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It's never established exactly when after Sunburst left she got her own cutie mark. for all we know she could’ve been a late bloomer, and by that point her mentality had been firmly locked in place by that experience and her inability to put faith in any friendship after losing her foalhood friend for fear of it falling apart again.
Sure, her reformation wasn't perfect,but there's something you need to remember, but first lemme bring up an example:
Let's take a look at Neji Hyuuga from Naruto, his cousin Hinata was kidnapped by a Cloud Ninja who was murdered by her father, the Cloud Village demanding compensation in the form of her father's life, however Neji’s dad took his place.
Who did Neji blame for most of his life? The Cloud Village for kidnapping his cousin in the first place?
NOPE!
He blamed his cousin for getting kidnapped despite the fact that she was five at the time (until Naruto beat some sense into him)!
The point is: Children don't logic much.
Let's be honest with ourselves, we've all alot of done stupid stuff as kids, but you need to remember that some children's minds are fragile, easily influenced, and can blow things out of proportion, it can get the point where they base their entire philosophy around it and are eventually so locked into that mindset that anything opposing it is a foreign concept to them.
Not to mention the fact that all the other characters before her don't exactly get a free pass either.
Discord turned the entire world into his personal madhouse on crack.
Trixie had a petty grudge against someone who saved an entire Village and beat by default her.
Sunset was just greedy and wanted more power and nearly killed Twilight just to get it.
And if we're counting the comics, King Sombra enslaved an entire Empire.
And let's all be honest with ourselves here, Starlight has only relapsed once, how many times has Discord relapsed?
Withholding information about those plunder vines and barely doing anything to help when he was summoned.
His partnership with Tirek.
His temper tantrum at the gala.
Not to mention several other instances where he decided to mess with Fluttershy's friends when her back was turned just because he could.
A villain that relapses once and learns from their mistakes is better than one that tends to relapse at the drop of a hat and would gladly do it again as long as they don't get caught.
Also, prior to the Mane 6 arriving, *the ponies came to her first* (one of the few things that they openly admit at certain point). And when her vision of a better world was threatened, that's when she got more manipulative and cruel, mainly due to her collapsing ideology.
I'm not saying that makes her right in any way mind you, there's no mistake that she went about it wrong and the way she attempted to keep them in line was unmistakably reprehensible, but it's a small fact that everyone seems to be overlooking.
If you want to see a reformation story done REALLY wrong, go read Princess Trixie Sparkle.
Lord of the Empty Seat
It's never established exactly when after Sunburst left she got her own cutie mark. for all we know she could’ve been a late bloomer, and by that point her mentality had been firmly locked in place by that experience and her inability to put faith in any friendship after losing her foalhood friend for fear of it falling apart again.
Sure, her reformation wasn't perfect,but there's something you need to remember, but first lemme bring up an example:
Let's take a look at Neji Hyuuga from Naruto, his cousin Hinata was kidnapped by a Cloud Ninja who was murdered by her father, the Cloud Village demanding compensation in the form of her father's life, however Neji’s dad took his place.
Who did Neji blame for most of his life? The Cloud Village for kidnapping his cousin in the first place?
NOPE!
He blamed his cousin for getting kidnapped despite the fact that she was five at the time (until Naruto beat some sense into him)!
The point is: Children don't logic much.
Let's be honest with ourselves, we've all alot of done stupid stuff as kids, but you need to remember that some children's minds are fragile, easily influenced, and can blow things out of proportion, it can get the point where they base their entire philosophy around it and are eventually so locked into that mindset that anything opposing it is a foreign concept to them.
Not to mention the fact that all the other characters before her don't exactly get a free pass either.
Discord turned the entire world into his personal madhouse on crack.
Trixie had a petty grudge against someone who saved an entire Village and beat by default her.
Sunset was just greedy and wanted more power and nearly killed Twilight just to get it.
And if we're counting the comics, King Sombra enslaved an entire Empire.
And let's all be honest with ourselves here, Starlight has only relapsed once, how many times has Discord relapsed?
Withholding information about those plunder vines and barely doing anything to help when he was summoned.
His partnership with Tirek.
His temper tantrum at the gala.
Not to mention several other instances where he decided to mess with Fluttershy's friends when her back was turned just because he could.
A villain that relapses once and learns from their mistakes is better than one that tends to relapse at the drop of a hat and would gladly do it again as long as they don't get caught.
Also, prior to the Mane 6 arriving, *the ponies came to her first* (one of the few things that they openly admit at certain point). And when her vision of a better world was threatened, that's when she got more manipulative and cruel, mainly due to her collapsing ideology.
I'm not saying that makes her right in any way mind you, there's no mistake that she went about it wrong and the way she attempted to keep them in line was unmistakably reprehensible, but it's a small fact that everyone seems to be overlooking.
If you want to see a reformation story done REALLY wrong, go read Princess Trixie Sparkle.