at which point she decided the secret to leading a satisfying fulfilling life was not through the acquisition of knowledge and power, but by messing around with your friends. She duly cruised through the rest of her education, doing only the minimal amount of study to get through exams, and using her magic mostly for fun pranks such as encasing her friend’s head in a conical flask. On leaving school she took up a well-paid job in dentistry, using her magic to fix tooth decay and make everypony smile, and thus achieved an optimal work-life balance and lived happily ever after devoting most of her time to the fun-filled lifestyle of a Canterlot party pony.
You forgot possibility three: Heavy changeling infiltration of Canterlot, part of Chrysalis's long game. Of course, it's probably combination of all three factors.
Meanwhile, Derpy just transcends space and time.
I love this theory. But does this mean that Minuette, if ever she were faced with a situation in which she had to save her friends...would be super powerful?
I can easily see some villain kidnapping some of Twilight's old friends amd sending an ultimatum only to her, but Minuette just comes out of nowhere and saves them all. A funny ending would be the Mane 6 walking in to try and save them, only to find Minuette and the rescued ponies just standing in front of all the destruction.
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Possibility five: Pony phenotype and cutie mark variation are far lower than we expect, and everypony has many doppelgangers and near-doppelgangers.
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I love this.
The Dentist Minuette, better known as Colgate, is really the TimeMare Romanadvoratrelundar. She and her friends just view the same event multiple times. This is dangerous, because she severely risks creating paradoxes like in 1.8 Father's Day.*
* Unlike MLP:FiM with straightforward production-codes Like S01E01 (Friendship is Magic Part # Ⅰ), production codes for Doctor Who are complicated and arcane:
Production-Codes of Doctor Who
One would think that they would at least have leading 0s so that they sort properly like 01.08 Father's Day, but no.
You can't trust that smile