Talk:Trixie/@comment-818549-20140722000659/@comment-10390252-20140908085245

I'd like for Trixie to become a combination comic relief and plot enabler. Being a travelling show pony, she sees lots of things and, combined with her ego, she convinces herself that she is Equestria's premiere independent information broker ("The Shadow Pony"?).

She occasionally turns up in Ponyville to rub her knowledge of Equstria's dark underbelly in Twilight's face and ends up giving our heroes the clues they need to solve the mystery. Ironically, the actual information they need is something she dismisses as unimportant whilst the information she tries to sell to Twilight is a combination of unsourced gossip and her own runaway imagination (which is just as bad, if not worse, than that of the Crusaders) that she personally thinks is a clue to solving some dark mystery.