See? This is an interesting question!
I’ve sort of been waiting to get something like this to be honest, though. Ever since that ponycast from Equestria Daily where the hosts talked about the possibilities behind a background character with the same name as me being a villain. You know the show I’m talking about, right? That breakout hit show for foals?
Let’s look at some information about me and the world around us.
I’ve trained pretty hard, but I’m far from an action girl. I’m more of a one-trick pony. I sort of have super strength, in a way, but it’s either limited in potency or duration. I could probably keep up Applejack levels of strength for about thirty minutes, or give one fully-sized, Basil-strength punch and be completely spent. Not exactly the kind of position a physical villain wants to find themselves in.
If I were a villain, I’d have to be a villain of subtly. Manipulate ponies and events for my own personal gain. And in that… Well… I think I could be fairly devastating. I mean, how many ponies actually dislike me? Supposing it was all a trick to gain a following large enough, and with enough sympathy toward me to direct them at others, would anypony actually see it coming?
But…
Unless you’re a psychopath, a villain has to have some greater goal in mind; something to gain. Some reason to deviate so far from society as to fall from grace, possibly to the point of irredeemability. What would I have to gain from being a villain?
No matter how much of a following I gather, I would never be able overthrow Princess Celestia, let alone both her and her sister (and all other forces involved). And I wouldn’t want to! I owe my life to her, and she does a great job running the country (the real Princess, that is)!
But… Assuming I did. Running a country isn’t all about power and satisfaction. It’s just about the most detailed and involving job there is. Princess Celestia reads almost all day everyday. And there’s always more piling up. Sorry, no desire for any of that kind of responsibility.
I’m not normal. I just don’t want anypony to suffer. The way I have and the way I’ve seen others suffer. But either way I’d never be a villain, or even do anything antihero-ish because I’d have nothing to gain from it.
As an aside (if we want to go the television show/comic book route), being that Basil is the only one that I’ve ever seen resist me so completely, he’d actually be my villain. Which would make him a hero. How hilarious would that be?
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