gasmaskangel
This isn’t a story idea, so much as an element that might be useful but that I’m not planning on using anytime soon.
This will require a bit of explanation, so bare with me.
In the Discworld novels there is a character named Agnes Nit, who really doesn’t like being an Agnes, by which I mean a large, easily embarrassed girl who says “poot” when she’d really like to swear and is always described with “but she’s got a lovely personality!” In rebellion against her Agnes-ness, she creates an identity for the part of her that thinks nasty thoughts about how the world is stupid and lame called Perdita X Dream. Its not quite a split personality, but there are elements of it. Perdita is more of an internal enemy.
How this relates to pony fiction is this, I sort of think that might be going on with Pinkie vs Pinkamena. Pinkamena sort of created the Pinkie personality to give voice to her desire to have fun and friends, and generally the relationship is more amenable than Agnes vs Perdita. Pinkamena only emerging when the Pinkie personality is forced into existential uncertainty by feeling rejected by her friends.
I’ve probably explained this terribly, but I’m not going with the “Pinkie Pie is genuinely insane” fanon (which I detest), so much as Pinkie just having an unusual coping mechanism.
This will require a bit of explanation, so bare with me.
In the Discworld novels there is a character named Agnes Nit, who really doesn’t like being an Agnes, by which I mean a large, easily embarrassed girl who says “poot” when she’d really like to swear and is always described with “but she’s got a lovely personality!” In rebellion against her Agnes-ness, she creates an identity for the part of her that thinks nasty thoughts about how the world is stupid and lame called Perdita X Dream. Its not quite a split personality, but there are elements of it. Perdita is more of an internal enemy.
How this relates to pony fiction is this, I sort of think that might be going on with Pinkie vs Pinkamena. Pinkamena sort of created the Pinkie personality to give voice to her desire to have fun and friends, and generally the relationship is more amenable than Agnes vs Perdita. Pinkamena only emerging when the Pinkie personality is forced into existential uncertainty by feeling rejected by her friends.
I’ve probably explained this terribly, but I’m not going with the “Pinkie Pie is genuinely insane” fanon (which I detest), so much as Pinkie just having an unusual coping mechanism.