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With the once-fabled Nightmare Moon vanquished, all of Ponyville is abuzz with talk over the grand adventure Twilight and her friends had in saving them all. And Twilight too is pleased at how things turned out. But as she joins her newest friends for some quality time, she discovers that there is one among them who has more than a few worries about where such excitement might lead to.
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Yes. All the yes. This story repeats a point too many seem to have forgotten; being the hero is demanding. It's hard. Every likes to think that, when the dragon comes, everyone will rise up against it, but in the face of that flames and claws and teeth, in the face of real danger, a hundred people will simply shy away, an understandable course of action; being the hero means facing death, and most people would rather face life, no matter how mundane or brutal it might be. Everyone can be a hero, of course, that's the lesson the hobbits from the Lord of the Rings teach, but it can take a lot to convince them to be that hero. Heroism is valued because it's rare, and it's rare because, again, heroism involves facing peril, the risk of death, and self-preservation, the avoidance of death and the risk of death, is one of the most base instincts.
And the other point Fluttershy raises is a good one; is a life of heroism, of constantly dancing with death, really a life? Is asking someone to bear the burden of heroism consistently even ethical? Frodo took on the burden of destroying the Ring willingly and it almost destroyed him; how bad would the consequences of forcing or coercing someone to act heroically like that be? The logical extreme Fluttershy's nightmare took it to, a future where the only foreseeable outcomes were continually fighting or dying in combat, is almost enough to drive someone to despair; fighting evil becomes not a heroic stand against the darkness but an exercise in futility, every villain stopped simply being replaced with another, an endless conveyor belt of enemies that will eventually, through attrition or luck, defeat the heroes. Their actions become existential or temporary victories at best, fighting against the darkness and beating it back for a time, for a day, an age, only for it to creep back once they fall. That struggle is still worthy, mind you, but intensely depressing.
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Wow, this got really dark.
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Everyone can be a hero.
Very few people are heroes.