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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 16, 2015 21:35:40 GMT
It's been a while since I seriously thought about these. Would I be right in saying that your mark represents the thing you consider yourself to be a; really good at, and b; doing for the rest of your life? But you have to realize this yourself yes? I think my own one would either be something to do with drawing (I've been drawing all my life; one I did of the center center aged 4 still grazes the wall of the waiting room at my local doctors, whilst I made the winning cover for the annual school magazine three years in a row), story telling (I used to be so good at telling stories, and writing them, my teacher would actually give me half an hour on a Friday to tell the class them!) or maybe GW (nothing else has had a bigger effect on me the first time I saw it). Actually, talking about that middle one depresses me a little. How did I lose that story telling/writing ability?
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 17, 2015 0:51:33 GMT
Maybe you just need to practice it more.
Mine would probably be some sort of book.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Apr 17, 2015 15:56:13 GMT
A cutie mark seems to be at least partly abstract and/or up for interpretation. It also seems to be somewhat connected to the pony's personality, rather than just their talent.
Like, Fluttershy's talent is communicating with and caring for animals, so why is her cutie mark a trio of butterflies rather than, I dunno, a cat?
Or Cheerilee's flowers. If it weren't explained in that one episode, I don't think many people would make the connection to teaching.
(On a different note, did the movies ever reveal Sunset Shimmer's talent? You know, given that she was originally a pony.)
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 17, 2015 16:37:58 GMT
A cutie mark seems to be at least partly abstract and/or up for interpretation. It also seems to be somewhat connected to the pony's personality, rather than just their talent. Like, Fluttershy's talent is communicating with and caring for animals, so why is her cutie mark a trio of butterflies rather than, I dunno, a cat? Or Cheerilee's flowers. If it weren't explained in that one episode, I don't think many people would make the connection to teaching. I just realized that they also seem to be related to the thing that gave them the epiphany. For example, Pinkie realized what putting up a few balloons could do to brighten the mood, and so they became her CM, whilst Rarity realized that gemstones brought out the best in her designs. For Fluttershy, maybe it was because butterflies were the first animal she encountered. Also, I don't think we did see what Sunset's talent was. Something to do with magic of course. @ JT I did effectively give up writing all during our version of middle and high school, whilst I gave up drawing for 5 years after leaving school altogether. No wonder I'm rusty. And is your's a book because you're an avid reader, or writer?
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 17, 2015 17:41:09 GMT
A bit of both, really. In general, I just really like stories, regardless of medium, so I think it would be a good representation of the general idea.
As far as CMs go, my take on them comes down to several things:
1. They're an indicator of ability/interests, not the source. When CMs are removed, it isn't a case of the pony losing their talent because their CM is gone, it's more that the talent got removed and the CM goes with it. They're more or less symbolic of a skill the pony already had. Feed into that:
2. They aren't an indication just of having a certain ability, but of that pony's enthusiasm for that thing. Having a CM for a certain thing doesn't just mean you're good at it, it means that you consider it such an important part of your identity that you couldn't remove it without drastically changing who you are. It isn't just natural skill, but the desire to excel at it and constant work on making yourself better.
3. The actual mark itself is generally selected from the pony's POV; it's something meaningful to them. There are definitely some themes running through their (i.e. CMs involving magic often look similar), but that's because ponies with skills and interests in the same area would probably all come up with the same cues. I.e. the whole "star" motif was a common symbol related to magic, hence why Twilight got it: she associates it with magic so that's what her mark turned into.
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Post by sereg on Jul 8, 2015 11:02:56 GMT
A cutie mark seems to be at least partly abstract and/or up for interpretation. It also seems to be somewhat connected to the pony's personality, rather than just their talent. Like, Fluttershy's talent is communicating with and caring for animals, so why is her cutie mark a trio of butterflies rather than, I dunno, a cat? Because, as we've seen, Equestrian butterflies have mind control powers. I think that the first pony to have the talent chooses how it looks based ion what the symbol means to them and then every future pony with the same talent will end up with the same symbol.
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