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Maybe.
It is pretty amazing what people can rationalize to themselves…
“you seem to assume genuine altruism, but I see insecurity and desperation to never be alone again written all over her actions, when taking the s5 finale into account.”
I see both.
That she was so insecure and desperate that she had convinced herself that what she was doing was the best for everyone. Not realizing both the harm it was causing as well as not noticing her own inner motivations.
Attack,
Reverse
Victim and
Offender.
dys–utopia, you mean.That’s where we differ; you seem to assume genuine altruism, but I see insecurity and desperation to never be alone again written all over her actions, when taking the s5 finale into account. (Seriously, she was really quick to make friends with ponies she absolutely hated mere hours earlier.)
She may have convinced herself that she was convinced that cutie marks are the root cause of strife and falling out, but they were ultimately just a convenient scapegoat.
The secrecy and dishonesty reveal that she (possibly subconsciously) wanted to either fit in despite being “special”, or rule the peasants from on high. Or a bit of both.
It would be folly to take it at face value.
Her necessary (until everyone is equal) lies for her goal, yes.
Well of course she would emphasize her importance to their (previously shared) goal of equality, since they were betraying her, and she wanted to remind them why they shouldn’t do that. She was feeling rejected after dedicating so much of her life to making ponies like them happy. Her entire rant was based on the fact that she sincerely believed that she was giving them true harmony, and that they were rejecting that.
A short summary is enough when it’s literal insight into those who created the character and it states that she actually believes what she says. It doesn’t need to be more than that.
Not only are you assuming she could do that, and that she had thought of it before, but it’d be a massive hassle for no real actual gain.
I was hoping for something a tad more substantial, to be honest…
She spent years of her life working on her project in order to make everyone happier, and then after a single day, some strangers came in and made them start rejecting her philosophy (which she really thought was for the betterment of all). She was feeling rejected and unappreciated, so of course she’d get angry.
Here, some notes by Jim Miller on Starlight:
>>1001065 (deleted)
You can’t practice what you preach if doing so eliminates your ability to preach.
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Not in the slightest.
No sirree.
I get that y’all like her now – no, really, I do – but we can still acknowledge she had some self-centered motivations. Even if those motivations amount to a desire to be completely sheltered after losing contact with a childhood friend.
(Probably the worst villain backstory ever, by the way, but whatever.)
Remember, kids: Practice What You Preach.
Such as her getting more pissed off at having her way of life looked down on than for having her plans foiled, out-of-show blurbs saying that she actually believes in her philosophy, her backstory heavily suggesting that she actually did think different talents led to misery after Sunburst left, her showing no real desire for personal power for its own sake, etc.
Edit: this is Fwelin, I forgot to click off anonymous for the post.
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Now, there is a possibility the spell can’t be cast on oneself, which would present a nontrivial hurdle to work around, but that doesn’t explain or excuse the false pretense.
OOoooo~ We could imagine her setting up a few social experiments for down the road, seeing if children raised in an “Equal” environment develop Equal Cutie Marks~
Only because she felt that she couldn’t advance her agenda to make everyone equal if she did not do so. All evidence points towards her planning to remove her own cutie mark if she ever managed to remove everyone elses’ (well, assuming she managed to get past the problem of new foals automatically getting new cutie marks…)
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Either way, she set herself above the others – in more ways than one – while preaching her vaunted “equality” and pretending she was “equal” like the others.
There are words for those things, hypo-something and… layer? Lawyer? Something beginning with an L, anyway…
Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate some quality Glimmerbetes, mind you…
This person gets it.
She did explain in episode that she kept hers because she wouldn’t be able to do the removal spell otherwise~
A bunch of other stuff I could type out, but eh. I just woke up, and would rather just giggle at Starlight sticking her tongue out like a silly~
your current filter.Just sayin’…
Fair point.
If the people agree, sure.
If they disagree, you’d best be ready for Hell.
>implying politics is constantly destructive and never polite.
No need to bring it up.
Cute pone is all that needs to be seen or heard.
It’s like shoving politics into a polite conversation.
Ruin it? She’s still cute, it’s just her mind is a bit… out there.
I could settle with that.
Naw, Let’s just blame Starlight.
For being SO adorable that she brings out all the emotions~!
Blame Lawful. ;P