) and I've put it off many times, so, I'm putting it out to all of you.Season 5 Starlight's reasons make sense? · 5:00am Jul 9th, 2017
Okay, so, i was recently watching Brawny Buck's A Buck to the Face on The Crystalling and i noticed something Twilight says that may give logical reason why Starlight honestly thought Cutie Marks were what took her friend from her and why she felt justified in getting revenge on Twilight by breaking their friendship by stopping the Rainboom.
When Twilight tells Starlight she's found out that Sunburst lives in the Crystal Empire, she uses the exact words "the first pony you ever cared about" to describe him.
Now, this is an intersting thing to call another, is it not? Sunburst was the ONLY pony Starlight ever cared about before? What about her parents? Grandparents? Aunts and Uncles? Cousins?
Well, the answer is one of two, the latter surprisingly simple and has been touched upon in the fandom.
option 1: Starlight cared nothing for her family at all and focused all her time on studying until Sunburst came along and began opening her heart, only for it to close again once he moved away.
option 2 (and makes far more sense, in my personal opinion): Starlight is an orphan and didn't get along with anypony else at the orhpanage, not the carers, nor the other fillies and colts. However, when she met Sunburst, for the first time in her life, she found somepony she could connect to and they became close friends. But, when Sunburst got his Cutie Mark and moved away, it made Starlight feel like his Cutie Mark was what took the only pony she'd ever let into her heart out of her life.
This led her to be reserved and keep to herself more than ever for the fear of losing another friend to a Cutie Mark related reason and her reasons for creating to Cutie Un-Marking Spell and why she wanted to keep such a firm grip on her village. With her in control, she didn't risk losing anymore friends ever again, not realizing that was doing the opposite.
This is also why, when Twilight and the others took that away from her, she felt justified in taking away their friendship, because she felt she no had no one again.
I feel number 2 is the most likely.
It makes a disturbing and rather depressing amount of sense, when you think about it. it would explain why nopony ever tried to help Starlight break out of that thought process as a kid. If she'd had parents, they would've tried to comfort her, likely even would've made sure she keep in regular contact with Sunburst via letters, or maybe vacations to Canterlot for a visit.
However, if she was living in an orphanage where she already didn't get along with anypony, nopony would notice any change in her behavior from what they were used to prior Sunburst, so wouldn't have tried to help her out, having already given up long before Sunburst became her friend.
Just something I couldn't help thinking about after noticing Twilight's word choice in that part of the episode.
What about you all? Does this make sense to you?
PS sorry i didn't get anymore chapters for anything done this week. Meant to on Friday, but I had to sort some stuff out with Centrelink and, by the time I got home from it all, i just didn't feel like writing, so you'll have to wait til next week.
Damn Son!! Never thought about it that way.
I figured she might be an orphan too. I actually hope she is cause that would justify her screwed up thought process on cutie marks and why she did all she did. She wouldn't have known better cause no one taught her that was wrong.
Otherwise she'd be a brat that doesn't have a good motive that the writers screwed up with compared to other villains.
yeah makes a lot of sense and stuff like no parents and losing the one friend would cause a lot of issues
Yes, I think that would make sense. I commend you on all your work.
Attachment and envy are considered vices, ideally you only want to have an attachment to your immediate family, a close friend or paramour, and even with regards to the latter the less than 100 percent in the sense that you shouldn't be the only one generating the mana for the relationship to work or maintain it.
Also, if they're going to hold true to the traditions of Disney styled storytelling Starlight would have to be a 'Cleopatra in Space' type orphan... which would make sense given that she was able to come up with a time travel spell.
There's always option 3: she grew up with her biological family, who were abusive to her; which could also feed into her hatred of Cutie Marks if she were neglected in favor of a sibling who got their mark for something her family valued.
That would definitely explain her other psychological conditions almost perfectly...
New headcannon. :|
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That's actually very logical I never thought of it that way before. Thank You for posting this.