It must be the ideals. Rainbow Dash is loyalty; Rarity, generosity; Fluttershy, kindness. Very explicit and obvious virtues that most people hold up as good to the point of being stereotypical. But it's more than the obvious labels, it's latent. There are ideals in Equestria that I deeply believe in, running the groundwork of the show and its world. But, at its most fundamental level, it's not kindness or honesty or even loyalty. It's something else. I'm not sure what it is,

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Pinkie Pie's element is laughter. Laughter? That's silly, I thought, it doesn't even fit the pattern! But then I remembered that humor is indeed a social activity. It works its strongest magic with friends and it loses its power when you are around untrusted strangers. I know this effect very well on account of my shyness; it can be quite hard to make me laugh when you first meet me. And even when nopony is around, to have humor, there generally needs to be some sort of

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