Finally Solving Alicorns 🦄

I just realized, when cozy glow gets drained of all her magic she loses her horns and returns her to her original pegasi stage, but when Tirek drains all the alicorn magic from Twilight, she doesn't return to her formal unicorn version that she was born with, rather still in her alicorn form. Leaves my theory that Cozy Glow is not a true alicorn, no matter how much magic she possesses.

As rarity says when she sees flurry heart ‘’ but don’t you have to do a princess worthy deed to earn your alircorn wings? ‘’ gets me wondering

The only thing you missed is that when Twilight became an Alicorn something came from inside her, so It was already a part of who she was, it just needed a push to be seen.

I feel like this is definitely confirmed now that we have the A New Generation movie. When the pegasus, unicorn, and earth pony crytsals are brought together and the magic of the three tribes is brought back, the magic from each of the crystals turn Sunny into an alicorn.

This is really off topic, but was I the only one who wanted an epic battle between baby Flurry Heart and Cozy Glow in the finale?

your theory is basically proven right with the recent movie. sunny became an alicorn with the magical crystals that were inherently combined with each tribe’s magic.

I think Flurry Heart's was just genetic. She was born with alicorn DNA.

The only problem I see with this theory is that when the three princesses gave their magic to Twilight to keep it from Tierec, they didn't lose their wings. Since they lost all their magic they should have reverted to they original forms.

I guess that explains the Flowy Hair as well, they receive the magic from Crystal Ponies as well.

I mean, Celestia's Hair is literally shining.

Solving alicorns for you is like solving FNaF for MatPat.

Actually, I think your previous theory is still correct. When alicorn cosy had her magic drained, she lost her horn and turned back into a pegasus. However, when tirek drained twi's magic she kept her wings and horn - they are permanently part of her genetics and not directly linked to her magic. Cosyglow's transformation was just a mutation because as a pony, she couldn't wield unicorn magic without a horn. She wasn't a real alicorn, and her horn wasn't genetic, just a way to control the magic that she's not supposed to have.

I have an idea of how cadence got her wings, so when she was younger she helped people with their love problems. So after the love from the people she helped from all three tribes piled up more and more helped her get her wings. Just like how the magic from starlights anger piled up more and more in that one episode.

Ok but remember that Cozy Glow bent the rules; she stole that magic that made her an alicorn. So at the very least in Pony society ponies would still have to earn the magic to become an alicorn

That pic of Starlight and Starswirl at 1:50 is absolutely adorable 😊

Excellent video Sawtooth. Being an alicorn myself, this confirms a lot of what I believed about our kind beforehand. 😇 Earned a subscriber. 🥰

Him: “Non-Unicorn Alicorns are possible”
Cadance: *cries in having been a Pegasus*

I’m convinced you got a degree in Ponyology!! I love your all your theories! Also, who’s been here since this channel was called “Brony Notion”?

Okay I'm literally writing a fanfiction about Celestia, Luna, and their time as students of Starswirl. This video basically summed up everything I had thought of for when the sisters got their cutiemarks. Great minds think alike this is crazy. I literally put a whole powerpoint together explaining the history of the two sisters and some headcannons I have and I'm just shocked. Bamboozled.

I think receiving magic from the three tribes makes you a alicorn but to have a title you need to accomplish something alicorn worthy. Also love your vids!❤

Hold up, the new gen just makes this theory even more solid, the protag got alicorn powers by reuniting the three tribes

Just saying,
‘The birth of an alicorn is something Equestria has never seen.’
Celestia and Luna were born BEFORE Equestria.

If Starlight became an alicorn, would she be the princess of destiny? She has an unusual amount of knowledge of cutie mark magic, and can take and probably even give cutie marks to ponies

When flurry was born the whole kingdom had already filled her with the love and light she needed to become an alicorn, although it does raise the question about all three tribes because the crystal ponies don’t seem to have horns and wings they’re simply crystal ponies.

Does the “Journal of the Two Sisters” solve a good 25% of these questions, ESPECIALLY in relation to Celestia and Luna?
They were raised by Alicorns in Canterlot, their Journal speaks on this many times, and all MLP books are canon unless said otherwise.
So my question is, what happened to the other Alicorns?

While I agree with this theory, I love how we ignore the fact that the writer of the show said that Celestia and Luna were born alicorns, but oh well, I like this theory better! Then again, I also loved the Starswirl theory because, such as this, it has loads of canonable points, I’m conflicted, WHY SO HARD?!?

“cozy glow is proof that non-unicorns can become alicorns”
so we just gonna ignore cadence now aight aight

In the fandom’s site, there’s a interesting information. When they become princesses ( Celestia and Luna) they didn’t have their marks, cause the alicorns development is really different of the normal pony.
When they’re young, were used to pretend to be princesses.
So it confirms Celestia and Luna already born as alicorns.

I belive it might also have to do with how their body’s comprehend with the magic. See the average pony pry would just explode to bits by being overwhelmed with these 3 magic sources. Although few special ponies where able to control the power.

There is one secret to break the confusion between Luna and Celestia, there is one big book published somewhere, I remember reading it when I was 5/6 years old. The book pointed out details that caught my eye, it pointed to Luna's wings and wrote Pegasi's wings and Celestia's horn a unicorn's horn. Boom, mystery solved.

maybe Flurry Heart actually gained the magic of all 3 ponies through the love and excitement of the ponies of the crystal empire, like Celestia and Luna did from theirs. or something like that. it makes more sense to me since i've always been under the impression that alicorn-ship (AKA the magic of all 3 ponies) isn't an inheritable trait.

This video brings up the whole natural and artificial alicorn debate up again. I would say an artificial alicorn would be like Cozy Glow, she just cheated. She didn't do anything worthy to become an alicorn. She just pumped herself full of magic. I think that a natural alicorn like the princesses earn it through creating new magic, or doing some giant deed.

I always believed that twilight’s ascension was carefully orchestrated specifically to give the act meaning. I’m curious who else thinks Celestia had been planning for it since Discord’s reformation. Maybe she needed him to help. If she had ulterior motives it would begin to explain why she needed him.

I think it's probably impressive to have enough magic for it, as well as the right kind. Twilight ascended and got stronger, mostly on her own merits. Yes, Cozy Glow got it out of a "cheat," but WHAT a cheat it was! I suspect, too, that Trixie probably would've become an Alicorn, eventually, if she'd kept letting the Alicorn Amulet pump her full of madness and dark power.

to add to this🤩 and confirm it, his theory also explains how Sunny became an Alicorn in the movie of Gen 5

now the real question, how can starlight exploit this to become immortal

I think there’s an additional leadership quality added onto it. Each of the ponies that are alicorns (as far as i can tell) all share one quality: leadership. Maybe that’s why it seems to tie to royalty, because royals tend to be leaders.

This lines up so much with the way magic works in the new movie

It probably also has something to do with genetics. Based on what we’ve seen in the show and in the movie, there’s a good chance that magic works a lot like a multiple allele controlled trait, like blood type.

In the new movie I think is confirmed, with sunny she receives the three types of magic.

I think you sorta solved many questions with this theory. Especially in questions such as Discord’s existence, the elements, how Luna physically transformed herself, and how magic works in this world. Consider this: Every living thing of this world has it’s own magic. Or more so, every living thing is just a physical personification of what magic they embody. This would also mean that any change in a creatures magical core would cause physical changes in its physical appearance. Luna was able to physically change herself into Nightmare Moon because her jealousy corrupted the nature of her magic core. This theory is very wonderful and eye opening!

I’m fairly certain that alicorns do have special requirements.
They must have strong magic, and they must embody a certain trait.
When thinking like this the magic part is quite easy to get, but the embodiment of a certain trait I don’t think it’s entirely as easy to get a hold of.
By looking at CozyGlow it’s very possible that she embodies a strong negative trait, as we see her manipulative tendencies

The two princesses had a teacher who taught them a lot for a short time, including a lot about magic

I Still think it's something special. If you think about it, all the princesses (including Cozy Glow) did something that set off a chain reaction. It doesn't matter if the chain reaction is good or bad, but once certain events occur the magic from all three tribes goes to the pony. Whether willingly or by force doesn't matter.

Cozy glow wasn't a real Alicorn. The royal sisters are definitely amazing and I think there is everything special about being an alicorn!

The magical core theory presented here made me think, and now I have developed my own headcanon as to how and why Scootaloo can't fly. Long standing theories was her wings being undeveloped and staying that way but Bulk and Tirek proved that wrong on account that Pegasi magic is related to inner magic, confidence and NOT wing size. Knowing Scoot's parents are an Earth Pony and Pegasus, and taking this theory into account, I like to believe that a rare occurrence happened to Scootaloo in which she was born with the body of a Pegasus but the inner magic of an Earth Pony. Wings that can only speed her up and hover because she has no inner magic to fully fly. After all, even a month old baby can fly. But not her.

It'd be rare because we know already that powerful unicorns and pegasi can be born from two earth ponies with dormant genes, so this would be a weird magical disability that doesn't happen much. Similar cases could happen in which a Unicorn can't cast any magic due to having inner magic of a different type of pony.

This does go with the very first episode of season one with princess Celestia telling the tale of Nightmare Moons banishment, stating that there were two unicorn sisters that had the unique abilities to raise the sun and the moon. Thus at some point with their newfound roles in Equestria, they became alicorns.

Dear Sawtooth Waves,
In season 4 when Tirek found out what the princesses did with their magic,there was a part where he was talking about him taking all 3 tribes magic,since alicorns have to have all 3 tribes magic to become an alicorn... does that mean Tirek already had alicorn magic?

In fact, Cadence makes sense with this theory. She has a special talent for love, she gives love and receives love, therefore it is obvious to think that she also received magic from all kinds of ponies.

Cadence is the princess of love, yeah? She just probably got her alicorn magic from how much love she created in all 3 tribes

I don’t think magic is just what we see when it comes to flight, spells, strength, etc. but it’s also influenced by personality. The two exist simultaneously. So if you want to be strong enough for alicorn you also have to work on yourself and learning leadership traits Celestia mentioned at the end of S3 E13. And Twilight didn’t get these traits by studying spells, reading books, she got it by making friends with ponies of different backgrounds. She gained the experience and knowledge to have the magic powerful enough to be an alicorn.

If what I’m saying is trues it would make sense why alicorns are rulers and not non-alicorns. That’s because most non alicorns aren’t strong enough with their own magic to become an alicorn. Cozy Glow became an alicorn by the bell, not by working to become food herself. And Flurry is probably a prodigy and by being in a family of rulers she’s probably a natural born leader and doesn’t need to work on leadership traits. The mane 6 display these traits but probably aren’t experienced enough to have magic powerful enough to be an alicorn. And Starlight, although she is a powerful unicorn, doesn’t have the traits necessary for leadership just yet.

I remember there being this book that came out why back around 2014 or so that was meant to be Celestia’s (and possibly also Luna’s?) diary. The book starts out soon after both of them became Alicorns and were given responsibility over the day-night cycle. So, it might illuminate a bit on this subject.

That being said, despite having previously owned the book and read it myself, that was a LONG time ago, and I’m pretty sure I don’t even have it anymore. Not to mention, I can’t remember how much detail it goes into in regards to how they became Alicorns, or even how canon the book is anymore.

I think this is a good theory! It also fits with the "royal mane" thing going on with Alicorns, which I believe is from a powerful overflow of magic
FIRST you have to have all three kinds to be an alicorn in the first place, only THEN is the amount of magic important
Celestia and Luna have flowing manes because they raise the sun and moon daily which takes a lot of magic
Twilight had the effect a bit when she was filled with their magic, and when she tried to raise the sun
She had more of the effect when she took over controlling the sun and moon permanently in the finale
Cadence (and shining armor I believe) also had the effect when banishing the Changelings from the crystal empire, which was also some pretty powerful magic, cuz yknow, princess of love, on her wedding day, needing a strong spell

Cozy didn't become a real alicorn--she just became one becuase she had so much magic from all three tribes. Notice when that magic was taken away, she became a pegasus again. Temporary alicorn. That's my answer lmao
OK edit- adding to this: honestly maybe her body just couldn't handle all of that sheer power WITHOUT temporarily becoming an alicorn- she is a literal child obviously. But she isn't 'special' like celestia, luna, cadence and twilight; we've seen all four of them have their magic both willingly and unwillingly be taken away (like shadwsonic said) and they remained alicorns. However, cozy reverted back to her original state/race whatever once her magic was taken away becuase she couldn't retain her alicorn-ness once she didn't have all the magic: she was only an alicorn becuase of the magic and nothing else. The only way she could deal with having so much unicorn magic was to grow a horn, and bigger wings becuase of all the pegasus magic.

I feel like it’s the amount of magic as well as kind of you think about cozy glow she did receive all three tribes but also a hell ton of it so amount also may play a role

My question is,
If being an alicorn gives you immortality, then how could they become alicorn’s at such a young age?

I'm wondering:
If an Alicorn is the combination of all three tribes, what would a pony with the abilities of only two tribes look / be treated like?

i have a theory about the day and night cycle. the reason grogars bell is so powerful and full of magic is because he used it to rip magic from everything that surrounds him in pursuit of power- and not just living things. he stole the magic that lasted since time itself, the pure power that governs the day and night cycle, and stole it for himself. this is how the unicorns began to regulate it themselves. i think it’s a cool theory :D

Celestia: you've come such a long, long way
The Microsoft PowerPoint in the background: black screen
Flurry Heart: •-•

I would love to see a video explaining how cadence became a alicorn.

Спасибо переводчику от ютуб.

Я думаю, что либо Каденс тоже перешло по наследству крылья, либо она получила крылья во время своей первой кристаллизацией. Если кристаллизация была семейным делом, то тут вопрос о наследстве крыльев, думаю с Каденс все сложнее, чем мы думаем...

Flurryheart and Cadence make sense to me, i feel like alicorn magic comes from..unionization, bringing everything and everyone together- just like the crystal heart does. Because Flurry heart is already connected to the crystal heart, she already by default had all of that.

if you think about it, alicorns have different types of magic that are taken from the tribes.
unicorn - magic
pegasus - flight
earth pony - strength

“We now have proof that non-unicorns can become alicorns!”
Wasn’t Cadence originally a Pegasus though too?

"We now know that non-unicorn ponies can be an alicorn"
But we knew that from when we saw Princess Cadence when she was young, she was a pegasus i thought.

What if, in addition to recieveing magic from 3 kinds of pony, there were the fact of having in you a unique type of magic that you are the only one who can control and use :

Twilight : has the magic of friendship (and she is the only one who has it, since Celestia need the elements to use it)
Celestia : raises the Sun (and she is so far the only one who can do this, since we don't know if Twilight do this when ruling Equestria)
Luna : raises the Moon and has the magic of exploring dreams (she is also the only one who can do this, she told that to her sister when their cutie marks and powers are switched)
Flurry Heart : has maybe a new type of magic in her (we dont know yet since she's a baby)
Cadence : has the magic of love (and she is also probably the only one who can use it, since we don't see another pony use it), but we don't know how she recieved magic from 3 kinds of pony...

Cozy Glow : has just recieved the magic of the 3 tribes, and has no unique magic...unless...
When she defeated the royal guards, she created a portal connecting two different places...and we never saw another pony or alicorn do that...
Can it be a unique type of magic that she has recieved from Grogar's bell ? The magic of controling space ?
Could the alicorn that has this magic long ago have created the portal to the Human world ?

So, maybe ponies need these 2 conditions to became alicorns : recieve magic from the 3 kinds of pony AND have a unique magic that they're the only one to control ?

Other question : why does Cozy Glow turn back into a pegasus when her magic is absorbed and other alicorns don't ? Maybe because Cozy Glow doesn't have her OWN unique magic, she recieved it from Grogar's bell.

Hope Sawtooth Waves will read ;)

I definitely think you’re on to something however, there’s this one theory about Alicorn sisters being the essence of the sun and moon and taking pony form. And that they only became rulers just to protect Equestria from the serval ancient evils that was going on and they go stuck ruling equestria for years. So I’d like to combine both of those theories. When it comes to the alicorn mystery

Well, it was Star Swirl's spell that led to Twilight becoming an alicorn, so it's possible he might've become an alicorn himself if he had looked any deeper into it, and it does seem to be his lack of understanding friendship, aka "good", that kept him from becoming one. Meanwhile, with Twilight as a mentor, it's also possible Starlight will become an alicorn in the future. I tend to think Cozy Glow's alicorn form was more a lesson on how alicorn magic can be stolen rather than opening the way for evil alicorns.

It also opens up questions about Flurry Heart, particularly since she's later shown doing something with the Crystal Heart to earn herself a window. I have a feeling her "earning" is more tied up in the trope we see repeated over and over in MLP, that of destiny and a special talent -- a destiny that is perhaps prophecized by her being born an alicorn? Maybe Starlight's messing with time did something here, too, idk -- Rather than it simply being passed on from Cadence, but then, we don't have any other examples of alicorns having kids, so who knows.

Another thought -- maybe at one point in time there WERE evil alicorns, or even a whole tribe of them, and Sombra's Alicorn Amulet, his fall from grace, the sisters defeating him, all somehow played a part in locking away that power so that it could never be used for evil again. Hence all alicorns in the present are good, but maybe that wasn't always so...

Heck, maybe that's what the Crystal Ponies were too before Sombra messed with them -- alicorns, and Flurry Heart somehow returns that power to them. (I think the timeline might be off for that idea, but food for thought!)

“it’s great to know that non unicorns can become unicorns.” ye but cadence wasn’t a unicorn and we already knew that

I see a lot of comments about how he said Cozy Glow was the first Pegasus to become an alicorn, and that Cadence was the first one. I think he means that she’s the first Pegasus that we see in the show through unconventional means to become an alicorn.

You know ur therory actually can match up with cadence.when she earns her horn from celestia ,celestia certainly had magic from all three tribes and simply just shared her magic with cadence ,same can be said with twighlight
On an unrelated note , flurry heart,cadence and cozy glow all have gradients on their wings,i think all alicorns should have a gradient on their wings.

This is a really interesting theory. I personally didn’t think cozyglow meant much because she didn’t become an alicorn properly, she didn’t earn her alicorn-ness, she stole it with ancient magic. I interpreted it as she became an alicorn because there was no other way for a normal pegasus to hold that much magic. We don’t understand how or why grogu’s(?) bell works the way it does and thusfore do not have enough evidence to confidently say whether or not this is a big deal

I think Cadance became an alicorn spread from the light and love spread from one another. Now the crystal ponies are only earth ponies but in a different video (SPOILERS BTW) Cadance was said to be the so called child of the mare and stallion in the story of hearts and hooves theory. This probably made all three tribes spread magic to her. This is just what I think.

I mean
- Long Skinny Legs
- Long Horn
- Huge paper Wings
It’s an alicorn.
a tall earth pony with wings and a magical cone on their head

This is a totally different theory that this video helped me understand just by mentioning the sisters stepping up to
raise the sun and moon here's what I'm thinking: The sisters might have got there
cutie marks there first time they raised
the sun and moon because there cutie marks looked like the sun and moon.
And when Twilight was getting magic from the other princesses in the episode
Twilight's kingdom the other princesses
Lost there cutie marks.

And moon

once the magic was taken away from cozy, she went back to a pegasus whereas for the princesses, when they lost their magic, they still stayed the same.

As much as this makes more sense, what's weird is how, if you look at Twilight's transformation (not her transportation into the starry place, but the actual transformation itself), the magic that makes her an alicorn seems to come from within her, not from the other Mane Five. So it doesn't make sense that she transformed with magic from them.

I think being an alicorn is special thing. And Cadence is a alicorn because she spreads love.❤

My theory has always been that all ponies are born with a certain level of magic from all 3, magic that combines and is passed down to their children. This theory would explain the Cakes, who are Earth ponies having a Pegasus and unicorn. It also explains Flurryheart. Shining Armor is a powerful unicorn and may even have a decent amount of Earth pony magic, but very little pegasi magic. Cadence may have a great deal of pegasi magic and the necessary amounts of unicorn and earth pony magic to make her an alicorn. So when these two had Flurry, she pretty much got the necessary amount of magic to be born an alicorn.

The book from cadences past told that she was an orphan and was adopted. The light and love she gave must have earned magic from all three tribes

What's special about being an alicorn is alicorns utilize all types of pony magic: Earth, pegasus and unicorn. Much like the avatar, it is the combination of the three types of magic in one pony that makes an alicorn so powerful. But beyond that, and the fact that natural alicorns seem to age more slowly and are thus older when they get their cutie marks, alicorns really are ordinary ponies. They're flawed, they have quirks, they have hobbies and dreams, they have fears and dislikes, and they value relationship as much as any other pony.

When flurry heart was born the sisters said "A birth of an alicorn is something equestria has never seen"
So I think they got there wings buy showing everypone that they can lift the sun and moon, this gave them wings blah blah blah blah. Also celestya had pink hair she only got pastel hair from when she used the elements to banish nightmare moon or luna.

You know how each alicorn supposedly represents a type of love? Well, one is easily forgotten. Mania: the greedy, obsessive love. This fits cozy quite well. She was obsessed with the power gained by friendship, much like someone obsessed with the attention from a relationship. Both are willing to go great lengths to get what they want, even if it means hurting others. And when their plan fails, they will only go on to make more plans and what not (IF they don't get the help that they need). This fits pretty well to me.

Also, on that note about alicorns representing the types of love: is there an alicorn for hatred? Or some sort of anti-alicorn?

My theory for cadence is perhaps she received the same love and light the sisters did. when she was out and about casting spells of love, the ponies gave her love in return. pair that with the public announcement that celestia had adopted her as her niece, she must have been well supported and popular enough to become a ruler. Though i feel Cadence is different. Not only does she have magic from all three tribes, but also from the crystal ponies.

another theory off topic. perhaps flurry is half crystal pony. The magic they gave her mom might have passed on the same way the alicorn magic did. If thats the case i can see her being even more fitting to be the ruler of the empire.

Edit: yes this does contradict the fact that cadence was born a pegasus, which i really like btw, but it was never canonically proven that she was :/

So... The theory is that if you have magic from all three tribes, you become an alicorn. So vice versa, if that magic is removed, then you revert to your natural form. But... I would like to point out the season 4 finale. Celestia, Luna, and Cadence all willingly gave every single bit of alicorn magic they had within them to Twilight so that Tyrek could not steal it. And after that, Twilight willingly gave all that magic and her own to Tyrek in order to save her friends. So why didn't they revert back to their natural forms then? Maybe they had just been alicorns long enough that it had become their natural form? Or maybe there was something different about how they became alicorns?

Pretty much an alicorn is a pony that discovered a new type of magic, unicorn or pegasi. That type of magic should have magic from all three tribes. And i agree with how you explained flurry heart it is possible cadance transmitted some magic to her daugther, if thats not it its either she represents the crystal heart or what happened in the crystaling which presents love or family.

You have a point, but there's one detail you overlooked. After Cozy Glow was drained, she returned to being a normal Pegasus. To compare, the princesses maintained their alicorn status every time that they lost their magic. So I don't think that cozy was ever a true alicorn. You can fake being an alicorn with sufficient magical power, but just like rarities fake wings from season 1, it's an illusion that will fall apart as soon as the power is lost.

Des.: Why cozy, flurry,Twilight, celestia and Luna became Alicorns !

Cadence: am I a joke to you?

After seeing the g5 movie this is nice to watch. You were right, congrats

My theory:
Any pony can be an alicorn by receiving magic from all the three tribes.... but the magic is temporary. When the magic goes in the pony only the appearance changes but when a pony does something '' extraordinary " he/she goes into a different realm which not only changes their appearance but something in their bodies... We saw in magical mystery cure that something came out from twilight body which then caused to get her wings which is permanent ......
Now the difference is that when the magic is drained from the pony which did not went to the different realm will have his horn/wings/ both removed whereas the pony which went in the different realm, will not have any changes except in magic because he/she has her body changed ...... That's why the princesses' wing/horn/both doesn't vanish when their magic drains....
Now, onto Celestia and luna, the story that you told makes sense but what if while the pony give their magic to the princesses, they went to that same realm and some pony was waiting for them ........
I think it was star swirl since he was the princesses' teacher and he knew that they had the potential to rule over equestria....... The cutie marks may made star swirl sure that were the future rulers of equestria

Theory: Alicorns flowy manes. I have never in my years seen a theory that neatlyfits about alicorns manes, but I think I've solved it. (Or at least there isn't anything in g4's cannon that contradicts this, that I know of)
Maybe, just maybe, an alicorn gets a flowy mane when they become the prime ruler of Equestria. Celestia is the first main ruler of Equestria that we see and , low and behold, flowy mane. Luna gets brought back and no flowy mane at first, but that can be easily explained. When she first comes back from the moon after a thousand years, the chances are that Luna didn't go back to her former status right away, but once she did, she also got the flowy princess mane. Flash way forward to the g4 finale, we don't see any princess other than Twilight (flowy mane and all) in the finale, so we don't know whether Celestia and Luna still have their flowy manes or if Cadence ever got a flowy mane. But we do know that at some point after taking over as the main ruler of Equestria, Twilight got her flowy mane. Since we see Flurry on a stained glass window in Canterot Castle and her mane appears to be normal, we can assume that she doesn't have the flowy mane effect.
There are definitely holes in this theory, but it's the tidiest one that I've seen

I think I know why cozy glow returned to being a Pegasus when she was drained of magic unlike the other alicorns it's because her transformation into an alicorn resulted in a unstable form because the magic inside her was not harmonious thus cozy had gone only halfway through the process of ascension.

Even if anypony can become an Alicorn, Alicorns are supposed to be the most powerful ponies in all of Equestria such power shouldn't be in the wrong hooves, and Nightmare Moon and Cozy Glow are proof that not everypony is worthy or deserving of such power...especially someone as evil as Cozy Glow not only did she not deserve to be an alicorn but she abused that power by using it for evil.

Flurry Heart I chalked up to the fact that as far as we know- there has never been a foal born of an Alicorn and in this case a unicorn. And while yes Cadance wasn't likely originally an Alicorn she is one now - which affected things.

Celestia and Luna never ascended, the show's creator said they were both born alicorns to alicorn parents. My theory is that they were the last natural-born alicorns, and them both being female and sisters meant the species couldn't continue without magical intervention. Thus, artificial alicorns created with magic.

I just realized that flurry heart technically had the magic before she was born the love her parent had for her and the love other pony's had for her could have been the key to her getting to be alicorn

Hang on..... they all had to accomplish something though, even cosy glow
Twilight-finish the spell
Selestia/Luna- rotation of day and night
Cosy glow- retrieve the bell and find the magic in friendship
Cadence-descover the power of love
They all had to achieve something before becoming a alicon

Well my theory is that Cadence is already a ruler of the crystal empire and sometimes if people became royalty they usually make their kid the next generation ruler , ruler means an alicorn so when Flurry heart is older she will 100% be the new ruler of the crystal empire. If not how can she be an alicorn without doing anything?

Well now that I know that obtaining magic is the way to get alicorn details.Does that mean that Starwirl's spell was a magic enchancer? but actually needed friendship to use?

One issue with the Celestia and Luna flashback - weren't they already alicorns and rulers by the time they took over the day/night cycle, according to the play? (And the Journal, as dubiously canon as anything from that still is). Also, I don't like how much you glossed over Cadance in this. She deserves a more proper explanation by far.

Have you every read the books? They explain a lot about Cadence's and Nightmare Moons backstory (though I've only read a few)

GROGAR’S BELL had alicorn magic inside so cozy was getting pumped full of already formed alicorn magic so she just gained the horn from the formed alicorn magic.

I love how you explained Luna so smooth

I feel like Cozy Glow used that red amulet that Trixie used in the magic battle, season 1 or 2..

When Cozy Glow becomes a alicorn, she doesn't gain any growth from the earth pony side, however, we know she should have it because her foal body is supporting a full grown mare's alicorn wings, which are bigger than normal thus needing extra growth. idk just a nitpick

I thought Cozy Glow was like Rarity in that one episode. A “fake” alicorn.

I think Cadence is the only princess we don’t have a backstory for at all. We don’t even know what she was the princess of before they started ruling the crystal empire.

So I used to not think that non-unicorns could be alicorns, then Cozy Glow came along and I didn’t know that was proof until I started watching Sawtooth

I think I know how cadence became an alicorn. In the book on how cadence became an alicorn she spread love to everypony from all three tribes. Their love and thrree tribes magic went into cadence slowly. I don't know the book really well but I know that there was a villain who tried to stop love or take love or something. Cadence stood up and shared her love and the made her prove to be an alicorn. The villains one of the third tribes magic went into cadence while celestia watched. She saw that Cadence was now more than worthy to be an alicorn. She teleported cadence to her castle and used the three tribes love magic to make her become an alicorn. She got horn and her coronation follows.... so yeah that is how I think cadence became an alicorn.

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This dude literally predicted how Sunny from the new movie became an alicorn, like, the 3 tribes united again, that generated de magic on the three tribe's crystals and made Sunny an alicorn; well, at leats that's how I see it lol

Celestial said in the “behold, princess Twilight sparkle” that she become a alicorn because she have created NEW magic

Solving alicorns is easy.
If the story needs an alicorn, they become an alicorn.

I think alicorns come into existence through specific spells. It's not power or ascension, it's just a variation of one spell that grants the pony in question lots of magic and the power of the three tribes. Since we only know of the Sisters, Cadence and Twilight as alicorns in the MLP-verse it makes sense as to why they were all surprised Flurry was born an alicorn, afterall the sisters and twilight never had kids so how would they know if the alicorn gene could be passed on or not. As of canon knowledge, Cadence is the only alicorn to reproduce in the show so it would stand to reason that once becoming an alicorn they can also have other alicorns.

Cozy Glow seems like a person who can become a mortal god and be like "I could kill all of you with a Slingshot" she demeans anyone who power isnt her Strong suit the way a Pure Strength Warrior would a Warrior who is boosted by their character and enchantments. Pure Strength Warrior would mock the enchantments but the Enchantmente and purity of Character can shatter whatever Strength itself can do.

It could also be that alicorns are rare and that the amount of magic needed is Extremely large

Also cozy glow wasn’t really a alicorn.
She only turned into one after using the bell.
Because it was Grogar and Discords magic.

I think both topics have something to do with it, it takes all tribes magic for a unicorn to be an alicorn, but it does take how much they are worthy and have good leadership, but when Cozy Glow used that dark magic to transform herself... I'm afraid she broke that cycle. What if after using dark magic she did use all the tribe magic, but she did nothing good to deserve that... what if she DID break the cycle of being worthy?

There is something I’m wondering about the magic from the three tribes- what if a pony were to consume magic from one tribe and not the only other tribes would we get something different than an alicorn

Celestia got her powers when she learned how to move the sun and moon together. Luna got her powers when she learned how to move the moon. Luna didn't have to learn both the sun and moon because Celestia already had the sun. That's how they got their powers.

I think that the ponies who gave respect and care are what gave the sister princesses their magic. It was a united front that gave the sisters their titles.

From the season 4 finale, it is shown that the princesses can transfer their magic to others. Does this mean they can turn others into Alicorns? Can one revert from being an Alicorn? When cosy glow got hit by the elements she got reverted but when the princesses lose their magic by giving it up or by it being taken by the bell, they do not lose their alicornship.

I also just noticed that in the finale, it shows a specific scene of grogar’s bell cracking but after that moment, it seemed to be working fine.

I mean I originally thought Flurry was an Alicorn since Cadence was originally a pegasus and Shining is a unicorn, and Cadence could've had earth pony relatives, I'm thinking of a similar scenario to the cake twins being a unicorn and pegasus born to earth ponies. Like if Cadence or Shining had an earth pony relative, it could've transferred to Flurry as well as the pegasus and unicorn genes. At least that's what I originally thought of. But it is possible that any alicorn can have a natural alicorn as a child, since no other alicorns but Cadence have a child.
I do find this theory cool though! Keep up the good work!

Something though.... Neither Celestia, Luna, Cadence, or Twilight lost their wings or horns when the magic was taken out given up. Cosy did, suggesting that there's something inherently special about keeping their alicorn forms. There has to be a biological change, and Cosy didn't get that change.

imagine being an earth pony and turning into an alicorn tho... that's like 2 whole other things to suddenly get into . as an earth pony you're just used to your strength you've never thought of having unicorn magic or how it even works to have a horn nor have you ever had Two Whole Wings attached to your back before. that would be insane. even crazier to think of an earth pony either so adored or so whatever else that they just casually became an ALICORN

Ive always veiwed it as a "reached their full potential" type thing. Since ponies are born with something of a destiny, like their cutie marks show, maybe they are alsp born with a maximum potential they need to reach before becoming an alicorn. Since cozy was evil she didnt really have any emotional potential, but when she received a bunch of magic, far more magic than she ever wouldve accomplished on her own, she surpassed her full potential. And maybe since flurry was born an alicorn, she already reached her full potential, thus she didnt have any emotional or physical growth to reach.

Patch 1.4.7
Alicorn status is easier to get now, due to balancing concerns.

Everyone seems to forget that there are 5 tribes(not including alicorns ) The CRYSTAL PONIES! Twilight had magic from the crystal ponies as well. Season 3 episode 2 . No one ever mentions the CRYSTAL PONIES!!

в одной из серий более поздних сезонов (6-8) была ситуация, когда Твайлайт и Флаттершай должны были помочь двум семьям/племенам пони, между которыми была вражда
интересный факт заключается в том, что Флаттершай тяжело было лететь с грузом, который взяла Твайлайт, а второй было наоборот очень легко

anyone can slap on a crown and say their royalty, i think bc they’ve earned their wings/horn from being good leaders or accomplishing something, their looked up as royalty.
royal ponies bestow that power onto new ponies, and since said ponies were entrusted with the power from royalty their looked up to as just as powerful.

no one bowed down to cozy glow bc she was an alicorn. her horn and wings didn’t make her more important bc to most ppl she’s still either evil and disliked, or unknown of and a stranger to ponies.
i think becoming a alicorn from a past alicorn (celesta making twilight an alicorn) is so important is bc there’s obviously some old accident powerful root of magic that gave alicorns the ability to exist. like how people with royal blood in irl are bowed down to, even if originally plain ordinary people. once they reserve that specific root of magic they bc pony royalty i guess.
flurry heart was most likely a surprise bc an alicorn has never been born an alicorn. sure their parents could have been alicorns, but if their parents aren’t BORN alicorns then it’s not in their gens. like how if you got your arm amputated in ur 20’s, your kid wouldn’t be born without an arm.

Your videos single handedly got me back into the MLP fandom

Ya, but there is one thing that ruins everything, as you remember Grogar stole Alicorns magic but All the 4 alicorns at the time have remained alicorns, as for Cozy Glow, it didn’t last

So my theory is that you can become an alicorns using that much magic, but it can be taken away easily from you if you don’t have something important in you, still don’t know what it is but maybe one day I’ll know

And lastly I think that your theory about sister love, partner love, friendship and parent love was pretty lit and fitting, maybe Crysalis’ love was the love for the hive?

Or something like mentor - disciple love thing? But she used it to wrong purposes and that’s why she wasn’t a “pure” alicorn?

This is a really cool theory but I just have one question with it. What about the changelings. they have wings and horns. Yes they are a whole other species but queen crystalis is a lot like the alicorn queens, she’s taller has bigger wings and a bigger horn.

This explains the new movie, where at the end they only got the magic parts of all three and not just grew the body parts.

it always bothered me that twilight was the only one to get a royal status, when all 6 of them saved the world a thousand times. but i know twilight studied the most and was the most skilled in magic. so i’m not complaining that she’s a princess. but isn’t there any other thing the other 5 could have gotten? another royal status? at least a place in a castle to live. but with alicorns just being a combination of all three tribe’s magic, maybe they should have all been alicorns. previously we thought an alicorn has to achieve some great deed to deserve it, but flurry didn’t do anything. then again all alicorns are princesses. whatever i just wish the ponies would have gotten more

edit: ok so what if they all become alicorn princesses, but twilight and later starlight are like the superior ones. like how celestia and luna have greater power than cadance

There's one simple answer to all movie/animated/whatever questions:
It's in the script. Just accept it.

I think that the theory it's great, but there's a small detail, the journal of the two sisters, it's said that Luna and celestia were already alicorns before they got their cutie marks (aka before they raised the sun and moon for the first time) so there must have been another way for them to become alicorns, like genetics (they must have gotten it by their mother or someone turn them on a young age when they barely had any memory or they can be an experiment by star swirl, that could be why star swirl sees them as their daughters, the experiment was made so that the tribes could have an order, a leader that they would respect) but that's just a theory a game theory

i think allicorns are also kinda linked to destiny : when Cozy lost her magic she turned back to a pegasi but when Twilight lost her magic she is still an allicorn , we see that when Twilight turn into an allicorn the magic comes from herself , it might be pointed that she was destinied to be an allicorn and rule Esquestria unlike Cozy . I mean magic do seems to have a mind of its own so yeah.

Something I think, is that maybe the magic of an alicorn can change you to look like one! maybe a true alicorn is when you earn your wings/horn!

If you're an alicorn, you can fly AND use magic, like no other pony can.

I think this theory is great! But maybe it could be linked to something to trigger the transformation?

As a thought:

Could Cadence have become an alicorn in a similar way to the crystalling and the two sisters idea in this video?

Cadence brings and spreads love with her magic. Maybe her fixing a powerful, cross unicorn, pegasus or earth pony mixed relationship, those three tribes celebrated her love and power, crowning her a caring leader, who represents the tribes for their now love and gratitude towards one another.

The three tribes now feel free to date someone else from another tribe. Maybe something happened that discriminated them for their unheard of love. When cadence makes is clear that this kind of love was alright, maybe she represented the future for the tribes, which explains her now being an alicorn!

Its alittle all over the place but this is my idea ^^;

So, Cadence was a Pegasus. But as we see in twilight's flashback when they were foals, Cadence (despite appearing taller since she is an alicorn) cast a love spell on a couple. However, she wasnt an unicorn. How did she master love magic so auickly? Was she actually born an alicorn and disguised?

What if you absorb only unicorn magic and pegasus magic, would you just become a weaker alicorn?

The weird she-demons from Equestria Girls make a lot more sense now looking at the powered up versions of Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy - that’s just what happens when you absorb large amounts of magic I guess

commenting before I've watched the vid, so he may touch on this,
Boomerangs were not actually thrown at animals to kill them, they were to scare them out of cover (small animals mistake them for a bird of prey) flushing them out to be killed with a Woomera (throwing spear)
Boomerangs were used by a number of cultures not just native Australians, but the Aboriginals being isolated for so long were the last to be using them.
Melee boomerangs did exist and short range throwing but not returning ones were used as skirmishing weapons.

Let's see if shad talks bout this

“CG is proof that non unicorns can become alicorns”

points to Princess Cadence

Cadence was born a Pegasus. ;)

i think alicorns just happens to have more magic, why? because when Trixie stole the alicorn amulet she doesn’t possess any wings, her magic just grew stronger. starlight and starswirl (my apologies for my spellings and grammar) also happens to have equal magic as alicorns. starlight managed to make earth ponies & unicorns, or rather, non-pegasus walk on clouds. and so that proves my next point, starlight managed to make herself just like pegasus (with a horn lol) because she’s able to use a spell that could make her fly and walk on clouds like one. i’m pretty sure she could grow a pair of wings if she wanted to, no doubt.

Great theory but if I remember correctly the journal of two sisters book that ties into the alicorn siblings pasts mentions that they were born alicorns and that they came from a tribe of sorts filled with them? I could be mixing up headcanons fed to me around the time I got the book and fact here but I'm almost positive they were born alicorns rather than made alicorns.

Sawtooth Waves: Cozy Glow proffed theat non unicorns can also become an alicorn
Also Sawtooth Waves: Welp, i guess i'll take this apportunity and be an alicorn! I don't want to waist it!

Alicorns, the longer they are one the more likely they are to keep the alicorn form because your body stars going through changes, so they aren’t reversible. Twilight got taller and her horn became longer when she became an alicorn. I vote that the wavy hair comes to an alicorn when they are old enough. It just depends on their age. Also Cadence (definitely spelled wrong) was already getting closer to the body shape of Celestial, and Luna is younger then Celestial so she looks a little different and slightly shorter then her older sister.

0:33 Actually, it’s canon that Cadence was born a pegasus

Maybe there's more than 1 way to become an alicorn? That princess-worthy deed Rarity presumed was needed, and what you said in this video- absorbing magic from all 3 tribes? Maybe there's also some other way to become one?

I'd take a guess that Alicorns being born isn't the norm. An Alicorn can reproduce, but those genes/magic are usually recessive and they'll simply give birth to one of the three base types. That would make Flurryheart a one in a million chance. Residual side-effects from when Shining Armor was corrupted by Sombra's magic might have had something to do with it too though.

I just imagine the creators of mlp spending years trying to say- 'alicorns aren't special!!!'
ya know, with lines like- 'the birth of an alicorn is something equestria's never seen' or 'you've become an alicorn, I didn't know that was possible'
and characters like, nightmare moon and flurryheart!

I don't know if this has been remedied in later videos, but you said each current alicorn represented a relationship, Celestia and Luna siblinghood, Cadence romance, Twilight friendship, and Flurry Heart love for parents. What if Cozy Glow represents the relationship of enemies? If that were the case, it could be that's why when her magic was drained or something she didn't stay an alicorn. Idk this just ocurred as a possibility to me.

Cadence likely had her own kind of crystaling. It was said that she brought love to ponies so maybe she brought love to enough ponies that she became an alicorn through their thanks and love? But then there’s her cutie mark and sort of how it’s the crystal heart and stuff… she’s also already shown as an alicorn when being twilight’s foal sitter. Perhaps she was born with the crystal Heart’s magic? And that magic was passed to flurryheart since she was born in the crystal pony kingdom? She’s said to be related to the original queen of the crystal empire in the wiki (though I’m not sure how trustworthy the wiki is right now) so her destiny being tied to the crystal heart may have to do with why she became an alicorn. Maybe she’s linked to the crystal heart in that way so she takes on the crystal heart’s magic.

I think the worthiness and important looking of the alicorns is more cultural than biological, is not that you're an alicorn, is how you became an alicorn, having the title of princess/queen/ruler (male applies too i gues) is what gives you the respect of everyone, yes, you have way more magic than the other ponies, but everyone can get that if they do what is need to be an alicorn, what matters is the title and the way you got those wings/horn. At least that's my point of view. Also considerating that there only have been shown 5 in-series royal alicorns.

With This Theory A Tribe full of alicorns is entirely possible all it would need is a few people to get magic of all three kinds and then with flurry heart as an example Nature can keep it going

You're missing something here, after Cozy is defeated and the magic is sucked out shes back to a normal unicorn but for The other four alicorn's after getting magic sucked out they remained as an alicorn which could mean that you need to have magic from all three tribes AND be a ruler or symbol of something like luna and celestia are the symbol of light and darkness, cadence and twilight being love and friendship i hope u see this

“Finally solving Alicorns”




I have heard it all now...

Cozy of course gained magic from Grogar's bell and that's how she became an alicorn daa.

Hasbro: We need baby alicorn toys!

From that day, the collective cries of theorists can be heard

It could also be that Alicorns were the original pony species, and that as they spread across the planet they split evolving into stronger/specialized variant tribes. Starting with a split between Unicorns and Pegasi. Then the Umicorns split to physically weaker Unicorns and Earth Ponies. So it could be a combination of the different types of magic, and how much Alicorn DNA is still in your genetics.

I like to think that it's not about becoming but being an alicorn, that even though anyone can become one with the right magic, not anyone can be an alicorn and hold all of its power and responsibilities for good. Well, that's my theory regarding this video, but I prefer to believe that not anypony can become an alicorn, even with the right magic. It's something that comes within them, like Twilight's transformation.

This theory is interesting, but it doesn't work considering the journal of the two sisters which is canon and a great read. In it, Celestia and Luna are alicorns long before having cutie marks. It's because they're alicorns that they're chosen to be the princesses of Equestria and unite the ponies.

''cozy glow is proof that non unicorns can become alicorns''

Cadence was a pegasus

But anyway
the reason alicorns exist because they have a lot of magic than average, not necessarily magic from 3 tribes
Twilight was pumped with magic + her magical skill = becoming an alicorn

Flurry heart is a powerful toddler with tons of magic inside of her, hence she's an alicorn

Cozy was pumped with magic through the bell, hence becoming an alicorn

The reason celestia and luna don't revert back to their previous unicorn stage is because the transformation on them is permanent, at least that's my theory
Cozy didn't become an alicorn permanently after getting the power so there is still things to theorise about in this

Getting long spider legs and getting a bigger horn and getting wavy hair does not make u a better alicorn

in this case Flurry could have been an alicorn from the joy the cristal ponies had from learning Cadence was pregnant

I have a question that i hope someone will answer when grogar's magic from the bell was sucked out of alicorn cosy glow she turned back into a pegasus but when twilight's magic was sucked out by tirek she didn't turn into a unicorn so how does that work?

Remember when mlp was just a nice show to enjoy without any worry about how this can make sense

Has anyone else noticed that alicorns have fancier wing feather patterns? "Oh look at my wings in an alicorn"

Wouldn't that mean Chrysalis became, or already was, a sort of alicorn? Shouldn't Tirek have gotten wings if not flight when he received the Bell's magic too? Shouldn't Tirek have been an alicorn after draining magic from the different tribes in Season 4, well before draining Discord? {which was already problematic juxtaposed to the S9 finale, but that's a whole other can of worms!}

Guy i just figured out something,when u look at twilight,cadence,celestia and luna's wing they have a different pattern on them and the the pegesi who are naturally born have different....but flurry is a naturally bor alicorn but has the pattern on her wings just like the princesses...

I think Flurry Heart inherits the “being alicorn at birth” thing. In “the royal wedding” Twilight’s flashback shows Cadence as an alicorn as a filly

hear me out peeps, I am a little late to the show but I have an Idea. Like you theorized with each princess representing a bond that holds society, I think that is still true. older siblinghood, younger siblinghood, friendship, love, and parental love all have their own tier of magic. It is proven the magic of love an friendship are two of the most powerful weapons in equestria. maybe siblinghood and parental love are the same. maybe luna and celestia became alicorns after realizing the teamwork (raising the sun and moon) of sister hood. flurry was born one because of her instincts. maybe those types of magic are on a tier stronger than any magic in the whole mlp universe. maybe it takes that magic to be an alicorn. grogar's bell held the magic of a time before those were realized. it held captive the magic of those relationships. maybe it takes that much magic to become an alicorn. your starswirled invented alicorns still works. flurry just was transformed in the womb. coxy glow didn't have one because she used stolen magic. starswirled made the alicorns because of the magic they had through understanding, and his spell lasted atfer limbo. he did not understand how luna and celestia had the power. he just knew he did. his spell detected the power of cozy and made her one too. celestia wasn;t there to greet her because she didn't know what was happening somehow. that is my theory.

has anyone thought of starlight becoming an alicorn since if you look back at season 7 discord claims

"you should have a plan for her the same way celestia sent you on a path that turned you into a princes "

twilight "yep"
discord"im sure she can not wait to hear about it"
then when discord brings starlight and discord said they where both interested about her plan twilight could have said somthing else

"Cozy Glow is proof that non-unicorns can become alicorns." That was already proven by Cadence. But that's not actually important to your point, so let's put that aside.

"Anypony can become an alicorn if you just pump them full of magic. ... You just need the magic no matter how you get it." That's demonstrably false. When Celestia, Luna, and Cadence give their magic to Twilight in an attempt to fool Tirek, while they do show outward signs, they don't cease to be alicorns. And it can't be argued that they simply held on to enough magic not to lose their forms, as Tierk attempts to eat their magic and comes up with nothing at all. Whereas Cozy gained the physical appearance of an alicorn upon taking the magic from Grogar's bell and loses the form immediately upon returning the magic.

The rest of your argument rests on conjecture; how Twilight, Cozy, and Flurry could have gotten the magic of three tribes from sources outside side themselves and how Celestia and Luna could have done the same and been crowned rulers of Equestria. There's nothing solid to back this up from the show itself, just the fact that it's possible.

Cozy reverting form upon losing her magic proves that there's something more going on with her case, and it doesn't disrupt any theory about alicorns you care to point to. Well, except the theory that alicorns are gods, but I'm pretty sure that idea is long dead.

To be honest, I completely disagree with the idea of absorbing magic from all three tribes. Because we've seen other ponies (like Star Swirl) be loved like Celestia and Luna, and yet they didn't transform into alicorns.

imagine an unknow place where the habitants are alicorns , it would change everything

Cadance did something just like Twillight taking her to Celestias realm where she became an alicorn
Like the changelings the pony she was helping wanted love.

You should do a video of why the sisters had their cutie marks before they knew they would raise the sun and moon and also why the sisters are so tall and have moving hair! 😀

Here's a theory for for you to think about:
So, Sci-Twi in Equestria Girls, is an Alicorn, when she Ponys up, but her Pony form is an unicorn.
How?
Thanks for noticing

I think the way Celestia and Luna got their wavy mane is because they were showered with more love

It occurs to me, Cadence is the only Alicorn mother. Did Celestia or Luna ever try to become parents? Perhaps an Alicorn baby is the only result of having an Alicorn parent. So it was shear luck we didn't end up with a "Prince" Flurry instead.

If I'm being honest here:

Keeping in mind that MLP is a kid's show, originally. And while Hasbro has been recognizing they're older audience for awhile now, children still watch the show so there probably wasn't alot of theory put into the idea.

A good example of this is pretty simple, the begining, the first season of the show.
Kids like unicorns and ponies and pegasi, so it makes sense for them to create these, very glowy and flowy haired alicorn creatures to entertain kids watching, and for plot. When Twilight became a alicorn, it was a fan theory/AU that many people supported. Hasbro did make a whole episode dedicated to bronies, so it makes sense that they would make a fan theory canon.
The reason Twilight got wings is becuase she solved a issue that she made on accident, but proved herself worthy, and according to Celestia she's always been worthy. So it was inside her all along, she was a relitivly powerful and smart unicorn before hand anyways.

Cadence was a pegasus then got her horn after, probably also Celestia's doing like with Twilight. And jkeep in mind that in the future, Twilight has the same flowy hair as Celestia, and her hair does the same thing when all the princesses give her their magic, to which they don't lose their wings or horns and stay the same. Cadence and Flurry Heart are the only ones without flowy hair. However I think that is a age thing. Becuase Twilight is younger than the three and so is Flurry. Cadence looks to be a tad younger than Luna at the least, and when Luna was younger she didn't have flowy hair either. So I think that genetics and overall age plays a role here.

Celestia and Luna are centeries old and originally they were brought in to be plot, and some intersting looking charecters for the kiddos. It can be assumed that they were both born that way, they existed before Equestria. Lauren Faust said herslef that they don't have parents that outrank them, and that originally they were going to have a brother named Cosmos but he was reworked into tempest, so based on that, he cold have been an alicorn too or something of the like.

Flurry Heart just has Alicorn genetics. Remember this is still a show meant for children, and it makes sense to them to see a baby Alicorn, born from another Alicorn. Her being an alicorn was also used for plot when she was first introduced, so that checks out.

Cozy Glow is just a evil filly who used magic to turn herself into an Alicorn. She didn't do anything to prove herself worthy or show that she had alicorn potential, so that's probably why it didn't last long and she reverted to her original form.

Also, let's keep in mind that changlings are like alicorns in a way. Queen Chrysalis has the alicorn look, but as a changling. And she is able to fly and use her horn. That doesn't necisarily mean she was one though.

In conclusion, I don't think that alicorns are that special unless made to be for plot and entertainment. Once again it is a kid's show, and while it is fun to make up theories and analize everything, there isns't a long drawn out thought put into the idea.

His guess is pretty on point to what is canonical he obviously didn’t know this but there’s a prequel book explaining how celestia and Luna got their wings and yeah it is actually because those unicorns that were growing tired and losing their magic from having to raise the sun couldn’t carry on any longer so they stepped up to do it and by doing so became alicorns

This theory reminds me of Matpat's Evolution Theory with Epigenetics.

I think they have to be royalty. As they represent everyone, wings of pegasi, horn of a unicorn and the strength of an earth pony. The alicorns we know of are all royalty. I know Cozy Glow, but she was an artificial alicorn. She didn't earn it, she stole it. You need to earn it to be alicorns. You could argue Cadence, Celestia, Luna and Twilight are all artificial, but again, they earned it. Cozy didn't. So she wasn't an alicorn, just a pony with wings and a horn. I know you could also argue Flurry Heart, but again, I think she was never an alicorn until the crystaling. She only looked like one. When she brought hope back to the kingdom, she became a true alicorn.

You are absolutely right.
They do get it from the 3 tribes.

I think they were just trying to make her intimidating. She's strongest in manipulation, not magic or physical strength. But everyone knows shes evil so it would be useless to make her a master manipulator. So they made her an alicorn, then she'd be just as scary as Chrysalis and T-rek. She even loses her horns once the magic is drained. I dont think she was truly an alicorn at all, it just gave her power so she could actually fight.

It's a good thing season 9 doesn't exist then /s

But on a serious note, I interpreted as cozy being a false alicorn, maybe she used the bell to make her look like and alicorn, or absorbing the magic like that makes a pony a faux alicorn, and can't naturally create the magic to be an alicorn, and she would go back to normal after after some amount of time.

I think it is as simple as getting magic from all three tribes, but how easy is it to do that. Well lets look at twilight she needed magic from the friends she had to form which seems easy but what kind of friend wants to willing give you magic that they could have, Celestia and Luna had to raise the sun and moon for all three tribes to praise them, and clozy glow had to use magic from a heavily guarded artifact

You were just soo calm solving how the two sisters became an alicorn then you woke me up after explaining it lol can anyone relate?

I'm wondering if Queen Chrysalis is actually an Alicorn, and if she is, how she came to be one?

i just realized that the new mlp movie proved this is true! the main character became an alicorn right after bringing all the tribes together by bringing together objects with unicorn, pegasi and earth pony magic.

You know the saying "friendship is magic" well since friendship is magic all most all the ponies should be alicorns because you need the magic from each tribe and most of the ponies should be freinds at least one preson from each tribe so they would gain friendship magic even if not a way we've seen before like stealing it or becoming a ruler, twilight is the only alicorn who actually has friendship magic that we really know of (but then again I don't really watch the show)

Well in the episode it said in the book that there had to be magic in the bell to give them magic so there was already alicorn magic in there and that’s how she became an alicorn

Theory: if you mix 1 earth pony, 1 unicorn and 1 pegasi’s sperm you make an alicorn?

For cadance, I think she was born from 1 unicorn, and 1 Pegasus, I also think Flurry Heart has extra magic because both her parents had horns

We went from "CURSE YOU FLURRY HEART!" to "CURSE YOU COZY THEE ALICORN"

Also when he said "around 1111 years ago" I thought 'AWWW YEAAA WE GETTING OURSELVES A STORY-TIME!!!'

I mean, this makes sense. It was a good long time that humans believed that whoever was king (or queen, I'm not picky) was ordained to rule by God. It was only many thousands of years later that we realized that whoever was king (or queen, it's all the same, really) was ordained to rule by having the greatest capability to visit violence on others. Or, phrased another way: "The right to rule flows from the barrel of a gun."

I seen other video where star swirl is the one that kinda made them alacorns. STORY TIME!! A long time ago, When star swirl was still young. He raised the sun and the moon. And defended the ponies. But, As star swirl got older, He realized someone needed to take his place. So he choose celestea to be the princess of the sun. And Luna was not even born when celestea became princess. So, Celestea studied for days and years. Then the princess of the moon came. " Luna. " So thats the end of the story. - Also, Did you know star swirl is the elements of harmony??- (I'm 13 years old.)

I have a question, it's pretty minor tho, it's how did they get their flowy hair and cadence never did, along with another question where how did queen crysilace (grammar) she turned into dark colors and looked like cheese, or was she always lie that until thorax changed it?

Wait wait wait I came back after realizing something but just to confirm, the bell took princess celestia’s and princess lunas magic right? So maybe a pure heart is the certain wall to GAIN that magic. Of course cozyglow gaining this magic in grogars bell were belonged to other ponies, meaning that there was no wall. Flurryheart being a baby doesn’t actually matter if magic can travel through time, just like cutie marks when you find your passion, a cutie mark is sorta a sign that magic travels through time (you said this too in one of your videos- not that cutie mark thing but about magic traveling through time-) cause cutie marks know what your passion/destiny is and will be.

When he tries to solve Flurry:

"CURSE YOU FLURRY THE ALICORN!!!"

After solving Flurry and when Cozy becames a problem:

"CURSE YOU COZY THE ALICORN!!!"

Edit : Woaw! I never had that many likes 😯

How Cadance becomes an Alicorn :
i dont know if cadance is a unicorn or a pegusi but her cutie mark was a symbol of love. she brings love to ponies so in the proses of doing that she must have touch some of the unicorn pegusi and earth ponys magic.

What I’m curious about is, How did cadence become an Alicorn? Or was she already born one? Cause In the wedding episode, we see Twilight flashbacking to when candence used to baby sit her and during that time she was a princess. So maybe before then she was granted alicorn magic or maybe born with it? What do you think?

Well .. we don’t know how Grogar got his belle. Maybe he earned it from a evil pony so the magic from the ponies in that belle become what he earned and MAYBE IT WAS STORED AS EVIL MAGIC ONCE THE MAGIC GOT IN THE BELLE. so cozy glow took the magic to have her wings.she never earned it.she took it from earned magic. Because if the belle was earned. The magic would be stored as earned.

How to be an alicorn: be a unicorn and use magic to fly.

Remember when you said that the alicorns aged in height over thousands of years?
Well do you remember that episode when twilight goes into the past and Celestia was still the exact same height a thousand years ago?
You should make a video about that

I think your right and I think Cadence got the magic by giving love to Unicorns,Pegasi and earth pony's giving her the magic to become an Alicorn, it shows this in a cantorlot wedding if u wanna check it out. Am i right?

I actually came up with a question and hunted down this video just to ask. What about the Cake Twins? Pumpkin Cake is a unicorn and Pound Cake is a pegasus, so that means their genetics have both pegasus and unicorn magic, and obviously their parents have earth pony magic, so I want to add on to your theory about this, I don't think it's just about what kind, I also think it's quantity. I bet the magics all have to be in balance, you have to have equal amounts of all three in order to make an alicorn, if there isnt balance and it's just left up to genetics, then one has more of a chance than shining than the others. That actually explains Flurry Heart as well, because it has been stated before that Cadence was born a pegasus, and Shining Armor is a unicorn, having both of those genes on top of Cadence having Alicorn genes to give the gap in earth pony magic would most likely result in an alicorn foal

flurry heart I was never shocked with. but my reaction was more like "oh cool" but sense she's born alicorn there's no way she well lose horn and wings. unless there's other that uses magic like Discord that can do a thing like that. than she's all together save form countering something like that. and I think we know there well be more alicorns later in the future. they just didn't show it. like how the cakes say they had unicorn, earth and pegasus in there family tree. so that's a hint that there well be more alicorns because there well be more mix races married and have kids. I guessing that's leading on what happened before G5 or MAYBE G5 is the same timeline when Twilight and Starlight time traveled.

I hope reformed cozy glow and flurry heart become friends.🥺

This actually works with Cadence as well!
She was a Pegasus that was adopted by a village of Earth ponies who were at one point attacked by the enchantress Prismia, who I am going to theorize was a unicorn. When she used the amulet and Cadence reversed it and her loves was amplified instead, it says that Cadence turned Prismia to see good. I think all this together would have made the perfect moment for Cadence to become an Alicorn!

due to Flurry heart being a natural-born alicorn and not been turned into like the others. I do think that it's because of her mother and father. because they were able to defeat the queen of the changing when even Celestia could not. I do think that those two have a lot of power. and because cadence was a pegasus before she was an alicorn it would make sense that with her gain more power. as she becomes an alicorn that magic would be passed onto flurry heart but then again this is all that I think. as flurry heart is the only baby in a royal family.

This is the best explanation ever
I thought exactly the same

i just wanna say, that um. Grogar might have "Absorbed" luna's magic when he "freed" nightmare moon in your other theory so maybe he connected his magic to his bell while he himself was in the stars! so cozy glow might have actually recieved nghtmare moon's magic which was as powerful as luna's . so maybe it isn't the magic of all three tribes, but the magic of an alicorn. Some info to back that up : that may be why twilight and her friends were able to turn back into luna so easily, while celestia could only banish er to the moon because when nightmare moon was banished , grogar hadn't taken the magic yet, so to me it kinda adds up. More info to back up: the alicorn princesses were really scared when they thought tirek was going to take their magic and after transfering their magic to twilight, their cutie marks , the thing that literally makes them who they are, dissapeared. and if cozy glow absorbed that.....

I think that natural versus artificial Alicorns is totally wrong, because in the second episode of My Little Pony when Princess Luna came back she didn't have a flowy mane.

Him:"Finally Solving Alicorns"





Me:Can he really figure out what to have been trying to since childhood?

I’m very sorry Sawtooth, but.. doesn’t the play episode, say “Celestial,
Luna AND the wizards rose the sun and the moon”? If I remember that right. Lol, if it’s true I didn’t mean to bust this Celestial and Luna theory in a theory.

It seems good to me, I think you're right. Now excuse me for a moment, I'll become an alicorn

What if only good alicorns are the true alicorns? Like Cozy glow could be an alicorn but there's probably a limit to her magic. Twilight always said that harmony was the most powerful kind of magic, which is probably stronger than Cozy glow's alicorn magic. The 5 alicorns may have alicorn magic equal to Cozy glow's, but they have a magic which cozy glow does not, harmony. Cozy glow being so evil and the coldness in her heart probably prevented her from reaching full potential in magic. And across so many seasons friendship and harmony is a magic that cannot be stolen or taken away from.

Haven't you noticed that discord is like a being of chaos he's the embodiment of mischief and we did see him shape shift and because the Bell is discord's bell as well, maybe that's how Cozy Glow turned into a alicorn , she just merely shape shift with discord's bell

Therory: when a alicorn mother gives birth it’s a chance there child will be a alicorn but also what if cozy glows mom is a alicorn as well.. but cozy got it from the bell. What if cozy glows mom or they stole her moms magic and then her mother died.. flurry heart could’ve got the alicorn traits because her mom is a alicorn and shining armor had ALICORN MAGIC like protecting the castle with a magical shield. And if we did a gender bend shining armor could’ve been a alicorn if he was a girl. (Summing up I think it’s when an alicorn mother gives birth a high chance of them being a Pegasus unicorn earth pony or alicorn, Cozy’s parents and other relatives could’ve died because we see no proof of there existence either. So to conclude I think this comment solved genes and once again twilight had alicorn magic because when they were saving the crystal empire from sombar she used alicorn magic! Now how do we know well remember when twilight saw how nightmare moon was banished to the moon? The potion she drank was Alicorn Magic!! Also I noticed the fact that the main 6 + Sunset and starlight glimmer are like the roofs while twilight is the trunk of the tree. They can not also be an alicorn due to genes.)

The new generation episode where there is Twilight’s message
She was an alicorn but not the big one we see in the future
She was talking about this new villain so if she was doing this before she was big she would be more worried not so calm so this new villain must have come from later than that last episode on the mane 6
I think she did the message after the sacrifice since she is not as big
But if she was still an alicorn how is she not alive in the new generation

I still think that the true alicorns represent different kinds of love.

2:50 or Celestia and Luna just made it super duper special to make them seem even more powerful and special.

Well, I always believed that an alicorn being born an alicorn is not possible (the case with flurry is different), and a true alicorn is formed originally being a pegasus, unicorn, or earth pony, and to me, a pony turns into an alicorn when they achieve performing an action that helps them understand a way to connect their cutie mark and their destiny on a higher level, and for further understanding here is how it works:


1. Twilight: Her friends swap their cutie marks by a spell - she used their great friendship bond to save them , as they say friendship is magic so she used MAGIC (her cutie mark) to save her friends (which just further proves that she is to be THE PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP) - so the connection of twilight's cutie mark and her destiny, on a higher level than most ponies, turns her into an alicorn but just after celestia explains so twilight doesn't freak out sooooooo much.


2. Celestia and Luna (before reading this one do know that I am not so sure of this story): Seeing the ponies of their town suffer cause the pony wizards can't rise the sun and moon every day and night, The princesses, who are only unicorn fillies at the time, realise by their CUTIE MARKS (which showed they had something to do with the sun and moon) that they are DESTINED to take in the raise and set duty, and so when they do their duty for the first time, the action connecting the meaning of their cutie marks and the fact that they are DESTINED to rule equestria, day and night, turned them to alicorns.

3. Cadence (some say she was a unicorn and some say pegasus, but I go with PEGASI): (First of all things she is NOT the princess of LOVE and those love spells she did WEREN'T love spells but DISTRACTION spells which is something she thinks is necessary to prosprate a full of love and light kingdom. To correct Princess Mi Amore Cadenza (Cadence) is the princess of spreading love around.) When cadence was really young she say how careless and rude ponies were becoming so she starting to distract ponies from fighting and spreaded unity and love for each other [like the crystal heart(this is cutie mark) and in some sense also destiny] that is when she transformed.

Cozy glow just used magic to create a physical thorn on her head and contained magic in it, she has nothing regarding true transformation.

Actully alicorns are special!
We can magic from the 3 tribes either in a good way or a bad or geneticly
Cozy glow got the magic in evil way!

when cozy, chrysalis and storm king get power from other ponies by that way, it help them to become the strongest form of their kinds. So this means ali-corn is the strongest form of unicorn and peganus ( No earth pony). As the strongest kind, they're born to be the ruler of equestria. To become ali-corn they must need the most powerful magic. Cozy unlocked the magic by force of the bell and becomes evil ali-corn. Starlight magic only powerful when she is also evil! The true strong Ali corn must unlocked the magic through a bright way

ok but there is a hole, when the magic was taken from all the previous alicorns they didn't lose their alicorn traits. the journal of two sisters also implies that they were born alicorns and possibly from a different land entirely. that seems to be a bit of a hole. shouldn't twilight have turned back into a unicorn when all the magic was stripped from her? same with the other alicorns when they lost their magic? It seems like there's a bit more to it than just the magic angle.

yes. That is correct- what made you think there was a sperate race of alicorns? also btw i have a solve from flurry heart. flurry heart could have been born an earth pony (like the rest of the crystal empire) shining armour is a unicorn and cadence was originally a pegasis according to many comics fan theory's and many parts in the comments section- just thought i should share my idea!

"Finally Solving Alicorns"
for what? the 5th time?

I think that Alicorns come in three separate types. Born Alicorns, bequeathed Alicorns and False Alicorns.
Born would be Celestia and Luna, the last of an ancient bloodline of Alicorns (from before Equestria) and Flurry Heart the re-emergence of the bloodline. Bequeathed Alicorns are more like Cadence and Twilight who are essentially magically adopted by Celestia after she sees them act out something worthy of the power. This adoption includes a metamorphosis where they genetically become Alicorns allowing them to have baby Alicorns.
False Alicorns are only Alicorns in the sense that that they are capable of using all magic types and display a magical horn and/or wings. If their magic is exhausted as the false Alicorn isn't genetically different they will revert to their prior state. Examples include Cozy Glow and Sunny.

I think for cadence the same thing as the sisters happened but the crystal emp was losing love and light

Let’s reword your perspective of Sawtooth.


He’s a creepy 31 old man who talks about kid cartoons and has a kid personality. It might seem cute but if you see an old man begging his mom like a kid for candy won’t that make you feel disgusted?

Me: watches mlp on Netflix
Also me: sees that cozy became an alicorn/sees a scene that I have never seen before
Me again: WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSINGGGG

I feel like a ruler has to be an alicorn but an alicorn does NOT has to be a ruler. What happened with cozy glow is special but we know an allicorn is a pony with magic of all 3 all ponies but to be a ruler you need a relationship of harmony.
Celestia love for younger sibling
Luna love for older sibling
Cadence love for another pony/foals
Flurry heart love for a caretaker
Twilight love for friendship
(And maybe a daughter of Flurry heart becoming ruler with love for grandparents just an idea with candence getting grandponies as love with she is the princess of love so it's logical that she has the most love relationships)

And Celestia and Luna's experiences don't inform the audience of how Cadence became an alicorn?

I think that everypony was an alicorn before but someone/something made them split into pegasus, unicorns and earth-ponies.
This person maybe tried to creat disharmony in equestria so he caused the creation of pegasus, unicorns and earth-ponies. He though that the ponies will live apart as three teams making them weak but they continued their lives. Years passed and they started thinking that the fact that they were alicorns was just a legend, years passed again and they totally forgot about it. Then Luna and Celestia were born, they were good at magic and stuff... and we know that Celestia turned Discord into stone in the first place, but her sister helped her I think. They became rulers of equestria because they have done this. To thank them, the spirit of harmony (not Twilight, she's not enough powerful) turned them into their origins, alicorns, but they though it was because they became rulers, but it was actually because they discovered a new type of magic of harmony. Then twilight came up with a new one too, magic of harmony between friends. Then princess Cadence came up with another one too, magic of harmony between wife and husband, she became an alicorn and she got a daughter, Flurry heart! Cadence turned into her origins so her daughter sure will be an alicorn. Also, Flurry Heart discovered the magic of harmony between mother/parents and daughter/son. This is how I think alicorns work... it also explains why some ponies look like each other or have same cutie marks or same main colours, maybe like sunburst and sunset

Not a Huge fan of the series, but I understand and know a tiny little bit about magic, concerning Pan & Paper RPG's, MMO's and many other thing.

I try to disect the Aspects I see here.


First and foremost, from what I remember of the Animation and Story, all the Alicorns have one huge Differance.

Their Mane / Hair

If you notice one thing, than that Celestia, Luna and Twillight have Floating Hair.
This I conect with a attunment of them and their enviroment and the Planet.

First - Celestia Rises the Sun and is essential responsible, if if Passiv, for Light, Life and Creation.
Pretty much Every living being needs Light to Survive. Through Light Life is Born, in this case, not just new Pony's but Crobs, Fruit etc. and with life and light comes Creation.

Second - Luna Rises the Moon and is essential responsible, again Passivly, for Darkness, Death, Destruction.
In work, with Darkness shrouded around the World, life ends and follows the flow of Death, with Death comes Destruction.

Thous 2 Resemble, essentialy, the Balance of Life. Yin and Yang, good and Evil. I don't know the series as well as you guys, but I would bet Celestia is the more Docile, Friendly one while Luna the more Aggresiv one.

Now how does this tie with Twillight, whos Hair in the end flows as well?

Twillight, in my Understanding, is Balance. She resambles neither Light nor Dark. She is more grey. However her Power is more atunned with the Magic of the World it self.

That rises the question, why isn't Cadance hair floating whenn she, litteraly, embodies Love? Simple, Love is a single emotion, and can, in Balance, not exists alone. An Alicorn that resambles Hate would be needed to Balance, and proberly makes her hair float. Or she would need a connection to ALL Emotions that are Positiv, THAT however is not possible, because, in my Understandin, only ONE can resamble that, and in this case, resambling Light and with it, all Possitiv emotions as well, is Celestia.


Now Fast forward to the Magic.

Magic in it self, is Spiritual Energy, or Chi. While Physical Energy is most ofte called Ki.

Now we know this energies from Animes. Ki for example is the Physical energy from Dragon Ball Z. But also appears in Highschool DxD or Streetfighter and so on.
Now understanding Chi and Ki I come to the following Conclusion:

Earthponies - While possesing Chi, they have a higher form of Ki, earned thrugh Hard work, Physical Labor and so on.
Pegasi - have a Somewhat Balance of Chi and Ki, but lean more in the direction of Ki from their Flying Ability.
Unicorns - Posses little Ki but have an Abbudance of Chi, mostly born from their Creativity and Magic useage.

But what of Alicorns? Well my Take here is, Alicorns are Balanced Perfectly. 50/50 in Chi and Ki, that does not make them Automatically stronger or better. A Strong Ki user, like and Earthpony could properlly still hurt and Alicorn Badly. The same with and Unicorn and so on.

What makes Alicorns special, in my take, is the Balance, and alignment to a certain Worldly aspect.

Someone connected strong enough, and with a pre desposed energy core, could become an Alicorn, when he Circumstances are meet.
For example, that Filly who absorbs Power, Ki and Chi, from different Ponies and somewhat reaches a False version of Balance.

Now the Born Alicorn is more Complex. Either Shining Armor has a Pre-Deposision to become a Alicorn himself or Cadance, despite being an Alicorn has a higher existing Physical energy, but Balances thous out with Controll. With Shining being a Unicorn he has more Chi, and the end, a Foal that has a Born perfect balance.


How that theory comes, is from the existance of Blue Blood, who is, according to Wiki and other sources, Celestias decendant, BUT is an Unicorn, wich would mean, somewhere in her Life, Celestia hat a Mate or Lover, that was Porperlly a Unicorn.

Now Going with Magic, everything has energy, Stones, Plants, Animals, humans... everything. What My theory is, to become an Alicorn you must be:

First - Pre-Designed for it. (Destiny, fate, foresight... whatever)
Second - You talent needs to be something Universal. (Celestias Talent is the Sun. Luna the Moon and Twillight Magic itself)
Third - You need a Balance of Chi and Ki thats near perfect

3 Reqquierments to become a "True" Alicorn.
That leaves us with a Problem - What are True and False Alicorns?

Simple but, I take Hasbro's take here.

True Alicorns have one thing that other Alicorns don't have. Free floating Mnes / Hair / Tails.
False Alicorns don't have that.

That would also mean, currently, only Twillight, Celestia and Luna are True Alicorns.
While Cadance, and the 2 Fillies are False Alicorns.

Does that change things?
Maybe. It could be that the Differance between True and False could be Lifespan.
For example - Cadance could only live for 100 - 200 Years while Celestia, Luna and Twillight could be Immortal or just Eternal young and Undying.

It could also mean that the 3 True Alicorns are just meant to protect the Planet, or that the Magic itself maybe has it's own Mind or existance.
That could only be awnsered by Hasbro and the MLP creators.

And even my take on it, could be completly wrong, and Alicrons are just Alicorns.
Maybe they are just the beginning, maybe there where MORE Alicorns.
Maybe it was 4 Types to begin with but only Celestia and Luna where left.

Who really knows.

Anyway, hope that makes somewhat sense, sadly I'm german and my English is not that perfect or good. In germna I could propperly explain it in detail more.

But as they say, food for thought's.

Cheers~

Medui

I completely agree, but also disagree. Cozy Glow ( however you spell ) stole the bell and got the magic. But at the same time, the bell only works when magic gets drained. And that episode was the time the princesses magic got drained. So that’s why cozy glow must’ve got the princesses magic. And if thats not true, the bell is locked up and no longer able to use. Because some pony’s like cozy don’t deserve it. So it would make since why it’s important to be an alicorn. Its also important because you have to be a good ruler or your kingdom well fall with the type of treatment you treat the kingdom, so that would he explained why being an alicorn is important. So the only reason cozy turned into a alicorn is bc the princesses magic was drained. And yhe magic belll is locked up from now on, nobody can use it anymore.

Title: Finally solving Alicorns
Me: I don't believe you

Maybe Cadence got her wings by spreading love to everypony then when she healed Prismia's heart she got her wings then.

Maybe it's a combination? Luna and Celestia were meant to rule together as sisters, Cadence was meant to rule with her husband, Twilight was meant to rule with her friends (Why there not alicorns I'll get to later) Flurry Heart is meant to rule with her mother. Now, why aren't Shining Armor and the remane 5 alicorns? They only have one of each type of magic. Celesta, Luna, Cadence, Twilight and Flurry Heart all have magic from all three tribes. Cozy Glow, one the other hoof, gained the magic of the other two tribes after forming a bond with the people SHE was meant to rule with: Queen Chrysalis and Prince Tirek. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I love how the Gen5 movie basically conforms this XD

is it weird to say that im kinda confused by the alicorns wings? i guess that the way that their wings look depends on how old they are? since every alicorn have the same looking wings, exept Celestia, so thats where the confusions comes, Luna, shes almost as old as her sister, probably at least, but her wings still looks nothing like her sisters, could that be because she was stuck in time (kind of) while banished to the moon? so like, when she returned she was the same age as when she was banished? so if she had never been banished maybe her wings would have looked like Celestias? well im still a bit confused about that, im gonna check if you've made any videos on alicorn wings, if you haven't maybe you could? it seems to me that its a kinda big subjekt to tackle, love your videos btw :))

oh wait.. the "older" version of Twilight, looks just like Celestia (kind of) the taller body type, and the wings! so that just confuses me even more! why did Twlilight grow into that in such a short time? that makes the Luna situation even more confusing! since she probably shold have grown taller and gotten more grown wings during the whole nine seasons! my brain cant take this, what makes Luna so different here? why is she still so small during all seasons of the show? i want answers, but how do i find them? oh well good luck to me, kind of..

Here's my theory. What if every race of pony has a specific measure of magic on a scale. Like earth ponies have 500v of magic and Pegasus with unicorns have a balance of 5,000v of magic. What if,you have to surpass that to become an alicorn like 10,000v of magic. (?)
If so, for example, when twilight became an alicorn, her knowledge widened and her magic was amplified.It just shows how the more magic you have, the stronger you are. It supports your thesis on pegasus wing theory, that it's a form of magic that enables them to fly.

I think we should know that non unicorns can become alicorns because cadence was originally a pegasus before becoming an alicorn

Cozy Glow didn't become exactly an alicorn. she become a Magic Pegasus. think about it, if you see the picture again Grogar was taking magic only from the unicorns. So Cozy already had pegasus magic and she tooke unicorn magic too, but to use unicorn magic she was needed to have a horn. this is what I think.

Cozy glow didn't prove that non unicorns can become alicorns because Cadence had done that long ago so it has been proven that non unicorns can become alicorns.If ponies only need magic for being an alicorn then why is starlight glimmer not an alicorn?

Uh... not sure if anyone actually read the my little pony books but there’s a book called “twilight and the crystal heart spell” in the book it’s mentioned that cadence was a young Pegasus before she became an alicorn. I don’t remember it clearly as it’s been a good while since I read it, (maybe 5-6 years) but I will recite from the book

-“when I was found as a baby Pegasus in a forest far, far away,”
Cadence had told twilight how some wary ponies from a nearby village took her in as their own little filly. As she grew up, the natural love and compassion she had for the other ponies filled everyone with warmth, and the urge to protect her.
But all was not well for long.
An evil enchantress named Prismia lives alone nearby, she rarely came out of her cottage. She felt nothing but jealousy for the other ponies in the village. The way they loved and took care of one another, yet no pony who cared for her.
Prismia always wore a powerful necklace, witch she cared for more than anything else in the world. It served to amplify the evil and jealousy within her own heart, until prismia’s bad feelings and the power of the necklace finally took over.
She cast a spell on the villagers that leeched all the love from them their families and their homes, hoping to capture some of this love for herself, causing everyone to be distraught and sad.

Cadence decided she was not going to let this happen, so she went to see Prismia.. luckily, the enchantresses power not only amplified the enchantress but also amplified the power of cadences love.
So; she defeated Prismia with her incredible gift of compassion and love.

—Once Prismia has changed her horrid ways, a magical energy was said to surround cadence, she was transported to a strange place, seeing princess celestia herself. This sealed cadences Fate, celestia bringing cadence back to canterlot to raise young cadence as her very won royal niece.
The special loving young princess.



This was from the book, I think it matches well with the theory you put up here.

Edit: spelling

I love how everytime you say yoshi dark lord you say it like it's suposed to be said in the way that humanity is a mistake

It's just unfair that cozy glow could get alicorn magic just like that and the others have to earn it except flurry heart

Could a normal pony be a alicorn? We've only seen pegasi and unicorns become one so what about the ponies that don't have wings or horns?

@Sawtooth Waves
I've been thinking about this... In season 2 EP 13 we see that the 2 bakers(Both earth pony's) get 2 babies... The babies are 1 Pegasus and 1 unicorn, they say it comes from there (bakers) grand parents being 1 pegasus and 1 unicorn... But... What if... They got 1 baby? Was there a chance it would have been an alicorn??? Because the bakers are both earth pony's and they have magic in them from pegasus and unicorn that they give to the baby... Let me know what you think please😉😁

If this is true, this leaves another question..
Why can’t the rest of the mane 6 be alicorns?
If alicorns have nothing god-like, and you don’t need specific magic, then unless I’m missing something, that should allow just anyone to become an alicorn. The magic from different tribes should be easy enough. Firstly, they have each other, and twilight’s transformation didn’t require any special magic. Just her own spell she wrote and the elemeeeeennnnn........ oh right... so that’s a problem. So the how is unclear, but every alicorn has had at least a little bit of a different way of becoming one. We might be able to find something eventually, but for the time being, the question is “why?”. You could point to them not having the right potential, because that was the excuse beforehand (or the creators didn’t want 6 Mary Sues, take your pick), but now that we know there’s no “potential” involved, then what’s the excuse now?
Sometimes I just imagine situations where the rest of them become alicorns/princesses through a test of their element (taken to the extreme), ignoring the information the show gives.

You say the cozy glow is proof that non-unicorns can become alicorns, but Cadence was a pegasus before she became an alicorn.

Not ALL Non Alicorns CAN become Alicorns. the Cozyglow one was true, but not Non Alicorns can become Alicorns. Need to be known worthy of what the gods will give them. Like Celestia and Luna, Twilight, Cadence and Flurry Heart.

Bye, I am a big fan 😊

Maybe Celestia Luna became a princess when she was one-horned and Celestia got a cute sign? The same goes for Luna

Best thing about this is that the new film CONFIRMS this

Awesome theory! though there is still one question that lingers my mind, are alicorns immortal, (meaning they live forever) or do they just have a large age span? How were Celestia and Luna able to live that long? Did Luna ever really age while she was imprisoned in the moon?

If anyone thinks they have an idea, please reply and let me know. it be cool to see what others think!

I have a question. Why does Flurry Heart born with a different look? I mean, look at the babies Pinkie babysit. They have big lifeless eyes. But, Flurry Heart had already a "grown" look. Why? Is it just for the design? Or, to make her special? Or, it was months later?

I don’t think Cozy Glow was actualy an Alicorn and here is why, so I don’t think she has the earth magic by because she was full of magic she needed some way to express it so she got a horn and kept her wings

yeah but cadence was a pegasus before too, being an alicorn is special, you have to earn it usually

I believe it's true....good explaining 👍

"there is nothing special about being a alicorn"

All the people who like op alicorn oc's:
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Wouldn't unicorns have earth pony magic? Same with pegasus pony's? Because unicorns don't have wings and pegasus pony's don't have horns but if you combine them together they make an alicorn, representing all three tribes.

There is something special with being an Alcorn one thing you do not age normally like the rest of the people you look the same when you’re a big pony or did you not notice how Rainbow Dash and the rest of twilights friends got old but did not grow but twilight got bigger and she’ll probably be alive for a lot longer than they will

Wait so Flurry has alicorn magic, because her mom, Cadence has alicorn magic. Also her father is unicorn and the ponies in the empire are earth ponies.

It probably is that simple. But, you left out the war and lingering disharmony between the three before Celestia and Luna took the unicorn wizards places. While some episodes tried to explain it, not every pony type could get along as long as Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns were forced to rely so much on each other. They didn't trust each other because their alliance and cooperation was forced by their survival. Unicorns give sun to crops and nights to rest, Pegasi provided rain and wind, and all food came from the farming skills of the Earth Ponies. But, since it was just essential to survival, none of them made a bond with each other by force without the Wendigos pushing in some alone time with a select few. But, assuming two little unicorns were able to take all of the wizards place in raising the sun and moon, the unicorns were free from their forced work and had the chance to experience the world differently including taking the chance to see from Earth Ponies' and Pegasi's perspectives. All because of two extremely powerful unicorn sisters. On top of that, two unicorns were able to accomplish what originally took dozens of unicorns, so it would be impossible for any pony to not appreciate and respect the power they had. Not only did they ease the pressure on the unicorns and help them cooperate with other pony species and probably took in the power from the other two that way, they were likely feared for their immense power which may be why alicorns have a royal status


And when did I become a pony theorist? :/

What about the Book "The Journal of the two Sisters" ? According to that they were Alicorns before they met Star Swirl and were chosen to Control the Sun and Moon and Rule over Equestria

You probably got it wrong, every princess has role to succeed, Princess Celestia rules the Sun, Princess Luna rules the moon, Twilight is in charge of the magic in friendship, and Ceydence is ruler of the Crystal empire. Celestia and Luna was probably shocked about the baby being an Alicorn because it was probably never done before, but as we can see each princess has a role, The baby was the reason why the crystal heart was saved, so she did have a role to play when she was born. Also i think there was a ruler before the royal sisters, maybe as in their parents or something, Princess Twilight turned into a princess because she finished her studies and did something no one was ever able to- she litterally switched her 6 friends magic cutie mark and then restored them, not only that but she fixed a spell that was made more then thousands of years by a GRAND wizard and she had the power of magic. Cadence got the knowledge to protect the crystal empire with her bare horn and even ruled a land of people by herself with some help by a GUARD as his husband, she also got knowledge and she is kind. Princess Celestia did something no one else can, she moved a sun, and according to your tale,she did it without the power of an Alicorn wich probably made her change into an Alicorn, and a princess. Princess Luna also did something no one else could wich was move the Moon wich also turned her into an Alicorn and a Princess. Cozy Glow did get magic power as an Alicorn, but even though it was already Sincked into her, power as in Alicorn was taken, but what about when Twilight kept loosing her power, she still was a princess and its supposed to be combined. There is a purpose for Alicorns, and its because they had did something that has changed the pony world l, something people like a wizard who didn't believe Twilight, lost a friend and made a bad spell couldn't do, and something mean as taking others cutie marks to feel equal to all of them like starlight. Even though they messed up they did fix it, but the wizard only saved the world probably 2 times and helped others millions, and so did Starlight, but Twilight saved the world more then 17 times and helped others, and learned about friendship, and many other things such as true magic in friendship!

Sorry its a bit long and some of my spelling is bad.

Me: Well, it’s probably just when a unicorn and pegasus have babies together!
Sawtooth:














Oh it’s much more complicated than that.

When you think about it cadence is the only Alicorn with a child so I think this can happen again

Imagine something else comes up and Sawtooth will release another vid "NOW I've solved alicorns! "

I think all alicorns received some sort of love from all tribes through one way or another. twilight, from her friends. Cadence from shining and her subjects, celestia and luna from the recently United tribes, flurry, from genes, and cozy from absorbing it from the bell

I feel like cozy glow would be a type of friend that would be a prick but a good friend to Flurry heart

This makes no sense. There is literally a huge thing that’s special about being an alicorn. Alicorns are and always will be more powerful. The reason there were concerns about flurry heart was because she couldn’t control her magic and she was an alicorn. Twilight has been so much more powerful since being an alicorn, the princesses power are insane because they are alicorns. Power makes them special. Simple as that. Thank you.

Hmmm i like to belive that princess Celestia and Luna were born alicorns, like Flurry Heart, and then since there was not more alicorns, they used their magic to make them so that there can be more rulers for their world. But, Cadence may be and may not be alicorn made by Celestia

About the baby unicorn there was that heart incident which lead to the crystal ponies renewing their faith and they had unicorn earth ponies and pegasus and since the princess is connected to that heart the power of all 3 races was shared with their daughter since the heart acknowledged the baby as well or so I think I don't know if I explained it well

“Wait it’s just about magic and power?”
“Always has been”

What If being a alicorn isn't related to just being worthy of ruling and being with the 3 magic but ... Destiny just like the cutie mark system ?
Like the names and cutie marks almost match with the pony and what he is destined to be ... If being an alicorn for the "Good people " requires not only achieving tasks like twilight but also being know or destinated to be ? Didn't Celestia say when twilight became an alicorn I knew you could do it like she established the school itself as a prophecy of knowing that twilight capacity or affinity to magic and making her a condidtae to the crown which leads is also to how they knew or when ? Maybe their disappearance after twilight becaming the queen is also related that's for the good ones but the exception always exist ? So out of the prophecy that didn't mention the existence of another person becoming an alicorn cuz they will be born to replace their parents ? .....
As for the bad one I believe the magic that candy pony had was as a sign of accepting the ownership of all kind of magic is the answer like when the 3 types of magic accepted her with force as an owner it's like accepting her to rule despite her origins is what made her able to become an alicorn
Welp I did mix up things 😅😅😅💃

En realidad solo se convirten en alicornios de ser necesario.... Tipo la hija de Candes o como se llame, fue por qué necesitaba que alguien siguiera su trono... Twilight fue, porque las princesas celestia y luna necesitaban un sucesor... Y así sucesivamente

They actually only become unicorns if necessary ... Just as celestia and luna needed a successor (like Twilight) candel or whatever it's called, needed a successor also then flory was born or whatever his daughter is called (It is probably very poorly translated, sorry, but what a laziness to translate it well)

now think about changelings they are kind of like alicorns. they have horns and wings. idk about earth pony magic but maybe. lol that would be crazy if they have magic from all 3 since they are all like that. but they do feed on love from all so maybe they could get that power from the 3 types of pony.

There’s nothing SPECIAL about being an ALICORN

Twilight: Celestia, I don’t want to be an alicorn anymore