(OLD) Nerdity ideas · 2:53am Sep 4th, 2020
Rarity would interestingly be one of the nerdiest of the Mane Six. She would look at video games for instance unlike others not as just time wasters but as legitimate forms of art.
And I would love to write Spike and Rarity bonding because of this. Instead of Spike feeling like playing Ogres and Oubliettes is a waste of time, Rarity would encourage him and tell him that they great artistic merit and that he should keep on doing that.
Rarity though would probably a very elitist and gatekeeping fan. She might even criticize Sweetie Belle for playing Call of Duty instead of something more "worthy" as she would put it, Half Life 2.
And maybe Button Mash would play more with Rarity, a more hardcore gamer, than the fairly casual Sweetie Belle and they would have to learn a lesson about compromise.