The greatest of Pegasi could train for their entire lives and never accomplish what one little filly did without even really trying. If what Rainbow says is true, and we have no reason to believe it isn't, the Rainboom was a myth, a feat that had not been performed for centuries, if it had ever been performed at all. I said before, in Twilight's post, that the Rainboom was connected to the Elements. The race itself was rather meaningless-she'd already accomplished her goal of getting the bullies to leave Fluttershy alone. Why did she suddenly perform the Rainboom now instead of during some other competition? What made this one event so special? She immediately gets herself into a silly little race, and then outperforms the competition so spectacularly. After all, it's not as if this would be the last time she plays the hero. While it's hard to say whether she did this because she felt it was the right thing to do, or if she did this because she saw it as a way of striking back at the bullies who have bullied her on many previous occasions, I suspect it is a mixture of both, but much more on the first option, that being she felt it was the right thing to do. Rainbow Dash came swooping in to rescue Fluttershy from bullying when she didn't even know who Fluttershy was. However, the timing of the event makes me suspicious of it, just like I was suspicious of Twilight's absurdly difficult entrance exam. On her own, without any intentions of doing so, in a petty little race that would have probably been forgotten about two days after it happened, she not only flies faster, harder, and stronger than she ever has before, but she performs a truly wondrous feat: the Sonic Rainboom, a performance that not only gave her a cutie mark, but that led to the rest of the Mane Six acquiring their cutie marks as well, cementing their friendship before it even began. She becomes so obsessed with the idea that she doesn't want to hear criticism of it and fights for her conviction that what she thinks is right is right, and everypony else is wrong.Īnd yet, unlike with similar characters, a lot of her ego is deserved. This has led in the past to her making mistakes, being way too full of herself, no clearer than in Fall Weather Friends and Mare Do Well, where in both cases, she lets a positive attribute about herself-her athletic abilities and her tendency to play the hero-get the better of her and cause her to obsess over the attribute. When she gets an idea into her head, she doesn't let it go very easily. In her own way, Rainbow Dash is by far the most stubborn of the Mane Six, even more so than Applejack. While this can be a positive trait in many cases, it can also cause hardships. It's also about loyalty to one's convictions, to one's dreams, to the ideals one believes in. It's not just about the obvious, that being loyalty to one's friends. Loyalty may be a bit easier to understand than Laughter or Magic, but it still has complexities to it. Rainbow Dash's Element of Loyalty has a huge influence on her life and indeed her very personality. But, like her friends, she has hidden depths to her character. She's a fast, athletic tomboy with an eye for cool, a chaotic free-flying spirit that rarely obeys the rules. Rainbow Dash, on first glance, is the easiest of the Mane Six to understand. Warning: Another long thought-fueled post ahead, the result of waking up too early and my brain insisting on thinking instead of sleeping.
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