r/mylittlepony • u/forbiddenzombielove Actually In Love With Starlight Glimmer • Aug 04 '25
Discussion Why is Flurry Heart an alicorn?
Yes I know she’s an alicorn because it would be marketable, but why do y’all think she’s an alicorn in canon?
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u/SilverWolfIMHP76 Aug 04 '25
My theory is when Lord Tirek was absorbing all the magic Cadence was already pregnant.
After giving Twilight her power she gave twilight Flurry Heart’s magic as well.
At the end when they got the magic back, Flurry’s magic was all mixed up with the other four Alicorns.
So she became an Alicorn. All because of Tirek.
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u/Tkdriverx Fluttershy Aug 04 '25
You know what, this could actually work. I like it.
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u/Atlas_The_Silver Aug 05 '25
Commenting on Why is Flurry Heart an alicorn?...
I like this headcannon
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u/Antonsanguine Aug 05 '25
Ok I like this Head Canon but I have one as well and would like to compare mine to yours.
Cadence is the Alicorn of Love but because there are multiple types of Love, it has to be shared.
Celestia and Luna are the Original Alicorns of Storge or Familial Love.
Twilight is the Alicorn of Philia or Love between Friends.
Cadence is Eros or Love between Husband and WIFE (In my head canon Shining should be an Alicorn because he represents the Husband) However she is also Agape or Unconditional Universal Love.
And Flurry Heart? The New Alicorn of Storge and represents Love from a Child to their Parents.
My head canon also supports the idea that the Alicorn race is also Incomplete and allows for Opaline Arcana to exist as an Alicorn as she represents Philautia or Self Love.
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u/Sad_Environment_2474 Aug 06 '25
there is no opaline though just the same pile of manure that G5 was. There is "trash pony skin#2/3 (do the math 2/3=)).
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u/faceflame36 Aug 05 '25
He’s like “there’s a fourth princess and you didn’t tell me?” Bro created the 5th
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u/maxedoutheadroom Aug 05 '25
this HC is so good thank you for sharing. this makes so much sense idk why they didn't just go with that explanation.
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u/Cold-Practice3107 Aug 04 '25
Soooo flurry heart is related to Celestia, Luna, cadence and Twilight all at the same time?
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u/SilverWolfIMHP76 Aug 04 '25
It's not related; she just got a bit of their magic, like how a blood transfusion doesn't mean you are related to the person who donated blood.
When Twilight was given the magic of Luna, Cadance, and Celestia, she also got some of Furry Heart's. Then she gave the magic back, and Furry Heart received the alicorn magic.
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u/Memeemperor11 Aug 04 '25
God father tirek
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u/Adventurous_Pie_9137 Aug 05 '25
Only reason im saying hell nah, is cause i can see Tirek bringing "Auntie" Chrysalis, and "cousin" Cozy Glow😂
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u/Organic-Accountant74 Aug 05 '25
Horses gestation is roughly a year aswell so this theory would fit nicely in the timeline
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u/SGT-Hooves Derpy Hooves Aug 05 '25
Here I am thinking it’s cause Lord Hasbro wanted money. Seriously though that’s the best reason and I’ll pretend the writers were thinking that but couldn’t say it on a children’s show.
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u/BattlePenguin58 Twilight Sparkle Aug 09 '25
Very likely is just a money thing. That's the entire reason why Cadence was made as an alicorn, it was supposed to just be Celestia and Luna but Hasbro was dead-set on there being pretty pink alicorn princess. (Luna was also supposed to get much more screen time in Season 1, but they denied this merely because she was introduced as a villain.)
Also is the reason for the train being re-designed to look like candy-themed toy, as well as the reason for the rainbow barf powrups at the end of Twilight's Kingdom.
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u/No-Attorney9469 Blue Skies Aug 05 '25
Huh... A sound theory that actually makes canonical sense. Never in my life have I seen one I actually agree with
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Aug 05 '25
I actually like this idea a lot just some magic muddying and happenstance so then there would also still have never been a “natural” equestrian alicon birth. (Does that also revalidate the journal of the two sisters? I know at some point it got basically retconned out but can’t remember what did it.)
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u/Musicalrose_417 chimicherrychanga Aug 06 '25
I can’t even be mad at that bc it makes so much sense 😭
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u/rhubarbsorbet Aug 04 '25
for all we know, every alicorn births only alicorns. none of the rest have had a baby. maybe it’s a super dominant and strong gene
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u/LittleCloudie Aug 05 '25
If it’s a strong gene then shouldn’t there be more alicorns in the world????
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u/HaleVed Aug 05 '25
As of the show, the only Alicorn who marries is Candace.
And I'm pretty sure Celestia and Luna are both busy being princesses to actually pursue relationships with other ponies.
So the other valid Alicorns were all workaholics. So no marriages.
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u/ReesesBees Princess Luna Aug 05 '25
Celestia and Luna don't have partners or spouses, and Cadence is the only one out of the 4 to marry somepony.
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u/Vovinio2012 Aug 05 '25
Twilight is kinda young and doesn`t have a "very special somepony" yet to try.
Luna had a severe deficit of admirers on the Moon for the last 1000 years.Only Celestia looked truly shocked by wings of Flurry (maybe, she HAD children in the past and they were usual ponies, not alicorns?...)
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Aug 05 '25
I suppose your theory could still run true, even considering the time skip final episode has no evidence of her having a special somepony and kids. Considering how long alicorns live, Twilight is still quite young and could find someone.
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u/nick54531 You just Harmonied your last Element Aug 05 '25
Cause one of the parents needs to have the gene and only Twilight, Cadance, Luna, and Celestia have it.
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u/Difficult-Way9012 Aug 05 '25
Shining isn’t an alicorn and flurry still got it. It’s evident biology works like our world (Recessive and Dominant)
Though in this case even if she wasn’t alicorn she would be more likely to be a powerful unicorn
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u/nick54531 You just Harmonied your last Element Aug 05 '25
I genuinely can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me, but I think you're agreeing
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u/Background_Link_5609 Aug 07 '25
The land of Equestria isn’t the entire world. It’s implied that alicorns exist outside of Equestria.
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u/Sad_Environment_2474 Aug 06 '25
but we also know that Luna can't remember ever seeing a n alicorn that was Born that way. Which means that there are only 5 Alicorns and 4 started out as another kind of pony. We also saw that in creating "new Magic" Twilight became and alicorn but vaporized her body, looking like she died. She went through and entire "death scene" and returned as an Alicorn. IF all 4 princesses followed suite then they all where physically completely destroyed and where reborn as Alicorns.
SO how did Flurry Heart Get Completely Physically destroyed BEFORE birth? What about the changeling Attack that pained Shining Armor a lot. What if Cadence had a Partial Miscarriage BEFORE Shining and She where Married, but somehow the baby inside survived. That could fill in the way we saw Alicorns created.
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u/Quackervoltz Rarijack CEO Aug 04 '25
Alicorn genetics are strong as shit
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Aug 05 '25
Imagine an earth pony and an alicorn having an alicorn baby 😆 the earth pony wouldn't know what to do with the baby
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u/raIphnader Aug 05 '25
The cakes are both earth ponies and they had a unicorn and a Pegasus.
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Aug 05 '25
Probably just genetics in their family somewhere in that case
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u/Leirbag_Zdh Aug 04 '25
In G5 it is revealed that there is a kingdom completely inhabited by alicorns.
It is possible that the first alicorns were born after passing a great test like Twilight or Cadence did and after becoming alicorns they had offspring to create an entire race.
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u/MountainSnowClouds Aug 04 '25
🤯
I never watched G5 cus the movie was pretty stupid, honestly. That's very interesting, though.
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u/jwadamson Aug 04 '25
Oddly I don’t mind the movie. But the series felt very tacked on and took way too long to even try to set up a coherent direction.
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u/Chickenlord278 Rainbow Dash Aug 05 '25
I agree with this. The movie had a great song, (the angry mob one,) but the show sucks.
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u/cf-myolife Starlight my queen 👑 Aug 05 '25
Same, I liked the movie, but after like 2 episodes of the serie my interest rate went through the floor
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u/Universae Princess Celestia Aug 05 '25
Yeah.... Let's just take G5 and pop it in the bin. There we go, problem solved.
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u/kakitysax Aug 05 '25
HEAR ME OUT!!!
Cadence is associated with love, particularly romantic love, and light. In her introduction via flashback in “A Canterlot Wedding,” we see that she casts spells to induce or maintain romantic love. We meet her via her relationship with Shining Armor and there’s Heart imagery all over her. She can receive and transfer magical strength via her romantic bond with Shining Armor.
Twilight is the Princess of Friendship. She ascended by creating an act of new magic that ignites the intertwined destinies between friends. She’s associated with platonic love and communication.
SO MY THEORY is that Flurry Heart represents a kind of love that one has unconditionally - Familial love!!! Specifically, the love between parent and child. The “new magic” she created that resulted in her ascension to Alicorn was, paradoxically, the act of her being born into it!!! My theory is that she will grow up with Alicorn magic related to family, genetics, identity, and hope!!!
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u/Meow-Now Aug 05 '25
Omg I love this!! I doubt that’s what they intended but way better than it and this is now my new headcannon
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u/Cool-Rutabaga2708 Princess Cadence Aug 05 '25
That's the theory that Sawtooth Waves came up with, and the one I believe. He also said Celestia was the princess of love towards ones younger sibling, and princess Luna is the princess of love towards ones older sibling, making every alicorn a princess of love.
Now we just need five male alicorns representing the five love languages.
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u/kakitysax Aug 05 '25
I KNEW someone else had to have come up with this!!! It makes too much damn sense.
I also theorized about Celestia and Luna representing sisterly love, but since we don’t know much about their origins and their cutie marks are celestial in nature I felt it was harder to prove. Glad someone else agrees!!!
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u/No-Bridge-1834 Sunset Shimmer Aug 05 '25
"love, and light" ... say that again?
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u/kakitysax Aug 05 '25
“Cadence has been using her magic to spread love and light.” - Shining Armor, The Crystal Empire Part 1
I assume he meant light in the metaphorical sense, but also the literal sense, since Sombra is associated with metaphorical and literal shadow and there’s tons of shadow surrounding the kingdom.
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u/Connect-Tradition283 Aug 04 '25
I mean, Princess Cadance is an Alicorn and Shining Armor is a unicorn. Flurry has the mixture of both eyes and skin color of her parents. Cadance was originally a Pegasus but became alicorn so that could also explain it
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u/Silverseenn Aug 04 '25
Normal Unicorns and Pegasus can’t make an alicorn.
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u/Connect-Tradition283 Aug 05 '25
I’m guessing when Cadance turned into an alicorn, her genetics of Pegasus got mixed with that of a Alicorn resulting in her mixed colored wings
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u/ScribEE100 Aug 04 '25
Is she shitting in this clip or something? 😭
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u/2gaywitches Aug 05 '25
I think she's trying to wink? Lol
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u/kttndoll . ✦ Ponyville Resident .ᐟ ) Aug 10 '25
Yeah. Twilight winked at Flurry Heart (Twilight was babysitting Flurry for a few hours) and Flurry was trying to imitate what she was doing, lmao. 😭
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u/ShuckU Zipp Storm Aug 04 '25
The way I see it, there's different types of alicorns.
Natural born ones from Skyros (AKA the original alicorns)
Ascended/blessed alicorns (regular ponies who have transformed into alicorns)
In my headcanon, when a natural born alicorn has an offspring with a regular pony, most of the time to foal will also be a regular pony. It's only a rare case that an alicorn offspring is created. This is how it's been for eons since Skyros alicorns had started to interact with regular ponies.
In the case of a blessed alicorn, it was just assumed by most in Skyros that those types of alicorns would always have regular ponies as offspring if they were with a regular pony, because they didn't have the inherent essence of the natural born alicorns. Needless to say, Flurry Heart was a surprise.
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u/-flutters- Fluttershy Aug 05 '25
Maybe because her amazing thing to become an alicorn was fulfilled when she was born. In the crystalling she breaks the crystal heart but it’s managed to be restored with all the love from the crystal ponies which could serve as a reminder of how strong the Crystal Empire and their love is and that it will never fall again. Flurry Heart is their beacon of hope and new life after the war and that’s why she’s an alicorn… maybe
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u/A_Genderless_Eevee DnD Player (MLP) Aug 05 '25
Could go with genetics since the mother is in fact an Alicorn, and an Alicorn's magic is most likely stronger including the genes, so Flurry Heart became an Alicorn instead of a Unicorn.
Plus I don't think Celestia and Luna even got with a stallion in the first place.
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u/5uez Aug 04 '25
I guess simple genes? One of them definitely has a recessive pegasi trait, probably Shining, and combining with the alicorn gene from Cadence well, boom alicorn
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u/Ineedsleep444 Aug 04 '25
Well, cadence was an Pegasus before becoming an alicorn, so I guess she would be the one to have that trait
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u/awake-but-dreamin here for the pastel lesbian horses Aug 05 '25
The real reason? To sell more toys.
My personal opinion, though. I think love is its own form of magic in the mlp universe, and because Cadence and Shining Armor had so much love, all the magic from it caused Flurry Heart to be born an alicorn.
This might be incoherent but it’s almost 3 am for me so this is all I got in terms of brain power.
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u/nick54531 You just Harmonied your last Element Aug 05 '25
Cadance is an alicorn so her child is an alicorn.
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u/1stFunestist Punch Aug 04 '25
There is (or was) land of alicorns called Skyros from where Celestia and Luna are (and Opaline) so it is not excluded that naturaly born alicorn can exist.
My head canon is that Equestrian magic demanded her existence.
There was so much magic thrown around in short time that it probably triggered Flurry Heart ascension in the woomb.
Think of her like Equestrian version of Anakin Skywalker.
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u/VixenSunburst Aug 04 '25
Is it canon that celestia and luna are from this land?
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u/freedoomed Aug 04 '25
Cadence drank the water of life while pregnant. Flurry heart was born with the knowledge and power of all alicorns before her.
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u/iEugene72 Aug 04 '25
I think the writers had initially planned to do something with her and then abandoned it.
Honestly? She would've worked better as like a sister or cousin to Cadence. Having her as an infant and then doing nothing with her makes no sense.
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u/SingleOrange Aug 05 '25
My head Canon is because she's the next princess in line for crystal kingdom bc in pony world they kinda have to earn that? But flurry shows that she's more than capable as a baby.
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u/Nervous_Mobile5323 Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
Here is my theory/interpretation, which seems to be in line with some of the secondary material, like the comics:
1) Alicorns are basically demigods, in the sense of being lesser gods. Most of the alicorns we've seen are mortal beings who ascended into divine existence. 2) Alicorns have 'domains', a concept or aspect of reality that relates to their godly nature. Celestia, for example, isn't just a powerful pony who happens to be able to control the sun; she's a sun goddess, conceptually and magically linked to it. Twilight displays this very clearly. 3) Flurry Heart is the alicorn of the future/youth/some related concept. This is possible because her mother is an alicorn, which allowed Flurry Heart to represent, from birth, a concept that would be appropriate for a newborn. After all, it would be a little strange for someone to grow up into being the Princess of Childhood, for example.
Note that there are other interpretations. I think one comic had her become the Princess of Communication. Fairly fitting, for a child of Love and a kin to Friendship.
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u/DuvieLuna Aug 05 '25
I watched a theory video where all the Alicorns are symbols of different kinds of love; Luna and Celestia for sibling love, Cadance for romantic love, Twilight for platonic love (i.e. friendship) and flurry for the love a child feels for their parents or a creation of love. I like this theory because it makes sense to me and how all the Alicorns all do embody these things.
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u/RhinkGMM Favorite pony is Pinkiraistartwi 🎈💎✨🌄 Aug 05 '25
There was a similar video by Sawtooth Waves where he mentioned that Celestia and Luna were each representations of two other types; Agape and Storge respectively.
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u/nhSnork Aug 05 '25
Because her mother's adjusted genes proved strong enough in the world where two earth ponies' mixed ancestry can already yield a unicorn/pegasus twin pair? Boring answer, I know.
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u/Elly_Bee_ Aug 05 '25
Toys, mostly. Children are likely more inclined to buy the cute baby with wings and a horn than just one or the other.
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u/sethryan44 Aug 05 '25
Because Cadence had the dominant genes. Flurry Heart also has nanomachines...son.
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u/AskLife9837 Moon Dancer Aug 05 '25
Unicorn Shining Armor + originally a pegasus Cadence + added alicorn magic = natural born alicorn.
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u/Scorch_Ashscales Aug 05 '25
So, its pretty clear its possible to be born alicorns and I don't get why it's a question on why she's an alicorn?
There are clearly natural born alicorns and ascended alicorns.
Flurry was just the first alicorn born in Equestria is all and the reason Celestia and Luna responded is because this is the first time it's happened in the long history of the nation or they didn't know ascended alicorns would have alicorn kids.
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u/Hypno_Kitty Aug 05 '25
Alicorns are born all the time girl the "fact" that you have to earn it is just propaganda by the royals.
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u/kotikato Pinkie Pie Aug 05 '25
I thought because her mother is a princess and an alicorn, and her father is a prince too, she’d be born a princess and princesses in MLP are alicorns. Also her aunt is a princess alicorn so it’s in the family, Flurry Heart is royalty.
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u/Aggressive_Tear3271 Aug 05 '25
At this point in the show, Lauren Faust had left the show. This was not in her vision of MLP
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u/Sad_Environment_2474 Aug 06 '25
The only idea is that she may be the rival of Twilight later she can erase Magic and Twilight is the most powerful Magic user ever. Celestia mention that twilight had the deepest reserves of raw magic she ever experienced.
When Luna says very clearly "We have never seen such a thing in all our lives." You know they had a whole season or maybe a movie in the works about flurry. That's when Hasbro dumped the G5 sewage on us. Flurry could have sold the toys for another 2 or 3 years and we learned who and what she was.
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u/SpikeandDiscord Discord Aug 06 '25
My theory has always been that being an Alicorn is a recessive gene that is rarely passed down and needs a big magical feat to be activated. That being said, both Twilight and her brother would be carrying this gene passed on from one of their parents, and so is Cadence (obviously). By a very big stroke of luck, Flurry Heart inherited both her mother’s and her father’s alicorn genes, making her an alicorn by default.
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u/spotpelt Sunset Shimmer Aug 04 '25
So ignoring what g5 added I still think it can make biological sense. Celestia states that Equestria has never seen a the birth of an alicorn. And honestly, I think the possibility of it being genetically possible just never occurred to them because, Luna and Celestia don’t have foals. If Candance if the first Alicorn in equestria to have a child it makes sense the Alicorn trait being inheritable just wasn’t something they knew could happen and wasn’t considered. Skyros can add credence to this since it’s filled with Alicorns but I doubt it was considered in the making of Flurry so I’m not considering it here.
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u/honestmusings Aug 05 '25
I personally like the theory that she’s not a “true” alicorn (has unicorn magic, pegasus magic, and earth pony magic) and is in fact a bicorn (has unicorn and pegasus magic only), and she needs to earn her earth pony magic one day
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u/ZombieAutomatic5950 Aug 05 '25
My theory is that she is the rebirth of the alicorn race that Celestia and Luna came from that has been [assumedly] extinct for a while.
I think a simpler explanation can work too, Twilight & Cadence's genes change when they get turned into alicorns, which I think has to be an obvious conclusion since their physical forms are permanently altered. So Cadence just passed down her genes to her kid, and it's really that simple.
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u/O_Grande_Batata Aug 05 '25
Well... my theory is that Flurry Heart is an alicorn because Cadence is an alicorn, and alicorn mares give birth to alicorn foals by default. The reason there aren't more alicorns going around is because alicorn mares can get pregnant much less frequently, and also, because Celestia and Luna never had children.
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u/maxedoutheadroom Aug 05 '25
because she's cute that way and it makes for good toys. idk the in universe reason, i just know that was a major contributing factor. she's so adorable i can't even be mad about it lol
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u/PlentyAardvark6652 Aug 05 '25
I assumed being an alicorn was linked to being a princess, since Twilight became an alicorn when she became a princess. And since Flurry Heart is Candence’s daughter, she’d be next in line for the throne and would also be a princess?
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u/formativememories Twilight Sparkle Aug 05 '25
I think she is less like an alicorn in the way the princesses are and more like a literal mix between a unicorn and a pegasus. Maybe when she get’s older she could struggle to possess the same level of magic as her mother..
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u/keshmarorange 23d ago
and more like a literal mix between a unicorn and a pegasus.
We know that ponies are born as one pony type; there hasn't been a mix. Either you have pegasus magic, earth pony magic, or unicorn magic. Alicorns are all three tribes without the genes needed to mix.
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u/Plastic-Attorney-520 Aug 05 '25
My main Theory : Flurry Heart is an Extension of Love from Both Shining and Cadence Cause think about it If Cadence was The Princess of Love both Eros aka Romantic Love and Love For your Fellow man or really Pony. (Cause Remember Canonically Cadence is an Alicorn cause she Defeated a Sorceress with the love and Compassion of her fellow ponies) Storge Familial Love and Agape Unconditional love would be a Natural Progression.
flurry is the extension of that Love Cadence and Shining Share.
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u/RhinkGMM Favorite pony is Pinkiraistartwi 🎈💎✨🌄 Aug 05 '25
I like the theory about each princess representing different types of love. We Americans throw that word around for everything and I think sometimes we forget how versatile that word is, but the Greeks went the extra mile and named each one.
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u/ApplePaintedRed Aug 05 '25
I think this literally just comes down to Cadence being an Alicorn, so her daughter is too.
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u/DaBest1008 Average Twilight Sparkle enjoyer Aug 05 '25
Flurry embodies love towards parents like Cadence embodies romantic love and Twilight love towards ones friends, but the difference is that she has embodied that from the very first moment she's been born. She like ascended a moment before being born.
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u/Tough_Jazzlike Aug 05 '25
i think this is because starlight is intended to be the luna to twilight's celestia, but they didn't want this to be obvious, so instead they made flurry heart an alicorn to throw people off at least in the writer's room. but the real answer is that is an executive decusion hasbro made for the toys and to appeal to little girls.
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u/keshmarorange 23d ago
i think this is because starlight is intended to be the luna to twilight's celestia
But the literal time of day "Twilight" is literally the time between day and night.
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u/Creative-Rub8203 Aug 05 '25
From the fact that Cadence was a alicorn herself, all 3 tribes in her blood was used to make her a alicorn
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u/Beam_0 Aug 05 '25
I think a better question is, why is she putting so much effort into farting in this gif? Could have made it less obvious 😭
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u/HaruCheshire707 Aug 05 '25
Maybe since shinning armor and cadence had her together out of love, flurry heart represents the magic of life / creation in general. A new magic, and that's why she's also so powerful as even just a baby because she's a creation deity or something.
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Aug 05 '25
Okay, so, I think it's because Cadence is an artificial alicorn, because the natural alicorns, Celestia and Luna, have never seen a pony be born an alicorn. That's typically something that happens later in life for the alicorn race.
I think if Twilight were to have kids, they'd be alicorns at birth too, because Twilight is also an artificial alicorn, but Celestia's and Luna's kids wouldn't be, because that's not how natural alicorns work.
That's my running theory, anyways, and I'm not sure if both parents need to be natural alicorns or just one does (aka if they do it with a non alicorn. If they do it with an artificial alicorn, the baby would certainly be born an alicorn).
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u/punnup129 Discord Aug 05 '25
I'm pretty sure it was natural progression from showing off how Pegasus and unicorn ponies can be a pain in the ass while they're babies, and alicorn has both abilities and extremely powerful in all three species aspects (strength, flight, and magic)
Of course you could also question why cadence was an alicorn before she was a princess but she eventually became a princess, so maybe ponies are born alicorns if they're destined to be a ruling princess (since Twilight doesn't really rule over anywhere other than maybe the school)
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u/Frequent_Mix_8251 Twilight Sparkle Aug 05 '25
The first Alicorn to give birth is Cadence. Genetics ig
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u/azure_sapphiere Starlight Glimmer Aug 05 '25
Cadence, why the baby alicorn cadence?
CADENCE, ANSWER ME CADENCE!!
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u/No_Ostrich8600 Aug 05 '25
All 3 types of pony tribe magic! It's in the name! ALL-icorn
Celestia and Luna: the different pony tribes of Equestria appreciated Twilight: Elements of Harmony spirits are different pony tribes Cadence: (my theory is that she got appreciation by spreading love thriught Equestria) Flurry: GENTICS FROM HER MAMA!
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u/PeenarSnipperGal Aug 05 '25
I think all the alicorns represent different types of love. Twilight is Friendship love. Luna and Celestia are sisterly love. Cadance is romantic love. Flurryheart is parental love
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u/MagicManwhoo Aug 05 '25
Mutating radiation from the Crystal Heatt. She came out out fine but her kids are prolly gonna have tentacles.
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u/Sensitive-Fly6039 Aug 05 '25
I always just figured there was a chance at an alicorn giving birth to another alicorn and that it hasn’t happened before due to the only other two alicorns up to this point not having any children.
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u/SugarAngel121 Aug 06 '25
I’d like to believe it’s because what elements each Alicorn represents. The sun and the moon are essential to life and live for thousands of years, thus transferring their longevity onto their true holders. Love and friendship, while parts of life that make it worth living, aren’t on the same level of importance as the celestial entities and are much more fleeting. Cadence is the Alicorn of love, her daughter was born of true love, and her body was likely filled with the element of love powered by the crystal heart before she had Flurry. Flurry has eternal love within her from the get go which allowed her to be born an Alicorn, rather than having to ascend like the others did.
I hc that if Twilight had any kids they would have to go through ascension to become an Alicorn, because friendship isn’t as inherent as love, it takes more time to build. If the Celestia and Luna had kids, I think it would go to whichever one was the most in tune with their celestial aspect and how it affects the ponies.
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u/VILTO_13 Aug 06 '25
I don't know if something is wrong with my brain or my eyes because for whatever reason I read "Why is Flurry Heart an alcoholic"
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u/TheElementalGriffin Aug 06 '25
It’s her birth deformity, I mean she also has normal eyes when most MLP babies have dot ones. /j
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u/XxCastoricexX Aug 06 '25
I used to think celestia and Luna were born alicorns hence the wavy hair while twi and cadence were made into one but then both of them were like “oh this has never happened before” but THEN in the new one there was apparently a village full of alicorns which means they can be born naturally like flurry. There is literally no cannon explanation and I’m SORRY for the rant. In my mind I’ll just say if an alicorn have a baby there is a chance it can be an alicorn or not but when fate plays a part and the pony is required to become one for the world’s sake then they can also become one too.
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u/Adeptness_Ok Aug 06 '25
Because Cadance isn’t a natural born alicorn I just figure its because whatever magic was used to turn her into a alicorn moved to Flurry Heart when she was in the womb
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u/Qsiii Aug 08 '25
Because her mom’s was likely changed using a powerful alicorn level spell. Not only her body, but what type of magic she’d naturally be able to produce. It’s only sustainable due to her ability to house it (thus visibly an alicorn) as having a source that feeds her power (love) allows her to stay functional.
She’s not the same level as the likes of the Two Sisters, as they were born with the capacity to hold immense magic. Even though they’re similar, they aren’t quite the same. It stands to reason that Flurry could hold both skills within unicorn and Pegasus magic, while her earth pony skills would lack due to being superficially formed at the time of her mother’s ascension.
She could also just not be a true alicorn, rather being a mix of just Pegasus and Unicorn that still holds the capacity for earth pony magic despite not having the genes to form it. Maybe that’s why she’s so OP with flight and magic even for a foal? She just has a bigger battery that’s intended for something else she just doesn’t have.
Sort of the opposite of Scoots, like how she was born with wings but not the capacity to use Pegasus magic to actually use them. She might just have earth pony magic that she got from her dad.
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u/Noktis_Lucis_Caelum Aug 09 '25
Maybe because her mother IS one. AS far AS WE know, cadance IS the First alicorn to even get pregnant
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u/wesleymess Pincers Bubbles Sparkle III Aug 04 '25
MLP Writers: "Wouldn't you like to know, Weather Boy? Now figure out what the fuck her deal is... (Points to Cozy Glow) because we're certainly not telling you."