And Then There Was One

[b/]Okay, seriously, did it bother anyone else that Twilight’s solution to the problem was to make the Pinkies watch paint dry? Because it seems to me that the real Pinkie Pie would be the first to get bored and abandon the task, not the last. Like, she has the attention span of squirrel on speed. Honestly, this whole thing seemed like a convenient way for Twilight to replace the current, and sometimes irritatingly hyperactive, Pinkie with one who will sit still and do what she’s told. The perfect, if incredibly creepy, way to canonically retcon Pinkie’s personality. Hasbro, what have you done?

This does, however, finally solve the mystery of asexual pony reproduction and the Case of the Multiple Bon Bons. It might also give canonical basis for the idea of Pinkamena being a separate entity from Pinkie Pie, or even a tyrant Celestia hiding impudent ponies away in her moon dungeons and replacing them with perfect copies. Actually, this opens up the roads for a lot of potential grimdark fics. And clop fics. And explanations for why everyone was so inconsistently characterized last season (like, seriously, the Rainbow Dash had a different personality every episode, and only half of them were gay. Maybe bisexual Rainbow Dash is just two different Rainbow Dashes? The world may never know.).