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Afflicted with the Editor's Curse. Corrections offered without malice. Unrepentant Discord fangirl.

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  • 339 weeks
    Points of Canon mini: ❧ s7e20 "A Health of Information"

    ❧Polymorph effects are getting more and more common, yet we keep running into things that they should solve ("It Isn't the Mane Thing About You").
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May
19th
2017

Twilight is the anti-Buddha. And a Sith. · 7:41am May 19th, 2017

In learning about attachment, in cultivating and exploring its properties, in investing herself in magic to the extent that it harms others, she has permanently attached herself to the world.

Chrysalis, meanwhile, eschews attachment, using it for her own ends. (Not that she's at all Buddhist: violent, selfish, cares not for other species…)

The Sith Code:
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.friends
Through strengthfriends, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
[The Force shall set me free.]

No matter what, Twilight will have to face the latest threat to Equestria. She is its impassioned defender.
Through passion, she gains friends.
Through friends, she gains power (Elements of Harmony, Rainbow Power, solving Starswirl's spell)
Through Harmonic Power, she gains victory (defeating Tirek).
Through victory, her chains are broken
Magic has set her free. (she becomes immortal; she need not wear the EoM to exercise her power)

Starlight breaks this pattern, in that she is the new savior of Equestria…which makes Twilight the other Sith, albeit in a way just about precisely inverted from the way Oliver asked it. And hey, as is traditional, teaching the SithFriendship way directly led to Starlight taking the place of her Mistress in the Way…

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