The Alicorn Solution

As beloved as our two rulers are of the commonfolk, high society sees them as the tools of power that they are. While the princesses do what they can to not appeal to any one group more than others, it appears they favor the majority citizens, the grunt workers, over those with large wallets and larger egos. It is due to this predisposition towards the little pony that makes revolt so unlikely. The nobility has no real power, more interested in attempting to lobby laws that are near-consistently vetoed by either princess. The princesses pass laws that help the majority who have nothing to begin with, not those that help the minority that have clambered their way to high society on the shoulders of giants—the giants, of course, being their relatives.

The princesses seem to have a disdain of high class in general, as if they were not of noble birth. They aim to be more accessible, less regal but still easily capable of ruling. Celestia is not afraid of forays into the smaller towns and villages dotted around Equestria, nor is Luna, although Luna’s accessibility is limited somewhat due to her normal hours of activity. They seem to prefer smaller locations when they make appearances for holidays and other news-worthy events.

Based on this trend of shunning nobility, I hypothesize that Princesses Celestia and Luna are not of noble birth; this, however, calls into question their expansive knowledge on country management, citizen satisfaction, and, perhaps most important of all, surviving in the cutthroat world of nobility. I have not invested much time in the dynamics of Equestrian high class, but I’m certain they stab one another in the back on an hourly basis. The princesses seem so removed from these machinations that they must know what is happening all around them, yet they deign not to participate, nor do they acknowledge these attempts at subterfuge for what they are. They will accept or deny proposed laws based almost solely on the volume of citizens that are helped by it versus cost, and they are shockingly adept at picking apart earmarks and ambiguous wording.

Thanks to the ever-so-generous Gem family, my request for publicly available legal documents has yielded me immense amounts of paperwork to study on this. I aim to learn more about who Princesses Celestia and Luna are, and I will happily keep some skeletons buried if I deem it necessary—but I can’t imagine anything that needs to be a secret from their beloved citizens.

So far, my hypothesis states that the princesses are not of noble birth; let me further add to this hypothesis by positing that, while they may not be of noble birth, they have insider’s knowledge of politics and disdain for the standard political model of nobility, thus they are of a servant family which served in the government of Equestria before Celestia and Luna came to power. The family which led the revolt, perhaps?

I will study the legal documents provided to me and write of my findings. I will also study Equestrian history as far back as it goes in my attempts to learn their origins. Finally, I will request from the Gem family history books from other nations, preferably neighbors, which may have some indication of what came before Celestia and Luna rose to power and began their rule of Equestria.