I wonder if she was twilights stalker when she was younger

Well, she is back to her own style in The Cutie Re-Mark.
 
Honestly, I was bothered by the implication in this scene, but it was unfounded in hindsight.
 
Hell, you can even tell her hair is still messy in this picture.

I bet this is the “hoofball” that Spike mentioned in The Cutie Map.

@Background Pony #46F3  
True, but I’d always thought that the updo was less of a hairstyle and more that she’d let her hair grow out too far and was trying to avoid this: >>970802

@Background Pony #46F3  
That was another thought I had…

@TheOtakuX  
Ikr? Almost everything I love about Twi is present in Moondancer. Only thing is she was kind of a wee bit of a jerk, up until her reformation, where she obviously became softer and nicer, but the extent if that is completely unknown, meanwhile, we’ve seen how adorably nurturing Twi can be to Spike.
 
However, reviewing her “Cutie Re-Mark” cameo… It’s not much to go off of, certainly, but she does seem to not only be patient with Spike falling asleep, but seems to find it endearingly cute, much like Twilight might but maybe even a bit more patient. This suggests to me that maybe she does have a gentle, nurturing side - we just haven’t seen much of her since her come-around so this is all we have to go off of for now.
 
Also, that was a pretty cute little gentle pet to wake him :3
 
If that is the case, though, then I’d dare say Twilight has 50/50 competition, just about. That would mean that either would fulfill everything I want in a partner…

@TheOtakuX  
Moony does come VERY close for me to be fair. She’s very adorkable <3

@Background Pony #E91C  
Or she was wearing a helmet, which would make the updo uncomfortable.

@Cirrus Light Maybe the scene at the end of Amending Fences actually takes place after the season finale? Or alternatively, maybe the season finale takes place long enough after the end of Amending Fences that her hair grew, and she went with the hairband out of habit/convenience?

@EddersCPFC  
I still prefer Moondancer of Minuette. Glasses, sweater, adorable manestyle, and a love of books? Can’t beat that.

@vile_flesh  
This last time I re-watched the episode I’ve started thinking of her as the Pinkie Pie of the Canterlot Six. I think she kind of is a toned-down Pie. Less random and crazy, but just as outgoing, energetic and friendly.

@vile_flesh  
I loved Minuette before this episode and after it she’s one of my favourite characters. In fact, out of the Canterlot Six, she’s by far my favourite.

@vile_flesh  
Agreed. She went from a background character I didn’t care about to one of my favorites.

I really, really love Minuette in this episode. I know it’s off topic…..but she had an impact on me.

@Masem  
Couldn’t be the latter. We saw her as an adult with the Twilight-mane. In the flashback to the party.

I think Moondancer is just accustomed to her updo manestyle, but she let her mane down for the comfort of wearing that helmet. Once she was finished playing, she put it back up.

Cute

Heh.
 
Relevant.

@Cirrus Light  
It makes me very happy, since that manestyle is FAR cuter than the Twilight-like one.

A alternative take is that while MD and TS are back to being close friends, MD knows TS has moved on that she’s not to be the “idol” she might have taken TS as as fillies.
 
(Or that the animators were too lazy to recreate the hair on the flash puppet for the mare version :)

@DragonRanger  
Aaaaahh galdarnit.
 
…
 
This upsets me way more than it has any right to >.>
 

Only problem with this is that she cameos in The Cutie Re-Mark and still has her mane done up.