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Heeeeere’s Starlight!

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@Background Pony #97DA
 
The probblem with the first one is simple: the mane six wouldn’t be the stars of the story. Do we want a two-parter about Glimmer saving things after she intentionally messed them up? Same problem with the last one.
 
@Zebasiz
 
She can’t possibly know every way in which she’ll affect things, though.
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On the issue of who would take care of the villains if Glimmer changes the part: Do remember that Glimmer knows the past. She most likely [since she’s been stalking Twilight] read up on Twilight and co’s various adventures. And knows who they faced. Thus also knowing when and where those villains appeared. She can set up plans and traps well in advance of them showing up in order to stop them. [That is of course, operating under the theory that Glimmer would re-live that area of the timeline.]
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@Background Pony #A7C2  
There are a couple of ways I can see it happening:  
  • Starlight Glimmer succeeds but upon seeing how much her actions screwed her future plans so much that the story becomes about her begrudgingly trying to fix what she messed up.  
  • Twilight (or possibly somepony else), while affected, does not have their memories of the original timeline wiped and seeks to fix it.  
  • Starlight succeeds but in the end, the mane six STILL manage to gain the Elements/Rainbow Power/Cutie Mark Magic etc and defeat her.  
  • Starlight succeeds, but ends up facing a new mane six.
Background Pony #E32D
@lonewolf
 
my problem with the idea that starlight will succeed is… where do we go from there?
 
If the mane six never gotten their marks and led different lives, who could save things?
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U mad?
As much as time travel seems like a possible one, I’ve seen how cases like these could go for Starlight.
  • Alters Twilight’s/Mane 6’s past as they never had their destiny and prevent them from stopping Starlight.
  • Villains however cannot be stopped especially when we all know the first episodes has Nightmare Moon coming back. (Starlight VS Nightmare Moon?)
All I can say is that she tries to pretend to be reformed and later betray Twilight when she sees a grasp of power. However, that doesn’t make any sense with the map showing their destinies.
 
If that does happen and Nightmare Moon comes back because of it….  
I don’t think there’s a meme image out there that would describe the amount of awesome that would be so I’m not even going to look for one. :P
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As much as time travel seems like a possible one, I’ve seen how cases like these could go for Starlight.
 
  • Alters Twilight’s/Mane 6’s past as they never had their destiny and prevent them from stopping Starlight.
     
  • Villains however cannot be stopped especially when we all know the first episodes has Nightmare Moon coming back. (Starlight VS Nightmare Moon?)
     
    All I can say is that she tries to pretend to be reformed and later betray Twilight when she sees a grasp of power. However, that doesn’t make any sense with the map showing their destinies.
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It better not be time travel. They set the rules back in Season 2, and I’d hate to see them change now.
 
@Bronitarian  
Hey, isn’t there a spell like that already? A spell that shuffles around cutie marks and destinies? A spell that was fairly instrumental in Twilight’s rise to princessdom?
 
Thanks, M.A. Larson!
Background Pony #E32D
@Bronitarian
 
Your second plan wouldn’t work. Seeing the Rainboom would never make Starlight become a Princess.
 
Twilight was taken as a pupil by Celestia because the Rainboom caused a hyper poweful magic burst since she was the Element Of Magic. Starlight is no such thing.
 
Plus, someone who tried to take everyone’s cutie marks would’ve shown their true colors sooner or later.
Bronitarian

I have a sneaking suspicion given the youtube clip provided, that Starlight’s going to try and hijack twilight’s life via some form of magic spell.
 
Sort of like a Body Switch, only instead its a Fate Switch where the two people change destinies or whatever.
 
Some of the people here mentioned time travel, and that could be bad as well. What if she alters her own past so twilight never saw the Rainboom, but instead Young Starlight did? And took Twilight’s place in time to become Princess of Friendship. And then, enacted her plan to remove all the cutie marks in the world given her position of power.
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I think that a big cliffhanger would be interesting where the Mane 6 are defeated and things have to be resolved in the opener of the next, but then again my ideas usually end up working horribly so I guess we’ll see what happens.
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@Lupin Quill  
would also say the spell might just negate itself in a sense. the thing that caused twilight to want to time travel was created by the spell she used to time travel.
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@RIG  
my theory is that she access the magic of the castle to alter the cutie marks of the mane six, maybe even make them forget who they erwe before, to remove them as a threat and then use the magic of the castle for her own ends.  
she does it by stealing twilight’s mark.
 
that or she somehow alters reality or something. shrugs. hoping the prior over the latter cause while not implausible, seems iffy.
 
the tree itself likely sent the girls after starlight, but the castle seems to only be a tool.
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@Background Pony #83CF  
Worst Possible Scerancio on what could happen:
 
She goes back to way before the show started and makes Spike be adopted by somepony else rather than Twilight so thus the two never met. This would mean that Twilight depsite not having an assistant and still moving to ponyville will likely never meet her friends and she dies during the Nightmare Moon arc.
 
Yeah, my idea’ dark. So what?
Background Pony #C100
  1. We never saw a limit on how far back the spell can go.  
  2. Twilight broke into the Canterlot archives herself, it’s probable that Starlight could do the same.  
  3. Last time we saw Starlight, she was in Canterlot.
     
    I am deeply concerned.
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Or maybe they weren’t sure if there would be a Season 6. So better resolve it quickly than create a plot hook that will never be resolved because the next season is going to get cancelnd.
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@PonyPon
 
That spell, huh. Maybe. But it’s in the Canterlot archives where Starlight can’t get it. Even Twilight had to go there.
 
Plus, the spell she used would have to take her back years.
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Reasonable foreshadowing. The kids won’t forget her, and we certainly won’t.
 
If it’s any consolation, I too would prefer her to return next season, but that depends on the finale.