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Hard disagree. If that’s all that there was, someone that easy to set off had to have pre-existing underlying problems/stressors, which, in Starlight’s case, was her extreme attachment to Sunburst. That stuff doesn’t just happen instantly. Her latching that sense of attachment to him formed the foundation of her instability, but a house built on a weak foundation will not stand (oh, no!), so his departure made it collapse. I’ll compare her anti-cutie mark crusade to a witch hunt, whose formula is thus: fear (loss of stability (Sunburst)) + trigger/catalyst (his actual departure) = a scapegoat (cutie mark acquisition). That scapegoat and her tendency toward avoidance became her new foundation. Normal ponies don’t have over-the-top reactions to mundane situations, no, but mentally healthy ponies don’t get so attached that their stability hinges on that attachment being able to be acted on. So for that, the premise that Starlight was a normal pony sounds absurd.

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Hard disagree. If that’s all that there was, someone that easy to set off had to have pre-existing underlying problems/stressors, which, in Starlight’s case, was her extreme attachment to Sunburst. That stuff doesn’t just happen instantly. Her latching that sense of attachment to him formed the foundation of her instability, but a house built on a weak foundation will not stand (oh, no!), so his departure made it collapse. I’ll compare her anti-cutie mark crusade to a witch hunt, whose formula is thus: fear (loss of stability (Sunburst)) + trigger/catalyst (his actual departure) = a scapegoat (cutie mark acquisition). That scapegoat and her tendency toward avoidance became her new foundation. Normal ponies don’t have over-the-top reactions to mundane situations, no, but mentally healthy ponies don’t get so attached that their stability hinges on that attachment being able to be acted on. So for that, the premise that Starlight was a normal pony sounds absurd.