These stories take place during season 7, before the finale (earlier ones are, naturally, before S7).
My headcanon: Twilight was 18 years old in Season One, and the Equestrian-Earth years are not synchronized with (and not as short as) Human-Earth ones.
(They are 365 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds long, but each second lasts a tiny bit longer, so that 1 season of the show (+hiatus) does NOT equal one year in Equestria.)
(5 years ed from S1 to S7, +1 year for S8)
And the episodes are sometimes NOT in a chronological order.
That is why we have a Summer Sun Celebration episode, then Winter Wrap-Up, Then Running Of The Leaves (summer -> winter -> fall).
Another piece of head-canon:
CMCs were 8 during Season One (during their 3rd year of school, where ponies start at age 6), and then, in 8th season, during the “The Break Up Break Down” episode, they are 14 years old (the oldest I can imagine CMCs being, while still not being taller-and-thinner high-school-age young adults.)
Spike is 17 during Season 7 (and still looks young because dragons age physically really slowly).
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I still think giving an artificial construct a body with which it may do as it pleases is a mistake. Twilight may believe she can control it but ultimately she doesn’t know for sure. Which is why she implanted an inanimate object.
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I get the feeling if she did that they wouldnt hate her that much anymore, besides, in the previous comic she said she made it so they couldn’t experience negative emotions to an extreme degree so that can’t hate her that much
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We would be able to determine the pain threshold of a magical intelligent construct! Think of the practical applications of such knowledge! Sure, it’ll result in the destruction of the construct, but we’ll learn how to make better ones!
Plus, it’s drafty in here and we could really use the heat.
Twi: “I have a fascinating experiment to try. I’m going to light you on fire, and then spray the fire with water from a spray bottle to keep it from burning you too fast. I want to know how long you’ll scream.”
I still think giving an artificial construct a body with which it may do as it pleases is a mistake. Twilight may believe she can control it but ultimately she doesn’t know for sure. Which is why she implanted an inanimate object.
Not even she trusts her magic that much.
It probably wants to die because it’s a door and it can’t move or do anything, a body would fix that
It still wants to die. That never bodes well.
I get the feeling if she did that they wouldnt hate her that much anymore, besides, in the previous comic she said she made it so they couldn’t experience negative emotions to an extreme degree so that can’t hate her that much
I don’t think transferring something that has grown to hate you into a golem is a smart idea.
:) Ahh… “It’s drafty in here.”
Sorry for doubting you.
This is an absolutely valid reason to snuff out a life of your baby five minutes after its birth.
I guess it’s time for a “warm” Goodbye then! >:-D
We would be able to determine the pain threshold of a magical intelligent construct! Think of the practical applications of such knowledge! Sure, it’ll result in the destruction of the construct, but we’ll learn how to make better ones!
Plus, it’s drafty in here and we could really use the heat.
SUPER useful experiment! :D
…but just in case, tell me: what will be the practical application of its discoveries?