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Subjects of Equestria! We are pleased to kick off the Nightmare Night Festivities and the 14th anniversary of the return of our beloved Princess Luna! Join us in celebration!
new princess?
Yeah that’s pretty simple. I know plenty of people who dislike their given name and go by the diminutive form, their middle name, or a nickname. There’s a guy at work I’ve known for years - everyone knows him as Butch. Until a few weeks ago I had no idea his real name was Harvey.
Forgive me, but I don’t really see the issue.
Seeing as how Twilight didn’t know Cadance’s full name, and that Cadance prefers to be called Cadance, it’s completely possible that her full name is so rarely used that most ponies don’t even know it.
And yet, nobody had the faintest clue who “Mi Amore Cadenza” was until the wedding. EU has yet to reconcile itself with THAT bit of hard canon.
Not quite. Cadance wasn’t always an alicorn, after all. She was born a pegasus, and was turned into a “New Generation Alicorn” by Celestia the same way that Twilight was.
She was adopted by Celestia immediately afterwards, so she’s definitely been “Princess” Cadance in all of her onscreen and in-comic appearances, flashbacks and all. And her status as a princess seemed to be common knowledge at the high school that she and Shining Armor attended, so…
Cadance’s backstory kinda implies that there still are non-royal alicorns kicking around. She did a foalsitter gig for years (by her own admission, for more foals than just Twilight). That’s not a job you knowingly hire a princess for. And the only way an alicorn could pass herself off as not royalty without hiding either her wings or her horn would be if there were enough non-royal alicorns around that this one didn’t stick out.
@PonyPon
There really is next to nothing as far as established canon on Equestria’s past, much less the other races like dragons, griffons, and zebras. They even admit as much in the show itself when Twilight can’t find a single book about dragons in her whole library in Dragon Quest.
Maybe it’s my headcanon but the pony race as a whole seems to be pretty ignorant of anything beyond their own race, their borders or their understanding of magic (see Twilight’s stern denial of undead, curses, and Pinkie Sense).
That makes it excellent fodder for future episodes, fanfiction and my MLP D&D RPG rules. I’d pay good money for a copy of Faust’s show bible, though.
Personally, I hate the thoughts of numerous alicorns running around. If you have like 6 alicorns, fine. It’s very, very, VERY doubtful, but if the other mane6 turned into alicorns/princesses I would be somewhat ok with it. When you have like 12 to 16+ alicorns running around, that’s just ludicrous imho. Royal, Non-Royal, or what have you, I personally want to see Alicorns kept to be something special.
I doubt that will happen though as princesses sell, and they (Hasbro) want to make those toys special. As a result, they’ll make it so all princesses are alicorns. O well, show’s meant to sell the product and if it gets turned into trash then so be it. Have to remember the primary goal to pump those toys, sell those playsets and hawk those wears to the kiddies.
Call me insane, but I’m starting to fear what would happen if they actually tried to make sense of it all.
Who knows? Maybe they’ll come back to it at some point. After all, they wouldn’t want to use up all of their ideas at once. Truly, Equestria’s history is a rabbit hole. A dark abyss of endless and mystery. When one question is answered, several more pop up.
And sometimes, what we thought we knew gets turned on its head. I thought that the flashbacks in the comic that featured Celestia and Starswirl was a solid link that would help form a timeline for Equestrian history, but now… it turns out that Starswirl’s age was altered by his time travel experiments. There’s an indefinite amount of wiggle room now! I’m not sure that to think! >_<
Yeah the one crucial detail that book could’ve established, and they left it vague. GRRRR.
Actually, if you read The Journal of the Two Sisters, it’s quite heavily implied that there were non-royal alicorns at one point.
Celestia and Luna weren’t always princesses, and they mention living with other alicorns when they were young. Though, if the alicorns really were their own tribe, one wonders where they all went…
I wish it turned out that there are alicorns that aren’t special super OP pony princesses.
Won’t happen. Only mares can be alicorns. The only time I’ve seen a male alicorn was in that german comic where Celestia gets a nephew, and I doubt it’s canon.
Main reason I say that is due to the end of S3 where Fluttershy says that Twilight looks like a “princess,” to which Celestia says that she is one. That’s when they start talking about how she’s now an alicorn/princess.
Dirty males don’t deserve to be alicorns in Hasbro’s world.
I’ve met a man named Kelly.
Being a male with the name “Jody”, I do know how some names can fall on either side of the fence, especially if spelling variants are involved. And while some names seem to belong exclusively to one sex (I’ve yet to see a female “Dick” or a male “Lily”, e.g.), it turns out that Sterling is, maybe 10% of the time, used for girls. It still seems odd to me to give a predominantly-male name to a female MLP toy, even if it’s also a reference to a metal used in jewelry, just because Hasbro usually tries to make these toys as girly as humanly possible.
Names aren’t really one or the other. Marcy is occasionally used as a male name (and was much more commonly so in the past), and Leslie was an exclusively male name until approximately WWII, even if nowadays it’s almost exclusively female. Piper and Skyler can be either; it’s not uncommon to find a female Sam or Sid; and almost everything can be made female by sticking an i where a y would normally be. Bobbi isn’t even an uncommon name for a girl. And there are a growing number of people with names that their parents just made up.
Meanwhile, how many human girls do you know named Rainbow, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, Celestia, ..well, I do know some Lunas…, Cup, Mayor, …I actually did know a Pumpkin once…, Flitter, Cloudchaser, Spitfire, Derpy, Vinyl, … ?
Hasbroc is and has been for years the term for toyline-exclusive characters. It’s not presented as a negative tag.
Sterling is more common as a surname. It’s also a grade of silver, which is probably what they were aiming for.
That would be pushing it.
And it’s foolhardy to think more princesses will facilitate world building.